Comments on: Anatomy of a $15 Million Blog

By: Blogging Banks

Blogging Banks — Fri, 22 May 2009 14:20:20 +0000

Dr,

One word- awesome post. I bookmarked it and saved it under my all time favorite posts. You also won a loyal RSS reader.

By: Dan

Dan — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 06:18:05 +0000

Couldn’t he have set up a small network of 2-3 financial websites, built their page rank, then made propositions to thousands of websites to trade backlinks to bankaholic in exchange for links from his other 2-3 financial websites? That’s probably cheaper than dropping $140k for $10 backlinks right?

If you check out Mr. Wu’s other website (thebulltrader.com) you will see that he links to his bankaholic site along with, seemingly, another blog in his network (www.onlinesavingsaccounts.com).

That’s my take, but I guess it wouldn’t be a bad idea to buy backlinks if you have that type of money to invest….just dont get caught.

By: Andy

Andy — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 20:24:29 +0000

Very interesting article. $15 million is nice, I would take 10% of that and be happy. I have 160 top keywords in top results, which is about 10% of bankaholic’s 1500? Any buyers of saving to invest?

By: Pinyo

Pinyo — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 17:56:00 +0000

Excellent analysis DR. I agree, the value of Bankaholic is in all the financial keywords. I wish I know the trick. It’s a very competitive field.

By: FIRE Finance

FIRE Finance — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 21:28:11 +0000

This is a great analysis. Thanks for the details . We love your acronym “wonderful, wild, world wide web.”

By: DR

DR — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 12:27:44 +0000

@Ron: I’m sure he didn’t buy all of the links. Also, for site-wide links in the sidebar or footer, they will show up as hundreds if not thousands of links. So his 14,000 links to his credit card page did not come from 14,000 different domains.

@Four Pillars: It’s always good to learn you rank for keywords you didn’t recognize!

@Monevator: I suspect with his credit card rankings he was making a lot of money. That said, BankRate undoubtedly improved the rankings with its vast resources.

By: Monevator

Monevator — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 09:20:09 +0000

Excellent analysis. It certainly isn’t easy to thousands of backlinks any more unless you’re already a big site (I’m comparing Monevator with a site I set up in 2006).

Another way to value the sale would be by revenue generate over the year; if you have a rough idea of his traffic and what all those financial ads all over the site would add up to in returns. Or you could reverse engineer it out from $15 million — on sitepoint website sale board that would mean comedy number revenues of around $1-1.5million a month, but in the real world perhaps as much as 15x earnings — maybe $1 million a year?

By: Four Pillars

Four Pillars — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 05:40:15 +0000

Very interesting post – I ran the spyfu on my own site and didn’t recognize any of the keywords that I supposedly rank high for – is that good?

By: PT Money

PT Money — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 05:35:08 +0000

Great job putting this together, DR. I have so much more to learn.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 04:52:03 +0000

Very interesting analysis, DR. Keyword analysis is the next frontier for me.