My goal is to make $3,000 a month off blogs. How hard is it to do that? Also, how many sites do you think I would need. What pagerank would they need to be?
It isn't hard unless you consider a lot of work over a long period of time (at least a year) to be hard. Everything you need to know can be found by reading these forums. You only need one site. Pagerank doesn't matter, getting backlinks from trusted sites and building traffic does. Most people fail because they think adsense is a get rich quick scheme - and it isn't. 99% of people trying won't put the effort into their site that is needed to become successful. You are competing against millions of others sites - make your site better than your competition and the rest will come.
pretty hard to make $3000 a month imo but the key is content + backlinks +content +backlinks rinse and repeat
Thank you for responding. I know I will have to work hard, the reason I never got adsense before, was the fact I thought you couldn't make money. Or pennies at that. My friend is making about $300 a month now, so I gave it a second look. Does the page rank on the sites I will get links on matter?
Page rank does matter if you also want to have high PR on your own site. More important thing for good SERP (search engine results page) is similarity between topics of your site and site you get link on.
pagerank will make you a little bit cash on the side but its not needed. Try and make your self a 100 before you try and make 3k give you self realistic goals.
mate, if you work hard then it will be easy. 1)Just start a blog and try to update 20High quality articles per day. I know this cannot be done with one member. Ask your friends help to update content and share your revenue. 2)Make categories in your blog and try to update atleast 5 articles in each category. 3)You dont have to worry about backlinks. Quality content itself brings quality backlinks. And try to submit your site to top3 bookmarking sites.. Repeat this procedure till 6months. I can guarantee min of 50$ per day.. Why bcoz this is my personal experience.. I have started my blog 8months back. I and my friends used to update daily 20 articles per day. Right now we are making something around 75-80 usd per day.
I've got some links for you. Call it motivation. http://www.shoemoney.com http://www.johnchow.com http://thesugarbuzzproject.net http://www.problogger.com It is possible, but it'll take lots of hard work. Oh, and don't forget to mix Kontera with AdSense for a little boost...heh.
Pretty much what the above said. If you are making $x,xxx amount per month, then basically it is a job and you should treat it as such, i.e. same sort of discipline, same amount of time, etc.. If you spent 8 hours+ a day working on sites, building links adding content. You will soon start to reap the rewards.
I'm not sure if Google approve of such an aggressive approach in posting 20 articles to a blog per day. The bots gonna have problems when the homepage is refreshing every minute of the day. Rather than have separate categories on this big blog, wouldn't it be easier to just spread the categories or niches over spidered blogs?! Not sure about this. Everyone needs a head start! From researching many of the top sites on page one of Google across various niches - I have found that a great deal of them have sourced one-way links. Unless you can get on the front page of Digg or get a mention from some authority site in the media then you'll never touch the sides without tons of relevant links. Most savvy internet marketers go out and get these, rather than sit and wait for them.
I'm going to go a slightly different route in answering your question. One, I think it'll take more than one blog, at least initially. There are very few people who make $3,000 a month on one blog; the majority actually make less than $200 a month. Two, those who are making big money aren't doing it off Adsense for the most part. Out of all the blogs I've been reading over the years, I'd bet it's less than .001% that are making good money blogging from Adsense. And by that, I'm talking at least $100 a month. Now, those that do are doing niche blogs of some type. They find a local following and the ads that come up will be targeted specifically for them, hence, each click pays more. Finally, stay away from certain niches because the market is way too crowded. "Make money blogs" are the worst, followed by SEO, or anything that's related to computers in some way, such as social media, the internet, etc. Those are already taken. Find something unique, or at least something that not everyone can stay consistent with, and go from there. Of course, you have to be knowledgeable in whatever you're writing about, and have to be ready to produce at least something every few days or so. And you're going to have to work the network for awhile; Twitter, other social media, commenting on other blogs,... it'll take work, but if you've got the time and the initiative, you can get it done.
Dude, its easier to have a niche and provide a information product that solves a Problem. All this blogging, should just add more credibility to your website and what you are selling. The key to success online is to FIX PROBLEMS. Once you fix a problem you got long term profit....everything else is nonsense!
Personally, I think it's easier to build static sites that have genuinely useful content (though not TOO useful or the ads won't get clicks) and promote the livin' daylights out of 'em! It's quicker to build this way than to try to meet visitor expectations for "fresh content" and get that repeat traffic. Repeat traffic is great, but repeat traffic also are not as prone to clicking an ad as the newcomer will be. People go 'ad blind' and that'll drop your CTR like a rock while still forcing you to either create/buy content OR go with an automated solution and make your site look like a splog. I think static pages of 'evergreen' content is the way to go
The average webmaster makes $50 a month. What you make depends on what you can figure out how to do. It's just that simple. If you find an eaxy way then good for you. Most people realize that real online marketing is a business and needs to be treated as such. There will be those who make it with little effort due to being in the right place at the right time with the right idea... then there will be those that draw up a business plan and make it happen by executing that plan over time. But again the average guy might make $600 in a year.
wow another one of these lame threads, how hard is it to just work on it instead of asking all the time
This is why it's probably better to get a job in the real world, and just have an online presence without looking to make money off it. But there are people on DP who left their high-salaried jobs to earn online!