Firstly, I think you guys should all be giving major thanks to Mailman for posting as much info as he has. I've had the pleasure of speaking with him maybe once or twice and each time I've asked him how his blog network was doing. You know what he replied with? "Still growing, still working..." or something to that effect, it's been a while. The point is, he works damn hard. Like he said, the work isn't hard at all, just boring and repetitive. I give him all the credit in the world for sharing that info, he's pretty much laid out the formula for you guys.
So to answer OP's question, yes, still plenty of money in blogs. I did a case study where I set up a single blog based around one paysite. No traffic trades, no bought traffic, no nothing. Just waited for it to get picked up in Google. It was about about 2-4 hours of work at the most to set it up. Made well over $700 with that single blog as of this post... check out the case study here with the stats to back it up. Keep in mind this post was done
two years ago, and although I lost most of my SERPS since then, that site still makes sales today:
http://jayvis.com/new-site-launch-earnings/
It seems on GFY, most of you think affiliate managers are just retards with customer service skills who post on the boards all day long but I've been on both sides of the coin. I was a regular affiliate doing blog networks just like Mailman (although I'll be honest, I never hit $15k a month) but nonetheless I was doing
just fine and dandy for a 19 year old kid. Hell, I still have domains sitting around doing way under 1:1000 - here's some stats from just one sponsor (I tried to grayscale the image to keep some privacy but meh):
That's last month's stats with just one sponsor. This month I'm currently at 1:438 with that same sponsor. Keep in mind I have ZERO time for whats left of my petty network. I sold off the majority of my stuff when I took the job with DG. I have no time for blogs these days, I stay busy enough helping my affiliates, but I still pull down nice beer money off the shit I have just laying around... I haven't updated my stuff in months/years.
So continue to build, build, build and build. The success isn't going to come over night. But keep on trucking. And [shameless plug] promote DatingGold on your blogs as well. If you can't sell them to a paysite, dating & cams are a good saver. [/shameless plug]
I'm always around if you guys need further advice. I'm not saying I'm the end all be all blog expert but I've done just fine with it in the past and still continue to receive checks in the mail.