Monetize blog growing pains

Monetize your life has remained nothing more than my hobby for the last 11 months, however I’m at a crossroads, my domain is up for renewal and try as I might I’m finding it hard to justify keeping the site up. I haven’t been writing the last 4 months due to serious financial and personal problems. My heart wasn’t in it, and with the price of bandwidth here in South Africa it’s been tough keeping up.

Wonder Years

Being one of the poor folk who got a non-fixed mortage, right before the world economy went to hell 2 years ago, and added to that the fact I had to take on the added responsibility of looking after my 17 year old nephew has left me with a nasty financial mess. This blog was never meant to supplement my income but more as a place for me to hone my writing and share some of my thoughts on life the universe and everything. However as much fun as it is, it has become a bit of a financial burden.

With all this in mind I’m going to be making some changes to the format of the site and I’d like you, my readers to understand that these changes are changes of necessity until such time as my blog traffic grows to a point where my blog is self sustaining. Until then I will, be utilizing more of my screen real estate for advertising and on occasion be writing paid posts in between my normal content. I’m letting everyone know up front so that you can make an informed decision to read those posts. Besides having a disclosure in each post I’ll try to ensure that the post titles for my paid posts stand out from my other posts and will categorise them separately as well. I will stick to paid posts about products that reader of the site may have an interest in.

“If you want to feel rich, just count the things you have that money can’t buy”
Proverb quotes

Growing Pains

I have a few other projects which I hope will reduce my need to do to much paid post product pimping in the future (feel free to promote any of them ):

• I offer a full range of WordPress services for the less technically inclined or newbie bloggers
• I have a few gigs on Fiverr, everything from photo repair to wordpress help
• I write over on Helium paid, per click
• I write over on myDigitallifepaid per click

So that’s my plight, I promise that the number of paid posts will be greatly outnumbered by my regular posts and I’ll try to keep it relevant. If anyone would like to help out It would be greatly appreciated but I fully understand if you can’t, live long and prosper.

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