Make Money Online Hype
Aug 1st, 2007 by Blog Money
By now everyone has heard of or took the time to actually read BusnessWeek’s article ‘Bloggers Bring in the Big Bucks.’ In case you’ve missed it let me give you a highlight of the high life within the blogosphere.
The Umbrella of Riches
BoingBoing - A Directory of Wonderful Things
Revenue: $1Million a year
ICanHasCheezBurger - lolcats tagged for your convenience
Revenue: $67k a year
Shoemoney - Skills to Pay the Bills
Revenue: $144k a year
OverHearInNewYork - The Voice of The City
Revenue: $97k a year
Kottke - Home of the Fine Hypertext Products
Revenue: $64k a year
TalkingPointsMemo - Talking Points Memo
Revenue: $540k a yeaer
PerezHilton - Celebrity Gossip Blog
Revenue: $1Million a year
Gothamist - Gothamist
Revenue: $60k a year
TechCrunch - TechCrunch
Revenue: $2Million a year
GoFugYourself - Go Fug Yourself
Revenue: $75k a year
Mashable - The Social Networking Blog
Revenue: $2Million a year
Problogger - Make Money Online Problogger Blog Tips
Revenue: $100k a year
* All revenue amounts are just estimates
Observations
It was brought to my attention the other day that blogging about making money online is probably becoming an over saturated niche of empty promises and lost efforts. Let’s face it, most blogs with the exception of three, so far, that i am aware of (not listed above) are making good money blogging about ‘making money online,’ and offering ‘blogging tips.’
By looking at the list alone you will clearly see that blogging about blogging or making money online is not the way to go. If you are blogging in hopes to earn enough revenue to leave your day job or avoid the 9-5 cubicle human trap then take note (grab a pen). Research a new niche.
If you go over the list once again, you will see that Problogger is the only site that covers ‘making money online’ and ‘blogging tips.’ Unless you have the expertise of Darren Rowse, John Chow, or Yaro Starak then you can take it somewhere or possibly to new heights. If not then focus on another niche that has yet to be discovered or become over saturated. Celebrity Gossip is hot right now, or probably has always been.
Why not take it a step further and focus on local gossip, or local businesses. Starting small and starting simple has never hurt anyone. I hope this helps…
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We noticed that also, everyone tells how to “make money online”, or says that “my blog will be a case study for making money online”, but maybe there are already to much blogs that covers that niche, like you say in your post, its getting a little saturated
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I like this post. Thanks for the news brief. Wow your at 22k in T’rati. Good job.
These bloggers are the ones who inspire all of us to work hard and earn money from our own blogs. Cheers to them
I have to agree you get some great ideas from the sites above, just proves that thinking outside the box pays off.
Interesting though with Problogger on the list, seems a bit out of place…
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