Wednesday 18 July 2007 @ 06:19 am
If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. The biggest mistake that most people make when attempting to make money from a website is not using pre-sell or dedicated selling pages for the affiliate programs that they promote.
Dosh Dosh has a excellent case study of an effective pre-sell [...]
Thursday 5 July 2007 @ 04:36 pm
First a very quick lesson in business fundamentals.
There are only three ways to make more money with a business:
1. Increase the size of a transaction with your customer. (Get more money per transaction).
2. Increase the number of customers. (Getting more customers is often the wrong approach).
3. Increase the frequency of transactions with current customers. [...]
Monday 2 July 2007 @ 10:05 pm
Even though I’ve had to put my push to get to $100 a day from this site down on my priority chart for a while, I thought it would be interesting to continue to post this blog’s earnings, since people seem to like that kind of thing.
Traffic Stats
April 2007
May 2007
June 2007
Trend
Monthly unique visitors
6000
7,458
8,431
Up
Daily unique visitors
200
241
281
Up
Daily [...]
Tuesday 19 June 2007 @ 03:46 pm
Have no fear I haven’t forgotten about my $100 a day blogging project. I will update in the near future. For now though I’ve been working on another project which has allowed me to discover a few great new (to me) plugins that I believe can, at least indirectly boost blog earnings.
404 Notifier -having [...]
Friday 1 June 2007 @ 09:51 am
For those of you following along with my quest to get to $100 a day from blogging here’s a quick recap of what I covered in the month of May and some thoughts about what went down and a look ahead at June.
Basic market research
what questions to answer before you chose a topic for [...]
Thursday 31 May 2007 @ 11:20 pm
It’s been one month since I launched the $100 a day project. The goal is simple: earn $100 a day from this site.
Here’s a 30 day update of all the vital stats, with a little summary below:
Traffic Stats
April 2007
May 2007
Trend
Monthly unique visitors
6000
7,458
Up
Daily unique visitors
200
241
Up
Daily page views
308
409
Up
Feed subscribers
400
500
Up
All very encouraging.
Google Ranking for Keyword Phrases
Thursday 31 May 2007 @ 08:24 am
Well if I would have known, I might have waited a month to start my $100 a day blogging project but, not a moment too soon, Yaro has come up with a blueprint for a profitable blog.
Back in 2004, when I first started blogging, I made friends with Yaro through his Internet business blog [...]
Wednesday 30 May 2007 @ 06:14 pm
I’m sure the most powerful tool in life is the simple question.
A question is just the expression of a problem and people who solve problems make money. I’ve shown you how I use Keyword Elite to generate lists of questions people are actually typing into search engines, but you can also brainstorm [...]
Tuesday 29 May 2007 @ 05:32 am
Today’s tip is a nifty one that I learned by watching some clever people employ it around my sites.
We all know about the 2-fold power of an incoming link to your site as:
A direct source of traffic
A “vote” in the search engines for your site
Let’s imagine that you’re just like most stats addicted webmasters and [...]
Monday 28 May 2007 @ 05:50 am
Pop quiz, WordPress is fantastic, but it has a serious flaw when it comes to search engine optimization…
Q. Do you know what SEO flaw is?
A. It uses the post’s title as the page’s HTML title tag.
From the plugin website (which I completely agree with)…
Title tags are arguably the most important of the on-page factors [...]
