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- How 24 Hours of Work Will Send Millions of Readers to My BlogDecember 3
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I have written numerous times about how I use weekly email newsletters to drive significant traffic to my photography site (here’s why newsletters are good and here’s how to use newsletters).
However lately I have started using a second type of newsletter that in time has the potential to send even more traffic. In fact initial testing shows me that it’ll literally send millions of readers over time.
The way I use my normal weekly newsletters is to send an email to my list every Thursday that updates them on the latest posts on the blog and ‘hot threads of conversation’ in the forum.
The second type of newsletter (I’ll call it a ‘special feature‘ newsletter from now on) is quite different.
The idea behind this ’special feature’ type of newsletter is that it is much more automated than the weekly emails that I send. It takes a little work to set it up - but once you’ve done that you just sit back and watch it do it’s ‘magic’.
Here’s how it works. There are two ways that these special feature emails are different from the weekly updates that I send.
1. The first difference is Topic
These newsletters are not updates of new posts on the blog - but they are much more focused upon a ‘theme’
- Can you REALLY Make Money Blogging?December 2
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Every now and again I get an email from a ProBlogger reader excitedly telling me that they’re about quit their jobs to become full time bloggers. More often than not they are new bloggers who for one reason or another have it in their minds that blogging for money is a quick and easy thing to do.
This post is yet another attempt (I’ve done this 2-3 times a year since 2004) to help bloggers thinking about blogging for money to get a realistic picture of what is possible.
I always struggle a little with responding to these emails. On the one hand I love the enthusiasm that new bloggers often have and don’t want to be responsible for squashing it and leaving them despondent.
Blogging is an exciting medium, it is filled with many possibilities (one of which is profit), it is a lot of fun and it is possible to make a full time living from doing it. In fact it’s possible to go beyond making a living from blogging - (stories like this one about a 1 man blog being sold for $15 million illustrate this).
HOWEVER…..
The reality is that most bloggers never sell their blog for millions…. in fact most bloggers don’t even come close to a full time living from blogging. Every time I’ve surveyed my readers on how much they earn the majority report that they’re earning less than $100 a month with most of those earning less than $10 a month
- How Much Money Did You Earn from Blogging in October 2008?November 30
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It’s time for another annual poll here at ProBlogger - this one asking readers how much they earned in October 2008? I’ve run this poll a number of times over the last couple of years and the results are always interesting.
Just to qualify it - I’m asking about ALL blogging revenue that you can tie to your actual blog. Advertising, affiliate revenue, revenue that your blog might have brought in in terms of consulting etc. As long as you feel your blog drew the money in then I’m happy for it to be included.
In October, How Much Did You Earn from Blogging?- I don't make money blogging
- Under $10
- $10 - $29
- $30 - $99
- $100 - $499
- $500 - $999
- $1000 - $1499
- $1500 - $2499
- $2500 - $4999
- $5000 - $9999
- $10000 - $14999
- $15000-$19999
- $20000+
Looking forward to seeing your results.
Tags: Reader Questions - Ten Tips for Stats AddictsNovember 29
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Today Dr. Nicole from Kitchen Table Medicine shares her story of overcoming her Stats Addiction and gives some tips on what to do with your time to build your blog instead of checking stats.
Do you obsessively check your blog traffic stats throughout the day? Do you optimistically expect your Alexa ranking to drop every four hours? Do you frequently fret over your Google Page Rank? Do you watch your Adsense account like a hawk throughout the day? Well as much as these statistical markers may be helpful in understanding the success of your blog, they may also be interfering with the long term growth of your website.
Not only is checking stats a total time kill, but it can be a real buzz kill too when it doesn’t turn out the way we want.
In a month’s time, I stopped checking my stats only to return and find that my page views had doubled if not tripled, and my Alexa ranking had dropped from it’s consistent 252K to 151K! WOW!
So what happened? Had I actually changed anything I was doing…no not really I had just freed up a few extra hours to spend doing something more productive for my blog then obsessing over my stats.
First of all as a recovering stats addict I can’t stand before you all pure and pristine that I actually decided to give up stats all on my own, I never stopped obsessing over my stats intentionally. Actually, I was locked out of my stats program when my website crash
- An Open Letter to the Amazon Associates ProgramNovember 28
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Dear Amazon.
I have been using your Associates program for quite a few years now - from the early days when I earned just a few dollars a month to today when I send you tens of thousands of dollars of business each month. I’ve written about why I believe in your program and have no doubt sent you hundreds (if not thousands of affiliates in my time).
By my calculations I’ve sent you around $1,500,000 of sales over the last five years.
I’m grateful for the $70,000+ you’ve sent me in affiliate payments and am by no means am I your biggest affiliate but I hope that having reached the million dollars in sales mark you’ll forgive me this note to express a concern that I have.
I am increasingly frustrated by your payment system.
While you offer direct debit payments to those situated in the USA - I live in Australia and so have two options for payment - gift certificates and check. Lets take a look at both methods:
1. Gift Certificates - as someone who earns $2000-$3000 in commissions each month from Amazon it is simply not feasible for me to take my payments in certificates. For starters I’d run out of things to buy pretty quickly - particularly because most of your high ticket items cannot be shipped outside of the USA.
This leaves me with the option of either just buying books, DVDs and CDs ($2-$3k worth a month….) or buying thing