Not making money blogging

I just ran across this:

I am feeling really frustrated. I work more in one week then most people work in 2 weeks….all to make $1000 from blogging each month. That’s poverty level income. Which is more then most bloggers online  make so it sounds petty to even say out loud negatively. But isn’t it pathetic that I am not the only one doing it? We get excited over a $50 add on our web pages…for a month. A MONTH. I have a college degree. A family. I’m (please don’t take this wrong) brilliant. I have been at the top of every company I have ever worked for.  I wonder sometimes if I am undercutting my own potential by chasing the next idea, the next dream, the next post. The biggest impact I am making  is constantly being judged by statistics, numbers, other women, which contests I am running,  and how many people commented on something I had to say for the day. Where did all this go wrong? I wanted to start a community to help people, to grow, to have fun, to let moms advertise their own boutiques and blogs  together. It just seems that everyone is so individualized and trying to get the next trip, the next comment, the next PR rank, the next big story, and I am not sure I can tear people away from being so overly consumed with all of that to even BE a community. In a world where people so badly want to be accepted, involved, and part of something bigger, its ironic that we are so self absorbed in our own situation, me included, that sometimes the actual reason we began traveling to a destination, gets lost in the journey. ~trisha Sat, 13/06/09 – 10:15 | No Comment

That pretty much says exactly what my experience was, except just replace the $1000 with $50 per month. And that is gross, not net, after you take out the expenses I had it's doubtful I was making $10 a month.

I was making around $1 per hour, so not exactly what I was hoping for, and the original idea that I has was the the pages would keep earning after I created them was also a flop.

One site I was able to get to the number one spot on google for "making money online" this make me a couple bucks per month from advertising on the site. I stopped working on it and within a couple months the site was making pennies per day.

I was thinking the income would increase as the site got older and more mature, and more links and all that crap.

But it didn't it basically died within a few weeks of when I stopped spending hundreds of hours link building and posting with my link every place I could think of.

June 13, 2009