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kaymeis
just place the code and build some nice content.
Goodluck
The article quoted Technorati as estimating that there are 28.7 million blogs on the Web, and it cited a recent Gallup Poll that showed:
- Only 9% of Web users read blogs regularly
- 66% never read blogs
- Readership growth for blogs in 2005 was "somewhere between nil and negative."
This doesn't mean you can't find readers or earn money with a blog, but it does suggest that you'll have your work cut out for you if you want to get a piece of what's likely to be a shrinking pie.
Has anyone succeeded with blogs in adsense. I'm thinking of doin one.
Ask yourself how many times a day/week/month do you visit a blog site?
Personally, most of them drive me crazy since I do not have the time for the waffle however I have no doubt some people like them and those are the people who may click on ads.
I'm sure the right subjects do well.
The personal-diary type of blog the WP story touts would be difficult to monetize, unless you're a particularly fascinating person. On the other hand, there are some product-review and magazine-type blogs that get respectable traffic. As always, we have to distinguish the content from the publishing medium.
I'd guess that many Web users couldn't recognize a blog by format alone. These are the same people who don't recognize your AdSense link units as ads.
In my view, a website is a website, and all that matters are good content, inbound links, search-engine presence, and traffic. On my blogs, the word "blog" is nowhere to be found, and I think I've escaped any stigma attached to that word. And my AdSense revenue does bear this out.
I often shop online at a particular retailer and they offer discount vouchers periodically to use with your orders.
However, the latest codes were spread all over the web. I set up a blog and listed all the current discount codes and continue to update it as and when codes arrive/expire.
I signed up for Adsense within a few days and the first day made $0.07.
The income has been steadily increasing, the first month I blitzed a number of forums with ads to increase traffic, I made $350 for Nov 2005.
Jan/Feb have been $600 a month and traffic is always rising (about 1500+ visits a day on average)
My aim is to get Adsense to pay my rent for me which is around $1000 a month, I've set up a few new sites which will hopefully take off and increase my monthly earnings
Poll that showed:- Only 9% of Web users read blogs regularly
- 66% never read blogs
- Readership growth for blogs in 2005 was "somewhere between nil and negative."
I don't think most readers know the difference between a blog and a website.
I don't know what technorati bases their blog count on, but if it is RSS feeds then it's definitely wrong. I run RSS feeds that I built myself for most of different websites. They are definitely not blogs, but Technorati carries my feeds. Also most news sites now run RSS feeds and they are not blogs either. Not only that, but most off the shelf CMSs have som sort of blog module, but I doubt most readers would recognise it's actually a blog. Most people probably think of professional blogs as niche news sources, and probably think of blogs more like a personal diary. So I think the whole idea of blogs and blog readership is really hazy.
So for me having a blog is just a cheap Content Management System. By getting blogger to ftp the content back to my site, it doesn't look so much like a `my cat sneezed today' sort of blogspot.com deal.
I've found that choosing a good article title is really important, it will help people choose your article when searching using one of the search engines.
