A lot of bloggers just don't know how to make money.
Some people are marketers at heart, and don't do all that well at blogging because they only try to promote stuff.
Others are bloggers at heart, and want to give everything away for free.
The real money is made somewhere in between those two...
I've talked to people who are just launching their blog, yet all they're concerned about is putting up banners and AdSense on their blog.
There's this blogger I read frequently (David Risley) that calls AdSense "blogger welfare".
In other words... not going to make you much money (unless you can get excited about affording an extra pizza a month).
And ditto for banners (unless you have tons of traffic).
Basically, the formula for making money is to FIRST focus on providing value and getting lots of eyeballs to your site, THEN working to monetize that traffic.
So, here's how successful bloggers do it.
