So, Jeff, would it help you personally if we clicked on the ads? I'm willing to do that.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm always curious about this. Younghouselove makes enough that both of them are full time bloggers.

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.

They actually state that they don't get paid for giveaways. But they do consulting work on the side that they don't talk about, plus 2 books, and tons of advertising.

These bloggers break out what the earn here:
http://pinchofyum.com/category/making-money-from-a-food-blog

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jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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?

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).

Good for you! But how do you make money off of this?

I take bribes not to reveal how many times a month you have sex. No, honestly, through advertising.

So advertisers pay you to have their ad on this site? Do people have to click on the ads? I can't imagine many people do.

I do a lot....on accident.

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jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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?

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).

So how much? Or a ballpark figure?

Given the volume, and average cpm of $2, it's probably between $200 and $250k.

Anonymous wrote:

jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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?

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).

Good for you! But how do you make money off of this?

I take bribes not to reveal how many times a month you have sex. No, honestly, through advertising.

So advertisers pay you to have their ad on this site? Do people have to click on the ads? I can't imagine many people do.

It is entirely done through Google's advertising service.

jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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?

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).

So how much? Or a ballpark figure?

jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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?

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).

Good for you! But how do you make money off of this?

I take bribes not to reveal how many times a month you have sex. No, honestly, through advertising.

So advertisers pay you to have their ad on this site? Do people have to click on the ads? I can't imagine many people do.

Anonymous wrote:

jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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?

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).

Good for you! But how do you make money off of this?

I take bribes not to reveal how many times a month you have sex. No, honestly, through advertising.

jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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?

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).

Good for you! But how do you make money off of this?

Many of the successful fashion and lifestyle bloggers make a TON of money. Some of the most successful are rumored to make more than a million a year.

Every item they feature in their blog is linked to a shopping site (Nordstrom, Jcrew, Neimans, whatever) through "RewardStyle". If a blog reader clicks the link and purchases the item through that link the blog owner makes $.
You can tell because if you click an item featured on the blog the link flashes through "rstyle.me" (i.e. rewardstyle) first before going to the store's website.

Then they get tons of additional merchandise for free to review on their blogs and are also outright paid to write about merchandise.

I'm a blogger with a site that gets around 60,000 page views a month. I'm too lazy to MONETIZE, so between a couple of ad networks where I don't have to do anything I make about $6k a year.

99.9% of bloggers make nothing.

I have a small blog that I quit updating about a year ago and just got a check from AdWords for $100. Ha!

Blogs like Dooce with tons of page views make a lot - I think I read 1M a year?

MMM has said how much he makes on his blog. I think he posted it shortly after his WaPo debut, and it was $50K. So, it's probably at least double now. He must keep a lot of it in the business, but he's definitely not retired.

Anonymous wrote:I'm always curious about this. Younghouselove makes enough that both of them are full time bloggers.

yep, and they are now 'taking a break' as of this week.