So a couple weeks ago I started blogging for a site called ContentQuake. They are looking for people to blog about each NFL team, so I signed up to talk about my team, the very injured, rebuilding, lost, Buffalo Bills.
If you’re curious, like I was, about what kind of situation a contract blogger (as I guess I am) has, I’ll explain. I’m required to post at least 6 times each week, spread out over at least 4 days of that week. Of course I can post more than that. The payment system works in a couple ways. First, I get my Adsense code in 40% of the page views that my blog gets, with the other 60% of the views going to ContentQuake’s Adsense code. That should work out to roughly 40% of the revenue from Google ads, but will vary depending on when the clicks come. So far, they’ve been very meager. Then they also have those automatically generated context links that show up in the content of the posts. Apparently they spread the revenue from those over the entire site amongst all the bloggers and pay them all evenly each quarter. The site is relatively young, so I doubt that will be much at all any time soon as well.
It’s been fun so far to blog about my favorite NFL team, even though there hasn’t been much interaction with anybody online yet. I seriously doubt this will turn into much money, but I’ll gladly do it, since it will only help me follow my team closer. I don’t imagine anybody is really interested, but if you are, you can check it out here.