Traffic and Money

There is one thing that I discovered just recently. It's about the traffic of the blog and the monetization process.

Actually, I created a blog outside the blogger.com. I monetized it by borrowing a Google adsense account from a friend. My friend and I agreed that I will use his Adsense account in my blog and the income I earned will be divided into 10 percent and 90 percent. 10 percent of the income will be his and the 90 percent will be mine.

Now, in just 2 weeks, I managed to place adsense ads into my new blog. I was observing it and found out that with no visitor visiting your blog, means no income for you.

That is true. Traffic simply means money. No wonder why my mentor, SELaplana, is always telling me to get traffic for my blog because traffic is really money.

Tinkering about it, I realized these things:

1. If your blog has no traffic, it means that no one will click on your ads or no one will buy product under your referrals.

2. If no one is visiting your blog then it is of course sure that no one is reading your blog. And while no one is reading your blog, then no one will do what you are telling them to do. So there is no really money in a blog that has no traffic.

These finding simply told me that I really need to get traffic for the blog. But how?

Here's is the list of few things that I learned while reading blogs around me:

1. Comment to other blogs. Commenting to other blogs will not just add content to the blog you are commenting. If your comment is quite interesting, people who read it might be tempted to click and visit the blog linked from your name at the comment. Thus, getting traffic for your blog.

2. Inviting friends via email. You can of course send email to your friends and invite them to visit your blog.  If you friends think you are an exciting writer and blogger, then I am sure they'll visit you at your blog. However, you should not abuse this system because it might led to flagging you as spammer.

3. Search Engine Optimization. Most of the bloggers will surely say that SEO or search engine optimization will bring an organic traffic to your blog. But it will only happen if your blog is listed at the top ranking of the SERP or search engine result pages. In this way, those who are searching the search engine will easily find your blog and visit it.

There are still lots of ways on how to gain traffic but these three is sure way of gaining traffic. I will update this blog soon.