If you want to look at blogs that are designed to make money, take a look at Weblogs’ latest movie blog titled Cinematical. Notice the clean layout. Graphics are used sparingly yet they draw the readers in.

It looks like they are making money from sponsored ads, Google Adsense, and Amazon.com’s affiliate program. I wonder about the sponsored text links though - I’m not sure if Google’s Terms of Service for Adsense allows what would be look-alike competing ads.

Here is a list of other blogs owned by Weblogs, Inc.

AdJab
Autoblog
Blogging Baby
Divester (scuba)
Engadget
Gadling
hack a day
Joystiq
Luxist
pPlayer (poker)
TV Squad
TUAW (Apple)
Technology
Apple (Unofficial)
CSS
Digital Photography
Flash Insider
Google (Unofficial)
Grid Computing
JavaScript
Microsoft (Unofficial)
Office
Open Source
Peer-to-Peer
Photoshop (Unofficial)
RSS
SAS (Unofficial)
Search Engine Marketing
Social Software
Spam
Tablet PCs
VoIP
Yahoo (Unofficial)
Wireless
BBHub (BlackBerry)
Bluetooth
Engadget: Cellphones
Engadget: GPS
RFID
Ultra Wideband
WiFi
The WiMAX Weblog
Engadget: Wireless
Wireless Dev
Wireless
Video Games
Blogging E3
Engadget: Gaming
Joystiq
Playstation 3
Video Games
Xbox 2
Media & Entertainment
Design
Digital Music
Documentary Film
Droxy (Digital Radio)
Independent Film
Magazine Design
Nanopublishing
Business
The Mortgages Weblog
Outsourcing
SCM Wire (supply chain)
Life Sciences
The Cancer Blog
The Diabetes Blog
Medical Informatics
Telemedicine
Personal
Brian Alvey
Jason Calacanis
Blog Maverick
Gordon Gould
Judith Meskill
Events
Blogging DEMO
Blogging E3
Blogging ETech
Future of Music
Blogging Milken
Blogging Sundance
Blogging Web 2.0

As you can see, they are operating in many different niches. Weblogs, Inc. founder Jason Calacanis also has a blog and I found in this post that they are now making over $1,000 per day from Adsense (posted on April 7th, 2005) . The CTR and CPM are really dismal though.

Note: Google doesn’t allow revealing the CTR (click through ratio) and CPM (cost per thousand) of your Adsense account, so Jason has since removed those numbers from the post. But I found them quoted at another blog.

If we take that $1,000 per day number and divide that by the number of blogs maintained (75), we get a little over $13 per day per blog. If they can keep this up, they will be doing over $360,000 per year.

This just goes to show that you can make some serious money by blogging.

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I’ve started this blog to share with you ways that you can generate a passive income with your blog. It doesn’t matter what topic your blog is on - you can monetize it. It could be a blog about a hobby you have, a personal blog to share with your friends and family or even a passionate cause that you have.

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