How much do bloggers make?
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Anonymous
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I was reading Mr. Money Mustache's blog the other day and he said that he gets 6 million page views per month. How does that translate into how much money he makes from his blog?
I'm interested in this in general; do page views decide how much you get paid from advertisers, or something else? How much do bloggers get paid per page view? Yes, I'm being nosy. That's why I'm on an anonymous forum! |
Anonymous
| Why don't you ask him? |
Anonymous
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It depends on the blogger and the audience. Sometimes it's not just direct advertising, but sponsored posts or affiliate relationships. Sometimes the blogger is compensated with free products or travel instead of money changing hands. I'm not familiar with that blog, so I can't speak to how that blogger might make $$ and how much. But there are a lot of articles out there where bloggers discuss how they earn money from their site. I think for many bloggers it's not a huge amount; possibly bloggers that can cross-pollinate their writing and work (e.g., fashion consultants with blogs) do a little better. |
Anonymous
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Bloggers who rely solely on online advertising networks generally make about $1 / 1,000 pageviews. So 6 million hits translates to $6,000 a year.
Of course, the PP is right that other forms of revenue are possibly, like sponsored posts, paid posts, free products, affiliate links and advertising campaigns. |
Anonymous
In general, advertising (click advertising) is really low value. Forms such as this one probably make next to nothing (have you ever clicked an advertisement banner?). The "smart" money option is in specific paid advertisement or product reviews - i.e. sites that hawk credit cards with a referral link tend to do well with those (i.e. $50+ per app, i.e.http://viewfromthewing.boardingarea.com/ ). Other blogs that talk a lot about products often get to keep the products they discuss. Other sites that have a very specific focus can make good money with very targeted advertising, say for instance, your blog is about aquariums and a manufacturer of saltwater aquariums pays you to advertise, because they know that they make a few sales from you. |
Anonymous
| I'm always curious about this. Younghouselove makes enough that both of them are full time bloggers. |
Anonymous
Younghouselove makes next to nothing on the actual clickable adds. The significant revenue stream for them comes from the product placement and continued sponsorship. Things like this pay them well: http://www.younghouselove.com/2014/09/fab-freebie-its-curtains-for-you/ If I had to guess, they are probably getting $2,000 or $3,000 for that kind of prominent advertisement. |
Anonymous
If it's 6 million pageviews a month as OP said (I have no idea if that's accurate), then wouldn't it be $72,000 a year? |
Anonymous
You realize the owners of this forum quit their jobs and live off this this site, no? |
Anonymous
Then I imagine that value is coming from the front page and elsewhere, forums are notoriously bad at converting advertising assets. |
Anonymous
Only the wife and it was after @ 11 years of hard work. |
Anonymous
| Not much. They get free products. It is a lot of work and stress to constantly be on line. Think of it as a hobby with benefits. |
Anonymous
| I think this is a good question for Jeff. Not technically a. Blogger, but this site supports his family I think? And no way it's getting 6M views/month. Wait, is it? |
Anonymous
More like 8M. |
jsteele
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In the past 30 days, we had over 9 million page views. Both Maria and I quit our jobs and live off DCUM now. The previous poster is correct that forums are notoriously hard to monetize. We are more the exception than the rule. Our current income is a bit more than we made from two full-time jobs (though we used to have two full-time jobs plus DCUM income, but DCUM income was lower then). |