Crenk

Tom over at the income diary has been keeping track of all the incomes from some of the worlds top bloggers. These income lists have always interested me, because I just dont understand why people actually believe these stats and think they can emulate them. The blogs dont seem to explain what sites are fully involved to make this income because with some of them it is from their own blogs, but others its from numerous blogs. I also reported about this topic back in December to work out if you thought these figures were fact or fiction. Im still not convinced either way.

The top bloggers by monthly income:

For a long time now there has been a search engine that has been totally forgotten about, that search engine is Dogpile. Dogpile is a meta-search engine that is currently owned by Infospace. I was browsing the site this afternoon and suddenly noticed that there werent any search ads in the results. Im so used to seeing search ads on Yahoo, Google, etc, but nothing on Dogpile. Why is this? Why would they have a search engine that is obviously not getting huge amounts of traffic, but is still getting something, so why not at the very least create a partnership with Google and get some money for those search ads?

This is probably not a good example, but im really sick of seeing Silicon Valley companies who get funding or whatever, but havent actually developed a real business model. Prime example lately was Sonific. Sonific was a great idea, but they never really had an affective business model that could go with their high class product. That is the main reason why I like seeing startups like Techmeme do so well, because they are bootstrapped with no money at all, but they have a real aim and a business model that can pull it all together.

Update: There was a misprint which stated that Dogpile was owned by IAC, which its not. Dogpile is owned by Infospace.

Every now and then I head across to 45n5’s Top 100 “Make Money Online” blogs and noticed that I have been taken off his list!! Anyways, this doesnt really upset me too much because Crenk is not a “Make Money Online” weblog!! We talk about Tech News, give our opinions and analyse tech companies and products.

However, as a nice guesture I thought i would just add the Top 100 blogs in here anyways. So here you go.

RANK	Blog Name
1	Problogger (widget)	6	17	2799
2	Shoemoney (widget)	6	325	3179
3	John Chow (widget)	4	367	3392
4	Dosh Dosh (widget)	6	281	8340
5	Performancing (widget)	4	62	7544
6	Daily Blog Tips (widget)	5	417	11969
7	Andy Beard - Niche marketing (widget)	4	735	13877
8	Vandelay Design (widget)	5	2136	19630
9	John Cow (widget)	3	1230	13639
10	Courtney Tuttle (widget)	4	1453	19401
11	Entrepreneurs Journey (widget)	3	1536	14772
12	45n5 (widget)	4	3068	18367
13	Blogstorm (widget)	4	3472	22802
14	Emoms At Home (widget)	4	1551	28028
15	Cash Quests (widget)	5	6088	26208
16	Caroline Middlebrook (widget)	4	5786	24268
17	Blogging Tips (widget)	4	3916	29569
18	Affiliate Tip (widget)	5	7946	34739
19	Zac Johnson (widget)	4	7725	24907
20	Strategic Profits (widget)	4	17584	6872
21	5 Star Affiliate Programs (widget)	5	18862	17230
22	ReveNews (widget)	6	11591	46839
23	Self Made Minds (widget)	5	10763	41214
24	Ades Blog (widget)	5	8867	47441
25	Freelance Folder (widget)	4	4885	45409
26	Garry Conn (widget)	5	6638	57673
27	Tyler Cruz (widget)	3	6615	29029
28	Carl Ocab (widget)	3	4219	34969
29	Jim Kukral (widget)	5	7471	58625
30	5xmom (widget)	4	10085	38062
31	James D. Brausch (widget)	5	22904	29572
32	Nate Whitehill (widget)	4	1972	62736
33	Who Is Andrew Wee (widget)	5	14239	61310
34	NetBusinessBlog (widget)	3	6135	42577
35	Super Affiliate Mindset (widget)	4	19032	32897
36	One Mans Goal (widget)	4	9008	57829
37	CPA Affiliates (widget)	6	18706	80532
38	Derek Beau (widget)	4	19110	42868
39	Affiliate Marketing Blog from UK (widget)	4	16055	50099
40	Blog About Your Blog (widget)	3	6687	52493
41	eXtra For Every Publisher (widget)	4	12978	62564
42	Jon Waraas (widget)	3	4873	60410
43	Ian Fernando (widget)	4	19896	59090
44	Buzz Marketing by Dean Hunt (widget)	5	19454	87826
45	Pure Blogging (widget)	5	15037	99374
46	Aojon (widget)	4	22185	57126
47	Gather Success (widget)	3	10736	56906
48	Etienne Teo (widget)	3	10252	58078
49	Blogging Fingers (widget)	3	10601	57399
50	Sabahan (widget)	3	12978	59394
51	Uber Affiliate (widget)	3	27627	26793
52	Earners Blog (widget)	2	13679	28708
53	Newest On The Net (widget)	3	16260	55646
54	Pat B. Doyle (widget)	4	21620	76014
55	Super Blogging Tips (widget)	3	9243	75105
56	Darin.cc (widget)	3	10523	78581
57	Fraser’s Affiliate Marketing Blog (widget)	5	17932	135144
58	Blogtrepreneur (widget)	3	9655	84218
59	Google Lady (widget)	4	44842	40761
60	Derek Semmler (widget)	4	17412	104786
61	Internet Marketing Mind (widget)	4	22063	99084
62	Just Make Money Online (widget)	5	27981	126320
63	Blogging Experiment (widget)	2	9757	53904
64	Memwg (widget)	5	29043	126807
65	Shylock Blogging (widget)	3	15935	82220
66	WebTalks (widget)	5	264	203694
67	Can I Make Big Money Online (widget)	4	17412	123815
68	eMonetized.com (widget)	4	31303	93550
69	Rosalind Gardner’s NetProfits Today (widget)	4	61585	29717
70	Affiliate Watcher (widget)	4	11756	150513
71	Jangro (widget)	6	44842	165272
72	Internet Business Coaching (widget)	4	28762	114311
73	Net Frontier Marketing (widget)	4	43404	92007
74	Itswritenow (widget)	4	18862	155935
75	The Writers Manifesto (widget)	3	32818	74668
76	Blog Clout (widget)	3	12381	122945
77	Big Bucks Blogger (widget)	2	13829	71862
78	Daily Moolah (widget)	3	32115	84087
79	More Merchant (widget)	3	34802	78737
80	Ryan Shamus (widget)	3	8806	142488
81	Online Presence (widget)	4	51019	107405
82	Software Projects (widget)	4	60261	87932
83	CDF Networks (widget)	3	44842	67133
84	World Of Angel (widget)	3	20986	124387
85	Day Job Nuker (widget)	2	26389	54974
86	Ez Online Money (widget)	3	47546	71786
87	Twenty Steps (widget)	3	31704	108414
88	Freedom Ideas (widget)	4	44842	138930
89	Brandon Hopkins (widget)	5	43057	204530
90	Art Of Money (widget)	4	37082	158257
91	PreBlogging (widget)	3	23882	129041
92	Dirty Little Secrets (widget)	4	24000	197174
93	Why Do Work? (widget)	3	65568	40069
94	Slyvisions (widget)	2	15592	92904
95	Small Fuel Marketing (widget)	4	60261	120678
96	Mikes Money Making Mission (widget)	3	27627	132744
97	Marco Richter (widget)	2	23516	93449
98	Thomas Sinfield (widget)	2	19032	107894
99	Site Fever (widget)	3	18001	193571
100	YeePage (widget)	2	27484	94654

Over the last few weeks there has been a surge of blog sales at various prices, but will your blog be next and what will your site actually be worth.

We have seen the Bloggy Network sell off their most popular blogs to Splashpress Media (Bloggy now to focus on Blogflux), Blogging Fingers sold for $6000, Ryan Shamus sold for $2500, OneMansGoal sold for $8500, NxE sold for $8200 and Shylock Blogging for $4000.

These sites have had a great mixture of statistics with relevance to visitors, pageviews, subscribers and blog life. At present because of this a lot of bloggers are trying to work out how these blogs have be evaluated, with mixed views. 45n5 divides subscribers by the sale amount and then average the amounts per subscriber, thus averaging about $30 per subscriber. This $30 per subscriber seems to be a great amount to judge if you should place advertising on your site for the little income in the short term compared to the value you will have from subscribers in the long term.

If you site currently has 100 subscribers and has been making $200 per month ad revenue, but your subscriber growth has been slow. Wouldnt it be a better idea to remove the ads if your goals are set beyond 6 months so that you can allow subscriber numbers to grow at its full potential. There is no point monetizing your blog as much as possible in the early days unless you are looking for an income or getting ready to sell.

Additionally, how come there isnt a place online that specifically provides auction space for blogs that are trying to sell?

I have long been playing around with the idea of monetizing Crenk but for all the trouble it just doesnt seem worth it at the moment. Ad networks tend to take the majority of the money and dont really give too much back in return. Hence, i thought i would try an experiment, and go Advertising Network Free!

The aim is to provide Advertising on Crenk from an in-house solution and do it cheap. This way i hope that i can provide real value for money and not just give it all to the middleman (ad network). Hence from now until the end of the year the following prices will stand, no matter what my traffic ranking is (and hopefully that should really increase).

• 125 x 125 Banner Site Wide = $20 per month
• Text Ad Link Site Wide = $10 per month

I really want to try to show people that they dont have to use Ad Networks to make a decent amount of money, but we will just have to wait and see if this is viable!

I remember towards the end of last year there was big hype around new start up Agloco. Agloco was basically a pyramid selling scheme that had a nice twist of bringing back the old pay-to-surf idea. John Chow was one of the main players who was hyping Agloco, he got upto 1000 signups and then suddenly it was never to be heard from again. Does anyone still use Agloco and does it actually make them any money?