Logo design, logo designer | How much money is your blog worth?

46 spot-on reader comments to “How much money is your blog worth?”

1. Nate Whitehill, on April 27th, 2007 said:

   Hey David, thanks for the mention. I am surpised my blog was rated at that value. Interesting post.

2. ilker, on April 27th, 2007 said:

   David, those figures surely are not accurate. When I enter my address (http://www.thethinkingblog.com) I get this:

   “Your blog, thethinkingblog.com, is worth $1,180,453.14″

3. David Airey :: Creative Design ::, on April 27th, 2007 said:
   You’re very welcome, Nate.

   ilker, I’m not sure why I got the wrong figure for your site. Perhaps I had a forward slash after the .com which threw it out. Good thing I mentioned how the figures weren’t accurate. ;)

   Regardless, I’ve changed yours to give you the rightful spot in the list. Thanks for checking.

4. Char, on April 27th, 2007 said:

   David - that was fun!! Now I can go through the weekend thinking I am worth an awful lot more than my bank account reflects.

   Have a good one.

5. ilker, on April 27th, 2007 said:

   Thanks David.. now I need to find a way to have Google or Yahoo buy me out! =)

6. Randa Clay, on April 27th, 2007 said:

   Thanks for including me David! If you had done that a month ago, my blog would have been worth about $14.99. It’s amazing how one little thing (I follow) can make such a change.

7. The Paper Bull, on April 27th, 2007 said:

   You forgot yourself David
   Creative Design: $243,316.74

   Enjoy the w’end. I had the foresight to stock the fridge in my studio with Guinness and Harp.

8. Asgeir Hoem, on April 27th, 2007 said:

   Haha, great! Thanks for the mention. Pretty fun tool. BBC.com is apparently worth $56,409,965.88. Who can find the most valuable one? :D

9. David Airey :: Creative Design ::, on April 27th, 2007 said:
   Char,

   Have a great weekend!

   ilker,

   I got paid this week so I’ll put an offer your way shortly.

   Randa,

   The I Follow badge was a great idea. I’m glad you’re getting some exposure from it.

   The Paper Bull,

   Thanks for adding me! Creative Design is for sale! Enjoy the Guinness. I think some will be passing my lips too.

   Asgeir,

   Interesting with BBC. Yahoo.com is worth a staggering $443,393,103.24! Can anyone top that?

10. Aaron, on April 27th, 2007 said:

    Well I’d just like to say, if anyone wants to part with $7k for my site… it’s all yours! :D

11. Ian, on April 27th, 2007 said:

    Hi David,

    I can top that…not with mine, that was only $7339.02.

    Your blog, youtube.com, is worth $567,991,033.02
    I was starting run out of ideas.

    Ian

12. Gayla McCord, on April 27th, 2007 said:

    Wow what a fun way to close out the week. Let’s just not show those figures to Uncle Sam, m’kay?

    Ironic that Char, Dawud, Randa and I are right there together. Somehow, in my mind, that speaks volumes for the NoFollow rule being tossed out. We all joined that movement within days of each other and we’re all climbing at a similar pace.

    Or am I over thinking this?

    Either way, have an awesome weekend everyone. My family will be doing the farm folks thing at a chicken show.

13. David Airey :: Creative Design ::, on April 27th, 2007 said:
    Nice work, Ian. Youtube has the lead.

    Gayla,

    My lips are sealed (except when drinking some Guinness this weekend).

    It’s an interesting question about dropping the NoFollow at the same time as the others. It’d be great to know in detail what effect that has as I know there are some people who are very wary of giving some extra link love on their sites.

14. Gayla McCord, on April 27th, 2007 said:

    This might be one of those fun little things to track.

    Guinness is my husbands fav. I’m a Coor’s light kinda gal.

    You can take the girl out of the country, but you can’t EVER take the country out of the girl :)

15. Wendy Piersall :: eMom, on April 27th, 2007 said:

    Check me out - I’m the top earning woman on your list! This doesn’t help me keep my ego in place, David! ;)

16. Charity, on April 27th, 2007 said:

    Hey everyone! I keep hearing about the Do Follow plugin on various blogs and forums, and I’ve decided all these people can’t be wrong! :) Getting it installed is on my task list for today, but I was wondering - does it really make a noticable difference?

17. Evel, on April 27th, 2007 said:

    Now we just have to figure out how to get paid.

18. Maki :: Dosh Dosh, on April 27th, 2007 said:

    That was fun, David.. thanks for the link!

    While I enjoyed checking out the figures and the Business Opps Weblog, the first thought in my mind was that Dane Carlson was pretty smart to come up with a nifty linkbait like that.

    Note how he sells sponsored links, pimps an affiliate program and suggests that one should subscribe to his feed right beneath the actual Technorati application.

    Digg’s API recently gone public and this is a great chance for similar application baits to show up before it gets overcrowded..:)

19. Wendy Piersall :: eMom, on April 27th, 2007 said:

    @ Charity - I’d say my blog comments have more than doubled by doing two things: Adding the DoFollow plugin and adding the Top Commentators plugin. Definitely worth it! :)

20. Sean, on April 27th, 2007 said:

    I’ve done that before in the past, it’s fun :). When you use a Blogger.com account you automatically start at $2000 something.

    When I first started my new blog using Wordress and my own domain it was at $0 :( Now it’s at $22,581.60 yeah!

21. Randa Clay, on April 27th, 2007 said:

    Charity- My comments have definitely increased after turning off nofollow- especially on older posts. Before that I was getting only comments on my most recent posts. Part of my comment increase, of course, is due to the quadrupling of my traffic, of course, but I think it’s made a difference. Most people just need a little motivation to take the time to leave a comment, and the link love seems to be just the ticket.

22. Charity, on April 27th, 2007 said:

    Randa - agreed, and that’s part of the reason I wanted to implement nofollow… and to help out fellow bloggers.

    Wendy - good call. I definitely plan to add the top commentators plugin, once I have a few more people commenting that is. Not much to display just yet. :)

23. la bloga, on April 27th, 2007 said:

    Thanks, it´s interesting… what a shame we are away of the top moguls

24. Dawud Miracle, on April 28th, 2007 said:

    This seems like a fun little experiment. Thanks for bringing it up.

    I just ran a couple of my favoite bloggers:

    Robert Scoble - $2,972,303.10
    Seth Godin - $4,350,345.24
    TechCrunch - $10,009,294.20
    and, of course, Engadget tops the list with - $15,420,410.10

    Interesting, huh?

25. Dawud Miracle, on April 28th, 2007 said:

    Jumping into the conversation…

    I’ve found that removing nofollow has been the single most profound way to thank my commenters. And I should thank them in every way I can. Without them, there’d be no conversation on my blog. Just my monologues - which you can get on any static website.

    For anyone and everyone - I highly encourage removing nofollow from your blog. Let’s open up the blogosphere and share more together. That’s what it’s mainly about, right?

26. Andy Beard, on April 28th, 2007 said:

    One thing to note is he stored the logo on Flickr, which is a bit naughty for a commercial linkbait.

    Ilker has done great with the thinking blogger award as linkbait, and that continues to spread.

    It also isn’t overly abusive of the algos, because it doesn’t by default encourage a sitewide link.

    I was actually doing well for a few weeks with my LinkedIN Fast badges, but that was nerfed by LinkedIn because they claimed it presented a security risk.

    Some kind of Digg widget could be reasonable linkbait, but it would have to be javascript based for widespread use, and thus would most likely need a hefty server to serve the processed information.
    Maybe a Wordpress plugin would also be viable. Ideally you want something good enough that Techcrunch would use it.

27. goldcoaster, on April 28th, 2007 said:

    I have seen this a while back.
    I don’t know what mine is worth but I am guessing somewhere between 10c and 20c. I am hopeing that in the distant future it may be worth a whole dollar! :)

    goldcoaster.wordpress.com

28. goldcoaster, on April 28th, 2007 said:

    David, I typed in your address davidairey.com and it came up zero, add the /blog on the end and it’s worth a mint.

    Question about the .com page - why is there a picture of some chinese (I think chinese) soldiers marching? Does it mean something?

    goldcoaster.wordpress.com

29. Armen, on April 28th, 2007 said:

    $133,795.98 - lol…I’ll accept an offer of 0.01% of that!

    msn.com is more expensive than YouTube at $588,448,833.54

30. Rob O., on April 28th, 2007 said:

    Oooh, 2Dolphins is worth $66,051.18! That’s a nice little ego boost…

    Now, where do I go to cash out?

31. Tara, on April 28th, 2007 said:

    Thanks for including, me, that’s not bad for a few months work. Problem is soon everyone is going to be so wealthy they will be off sunning themselves somewhere nice instead of blogging :)

32. Vivienne Quek, on April 28th, 2007 said:

    David, I’m really enjoying this post and the thoughts of $36,130.56. That was a a pleasant surprising considering I only have 61-day of blogging experience. Yeah… I’m all ready to pop a champaign. :)

33. Ahsan R. Shami, on April 28th, 2007 said:

    Without the trailing slash, mine’s worth a princely $1,693.62. It’s worth even less when the slash is there — 1,129.08.

    I suppose I can’t quit design anytime soon. Bummer.

34. Brett Evans, on April 28th, 2007 said:

    mine is worth $2,258.16 and that is about 3 weeks of just starting out yay!

35. Dootz, on April 29th, 2007 said:

    Interesting, if depressing (once I put in my own URL).

    At least I beat out my best friend by about $500 worth. That’s worth a beer.

    ******
    surfcountry.blogspot.com

36. CalvinWarr, on April 29th, 2007 said:

    Wow! I wonder how they actually rate it? My blog is hardly 3 months old! Thanks for this post. Really nice. :)

37. Andy, on April 29th, 2007 said:

    My blog is worth $0.00.

    As i have designed my blog from scratch, all the aoding and everything, do you think that only wordpress blogs can get the value of how much they are worth?

38. Deborah, on April 30th, 2007 said:

    David, that was fun! If only it were accurate :)

    I didn’t think mine would register for 2 cents but it came up with just under $47K. Shocker!

39. Tolumi Adamson, on April 30th, 2007 said:

    My blog is actually worth money…. shocking ;)

40. Bucky, on April 30th, 2007 said:

    Almost $70,000.

    That can’t be right….. ?

41. David Airey :: Creative Design ::, on April 30th, 2007 said:
    Andy,

    I’m not sure if the values are the same for non-WordPress blogs. It’s just a little fun.

    Bucky,

    If you find somewhere that’ll pay the given amount for your blog we’d all give you a few grand to let us know.

42. Ed, on April 30th, 2007 said:

    @Andy, it isnt just a Wordpress game. My blog is built from Rapidweaver and is “worth” $41,000 and change. More accurately, it is worth change plus whatever I could get for it. A couple of buttons and an empty bottle of champagne, perhaps?

43. Andy Beard, on April 30th, 2007 said:

    What I was discussing was nothing to do with whether a blogging platform is better for being the recipient of links, an thus increase Technorati Authority and value due to those links.

    Ilker uses blogger, and has done great with blogs that make you think, plus lots of other initiatives.

    Technorati ranking, and thus the value given by the widget under discussion is based upon the number of links you receive over 6 months.

    Ilker will have to come up with another great idea for links in the next 6 months to maintain Technorati ranking, but his meme could quite honestly go on forever (though I have been nominated 3 or 4 times already)
    The badge didn’t have a link back to him, otherwise the effect would have been permanent.
    That was a deliberate choice by Ilker, and I have a great deal of respect for that decision.

    Wordpress themes have a huge influence on Technorati authority, as do Blogger themes.

    Wordpress plugins less so, but here are some examples because they display something visible and useful.

    Douglas Karr with his Technorati Widget http://www.douglaskarr.com/

    Akismet counter such as displayed on some many blogs proud to be using Akismet

    There are lots of viral ideas that are multiplatform.

    ThisNext gets link love from their widgets
    Kineda with their A list blogger widget
    Text link Ads with their link Juice Calculator
    SEOmoz with their ranking widget
    Statcounter is PR10 because of the backlink from their counter code on millions of sites, and some counters are known to use anchor text links for various keywords, almost like site advertising.

    These things invariably give sitewide links because bloggers don’t know any difference.

44. Tobsy, on May 1st, 2007 said:

    Nice, $17,500 for a blog that’s not even 2 months old. Could we pretend that the numbers are right? I’m feeling some self esteem rushing through my brain *g*.

45. Daniel, on July 3rd, 2007 said:

    Your Mao Tse Tung’s quotation is immoral. He used to do that thing before killing millions of people in China.
    Don’t be such a dumb!
    Cheers.

46. David Airey :: Creative Design ::, on July 3rd, 2007 said:
    Daniel,

    Thanks for stopping by.

    Excuse me if I gave the impression that I condone the acts of Chairman Mao.

    I’m not promoting his legacy, but the benefits of a nutritious breakfast.

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