A lot of things can go wrong if you are blogging for money and the wrongest of them all will be when the money just refuses to come even when you think you have done all the things you think needed to be done.

Giving up will be the most tempting option, which itself is one of the biggest mistake a make-money blogger can do.

Quitting is easy

Heaven knows how many time I feel like quitting but each time, just as I was about to throw in the towel — and then what, dance naked? — there is always something from my blogging past that will show up and spur me on as if saying, “Hey, look, you past efforts have not been futile.”

Something like the selling of text link ads on my blogs (see screenshot below). The email came at a time when I felt quitting was the best option. In a way, this small note lifted my spirit.

If you quit now, there will be nothing more to look for in the future

Yes, indeed my past effort have not been futile and if I quit now, there is nothing more for me to look forward to in the future.

In fact over the months, I’ve successfully sold nearly a dozen of text link ads across several of my blogs. The good thing about this kind of ad is that you will continue to receive payments months after months, without you doing anything, so long as the text link remain in your blog.

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Perhaps this is what they call autopilot in that once you get the critical mass in the number of text link ads sold, you can quite afford to sit still and just wait for the payment to come months after months.

This is definitely one of several monetisation options a blogger can go into. Of course, to be profitable, one has to have several blogs which are generating good traffic and rank high on Technorati and Alexa. Not to mention lots of contents — and I mean a lot — in them.

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