Wired reports on something that most people call a myth, and bloggers call a wet dream. It actually is possible to make a good living from blogging:
When it comes to the profit potential of blogs, Nick Denton, founder of Gawker Media, calls himself a skeptic.
It’s a surprisingly pessimistic perspective coming from the Brit who has launched a network of 13 theme blogs — including Fleshbot (porn), Gawker and Defamer (gossip), Gizmodo (gadgets) and Wonkette (politics). His most popular properties (Defamer, Gizmodo and Gawker) report between 4 million and 6 million visits per month and millions more pageviews, he and his top talent have been featured in articles in the ink-and-pulp press (Wired, The New York Times Magazine) and Denton rarely misses an opportunity to trumpet ads on his sites for blue-chip companies like Absolut, Audi, Sony, Nike, Viacom, Disney and Condé Nast.
So you can forgive his competitors for not buying into his deflationary spin: As David Hauslaib, founder of Jossip and the newly launched Queerty, put it: “Nick infamously downplays the profit potential of blogging the same way Tom Cruise’s sister-slash-publicist Lee Ann DeVette pretends his relationship with Katie Holmes is authentic. Even people outside the industry know it’s a sham.”
Hauslaib credits part of Denton’s success to his ability to keep mainstream publishers away from his medium, guaranteeing he’ll be the biggest player when media buyers come knocking. But Hauslaib believes there are plenty of seats left in the arena. There could an additional handful of gossip sites to compete with Gawker (and Jossip, for that matter), and ad dollars would continue to flow in.
According to the article you can make anything from $2500 to $8000 working for a popular blog. That isn’t even counting the revenue you can make from your own blog. My $10.00 a month from Google Ads is pretty pathetic in perspective 
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