This might be one of the most interesting parts of our survey series— Qumana Blog -- Blog Advertising Earnings—and it looks like others agree because I've already seen it picked up in a few places like Naked Conversations.  Come on, jeez who doesn't want to make more money?

 

The problem has been, IMHO, that trying to get your ads to work is almost a job to itself.  Writing everyday, as a pro, is hard enough.  Tweaking codes and keywords all the time?  Thanks, no.  I've been coding for years.  I know my way around this stuff, but frankly I can't be bothered and  I don't think I'm alone.  Google AdSense?  Don't get me started.  Yes, if you have a focused blog without much tweaking you can make it work.  Yeah, like I have a focused blog.

 

For inserting ads you also shouldn't have to know how to code, what the hex colour number for your background is or anything.  How about putting in some keywords, clicking a button and be done?  Or feeling a little old-school?  Okay click a different button, preview what ad you're going to see tweak a bit, copy a line of code (don't have to read it) and click a button to paste it in.

 

This shouldn't be rocket science!

 

On the results, I had to laugh when I read how much people want to earn.  Okay, not the best question.  Yeah, I want to earn $1,000/mo too!  More!  Yeah!  Hmm.  Actually I don't think it's unrealistic that bloggers can earn a decent income from their sites.  Maybe a car payment?  Mortgage payment?  There are billions of dollars of dollars being spent on online advertising, and it's growing.  Heck look at AOL buying Weblogs Inc. (more on this later), AOL isn't stupid.  They see the tremendous potential of that ad revenue that a network can bring in.

 

We do to.  To be continued ...

 

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