What if you earn $14,436.45 a month for blogging?

Sounds incredulous but it’s very well true. Darren of ProBlogger.net just got his biggest monthly cheque from Google at the amount of $14,436.45. That’s more than Php800,000 at the current peso exchange rate. And he got all that just for the month of May.

This got everybody talking about him even before he got Slashdotted a couple of days ago.

Even if you only get 10% of that a month around here, it’s still big bucks. And all I get is a measly hundred bucks each month. Mr. ProBlogger has already even bought a house from his previous earnings.

Darren’s blogs (all 20 of them) are a living proof that one can really make it full-time just blogging. Well, he spends 8 to 12 hours a day reading and writing blogs but, he’s getting hits even while flying to some conference or seminar. And he’s been at it for years now.

In the local scene, I only know of a handful (2 or 3 other people) Pinoy bloggers who are able to get past the $100-barrier each month. There are still others though who run online directories, link farms and content factories (re-publishing lifted text) to earn the clicks.

Abe Olandres

Abe is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of YugaTech with over 20 years of experience in the technology industry. He is one of the pioneers of blogging in the country and considered by many as the Father of Tech Blogging in the Philippines. He is also a technology consultant, a tech columnist with several national publications, resource speaker and mentor/advisor to several start-up companies.

https://www.yugatech.com

29 Comments

mr nice ash says:

20 years ago

how i wish… :)

e reset na naman sa $0.00 ang adsense ko e…
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Fleeb says:

20 years ago

Ahh I think I heard about the guy, he was the one who kept an Athens Olympics blog with about a million hits a day during that time.

If that’s what I get a month, I’ll even appreciate a $2k a month $-)
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Migs says:

20 years ago

Now, I’d be happy with $100/month to cover my costs of VPS hosting + broadband. It looks doable.
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retz says:

20 years ago

grabeh! its enough to buy urself a car, or 4 macs. ako for the month of june $0.05 measely cents. tsktsk.
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sepikmom says:

20 years ago

Yikes! I am absolutely g-r-e-e-n !
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Migs says:

20 years ago

here are 1,000 keywords to get you started.
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Jaypee says:

20 years ago

wow! if i earned that same amount per month i’d probably think of quitting my day job and become a full time blogger.hehe..just like what migs said, i’d be happy to earn $100/month. :)
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Rickey says:

20 years ago

You can spend time making websites that are based solely on adwords with premium value, or you can make a website that people will actually read and use. There are no quick fixes, and it takes hard work to penetrate the search engines.

With people announcing their adsense numbers like this, (Weblogs, Inc. closing in on $1M/year AdSense revenue http://calacanis.weblogsinc.com/entry/1234000403*****9/), the competition will be fierce.

$100/month is do-able, but your website needs to reach critical mass before it gets there. Yugatech over here is doing a great job isn’t he?
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Kates says:

20 years ago

Yuga is our man here. Hala cge click nalang ng click. heheh.

Problogger has good content and with so many bloggers starting up on blogging who wanted tips on blogging visiting his site, he really has the numbers.

Didn’t he said that blogging about technology earns him crappy revenue?
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Abe Olandres says:

20 years ago

Sassy wouldn’t want me to tell anyone how much she gets from AdSense but I can tell you it’s enough to let her stay at home and send her kids to school. hehehe…

Aside from AdSense, I believe we can get local advertisers to get into blog advertising. I have had a lot of experience with local advertisers and I think if we speak up a little louder, more and more will hear us. Though the payouts aren’t really that big, I guess microadvertising can come into play.

That’s one reaosn why I put up PTB, to show to the public that a network of top bloggers can haul in enough traffic for brand exposure.
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