can your blog or site generate money from organic searches vs just from incoming traffic from sites that has linked to you?
? Are you joking or what? Adsense monetized sites are perfect for 100% organic traffic, not for referrals.
the reason i ask was because i am not the type to approach other web masters and ask if i can have a link placed on their site. i hope my next project earns some dollars.
$60k in 2006, $80k in 2007, $62k so far for 2008 - ALL from organic/UNpaid traffic.. If i were you, i'd start getting some backlinks.. When i first started i sent out hundreds of backlink requests.. i got a very low response rate, but after a while they start to add-up..
What do you mean by sending out backlink requests? I though back links were generally generated by commenting on other posts or using forums...
It's the organic traffic coming from search engines that generated most of the income not referral traffic.
Before you start sending out link requests, you should make sure that the quality of content on your site is good enugh for people to want to exchange links with
posting on blogs and forums is one way to generate backlinks, but those links are generally low-quality. You can get higher quality links by sending a personalized message (not those lame automated ones) to webmasters requesting a link to your site..