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I'd really love for Facebook to integrate analytics into personal accounts. I know that they offer some functionality via "Pages", but I'd love to know what type of content that my readers (friends) are most interested in. Which links they follow, etc...
What I don't know is what constitutes blog spending under the category of social media. Running your own company's blog? Outreach and free stuff aimed at influential bloggers? Astroturfing?
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>The only problem with this is putting ads on what people think of as "their" blog. People want to be able to run their own ads on "their" blogs; even if they're hosted with some other service, they want to be the ones making money off people seeing their own content on their own pages. I don't see why that would be a problem. So you share the revenue with them, which the bloggers are happy to do because you're provi…
A lot of the people who would be providing content for your blog-hosting service (that is, blogging), aren't necessarily in a legal position to receive money. 8-year-olds, for instance, or people living in countries where it is terribly expensive to set up a bank account that can accept internatonal payments, or even people staying in the US on Student visas who are obligated to not earn any income while they're here…
I don't understand how "give us a routing number and we'll deposit the money into your checking account" is particularly arduous. If you live in a country that makes payments difficult, what do you expect a blogging platform to do about it? You'll encounter the same issue from any ad network who might pay you to put ads on your own unaffiliated blog. If you want that fixed you have to lobby your government to fix it, or move to another country.
In addition to that, Paypal has to deal with an army of international scammers and Paypal are cheap/lazy bastards who would rather screw over their users than devise elegant solutions to those problems. But almost all of those problems are a result of Paypal withdrawing money from one account and depositing it into another. A blogging platform doesn't do that: They get money from advertisers, who are happy when their ads are shown to users who buy stuff regardless of the are-you-a-dog status of individual bloggers, and deposit the money into the accounts that said bloggers have asked it to be deposited into. There is nowhere near the same opportunity to steal anyone else's money in the traditional method of signing up for a scam account and taking payments for goods or services you never intend to deliver, so the level of dickishness required to run the operation is substantially reduced.
Blogs sell display ads which are part of the big 41% slice of the pie chart. The smaller ones sell space entirely through AdWords--I think that's in the 41% as well, but I'm not sure. What I don't know is what constitutes blog spending under the category of social media. Running your own company's blog? Outreach and free stuff aimed at influential bloggers? Astroturfing?
Blogs sell display ads which are part of the big 41% slice of the pie chart. The smaller ones sell space entirely through AdWords--I think that's in the 41% as well, but I'm not sure. What I don't know is what constitutes blog spending under the category of social media. Running your own company's blog? Outreach and free stuff aimed at influential bloggers? Astroturfing?
My blog gets plenty of readers but I refuse to make any money off of it. Maybe I'm out of touch with that reality.
Why do you refuse to make money with your blog?
Social networks are know widely known, meaning they became boring and non-innovations.