I blogged online for 16 years and I made donation money and generally broke even.

So the problem isn’t the fact that you can’t blog – you can.

The reality is that most bloggers blogs are not monetized from day 1. And donations, tip jars are lousy ways of making money because most people are indifferent and they won’t support you.

So the good way of making money is getting ads from day 1, so that your visitors got used to the blog with ads, don’t say them: I like blogging that’s why I blog and then ask for support.

You can write a blog because you like it, but most people these days don’t waste time blogging because they like it. Blogging has evolved and it is a business.

Nobody would pay for hosting just to work on a blog for free, because you can blog on Facebook and pay nothing.

So the way to approach blogging for money is to get into ad program from day 1, then when you build some traffic introduce some affiliate link.

You don’t have to review every single item you don’t have on Amazon for affiliate marketing to be worthwhile.

But most problem people make is they post about their lives, nobody is searching for you online unless you’re some celebrity.

You can’t monetize your personal life with ads because nobody would bid on your posts or the ads would be very low paying.

I’m not saying you can’t monetize personal stuff, but it has to be an angle rather than the fact that you ate a cookie.

Many people waste years writing about their lives and wondering why their ‘business blog’ doesn’t boom.

Writing about your life is such a waste of effort. I know it because I did it, the problem isn’t the fact that you have interesting thoughts and ideas, but the fact that majority of people don’t know that you exist.

The other fact it that most people’s content isn’t competitive and compelling.

If you want to rank #1 on Google you need to have the best article for a search term, that’s it.

So instead of doing random articles and hoping they will rank, go to Google in incognito mode, and actually see what is written and consider if you can make a better article.

You see if you write articles, that are not searched for, people just won’t find you via Google and other search engines.

When you don’t have an audience search is crucial. Back in the day blogging wasn’t competitive because the web was small, today the web is HUGE and it’s getting HUGER.

So to sum it up: monetize with ADS from day 1, add affiliate later, don’t write about personal life and you title should be the EXACT phrase people search for and write helpful content that solves a problem, or entertains, then later someday when you have 1000000 email subs you can write whatever the hell you want, because you will have an actual audience.