Do People REALLY Make Money Blogging?

Why Am I Asking?

I'm asking because I haven't made any yet myself. I'm not a newbie, or a rookie. I like the name rookie better, but that's not important. I've been around the WA community for a couple of years now, and I know the answer to my own question.

OF COURSE people really make money blogging. Just not me. Yet.

I'm on a couple of mailing lists that belong to successful, money making bloggers. One is Little Mama. I'm sure a lot of you know her. She went to Las Vegas last year. She'll probably go again this year.

She's one of my heroes because she pulled herself up by her bootstraps, focusing like a laser on writing content.

Anyway, I get her emails promoting the blogging online business model.

There are a lot more WA members earning a good living, or getting there. Tony Hamilton, Vitaliy G, Nathaniell come to mind.

There were 25 or so super affiliates at Vegas last year. That's more proof of success and that the training works.

Alex and Lauren from Create and Go are people that send me emails regularly too. I can't remember how I got on their list, but I did.

They put out a monthly income report. They have two blogs, one that's a health and wellness blog called Avocadu, and the other which is kinda like WA, where they promote their training, called Create and Go. Last MONTH they earned over $130,000 from their two blogs. Here's a screenshot.

That's just one month.

So, I ask myself, why haven't I started making money yet?

All I have to do to answer that question is look in the mirror.

Tell me if this is familiar.

I started out like a ball of fire, full of optimism, writing three or four blogs a week. I built two websites (I still have them both). I started blogging at WA too.

After a few months I started to get writer's block. I'm sure I'm the ONLY member of WA that gets writer's block.

Right?

Rather than fight through it, I slowed down. After a while I slowed WAY down, like posting on my sites once or twice a month.

Am I getting any traffic? Surprisingly, yes. Anywhere from 2 to 5 visitors per day.

I look at my referrals, and so far I have five. Only one has tried to add a profile. The others - nothing.

What Am I Going To Do About It?

Simple answer - refocus. Get back in the game.

I firmly believe that, starting out, the way to build traffic is to write content. Consistently and often. At least 3 posts per week. If you have more than one site and find that you can't do that for each one, then focus on one site only until it's built up.

You GOTTA do it. There's really no shortcut to success.

It's discouraging, I know. I go to analytics and the visitors graph is always low. But, I realize that it's my own fault. I've been quitting on myself.

Maybe you're one of the members who've started succeeding. I appreciate your posts on WA because I know I can too. Keep it up.

The training is important. The search engines aren't people, they don't care about your frustrations, your fears, your motivations.

They just care about your content.

So, I'm back in the game. I'm still waiting for that first premium referral. That'll be confirmation to me, above and beyond the evidence of other people's success, that I can do this.

Quitting is not an option.

Thanks for taking the time to read and respond. I'll end with a humorous quote by Lee Child in one of his Jack Reacher books.

"Before you criticize someone, walk a mile in their shoes. That way when you criticize them you'll have a mile head start and they'll have to chase you in their socks."

I'm Grant.