How can a guy who has no life be so busy?

The question for the ages.

Actually I’ve been working behind the scenes trying to boost my traffic levels (with less than stellar success I might add), and also working to get another ad network going to fill my ad spaces. I’m actually amazed by the income ratio I’m seeing so far. If it continues to hold, my eCPM would be around $10, meaning for every 1000 pageviews this blog gets I would earn $10. It’s not earth shattering by any means, but considering the typical eCPM for those who use Google Adsense is around $1 to $2, it’s not bad either. My goal is to eventually net around $40 a day (or $1250 a month), so I’ll have to continue my efforts to boost my eCPM and bring more traffic in.

Speaking of which, there is one more thing I can try, sort of like a last ditch effort to bring in the level of traffic I want, but it’s EXPENSIVE, and it still requires a lot of work. The good news is I can use my previous blog earnings to pay for the first month (it’s done on a subscription basis), and if the results are effective, the higher ad revenues that result should be enough to front the costs and still net me a profit.

Maybe. If it fails, I’ll pretty much will have lost all the money I’ve ever made via blogging up to this point. Ah well, I’ll just have to believe that fortune will continue to favor the brave.

And the reckless. :ggrin:

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8 Responses to “How can a guy who has no life be so busy?”

Casey wrote a comment on April 19, 2008 @ 04:52:pm
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Well, there’s always selling crap on ebay.

Lincoln Adams wrote a comment on April 19, 2008 @ 06:40:pm
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Nobody wants my crap! :crybaby:

Casey wrote a comment on April 22, 2008 @ 10:41:am
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Less behind the scenes mumbo-jumbo…more blogging.

Lincoln Adams wrote a comment on April 22, 2008 @ 11:06:am
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Patience, grasshopper, I’m still working things out here. :barbell:

Edwin wrote a comment on April 27, 2008 @ 12:56:pm
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I find that the best thing one can do to make money with a blog or a site with that matter is get tons of links. You can refer to it as behind the scenes but it is not. Finding the right keywords and getting links pointing back to your site with those keywords will get you search engine traffic, for free! Traffic that will actually make you money in the long run, traffic you did not have to pay for! Just a few thoughts…nice blog by the way

Lincoln Adams wrote a comment on April 28, 2008 @ 11:48:pm
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The problem with getting a bunch of links is that people have to want to link to you, unless you find another way to artificially build your backlinks, and that itself might bite you in the boonie boons over the long run.

Nup, looks like I’m just gonna have to do this the old fashioned way: bribery. Or was that blackmail? I always confuse the two.

seo wrote a comment on May 4, 2008 @ 12:42:pm
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You are doing better than me there when it comes to eCPM even though I’m suppose to be good at this.

Lincoln Adams wrote a comment on May 4, 2008 @ 05:48:pm
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Ironically, I’m making the same with 100 visitors a day than a website with 2000-3000 uniques a day, but which only gets 40 cents CPM. I give up a lot of real estate though for the ads, so anything less than $1 CPM for each space would be an insult. :nyah: