From Slate:
Last week, the blog search engine Technorati released its 2008 State of the Blogosphere report with the slightly menacing promise to “deliver even deeper insights into the blogging mind.” Bloggers create 900,000 blog posts a day worldwide, and some of them are actually making money. Blogs with 100,000 or more unique visitors a month earn an average of $75,000 annually—though that figure is skewed by the small percentage of blogs that make more than $200,000 a year. The estimates from a 2007 Business Week article are older but juicier: The LOLcat empire rakes in $5,600 per month; Overheard in New York gets $8,100 per month; and Perez Hilton, gossip king, scoops up $111,000 per month.
Either that $75K figure is seriously exaggerated or I’m doing something very, very wrong.
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15 Comments so far. Leave a comment below.Chris, obviously we’d give you a lot more money if you just tried to be more like Perez Hilton.
A very good question. One that, as a blogger, I will be happy to answer.
Here it is:
“To make money, I go out to work . I blog as a leisure activity. I do not confuse the two.”
Hey… uhm… can I borrow some money?
ur doin it wrong.
Speaking of money, I’m sure that you’re aware that you’ve got advertisements all over your web page for McCain-Palin. Out of curiosity, was that on purpose? That is to say, are you operating under the assumption that no Republicans would ever have anything to do with your blog and as such it’s a highly cynical way to earn money? Or, and I don’t know exactly how this might work, did you just pay for some sort of lump advertisement space and McCain-Palin just happened to be a part of it?
it’s not about the money, it’s about loving what you do
So, how much do you make a year with this blog?
@ b – i know that some ad appear contextually, so the topic on the post determines what ads you see.
damn, I could only with that were true for my sites, i’d be rolling in cash. I don’t make even a 10th of that, and I have advertisements out the ass on my sites. Yes. Out the ass.
I think the trick to making money with a website involves things going into the ass, not so much out of it…unless it’s in German.
If I’m going to quit my day job, I need somebody other than my wife to visit my blog.
I’d support more tits …
I think it’s all about blog content. Tons of original or entertaining content = lots of visitors. There’s just no easy way to promote a blog to get traffic it seems.I just started mine, but it’s so hard to think up original postings. So far I’m just regurgitating youtube vids while trying to decide what to focus on.
Still, the numbers are rather inflated, by, like, a few zeroes.
that’s because we are all cynics and cynics don’t click on ad side bars