Arrogant Bloggers, Stop Attacking the 5 Dollar Earners!

Recently more and more bloggers attack, or rather refer irreverently towards bloggers who take 5$ tasks. Oh yes, c’mon, are you really that poor to dedicate 10 minutes of your time and write a 60-words post with a link to a sponsor and get five bucks for it? Sure there are people like ShoeMoney and Darren Rowse that roll hundreds of dollars a day, but let’s face it, not everyone can.

What’s bad about 5 dollar blogging?

The stereotype is, for a review on high quality blog, with high traffic and high PageRank, you get paid a lot. If you take 5$ review:

1. You confirm your blog is worthless.
2. You undervalue yourself and your blog’s potential.

This is sweet and we can enjoy slamming those who get paid little out of free choice, but let’s see the things from another angle. In quite a few countries, 450$ would be a good salary, or — if not a good salary as itself, it could be a decent financial extra help for the whole family, right? Most loans start with 500$, and let’s not forget that you get this money and need not return them!

In order to gather 450$ in each calendar month, you need to earn 15$ a day. Finding a 15-dollar-campaign every single day is not easy, even if you have a PR3 blog with traffic. However, finding three campaigns that will pay you 5$ each, is very easy.

For this price advertisers will ask between 50 and 100 word review. Even if we assume you really studies the site and wrote a good post , which took you 30 minutes to complete, and you took 3 of them, means it comes down to one and a half hour of work a day. This is rather extreme as most short posts would take about 10 minutes complete, so bottom line is, you work between 30 to 90 minutes a day for 450$ a month.

If we assume it’s your salary, then you need not wake up in the morning, you need not obey your boss, and instead of 8 hours a day you work maximum 1,5 hours! Perfect for single mothers or those who live on the back of the beyond unable to find a job locally. If you live in a well developed country where 450$ could at best be a little extra help, sparing about an hour a day in the evening won’t be much of a hassle either.

So yes, you will read loads of top (or not even top!) bloggers slamming those who blog for 5$ per post, but bear in mind that IF they do it, they do it to help their families and their life level, and who can dispute that? We will never slam someone who gets a second low-paying job, why blogging is any different?