Lease out your Blog to CW

Nice article. I’m a bit skeptical of the idea of leasing your blog. What I haven’t read or understood from your post is what’s Creative Weblogging getting out of leasing your blog. The post could have been cooler if that was explained. Filipinos are naturally skeptical and it’s hard to believe that Creative Weblogging ain’t going to get something out of the deal.

Personally, I think blogging on your own can get you more than the creative weblogging deal. Within the first 3 months of problogging, I will get at least $1000 from doing what I do in my free hosted blog. And I don’t even have that much traffic. Just a decent pagerank.

If your strength is more on the creative/writing side then this is definitely worth looking at but if you have a clear cut monetization strategy then you might be better off on your own. Who knows how much your blog might be worth after 3 years… If you have multiple blogs it might be worthwhile to enroll one of them with the network, the knowledge you gain from joining them might be quite useful. Plus you might be able to redirect some of the traffic they generate to your other blogs (wonder what their policy is on this ?)

Yes tempting. Most sites offer $5 or below per post and that page views bonus is terrific. A lot of money will be flowing my way if I actually own the blogs I write for. The only problem is sometimes I me and my writers get lazy and write a could of sentences and call it a “post.” Is there a fine print of any kind?

@RickTheTruth it went the way of Christmas and Valentines Day – it’s all commercialized…

Very tempting indeed. But I think my blog wouldn’t make the cut. Besides, I’m still under contract with Mad Crowd Media. Though it’s been quite a long while since I last heard from them. ;)

The $750 computation is tempting alright, but like what others have said here, I think this lease program by CW is mainly for the creative writer who already has a blog and an audience but is having a hard time monetizing his/her website(for some reason).

And how many legit Philippine blogs actually get 50,000 page views a month? I can only think of a few, and I know most of them earn a lot more than $750. :)

I would have to say I don’t agree with the notion that you would have to be a bigtime blogger to get blogging gigs that pay you $7 per post.

As a matter of fact, I was recently contacted by a Australian call center website editor who offered me to write 250-word posts for AUS$35 (around US$30) per article. And the good thing about it is I don’t need to lease out my blog. I just need to write articles for them and I can continue blogging about the call centers the way I always have on my own blog. We’re currently talking about the terms. and prospects are looking good.

I think there good writing can get bloggers better paying gigs in the long run.