Top 50k blogs made $500m

A recent study made by University of Texas in collaboration with Chitika shows that 50k blogs from the internet generated $5 millions from ad in 2006.
How they do it? They took the Chitika revenue from more than 12.000 publishers, assumed that every blogger have 3 source of revenue, they estimated the total revenue multiplying Chitika revenue by 3.

Using Chitika revenue numbers from 2006 and assuming that bloggers will, on average, diversify across. 3 revenue sources, and assuming that they will typically try out other sources that will generate similar revenue streams, it is safe to estimate that the total estimated revenue for their blog will be at least 3 times the revenue attained through Chitika. With the sample data set, (BlogID, Rank, 2006 Revenue) standard statistical predictive modeling techniques (in this case, the specific regression model used was a variant of the Pareto model) were used to estimate the advertising revenue earned by blogs across all ranks.

The study came to that summary of findings:

Ad revenue in a blog is more sensitive to the rank of the blog than what ne would expect in a typical Zipf Law 80/20 curve situation. One reason for this may be the ocial value of advertising in a blog. If online advertising is like advertising in a mall, advertising n the blogosphere is like advertising in a country club.

WordPress 2.2.2 and 2.0.11 update

Today our blogging software released two update for users of 2.2 and legacy 2.0:

Today we have two security-related releases available for both users of our main 2.2 branch and the legacy 2.0 branch. As these releases include only security and minor bugfixes they should not cause any plugin or theme compatibility issues, so you have no good excuse not to upgrade.

I hope there will be no problem to update.

Microsoft slashes Vista in half

In china. The Home Basic edition dropped to $66, from $201 (1,521 yuan), and the Home Premium package dropped from $238 to $118. The move was effective as of Wednesday. The price cut is the company’s latest effort to stop piracy. China has the biggest rates of software piracy. They are thinking that if legitimate software costs less, people will be less likely to turn to pirated versions.

 

Let’s all use pirated copies of Windows and cut the price all over the world. And maybe Microsoft will have his operating system open source.

blogging time

Do you have a blog? Do you want to start another one? How much time do you spent on blogs?

 

Many people, including me, have full-time jobs. That means 40 hours a week. But, let’s be honest, you spent a little more than 40 hours with your job. And you want to make some extra money. So you are having a blog. now, I have a question - How often do you post? You are posting daily? Once at three days? or, more? If you are posting daily, how good is your post? And beside that, you have time to start another blog.

 

I suggest you that you take your time. Start a blog, see how it goes and know how much time you will need to devote to it. Once you have one up and you are feeling ambitions, then start another. So once you have set up your first blog, maintain it consistently with thoughtful posts. At that point, reflect back on the process and ask yourself if you still want to start another one knowing what the process entails. Take your time and make a good one. Or you will lose your audience.

Link buying tips

Surfing the net I have found 4 tips for link buying on text link brokers.

#1 Buy Links on Sites Relevant to Yours
Links on relevant sites are more powerful and should be the primary focus of your link buying efforts. Textlinkbrokers provides both category and keyword search functions for our text link inventory. We suggest spending time searching for keywords that you know are relevant to your industry and then search through relevant categories.

#2 Use Your Primary Keywords in the Anchor Text of Your Links

The anchor text, also known as link text, is the text used in the link pointing to your site. This text should be one of your primary keywords for the page that you are linking too. For example, if you are linking to your homepage which is optimized for the keyword “Mortgages”, you will want to use that keyword in the links pointing to that page. The search engines look at the link text of your incoming links to help determine what your site is about. Optimizing the anchor text of your links can have a huge effect on your rankings. Another important point is that you should not overuse any one keyword. It looks unnatural if all of your links have the same anchor text. Generally speaking, you only have to worry about overusing a keyword in your anchor text if you are buying hundreds or thousands of links. If you are just buying a few links then there is nothing to worry about.

#3 Leave your links up long enough for them to help
It can take weeks for the search engines to see any new links that you purchase. It can also take months before those links improve your rankings. It takes the search engines a good amount of time to find and recalculate all the web pages and links on the internet. Ranking changes can happen daily but they are usually due to changes done a few months back. You should plan, and budget, to keep your links up for at least 90 days. Any time shorter then that would not be sufficient to accurately gauge ROI. With that being said tip #4 talks about tracking your keyword rankings, in order to watch improvements.

#4 Track your Results Using a Keyword Rank Tracking Software

It is very important that you track the results of your link buying efforts. By tracking your keyword rankings you can see exactly how your links are helping. Most webmasters only track the traffic coming to their site. While this is helpful, it is important to know that you will not see any significant traffic from a keyword until you have reached the top 10.Many webmasters spend significant resources on link building only to give up because they are not seeing significant traffic increases after a few months. If those same webmasters were tracking their keywords they would probably find that they have made significant progress toward reaching the top 10. It does not make sense to give up with the finish line in site. I cannot tell you how many customers we have served that had no clue that they had improved their rankings from the top 100’s to the top 20’s, only to give up because they had no clue that of the major improvements that had happened.

 

AuctionAds is for sale

Media Whiz International, the company behind ReviewMe and Text Link Ads bought AuctionAds. TechCruch reported that. Shoemoney and Media Whiz did not said something about the money paid for the transaction.

 

The shoe admit that they did not have the experience to handle the bussiness:

We basically came to the realization that we had to make a choice: AucitonAds/ShoeMoney Media Group INC could bring in a staff of people, train them and all that (which we had ZERO experience in doing) OR we could sell the company to someone who already has tons of experience in that area and can take AuctionAds to the next level.

Are you making money with AuctionAds?