Arieanna Schweber, Jody DeVere, Paula Neal Mooney, Stefania Pomponi Butler, Chloe Spencer
Amount of money you can make on your blog?
Used to be about 5$ a post two years ago. Some people are making $1000/month or more on the panel. But the amount per post is arbitrary according to Stefania.
Jody hires many employees and pays two full-time & one part-time blogger. She started her brick & mortar business on a blog. She joined a typepad community and got her blog featured, which really helped her SEO. Some of her biggest mistakes were blogging late into the night, posting and then finding in the morning, post-syndication, that they were full of mistakes. Be careful, because as soon as it’s posted, it goes into syndication.
Chloe is 16 and she makes 30$ a day blogging.
Arieanna makes 6 figures a year blogging but she manages like 50 blogs or something. She said that an advertiser is probably not going to go with you if you’re using a blogger template. You should have stellar design. She knows a lot about promotion and SEO. Obviously.
For instance:
Strong Keywords at front of titles, appropriately name images xxxx-xxxx.jpg (google reads it as two separate words if it’s hyphenated —doesn’t work with underscores! oops), and a good alt description. Categories must be good. It’s hard to go back and change them. Root of category is set– so set them up right from the get-go.
What to do when somebody steals your content?
Ignore it? I say, go the panic.com route and friggin’ call people out!!
Gwen looks oh so cute today :)
Nice blog, have fun at the conference!
At first Bossy was revved at the thought of making $1000 a month blogging! But then she thought, “One. Thousand. Dollars. A. Month? Twelve. Grand. A. Year?
Bossy is now considering alternative incomes, like McDonalds.
If you republish a post does it not resyndicate? I’m talking feedburner here… because I wrote a post on ambien (I’m fairly known for doing that - or was, until I switched to a different “sedatitive hypnotic” - wait.. I think I’m taking an “anti-psychotic” - no.. I shouldn’t put that in print - it’s just sleeping stuff). Anyway, anytime I mention I wrote a post on Ambien people start looking for cached versions and feeds and nobody could find one I wrote on a particular topic. I think it is because I republished on top of that post. I’m not sure.
I’m curious, because what I post is read by my attorneys (and should you come back to my blog, don’t mention this ) every day. It sucks. I really don’t like being censored.
I need to see what Lijit is - and panic.com - one of my friends had her entire boutique stolen and the girl who took everything has threatened to sue her for harrassment. wtf?
I second what Bossy commented, when I heard the “12K a year” deal I wondered why there was a rush to throw that figure out.
I’m going into a ramble here - but I made my big salary before I had Faith. I threw it away to move close to my family - and then gave up the small one I had with the crappy job I took back here. (And that is what started my lawsuit - not the salary.. the employer).
I need to remember I’ve already worked my way up that ladder and blogging is something I’m doing for fun. When I start worrying about money my focus changes. (But it was important when I was supporting me and Faith in Texas). AND - it was important before Faith. I did what most women don’t do and I like to see more women do.. Kick ass in the business world.
I’m not 100% sure what you do (I need to read further) but you remind me of one of my really good friends who now has a really successful company with many, many employees. You seem to have it all together.
HOLY CRAP that was a long comment!