$1,000 per month blogging -- and a guy who makes more than $2,000 per month from 20 websites

Here's this interesting site called Grand Per Month that has published their own $1,000 or so blogging income -- as well as the blogging income of a few others who are making well over $1,000 per month.

Even though the writer writes about being reluctant to publish their income online, I'm glad they did. That's the stuff that people really want to know -- especially those who are considering leaving their corporate day jobs to give a go at earning an income online.
Anyway, I keep thinking about the latest post that Spencer Haws published on Niche Pursuits that detailed just how well his 20 niche sites that he created 6 months ago have been performing.

All told, those 20 new sites are bringing in more than $2,000 in January 2012 -- and I LOVE the way he gives away so much information for free -- like his total backlinking strategy, and how he researches niches (the most important part, instead of always just buying new domain names we think might be good) and how to research your competition.

Because of his lessons, I'm able to figure out how to use free tool like SEOQuake and other free SEO tools that are Firefox add-ons like their Rank Tracker and lots of stuff.

I love that Spencer isn't one of those guys making money from creating a bunch of products that others charge like $97 or much more for -- and instead, he's actually in the trenches getting new sites ranked and making them profitable with Adsense income. He makes around $15k per month.

I saw one guy who makes a whole bunch of money with teaching products -- but very little in Adsense -- and I had to wonder: How does this guy really know that the stuff he's teaching newbies really works?

I know I could probably make a ton of money selling dreams to innocent people coming online in hopes of making easy money -- but I prefer to do it Spencer's way (along with varying other ways of earning through Kindle books and the like) by actually making money from Adsense and Amazon and stuff, instead of taking advantage of people who might not have the money to waste on some $47 product that doesn't really help them.

Okay, there's my rant. Basically, I've learned that research, research, research and backlinking is more important than just the rush of buying a new domain and loading it with content and hoping folks will find it that way. Yes, that can work, but backlinking can be a lot more important than folks like me gave it credit for years ago.