Is it really possible for a small time blog to make $500 a month?

Personally, I haven't actually experienced getting paid through blogs. But I have friends who are bloggers and some of them earn $2 per blog entry, and some of them earn even more. $500 a month? Is it through online or are they hired under a company and they go to the office to blog?

Possible? Yes. I mean it is not impossible. Even if you are only blogging in blogspot.com if you can get the attention of an online spender and be convincing enough that you are able to sell products to your traffic no matter how small, it is possible. Imagine if I am convincing enough to sell USD20,000 worth of products from amazon every month, and I'm selling it to only 4 persons buying USD5,000 each per month, at the 5% commission, that hits USD500 a month. Possible. BUT I would say its improbable. It is more likely to happen in a scam site or an adult related site. But who knows, maybe your cousin is just really good at what she does right? Then again, maybe not.

Yes, its possible for a person to make a part-time or full-time income from a simple small time blog. This method doesn't work for everyone, and it takes a lot of time, effort and detication in order to get fallowers/keep fallowers. You have to post topics of interest, and not use it to complain about what's going wrong with your life all of the time. I'm not saying there is something wrong with that, but that doesn't usually make money. The local news did an article a few days back about people who use blogs to make money. However, it can take years to start generating that kind of money a month. It's not an easy or realistic goal. People who earn off of it, allow adds, post daily, and always have something to keep interested. Diary-style blogs rarely work out. Those who do have an equal balance of pros and cons and sometimes offer product reviews without actually trying. Being unique is key.

I think she has lied you. It is an absurd amount for a new blogger to earn. If she really manages to earn such an amount, ask her to share it with us or at least with you.

M not surprise she can make that much, cause some bloggers on my side have even reach more than that. They dont just use the blog promoted in one site but they go to forum start group etc etc. Normally they have products that they sell and write it in a diary style with promotional advert that they put the links in their blog. True or not she making that much i applaud for her initiative.

Well the answer can be some times no and sometimes yes.She can earn that much money if she is selling products on her blogs. And if she is writing on highly searched and viewed matter then she can make that much money. But here she is saying she is writing dairy like blog.Then can be some times true.But it means that she is writing very emotional matters and thus attracting women readers and elderly people to her blog.This also proved by the fact that she is not giving you link.This means that she done it and had posted many family and emotionally related topics which she donot want her family to see.

I would think that it would be hard to earn that kind of money on a small diary style blog. I hear of people earning from their blogs but I sure have not been earning with mine so I don't know how anyone could earn that much. Hopefully, she will share something with you.

Maybe possible but your site should really be having a good page rank and a very good traffic in which you have thousands of people visiting your site per day. But you said its a journal type or diary, well that seems to be something unless your cousin is a celebrity that people would want to know what is happening in her life.

Really?? Well, that is kinda hard to believe especially if her blog is just diary style, but it is possible. Can you send me the link to her blog?

Frankly,i take your sister's words with a grain of salt .Nowadays ,earning online is not as easy as in 2000 ,when the whole Internet was blooming .Without tip technology or creative idea ,to my mind ,to make $500 a month is not more than a tale or myth .Face the reality ,pal .

hello there awinds, who knows if they are really making that much? we can never tell unless they show us a proof of that $500 income, right? how long have they been doing this? because if blog making will earn you that much everyone will most probably be doing the same stint, right? but, personally, i believe it is possible depending on the traffic that blog is acquiring. you can probably get their blog name and run a search onto www.alexa.com and see if its a good blog worthy of $500.00 a month. and then update us on what you find out :)