There's Gold in ThemThar Hills

Not sure how many of you saw this article in last Sunday's NY Times, but apparently the 21st Century  "Gold Rush" is in Blogs.  Heather Armstrong, the "Queen of the Mommy Bloggers", makes $30,000 to $50,000 a month on her blog and highly successful bloggers can gross $1 million according to the article.

That is really good money, but considering that I sometimes have problems navigating the NY Times Web site I don't think I will be one of the the high rollers in blogs.  Even though I am internet savvy,  I must admit I do get tangled up in web searches.

For example, I clicked on the article because I wanted to see the reader comments.  It took three tries before I found them.  Now I ask you, is it me or is the NY Times web site poorly designed?  Why are the comments on a separate web page, not right after the article?  Also, if I want to include a web link in this blog, I can't just copy and paste it into my blog.  I must first put the link into a Facebook private group I created and then copy and paste the link from Facebook to this blog.  Convoluted right?

Anyway, not to digress, after I read the article, I decided to go to my blog (which I admit is not as flashy as other blogs especially not as glitzy as http://dooce.com/about) and register for Google Ads to see how much money I can make.  Well since last week, I had 8 hits and made $0 dollars!  Great start. So my dear readers, enjoy the article and if you can figure out how to make $ from blogs, please feel free to add your comments on my blog.


http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/27/magazine/27armstrong-t.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=mommy+blog&st=cse

http://community.nytimes.com/comments/parenting.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/02/23/queens-of-the-mom-blog-kingdom/?scp=2&sq=mommy+blog&st=cse