Read Write Web has carried out a survey asking “20 top-tier tech bloggers” what they get paid per post.
Most people who are paid to blog are paid per post. What kinds of rates are our respondents seeing? The low end of the scale was $10 per post for very short posts. Almost everyone else said they were paid $25 per post. One person said they were paid $80 per post! One respondent said they were paid $200 per item of long-form writing; bloggers often do other kinds of writing as well.
I’m sure most of you can see something wrong here. I’m assuming they are talking about the sort of people who blog on Gawker/Engadget type blogs or other high quality blog networks so why do they only get $25?
Any blogger who can write a high quality attention grabbing post should be getting hundreds if not thousands of dollars for it. Linkbait consultants charge £1000 for a single blog post, the same as these top bloggers charge for 67 blog posts.
I have a serious offer to make to any bloggers being paid per post – get in touch with me and you can get paid 3 times as much for doing exactly the same as you do now.
Patrick Altoft is Director of Search at Leeds based digital & SEO agency Branded3. Patrick also runs Blogstorm.You can get our blog posts delivered for free by email every day - simply add your email address to the box below or alternatively grab the RSS feed.
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If that was the case, I would happily pay a team of 5 bloggers to work on a site for me.
If the quality was there then the money would be well worth it!
Quality Digital PR is the way forward
To be fair though, I suspect much of the value in hiring a link bait consultant is to tap into their contact network that enables them to go popular with a good proportion of what they work on. After all, as the survey into why UK blogs are so poorly represented shows, writing the content is just one part of the jigsaw.
US freelance journalists in my field are paid between $1 and $2 on average, per word, for print/online features, I assume that translates to other fields. The average blog post is what? 500 words. You can do the sums. I suspect that the retained columnists/bloggers on the big new media sites come up a lot, lot better than $25-80 per post. They won’t want to stay retained for long if they’re doing two posts a day with research etc at that rate. That could work out at way below minimum wage.
I want to post blogs and earn money. Please contact me on my email.
Would be intersting but i cant see jst any tom dick or harry being able to get good earnings. what kind of qualifications would you need to earn for posting..
Sweet Jesus that is bad pay, I pay a mate to do some generic posts on a gadget blog I do and it conforms with that pricing if not slighty better, but the blog is tiny and is thats the only pay I can justify at the moment.
If I had a blog that was as succesful as Engadget etc I would pay much much more.
Then again most of the blogs on Engadget etc are rehashed news from other blogs, so I doubt it takes them long to find a news item and re-write it.
You need to leverage your domain authority (PR) if you want to earn more for your time. Rather than making just posts (which have low CTR on ads) consider making a page about a service or product. My blog posts earn only $xx each over their lifetime, but revenue focused pages earn $xxxx over their lifetime. Blog posts for me are only good for gaining backlinks, they are not good for revenue.
I get paid at least $50 a paid post. You can contact me if you want.
I write for my own blogs and write review posts for which I am paid between $10 to $20 depending upon the page rank of the blog. I want to write blog posts for you if you can offer more to me. Let me know where to start?
I would have to think it’s like any career…you start at the bottom and work your way up. Maybe you write posts for $10 each but you soon discover resources that will pay you $25 per post. Then maybe someone offers you a bigger writing opportunity for more money. I am a professional writer who just started a blog. I have no idea if I will make any money doing so it’s considered a hobby for now. It would be great to make a career out of it but based on everything I have read, it looks unlikely.
I would love to get paid per post.. but I haven’t had any luck in my searching for a good base company yet. I’m attempting PPP.com, but so far my blog isn’t very popular, or long, or old.. it does have very good grammar at least
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So if you have any ideas that may be able to help me out, please by all means email me.
Thank you.
It is good to know that, but in spite of being a very good writer, I have not been able to find some good site where I can post news items or opinion columns and get paid sufficiently. I would like to seek some altruist guideline to make headway. I welcome suggestions and guidelines from the seniors in the field on minnykhan at g mail dot com. I would really be thankful.
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Paid to post bloggers used to make well more than $20 per post – that was until it became very popular for just about anyone to start blogging for cash.
Now, instead of paying quality bloggers to post good quality content with inlinks back to their sites, these companies pay these lousy bloggers anything between $3 and $10 per post.
I’m looking to make a career out of blogging. I’ve been researching this particular topic for quite some time and the main question for me was axactly that! why do bloggers get paid so little foor much of their time and thoughts. So far this seems the most interesting to me, one im looking to venture into. OK u sold me, im interested! tell me more, what do u offer & when can i start. Please email me.
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