Weblog Inc. Bloggers Earn $500 USD Per Month

I recently posted a link to a story about Weblog Inc bringing in $1 Mil per year in AdSense revenue. It was a popular story circulated by many other bloggers too because people love to hear about people making money online, especially bloggers making money online. When the specific dollar amounts are released then people are even more interested.

Jason Calacanis, the owner of Weblogs Inc mentioned in the article that he has a paid staff of over 100 bloggers, which at the time, as I’m sure many of you did too, I wondered how much they were paid. Well I have another story which might answer that question and will at least tickle your fancy if you like blogging for dollars news.

Blog Herald: According to the contract, writers for Slashfood are paid $500 USD per month and are expected to write “125 monthly blog posts, along with monitoring of comments, responding to readers in comments, and deleting offensive comments. Posts under the goal of 125 will be pro-rated at $4.00 per post”

Slashfood is part of the Weblogs Inc network so we can reasonably guestimate that bloggers are paid around $500 USD per month to write for Weblogs Inc. My initial reaction was that’s pretty fair, especially given the exchange rate brings it up a bit if I’m spending my cash down under. Then I read that they want 125 monthly blog posts! Okay, a Weblogs Inc blog post is the shorter newsbite style of post, about a paragraph or three on average so it’s not quite up there with my 1500 word articles that I often dish out. Nonetheless that $500 is certainly earned but I think it’s a reasonable salary for a blogger given most bloggers earn sweet bubkiss.

Being paid to blog would be great, but being in control of your own business is better, although, perhaps doing both would be nice…hmm, where do I find the blogger want ads.