Why the hell my blogs revenue so low?
I think I might have caught your attention with that Title which was my plan :-/
Those who do not blog completely because they want to earn some extra money often thinks: “Why the hell my blogs revenue so low?” Many people who think that blogs simply can not generate much money. They are absolutely wrong! Blog can generate you the same amount of money if not more compared to any other website. Now I am talking about PPC (Pay per click) sources of revenue such as Google-Adsense here.
The main thing I have noticed is that people tend to concentrate on wider markets. If you are running a personal diary kind of blog in which you talk about your dreams and other gossips around the world; the chances are that there are thousands of similar blogs around. The more competition you have, the harder it will be for you to make some cash.
Instead try concentrating on smaller markets also known as niche markets. Not only it will be easier for you to develop the traffic, the CPC (Cost per click) should also be higher due to advertisers demand exceeding publishers supply.
Secondly you need to have a unique selling point. You need to give your readers something that nobody else does. This should really help you get returning visitors.
Finally it’s the ads themselves. You should channel your ads. By this you will be able to measure your various ad block’s performance. One of the most important things is to Keep experimenting. Try different ad formats, colours and positioning. Run your setup for a few weeks, note the performance and try something different. Even if you think you have found the optimum ad setup keep on trying to improve it. In most cases you can always tweak something to make your ad performance much better than earlier.
I hope you might have got your answer whenever you think like “Why the hell my blogs revenue so low?”
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Twitter: @inkapoint
April 24, 2009
7:04 pm
Ya. It is good to maintain Channels to find the best serving ads which yield more money. I am using it always
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April 25, 2009
1:36 am
Although I do not use PPC or Ad-Sense, it would be a valuable resource for new blogs wanting to increase their short-term traffic.
April 25, 2009
5:04 am
That’s a good suggestion… You should definitely consider different channels once in a while as trends change. Also, the filtering is a nice step up
Twitter: @gfserradinho
April 25, 2009
9:51 pm
I can honestly say that my site is not one to make money, it offers a few details about this and that. I don’t want to make millions, that is not why set up my site. I would just like to cover my hosting payments, that’s about it.
My site is my surname and it’s kind of lame in a way, but I want my family to start blogging. They must stick to the times.
Once I am comfortable with what I have done with my site then I will venture into a niche and start my long term goals. For now, it’s just playing around and testing things on my site.
April 26, 2009
10:50 am
Great post and great blog. I would recommend OIO publisher to be used to increase the blog revenue through ads.
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April 26, 2009
7:36 pm
Hi Harish,
Ya OIO publisher makes it very easy to sell ads. But I don’t try it now because I want to communicate with the advertiser every time they purchase ad places on my blog.
Twitter: @niharsworld
April 28, 2009
3:29 pm
Hi Sushant,
Nice post. you are right most of the keywords has less price whereas keywords like college,education,medicine-related have high CPC rate.
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April 28, 2009
7:29 pm
I can say 2 of my blogs are serving a niche market and has a good CPC. My problem for these blogs is actually how to get more traffic. Since the topics are so specific, not everyone is going to be interested in it.
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April 30, 2009
12:14 pm
if my blog have a good niche and good posting so what problem if my blog still have revenue so low?
Thank you.
Twitter: @AlexFraiser
June 17, 2009
1:50 am
I do intend to make money from my blog by selling a product. I will release and sell a product before I ever put ads up.
Right now, I am just focusing on creating my community. Once that is going well, I think my next step will be to release some of those paid products, and just keep moving on from there.
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July 29, 2009
12:03 pm
In my opinion use google keyword tools for finding good keyword
then write article and use some good keyword that you select but be genuine in writing.Keep that thing in your mind you are writing for people not for search engine.
In this way your revenue increase dramatically.
Nice article bro.
November 23, 2009
11:58 am
My adsense earnings is like a roller coaster, one-cent click one day and a few bucks the next day. I guess if the readers all come from India, the adsense earnings will never improve. Hopefully there is a good mixture of readers from different parts of the world.
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December 14, 2009
8:54 am
I have a niche market at my blog. They are many visitor that click my adsense ads. but the dollar that i got from 1 click only $0.0.1. So small dollar. How can I incrase my adsense click above $0.0.1 ?
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December 14, 2009
11:24 am
I think the reason for it maybe your website is showing lot of MFA ads or LCPS..More information on my article on how to get rid of it:
http://www.smartbloggerz.com/2009/02/make-more-money-with-adsense-by-using-competitive-ad-filter/
Twitter: @senthilramesh
December 17, 2009
3:43 pm
Well I have not monetised blog yet but I will do in near future. These tips can really help me. And I like the point of experimenting the ads. No one can know which one can get u more income which don’t. instead of asking others for tips and tricks. Its in our hand to make the most of our ads and get more income from it.
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