Is Your Blog Making Enough Money?
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- Google Adsense pays an average of $0.70 to $1 per CPM. Which means for every 1000 page views your blog receives, you’ll be paid $1. If you manage to attract 10,000 hits to your website, you’ll earn a whoopin $10!
- If you promote affiliate programs through your blog, here are the average statistics. For every 10,000 people that visit your blog, you’ll manage to send 100 people to the affiliate link through banner and text ads. Out of the 100, 1-2 people will end up buying. If you get paid $20 per sale, your earnings will be $40 on every 10,000 hits!
Not exactly numbers you can retire on - is it?
This is the reason 90% of the bloggers don’t make it big. They only focus on ad and affiliate revenue. Blog ads are good only to fill your blog up and earn some chump change. But if you really want to convert your blog into a full time income, you’ve got to:
- Make your blog just the front-end. The entrance. The gate through which people can enter and come to know you.
- Then develop your own products and sell them through your blog to earn the real money.
Two Types of Products You Can Create With Ease If You Can Blog
1. Reports. If you can blog, you can write a report too. Write a super article or a report - 10-12 pages long on one sub-topic. And sell it for $10. On average, 1 out of every 100 visitors will buy it. If you attract 10,000 visitors, your earnings will be $1000.
2. E-Courses. Teach people through email. If you can blog, you can write for email courses too. People will pay $100 to $500 for 4-6 week e-courses. Attract a 10,000 people and you may well earn $5,000 with your e-course (if 10 people enroll).
(If you use WordPress to blog, you can install the “Buy Me a Beer” plugin. When people buy you a beer via PayPal, you will know which post they liked. You can then create a report or an e-course on that sub-topic. If people will donate $3 after reading a blog post, they will pay $10 for a more detailed report too.)
Action Summary:
- Don’t rely on ads to make you a full time income from your blog.
- Instead, focus on creating back end products that you can sell on your own for a lot more money.
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Great tips…I like the beer thing too but I use blogger, not wordpress:(
Posted 25 May 2007 #
Very good tips. Will be handy soon. Traffic is my main concern now.
Posted 16 Jun 2007 #
That was a very interesting read. Thanks for all of the great tips.
Posted 14 Jul 2007 #
hmmmm…where is that statistic came from man???
Posted 30 Jul 2007 #
gardino: The statistics and numbers come from my experience of making money online running multiple websites and blogs. They are just an average. I’ve talked to various webmasters and blog publishers over the years and many of them are my friends: and their numbers are close to mine too.
You could also refer to bloggers who reveal their income details on their blogs to find an earnings estimate if you don’t trust my estimates. John Chow and Steve Pavlina amongst others do reveal their blog earnings.
Posted 30 Jul 2007 #
No, I trust you, I just want a detail infromation and glad I can get it for free from you…
Posted 22 Aug 2007 #
Sorry, it just sounds like a crazy idea for me :)…
Posted 22 Aug 2007 #
Affiliate CommenterWhat sounds like a crazy idea to you? Creating backend products instead of relying on ads?
Posted 22 Aug 2007 #
very great article, you have help me to find what i must do.
Posted 27 Nov 2007 #
Yes, I have seen very few bloggers earn a full time income off just their blog alone. Most use it as a tool in addition to products etc.
While I knew very few used blogging as a tool and not a full time income I didn’t realize the stats were that bad. Heck, the stats you mention and the amounts would at least pay my isp bill, but that would be all.
Posted 16 May 2008 #
thanks, i just starting a few blog it nice input for me
Posted 25 Jun 2008 #
Its really a great idea Ankesh.
Posted 06 Jul 2008 #
Ankesh,
What about a follow up post on this topic? Would really appreciate it…also would you like to disclose how your blog income is growing with this particular blog?
Cheers,
Ajith, Bangalore
Posted 10 Jul 2008 #
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Posted 11 Dec 2008 #
Seldom I write comments but resource really cool
Posted 20 Dec 2008 #
Very enlightening, and KISS (Keep It Short & Sweet). It’s hard to obtain the right niche to write an article, at the same time, not easy to attract 10,000 hits a day. My blog is currently lack of the niche or topic to write, and got very low traffic. Hope you can give us more advices, of course, free is the best
Posted 19 Jan 2009 #
Another way to make money through things that you can control directly is by writing website reviews of other blogs or websites. You can easily install a pay pal buy it now button and then market your service to site owners. Everyone loves a positive review of their site and you can charge $50+ for the privelege
Posted 07 Feb 2009 #