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How’s this for an estimate income than Chitika’s study… some kind of Inverse Power Law:

Blog income = $1 Billion / Alexa Rank

This is a story of a website which promises pay for posts written by bloggers and just ditch them later! In the world of internet and bloggs, it is a cheap and unhealthy forum where no bloggers should approach.
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Based on this, i think that $500M are low.

A new study being published by the University of Texas and Chitika says that the top 50,000 blogs may have generated around $500 million in aggregate 2006 revenue….

Here’s a set of decent assumptions for calculating:
- the top 10 average $2MM per year (e.g. Gizmodo, TechCrunch, BoingBoing, Engadget, etc.)
- the next 40 average $250K per year (all the bloggers I know in this bunch make about that)
- the next 50 average $100K per year
- between 100 and 1000 average $50K per year
- between 1000 and 5000 average $10K per year
- below 5000 average $1K per year (this is generous, since most of these are personal blogs)

Using those averages, the total blogosphere is earning:
top 10 = $20M
11-50 = $10M
51-100 = $5M
101-1,000 = $45M
1,001-5,000 = $40M
5,001-50,000 = $45M
= $165M

Seems far more reasonable to me.

A study estimates that the top 50,000 blogs generated $50 million in income for their owners.
Wow!!!! $50 million!!! Divided by!! 50,000! Oh, that averages out to $10,000 a year.
New Headline: Top 50,000 bloggers make less in annual income than b…

I think that the 50k mean 50,000 blog sites, and the 500,000 is the money…

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tom

Links to my blog from the Huffington Post, Valleywag and even USAToday are not visible on a vanity search. Does Technorati truly not index these publications? It’s unclear what the proper measure should be for blogs as large traffic isn’t as influential as targeted traffic, and no valid measure of influence has, yet, been developed.

Technorati may have had a valid measure in the early days of the blogosphere when it was homogeneous, i.e., 99% tech blogs, but this is no longer true. One example is that TC has a higher in bound link rating than most mommy blogs, but if you’re Disney who would you prefer to engage on an upcoming movie release? Before you answer, Google the connection between the success of “March of the Penguins” and mommy blogs.

Following Neilsen’s attempt at finding different standards for measuring social media, including blogs where the time spent on a site by visitors may inform influence over raw hits, is worthy of attention.

There maybe an element of preserving the old guard, here, with several of the Technorati created A-listers writing about the service recently. Have you noticed?

If you’d like a quick & easy way to get a link to your blog from a post within 101 different blogs, enter your details here:

http://hitsusa.com/blog/22/blog-promotion-101/

That’ll boost you into the top 100k blogs all by itself.

Of course it is no easy road to earning an online income, but it is not as hard as many make out I believe. I have been self sufficient from the Internet for over 12 months now, and true it has taken some doing but what doesn’t take effort in this world.

If you were to pick a business model and open it in the normal world how well would it take off? Starting any business is harder than it used to be just because of the times we live in.

So if any business we plan takes effort a sprinkle of luck and a true dedication to get it going than it makes sense to put the same dedication into a business that if done right will allow you more time to pursue other money making en-devours.

Just remember the No1 rule; if you work for someone for a living, you do not have time to make money.

Have a B L O G G I N G good day and chin up because there is money in blogging.

Here’s something that could really get you motivated in dedicating more time to blogging. Chitika and the University of Texas conducted a Blog Dollars Study which estimates that the top 50,000 blogs generated $500 million in 2006. This is one of…

Absolutely. This study is our first attempt in this direction and to start off with we used data from our network and public sources like Technorati to take a first stab in estimating the dollars in the blogosphere. Our goal is to refine and continue this study on a regular basis with richer data sets and publish/share the results.

We are very much interested in feedback, suggestions, to help us refine/update the study and the methodology: blogdollareport@chitika.com

Venkat Kolluri
CEO | Chitika, Inc.