One mistake I made when I first started Blogging was I did it for the money. I was so caught up in how much or little I was making. This had negative effects and problems such as bad content, being paranoid about how much is in your Adsense account, clicking your own Advertisements, asking friends to click on your Advertisements and optimizing the Blog for money instead of optimizing for your users. (the most important thing is the users) So if you’re only getting around 100 unique visitors a day, I strongly suggest you don’t have any form of Advertising or revenue raising until you’re around the 200 unique visitor a day mark.
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I think that is one major thing many of us bloggers do….think we’ll make money in a month or less. Sometimes it takes a lot more than that. My downfall was not knowing you should submit your site into search engines.
This is so true. When I started my site the first thing I did is to sign up for adsence. I would check my adsence account three times a day. Then after a few months earning only a few dollars and only receiving a handfull of visitors I realized I need to focus on better content. I still run adsence on my site but only check it once a week, spend the rest of my time on building a quailty site focused on visitors not money.
That’s right bob. I’ve only got 1 adsense ad. It’s not working welk. But I’m focusing on content.
good post Luke.
I find that there is nothing wrong with having ads on a blog even when you have a small readership – what’s most important though is that your readers know that it’s not the money that is driving you but your desire to help them in the field that you’re blogging about.
So focus upon content, providing genuinely helpful and unique information, work on interacting with your readers, network and interact with other bloggers, be as generous in sharing what you know as possible and in time the money will sort itself out.
thanks, Darren. Good tips there.
I agree…I also started with very strong money motivations but then I decided that I really want to provide a forum where people can help other people. And if people help each other people, then maybe I can make some money.
But people(and content) come first.
good job with your site though.