I started blogging to keep track of what I learn online, what I do to make money online, and keep track of my earnings.

2. How do you fit blogging around school, work or other activities you may do?

This can get pretty hard sometimes but I learned to make time for family. I just keep in mine family comes first then money.

3. What was your best month money wise and how much did you make online?

My best month so far was June. I made $187.79 revenue and $92.44 of that was profit. I believe September will blow it out the water though.

4. Your blog is still fairly new to the industry, how do you manage to sell out your ad slots on such a small blog?

I keep my price at $5 a month. No matter if my traffic goes up or down its $5 a month. So advertisers like to try one month and then after that they keep buying.

5. What is your future goals with KushMoney.com?

My goals for KushMoney is custom design, mascot, and gain at least 10k+ readers and their trust. (Trust is very important to me)

6. Who are your biggest blogging / mmo idols if any?

I have no idols but I do enjoy a few blogs and the people behind them are great. My favorites are infectedbybugs, tylercruz, johncow, shoemoney, and just added to the list imwithjoe.

7. Would you recommended someone start a blog when they are young or should they wait until they are older and more mature in knowledge about the net?

I would recommend someone to start a blog now. I believe blogs are long term investments. (even if its a personal blog) They will be able to learn as they go and network with others.

8. What niches have you found to be profitable in blogging?

I only have my personal blog. So I can’t give advice on a niche in blogging.

9. What is your favorite income source on a blog? Direct, Adsense, Affiliates or Something Else?

I don’t really try to make money from my blog since its only a place to report/track my income. So I have to say direct ads makes the income for KushMoney.com

1. What made you have to make money online? Perhaps a family member fell ill or you got in an accident. Spill the beans and give me the juicy details!

I loved web design and making websites. Eventually, my main site I was working on at the time, Movie-Vault.com, started to make a bit of money, which to me was just a bonus at the time. However, as the income grew (it wasn’t a lot, but grew nonetheless), I decided to make more websites for money. There’s no better job!

2. What is your #1 tip for monetizing a blog? Don’t give us that adsense junk we know better already!

Private advertising, in my opinion, is by far the best way to monetize a blog. A lot of bloggers have come aboard the private advertising bandwagon lately, and many are seeing the profitable results as well.

3. Have you ever been flamed in a public venue before? If so why and what was the end result? Did it help your traffic increase or decrease?

It’s funny you should ask this, since a friend just messaged me letting me know about a slanderous thread somebody made about me on a forum. So to answer your question: yes, and it happens all the time.

For whatever reason, there are a lot of “TylerHaters” out there. The strange thing is, I’m one of the nicest guys you’ll ever meet, so all this hatred towards me is confusing, but I just ignore it and it rarely gets to me. I think there are a lot of rumors out there about me, spread from these TylerHaters, which may give people the wrong impression about me.

Most of the time that there is a public flame though, it is almost always for linkbait, and so I rarely reply. As for traffic, I do not see any noticeable gains from these… ‘Events’.

4. Do you think negative website reviews create more buzz for a blog then positive ones? In our experience people enjoy jumping on the negative bandwagon over a positive one!

I don’t think so. I think it’s more about the quality and honesty of the reviews than their disposition.

5. Do you care that your blog is smaller then those of guys like JohnChow and ShoeMoney?

Wow, no way! Why would I care? I will ALWAYS be smaller than many other blogs. To me, I only care about growth – as long as my blog is continuously growing and improving, I’ll be very happy.

6. If you were deindexed by the search engines how much traffic would you lose?

A very small bit; search engines account for only 7% of my website traffic, and 0% of my 1200+ RSS subscribers. This is one of the powerful advantages of blogging: a strong community. The majority of my traffic is subscribed to my RSS feeds, have me bookmarked, or type in my address directly.

Search engines are always a great source of additional traffic, and are one of the best ways to bring in new visitors to your site, but relying on search engine traffic can be very dangerous.

7. If you could go back in time what’s 1 thing you would change? GIVE US THE GOOD STUFF!

I’ll assume that this question is in regards to my blog. Hmm… Difficult question. It would probably have to be to keep each blog post to one topic.

About two years ago, I used to have at least three completely different topics and subject matter in each of my posts. This is very bad for many reasons, and I would advise anyone doing this to stop.

Thanks again for taking the time out for us Tyler!

Now let’s hear your thoughts on the Tyler Cruz Interview! Are you a TylerLover or Tyler Hater?

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