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  1. Re:Revenue Rarely Enough to Live on by DerekLyons · · Score: 2, Insightful · on Blog Network to Sell For $20 Million Plus
    Somehow I doubt the figures quoted. I've been running a journal at http://sumdog.com/ since 2001 (before everyone called them blogs) and have been running google ads since January and have made $29 so far.
    Frankly I'm surprised it's made as much as $29. Your site is ugly, poorly designed, poorly laid out, and utterly without a reason to exist other than to masturbate your own ego. If I'd found it on a web search (unlikely as vanity sites rarely rank highly) I'd have thought to myself "heres another loser who has AdWords on his site because they lowered the barriers".

    In short comparing your little site with even a semi-professionaly run site is about as accurate as comparing an Estes rocket with the Saturn V.

    (And considering Blogger.com was founded in 1999... You have a little to learn about the history of blogging.)

    Ads aren't worth a whole lot. If you choose to do your own advertising and not use services like google ad words, you can probably do much better, but they're still not worth much. I suspect many of these people are selling merchandise, promoting certain businesses and have several forms of revenue.
    Ad revenue per blog is tiny - but across thousands or tens of thousands of blogs, those numbers add up significantly.

    On the other hand - when you look at the two blogs featured in the Slashot summary, you find highly targeted sites aimed at a specific audience - and those can make significant money from targeted ads. (Thats why you find ads for fishing rods in Field and Stream and ads for Corning Ware in Good Housekeeping.) An extremely narrowly targeted website I built in 1997 brought about $10/mo from Amazon links until I took it down in 2004 - even though I never updated, changed, or even publicized the site after about the first month.

    Looking at cartoon sites, the Brothers Chap who run homestarrunner.com current make enough money off all their merchandise to fully support themselves. Hell I even own a StrongBad poster.
    You miss an important point - they couldn't support themselves, with ads or merchandise, if they didn't provide the content that drew the eyeballs. The same is true when you examine the two blogs in the Slashdot summary
    You can support yourself off a blog, but it's rare. It requires the type of site status as homestarrunner, the onion or maddox...or possibly Wifey's World or Heather's I Deep Throat.
    -5 Excessively Obvious.

    Pretty much anyone whose been savvy about the web since, oh, 1995 or so knows this well. That's why many of us were not surprised when the Bubble burst - as we'd predicting it for years.

  2. Revenue Rarely Enough to Live on by SumDog · · Score: 2, Insightful · on Blog Network to Sell For $20 Million Plus

    Somehow I doubt the figures quoted. I've been running a journal at http://sumdog.com/ since 2001 (before everyone called them blogs) and have been running google ads since January and have made $29 so far.

    Ads aren't worth a whole lot. If you choose to do your own advertising and not use services like google ad words, you can probably do much better, but they're still not worth much. I suspect many of these people are selling merchandise, promoting certain businesses and have several forms of revenue.

    Looking at cartoon sites, the Brothers Chap who run homestarrunner.com current make enough money off all their merchandise to fully support themselves. Hell I even own a StrongBad poster.

    You can support yourself off a blog, but it's rare. It requires the type of site status as homestarrunner, the onion or maddox...or possibly Wifey's World or Heather's I Deep Throat.

  3. Funny fucker aren't you by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on United Kingdom Leads the World in TV Downloads

    You Merkins have your fair share of dogs too. You cheeky c u n t.

  4. Re:Malfunction, Will Robinson! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on United Kingdom Leads the World in TV Downloads

    Here is the new goatse warning...

  5. Star Contrl 3 by SumDog · · Score: 1 · on What Games Have Actually Affected You?

    I never did make it though Star Control 2, but I hav e to say Star Control 3 was an awesome game. All the talk about the precursors at the end and the short speach by the creator in the credits really makes you think.

    --Sumdog http://journal.sumdog.com