Do You Believe This?

I came across this article in business week. Take a look at the stated earnings. Believe it?

http://images.businessweek.com/ss/07/07/0714_bloggers/index_01.htm

 

Why not?
those bloody lolcats are all over the place.
Personally I thi nk it's one of the least funny sites I've ever seen, but I know it's hugely popular.

 

Yep why not

 

Yeah I believe it. Check out the website, look at the traffic it's getting. I check out ICanHasCheezeburger.com every day myself, it's great.

 

Yes, of course. The opportunities available to people working online is amazing. 1 day it's your personal site, the next it's your business.

 

Encouraging!! I must admit.

 

it's perfectly possible to do that. Having got there though, the trick is to stay ahead of the game

 

I think it seems 'somewhat' legitimate - I always take the cautionary side however!

 

It is a time to give up all the conventional concept about the business and money. this is an ultimate example for that. This is an inspiration for me

 

lolcats lol he did good with that one.

 

Yes, why not? what you need is just work on it

 

That's some awesome motivation right there, thanks for sharing!

 

From the article:

So a huge drop then - from 1.5 million to 200,000!

Or a half-baked journalist who doesn't realise that you can double your "hits" by adding a few 1 pixel images to your page!? If you can't trust his terminology what store do you lay on the accuracy or research behind the rest of his article? For example, he calculates blog profits based on list prices. Ads rarely sell for the full price listed in the media pack/Advertise Here page.

 

Sometimes it beggars belief what becomes popular.

Has anyone seen the website selling cuddly toys called 'poo' and 'wee'?

They are basically stuffed toys in the shapes of . . . well, poo and wee basically . . . . ???

 

You got some fuzzy math. 1.5 million was PER MONTH, the 100 - 200k is PER Day! That is a big increase.

 

i actually thought some of them earn even more... lolcats for example

 

You are 100% right, I didn't notice that, my apologies.

Which means this journalist is a bigger moron than I thought - he's using "hits" interchangeably with "traffic/page views" and doesn't know there's a difference.

 

haha that's awesome

 

Yea, whoever thought a cheezburger would be so profitable?

 

Its a common mistake always make by non webmaster coz from lay man point of view,hits and page view is same.
And journalist is not have in depth knowledge in webmastering term so they make those silly mistake.