Blogger Earnings Report: Response!

My recent post about bloggers earnings reports has created quite a stir.

The post itself has got some really good comments from some creditable names around the blogosphere, such as Yaro and Everton.

The post basically looked at the earnings of a select few and then tried to understand if these figures are creditable or not. The discussion on the post has been quite mixed.

A couple of the bloggers did define there earnings exactly like i was hoping they would, but in the process Everton from ConnectedInternet.co.uk did get quite annoyed. In this case from his November earnings i couldnt tell how much traffic his site currently received for the month, so all i had to go by was Alexa, Compete, Quantcast and Technorati.  In which the majority of the sites seemed to say that their traffic was very low. However, Everton did respond in a post and actually clarrified that his traffic was currently approx 500k pageviews per month, thus meaning he has more traffic then John Chow and possibly Shoemoney. Therefore, if his traffic numbers are correct and he is only earning approx $9000 per month from this then he is now under performing.

Other sites that were on the other end of the discussion was Lilian, Randy and Onion Spirit. I still think they you have to take these earning with a grain of salt and I dont understand why when people disclose their earnings the newbie’s to the internet game think that this is amazing, because it is not!! The minority of bloggers who disclose their earnings have actually been in the online blogging or marketing game for a long period of time and they now have built up good traffic and slowly finding the right technique to maximise their revenues, this is really not rocket science. So newbie’s please stop worrying about how much revenue other blogs or your blog makes and try to focus on the key areas of building readership numbers, building a community, writing good content, having a distinct focus and then you will really start to reap the rewards.