{"id":1256,"date":"2009-04-21T20:08:08","date_gmt":"2009-04-22T04:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/al6400.com\/blog\/?p=1256"},"modified":"2009-04-21T20:08:08","modified_gmt":"2009-04-22T04:08:08","slug":"paid-blogger-profession","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/paid-blogger-profession\/","title":{"rendered":"Paid Blogger Profession"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was reading a couple of articles today about people who do blogging for a living and get paid for it.  It started with this article on the Wall Street Journal at <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB124026415808636575.html\">http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB124026415808636575.html<\/a> that talked about bloggers for hire as a new profession.  <\/p>\n<p>I then read other articles such as from the Business Insider at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/henry-blodget-us-now-has-more-paid-bloggers-than-lawyers-2009-4\">http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/henry-blodget-us-now-has-more-paid-bloggers-than-lawyers-2009-4<\/a> which implied there are now almost as much paid bloggers as lawyers in the use.<\/p>\n<p>The statistics seemed so questionable to me.  For example, what exactly did they define as a paid blogger?  It sounded like the figures included anyone and everyone even if they made only say $1.  As well, implying that a blogger needs about 100,000 unique visitors to earn about $75K seems extremely skewed around people who specifically focus on getting paid to blog and are very successful at it.<\/p>\n<p>It is kind of interesting though if a blogger is being hired for companies in a more mainstream fashion.  While again I emphasize that those numbers should be taken with a huge grain of salt, if you really want to do something on the side to possibly earn an income then blogging can be a great thing to get into.<\/p>\n<p>Especially if you are someone who is out of work, I suppose if it is becoming more mainstream in a professional sense then it can be a great skill to obtain as well.  Great way to possibly diversify yourself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was reading a couple of articles today about people who do blogging for a living and get paid for it. It started with this article on the Wall Street Journal at http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB124026415808636575.html that talked about bloggers for hire as a new profession. I then read other articles such as from the Business Insider at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12165,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[4],"tags":[611,1768,143,1769,185,1767,1770,1771],"class_list":["post-1256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-blogging","tag-getting-paid-to-blog","tag-making-money-online","tag-monetization","tag-online-income","tag-paid-bloggers","tag-profession","tag-statistics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/9.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6VnHC-kg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1256"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1257,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1256\/revisions\/1257"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}