Someone pointed out to me the other day that I am now, in fact, a six-figure blogger. Meaning, I earn a six-figure income from my blogging.

!!!

I mean, I knew I was making some serious dough these days. I knew I just started bringing in five digits per month - last month in the teens, in fact. But it didn’t REALLY occur to me until pointed out.

It’s astonishing, if you think about it. I never, ever thought I’d earn a six-figure salary, especially not by doing something I loved. (Well, I’ve actually fantasized about it over the years, but I never truly thought I would do it). I never thought I’d earn that kind of living by sitting in front of my computer, at home in my pajamas.

Believe it or not, since realizing this, I’ve been confused and out of sorts. Am I really doing what I should be doing? Can I keep this up? What should I do next? Of course I want to continue earning this kind of money, and even go up to a higher level. That’s a given. Not to mention the fact that I still have a LOT to do before I can really “relax” in the finance department. I just got a major portion of health stuff taken care of last/this month. But there is more to come. I still have some debt to pay off. Braces. A car. Some other things as well.

Anyway, I’ve had the last few days to sit and think about what to do. I got oral surgery Friday, so I couldn’t really leave the house all weekend because my face was swollen pretty badly in two places. I have been on percocet, which tends to either knock me out, or keep me up pondering life. (Weird?) So after lots of in-depth thought, I’ve decided on the following plan to both keep up my income, and bring it up even higher:

• Get a total of 10 blogs up and running. (Which will include my “popular” site).
• Figure out a plan to get a certain amount of traffic to them.
• Figure out a way to earn income from ALL of them.
• Start an official blog network for my blogs.

Believe it or not, I already have 20-something blogs up and running, but most of them just “sit” there. I tend to ignore many of them because I focus on my “popular” site. So, my goal is to get 10 of them running and keep them updated regularly from now on.

I’ve already selected 7 of the 10 I’ll be using, and spent the weekend revamping some of the themes. I need to decide on the last 3.

My next step is to sit down and plan out a traffic and income goal for each of them. Then I need to schedule when I will begin regularly adding content to them. (And possibly hire someone to help me with adding content). And decide which ad companies I will use for each.

Hmm, it sounds like my 3-hour workdays are over.

It’s going to be a lot of work, but I’m looking forward to it. After all, I’ve gotten this far. Let’s see how much farther I can go!

I’ll keep you all posted on my next steps and how it’s all going.

For the month of April, I set a new record on both visitors and revenue. I averaged $444.86 per day in revenue, for one thing. Which is absolutely mind-boggling considering the fact that I usually only work between 2-6 hours per day.

My “popular” website got mentioned in the London Times this past Sunday, and I added several new link exchanges to my blogroll - and I’m talking other high-traffic websites that get over 20,000 visitors per day EACH. Like many of you, I get many link exchange requests each week from various other sites, but I don’t always want to add them. If their content is too generic, or their “link exchange” email sounds like a robot typed it up, or if their site is completely unrelated to celebrities, then I will not add them.

In other news, I’m getting $2000 worth of oral surgery done this Friday. It’s going to be a miserable weekend recovering, but I’m thankful that I have the money to shell out - for once.

Also, my web expenses are going up again. I will have to start paying a photo agency to use their pictures on one of my websites. More on that later.