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Well, I have found the answer from John Chow and Tyler Cruz’s blogs. If you don’t know these guys, doesn’t matter. They are nobody just like me. But we all seem to have the same passion, to make money on the internet. I was

always wondering what else I can do to make a living except for working a full time job as developer. I always want to do something entrepreneurial but I can’t afford to leave my job. Finally I discover this blogging thing. It really catches me. So I started this blog a month ago. I was thinking how much income a blog is able to generate. What is the better thing I can do on the internet in terms of making money? While I was wondering I discover Tyler Cruz’s blog. He owns a bunch of sites. Most of them are forum type of web sites. And both John Chow and Tayler Cruz post their income on their blog. John Chow’s blog attracted a lot of traffic. You can see from the following Alexa traffic graph.

John Chow Dot Com Traffic

According to his post the blog is making $2,700 a month so far. Tyler Cruz owns a list of forum sites and I have compiled the traffic data of his sites so that I can compare the traffic and income level.

Tyler Cruz's Sites' Traffic Compare to John Chow's Blog

According to Tyler Cruz’s post he is making $7,709 a month so far. If you compare the data you pretty much can conclude that forum type of web site is a much better money making tool. The total daily page view for all Tayor’s sites added up together is about one third of John Chow’s. However it generated triple income of John Chow’s Blog. Also one of Taylor’s site is a blog which accounted for a lot of page views if we take it out then it will be even more obvious that forums are better money making machine. Another thing a forum doesn’t need to update that frequently like a blog.

Well I have decided to set up a forum. I have noticed though, Taylor is a much better photoshop user. I probably wouldn’t be able to set up a site with so many fancy graphics. A well designed front page probably has very favorable effect in terms of generating traffic. I definitely need to give it a try and I will make it my goal in 2007. Stay tune :)


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    Comment by Tyler Cruz
    2007-01-03 02:12:09
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    Hi Andrew,

    First off, it’s Tyler not Taylor… hehe, sorry, just a pet peeve of mine.

    Wow. You spent a lot of time formulating all of that research…

    John’s actually a friend of mine, we talk on MSN from time to time.

    Your distinction between blog and forum is based only with a sample of two cases which makes for a very bad conclusion as there is no varience in the study. John’s blog, like mine, wasn’t created as a revenue-making tool in mind. They were simply blogs.

    John runs a few sites as well, of course, his big one being TheTechZone which does very well for him. John makes a lot more than I do.

    Part of why I’m making more with less pageviews is because one of my sites, my poker one, is in a very competitive market - gambling. I can therefore make much more on a eCPM basis because of that factor.

    Anyhow, if you continue to do as much research into your journey into the online entrepreurialism gig as you did this post, you may be able to quit your day job sooner than you think.

    Now, let me do a shamelessplug: Check out PublisherForums.com - I’m currently giving out $800 in cash with a posting contest :)

    Cheers,

    Tyler

     
    Comment by John Chow
    2007-01-03 11:01:14
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    Your conclusion would be correct if Alexa wasn’t a joke of a stat system. However, Alexa is worthless when it comes to figuring out traffic. Read this http://www.johnchow.com/alexa-tries-to-prove-they-are-not-worthless/

    and this http://www.johnchow.com/why-alexa-is-worthless/

    Just Tyler’s movie value forum gets more traffic than my blog. A forum does not make more money than a blog. I figure I tell you now than you finding out the hard way.

     
    Comment by Matt
    2007-01-03 22:17:20
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    Another thing I don’t think you took into account is that Poker is the 2nd (next to porn, if I am correct) most lucrative internet industry. So of course there is going to be more money in advertising Poker sites.

     
    2007-01-03 22:45:45
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    […] Both John and Tyleeeeer replied my post. I am really proud. When I read john’s post I didn’t believe a company backed by Amazon is running such a low quality traffic ranking system until I compare the traffic of the company I am work for to John’s blog. I didn’t think of doing that before. I am working for Local.com as database developer currently as I told you in my about page. According to our financial report. Local.com attracted more than 10 million visitors each month and is in the top 100 web sites in the US. When you look at Alexa traffic, here is it: […]

     
    Comment by Fishergirl Subscribed to comments via email
    2007-10-23 23:32:25
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    Hello y’all,

    I’ve been lurking around for awhile but this is a really cool forum so I decided to
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    2007-11-05 06:30:53
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    i’m eric. joining a couple boards and looking
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    Comment by XRumakTheBest Subscribed to comments via email
    2007-11-06 16:55:57
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    2007-11-14 14:00:58
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    2007-12-16 03:39:03
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    2007-12-20 00:40:07
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    2008-01-02 07:49:49
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