Comments on: Bloggers For Hire

By: G.A.Phillips

G.A.Phillips — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 13:10:06 +0000

Speak for yourself, dude. I get a three figure salary from Richard Mellon Scaife just for posting stupid comments on this blog.

What in the great green hell? someone owes me a lot of money!

By: dustbury.com » Paid by the keystroke

dustbury.com » Paid by the keystroke — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 22:54:33 +0000

[...] Dr. Joyner (who’s also a member of the BlogAds network I’m not allowed to join) can do the math [...]

By: $45,000 - $75,000 per year blogging? | The Anchoress

$45,000 - $75,000 per year blogging? | The Anchoress — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 20:02:30 +0000

[...] Little Miss Attila says pretty much the same and so do Stacy McCain and James Joyner. [...]

By: Triumph

Triumph — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 17:50:32 +0000

I’m quite dubious of these figures. They are likely self-reported and inflated.

Speak for yourself, dude. I get a three figure salary from Richard Mellon Scaife just for posting stupid comments on this blog.

By: Moe Lane » The saddest funniest thing you’ll read today.

Moe Lane » The saddest funniest thing you’ll read today. — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 17:45:41 +0000

[...] my name to the list of bloggers laughing sourly on this nonsense from the WSJ: “It takes about 100,000 unique visitors a month to generate an [...]

By: Don’t Hit Stacy’s Tip Jar; Hit Mine. | Little Miss Attila

Don’t Hit Stacy’s Tip Jar; Hit Mine. | Little Miss Attila — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 17:13:12 +0000

[...] I agree with Stacy and with James: the figures on blogging income in the Wall Street Journal are ridiculous. Furthermore, the bad [...]

By: mattt

mattt — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 16:59:28 +0000

That has to be way high. Assuming the self-reported numbers are fundamentally honest (big assumption) I suspect the 452,000 who claim blogging as their "primary source of income" includes a lot of people who meant to say "earned income." In other words, they make a few bucks from blogads or the like and have no other regular job. But they are also retirees collecting pensions or SS, housewives/stay at home dads, students living off loans and handouts from their parents, and etc.

By: Steve Hynd

Steve Hynd — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 16:30:40 +0000

From the WSJ-linked Technorati survey, emphasis mine:

The average annual blogger revenue is more than $6,000. However, this is skewed by the top 1% of bloggers who earn $200k+. Among active bloggers that we surveyed, the average income was $75,000 for those who had 100,000 or more unique visitors per month (some of whom had more than one million visitors each month). The median annual income for this group is significantly lower — $22,000. Bloggers with advertising invest an average of $1,800 annually in their blogs. U.S. bloggers earn an average of $5,000, though bloggers in Asia earn 50% more on average and European bloggers earn an average of 75% more than U.S. bloggers. High revenue bloggers skew the mean revenue. The median revenue for U.S. bloggers is $200 annually (and the median annual investment is only $50).

The WSJ has often proven it can't cite facts correctly (see Marc A. Thiessen's column today, for instance). But to get figures wildly wrong too... Regards, Steve

By: Bithead

Bithead — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 16:08:45 +0000

So am I, James.
I am particularly suspicious of the sources employed.