The Blogosphere - how big and profitable it really is?

Posted by Sharel on Tuesday July 20, 2010 @04:23PM
from the sharelomer.com dept.

http://www.sharelomer.com/2010/07/blogosphere-market-stats-how-big-and.html

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Re:The Blogosphere - how big and profitable it really is? by patio11 on Tuesday July 20, 2010 @04:38PM (#1533371)

I would sooner believe that Obama has been captured by little green men flying on dragons and nobody noticed because of clever interference run by the Illuminati than believe any of these statistics.

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Re:The Blogosphere - how big and profitable it really is? by plnewman on Tuesday July 20, 2010 @06:44PM (#1533707)

Fred Wilson wrote on this a year and a half ago. I find his response a lot more realistic: http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2009/01/avoiding-the-bi.html

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Re:The Blogosphere - how big and profitable it really is? by Sharel on Tuesday July 20, 2010 @07:16PM (#1533766)

Great link, thanks pal. i also loved the review by Marc Andreessen http://techcrunch.com/2009/02/20/andreessen-on-charlie-rose-... who said we should stop the printed press and go digital...

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Re:The Blogosphere - how big and profitable it really is? by wallflower on Tuesday July 20, 2010 @07:32PM (#1533799)

RE: Stopping the printing press... If you have not yet read:

http://www.shirky.com/weblog/2009/03/newspapers-and-thinking...

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Re:The Blogosphere - how big and profitable it really is? by cheesey on Tuesday July 20, 2010 @05:40PM (#1533538)

This guy's site stinks of affiliate marketing, or something. Endless links to some "commun.it". Hmm. He does cite his sources, though.

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Re:The Blogosphere - how big and profitable it really is? by Sharel on Tuesday July 20, 2010 @06:49PM (#1533713)

HI, commun.it is the service who is in beta i use to manage my blog community, its far from being affiliate since its my project and i seek quality bloggers to help me in beta, but your point is taken and i will remove some links :)

Thank you for taking the time and point it to me...

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Re:The Blogosphere - how big and profitable it really is? by Sharel on Tuesday July 20, 2010 @07:18PM (#1533770)

They say 80% of all statistics are wrong :) my point is to show there is a trend and online media buisness like blogs are growing fast and here to stay...

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Re:The Blogosphere - how big and profitable it really is? by acangiano on Tuesday July 20, 2010 @07:43PM (#1533833)

> It takes about 100,000 unique visitors a month to generate an income of $75,000 a year.

My programming blog has had about 110K+ visits over the past month (85K+ absolute unique visitors). It didn't make me $6K, not by a long shot. In fact, it made less than 1/10 of that.

Of course, if my blog was a shady site about Acai Berries, then perhaps the figures would be different. On average though, I have a hard time believing the numbers reported by the article.

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Re:The Blogosphere - how big and profitable it really is? by Sharel on Wednesday July 21, 2010 @02:22PM (#1536031)

Hi Antonio,

This report was by technoarti in the state of the blogsphere 2008... I visited your blog @ http://blog.antoniocangiano.com/ and it seems great, i will subscribe to it :)

I am so happy that you got this numbers, its always great to meet people who help others grow.

we need more services which will enable people bloogers who has traffic to make more revenue from ads and grow thei community...

Maybe we can think of something, i did not see any ads in your blog... will love to talk more @ [email protected]

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Re:The Blogosphere - how big and profitable it really is? by acangiano on Wednesday July 21, 2010 @09:16PM (#1537055)

Hi Sharel,

I was actually referring to my biggest blog, http://programmingzen.com.

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