TeamBlogs : Importance, Potential & Guidelines

With the term, TeamBlogs, I meant blogs, with multiple authors, who are individual succesfull bloggers by themselves. You might be wondering am I not aware of LifeHacker, TechCrunch, EnGadget and such corporate blog giants. Yes, I’m aware and infact, there are many more TeamBlogs, but the number is far less from what-could-be-expected.

There are many individual bloggers just like me, who works passionately to produce quality content. Some, even makes a living out of their blogs. (Congrats to them ) Now, if these passionate-bloggers join together and blog together, won’t it be much much great ?

Have a glance at the Growth Pattern of a typical blogger:

• Installs (most probably) WordPress and starts posting
• With great vigour, joins places like MyBlogLog, BlogCatalog, Technorati etc.
• Brimming with enthusiasm, he/she comments at so may blogs of interest and gathers some real good friends.
• Then, it’s the turn for social-media.  Rushes to StumbleUpon, Digg etc. and is thirsty for a quick Digg Success (which is so-much unlikely).
• Gets acquainted with SEO, sometimes guest posts and attain a decent, stable traffic to his/her blog and then maintains it.

Every typical blogger undergo the above mentioned growth pattern. If he/she makes it to stand 6 months or more without fail, they are successful. Now, think about the potential that is possessed by a group of 5+ or 10+ successful bloggers working on a single blog !! This is exactly what made the aforementioned corporate blogs stand out as giants !!

There are some barriers when it comes to TeamBlogs, Revenue-Sharing being the most difficult. Even if the team is well set and closely knit, there is high risk, things can go weird. (After all, isn’t it real money!!)

So, I thought about a nifty way of sharing the revenue earned using AdSense. Use a plugin like AdMan or MightyAdsense. These plugins just needs you to enter the AdSense code and it’ll show ADs on the selected locations. Once, the blog have attained a steady traffic, keep rotating the AdSense codes of each author.

• i.e. for a fixed number of days, run the AD code of Author A, then for another time period, use the code of Author B, and so on..
• This way, there won’t be a problem sharing the revenue and each one gets their deserved amount right into their account.
• Another way could be using the AD code of a particular author for all his posts.

Was I making a fool of myself, writing out these? Are these tips already the industry standard? (If yes, yippee, I’ve came up with an idea myself, that is the industry standard !!)