[cmoneyspinner]

3 years ago I shared this article Aug 2017 Update on My Blogging Adventures and Home Business Projects.

It's only been 3 years and it's incredible that most of the projects I started had to be stopped. I suppose it's a sign of the times and right now times are not all that good. When I first decided to try to work online (back as far as 2007) people were talking about all the money they made from Google Ad Sense and from their affiliate marketing efforts. Nobody is bragging these days.

In the previous article, I mentioned the new Blogger templates that Google introduced in March 2017. I tried them. They sucked! (My humble opinion.) This year in July, Blogger rolled out the new Blogger interface and encouraged users to “Try the New Blogger”. Uh huh. It sucks! (My humble opinion.)

I don't know. Maybe I just resist progress.

Fortunately old users were not forced to use the new templates or the new interface. They could continue using the old templates and the legacy interface. Hallelujah!

As of today, I have nine (9) Blogger blogs. Why? Because they're easy to publish and you can get them approved to display Google Ad Sense ads. You can also get them approved to display Infolinks advertisements. Plus when I publish my own blogs my content doesn't get sent back to me because …. not enough words, need better images, etc. I'm the writer and the editor and I'm in charge!

My very first Blogger blog has been around since 2014. I was a newbie blogger and could not think of a “niche”, so basically at that blog which I described as “freestyle” there are blog posts about whatever I felt like writing about at the time.

But the feedback or vibe I am getting is that when visitors come to the blog, they don't really know what the blog is about. So since I have over 600 blog posts, I decided to analyze them, categorize them by a “niche”, and then start moving the content to the specific blogs. I broke the posts down by:
1. blogging advice and tips (My Blogging World);
2. online shopping (Go Shopping Bees);
3. cultural and lifestyle topics (Joie de Vivre Magazine);
4. video games (Final Fantasy Party);
5. general healthcare info (Rx4Welless);
6. food and drink (Food Ways);
7. my writing samples (Writer-for-Hire, where to find examples of my writing)
8. entertainment (my picks for Movies, Music and Books); and
9. freestyle (my first blog).

I still maintain my first blog but I have been migrating the content over to the niche blogs. It's a major project but the good thing is that a lot of my content is evergreen, i.e. not time-sensitive. In the process of moving the content over, I am revising old blog content, updating the links, etc. When I first started blogging I didn't know the importance of images, so some of my posts did not have an attractive image. Also, a lot of the links are broken. What can I say? Some bloggers and article writers decided to unpublish their content so I had to search for other relevant links.

Also my social media presence has improved considerably since I first started blogging and now I am able to share my blog post links via Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest, Tumblr, etc.

I know that many people say that WordPress is like the Number 1 blog publishing platform. But I have not had much success with that platform. In fact, my blog was deleted and I got so discouraged I never bothered to try to publish another one. So Blogspot became my platform of choice. It has more advantages than WordPress. I can use the Google Webmaster tool, the Google Analytics tool, get approval for Google Ad Sense ads, and I have a lot of freedom with the content that I want to publish. My WordPress blog that got deleted? I took the same content and published it with a Blogspot blog. Not sure why it was not acceptable at one one platform but allowed on another.

Since Google allows multiple blogs and you can monetize them by placing Ad Sense ads on each blog, why have only one monetized blog when you can have several monetized blogs hopefully generating an income stream?

Anyway! Blogspot (or Blogger) is working for me. For now that is. Who knows what I'll have to report in the next 3 years.

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[mrki444]

Do you have some income from this blogs? It is great see somebody have so many of it. Getting Adsense approval is not easy. Google is often weird.

[cmoneyspinner]

Do you have some income from this blogs? It is great see somebody have so many of it. Getting Adsense approval is not easy. Google is often weird.

Fortunately for me I got Ad Sense approval BEFORE Google got all weird. When I first got approved you could take your ad code and put it on any site. But now you have to get your site approved and put some sort of identifying code in the template. If you don't, you could put code on a site and not earn any money because in your Google account it will show that the site was not approved.

It's a lot stickier now. And it took a long time to finally reach the $100 payout. Once I reached it though, it seems like the blogs started generating income more consistently. Even though it's still pennies because people use Ad Blockers, etc. But it's slowly adding up. If I learn how to use the Analytics tool better I can probably get my blogs to generate more income. The Analytics tool shows you where your traffic is coming from. The more traffic, the more Ad Sense revenues.

[ptrikha21]

I have seen most folks talking about WordPress. Yet it looks like you decided to stick with the Google Platform and use it to your advantage. I was once more active on blogger but now occasionally post on WordPress.
I am not yet close to monetization yet I feel one can get folks more interested in our other sites and YouTube work through these blogs.
Now do I go back and do more on Blogger? Well, I am yet to decide.

[cmoneyspinner]

@ptrikha21 - My vlogging project is on a backburner but I will get to it eventually. Someone told me to take some of my articles and turn them into videos. I'm going to explore that further.

[Netherrealmer]

Maybe you should try some DIY quarantine hobbies and make blogs about them. Like making a kombucha tea, sour dough bread starter or a Mushroom growing kit. I just made my own wine from Apricots. dried some apricots, make apricot cake, make apricot candies etc because my apricot tree keeps on giving.

[mrki444]

It's a lot stickier now. And it took a long time to finally reach the $100 payout. Once I reached it though, it seems like the blogs started generating income more consistently. Even though it's still pennies because people use Ad Blockers, etc. But it's slowly adding up. If I learn how to use the Analytics tool better I can probably get my blogs to generate more income. The Analytics tool shows you where your traffic is coming from. The more traffic, the more Ad Sense revenues.

If you have good DA you can try sell guest posts. Those are much worth than a ads networks.

[bomb2060]

This is great progress and awesome achievement.
At this rate, i would suggest you just register one domain name that will handle all your blogs.
That way, your many followers will have on place to meet you, instead of spreading the all over the nine blogs.
Blogspot and Wordpress are good for starting, now i see you have perfected the art.
Make the big step..

[cmoneyspinner]

If you have good DA you can try sell guest posts. Those are much worth than a ads networks.

I have tried to charge a small fee for publishing a guest post at one of my blogs and nobody seems to be interested.

-- 15 May 2021, 18:48 --

Weird things are happening behind the scenes with Blogspot. I received eMails today. The first set of eMails said my posts had been deleted. The second set said my blog posts had been "reinstated" after a review by The Blogger Team.

It's one of those head-scratching moments. Anybody else have a Blogspot blog with weird things happening?

-- 17 Sep 2021, 14:33 --

OK! So! I'm up to 12 blogs now that are published using the Blogspot platform. This last one though is sort of a microblog. I wanted to use some of the newer blogging templates that present your posts in a Grid format. Also I wanted to see if I could create a Blogspot blog that was similar to a Tumblr blog. So that's what I did today, even though I woke up this morning with a completely different tasks list in my head. I'm using the Emporio template. I like it!

I attached a screenshot so you can see what I'm babbling about.

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