As of yesterday my Unique Visitor counter has tipped over the 2000 mark!!
I am so happy that I now have some regular visitors and I value the feedback immensely.
Things that have happened with this blog recently are:
- I have been able to Monetize through the use of Paid Post,
- Google gave me PR4 (Probably temporary!),
- I am playing around with the theme colours and maybe the design a little!
- Advert placement is being looked at, Adsense is still giving me very low returns,
- I had a $20 Adwords voucher so I am using it to promote this site;
So basically I would like to know (partly inspired by Bush asking the same question), How am I doing? Part of me thinks I may have been posting too many sponsored posts or not writing enough weird random articles.
What can I do to be better? What do you particularly like or hate about coming here?
I am in the early stages or thinking up and starting some new sites and getting back to some things I started earlier.
One of my more immediate projects will be starting a review site, inspired by Darn Good Reviews and other bloggers efforts a separating their personal space from their business space a little bit.
I am also looking back into Helium (If you get a chance here is one of my articles, let me know what you think!) and Ciao to see if there is any future in such things. Does anybody make a decent amount from Helium, and if so how many articles do you have active?
And more of an experiment rather than a business plan I am thinking of creating a story blog. Basically I will probably write the first part of the story and then guests will be asked to write the next piece and so on until an entire story is written. People will also be encouraged to submit shorter stories of their own, if they wish. I am not too bothered if the idea is stolen from me :), I just want to know what people think before putting any effort in.
All comments even if extremely harsh will be appreciated greatly.
Thanks to you all, I understand I am asking for a lot of commenting and participation!
5 comments:
I like your website and I see you changed the layout.
The red is kind of bright for me, but I'll get used to it.
Creating a website based on reviews sounds like a great idea. Depending on how you write a review you still can receive feedback from those posts. There are some reviewers that will look at many of your reviews and pay you ,accordingly.
I tend to put a lot of time in my reviews. I've even gone back and updated ones when I thought, hey I could have added this also.
I would nix that "Get Paid To Review My Post" from ever post. If an advertiser wants to contact you, they will. I did not use those because it looks way too spammy.
Also you have to think about your readers some of them really don't like that. There are a few of my readers that don't like paid posts but they stick around because I don't overdo it. Vegan Momma is a community website since I'm not dependent on reviews for an income I think about them.
Make sure you add regular posts in between your sponsored post; otherwise, it will look as though you are just filling space to write another review.
Many quality advertisers look for websites that appear normal. They will pay you ,accordingly. When I'm contacted directly I get over $100 per review.
Two of my websites are contacted weekly about adspace. I haven't taken on another advertiser yet.
I like your idea about participation with the other website. That sounds fabulous.
I forgot to add...
Congrats on hitting the 2000 mark!
Hi,
Congrats on doing so well. I like the white background, the red makes it a bit harder to read, but my colors are messed up (red green colorblind) so that may be why. I think your posts have been great.
I've made 35 dollars at Helium with 40 articles, so to actually make decent money with them I imagine you'd have to write thousands of articles.
Oh and keep playing around with your adsense placement, it's taken me an entire year to finally figure out what works, lol.
You're doing great, keep it up! :)
Thanks so much for the feedback. I will definitely be keeping the white I think and looking into different colour combinations to compliment.
It really feels like something is happening for me now, it's great!
2000? Wow, that's incredible! Congratulations! Maybe someday I'll be able to post such good news (at the moment I'd be happy to break the 100 mark). I really cannot say too much about your blog just yet, as this is only the first, or is it second, time I've been here, but I'll be back.
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