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

EndlessStruggle

I have noticed no difference in traffic from directories. A lot of my traffic comes from a few high ranking forum posts that I added a link to my blog to on the bottom and I have been getting a lot of extra traffic through Facebook as my blog has a page on there with 450ish fans and I use it to promote the blog on other various pages related to my blog. But most of it comes through Google, when you search certain related words and names I am at the top.I'm up to about £60 a month on Adsense now and I blog about once a fortnight for an hour or two, the existing posts get lots of traffic.

quinechinoise

daz501 wrote: »

I have however been bookmarking my articles in StumbleUpon which is sending some traffic. I don't know what that traffic is doing at the moment but once I have a bit more traffic and a measurable period I'll know

I'll have to give that a go, when I get around to it, thanks.

I am far too interested in my blog stats - I find them fascinating. Today, I'm looking at pageviews by browser... all the usual suspects are there but what on earth are PhantomJS and Flipboard? I think Firebird and SeaMonkey are mozilla builds but I'm off to google them to check! lol

MMO_3

Anton123 wrote: »

I know. I have been with Adsense now for 6 years and make few thousand each month through them. They have to have a damn good reason to drop me as I have never cheated them in all that time so why would I begin now, especially given that I make significant amount? It would be crazy and completely irrational on my part to start cheating them now.

It happens to lots of people for no particular reason:
http://www.nichepursuits.com/i-just-got-banned-from-google-adsense-now-what/

quinechinoise

Bumping from page 7.

How are your blogs going, this week?

MMO_3

My fitness blog I started a while ago is getting about 40 hits a day but not making any money yet.

Have a look at this article for some tips:
http://www.nichepursuits.com/public-niche-site-project-the-strategic-plan/

Angel_Jenny

I am still blogging for fun!

I was looking at my stats and it is really interesting to see what search terms led people to my blog!

JoseChungsDoomsday

Well, I got turned down for AdSense but its fine, I prefer putting YouTube clips up I really need to knuckle down and write more!

quinechinoise

Angel_Jenny wrote: »

I was looking at my stats and it is really interesting to see what search terms led people to my blog!

I agree. That's one of my favourite blog related things - browsing the search logs. Some of the recent search terms are a tad dubious e.g. "finger fun"... Mind you, some of the historic search terms include "stockroom assistant", "lacey clothes" and "pirate xxx".

I actually blog about perfectly innocuous knitting patterns. I must disappoint quite a lot of people! lol

quinechinoise

JoseChungsDoomsday wrote: »

Well, I got turned down for AdSense but its fine, I prefer putting YouTube clips up I really need to knuckle down and write more!

That's a shame. I can't understand why you'd be declined.

Hoody

JoseChungsDoomsday wrote: »

Well, I got turned down for AdSense but its fine,

Not sure how you managed that, i as accepted with a one page blogger blog that had two post on it. :huh: