Hey Gang -- I'm a little late to the party, but that's OK.
I recently started to play with online blogs for the purpose of profiting over adsense and affiliate programs, etc.
I have a few questions for the pros who have been doing this a lot longer, if you wouldn't mind helping me out:
1). Do you need your own domain name per blog, or is it a waste of money? Seems like $10 isn't much to spend to make your site more noticable, but if I'm going to scale this and have 100 blogs, suddenly that is $1000. Do you really need to get your own domain name, or can you just piggy back onto another one? (i.e. blog1.wordpress.com)
2). So far I've got 1 blog up and I'm getting about 100 hits per day. Around 2% of the people are clicking on my affiliate ads so far, but nobody is buying. Any tips on how to raise revenues here? I'm thinking of using more targeted affiliates so that they are closely related to the site content, but is that a mistake? Should I also sprinkle in some others?
3). Is it worth it to write your own quality content, or should I just paid for guys in India to write it for me or whoever does that sort of thing? I spend hours a week writing great articles, and they seem to be generating good traffic. Is it worth it?
4). Besides getting in Google and the search engines, how do you generate traffic to your site? I've started hanging out on forums and sites similar to mine, and spreading the word that way -- and so far that traffic makes up about 80% of my page viewers. It's slow tedious work.... Feels like I'm working too hard, any suggestions here?
Thanks guys!
-Hakrjak
I recently started to play with online blogs for the purpose of profiting over adsense and affiliate programs, etc.
I have a few questions for the pros who have been doing this a lot longer, if you wouldn't mind helping me out:
1). Do you need your own domain name per blog, or is it a waste of money? Seems like $10 isn't much to spend to make your site more noticable, but if I'm going to scale this and have 100 blogs, suddenly that is $1000. Do you really need to get your own domain name, or can you just piggy back onto another one? (i.e. blog1.wordpress.com)
2). So far I've got 1 blog up and I'm getting about 100 hits per day. Around 2% of the people are clicking on my affiliate ads so far, but nobody is buying. Any tips on how to raise revenues here? I'm thinking of using more targeted affiliates so that they are closely related to the site content, but is that a mistake? Should I also sprinkle in some others?
3). Is it worth it to write your own quality content, or should I just paid for guys in India to write it for me or whoever does that sort of thing? I spend hours a week writing great articles, and they seem to be generating good traffic. Is it worth it?
4). Besides getting in Google and the search engines, how do you generate traffic to your site? I've started hanging out on forums and sites similar to mine, and spreading the word that way -- and so far that traffic makes up about 80% of my page viewers. It's slow tedious work.... Feels like I'm working too hard, any suggestions here?
Thanks guys!
-Hakrjak
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