Hey blog, where is my money?

In the new trend of blogging, comes, friendster.com, myspace.com, blogspot.com and many other websites that offer similar services. Yesterday, I was talking to a friend about blogging and she said she just deleted the tagged.com account (it is a form of blog), and that was her third blog account.

As blogging is a new trend, I come to a conclusion, in my own experience, everyone below 30 and above 12 years old that I meet, blogs, even one of my lecturer blogs! That shows how universal blogs are, even someone elderly can blog.

Blogs are being targeted as a channel for advertisements. In Malaysia, 2 advertising agencies, Nuffnang and Advertlets just started a specialized blog to promote their advertisements, showing how strong a blog could disseminate a message. These blogs is a potential source of income to bloggers which has the potential to earn big bucks – by blogging ONLY. So, what are you waiting for? Quit your day job and start blogging!

But then again, it is not that simple, a blogger needs to generate high readership in order to get paid the big bucks from a blog-advertising company. The more visitors the blog has the more money the blogger gets paid, simple. There are full time bloggers who has five to six blogs of different topics and get paid RM30, 000 a month (Blogging and big bucks).

Well, one can make money for sure, but the question is until when? Once upon a time, pop up advertising was a popular form of advertising through the internet but faded away as blog-advertisements came in. because of this new discoveries and changing trends, one would not know until when this blogging phenomenon will last.

References

Lee, S.W, 2007, Blogging and Big Bucks. Viewed on 7 June 2007 http://star-techcentral.com/tech/story.asp?file=/2007/5/29/itfeature/17847964&sec=itfeature

Hudson, D., Do Pop-Up Ads Still Work. Viewed on 7 June 2007 at http://www.vla-geo.org/do-pop-up-ads-still-work.php