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It's an entire industry and I'd hazard a guess many of the people trying their hand at it haven't put a deposit on a beach house just yet. It's a long hard slog and the people I know who are making a living off it generally come from a business background and treat it as such. Yes you can make money doing it, No it's not easy and expect to spend an awful lot of time in front of the laptop!

If you want some pointers to some good starting points, let me know.

After 5 years I've got $20 in my ad sense account, I think. Haven't even checked Exotisimo. I think their adds just make my blog look cool. I'm keeping my day job.

That said, people write and maintain blogs on many subjects and actually make money, or so I've heard.

I know of people who have receive money (or offered money) for their good photos they upload to Flickr.

There are two types of blogs that I know of. Free blogs like mine at the bottom here have the hosts name in it. Eg: Wordpress. If these blogs become popular than the host can make a few coins by placing ads in the blog.
Blogs that don't have this are really websites and may be using blog software. So there are some minor costs involved to keep it up and running but if you can get someone to advertise on your site you get the coin.
I'm sure there is more to it than I know about.

@Somtam - "If you want some pointers to some good starting points, let me know"


Yes, I want some. Gimme!

"Why upload anything of worth to Facebook!?!"


I guess because it's an easy way to share pics with friends in a hurry. I haven't got a flickr account... yet. Been using photobucket and tiny pic (when the guesthouse IP isn't blocked for violating terms of use)


"I would assume that if some entity sees a photo it wants to use it would need and pay for the hi-res original version not the dumbed down small version you'd upload to Flickr or elsewhere."


That makes sense. So I'm also going to assume Flickr can be accessed by anybody, including third party businesses looking to buy images, whereas FB is typically restricted to my penniless friends.

SBE.......Facebook sells your personal information to companies to market products to you. If you are signed in and go to another website, they track that and everywhere else you go. It is the "holy grail" of marketing information. Although still a privately held company, it is now said the valuation is $50 billion. Everything you do, Facebook collects, compiles, and sells. They are projected to have revenues of $30 billion in a few years.

I average around 50cents a day from Adsense from my blog.

Gotta say the reason I signed up to Adsense was it was the only way I knew at the time to get a VISITOR VIEW COUNTER on my site - and a secondary thing, a thanks to GOOGLE for hosting my stuff on BLOGGER at no charge.
I feel a bit guilty on that second point that my READERS' TRIP REPORTS is advertisement free - but I know some people are hesitant to contribute if they think I'm gonna be driving an M5 because of their efforts.

But hey, 50 cents a day over maybe 100 days between LOS visits buys me a few Chang beers, so I aint complaining.

more money in porn

I dunno - I applied for an "opening" (hur hur hur) as a stud on a local extreme-workout of the reproductive kind video - producer dude told me I would have to pay.
STREWTH!!

On a more serious note - I've always considered my site as an appendix (????) to TRAVELFISH and other travel forums - I strarted it because I got tired of writing the same old stuff on travel sites over and over - a url is sooooo much easier.
But because of family commitments (an elderly rel who need me to take her to the doctors', do the shopping, do the listening [deaf] etc) I can't visit LOS or anywhere else enough to keep things up to date. So I am looking at you guys to send TRIP REPORTS. Remember, the site is ADVERTISEMENT FREE!!
FIONA - I want to hear about those east Indo places!

@Somtam - long hard slog is right, but you gotta start somewhere...

Here's my blog, as of mid March 201. It's threadbare. I don't even know how to put my Carrot pic up on the main page, but dammit, it's a start.

http://crankycarrot.wordpress.com/

Can everybody please go there 50-60 times a day and leave only glowing feedback?

Thanks and cheers etc,

CC

"Can everybody please go there 50-60 times a day and leave only glowing feedback?"


Currently getting about that many hits a day - I know it's all you bizzy lizzy! Thanks ;l0
So far I've earned zero dollars!! Maybe I should advertise rain ponchos or something?


It's probably good exposure though - and there's nothing I like more than exposing my gross toe wounds!

"This thread has included (click below) far too much self-pro(click below)motion."


I can't believe it took this long for somebody to notice/comment.


0.24c is more than I've made. Hat's off to you, Rasheed. And while that hat is off, can you toss some spare change into it?

I already mailed my only hat back to Aus and the ones they sell here have giraffes and frogs sticking out of them

Enough about that, let's get back to shamelessly hyperlinking my blog ~

Yeah - now I just gotta find a sponsor to pay me 0.08 cents to smother the site with ads.

Made more money working in a call centre ...but had way less fun