I don't know why I give my ideas away for free, but hey.
Networks like Gawker Media or Weblogs Inc have proven that you can make good money with weblogs via advertising and AdSense. In their case, they start a (US) blogger off at about $1000 a month for several posts every day, and it rolls on from there. But what if you outsourced the blogging to a country where labor is a lot cheaper?
$1000 a month is significantly below the average US wage, since the time to post several blog entries a day is small, so I see no reason why a blogger with decent English skills in, say, India or the Philippines would be unhappy with $100 per month or so to write for an hour and post links each working day.
This blog is very untargeted and I only have some poorly positioned AdSense on my archive pages, yet I still make $60-$110 per month from AdSense. With a really targeted blog and well positioned AdSense, several hundred dollars a month wouldn't be unlikely. Profit share with the blogger, then rinse and repeat.
Just out of curiosity, how many hits/sessions does your blog get in a month? Just trying to get a perspective of how many hits it takes to get $60-$110 with adsense to see whether it's worth the time to set it up at this point in time.
You can also feel free to tell me to take a hike, if you don't want to share that information. :)
Posted by: Larry at June 21, 2005 06:03 PMMarch is a good example month. I had 26132 impressions (842 per day). I cannot give you much more info than this as it contravenes the AdSense terms and conditions.
I found ads on my front page did not work well at all, but continue to work reasonably well on the individual archive pages, although the traffic to these has dropped off a bit.
Posted by: Peter Cooper at June 21, 2005 07:16 PMI hope this wouldn't happen, as bloggin is such a pure, intrinsic effort (for me at least till those revenues start coming in). I have had ads on my site for about ayear and haven't even broken the min. to recieve a check.
Oh, well I only get about a 100 hits a day anyway...
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