It really depends on what you're doing.

For example:

If you're monetizing a blog with adsense and building search engine traffic. Then yes, it could take a long time.

If you're selling your own products & services or collecting email subscribers and building traffic with PPC or media buying. Then your blog could start making money very quickly.



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It depends on several things:

- method used
- niche selected
- time involved
- money to invest
- intelligence

If you want to be a good blogger, then you must establish a brand name in blogging industry.
Money will only come, when you struggle to write good content.

Or you can create an Adsense blog/website,that could raise your success rate. Those are websites created only for making money, don't know though how successful they are indeed.

You have to continue posting unique content for a year+, before you can can start make money from your your blog. Some of the people will not buy thinks from a blog that is less than a year.

If your serious about making money from blogging, then your going to have to be blogging for 6-12 months before you see any real results, of course it's possible to see results within the first month of blogging, but that's of course much harder. It all depends on what your doing, how well it's working and if you scale up your method, if it's just organic traffic and income from adsense, you'll be looking at the 1-2 year range if you want some decent results.

It all depends on so many factors. How much time you're spending blogging, promoting, etc., whether you're investing in advertising, etc., what you consider to be 'making money' (are you meaning covering costs or turning it into a full time income?), etc.

Good content can make a difference.. So focus on that part..

If you are blogging because it is your passion (and you just happen to make some money as part of that process) then it is fine the way you are, and so just enjoy the extra pocket money. However, if you are blogging for dollars, then you need to apply the basic principles of business to assess how you are doing and if you should be in this business.