Someone asked in a forum when he should attempt to make money online by monetising his blog as he has now built up to an average of 50 readers a day, no mean feat for a 6 week old blog and being the first one they have created.
I was amazed at the forum “newbies” giving what is basically a bad version of simple advice much of which is just something they read on the forum earlier by someone else who has more experience of the truth, but they explained it all in more detail and it was more relevant to the thread the “newbies” originally read the advice in.
How can you know how to cross that bridge if you have yet to even see the bridge yourself?
Those spouting bad half-advice should take a step back and see what they are doing and how it looks to others on the forum, it makes you look naive…new.
Saying “slap adsense on it and you will easily make money online” when they have only 50 visits a day is just plain ridiculous.
Yes googles adsense is the worlds biggest advertising model and it is worth using of course but…
With adsense you will need the one thing it relies on to make it worthwhile and that is big traffic, you know something like 500 hits a day minimum to even start thinking about it being a decent earner…OR very targeted traffic.
The key thing really is to have mainly that ONE monetisation method on your blog for best results with adsense, not mix it up too much with affiliate stuff or banners, this will only hurt the revenue itself by giving you the lower paying ads.
Makes sense doesn’t it?
After all why would google put the better ads on the lower traffic sites or blogs?
The advertisers wouldn’t be happy either.
Way better to wait until you have enough traffic to make it worth your while, a lesson I only recently realised, partly due to the same bad misinformation and the lack of really testing it for myself, which I have now done a bit more of and found some really nice results I can act on in a bigger way.
So if not adsense now what should you do with a low traffic count like the mentioned example?
If you only have 50 or so visits a day, best to just spend more effort getting more traffic while continuing to post on a regular basis.
So how to best do that is the next question I would assume they would ask, that really depends on the blogs content, the market and where the people they needed to reach are.
That’s the bridge you need to cross, not the make money online one.
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