Blogging for a second income - does anyone else here do this?

shmeeko69

EndlessStruggle wrote: »

I hit 500,000 page views a few days ago

Well done and I wish one of my websites could attract that amount of visitors. The real key to longevity and success is targeted traffic and makes a real difference as opposed to just random and curious visitors.

Bigbase

Why was my post about the site earning the revenue below, thats for sale deleted?:(

Bigbase wrote: »

The changes I made to my SEO and ad placement are working wonders on one of my sites so far this month. £17+ already and still have 8 or so hours left (Google runs on American Timing)



If you're just starting off and not getting any where, dont give up!

sequence

Bigbase wrote: »

Why was my post about the site earning the revenue below, thats for sale deleted?:(

Probably because you're not allowed to advertise stuff for sale on here. Could reply to your PM as your inbox is full, I wanted to say I'm not interested having seen the website. Thanks,

daz501

EndlessStruggle wrote: »

I hit 500,000 page views a few days ago

Do you use Blogger/Blogspot?

EndlessStruggle

I use Blogger

daz501

I hate to burst your bubble but those pageviews ARE NOT all visitors, but server requests, search engine bots, spam bots etc. Install Google Analytics for the real number of visitors.

I recently discovered this after I thought my blog had thousands upon thousands of visitors. Honestly, Google this topic and you'll find it's true.

I'm sure a lot of those pageviews ARE real people, but a huge chunk of them will not be.

Google Analytics all the way. Pay no attention to Blogger/Blogspot stats

Edit: Would you PM me your blog URL? I'm interested to read your content and maybe link to you assuming it is relevant.

Bigbase

Agreed Daz, you need to look at unique visitors.

Ewaf

shmeeko69 wrote: »

Well done and I wish one of my websites could attract that amount of visitors. The real key to longevity and success is targeted traffic and makes a real difference as opposed to just random and curious visitors.

If the website in your profile is anything to go by, I would give up now.

EndlessStruggle

Thanks for the advice but it's all too complicated for me lol. I'm not too bothered about page views, was just excited as I thought it had reached 500,000.

j.smith1981

I must admit there's been a sharp increase of people looking at my blog, though more of it's solutions to common problems and dilemma's in IT and web developing.

So I remember what things worked for me and what didn't, I wonder what would happen if I added a donation button there and publicly offering people the ability to ask me for work, I am getting a bigger income off vworker atm (need to work out charges and stuff though, since I really just care about my actual income but I know vworkers charges dont tend to get above 25% well at the very most anyways, the leading company I think for e-based work for things like coding (what it's original name was based on rentacoder, but changed to vworker since it did more than just coding, people started asking for SEO experts, which actually is the easiest thing I think to do, well kind of lol)).

Set up a VPS minecraft offering service I think it was, I can't remember exactly what he wanted to use it for, but worked when I finished and the client was happy.