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How to Grow Your Blog’s Traffic and Income by Setting Goals

ProBlogger

Back in 2004, when I’d been blogging for about 18 months, I started experimenting with AdSense and Amazon’s affiliate program. I focused more on Amazon’s affiliate program, and started experimenting with other advertising networks (such as Chitika) and selling ads direct to advertisers.

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PB135: How to Grow Your Blogs Traffic and Income by Setting Goals

ProBlogger

Pamela, one of our readers asked this question: “ Darren I’ve been blogging now for 12 months and I’ve seen some growth in my traffic and more recently income – but I’m finding it hard to know whether I’m going well or not because I don’t know where a 12 month old blog should be at? This is a great question, thanks Pamela for asking it.

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184: 2 Blog Monetization Strategies that Have Increased My Blogs Earnings by over 40%

ProBlogger

One of them is AdSense, the Google’s Advertising Network. Although what I’ll share will probably be relevant for other advertising networks too. That was the question that I asked in the ProBlogger podcast listener’s group on Facebook this week. I should have been tweaking and playing with that for quite some time.

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184: 2 Blog Monetization Strategies that Have Increased My Blogs Earnings by over 40%

ProBlogger

One of them is AdSense, the Google’s Advertising Network. Although what I’ll share will probably be relevant for other advertising networks too. That was the question that I asked in the ProBlogger podcast listener’s group on Facebook this week. I should have been tweaking and playing with that for quite some time.

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How I Diversified My Blogging Income Beyond Having All My Eggs in the AdSense Basket

ProBlogger

Back in 2004 when I almost went under, I not only was too reliant upon traffic from the Google Search Engine – I was also very reliant upon Google’s AdSense Ad Network as the main source of income for my business. Other Ad Networks. How I Diversified My Blogging Income.

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Best Social Media Stats and Market Research of 2010 (So Far)

Webbiquity SMM

Find the answers to these questions and many, many more here. Social Media Users’ Interests and Expectations Vary by Network [Stats] by Pamorama. of all business traffic due to its massive online banner advertising network. The top 10 in-demand jobs in 2010 didn’t exist in 2004. Social Media Statistics.

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278: Evolve Don’t Revolve Your Blogging

ProBlogger

Someone asked me that same question but they asked me to go back to the very start of my blog and said, “What has changed in your blogging since you started?” It was a mind-blowing question to be asked because everything has changed in my blogging since 2002 except for the fact that a blog is pretty much the same thing.

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