Om Thoke

There was a time when there were very few bloggers on the Internet, and despite the fact that rest of the world laughed at them, they were busy minting money on the net, and laughing at the rest of the world after buying Ferraris! Well, things have changed, as just about every other person who surfs the internet, owns a blog, and dreams of making money from the internet.

The concept of micro/mini-sites has also become outdated with the Google Panda slaps, and making money from internet is becoming tougher day by day.

Affiliate marketing has also become fairly tough, due to increase in number of affiliate marketers, and lack of potential buyers.

In short, gone are the days when you could just work 2 hours in a day, updating your blog, and watch the Adsense earnings shoot up with every passing day. As a matter of fact, you can’t be even certain that you’d be paid the entire amount accrued in your Google AdSense account, as Google has started finalizing the earnings by deducting the money not paid by AdWords advertisers by the time your pay-check is issued.

I found a difference of about $24 in my last month’s earnings, which wasn’t too much for money, but it could definitely make a slight difference to those who’re counting on every single penny coming to them.

So, what should you do? Well, I guess it’s time to stop taking bigger risks, and start cashing in small returns – basically I’m talking about website flipping here!

Just build a network of say 10 blogs for 2-3months, optimize them for a set of 2-4 good keywords, to drive decent traffic, and have proof of earnings through AdSense for at least $100/month, and just sell ‘em off for $800-1000 each, on Flippa or similar sites!

This could mean potential earnings of 10 x $1000 = $10,000 in 3months, which translates to $3k+/month – and I must say this would be far better than current earnings of MOST the bloggers who’re going to read this blog post.

Even if you succeed in generating half the money, you could be able to substitute your full time income, if you happen to be an Indian working in the IT sector or perhaps complement your income even if you’re a working professional who gets a hefty salary of $5k+/month.