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.
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