I’ve been using Blogads and Chitika. I was invited into the BlogHerAds network. I was provided login information, talked a lot with Jenny, but its been over a month and they still haven’t provided me with an ad code. Jenny keeps on saying that she’ll provide it on a certain date, but than never does. I’ve lost about a months a revenue, because I took down my Blogads code, because I thought she was going to provide me with an ad code. I’m still waiting to do this.

Speaking of Dooce, I read one article that estimated that she earns $40K per month from ad revenue on her site.

My blog has been around for a while (2.5 years) and I’ve gotten very lazy about it, but I don’t earn much more than you do. I have never made much money from pay-per-click ads like Adsense, so I gave that up and now just sell ads directly or thru Linkworth.

Much of my blog revenue comes from referral fees for survey sites, etc. If you do sign up for Linkworth, there’s a referral link in the sidebar of my blog.

My income from my blog does fluctuate a lot. On a slow month it’s only about $50, but is sometimes as much as $300-400. Definitely not enough to cover rent in the Silicon Valley, but as I said, I’m pretty lazy about it and don’t treat it like a business venture.

I used to do a lot of paid site reviews (where somebody paid me to review their site), but I only write paid content if I disclose that I’m being paid to do it, and lately a lot of people have been wanting to me to write reviews where I pretend I’m not being paid. No thank you!

Good luck with your blog. I’ll come back and read more in the future.