So it seems I am not the only one, people looking to make money online are everywhere and we all have the same questions. Is it possible? And How is it done?

My first adventure was writing an ebook.  My first ebook did manage to sell and cover its advertising costs and help make up for the losses on my next ebook.  Wow did that lose me money! Sheesh! It was a chance to learn that losing money is a great indicator that you are wasting your time (I would probably still be tweaking and sending out emails and everything else if I just broke even or only lost a little bit)

I also work at a local school so most of what I do has to be fit in around 2 part time jobs (not to many hours but broken up over the day so that my day is a weird one). I am the schools lollypop lady (crossing patroler) and a lunch time supervisor so lots of fun but not much money.

I was recently told that I could make money online with blogging by my mother in law.  I set up a blog and went to register with online sites for people looking to get paid for blogging.  There are loads of sites out there and I am signed up to a few tho I have yet to find a job I can do with them.  The sites that looked the most promising require my blog to be much older then it is so in the mean time I have been focusing on generating traffic and adsence. 

Yesterday I found this site and am really enjoying it, so I do hope that there are people here who click those ads meaning I can make money while doing something as fun as contributing to this amazing community.  

I would love to hear what other peoples experiences so far have been so please comment!

Thanks Kirsten

I have just realized that some of the links I am currently using to expose my hubs across the internet might be helpful for anyone interested in reading this hub so here they are

http://pingoat.com

http://pingomatic.com

http://www.pingmyblog.com

http://ping45.com

http://www.bing.com/docs/submit.aspx?FORM=WSUT

http://www.mypagerank.net/service_pingservice_index

http://www.pingler.com/index.php

I do not really understand pinging but I have been told many times that its a good way of increasing exposure to your web site and have used them to ping every new hub and my blog 

http://readkirstensblog.blogspot.com/

Already I have had one comment suggesting sites that can help increase traffic and hope that if you have more suggestions for good sites to increase traffic you include it in a comment thanks! 

Break out the bubbly guys, I have made my first £0.18 with adsense!!!!!!

I have today decided to play with my tags and see if that helps make pounds not pence!

With what I have seen people say here in the forums and in comments on this and other pages coupled with my £0.18 it seems that it is possible to earn an income here, it definitely feels promising and makes it easier to be patient and keep plugging away at it :D

Well today I woke up and my most popular hub page (has the highest ranking number of them all) had a little error thingy saying that its traffic was dropping. I re-pinged it, messed with the tags, and tweeted it. The error went away and the ranking number actually went up so I think a combination of all 3 fixed the problem

With this in mind I would like to suggest that any time you publish a new hub page you take 10 mins or so to promote it through twitter, ping service sites, and if you have a blog post it there too! Also I would suggest creating a text file with all the URL's for your hub pages, this should save you loads of time when manually submitting each one to a site that provides a service like pinging.