Can’t get rich with blogs. Neither the writers, nor the publishers. In the US market, one in six blogs draws more than 500 pageviews per day, that is $45 a month. And less than 3% of blogs make more than $1000 a months in ad (and for the publisher’s side, blogs bears the lowest level in CPT : one to three dollars). >see the NY Times article.
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