I have a number of blogs on other platforms that I do still scrape a few dollars from though, and, happily, it’s all tax free! But the blog advertising market isn’t what it was. In 2007/8 I could earn up to $140 for a 100 word post. The average was $35 per post. Nowadays, the best the average person can get is about $5 for a 200 word ad, and the oppos aren’t as numerous as before.

The new scheme I’ve signed up for requires me to just post links, in any old blog post about any old subject – without having to go through the rigmarole of researching a product or company to do an actual advert. Much, much easier. But at $1 to $3 a go, much less profitable.

Still, they add up – I will have that Pentax!!!

But surely you can find some kind of platform where you can brazenly sell yourself…I mean advertising. Have you ever read http://www.yucatanliving.com? They are web developers, but their site (which I’ve been reading for years) is clearly pulling in a fair amount of advertising dollars.

So someone as web-savvy as yourself should be able to find some platform where it’s perfectly a-OK to sell advertising. Can’t you use wordpress or something?

In Mexico $10K USD is nothing to sneeze at. That would go a long way in your fair city, especially if you can keep both Mexican and UK tax collectors at bay.

Best of luck,

Kim G
Boston, MA
Where so far the only thing we’ve ever really successfully monetized is our job.