Having a good and interesting topic will help. Depends what you are talking about.

i have my own website,but now i cannot share as the forum rule ...i am a newbie here ..hhahahah

I had a blog and made $80 in one month. Then of course, Google AdSense banned my account for no apparent reason, but if that doesn't happen to you, then sure. You can make a lot of money in a short amount of time.

I also trying to make money through blogging.

My tip is to not give up at it. It might take a year. It might take longer. Just keep at it!

Originally Posted by chimehost

I think all you need is good content to start making money from your website. By good content, I am not talking about 100 or 200 word posts, but lengthy posts that cover everything on the subject. Writing these posts will take time but you should see good results after few months.

I disagree - it is better to have good informative short post, than a long philosophical one with a little useful info. However, if you write a long useful post - break it into parts, it will be easier to remember and you would make your visitors come back for some more o your mojo.
And a lot depends on a niche, I managed to get 300$ per month from my blog in two month time from starting it.

Originally Posted by slippysue

I know this is a general question, but how long does anyone think it takes to make money with niche blogging? Bearing in mind, one has to build up traffic.
It all seems quite impossible to do anything in less than a year. But am I just a pessimist?

It depends on your audience and the subject.

In my area of adult retail it's difficult. I have to tie it into adult material and that is already a saturated blogging market.
Our style of marketing is generally "new blog, market and promote it, move on, new blog..."
Unless you have a niche or a new take on it, it's hard to gain a steady returning audience.

blogging sure can give you money, especially when you've been blogging for quite a long time and your site gets trusted, money will come along

Since I am now making a full time income from my blog, I decided that I needed to write about how to make money blogging