Adding Donation buttons

It has long been thought that any person could survive solely off of blog donations. I hate to break it to you, but this is only true for about 1 out of every 10,000 blogs. So far, I have only heard of one that has done this successfully and I am sure that you've heard his name on other sites as well. That man is Jason Kottke. He runs kottke.org. Now, it is ture that donations have always been popular ways to make money online. A couple years ago, it was actually a lot more common because none of these third-party advertising companies were out there stealing your money and wasting your time.

It is also true that asking for donations has become a lot easier lately thanks to programs such as PayPal. PayPal enables you to place a donation button to your site. This has made many blogs a decent amount of profit. ONce a month, they just simply ask for small monetary donations that would be used to help support and keep the blog alive.

Now, it's a lot harder for people like me that don't have PayPal, because then donations would have to be made via check which takes quite a long period of time. Overall, if you have PayPal, I would definitely recommend that you add a little "donate" button. You don't really have to do anything to get some pocket money except give your readers some quality and fresh content(which you should be doing consantly already). There aren't many reasons I could think of not to add a button, but please realize that most donations will be under ABOUT 5 DOLLARS.

Keep blogging!