please advice!
By sherwin023
@sherwin023 (204)
Philippines
February 24, 2009 9:24am CST
mylotters need some advise!?! don't you ever get tired in making money online? what do you do to earn online? actually I do have a blog, blog is another method to make money online. My is almost 3 months old and I'm still newbie in making money for blogging, the problem is cannot generate visitors my page CTR turns zero and only few clicks, I'm earning very low, what should I do? Is it my content? do I need to be patient, and also I'm not good in my writing skills but still I keep on doing it, sometimes I was thinking that this is not my career but here I am again, what should I do? anyway here is my link hhtp://wengcariaga.blogsapot.com, anyone help me what should I do? do i need delete my blog and have another one? what should I do???
3 responses
@SpikeTheLobster (6403)
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24 Feb 09
3 months is not long in blogging terms. According to some people who have looked at traffic, it takes 6-9 months to become known and build a reputation. Good, focussed content for a long period of time will bring in visitors.
I had a quick look at your blog. You have a VERY wide range of subjects, which is good for casual visitors (lots of different things to read) but not so good for building a following. You might want to narrow that down to one or two related subjects. The categories list is enormous: most blogs have half a dozen at most (though some really big sites have more, obviously).
Having that feed of potentially illegal software downloads (rips of games, etc.) won't help - it might even get you in trouble!
You already have Entrecard, which I'm told is a good way to incite traffic, though personally I dislike it and don't use it, so I can't say! You're Technorati listed, which is good (assuming you ping for each post) - are you on blogcatalog and as many other directories as possible?
A small traffic generator I've used is LinkReferral.com, which can bring in another 20 hits a day or so - I've even had some good reviews and picked up a subscriber or two from there. Avoid traffic exchanges, though: most blog sites don't allow them.
Finally, make sure you get listed on all the search engines. i used www.official.my to do that and it seemed to work. It's free, too!
Have a look at www.blogadviser.com as well. I read through most of those posts when I started and there's some good tips.
Good luck!
@sherwin023 (204)
• Philippines
24 Feb 09
hi spike thanks for the great information! I will do your advice, do I need to change my content? other say I need to change my content into one topic like you said I'm having a wide variety of content.
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@SpikeTheLobster (6403)
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24 Feb 09
It's only advice. I'm not a professional or anything. 
Do you get traffic stats for your site? Just recently, I wanted to decide what to do with my writing blog, because I'd been posting on several subjects: writing, jobs, earnings, critiques and so on. Looking at the traffic stats will often tell you what kind of posts are popular. You can also ask your visitors.
In my case, I did both and they both gave the same answer: people were NOT visiting to hear about whether I'd written something or sold an article (though those things are OK once in a while), but for the posts about writing. You know, things to consider, different styles and stuff.
So I chose that as my focus. Over the next three days I posted three items, all on that subject, and my traffic doubled. I had the most hits I've EVER had (which wasn't many, but it made me happy!) and was suddenly the sixth-rated writing blog on the whole site!! I'm still about 250th overall, but small achievements are still good.
If I were you, I think I'd keep my posts. I'd choose which categories I wanted to keep (i.e. the subjects I want to write about) and spend a bit of time re-categorising all the old posts into those or into a spare 'old content' category. There's no point rebuilding everything and starting from scratch when you already have everything you need right there!! Maybe I'm just lazy. 
Once you know what to focus on, you can make sure you're in the correct groups on all the directories instead of being listed as 'miscellaneous', which should also help. Then, I guess, it's just a question of posting (five to seven times a week is considered normal to get a following), sticking with your subject and trying to be interesting...
Do you get traffic stats for your site? Just recently, I wanted to decide what to do with my writing blog, because I'd been posting on several subjects: writing, jobs, earnings, critiques and so on. Looking at the traffic stats will often tell you what kind of posts are popular. You can also ask your visitors.
In my case, I did both and they both gave the same answer: people were NOT visiting to hear about whether I'd written something or sold an article (though those things are OK once in a while), but for the posts about writing. You know, things to consider, different styles and stuff.
So I chose that as my focus. Over the next three days I posted three items, all on that subject, and my traffic doubled. I had the most hits I've EVER had (which wasn't many, but it made me happy!) and was suddenly the sixth-rated writing blog on the whole site!! I'm still about 250th overall, but small achievements are still good.
If I were you, I think I'd keep my posts. I'd choose which categories I wanted to keep (i.e. the subjects I want to write about) and spend a bit of time re-categorising all the old posts into those or into a spare 'old content' category. There's no point rebuilding everything and starting from scratch when you already have everything you need right there!! Maybe I'm just lazy.
Once you know what to focus on, you can make sure you're in the correct groups on all the directories instead of being listed as 'miscellaneous', which should also help. Then, I guess, it's just a question of posting (five to seven times a week is considered normal to get a following), sticking with your subject and trying to be interesting... @damned_dude (23)
• Malaysia
25 Feb 09
don't give up dude!i know that i shouldn't be saying this, because i give up once too. LOL.
but one of my friend did successful in this money-making-blog.
his situation is exactly the SAME as you!
good thing that he hate losing. he hate giving things up.
so he write and write. 6 months later, or so, he achieves what he always wanted.
he got a lots of visitor! he even made affiliates!
that affiliates thingy sound pretty cool. you should try it ;D
