Hey all, my name is Adam Sinicki. I run a website called 'The-Biomatrix.Net' (check it out at: http://www.the-biomatrix.net) which features all kinds of self improvement/training/productivity articles. I'm currently making about £30 a month from adsense and sales of my book through the site. Now though I've just finished my degree course and I have one month before my tenancy runs out and I have to start looking for a real job. Only I'd much rather not get a real job and it would be my dream to make my living through the site. Really I was hoping that you guys could take a look at my site and my current business model and let me know how I can turn it into something more profitable. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated and I'll also take job offers (that involve working from home) and business proposals if anyone wants to work together. Thanks in advance! Ad.
Start looking for a real job as if that is your full-time job right now. Once you are settled into that real job come back and start building a web business for the long-term. Tom
IMO,you still can increase your blog income by optimizing the template and ads placement to increase the CTR. If you plan to work from home,then you better start acquiring coding and designing skill coz if you have both skill you can easily earn $100/project.
I agree with TomR, get the real job first if you doubt with online income cause you still need steady income for your cost of life. When the online income become bigger and more stable, you can quit from it and focus to you online business
new theme - your blog title interests me aswell as the Biomatrix workout vid. and also seeing some of the titles of articles however the current theme puts me off reading looks idk unprofessional and just doesnt appeal to me because the theme
By the theme do you mean the colours etc? Of the actual Biomatrix site or the blog? Thanks man! And thanks for your advice guys.
i dont mind the background. It's nice and cool. People say its unprofessional because of the black and whiteness, too bland. Need some of those navigation bars that look 3D Another problem is that there are 3 ads, all different sizes, and placed separately. Can you perhaps maybe combine them 3 into same sizes and put them either on the side or top and mark Sponsors of some other name like affiliates or something. Another issue is the organization of the articles. the fonts are too small while your youtube video size is so big. All I could see was your naked picture on the floor while the text is hard to read. Can you maybe isolate the text from the videos on the front page.
In order to create a full time income from one blog you need to break it down to the ridiculous to determine if your goal is even realistic. What do you need to profit (net) a month to be comfortable? A months time to go from 30/mo to whatever figure it may be might be unrealistic. Take note of your assets (skills) and determine how you can profit from them and go from there. EDIT: -- I also find it extremely funny that everyone is picking apart the site but yet know one has not asked about his traffic and how many uniques he is getting a month. What if he is only getting 20 uniques a month? (You said you sold an e-book right?) To the OP - before you go tearing apart your site look at your overall traffic and bounce rate.
Thanks for your help everyone! The site gets around 150 unique hits a day, mostly from Google, though this is all fairly low quality traffic. I've sold 14 e-books in total. Although recently someone posted one of my articles on Reddit and it got 20,000 views in one day! That day I earned $50 which shows it's possible, it's just getting it out there... The real problem is most advice on this site recommends picking a key word and arranging ads and text in a certain way and trading links with as many sites as possible even when their relevance is tenuous... my dream is for the site to become like a proper site where people go regularly for interesting articles like IGN, or Bodybuilding.com or something... How can I get the hits without selling out as such? I guess the first thing I need to do then is sort out a nicer layout etc. I'll give it a shot! Thanks again all!
I'd say in all honestly, try and find a "real" job, if you start now you won't be disappointed if you decide to look for one later and find out how hard it is (unless you get lucky), then in your spare time work on your site using money from your job to help progress things along further and better. Then it's really up to you to decide when to quit your job and make a living at home (although I'd suggest keeping your job for a further month or so to make sure that income wasn't just seasonal). S
Your site is good, I would suggest u to choose seo to increase ur pr and after that sell ur site for good price. Just keep doin this repeatedly.
Hey guys, I've fixed the site to something hopefully a bit more use-friendly and appealing. How's this? http://www.the-biomatrix.net Thanks!
Get the real job and try internet as part time for the moment .. then in the future you will see how and what it works best
Get a job - take care of your self first - you can work this part-time and grow with it. You have to take care of yourself first. Plus, some outside experience can make you stronger.
Try to get a real job first. You can do internet marketing on the side. It's important to have a fixed income to get you through the monthly bills. Once your online business picks up, you may consider quitting your job. Beefing up the online business takes time and a whole lot of work.
Your header doesnt display right at all in the older version of internet explorer.. id fix that cause alot of people use the older versions still..
I have the same problem with my site - much of my content does not display in IE6 - don't know how to fix it - any suggestions?