Comments on: Problogger earns in excess of $5000 a month

By: Darren Rowse

Darren Rowse — Thu, 30 Mar 2006 21:37:12 +0000

Aishmin – I think it’s fine as long as:

1. You link to and acknowledge your source
2. You only use a short segment of the other article as a quote
3. You provide useful content and not just rubbish just because it has the keywords

By: Aishmin

Aishmin — Thu, 30 Mar 2006 16:49:53 +0000

I’m wondering, is there any copyright issues in doing the conpendium of news? since they come from various sources, and you merely put the details in your own words and publish them on your site. Do you need to inform your source owners? (similar to your review blogs) Thanks Darren..

By: colbert

colbert — Tue, 05 Apr 2005 12:57:18 +0000

i want to grow up just like him

By: Alexey Mahotkin

Alexey Mahotkin — Sat, 26 Feb 2005 17:55:23 +0000

Darren,

the link to mediatracker is broken (wwww instead of www).

Thanks for your content!

By: Michael Moncur

Michael Moncur — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Wow! There are probably lots of bloggers like him out there, quietly making money while the rest of us debate whether it’s possible to make money with weblogs…

By: Darren

Darren — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

yes michael,

the problem is that with Adsense you’re not supposed to tell how much you earn (Google seems to have made an exception for Jon in this article) and so its hard to prove how it is easily possible to earn an income from blogging.

I’ve been trying to say this for a while now – but Jon is just one of a number of bloggers that I know about who earn this type of money – in fact he’s on the lower end of what is possible.

By: Jon Gales

Jon Gales — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

A few things to note…

Fortune took a number from Business 2.0 (sister publication) that was approved by Google. I even had a chat with an AdSense employee about it on the phone, they are all OK about it.

The number is from a long time ago–August or so, and was then an average.

AdSense is also not the only source of income, right now there is a CPM ad on the site and Amazon does pretty well. Altogether it’s a six figure income.

By: Darren

Darren — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

nice Jon,

I was actually thinking that the figure in the article was probably a bit conservative for the amount of traffic and keywords that you have.

Well done and keep it up!