While blogging is all about content and conversations, we cannot avoid the fact that each blogger has their own motivations on why they blog. As they say, “whatever rocks your boat!“.
As for professional bloggers, traffic is one of the top indicators of a blog’s success. Jason Calacanis of AOL and WeblogsInc would jump up and down whenever Engadget, JoyStiq and DownloadSquad would hit all-time highs in the 10 Million pageviews a month.
For probloggers like J and I want more traffic for the sheer idea that it might translate to revenues. (Notice those eBay ads all over?)
Take for example the Adsense Site Targetting feature where advertisers can advertise on your site on a CPM basis (Cost Per Thousand impressions, the letter “M” in the abbreviation is the Roman numeral for one thousand). That means advertisers pay/bid for their ad to be shown on your blog based on the number of times their ads are shown. Let’s say with a CPM rate of $8 and a total pageviews/impressions of 3,000 per day, you get $24 ($8 x 3). So the more traffic you get, the higher your earnings for the day.
With CPM, you no longer need to have your ads clicked before you earn from it, however, you also don’t earn extra if someone did click on the ads.
Inq7.net has a similar advertising scheme at $7 CPM and at 41 Million pageviews a month, you can just imagine how much they earn from it (potentially 41,000 x $7).
So there, traffic is essentially that important. :)
actually… i am just new is this way of earnings.. my questions are:
1. what are the best ways of getting more hits.
2. how to increase traffic in a blog.
3. is using a autohits site degal or illegal.
4. if it is legal, can it also add some hit points?
5. can you recommend a very effective ways of creating and boosting a blog..
thanks..
and your my IDOL sir Yuga