Making money from your blog

Chris and Andru ... Is Adsense the answer? Came in a bit late to the session here (I realized that you dear readers might be more interested in earning money than corporate blogging policies) and it sounds like Adsense did some juggling and people are earning less via Adsnese.  Dave Taylor is earning decent money, like $300 a day, on one of his blogs.

Generally we're talking CPM (cost per mill ... thousand) in the dollar-ish range.

In a crowded space, say gadgets, you have to be creative and adding value in your posts.  The doing the standard "me too" post or just re-blogging what everyone else has written.

Calacanis is saying (as an audience member) that the cost of entry of blogging and getting to the top is much higher than it was a short time ago.  Podcasting and video blogging is an open field.

Success in the blogsphere is related to the amount of work you put it.  You hustle, you can succeed and win.

Weblogs Inc moved to a rev share model early on to per post pay.  It started low, but now it's about $10 a people.  He did go on to say that some bloggers earn more.

What is the cost of blogging like this?  How much to you have to blog (read work) to really earn a living.  Yeah, think about it (Andru gave this example) ... you earn $20 a month with Adsense.  How many hours did you put in?

Verticals that work: HD TVs, mortgages, travel.

Experiment with different easy to implement ad services.  I use Text Link Ads and am trying Performancing ads.  Of course, I 'm not earning a huge amount, but that's okay at the moment.

The advertising sessions are very interesting.  But for me the interesting thing is listening to the folks like Dave Taylor and Jason Calacanis talking about their past and present ad models.

Chris: "Email is still dead" ... RSS and search engine driven traffic to his sites.

RSS advertising.  Chris has been doing it since day one is giving it a thumbs up.  Okay I have to hear how this is working ... ah he's not talking about Adsense for feeds or Pheedo ... he's talking about selling his own space in the feed.  Ah now I get it.  That makes sense cause I've tried Adsense for feeds and it was pretty much useless.

Full feeds .. are they dead? Chris does full feeds.  Will the aggregator companies start monetizing our content and not share?  Or would there be a blogger revolt?

Now are feed readers beyond most folks?  Ah a question for another day.

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