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

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Back in 2004, when I’d been blogging for about 18 months, I started experimenting with AdSense and Amazon’s affiliate program. I did something similar with my income, which at the time was largely from AdSense. I realized that if I could increase my traffic by 10% every month my AdSense income would generally go up by 10% too.

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198: 6 First Income Streams Recommended for Bloggers

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For example, I found talking to many bloggers who blog about spirituality of different faiths or politics that advertising doesn’t always work so well on some of those, particularly advertising with advertising networks like Google’s AdSense. For example, Google AdSense. Amazon Associates Program.

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

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In 2004, I started to experiment with AdSense ads and Amazon’s Affiliate program. I did the same thing with my AdSense income – I knew AdSense income would increase with traffic increases, so I made my income goal more aggressive – if my traffic goal was 10%, I would make my income goal 15%. Full Transcript.

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278: Evolve Don’t Revolve Your Blogging

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I had AdSense on my blog by this point—I’ll talk about that in a moment—and I think I was earning about $100 a week from my blog which is pretty good. We did a forum for a time that worked very well for us. For me, it started with AdSense and Amazon, very awkward starts and very slow starts. First day, we made AU$12.

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