newsweek.com— I learned the hard way: while blogs can do many wonderful things, making huge amounts of money isn't one of them.
Feb 9, 2009View in Crawl 4
The lesson here isn't that blogs can't make money. Clearly, as the author admits, there are blogs out there that make a LOT of money. The lesson here is that you can't write a blog, even a very popular one, and just throw up AdSense ads and pray. You have to put as much work into the marketing aspect as you do the blogging aspect.The guy admits that he made a different advertising deal, which made more money (though not enough to "quit his day job"). He (notably) doesn't tell us how much the new deal brings in. But he made one change, and it makes significantly more money!If no one made money from web advertising, everything would collapse. *Some* people out there are making money. If the guy had any sense, he would not be concluding he can't make money, he would be asking what are they doing that he's not.
In the description of this story he put learned, but I thought it was learnt?Looking at that link llvllatrix left, it looks to be a American English thing to say learned. I'm British.
"No one reads the stupid things, and the only way you can get someone to read them is to spam and annoy people or waste time reading other blogs in the "community"."Hmmm...tell that to Gawker Media's Gizmodo.com. They can draw in about 40 to 90 million unique visitors in one month.
nairebisFeb 9, 2009
The lesson here isn't that blogs can't make money. Clearly, as the author admits, there are blogs out there that make a LOT of money. The lesson here is that you can't write a blog, even a very popular one, and just throw up AdSense ads and pray. You have to put as much work into the marketing aspect as you do the blogging aspect.The guy admits that he made a different advertising deal, which made more money (though not enough to "quit his day job"). He (notably) doesn't tell us how much the new deal brings in. But he made one change, and it makes significantly more money!If no one made money from web advertising, everything would collapse. *Some* people out there are making money. If the guy had any sense, he would not be concluding he can't make money, he would be asking what are they doing that he's not.
craftybadgerFeb 9, 2009
In the description of this story he put learned, but I thought it was learnt?Looking at that link llvllatrix left, it looks to be a American English thing to say learned. I'm British.
gamersdgFeb 9, 2009
I have a blog called The Secret Diary of Fake Steve Jobs. So yes Iam the Fake Fake Steve Jobs
bizzywhoFeb 9, 2009
Source please? Or did the guy at Newsweek whose name you forgot tell you this?Your accusations are baseless.
woogydudeFeb 9, 2009
I wonder how much money had made with his book, which is based on his blog. He seem to take it into account when adding up how much money he made.
surreyporterFeb 10, 2009
"No one reads the stupid things, and the only way you can get someone to read them is to spam and annoy people or waste time reading other blogs in the "community"."Hmmm...tell that to Gawker Media's Gizmodo.com. They can draw in about 40 to 90 million unique visitors in one month.
getrecognizedFeb 12, 2009
If you are smart, a decent amount of money can be made online.<a class="user" href="http://www.moneyiseverywhere.com/">http://www.moneyiseverywhere.com/</a>