A question everybody (except John Chow, Amit Agarwal or Darren Rowse) is hesitant to answer. Well, there is nothing to hide after all I don’t believe that the success of a blog is in making money online. It’s got to do more with the brand building socializing etc for me. And any income that comes out of it is bonus.( I have a full time job to worry about..) Well, For the month of August 2007, here’s how much money i made out of this blog.
Google AdSense – US $ 103
Co blogging – US $ 50
Adify – US $ 10 
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Total US $ 163
Not a party-thrower stuff. Eh? Well, I hope this will encourage other bloggers (at least in India) who are not A-Listers to reveal their income and show what’s actually behind the much hyped blogging guru status all of us enjoy.
Quick note: I had pulled off Nautank.tv ads from the blog since there were complaints raised about the bad user experience it creates. Nautanki had already paid me INR 8000 (US $ 177 appx)for the first month. I’m thinking of including them once again, in a more convenient spot that creates no bad user experience. After all they have a great turn out ratio compared to any other ads.
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Not bad at all. You’re doing good!
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Bonuses are not bad at all Shankar
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You are right Mani, bonus earnings are always good.
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My earning’s report for august – all inclusive(5-6 blogs total):
http://www.nutsandmilk.com/2007/09/our-earnings-report.html
Nuts & Milk made 150$ in it’s first month itself.
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Hmmm..I was surprised but then,its more than a year back.I am sure if you were to write a similar post now,u might already be thinking about the taxman knocking on ur door.lol.Just Kidding
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Hi,
Few questions to you , if you bother to answer
1. How to subscribe to your post thru email ?
I don’t see a easy link in your home page. (may be this is a suggestion )
2.from my past experience I don’t see a techie clicking on google advt. since he knows its an advt. So if you write technical material alone then targeted audience is also techies . so what is the logic behind getting revenue out of adsense – I am bothered about this for a long long time and finaly started by blog dotgiri.com and as expected I don’t get any clicks thru adsense.
3. Are you still getting revenue thru those posts.
4. Which is the most relevent income source for your blog site. adsense/ affiliate programs / banner advt etc.
5. are you a full time blogger now
sorry for asking questions in numbered if it hurts you in anyway – i didn’t mean it.
thanks
and keep up the nice work
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Mani Karthik
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1 – Check the sidebar. Email subscription box available.
2 – I dont live on AdSense and whatever comes in is only a bonus. Soon Im cornering them.
3 – I do get around 200-300 $ pm post recession.
4 – None.SEO Projects. However Adsense, Private ads and Reviews form the next major revenue source.
5 – I am.
Cheers!
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