article thumbnail

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 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.

Adsense 33
article thumbnail

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

ProBlogger

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%.

Adsense 20
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

6 Ways to Sell a Website, and 4 Ways Not to Sell One

ProBlogger

From blogs that lack even the most basic advertising to affiliate websites that reek of poor conversion testing, if an online property hasn’t been optimized, it’s never going to reach its true value at sale. They do care about its potential for generating revenue or, in rare circumstances, its level of influence in its niche.

article thumbnail

278: Evolve Don’t Revolve Your Blogging

ProBlogger

Then, she pitches influencers on different social networks. 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. For me, it started with AdSense and Amazon, very awkward starts and very slow starts. I was so excited. $12

Blogger 24