Comments on: How much money is your blog worth?

By: David Airey :: Creative Design ::

David Airey :: Creative Design :: — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 20:39:15 +0000

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.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 06:33:54 +0000

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.

By: Tobsy

Tobsy — Tue, 01 May 2007 14:29:34 +0000

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*.

By: Andy Beard

Andy Beard — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 20:49:43 +0000

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.

By: Ed

Ed — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 20:02:11 +0000

@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?

By: David Airey :: Creative Design ::

David Airey :: Creative Design :: — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 16:09:40 +0000

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.

By: Bucky

Bucky — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 15:52:17 +0000

Almost $70,000.

That can’t be right….. ?

By: Tolumi Adamson

Tolumi Adamson — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 10:24:39 +0000

My blog is actually worth money…. shocking ;)

By: Deborah

Deborah — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 04:24:34 +0000

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!

By: Andy

Andy — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 11:41:38 +0000

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?