Comments on: Bloggers, Overworked And Underpaid

By: Sire

Sire — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 04:13:18 +0000

Stop it Ajith, your making me tired just thinking about all the work we put into it. The thing with blogging, for me at least, is that I do not begrudge it’s time consuming nature because I love it so much. Thanks so much for your well thought out comment.

By: Ajith Edassery

Ajith Edassery — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 20:13:57 +0000

How true! Assuming that you post 3-4 times a day, that itself is like 4 hrs or more. Then commenting on other blogs, moderating own stuff, reading blogs etc may be 10-12 hrs a week. SEO activities, tracking stats, advertising, being active on social media/network etc cost additional time.

Basically one works as much as his fulltime job – and mostly (95% cases for not much returns)

As you rightly said, how many probloggers can be there? I feel that unless you make $5K or above, it’s mostly a useless pastime (unless you blog because it’s your passion)

By: Sire

Sire — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 08:12:34 +0000

That’s it, it all depends on how you look at it. That is why my glass is always half full and never half empty!

By: JR

JR — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 07:49:41 +0000

That is damn right!!! And same applies to many of the “gurus” high traffic blogs, like John Chow and Shoemoney, they all started way back when…it’s a lot harder for us now, so all our achievements are actually three fold over them!

By: JR

JR — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 07:45:37 +0000

LOL, maybe that's what makes us overworked and underpaid, the "gurus" must check their money first ;-) JR´s Last blog post..Increase Web Site Traffic - 8 Tips to Using Forums Effectively

By: Mitch

Mitch — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 05:39:17 +0000

Actually Dan, I'd like to take a different side of this argument. I'm not big on niche writing, as you know, but I will acknowledge that there is this thing about figuring out which audience it is you're writing for. Most of us write articles for making money online in some fashion, but the people who are visiting us are doing the same thing, therefore they're not trying to learn as much as validate what they already do. The hardest thing is to find something to write about where people are not only learning about something for the first time, but are willing to purchase the things you're mentioning because of it. if we ever figure out that balance for our blogs as much as for some of our websites, we'll be able to look at the big boys at some point and laugh. Mitch´s Last blog post..Thanksgiving Turkeys Away

By: Sire

Sire — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 05:21:38 +0000

That's cool, but I'll leave my ads there. They're aren't hurting anyone and if anybody decides that one is good enough to click on it then I reckon that I have just provided them a service.

By: Sire

Sire — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 05:17:11 +0000

Yep, me too. I head straight for the email to see who has left me a comment, even before I check stats and whether or not I made any money from adsense and stuff.

By: Sire

Sire — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 05:14:09 +0000

Yeah, I was thinking that very same thing the other day after going through his archives. Man, when he first started he wasn’t getting hardly any comments at all. Naturally, what this means is that if we ever reach ProBlogger status, we will be so much better than Darren because we had to climb through all the competition.

By: Sire

Sire — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 05:09:51 +0000

Hey Dan, the thing about blogging is that even though I ain’t making all that much I like it way more than my 9-5 job. The beauty about it is that when you come right down to it the cash is now secondary to the joy of blogging. Having said that I won’t be knocking back ProBlogger status if it happened to come around, that’s for sure.