Is Blogging Good Business?

I’m starting to wonder if Blogging is “Good Business”. Personally I maintain this Blog just to keep in touch with reality, I may also use it to vent personal stuff that really shouldn’t matter to anyone but myself, and my most recent use was to make some money off of it with Google AdSense. Don’t get me wrong, I basically had about 20 bucks in about a month, which is more then enough to host this site for free if I want to. Not to mention that it was to my surprise that people were actually clicking on the advertisements. But then again, you get a check from Google when you reach the $100 mark. Maybe I’ll reconsider and put it back up.

The type of business I’m talking about is the marketing and public relations aspect of Blogging. Creating visitors from external sources such as the NY Times, The Daily Record, big name websites such as Yahoo! and so on and so on. I don’t have the slightest idea on what the rates are for internet marketing, so if you tell me that the cost of advertising on a web site is in the range of $2-4,000 for 3 Months is a “good price”, I’d have to look at you kind of funny because there’s no way I’m coughing over any money. I assume you would need to have the income/resources to support that type of advertising campaign and it’s certainly not something that you can simply jump into unless you have the funds readily available.

Then we have web-designers that have jumped into the Blogging world in hopes of cashing on this crazy phenomenon. Web designers that have obviously looked at the business aspect of Blogs and created a market for it. Nothing out of this world in my opinion. I will say one thing… “Build It, And They Will Come”…