You must have and abide by an appropriate privacy policy that clearly discloses that third parties may be placing and reading cookies on your users’ browser, or using web beacons to collect information, in the course of ads being served on your website. Your privacy policy should also include information about user options for cookie management.

To me it’s not clear that you have to publish your privacy policy on your Web site, but the privacy policy proposed by JenSense seems quite simple and clean so I will give it the benefit of the doubt. So without further a due, here’s Da Vinci Planet’s privacy policy.

Here’s how he’s been doing:
September          $352.94 (first month as a moneymaking blog)
October          $1,361.64
November         $2,139.93
December         $2,790.05
January          $3,440.66
February         $7,011.05
March            $8,545.25


He’s also kind enough to show the breakdown of his income for March – all from smart marketing tools:
ReviewMe:        $2,400.00
Affiliate Sales: $1,962.20
Text Links Ads:  $1,308.06
Google AdSense:  $1,129.60
Direct Ad Sales:   $625.00
Vibrant Media:     $357.08
Kontera:           $296.12
TTZ Media:         $278.92
FeedBurner Ads:    $188.27
Grand Total:     $8,545.25

(I noticed that he also has Adsense-like ads by ActionAds.)

The traffic didn’t come for free, but it was relatively cheap at $480.75 for March (mostly AdWords). Now, $480/month is a lot of money for an amateur blogger, but it goes to show that a little money can go a long way.

An interesting expense that he incurred is what he calls Google IM ads to other blogs. “Google IM ads” could be a way of spreading the love (“who knows who”) or it could be a form of AdSense arbitrage, or – most likely – it’s a combination: spreading the love and making money. The perfect mix. Huge hooray for corporate marketers that are on board.

He may have been lucky, but he proves that one can make a decent income from blogging. Can he keep it up? I bet he can because, like any other job, it takes time and passion to do it well and he seems to have both.

Why do I do it..? Passion! I am a Web professional and I love this stuff and so it has become a hobby. The Adsense income was a “why not?”, but now it justifies the hobby . I also do it to encourage other people to blog about their passions because it is such an amazing forum to spread knowledge.

Make Money On The Internet – johnchow.com