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I write articles (about various tech) on my blog, albeit my startup has definitely decreased my rate. Used to post stuff everyday, now its more along the lines

I write articles (about various tech) on my blog, albeit my startup has definitely decreased my rate. Used to post stuff everyday, now its more along the lines of every 3-6 days, but with much more substantial articles. Obviously, I have some ads on there. Pays the rent, utilities and most of my health insurance. Supposed to be doing consulting for a local ISP for 5-10 hours per week sooner or later, just waiting on their CTO to get back to me.

woodsier 17y ago
So you're saying a decent article on your own blog posted twice a week is enough to pay utilities and rent + some insurance? That's pretty impressive, to me at least. How do you monetise your blog? Just through ads? What kind of ads? I've been thinking about doing something interesting to this, so it interests me. Would you mind linking to your blog?
- jamiequint 17y ago
  Its in his profile: http://paulstamatiou.com http://paulstamatiou.com Pretty well known and according to Compete.com seeing about 55k uniques/month, thats quite a bit.
  - woodsier 17y ago
    Thanks for that. In future I'll check profiles.
  - lyime 17y ago
    Yea thats more than my startup. Sigh...
  - PStamatiou 17y ago
    hey jamie! Get about 100k-120k/mon uniques with my tracking (http://pstam.com/i/ac2e01d23b0c4e03ba265bb271c03ab0.png http://pstam.com/i/ac2e01d23b0c4e03ba265bb271c03ab0.png), but its a far cry from when my blog was in its prime and would get 300-500k views/month. I've always wondering what I could make if I did that full-time... as for "How do you monetise your blog? Just through ads? What kind of ads?" I have a few streams, but I am far from whoring my blog out with ads so my $'s are conservative. Mainly I have an SEM firm that sells ad space on my site, affiliate stuff for my usenet host and affiliate stuff for the theme my blog is based on. Everything is relevant and tech related.. no random adsense.

woodsier 17y ago

So you're saying a decent article on your own blog posted twice a week is enough to pay utilities and rent + some insurance? That's pretty impressive, to me at least. How do you monetise your blog? Just through ads? What kind of ads? I've been thinking about doing something interesting to this, so it interests me. Would you mind linking to your blog?

jamiequint 17y ago
Its in his profile: http://paulstamatiou.com http://paulstamatiou.com Pretty well known and according to Compete.com seeing about 55k uniques/month, thats quite a bit.
- woodsier 17y ago
  Thanks for that. In future I'll check profiles.
- lyime 17y ago
  Yea thats more than my startup. Sigh...
- PStamatiou 17y ago
  hey jamie! Get about 100k-120k/mon uniques with my tracking (http://pstam.com/i/ac2e01d23b0c4e03ba265bb271c03ab0.png http://pstam.com/i/ac2e01d23b0c4e03ba265bb271c03ab0.png), but its a far cry from when my blog was in its prime and would get 300-500k views/month. I've always wondering what I could make if I did that full-time... as for "How do you monetise your blog? Just through ads? What kind of ads?" I have a few streams, but I am far from whoring my blog out with ads so my $'s are conservative. Mainly I have an SEM firm that sells ad space on my site, affiliate stuff for my usenet host and affiliate stuff for the theme my blog is based on. Everything is relevant and tech related.. no random adsense.