I knew with the recent PageRank bullshit that was going on that people would start selling off their blogs. I do not know if that was the case of Blogging Fingers but it seems that Matt has sold it.
I find this quite interesting, as supposedly Matt only monetized this blog for a month and reportedly brought in around $400. Here were the stats:
Alexa: 50,675
Technorati Rank: Rank: 16,329
Technorati Authority: 306
PageRank: There is 1 PR4 page, 10 PR3 pages 10 PR2 pages as well as 7 PR1 pages.In September, which was the 1st month Blogging Fingers was monetized it earned just under $400 ($380). In the period Sept25th - Oct 25th $338 was earned. There has only been $20 expenditure for advertising so those are almost completely profit.
Income breakdown for September:
- $199 from Private Ad Sales (sponsored reviews, banner ads, text links)
- $188 from affiliate sales and referrals
Pretty crazy huh? He got $6,000 for this. So see it does not take long if you work hard at it. His traffic was pretty impressive (from a smaller blogs point of view), but I never really thought that something like this would take in $6,000.
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Gratz to Matt for doing it, though building a blog is a pretty active thing to do.
Flipping is something that hasn’t really interested me…If you want to make a really good property, it takes a lot out of you, and to sell it, means you’ll probably get less than what you might otherwise be able to.
I’d personally put in 2-3 more months efforts into it and have it generate $5,000 a month passively.
If you leverage the brand and made a good product in the $27-47 range, $5,000 - $10,000 a month would be pretty doable…