Comments on: How Many Posts do you Need in your Archives to earn Money from Blogging?

By: wwinfo

wwinfo — Sun, 13 Mar 2005 01:37:27 +0000

Earnings of a site has too many variables to to say 10,000 pages will earn $$ each month. Earnings by using Google Adsens is determined by topic and traffic.

Traffic is determined by topic, amount of search engine queries per day and by how “relevant” search engines believe your site is.

You could have a 100,000 pages of a topic and get 2 or 3 visitors per day if you don’t write effectively for search engines and users. You could have 100 well written pages on a niche market that is growing and earn much more.

As he said, “it depends”.

By: Tim

Tim — Sat, 12 Mar 2005 00:26:07 +0000

I remember reading an article which said that if you start a blog with 100 pages and then post every day for a year (giving you roughly 500 pages) you can get roughly 15000 pageviews per day (so a few thousand uniques). That seems about right, i think.

By: Darren

Darren — Fri, 11 Mar 2005 11:51:59 +0000

You’re right Thomas and Duncan – the old posts are not completely obsolete – I guess I was just meaning that they tend to lose their value over time. Here’s hoping its a LONG time though!

By: Duncan

Duncan — Fri, 11 Mar 2005 11:41:48 +0000

I think your not think outside the square in relation to your photography blog, as your considering whether the product is obsolete is the new product market whilst ignoring the secondary, or used market. I know as a buyer of good on occasion on ebay that I’ll Google the product if I’m interested in it to look for reviews and opinion on the item, and this can often apply to products that may often no longer be available to purchase new. Given the size of the second hand market through ebay alone, there must be some value in it, even if the new market has a limited timeframe.

Yes, its never going to be as valuable as the new market, but it should maintain value of sorts for a reasonable time into the future.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Fri, 11 Mar 2005 08:30:32 +0000

thank you for your detailed and thorough answer. very interesting. I would refer you to this expert article, perhaps you have been there already:
http://www.useit.com/alertbox/981129.html (by the way, check out the page rank of his site! its 8/10 ! )
He makes some very very good arguments of the value of older internet pages in ways I have not really thought of before.
As for your photo blog, even if the articles or products become very out dated, the articles could still have a lot of historical ‘nostalgia’ value.. and if the people who visit those old pages discover the information is too out dated, then it may give them even more reason to click on a current ad that you have running on that page.

Who knows who will be linking to old articles, they could be coming from all over the place… seems like definitely a good idea to keep old pages in place and let them grow like seeds in soil.

tom