There are 57 million blogs on the web and 100,000 new ones appear every day. But can you make any money from an online journal? Holly Yeager investigates…
Times Online:
It’s getting harder and harder to resist the call of the blogs. I don’t mean that I can’t stop reading them. It’s that as I click around sites about gossip and gadgets, pickles and politics, I can’t help wondering whether to start one of my own. After all, if so many others can find fame and fortune from their corner of the internet, isn’t it worth a try?
Henry Copeland, founder of Blogads, which connects bloggers and advertisers, understands the temptation. ‘It’s the Horatio Alger story of the 21st century,’ he says.
Copeland points to the wild success of ‘Perez Hilton’, a sassy online gossip columnist who started his blog just two years ago and now registers 100 million impressions a month. With his sniping comments such as ‘Need Stylist’ scrawled on celebrity photographs, Perez has a cult following – and a brisk advertising business to show for it.
‘People look at that and say, ‘That could be me too’,’ Copeland says.
Carry on reading this article full of anecdotes of various bloggers who are making money with their blogs.
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