Make money blogging

My blog (chiclingo.com) is focused on languiages and it’s also a podcast to teach people Romanian for free. I just started I haven’t added very much yet but I believe this is something I could do and it would definitely kill time until i’m allowed to work.

Recently I started a new blog with some friends, called The Uhm Wtf Blog http://uhmwtf.blogspot.com/ at first, I started it for fun at first, then I found out I could ad adsense to it.

So, I can’t say this is my goal exactly, but it seems like a lot of fun and I am interested to see how it works. So, this week we added a Blogging contest for a $50 dollar gift certificate.

I’m more interested in seeing the articles other people write at the moment. . .

I had to rebuild a website and pull up one of my old blogs to use to get verified for my first paid blog.

This will be my first step in creating a full time + income working from home. I hope to help my parents and myself in this goal.

I have just started entering sites for blogging, still in the waiting period

This morning I made jailhouse gravy and toast for my grandkids’ breakfast. No, we aren’t so poor we can’t afford a real meal, but I was just hungry for some pan food, and thought they might enjoy it too. Well, I was partly correct. One of them loved it, the other one turned up her nose.

Jailhouse gravy comes from an old cowboy tradition of a prisoner taking a little animal fat, some flour, and his coffee cream, or goat’s milk, then combining the ingredients in a mason jar and shaking until the mixture got muddy. If he had a piece of jerky or similar he might add it to the combination. My version was a little less rustic.

We were short on anything to make grease other than lunch meat. So, I chopped up a piece of ham, added it to vegetable oil and butter, followed by flour and presto I had a roux. For the non cooks, a roux, pronounced ‘roo’, is basically hot oil and flour.

Next, I poured in milk and started stirring. Minutes later I had my version of jailhouse gravy albeit only popular in part of the household. I poured the mixture over toast and there I had a hobo breakfast treat. After fixing a separate breakfast for my granddaughter I retreated to my bedroom for Bible study.

Jacob asked for tasty food before he died (Gen. 27:4 KJV); the Lord spoke to Samuel and told him, “And he will take your daughters to be confectionaries, and to be cooks, and to be bakers” (1 Sam. 8:13 KJV). Admittedly, the confectionaries of Samuel’s day were more of perfumers than candy makers. All in all, we know that cooking is honorable in God’s view, at least in the limited words we are allowed to interpret.

So, what does God have to do with gravy on toast? Absolutely nothing if a person tries to find jailhouse gravy in the Holy text; but, absolutely everything if that same person applies the act of Christian love when preparing the meal.

My grandmother weighed nearly 300 pounds. But, she rarely sat at the dinner table. Though nearly deaf and blind, she managed to cook for farm workers and family every day, but she did it by taste, and always with a song and prayer on her lips. Often other female members of the family would join her in this joyous reunion. The food was magical – main courses, pies and cakes, and ice cold sweet tea. Breakfasts were celebrations of morning. With a bucket of lard sitting on the stove she made biscuits and breads and always plenty of gravy. If she had cooked for Jacob he might have refused to die.

Today’s contrast is, of course, fast food. The doctors blasted my grandmother’s cooking as unhealthy; but, what are the franchises doing to us? Even diet plan after diet plan has been found to be a silent killer.

Here is my opinion most of my family, one generation up, lived to be in their 80s and 90s, eating my grandmother’s cooking. One difference everyone worked hard; the other difference my grandmother was driven by the Lord. She taught me how to cook, lessons I will never forget, especially the part that says, “start with a prayer.”

My babysitting duties are nearly over, tomorrow I return to my own home; however, tomorrow morning I am making snake cakes for breakfast. The grandkids love’m. Funny what a little food coloring in the pancake batter will do; chocolate chips for eyes. My daughter-n-law will probably frown, at least until I put a snake cake or two on her plate. Oh, I make my pancakes from flour, baking powder, and butter, I like the flavor better than a box mix and definitely better than the frozen pancakes my daughter-n-law keeps in the freezer.

No jailhouse gravy tomorrow, only made from scratch snake cakes. Nobody will know, and although the kids will say their prayers at the table, the Lord and I will have already had a morning chat. Thanks grandma.

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lol i wish i could get money for something so easy.. lol that would be SWEEEET!! lol

Making a living from blogging is a rather slow process. If you already have a job, you cannot progress very fast, so you can’t expect to quit that job it at least a couple of years. If you have resources to go for it full time, it’s faster, but still you can’t expect a decent monthly income in the first year.

My tips for you are:

1. When starting a blog, make sure that you pick an appropriate niche (do some keywords research, to see how many people are seeking that information over the net, and how much would advertisers pay per click)

2. Consider making a list of social bookmarking sites, as they can be a great traffic booster in the beginning, when traffic from search engines is almost zero. This is an example of what a social networking site can do to your traffic: How to get longlasting traffic for your blog

3. Update your blog regularily – this is good for getting & preserving loyal readers

4. When monetizing your blog, don’t rely on a single source of income. There are lots of ways to get money out of your blogging work, so do a little research. A good read for beginners would be Darren Rowse’s Problogger.net .

5. Try to build inbound links. A good start is to submit your posts to blog carnivals. Or to participate in group projects organized by important bloggers (like Darren Rowse, who’s group writing projects generated a lot of links for my blog)

6. Don’t give up after three months! Many people give up when they see that all their blog income covers only the hosting and 2-3 pizzas. This could be a situation which can last one year, but when you’ll get indexed by search engines and your blog will have thousands of pages, you’ll see the money coming in as well.

7. If something does not work, try something else. If something works, try to improve it, see if it can go even better.

8. Don’t use free articles from databases. It’s bad for search engines, as they will identify your content as duplicate and they won’t index it.

9. Respect yourself and your work, and you’ll get respect from your readers.

Good luck!

Simonne