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I currently use dreamhost, would you consider BH better?

As always it is very revealing to see your income stats for the blog. I still can’t quite believe how important the bluehost banner is. It must have something to do with your audience.

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However, having said that, I’ve just heard about a new plugin that allows AdSense to be shown just to search traffic! So I might try it out. On the other hand, I don’t really want my visitors clicking on ads – I want them to click around my site and subscribe! The goal of this blog is to increase readership, not to directly generate revenue.

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I’ve been particularly interested in your journey with e-books. This is something I’d like to do more of.

Looking forward to reading more of your content. :)

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Twitter is (for me) a way to stay connected with blogging friends. Folks who follow me click through and read stuff and leave comments. (I don’t have hundreds of followers, though, so my Twitter traffic is just a nice little mellow trickle.) SU is more like you have a little under a second to either amuse a stranger or die. Just two different media, I think.

They do have one thing in common–they’re both refuges for the inveterate multitasker and/or procrastinator. So on that basis, yeah, you’re going to be engaging in a little Short Attention Span Theatre. ;)

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I have been reading your blog for a while and this is my first time to comment. I appreciate your way of sharing your stats and income. I only wish I had the courage you did to quit a job that I dislike more and more everyday! You are a true inspiration to a newbie that is trying to get started!

Thanks
Jean M

@Nanna, thanks for the info on GA goals, I’ll need to spend some time learning about that.

@Todd, I do still comment on blogs occasionally but only as I see fit – I don’t go out of my way now, simply due to lack of time. My time is better spent elsewhere which is what it boils down to!

Given that blog commenting is essentially what got you to where you are today, I find it a bit curious that you don’t still devote at least a small percentage of your time to continuing that activity.

Do you ever have second thoughts about cutting back on your commenting?

Todd

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Well-written as always. The Twitter stats are amazing, though I wondered also about the value. SU for me brings in those under a minute “readers,” and I wonder whether Twitter does the same. I don’t use Twitter so I have nothing to back up that feeling but what I hear elsewhere.

If anybody could convince me that there’s any business (or blogging) sense to Twitter, I might give it a shot. A lot of work from home folks use it to “get out of the house,” so to speak, and since I already get out of the house I don’t need it for that. :)

I still might not. Where on earth would I get more time in my day? Oh, well, slow and steady growth for me.

Congratulations on being able to cut back a bit and not have any ill effects!

Regards,

Kelly

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Would you please tell us how much money do you make from your niche WP sites? And the total number of sites you own?

Hope I’m not being too intrusive.

Cheers.

@annabelt, that’s tricky. If I get a cheque that goes in the bank and it is converted automatically but if I get paid in US dollars in my paypal account its a bit more complicated.

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it’s great that you are making this big money online by blogging.

How does it break down into profit per hour of work for people considering quitting their day and nuking their boss job like you did?

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@Rick, thanks for the stumble!

@lissie, oh yeah there are loads of ways to make money online. One thing I want to do later this year is have another go at niche marketing in a completely anonymous way and built sites that can just maintain themselves without me having to worry about blogging etc.

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I’m not looking to be called a “PLR Guru” but it’s happening. I mean, I keep generating more and more reports and articles about PLR so people just see what I’m good at. It’s not a matter of my ego. I’m not pushing my name to sell more, if you follow me.

Regarding Caroline’s approach, I’ll say this: She’s making money online which is something many people cannot do effectively. I’d say that 20-30% of all people who “try” to make money online fail completely. That means they never make any money. I’d also say that just 5-10% make over $100 in one month. And, just 1-2% make over $1K per month. This is just my gut estimate but it is based on what I see and hear from our internet marketing membership.

And finally, you are right about the hard work. There is nothing instant about getting wealthy online. Building assets takes time and energy, and reinvested money in most cases. Furthermore, it involves building relationships and a network of partners. It usually means creating new wealth systems along the way; one builds on the next, if you wish for speed.

~ John

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-Mike

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I LOVE your blog!

Honest, transparent without being as negative as I can get over some of the monkeyshines in the Internet marketing world.

I am trying to not spend all day reading all your stuff – kind of enjoying getting into it bit by bit.

I arrived on a link about Joel’s continuity thing – well done.

Of course, I’ve subscribed and hopefully I can interview you for my Internet radio show – and get you a whole lot more traffic (and money!)

Rick Butts
IMHBAO
In my humble, but accurate opinion

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And about the looks of your blog. It’s one of the most well structured website.

Once they subscribe, you can work hard to keep them.

Point is, you are missing out on all the people that don’t know about how great your blog is.

Cheers.
Mark

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@Codrut, I’m not that good at analysing my stats – I see where it comes from and that’s about it. My gut instinct though is that Twitter traffic is highly valuable.

@Clog money, the AdSense revenue comes from a niche site which I built months ago and then left. The Bluehost income is about 70% from my ebook and everything else is from the blog itself. I don’t think it is easy to make a full time income with a blog alone – especially not from just ads and affiliate sales. I believe that to really make a living you need to build real products that you sell for money.

@Mark, you were the first person to mention it but certainly not the last – a ton of people were jumping on it so I just kinda felt obliged to check it out. One of these days I’ll learn to trust my instincts more :p

Yeah there is a whole bunch of content that I could repurpose in the form of a free report to use an incentive to subscribe to the newsletter but to be honest I simply don’t like that tactic. I want people to sign up because they want to read the newsletter – not just for some freebie.

@Abhijeet, the AdSense income does not come from this blog. I will never put AdSense here – not the right audience for it at all.

@Paul, everybody starts somewhere. This blog started with a single subscriber (me!) and zero traffic so don’t play down your 200 a day!

The report is quite impressive nevertheless. It is great to see money coming in while you’re doing something different.

I think that ditching the ads was a smart move. A blog has a much bigger potential for affiliate marketing than just slapping some banners on the sidebar.

Cheers,
Alex

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Intersting stats, especially the twitter figures, and thanks for sharing them!

I’ve found most traffic I get from StumbleUpon to be pretty “valueless”, as they don’t tend to stick around for long, 29.4 seconds is the averag, I did a post on my blog with my results.

You beat me on Butterfly Reports!
I thought my readers would like it, but apparently not. :)

I agree with Mark, I’d read a report with top 10 tips for getting 2000+ rss subs in 6 months!

keep up the good work.

cheers,
Matt Garrett

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I personally believe adsense can fetch you good money if implemented in a manner to earn through it. However, again that depends on how you aim to handle this blog and your likes and dislikes about contextual advertising.

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Caroline’s Ten Traffic Tips: How I got over 2000 RSS Subscribers in 6 months.

I think lots of people would want to read that. It adds value because to get that info now, you have to slog through 8 (excellent) monthly reports and other posts. A 10 tip summary would be spot on.

I would be chuffed to have such a report on my hard drive. (LOL — did I do that right).

Any way, Jolly Good Show.

Mark

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On top of that, the program was based on eBook rebranding, which is a valid way to get affiliates to promote an eBook.

I thought for sure that one would take off.

In looking at the number of reports up on that site, I see that it is growing linearly, and not exponentially as I expected.

Anyway, I still think it was a cool idea, and I am sorry for wasting your time on it.

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I am curious though, is this blog still your only source of income? Living in the U.K I know how much $1,308 is in real money and it just doesn’t seem to be enough. I know I couldn’t survive a month on that income.

I use Google Analytics and got up to 500 visitors and all of them stay on my blog far less than 5 seconds..

Did you see similar results from these twitters? :)

I love you’re getting back to the roots with your blog.

Cheers,
Codrut Turcanu – “Succeeding Against All Odds!”

On your last points, I have found that blogging, about the things and topics we enjoy, because we want to goes down much easier to me.

I did the same thing with a business blog, then sold it, then many months later came back with several personal blogs, and I like blogging again, to me, they are fun, especially without having to concentrate on how to get them to generate the most possible revenue.

Very good blog entry. Useful information for anyone trying to figure out how money is generated online. In your case, at least for this month, it’s absolutely BlueHost. This month you’re an affiliate marketer for sure…

You’re smart of focus on your next product. You do need to build those assets and you can only do that with focus. Extreme focus. It’s the only way you’ll be able keep building that residual income.

I see that a lot of your traffic comes from StumbleUpon. How much is that helping you? That is, what kind of quality are you seeing with StumbleUpon users? We also get a lot of traffic from that source and it’s totally “hit and miss” regarding quality. Yes, quantity is nice, but quality is so low sometimes.

~ John

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