Inactive Blogs But Actively Earning
Have you visited the cemetery lately? I’m sure a lot of you did, and had a happy and colorful celebration with your relatives. During the celebration of All Soul’s Day in the Philippines, all feelings and beliefs come together in a season that brings to life the memory of the loved ones.
What does All Soul’s Day got to do with my topic?
![Your Blog is Dead!](<a href="http://www.blogcomics.net/your-blog-is-dead/2007/12/14/"> <img title="Your Blog is Dead!" alt="Your Blog is Dead!" src="http://i237.photobucket.com/albums/ff201/pinoyblogero/ADEADBLOG-1.jpg" /> </a> "Your Blog is Dead!")
Your Blog is Dead!
Have you seen a dead blog? There’s actually no specific definition for a “dead” blog. Obre defined it as ” dead blogs or inactive blogs” that have been inactive for more than 60 days.
Starting a blog or a website is relatively easy. It only depends on what topic or niche you want to cover. In a real business world, there is a 10 to 12 percent that a new business will not be there anymore by next year.
For websites and blogs, I could not find an official list of inactive blogs except for some specifics sites that are being managed or webhosted by one particular domain. A good examples are the inactive blogs at Orbe which you can actually get and owned, and a compiled list of defunct/inactive legal blogs from Epiphany.
Technorati the leading blog search engine released a study in 2007 that said 79% of the 15.5 million blogs out there are no longer active. That’s something like 12.2 million inactive blogs out there.
Did you know that inactive blogs can still earn passive income?… How? You can actually take over which has already a large readership or subscriber. From this you can resurrect the site, have it “repainted”, do some makeover, contact the subscribers and tell that you are now the new owner. And, whatever business that site or blog have, revive it!
I abandoned my very first blog due to some very strict environment the domain owner wants (I was using a subdomain). The good thing is, it’s still kicking, gets traffic and comments AND earnings from Adsense.
A very good example is Blogging Experiment, Max Davis the owner purchased this blog by reviving and thrilled to have the opportunity to take the torch from Ben Cook. In turn, Ben Cook, a serial blogger who abandoned some of his previous blogs still getting around US$30 each month for doing nothing.
Have you abandoned a blog? Perhaps it’s time to visit your abandoned blog either by resurrecting and giving it a fresh look or, a proper burial by deletion. Which one would you choose?
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