Rise of the Professional Blogger

Victor Cheng writes "Robert Scoble today points to a blogger who is claiming he earns between $10,000 and $20,000 per month via Google Adsense." From the article: "The cheque was the biggest cheque I've ever held onto (well the biggest I've held onto that has my name on it). The amazing thing is that in the month of May I earned more than I earned in a whole year in 2003 from a 'real job' (of course at the time I was only working a 3 day week while I studied part time) and well over half as much as I earned from Adsense in the whole of 2004."

Re:Not a smart thing to talk about...

[Anonymous Coward]

Not anymore. Information about earning totals has been ok for some months now. Adsense publishers still can't reveal clickthrough rates and per-click earnings.

Re:Not a smart thing to talk about...

[paul.dunne]

Not so, at least not quite. It is now allowed to reveal gross income, which is all this chap has done. It is still against the TOS to go into detail, though.

Re:And now he gets even more money...

[phalse phace]

I thought you only make money from AdSense when someone clicks on an actual ad?

Re:$10,000 - 20,000?

[Spezzer]

It's in the comments of the blog post:

http://www.problogger.net/archives/2005/07/12/earn ing-milestones/#comment-28122 [problogger.net]

Re:And now he gets even more money...

[matt21811]

There are a large number of SEO webspammers out there churning out often useless cookie cutter sites designed mostly to get good positions in Search engines. I'm an editor of DMOZ.org and find it frustrating that 2 out of 3 sites submitted have been created for no other reason than to make money.

Part of the blame lies with our beloved Google. They are actually funding a problem that they used to fight. It would be nice to see them put some effort into the problem instead of just cashing in like the do.

Adsense isnt all evil. It does allow many people to fund their often beloved web sites. It can be a great way to encourage people to make public their skills and knowledge in their special interests. It is fueling the best aspects of the web, that being the amazing diversity and depth of knowledge in any area you care to name.

It's such a good thing I even made a web site telling people how to do it right.

Re:And now he gets even more money...

[Anonymous Coward]

That was until now. If we all add this to userContent.css he can go back to his previous job:

iframe[src*="googlesyndication.com"] { display: none !important; }

If you don't want to see similar stuff on Slashdot, just do enter this:

iframe[src*="googlesyndication.com"], iframe[src*="industrybrains.com"] { display: none !important; }

I think this explains why I post this as AC. Further reading: Blocking Advertisement [mozilla.org].

Re:And now he gets even more money...

[djChinito]

Is that his original intent? I don't think anyone ever goes into blogging or site building ( outside of porn, maybe ) to make buckets and buckets of cash. It's just a consequence of a succesful site. I am building a site ( not a blog - since the format doesn't work well with the content ) to help men figure out the basics of a wardrobe and organize their closets. ( Plug - http://www.swaggerinc.com [swaggerinc.com] ). I find that having Amazon links and Google ads help subsidize the hosting fees. Your main purpose can be to help, but it doesn't mean that getting money for it is wrong...