How do blog companies like Wordpress and Blogger make money?

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How do blog companies like Wordpress and Blogger make money?

Wordpress and Blogger must host millions of blogs, using lots of resources and bandwidth... So how do they pay for it?

There must be lots of other dedicated blog hosting sites that need to have revenue to run too.

I've got a good niche, that I'd like to start offering blogs to users with using WPMU, and I'm looking into how I can fund it.

I could force each new user to use a set template with adsense etc, and put my own id in, and then i get revenue until they change it.

Any other ideas?
 


Hmmm...

From what I know, wordpress also receives donations.

As for the WPmu site, I like how Bam bam is going about it, or at least this is how I would do it:

Step by step:

1. A blog will be made for .50$ and run for three months. The users adsense code is used.
2. after 3 month, the user either
a) has to pay 5$ a month per blog
b) decides to kill the blog or

This is a SWEEEEET setup because

a) Either the user keeps the blog, at which point you KNOW which Keyword is profitable and you can think of other projects to bank on that niche.
b) A blog might not return the 5$ in three months, but might still bring in a little revenue without work (these are autoblogs we are talking about). So you just enter YOUR adsense code on those blogs... bingo.

::emp::
 
Wordpress does host blogs at wordpress dot com. They have dot org to get self hosted blogs too.

But they do have some paid "VIP" services for more storage but they have other companies like Akismet, etc etc.

They are a start up. If they can run for a while and get viewers which they have there will be ways to make money somehow. Even if you have to keep getting VC money until you are bought out.
 
emp said:
Hmmm...

From what I know, wordpress also receives donations.

As for the WPmu site, I like how Bam bam is going about it, or at least this is how I would do it:

Step by step:

1. A blog will be made for .50$ and run for three months. The users adsense code is used.
2. after 3 month, the user either
a) has to pay 5$ a month per blog
b) decides to kill the blog or

This is a SWEEEEET setup because

a) Either the user keeps the blog, at which point you KNOW which Keyword is profitable and you can think of other projects to bank on that niche.
b) A blog might not return the 5$ in three months, but might still bring in a little revenue without work (these are autoblogs we are talking about). So you just enter YOUR adsense code on those blogs... bingo.

::emp::
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Ah... I'm talking about hosting free blogs for 'normal' internet users to use (not that we're not normal, but you know what I mean!).

I'll probably do it as an off-shoot to the main site and generate revenue from there.

From what i've done with Bams idea, blogs don't actually eat a massive amount of space or bandwidth.

Unless you get a right cracker of a blog...
 
Wordpress is starting their own theme market. They're going to sell other people's themes and take 50% of profit. Pretty lame, but worthy...
 
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