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January 05, 2007
Long tail, short change
Chris 'Long Tail' Anderson says Guy Kawasaki...
"...A best-selling author and genuine tech celebrity writing a thoughtful essay nearly every workday on a top-50 blog for an audience of around 30,000 people/day. And the pay for that is about $280 a month."
Huh? How the hell can I be averaging between 1/7th and 1/6th of what Mr. Kawasaki is earning through AdSense? Something is wrong there surely?
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Maybe he isn't using just adsense. Certain types of other ads can be combined.
Also it might be including sold articles and payed interviews.
Maybe Articles licensed + adsence + other ads/affilite + research sold + talks attended + radio interviews + podcast interviews + website interview = 280 a month.
Posted by: Mary Gilmartin | Jan 7, 2007 6:15:58 PM
Thanks Mary but I wasn't expressing disappointment that I was 'only' earning between 1/7th and 1/6th of what Guy is earning through AdSesne... rather I was expressing amazement that I was any where near that fraction :)
And, as far as I can determine, the article is referring to AdSense revenue. These guys have some more analysis which helps explain the situation -
http://www.problogger.net/archives/2007/01/08/does-adsense-suck-for-bloggers/
Posted by: James Corbett | Jan 8, 2007 11:18:36 AM
