Wealthy Rich from Blogging - The Status After 1 Month

Written by Rolf

Admitted, I did not truly expect to become a millionaire from this blog, but I do hope that, if I have sufficient discipline to do regular updates, I can eventually pay my rent from it. But I don't really expect that either. Maybe 1 month rent per year.

To be a successful blogger, and with successful I mean having high quantity and more importantly high quality traffic, you need to be unique and fill a specific niche. Traffic from sites like Digg are not considered high quality, since they usually don't care much about your site and don't generate revenue through the ads. Your content should also be original and of course of high quality. So beRare will never become a successful blog, realizing that I often use images I find on Google, and sometimes quote sites like Wikipedia. In other words, visitors could find some/most of my content themselves. I just add my opinions and my choice of words to glue it all together. Do I fill a niche? No, I blog about anything, everything and nothing. Stuff that interests me. It's a personal blog and those will hardly ever be able to supply the blogger with a full income.

I don't pretend to have all (or even much) knowledge about blogging. Something to think about. Among the most successful blogs are blogs about blogging. Or rather, about getting rich from blogging. That is their niche. It is quite recursive when you think about it. Getting-Rich blogs advise bloggers about generating income with Google AdSense and, in turn, advertise with Google AdWords on other sites about getting rich by blogging, who then generate income with AdSense. Google is the intermediate, getting their share of money from both AdWords and AdSense.

So my blog is up for 1 month now. I have been using AdSense for 3 weeks or so and according to Google I have had only 750 pageviews. Or maybe that's even only 250, since I have 3 ad locations. My Google Page Rank is 1/10 so they are not directing much traffic to beRare and the only way to change that, is to have highly ranked sites linking to mine. Which is probably not going to happen any time soon unless I pay those ranked sites, which I will not.

Of those 750 (or 250) pageviews there was 1 click on an ad, worth 0.07 euro. So in a year I will have almost an euro if I don't write any new articles for the blog and if my Page Rank stays the same. Yes, my rent is higher. By the way, Google policy tells me to not tell you to click on ads just to be kind and generate income for me, so please don't, unless you are really interested in an ad. Their technology is extremely smart and they will sense if the clicks are not 'natural' or logical.

I'm not a millionaire yet, neither can I pay my rent (from AdSense) but what can you expect from a personal blog and after only 1 month. I will give another status update in a month. Until then, I'm looking for both inspiration and discipline to do something with it. I will also always be thinking about other easy ways to earn some extra cash in a legal, lazy way. Hmm, how much money is there in online poker? Last year I played Texas Hold'em on pkr.com and played a tournament (free account) and ended 8th of 400, which proves poker is mostly luck. Right? Anyway.

If I'm right, the ads (by AdSense) on this page will mostly be about blogging and getting rich, and once this page gets indexed, this might very well turn out to be the most popular article so far.

And seriously, do NOT just click to do the bloggers (me, in this case) a favour, however much I appreciate it. If the page/blog gets an unnaturally high click-through-rate, Google might freeze or ban my account.