How i make money online from Blog

This site first started in July 2006 using the free wordpress dot com service. When i first created this site, actually i just want to write about everything related to computer because .. computer is my favorite subject and i always like anything related to technology talk such as computer. As a side note, the first language used on this site / blog is using Indonesian Language (my primary language) but because i find lots of this site visitors came from USA i tried to switch into English language although i’m not really good at it (at first i was afraid of using english language because – as far as i know – that most USA people are always want to see perfect sentences with perfect grammars)

After 1 month blogging at wordpress dot com, i find it hard if i stayed with them for too long because of limited functionality (they’re disabling javascript and you can not monetize your site). But back then i do not really have intention on monetizing this site, the only thing i want is using a domain name (at that time, wordpress does not support domain mapping) and ability to customize my theme

And in August 2006 i decided to bought a domain name, and get a webhosting space for this site. And like most of you already knew, wordpress does not allow you to use redirect or such stuff to automatically redirect your old site to the new site, and it cause a significant traffic drop and in the end i have to delete every post from my old site and force google to not index it at all ! so i can bring the old visitors to the new site. But it’s worth the time, trust me you’ll never regrets on having your own domain name and get yourself a payed webhosting service

Later i learned about adsense and various monetizing technique from various sources such as Problogger, Shoemoney, LiewCF, and JohnTP. and decided to use it in order to get income to pay my monthly hosting bill so i can keep this site up. At first i only make around $0.xx – $1.xx per day and i’m really struggling on passing this mark ! and fortunately at later time i can past that $1.xx mark and get around $3 – 4 per day and then goes to $4.xx – $7.xx per day or at least i can get payed by Google monthly, although that’s all nothing compared to the pro-bloggers, or other A-list bloggers out there

So what’s the point of this post ? if you read the above paragraph you’ll know that even i have had a hard time on monetizing this site, but in the end i was able to make a cash online although its not much (have you ever heard this words somewhere “No Pain No Gain”) :)

And if you still remember the No Pain No Gain quote, you’ll know that there’s no such thing as easy money. So if you read someone says You can make over $1000 per month without doing real work, just run away form them and never look back. Because you’ll need to work hard in order to earn money even in online world

That’s all about my experience on how i make money online from blog :)