From what I've read all around Digital Point having a Blogger blog is about as desirable as a fart in a space suit. I still keep several Blogger blogs running and they are very easy to maintain, get indexed very quickly by Google and with very little work attract a reasonable PageRank (3 or 4) within a few months. Why do people think a sidebar link on a PR4 Blogger blog with 1000 uniques per day is worth less than a sidebar link on a PR4 paid-hosted blog with 1000 uniques per day? Is it simply a case of blog snobbery?
because a lot of blogspot blogs are hosted on the same IP address so they end up being almost worthless links
It's not the perception of the blog itself. It's simply that the link in that case is mostly valued by the traffic only
So what would the value be of a PR4 sidebar link, no more than 20 other outgoing links on that page, with little traffic (say 50 per day)? I have 3 blogs I want to experiment on that fall in this category - 1 web/tech related, 1 music related and 1 health related. They must have some PR value, surely?
You should be able to get around $3 per link per month Only way to find out is to post them in the link sales forum
I was thinking $5 per month actually - that's only GBP £2.50 so not exactly much (over here anyway). Does this sound a hugely unreasonable price? They will be able to pass on some PR value, right?
*.blogspot.com are free. They have a higher frequency of being deleted or the owner just gets bored and stops working on them. They do have value to them though. I usually take more care in selecting advertisement on them and usually pay a bit less. BTW: Check out my sig, PM me if you have Health blogs...
I don't really distinguish between blogspot or hosted blogs when both are PR 6+ .. if its below that, I would go with the self-hosted blog. No reason why, I guess. Maybe there IS some snobbery involved !
$3 for a PR 4 blog? Did I hear that correct... You're talking way too low buddy. I'd rather trust the Text Link Ads tool to show me the correct worth of a link on my blog. It shows $10 per month for one of my PR 3 blogspot blogs for a sitewide link.
Tell you what: you go with that tool, and let me know if you're actually able to sell any links at that price! If so, I'll gladly change my mind
of course you've got a point here. No one pays the amount given by that tool, especially here at DP! So I always ask for half the price I get from that tool, lol. But yet, $3/month for PR4 is damn too less. A minimum of $8 per month should be the right price in my opinion.
I think that having your own domain name for your blog is a sign of commitment from the blogger/seller.
Well, it's in the Link Sales forum now and we'll see if I get any bites. If you don't ask you don't get!
I don't disagree with you, I'd love to be getting more for my links. But that's what they sold for unfortunately, because there are others selling that low The basic laws of supply and demand...
I can now report back that I've had 1 taker who has agreed to pay $3 per month for 12 months, so frankcow seems to be about right with his valuation. Not a complete failure, but hopefully I'll get some more bites. $3 is a pretty good price (£1.50 here in the UK, which is the rate of pay for an untrained chimp to do 10 mins of work) - I'm nearly giving them away!
It's not blog snobbery - it's buyers market. Not always but most of the times, the blogspot blogs have less quality content than the paid-hosted blogs. before you say so, yes there are several excellent quality blogs hosted on the blogspot blogs too. But still the general blogspot blogs would have somewhat lower payouts from a buyer who is interested in buying multiple blog posts compared to a buyer who is looking for one-off posts- all other things being equal.