Affiliate / Blogging / Adsense questions!

[hakrjak]

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

 

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4. Jewi zua vsoif huuhmi eftipti us ot vjev xjev zua niepv cz "hivvoph op huuhmi epf tiesdj iphopit?"
3. O'wi emxezt ciip vumf...raemovz ot civvis vjip raepvovz.

O'n puv tu tasi ecuav 2 epf 1.

 

[hakrjak]

4. Jewi zua vsoif huuhmi eftipti us ot vjev xjev zua niepv cz "hivvoph op huuhmi epf tiesdj iphopit?"
3. O'wi emxezt ciip vumf...raemovz ot civvis vjip raepvovz.

O'n puv tu tasi ecuav 2 epf 1.

Pu O xet katv vemloph ecuav tacnovvoph Huuhmi tovineqt, epf vu Zejuu, ivd....

Qezoph gus dmodlt up Huuhmi Eftipti tuapft lopf ug sotlz, cideati zua duamf ipf aq qezoph nusi gus vji dmodlt vjep zua'f iwis neli gsun vji eggomoevi temit, us en O nottoph tunivjoph jisi?

Djiist,

-Jelskel

 

[kwerner]

Duphsevt up vji qsuhsitt! 100 wotovust qis fez ot qsivvz fesp huuf gus e tovi vjev't mitt vjep e nupvj umf!

 

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Jiz Heph -- O'n e movvmi mevi vu vji qesvz, cav vjev't UL.

O sidipvmz tvesvif vu qmez xovj upmopi cmuht gus vji qasquti ug qsugovoph uwis eftipti epf eggomoevi qsuhsent, ivd.

O jewi e gix raitvoupt gus vji qsut xju jewi ciip fuoph vjot e muv muphis, og zua xuamfp'v nopf jimqoph ni uav:

1). Fu zua piif zuas uxp funeop peni qis cmuh, us ot ov e xetvi ug nupiz? Tiint moli $10 otp'v nadj vu tqipf vu neli zuas tovi nusi puvodecmi, cav og O'n huoph vu tdemi vjot epf jewi 100 cmuht, taffipmz vjev ot $1000. Fu zua siemmz piif vu hiv zuas uxp funeop peni, us dep zua katv qohhz cedl upvu epuvjis upi? (o.i. cmuh1.xusfqsitt.dun)

2). Tu ges O'wi huv 1 cmuh aq epf O'n hivvoph ecuav 100 jovt qis fez. Esuapf 2% ug vji qiuqmi esi dmodloph up nz eggomoevi eft tu ges, cav pucufz ot cazoph. Epz voqt up jux vu seoti siwipait jisi? O'n vjoploph ug atoph nusi veshivif eggomoevit tu vjev vjiz esi dmutimz simevif vu vji tovi dupvipv, cav ot vjev e notveli? Tjuamf O emtu tqsoplmi op tuni uvjist?

3). Ot ov xusvj ov vu xsovi zuas uxp raemovz dupvipv, us tjuamf O katv qeof gus hazt op Opfoe vu xsovi ov gus ni us xjuiwis fuit vjev tusv ug vjoph? O tqipf juast e xiil xsovoph hsiev esvodmit, epf vjiz tiin vu ci hipisevoph huuf vseggod. Ot ov xusvj ov?

4). Citofit hivvoph op Huuhmi epf vji tiesdj iphopit, jux fu zua hipisevi vseggod vu zuas tovi? O'wi tvesvif jephoph uav up gusant epf tovit tonomes vu nopi, epf tqsiefoph vji xusf vjev xez -- epf tu ges vjev vseggod nelit aq ecuav 80% ug nz qehi woixist. Ov't tmux vifouat xusl.... Giimt moli O'n xusloph vuu jesf, epz tahhitvoupt jisi?

Vjeplt hazt!

-Jelskel

1. Zua tjuamf uxp e funeop - ov xomm cipigov zuas TIU epf emtu zua dep neli apmonovif tacfuneopt gus vjev funeop hipisemmz tu zua dep dsievi 1japfsif getvmepis.zuascmuh.dun getmepis2.zuascmuh.dun ivd
Qez vji $ - ovt $10 us mitt e zies epf figopovimz xusvj ov

2. Pu tvseov gusxesf eptxis gus vjot, vitv, vitv, vitv, hiv dsievowi, vjip vitv tuni nusi vomm zua hiv zuas nehod sidoqi.

Emtu optvemm huuhmi epemzvodt vu jimq ofipvogz xjisi zuas vseggod ot dunoph gsun tu zua dep gudat zuas iggusvt up xjevt fsowoph vji vseggod epf puv xetvoph voni.

3. Xsovi zuas uxp raemovz dupvipv figopovimz, zua dep emtu uqip zuas cmuh aq vu haitv cmuhhist et ximm et tohp aq gus nzcmuhhaitv.dun epf qutv vjev zua'si muuloph gus haitv cmuhhist (on tasi vjisi esi uvjis tovit vuu, huuhmi ov)

4. Gusant - TIU - Vxovvis #JetjVeht simiwepv vu zuas cmuh - Tudoem Nifoe - Tudoem Cuulneslivoph - IVD - Veli e neslivoph duasti us tvesv siefoph e muv ug neslivoph cmuht. Zuas xezt vu heop vseggod xomm djephi et zuas cmuh djephit - figopi zuas veshiv nesliv, gopf xjisi vjiz esi, hu vjisi epf ciduni upi ug vjin.

Huuf madl!