Comments on: The Problem with Small-Scale Blog Consolidation

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By: Husein

Husein — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 02:58:40 +0000

With the current economic climate expect more blogs to feel the pain as CPM will start to tapper off as will CPC. Branding dollars are the first to get cut in an economic downturn – think banner ads

Time to look to niche blogs as they will benefit most as the economy slows with respect to maximizing ad revenue as advertisers push for measurable ROI which often is found on highly target blogs/web sites.

By: Tim Leung

Tim Leung — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 19:47:28 +0000

Thanks

By: Jeremy Wright

Jeremy Wright — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 19:40:54 +0000

The more you cross-link a network, the more likely you are that Google will slap the whole network down.

By: Tim Leung

Tim Leung — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 19:32:56 +0000

I didn’t read the posts you referenced, but what about the consolidation of blogs mean on a SEO level?

If somehow all the sites are connected (maybe using the same domain..etc) that their amount of quality content should increase, so would the pageview coming from organic searches?

By: Jeremy Wright

Jeremy Wright — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 19:11:46 +0000

Is it the only way? Nope. Selling products. Selling training. Selling merchandise. Micro-transactions. Premiere content. Video. Selling your content to mainstream media…

There are lots of other ways to make money off your blog. Tonnes, even.

But, advertising ends up being the staple most people choose

By: Tim Leung

Tim Leung — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 19:04:48 +0000

Excellent Post with great insight into the consolidation of Blogs.

But is sponsorship and online advertising in terms of ad units the only way to monetize a collection of quality content?