SHOW ME THE MONEY - PAULA MOONEY'S MAKING MONEY ON THE INTERNET LIST

THANKS PAULA

Show Me the Money - Paula Mooney's Making Money Online ListHats off to Paula Mooney and her new improved Internet cool dudes making money list where people who make money online reveal all ! It must have involved an enormous amount of work, but it is much appreciated by the bloggerati throughout cyberspace (I thought I had invented a word there for a minute but I just checked and 'bloggerati.com' has already been registered!)Paula's list has doubled in size!

There are now 120 people on it ranging from the top two, who both make money from domain names by the way,
1. Kevin Ham ($300 million - although not $300 million a year it must be said) for the inside info. about how Kevin Ham made $300 milion see here YouWannaBeADomainNameMillionaire? and
2. Frank Schilling ($20 million - again not annually) to the bottom 118. Fame Fire with $19 (well done for having the guts to admit it but it could prove to be good marketing ploy! (119. and 120. have not provided the info. yet).
To see Paula's complete list you need to go here PaulaMooney - my intention here is to look at one particular aspect which has been bothering me for a while as a blogger, namely WordPress or Blogger? As you can see from this blog I am using Blogger, because I'm a cheapskate and it's free. As I understand it you cannot put Adsense on the free version of WordPress (please someone correct me if I am wrong). But I have this nagging doubt that the 'real' professional bloggers use WordPress and that they do it for a reason. So I decided to carry out the very mundane task of checking out all the bloggers on Paula's list to see which ones use WordPress and which ones use Blogger. Simple huh? But hopefully educational!Firstly, of the 120 people on the list I have only counted those that appear to be bloggers (i.e. not the websites) - so that is 88 in total.[NB : Updated 25 June. For some reason I left off Frank Schilling, who is no. 2 on the list with $20m - made from domain names - but he also has a blog]
PM's List No.
2. http://frankschilling.typepad.com/ - Typepad
4. http://www.techcrunch.com/ - WordPress
8. http://www.leedodd.com/about-lee-dodd/ - WP
10. http://www.osx-e.com/ - WP
12. http://labnol.blogspot.com/ - Blogger
13. http://www.lookwhatgmanfound.com/ - Blogger (?)
15. http://www.stevepavlina.com/ - WP
17. http://www.problogger.net/archives/2006/02/14/whats-a-blog-post-worth/ WP
23. http://www.johnchow.com/make-money-online-may-2007/ WP
24. http://www.shoemoney.com/ - WP
29. http://www.connectedinternet.co.uk/2007/06/01/myblogearnings-for-may-2007/2/ - WP
30. http://www.tylercruz.com/ - WP
31. http://www.entrepreneurs-journey.com/ - WP
32. http://www.grownupgeek.blogspot.com/ - Blogger
33. http://www.workingnomad.com/ - WP
34. http://www.gobalakrishnan.com/. - WP
38. http://momgadget.com/i-just-tipped-the-scale-of-5000-in-the-month-of-may/ - WP
40. http://www.feverishthoughts.com/ - WP
41. http://www.realitywired.com/2007/05/09/best-month-ever-almost-think-im-going-to-test-kontera/ - WP
42. http://www.toprankblog.com/ - WP
43. http://sablog.com/ - WP
44. http://blogtalks.net/revenue-report-for-april-2007-3061.html - WP
45. http://www.janemayblogs.com/may-earnings-update/ - WP
47. http://www.sabahan.com/2007/05/09/how-much-bloggers-are-currently-earning-from-blogging/ - WP
48. http://mubinahmed.com/my-big-fat-adsense-check/- WP
49. http://paultan.org/ - WP
50. http://www.askdanandjennifer.com/ - WP
51. http://www.getrichslowly.org/blog/ - WP
52. http://www.mydebtfreegoal.com/2007/06/june-2007-progress-and-earnings.html - Blogger
53. http://www.blogger.com/profile/8706407 - Blogger
54. http://blog.pimentels-photography.com/2007/03/22/earn-money-for-blogging-like-i-do/ - WP
55. ScribbleScratch (says please do not link direct so I haven't) - WP
56. http://desinotes.com/may-2007-earnings-blogging/ - WP
58. http://www.theblogworld.net/ - WP
59. http://www.liewcf.com/blog/ - WP
60. http://girlstalkinsmack.com/ - WP
61. http://www.staska.net/2007/05/05/my-online-earnings-for-april-2007/ - WP
62. http://findingfinancialpeace.blogspot.com/2007/06/start-earning-interest-now.html - Blogger
63. http://demp.se/y/2007/06/04/may-earnings/ - WP
64. http://www.chanlilian.net/ - WP
67. http://www.menj.org/being-a-problogger/my-blog-earnings-january-2007/ - WP
70. http://www.netbusinessblog.com/ - WP
72. http://www.carlpei.com/website-earnings-may-2007/ - WP
74. http://courtneytuttle.com/2007/06/02/may-earnings-report-and-evaluation/ - WP
76. http://www.mytwodollars.com/ - WP
77. http://digitalfilipino.blogspot.com/ - Blogger
78. http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/trurl_pagecontent?lp=zh_en&trurl=http%3a%2f%2fadsense-tw.com%2farchives%2f343 - WP
79. http://egonitron.com/2007/05/09/list-of-blogger-salaries/ - WP
80. http://adsense-tw.com/archives/343 - WP
81. http://paulamooney.blogspot.com/ - Blogger
82. http://www.thesimpledollar.com/ - WP
83. http://www.erikvossman.com/ - WP
84. http://www.artofmoney.org/100-a-day-blogging-my-stats-for-may/ - WP
85. http://scrappingsahm.blogspot.com/ - Blogger
86. http://www.derrich.com/2007/06/04/blog-money-may-2007/ - WP
87. http://ejcooksey.blogspot.com/2007/06/earnings-for-may-16-2007-to-june-6-2007.html - Blogger
88. http://www.thedietdiary.com/blog/ - WP
89. http://skiper.pinoyanswers.com/online-earnings-for-the-month-of-april-2007/ - WP
90. http://www.toptut.com/ - WP
91. http://jeffreykishner.com/astrology/love/2007/06/may-2007-earnings-thanks-for-donations.html -Blogger
92. http://geniustypes.com/blog_income_report_may_2007/ - WP
93. http://mikesmoneymakingmission.blogspot.com/2007/06/money-making-weekly-report-week-36_16.html - Blogger
94. http://www.gospelrhys.co.uk/2007/05/the-two-hundred-dollar-blogger.html - WP
95. http://10k-challenge.blogspot.com/2007_06_03_archive.html - Blogger
96. http://www.theanand.com/blog/index.php/money-making-missions/blog-earnings-for-the-month-may/ - WP
97. http://sabrinasmoneymadness.com/2007/06/05/may-online-income/ - WP
98. http://munny4hunny.blogspot.com/2007/06/blogging-success-challenge.html - Blogger
99. http://www.buildingmyempire.com/2007/06/04/may-2007-earnings/ - WP
100. http://www.stevenaitchison.co.uk/blog/2007/06/01/online-earnings-for-may-2007/ - WP
101. http://www.cashquests.com/2007/06/how-to-make-money.html - WP
102. http://www.ontora.com/random/may-online-earnings-report/ - WP
103. http://lifelearningtoday.com/ - WP
104. http://dereksemmler.com/2007/06/06/blogging-for-money-may-2007/ - WP
105. http://newsnotion.com/2007/05/30/may-2007-earnings/ - WP
106. http://aprobloggermom.com/?p=68 - WP
107. http://veganmomma.com/blog/2007/06/11/how-much-has-opal-made/ - WP
108. http://www.swollenpickles.com/2007/05/02/goal-update-for-april-2007/ - WP
109. http://thoughtsfrommylife.com/ - Blogger (?)
110. Invited readers only - Blogger
111. http://million-dollar-project.blogspot.com/ - Blogger
112. http://www.linkylove.net/make-money-online-add-your-link-exchange-2007-06-11/monthly-earnings-amount.html - WP
113. http://calimckoys.blogspot.com/ Blogger
114. http://nothowtodoit.blogspot.com/2007/05/blogger-salaries.html - Blogger
115. http://nerdwithswag.com/ - WP
116. http://blog.nafurai.com/ -WP
117. http://www.capitalai.com/blog/about/ - WP
118. http://famefire.com/?p=44 - WP
119. http://www.stevegarfield.com/ - WP (?)
120. http://15000dollarmission.blogspot.com/ - Blogger

Holy moley - that took longer than I thought (several hours in fact) !
Conclusions ? There's an awful lot of creative talent out there !

And the score is ...... WordPress - 68 Blogger - 20 Typepad 1 (a big one but he makes his money from domain names not from blogging I believe)

So almost 3.5 : 1 in favour of WordPress, but it is worth bearing in mind that of those earning $50K or more, 14 are using Wordpress and only 3 are using Blogger.

I don't know enough to say why this might be. It could be just historical, the ones earning the most money may have been doing it longer and they started with WordPress. It will be interesting to see if the Blogger users start catching up (when Paula decides to draw up the new revised improved list!). The majority of Blogger users, but by no means all, are in the lower half of the table.
Please leave a comment if you have an explanation as to why most use Wordpress and not the free Blogger. Also why there is no-one in the list using Typepad?

I will be taking a closer look at the blogs again as there was a lot of information on all of them, and a lot of them are quite candid about publishing how much they make each month. I am particularly interested in those that are not so well-known, so if you would like me to review your blog, please drop me a line.

Have a nice day !