The nice thing about adsense is that it can be setup once and just left alone. If you continue posting and growing your site, it will eventually start earning you an income. I waited till I had a 100 followers before I set up adsense on our blog. My reasoning was to see if those regular followers would be bothered by me making the change. I was expecting they would give me feedback if they didn't like seeing them or felt they were too much etc. I put pretty much the minimum on and I have never had anyone complain about them. <div><div><br></div><div>You don't get your first payment from them till after you have accumulated the first $100 so it doesn't seem like "real" money until then, but it is. I have especially been slack with our blog this last year but it has steadily grown anyway and clicks happen here and there. We just haven't put much effort into it lately. We are starting to get back into it a bit more though now. I have to tell ya, the first payment was fun! It came at a time when it was needed too so that was nice. As far as it making a huge impact on our budget or finances, not so much, but I see how it could if we put effort into it. </div><div><br></div><div>Glenn, our friend from toosimplify, had about the same number of followers as we did maybe two weeks ago then do to a interview/article he was involved with, his followers pretty much doubled overnight and his traffic soared! Now he has over 550 which I am sure translates into more money through adsense etc. That kind of exposure can really give you a boost! He has done a few other interviews that were less effective too, but still probably helped. Marketing <img src="/images/boards/smilies/smile.gif" border="0" align="absmiddle"> </div><div><br></div><div>I think Amazon is a great way to add income as well. I haven't done anything really with mine yet, other than setup a very basic little store on the blog. I will have to work on it one of these days and get it to be more useful to people. We have specifically bought stuff we needed through other's amazon stores though so they would benefit from it. I think that is really something cool to do for the people you know and are able to help. It doesn't add anything to the cost of the item, but does give your traveling friends a little commission boost! Bob Wells has a store - Hint Hint <img src="/images/boards/smilies/smile.gif" border="0" align="absmiddle"></div><div><br></div><div>You can also add an Etsy storefront on your blog like I think Katie did. That makes a ton of sense if you like crafting! I have a bunch of jewelry that I have made that I need to do that with. Also adding leather crafts to my hobbies so there may be another thing for Etsy. Driving traffic to the etsy store with the blog just makes good sense! </div><div><br></div><div>Hope that helps! </div></div>
