Comments on: Blog Networks and How They Pay Bloggers

By: Isle of Wight Shopper

Isle of Wight Shopper — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 09:21:03 +0000

@bill – I’ve tried to find this plugin as I have a couple of blogs I would really like to expand but don’t have the cash to front paying bloggers for month and months in advance of seeing any revenue. Can you tell me its name or give me a link? Cheers, Mark.

By: Coryan

Coryan — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 09:47:25 +0000

This is a great discussion. There are so many pros and cons to each of the payment formulas. Thanks for another intriguing post with excellent reader comments.

By: Richard

Richard — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 22:33:00 +0000

Revenue share seems to be the most equal, but it would not make much sense to pay low-performing blogs the same as high traffic/converting blogs…

By: Lucas Grindley

Lucas Grindley — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 04:05:42 +0000

I've long supported the page view bonus system being used at Gawker. But folks are giving me a lot of heat for it back on my own blog, where I've advocated adapting a blogger-like pay system for traditional journalists at newspapers.

By: Bill Hutchison

Bill Hutchison — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 00:46:37 +0000

We run a Wordpress plugin that allows us to display the adsense code of the writer on their posts 90% of the time, with the the network code being displayed 10% of the time. On archive pages or the front page, the blog network’s adsense code is displayed.

All other revenue from the blogs go to the blog network.

By: Matt Jones

Matt Jones — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 20:57:35 +0000

How does the blog network track the number of impressions? Have some code developed for them to add? I’m wondering how easy/expensive this is to create.

By: Trent

Trent — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 20:39:05 +0000

Ruchir: if all of their ads are CPM, they would still welcome the Digging.

By: Ruchir

Ruchir — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 18:55:54 +0000

By the way, Darren, for networks paying only by traffic, don’t you think they’ll have to pay a fortune if a post hits the Digg frontpage?

By: Ruchir

Ruchir — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 18:51:59 +0000

Hmm…that gibes me some idea on how to pay writers when I hire some for my blog…

By: BlogCes Team

BlogCes Team — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 16:38:15 +0000

Good info for me as part time blogger.I will use this info to increase my income

By: Mallory

Mallory — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 16:36:24 +0000

In addition to my own blog, in the last year I wrote for one blog in a fairly big network owned by a large media corporation. For that blog, I was paid $10 per post. I’m about to start writing for that network again, but for a different blog. I’m sure I’ll be paid per post again, but not sure if the payrate will be the same.

By: Sangesh

Sangesh — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 15:17:28 +0000

Well for me, I guess I’d stick the non-flat fee. Since regular blogging is what I would not be able to do, due to all the time constraints.

Cheers.

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 13:57:49 +0000

Hi Darren – THANKS for posting this article!

I am just now drawing up the business plan for a new blog network that I hope to launch VERY soon. My business model is completely different to anything that currently exists, so I will keep you posted on my progress (and success).

Kind regards,
Mark

By: simon

simon — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 13:00:54 +0000

i do like being paid per post, as you know what you will get for your effort…

By: Dom

Dom — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 12:53:59 +0000

I pay my bloggers a flat fee, so they always know what they’re getting – but I do increase that amount regularly as traffic increases.

In the end, I’m not sure it matters what model you use – just as long as people get paid a fair price for quality writing.

By: Sergio Rebelo

Sergio Rebelo — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 11:20:26 +0000

I have one of my blogs in a Blogging Network and it pays a percentage of all the Revenues.

The Network gives us hosting, Technical Support and advertising cross the network and you are ina a Blogger community.

Pretty good experience.

By: blogging beat

blogging beat — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 11:03:05 +0000

If I owned a popular blog I would pay someone per CPM. If the blog was making like $3 dollars per CPM I would offer the poster around $2. Although the blog would have to be extremely popular

By: CatherineL

CatherineL — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 10:30:24 +0000

It is good that there’s different options. I would probably prefer to be paid per post – unless it was an extremely high traffic blog.

By: jhay

jhay — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 10:06:51 +0000

Going a little further, I wonder what it takes to create your own blog network and grow it. We’ve been talking about growing our own blogs all these years, maybe it’s time we get to know how to grow a network of them.

By: Laura

Laura — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 10:00:54 +0000

Interesting post! I went back and looked at Valleywag’s post. It looks like they are talking about paying a bonus based on page views which is over and above a monthly base pay.

The base pay that I saw was $2,000 to $3,000.

So, it appears they are not paying bloggers based solely on traffic.