Why This Blog Doesn’t Tell You How To Make Money
  When I tell friends that I have a blog, the question is automatic: “Do you make money out of it?â€Â  Well, no. Look around: as of this writing, I don’t have ads. I don’t have sponsored posts. For one, I don’t know how. For two, I used to be just like every aspiring writer who wrote only for the money.
  Before blogging became synonymous with fast money, we bloggers have been derided for being, well, bloggers. Pseudo-journalists, maladjusted psychological stripteasers, manic-depressive self-mutilators. Nowadays, it’s different: blogs start to spring up like mushrooms from the void, all with the intent to make money online. I’m starting to get a wee bit disillusioned nowadays: as it seems, it’s all about the money.
  I sure like to get to know about things like pay-per-click and pay-per-post if only to maintain my site for the next few years or so. I myself am interested in making money online, but like I said, I am getting very disillusioned. Is blogging really about the money? Do you blog – heck, do you even write – just because you want to have money?
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Then, one day out of the blue, I realized what I’ve become. I wasn’t the “writer†I was working hard to be: I was no different from a hired killer, an assassin, a mercenary. In college, there were no more essay contests: I was too old for those youth-oriented contests that I used to win and make money out of. I was – and I still am – not good enough to win that most elusive dream of mine, the Palanca Award. My obsession with money led me to a rut: back in the college paper, money was not always at-hand because we ran into budget overruns. I had to write editorials, columns, and feature articles without the promise of a stipend.Â
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I think that it is possible to use your blog for making money and still write about what you like and make a valuable contribution. Actually, the two go hand-in-hand; if you write good content that gives people valuable information, they will tend to visit your blog more and be willing to buy products there, click on your ads, etc.
Meanwhile, I’m not sure what you mean by “Look around: as of this writing, I don’t have ads”. I noticed quite a few annoying pop-ups that got past my blocker…
even..famous writers aims for the bottom line.. or is just ????.. i don’t know..