How many webmasters?

**moonshield** · 12-02-2004, 01:54 PM

This is probably a stupid question but

how many webmasters are there in the world who make sites to make good money?

**thebillionaire** · 12-02-2004, 02:16 PM

if there are billions of sites on the web than there are prob. millions of ppl making money, not billions

**chrispian** · 12-02-2004, 02:24 PM

Only 4.

Couldn't resist

**MarkB** · 12-02-2004, 02:54 PM

Go visit abestweb and you'll see hundreds of people making BIG money from their sites.

**moonshield** · 12-02-2004, 05:48 PM

yes, i see that. There is some BIG BIG money being made!

**Nintendo** · 12-02-2004, 11:36 PM

There's probably less than a million people in the world who make enought money to do this full time, then 99 million who have tried but gave up.

**incka** · 12-03-2004, 12:01 AM

How come we don't see them all then? Yes, I've seen a few thousand on all the boards including abestweb, but I can't think of a full million doing it...

**Mike** · 12-03-2004, 01:06 AM

There'll be easily a million people, as at the moment there are 8,058,044,651 web pages in google, and I'd think a lot of those sites would make serious money.

**incka** · 12-03-2004, 01:16 AM

There is no way a million people doing this full time. If you have the site that is 100,000 on alexa you probably won't make enough to live off the money you earn, now a million people with a few websites each... Think about it...

**MarkB** · 12-03-2004, 06:58 AM

Don't forget people who sell on Ebay and make a fulltime salary.

**MarkB** · 12-03-2004, 06:59 AM

Additionally: some people would only need to make, say, $20k a year to be able to do this fulltime.

**chrispian** · 12-03-2004, 07:51 AM

Yeah, there are easily 1 million people doing this full time. You won't see most of them because they are busy doing this full time. Even Sitepoint is maybe 1% of webmasters out there, if that. Like Mark said, a living is relative. Some people will need only 1k or 2k a month to live of off. Now, how many people are getting rich doing this is another question entirely. The number will still be pretty high. I know a couple of guys who are getting rich and they have never set foot near any webmaster community or web site. They both own 1 site each and it makes them loads.

**Emancipator** · 12-03-2004, 08:04 AM

Well put Markb and Chrispian.

**James** · 12-03-2004, 08:58 AM

I know a couple of guys who are getting rich and they have never set foot near any webmaster community or web site. They both own 1 site each and it makes them loads.

Well, I'd kinda like to know their secret

http://JoeCartoon.com, I really doubt he ever stepped foot near a webmaster community. 1.2 million a year in the site's prime.