How much can you earn from Blogging?

Well there is no limit. There are people who make just 20 cents a day and there are people who make hundreds of dollars a day.The amount of money you make from Adsense (as I have mentioned earlier, Adsense is the biggest and the best source of revenue for a blog so I will focus on Adsense over here) depends on just one factor:

1) the number of clicks on your Ads(ads on your blog).

(Adsense does pay you for Ad impressions as well but the major chunk comes from the Clicks on the Ads.)

The number of clicks your Ads depend on quiet a few factors :
1) The number of visitors your blog gets.
2) The topic of your blog. If you are writing about something that's really popular and your content is good then there is a good chance that your blog will get a lot of visitors and a lot of clicks on your Ads.
3) The quality of your content ( A high quality content will bring targeted traffic which will result in more clicks)
4) Your Ad Placement.

These are just a few basic factors. There are a lot of other things that influence your earnings and as you keep blogging you will find that there are a lot of things that you can do to increase your earnings.

Although there is no way to predict how much you will make from blogging or adsense, I would suggest that you guys go through the following exercise :

Let's assume that you already have a blog, your blog is rather small with just 5 pages on it. Let's also assume that you have added Adsense ads to your blog and are making about 20 cents a day from it (which means that in one month you will make about $6 from Adsense). Now 20 cents a day is not very inspiring is it? Actually it’s rather daunting. But before you start thinking that you can't make money from blogging and decide to quit it, let's analyze the situation a bit deeply.

You are making $0.20 per day from 5 pages.
That means that you make $0.04 per day from 1 page.

Now let's assume that you keep adding 3 pages (posts) to your blog every day.
So by the end of the month you will have about: 5 old pages + 90 ( 3 x 30 ) = 95 pages in your blog.

now you make $0.04 from 1 page so from 95 pages you will be making $0.05 x 95 = $ 3.8 per day.
So after one month your Adsense Revenue will be of 3.8 x 30 = $ 114

Actually it will be much more than that as more pages means that the Search Engine will rank you higher, further more pages also mean that Search Engines will show your site for more keywords then what they used to do when your blog was of just 5 pages. Both these factors will bring in more traffic leading to more clicks and more money.

Let's suppose that you liked this boost in your earnings and decided to keep adding 3 pages a day to your blog.
So by the end of 2nd month your blog will have about 95 + 90 ( 3 x 30 ) = 185 pages.

So your per day earnings from these 185 pages will be: $0.04 x 185 = $ 7.4
which means that your earnings at the end of 3rd month will be : $7.4 x 30 = $222

If you keep going this way by the end of a year you will :
have 3 x 365 = 1095 pages in your blog.
from which you will be earning :
$0.04 x 1095 = $ 43.8 per day

which means your monthly earnings from then on will be : $43.8 x 30 = $1314

Actually you would have much more than that for a variety of reasons ( you will know about them when you read about how adsense works). So you see making money from blogging is just about commitment and persistence ( I forgot to add patience).

One thing that I would like to mention here is that its not compulsory that you have to add pages to just one particular blog. If you feel that you have said enough about a certain topic and have nothing more to blog about it then think of a new topic and make a new blog about it. The important thing is adding content everyday.