Comments on: How Much Do Bloggers Earn? [Survey Results]

By: Liz

Liz — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 14:08:31 +0000

How do I become a blogger, where do I start? I know what I want to write about, where do I find other people writing about what I’m interested in?

By: gendut

gendut — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 06:39:08 +0000

the main reason….why too many rich people….hem

By: Christopher Ross

Christopher Ross — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 18:17:33 +0000

That’s brilliant. I get paid that as a web consultant for development and marketing work but I hadn’t really given the idea of blogging for profit a large about of thought. Thanks for pointing out the real world values.

By: Joel Drapper

Joel Drapper — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 07:42:44 +0000

I think I made about $10 from my blog so far. I can see that I have a long way to go :P

By: aw

aw — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 15:56:51 +0000

Having your own blog, subject and content are extremely important. Maintaining several blogs adsense is good on one and terrible on another. For home improvement, adsense clicks are good, on a music type blog adsense gets you one cent. So don’t judge based on one blog. But on the other hand attracting paid advertisement is better on the music type blog. What I am saying is that there are micro economic climates within blogs.

By: ITrush

ITrush — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 15:16:57 +0000

Hope to have that kind of earnings too :p Who knows right?

By: IT Freak

IT Freak — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 06:04:40 +0000

Well, i don’t agree with this survery at all or atleast the topic of this post, cause it says, “how much do blogger earn” and the survey only considers the top-tier bloggers only. i think you should better change the topic to “how much do top-tier blogger earn”. then only will it be more relevant.
else i don’t think it represents the blogger community or most of the blogger community from all over the world. also given the fact that it is mostly the bloggers from the european, australian or amerian bloggers who are in the top-tier list, cause the advertisements mostly pays more since their visitors are more in that region. bloggers in the asian continent and other though with the same effort or more effort earn quite much less. which i think is not fair.

but this is the sad fact.

By: 2ThePoint

2ThePoint — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 16:52:22 +0000

I’m surprised. I really would have thought the guys and gals at the top of the tech-blogging pinnacle would have been earning more per post. I assumed that because there’s generally more money in the tech field (isn’t there?), it would compute (’xcuse the pun!) to more money for tech blogging.

Ah well.

Consulting seems to be where the money’s at in a lot of fields.

(p.s.: I’m earning more than $25 per post blogging for a client of mine (non-tech field). It happened by pure chance. I really couldn’t have foreseen the circumstances that lead to it, but I do count myself very fortunate).

By: bang

bang — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 13:27:47 +0000

Very interesting but hey the online money is not for anybody who wishes but who can. You got have skills necessary to get there. When people think about making money, they think it is easy and free, it is all because of the hype of internet marketers.

By: Madeira

Madeira — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 19:45:06 +0000

Wow – the chance to earn money is definitely out there but you have to go and get it!

By: surendera

surendera — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 04:56:40 +0000

Amazing!
Yes with full time blogging we can earn money.But will you tell me that who is earning USD 2500/Per day?
If you follow my url link then you’ll find best tips on blogging but I am not earning much more then $2500/day.
I want to earn but How?
Surensera

By: Dadan

Dadan — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 04:50:13 +0000

I’m newbie, but I hope sometime get much earning from my blog.

By: Write and Earn a Living

Write and Earn a Living — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 04:26:53 +0000

Blogging can be quite lucrative. Usually post lengths are not prohibitive and with practice these are a time-saving way of earning good money.

Of course, blog PR plays a role in how much a blogger is paid for posts.

Perhaps one of the nicest spin-offs is when you are offered a blogging opportunity at a high pay rate.

All round, blogging is a good way to earn cash. It takes hard work but you have opportunity to earn income in a variety of ways.

By: Blue Duck Copy

Blue Duck Copy — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 03:08:43 +0000

Wow, maybe I need to reevaluate my rates. Being a freelancer probably brings that estimate down, but still… Thanks for the heads up!

By: Michael

Michael — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 02:45:23 +0000

Wow…I didn’t realize bloggers are bringing in those kinda chips…I need to hang out here a little more..

By: JR @ Do-Follow IM Blog

JR @ Do-Follow IM Blog — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 01:53:23 +0000

Interesting, I am a lone blogger, no one pays me, so I guess it is pretty cool that , my blog made $225 last month just for ads and product recommends, which I thought was pretty cool considering it is just me and it is a very new blog!! But I do work my butt off and write some great content (what my readers tell me) so I do feel it is well deserved.
Thanks Darren

By: Darren Rowse

Darren Rowse — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 00:48:43 +0000

Mark – let me start by saying that I’ve seen your many comments around the place – you seem to have some kind of problem with b5 – I’m not sure where it comes as you don’t seem to have had any connection with us before (based upon your name) but if you want to talk to someone about specific issues you’ll probably get better results by approaching b5 management directly than leaving snarky comments every time blog networks or b5’s name comes up.

Let me also say that this post is about ‘top tier tech blogs’ and not blogs like what b5 has. I can only presume that RWW surveyed bloggers on blogs like Gizmodo, Engadget, TechCrunch etc – blogs getting millions upon millions of readers a month – different to most of the blogs on b5’s network.

Lastly let me say that we have a growing number of bloggers at b5 who are working full time on our blog, getting paid similar overall numbers to those talked about in this article. It isn’t all of our bloggers by any means but we have a growing number of them.

Beyond that – if you’d like a specific comment on b5’s pay system you’ll need to talk to b5’s CEO, Jeremy Wright. While I’m a co-founder of b5 I am a minority shareholder and only work part time for b5.

While I believe in the model and know we’re attempting to build a business that not only is profitable over the long term but pays it’s bloggers fairly (something that takes constant juggling ) I’m not in the day to day management team so for better information you’ll need to talk to Jeremy. I do know that getting the pay mix wrong is not easy – pay too little and bloggers leave – pay too much and the network falls over and bloggers are without jobs. It’s not an easy thing to get right and b5’s model has always been to evolve it to find the best solution.

By: Mark Clegg

Mark Clegg — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 23:34:32 +0000

So I guess what you’re saying is that b5media pays really, really bad?

By: Arnold - Mr.Gadget

Arnold - Mr.Gadget — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 22:42:08 +0000

I’m a bit tired of people saying that Bloggers should get paid this or that. It’s all relative.

Like anything, it’s based on a couple identifiable factors:
- value of niche
- writing experience
- length of post
- SEO craft
- talent of writer

Although my writers aren’t the highest paid, I’ve spent a lot of time teaching them how to create high ranking posts and on top of payment per post, share at least 15% of Google Adsense site revenue with them per month.

In my case it’s a two-way relationship.

By: aubry

aubry — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 19:58:44 +0000

well i dont know how to make money on blogs but if you go to my url than you can make some money in your spare time it wont make you rich but it will pay some extra bills it doesn’t cost you anything and they will send you the check