I really wanted to make the point of this series to be that bloggers that while they should learn from the techniques applied on blogs such as yours that they need to develop their own voice and style for the blog and not just report on what the other bigger blogs are posting about.

AS a member of Entrecard, I’ve visited a lot of blogs I may not have normally visited and I see this more and more. Seems like a lot of people think if they can jsut get noticed by someone with a lot of traffic and that person decides to throw some link love their way then they will be an over night success, but it takes more to build a successful blog that people want to read than just a few links and short term traffic.

You need repeat visitors for a successful blog and the only way to get that is to have some unique that people can’t get somewhere else.

Thanks for commenting here, I guess I stood up and yelled hey look at me loud enough

Bruce

With b5 – the ad space rates are based upon the traffic on the site. I did a bit of analysis of what other blogs in my niche are charging and while it sounds steep – it’s about normal when you consider my reach in comparison to them.

Ads on PB are sold by b5, but they are specifically targetted to ProBlogger – ie the ads are sold on a blog by blog basis with ProBlogger and other big blogs on the network (like Copyblogger). We do sell other ads across our channels – but most of what you see on ProBlogger is done on a targeted basis to the one blog.

Hope I’ve understood your confusion right.

I don’t understand the b5Media comment. I have heard that you guys pay the bloggers, but I was referring to the adspace sold on the blogs, which is really steep. It would seem to me that since problogger.net is a part of b5Media then links sold from b5Media could be targeted as advertisments on ProBlogger.net. Please correct me if I’m wrong in my assumptions.

Bruce

- I do run affiliate programs but they’re not the biggest earning on the blog. Advertising does better.
- I don’t sell links on my blog. I do sell button ads (125 x 125 pixel ads) – not text links.
- The b5media links are to other blogs in our network – mainly my coworkers. b5 is a network of blogs that I cofounded – we don’t actually charge people to below – we own the blogs and pay the bloggers who write on them for their blogging.