Monday, June 23rd, 2008...5:58 pm
Best Type of Traffic for Ad Clicks!
A lot of people don’t know that fact about web traffic and the fact remains that you need a special “type” of web traffic to get the people to be interested in your advertisements whether that be Google Adsense or whatever.
Here’s are some facts about what kind of people are more likely to read and click on ads:
1. Blog subscribers are overrated, they are the worst type of traffic that’d click on your ads. Besides, most subscribers are subscribers because they see your blog through an RSS reader, thus they’d even rarely see the ad at all unless you had feed ads.
Blog subscribers are the worst for making money because they know your site layout already, they are “ad blind”, as they say.
2. Traffic coming from Digg, Stumbleupon, Reddit, and social networking are worthless. Most of the time, they will steal your bandwidth and you pretty much don’t make any money unless you can “consistently” make the front page, in which case you will gain a lot of SEO, which is good for making money online.
Most people coming from the social networking traffic are too smart to even read your ads, don’t waste your time building up traffic this way. You might end up with 1000 more uniques per day but if that doesn’t convert, you are the one who end up wasting time. (Whereas if you only had 100 uniques from search engines, you’d probably make more money in comparison)
3. Traffic from Google search terms are the best for making money. People who click through a search engine more than often click out through Google Adsense ads. This is where the money is. If you can somehow increase the number of people coming to your site through Google, Yahoo, or any other search engines, you have the best type of web traffic, the people who read and click on ads.
So what’s the point of this story?
You need to spend 90% of your time blogging, consistently about your niche topic. Do not waste your time with too many social networks as they don’t give you “money” results. The social networks might earn you more readers and traffic but they simply don’t convert to money.
Also, don’t try so hard to get a lot of subscribers. Your subscribers should be subscribing to your blog because they are REALLY interested in keeping up with your blog news.
If you use contests and other methods simply to increase the number of subscribers, it doesn’t really help you when you are counting money at the end of the day.
Subscribers = The worst traffic for CPC advertising
Social Network traffic = Also worst traffic for CPC advertising
Random People who find your site through a search engine = This is your goldmine, if you can get the number of visitors coming to your site up to about 90% of total traffic, that is ideal for making money online.
Other people including blog experts might tell you otherwise but in my experience, this is what has worked and what is working for me. If you have further suggestions, I am ears are always open and you are welcome to comment.
I’m starting to see some really good numbers at Groovy Vegetarian.
One thing i notice about some of my other recent projects, (such as a myspace site) is that the CPC is quite low. The way to make money with this type of site is with traffic volume. I suppose i could have found this out, through more research, but it still adds to the overall pot. Plus i plan on selling it in a few months.
I’m also starting to write on a new blog dedicated to yellow goods, and this one also has good CPC. I really think that this blog is going to be way bigger than Groovy Vegetarian, because even though i have like 5 posts on there, it gets daily Google traffic. I just need to add way more content, and it is going to blow up.
Missy (new blog below)
Yellow Sweaters
http://www.yellowsweaters.com
That’s a cool blog!
Yes, volume is probably the most important though. If you aren’t getting at least 1,000 uniques per day, you won’t really start making any money.
That’s Google traffic that is…