How to get more traffic to your blog and make money online using it
This is probably THE most asked question in the history of Internet, right? Actually, second part of the question, about making money is easy. Everybody knows if traffic is there, money is there also. There are millions of ways to monetize high traffic blog. Main problem is traffic.
I'm not going to say 'content is king' (or queen) that's sooo familiar sentence, but yet very few (including me) understand what great content really is.
I'm not going to say 'content is king' (or queen) that's sooo familiar sentence, but yet very few (including me) understand what great content really is.
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I wanted to say a few words about ad networks that pop every once and a while. First of all, they don't work. I know, it sounds horrible, but it's true. Remember BlogRush? Remember what incredible buzz was around it and what happend? Check their website to find out [evil-eyes].
Another failure is obviously Entrecard. You can notice I still have their widget on sidebar, true, but I'm giving them second change (everyone deserves second change) since they have new owners and from what I have seen they are moving in right direction with keeping credits inflation down, improving interesting forum and excellent market, though still in beta. Entrecard is failure because they promised traffic and they didn't deliver. I think they should move away from this directive and represent their website only as blogger community.
Ad network I also wanted to try (widget installed, but waiting for approval) is BlogUpp. You don't even need to register for it, it's automated system which promises 9 of your ad views for 10 widget appearence on your blog and that's highest rate ever! So, with CTR of 2% for your 1000 page views you will get 18 clicks. I have right now around 500 page views per month, so I can expect 7-11 clicks in September. We will see how that goes.
Conclusion: free ad networks will never work, only paid ones, trick is to find virtaul currency (like EC tried to do with their 'visit=credit' policy) which can be easily earned but yet can be measured and have constant value. One who figures out what that currency is will be very rich dude.
Another failure is obviously Entrecard. You can notice I still have their widget on sidebar, true, but I'm giving them second change (everyone deserves second change) since they have new owners and from what I have seen they are moving in right direction with keeping credits inflation down, improving interesting forum and excellent market, though still in beta. Entrecard is failure because they promised traffic and they didn't deliver. I think they should move away from this directive and represent their website only as blogger community.
Ad network I also wanted to try (widget installed, but waiting for approval) is BlogUpp. You don't even need to register for it, it's automated system which promises 9 of your ad views for 10 widget appearence on your blog and that's highest rate ever! So, with CTR of 2% for your 1000 page views you will get 18 clicks. I have right now around 500 page views per month, so I can expect 7-11 clicks in September. We will see how that goes.
Conclusion: free ad networks will never work, only paid ones, trick is to find virtaul currency (like EC tried to do with their 'visit=credit' policy) which can be easily earned but yet can be measured and have constant value. One who figures out what that currency is will be very rich dude.
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