Billed for Blogging on Blogit
February 18th 2007 06:48
I’ve stopped writing for Blogit.com. Not that there’s anything wrong with the site as such; it’s their approach to blogging that I don’t find ideal.
Yes, you can make money on Blogit. I saw that one writer’s income for a year was US$400. That’s pretty good money compared to most sites on the Net. But the problem is you have to pay up front to make any money, and somehow that goes against the blogging grain.
To get onto the site at all, you have to pay US$9.95. That’s for writers; for readers, it’s more, and there are bigger sums you can pay than this, depending on whether you want to put pictures on your site or not, or want to have other things that often come for free on most blogging sites. Thus I can see in Google that a post of mine is listed, but if I go to the site, I have to pay to see my own post!
Furthermore, this $9.95 is a monthly fee, and there’s no guarantee, short of working your writing butt off, that you’ll get that kind of money back. The money a reader pays ($12.95 from memory, per month) is divied out
between all the writers a reader looks at. So if you, as a reader, check out 30 or 40 or 50 writers in a month, guess how much they’re going to get each? 2 to 3 cents a month from you. Yes, of course, there are lots of readers, so obviously the money could increase. But in the month I was there, my income was possibly going to be 40c. Not exactly a big return on a ten dollar outlay.
I’m not at all sure why there’s this sealed castle approach on Blogit. No doubt this constant income also pays for the site and the staff, but it’s like a place where you get a key and have to lock the door behind you. No browsers allowed here!
Still, I should worry. There are literally hundreds of writers – and presumably readers – on Blogit. For a lot of bloggers it works. But for someone actually wanting to make a little on the Net, I personally don’t think this is the way to go.
Yes, you can make money on Blogit. I saw that one writer’s income for a year was US$400. That’s pretty good money compared to most sites on the Net. But the problem is you have to pay up front to make any money, and somehow that goes against the blogging grain.
To get onto the site at all, you have to pay US$9.95. That’s for writers; for readers, it’s more, and there are bigger sums you can pay than this, depending on whether you want to put pictures on your site or not, or want to have other things that often come for free on most blogging sites. Thus I can see in Google that a post of mine is listed, but if I go to the site, I have to pay to see my own post!
Furthermore, this $9.95 is a monthly fee, and there’s no guarantee, short of working your writing butt off, that you’ll get that kind of money back. The money a reader pays ($12.95 from memory, per month) is divied out
I’m not at all sure why there’s this sealed castle approach on Blogit. No doubt this constant income also pays for the site and the staff, but it’s like a place where you get a key and have to lock the door behind you. No browsers allowed here!
Still, I should worry. There are literally hundreds of writers – and presumably readers – on Blogit. For a lot of bloggers it works. But for someone actually wanting to make a little on the Net, I personally don’t think this is the way to go.
Mike Crowl also writes here.
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Smorty.com is okay, and Blogitive.com is okay too, but they don't have many opportunities.
I've shied away from Payperpost, as their way of working is quite restrictive, and they call the shots too much.