Make Money Blogging - Just thinking aloud

There is a lot of money to be made blogging. With all the make money online blogs out there, I'm sure you've figured that out. They've practically got it down to a science what you should be doing. Step by step instructions on how to make money online.

Thing is, why would anyone want to share that kind of information? It just doesn't make sense. So I'm not going to tell you guys how to make money online. Hell, if I knew, I wouldn't be here blogging. I'd be on vacation in the Bahamas or something. Instead, I'll give you step by step instructions on how to start a blog. It's pretty harmless. Everybody's got to start somewhere, right?

You can make money blogging. That's a truth. I've made quite a bit (not so much, but enough) money blogging. Enough to finance dates, clothes, a new iPhone (ahem). It's all just extra money out there waiting to be taken. And you can make that money yours by blogging.

Of course there are still a ton of other ways to do it. But hell, this one is fun, convenient, and most of all, free. So why not give it a shot. An extra $50 a month is still extra. It all adds up. Start blogging for money today!

Make Money by Gambling (is the lotto gambling?)

Everybody wants to make money and that includes our house help. The maids at home want to become rich like most people, and they work at it in their own way. Obviously, they serve as domestic helpers and earn a monthly salary, but there's another way they do it.

They bet on the lottery.

Everyday, religiously, like clockwork, my maids bet on the lottery. They've never really won a significant amount (the max they've won is five times their daily bet), but they keep at it. Everybody wants to make money, and this happens to be how they augment their chances.

Kind of like my whole gambling for money idea. Of course, I've come to realize that you can't rely on luck alone to get rich. If you want to make money, big money, luck is important, but hey, so's hard work. And walking to the corner grocery to place bets is not hard work. Not at all. But I guess we make money in our own ways. I'd rather make money blogging at home (OK, fine, working my job), but to each their own.

Making Money in the Stock Market

I know that I'm always advocating that people can make money online (and when I say people I mean myself,) but sometimes, there's a lot you can do to make money offline as well.

For instance, how about you start investing in the stock market? I'm actually going to start now. I've got some stock investing basics under my belt, and I've tapped an old Accounting professor to walk me through the process. I know I can probably ask my parents for advice on this, but this is one of those "I want to make money my way" things. You can't put a price on freedom.

I'd like to start a small business on the side as well, but I'll try my hand at the stock market first. Once I've got that rolling, then I'll start a business. Why cover one avenue when you can cover them all, right?

Of course, I'll still be blogging to make money. It comes easy, and the more the many-er!

Make Money with Google Adsense

I wish I knew how to make money with Google Adsense. I've been doing a lot of research on it (OK, not really that much research) and it seems simple enough. Simple except that there's so much technical stuff involved. From what I've read though, to make money with Google Adsense, it's going to take a lot more than a cool website or blog. It's going to take a LOT of SEO (Search Engine Optimization) which I know nothing about.

There's going to be keyword sniping (which I'm trying to do right now) and on-page SEO and off-page SEO and backlinks. This is all way too much for me to keep up with. If I want to make any sort of serious money with Google Adsense, though, I think I'd better get started on it.

Passive income is the best sort of income. It's just going to take a lot of work in the beginning, but eventually, the reward will come. I just wish there was some sort of SEO book out there that REALLY teaches how it's done. Ah well. Gotta make money, Google Adsense or not.

Investing Your Money Made Online

I make money blogging. I make money working a real world. But what I really want to do is to make money investing in the stock market. I know it should not be this hard. All I have to do is call a brokerage firm, or look up a stock broker. It should be the easiest thing in the world. Except I'm chicken.

Fortunes have been made and fortunes have been lost in the stock market. Smart investors are hard to come by, and what are the chances that these investors will be willing to share their investing methods with you? What's in it for them? The world is run by incentives, and making money is one of the most powerful incentives out there. Oh sure we can say that if more people were rich, the effect on the economy would be reward enough for everybody, but people aren't wired that way. Which is just too bad.

So I guess I've got to take some classes on investing in the stock market, and maybe read a few more books. I haven't even finished The Intelligent Investor. I will now hang my head in shame.

Make Money, Spend Money. Economics in Four Words.

Make money then spend money. There's been a lot of things I have been spending on lately, and I have not made nearly enough money blogging to cover everything. I got myself an iPhone from eBay (yes, I'm hoping I don't get a dead rat in the mail). I got my mom a birthday present. I paid a few bills, I'm going out on dates. All this with my money made by blogging. Boggles the mind, right?

It's so crazy, though. I do all this stuff online to make money, and then I just spend it all away. I guess it makes sense in a way, since I do have a day job for all the other serious things, but still. Maybe I should ease up on the expenses. After all, an iPhone IS a luxury more than anything.

But you know what, whatever. I blog for money so I can get all these luxuries I'd be too.. frugal to get with my real world income. It only makes sense that I reap the rewards of all these entries I write and post and everything. Make money, spend money. That's economics in four words.

Blogging to Make Money part 2

It should be obvious by now that I blog to make money, and not to release my stress and angst and all that. Well, making money DOES relieve stress and angst and all that, so in theory.. well, whatever.

I guess I blog to make money because there's a lot of downtime with office work. It only takes around 15 minutes to write a post, and there's usually a lot of stuff to write about. SEO or search engine optimization would really help me make more money, but I have absolutely no idea how that works. I'm just doing my part by writing as many posts as I can consistently. I'll talk more about that next time.

To be totally honest, I'm not making much with Google Adsense at all. I'm a long way off from collecting my first $100. I don't really know how this works, so I'm just counting all this as investments. Maybe they'll pay off in the future, maybe they won't. In any case, it doesn't hurt to try. If I'm going to be online, I might as well make money online. Right?