What Makes A Blog Profitable?
How Much Do Top Bloggers Make, And Is It Even The “Bloggers” That Make All The Money..?
Or Do The Savviest Marketers Who Are Best At What They Do Who Use Blogs More Profitable?
This may sound strange to some, but I’ve kind of decided to disect blogging. Mostly for my own reasons, and for pure pleasure and self interest in making my own blogs better… After all with social media today, and so much of our time, attention and information coming from the web, it serves all of us, marketers, entrepreneurs, and anyone who has a presence of any kind on line to get with it on blogs…
I don’t know thourough or investigative this study will really be, but I can tell you it is something that seems to just be happening in the back of our minds much of the time.
I believe there are little secrets, tweaks, and things that the best blogs do that go seeming un-noticed by most. My goal with this mini series is to kind of dissect it, and figure it out just a bit better.
Key Questions: (I’m Looking For Answers And Ideas Here, So Speak Up!)
How Do We Measure Success? There’s a few ways
- Most Traffic (fairly easy to calculate)
- Most Money ( harder to figure out)
- Most profitable for the time put in: meaning, the lowest amount of time/resources for the most money
Monetization Methods
- Who is doing what, what are the basic and most common monetization methods of blogs on the top
- Does more traffic really = more money?
- Ad Revenue or Build Your Own Business?
Design Elements
- What do the best blogs have in common about how they are designed and how they flow?
- Where do they place opt in boxes, and ads for maximum exposure and monetization
Help Me Answer The Questions…
Let’s face it, I am going to study and try to figure it out a bit, but I won’t do as great a job without your insight, further questions or HELP! I’d love to find some other people who are interested in figuring this out with me… and any input will be appreciated, cited (you can even guest blog if you want) and linked to. Love to hear your comments, if you want to talk about it or help me with it, friend me on my facebook fan page (you should see links to it to your right) or hit me up on twitter at twitter.com/andrewjamesinc
P.S. I probably won’t publish everything about this here on the blog, if I really go deep. It will be too much, too hard to articulate, etc. But I will potentially hold a tele-seminar, or publish findings to my email list, so if you are not on that, join now. You can do so by clicking on the big blue box at the top right of this page.