Probably more than you think. I was doing some research today, and I came across a video presentation from a person I know who makes good money with his blogs. After going through the stats and his results, he came up with an average of $29 / 1,000 page views per month. Remember that this is an average for a site that is at least eight months old and has reasonably well-written blog posts. Interestingly this holds across several blogs I have reverse engineered over the last few years. Depending on the niche and how well the blogger has optimised their pages, this can be more or less. But here's the kicker. This statistic only holds for blogs with 100 or more posts. Without 100 pages to analyse, Google won't rank any of your pages anywhere near the traffic keywords. I suspect that it's because Google understands that most bloggers lose interest long before they get to that point and quit working on their blogs. It's only the dedicated bloggers who get to 100 pages and beyond. That's where the rewards are, though. So, here's a plan of action for you. Write at least three blog posts per week for the next six months, don't aim for perfection. Aim for published. You'll get better as you stick to your schedule. All posts should be approaching 1,000 words. More is better as long as it's not puffery to make up the word count. If writing is too hard, speak to Otter.ai, Google docs, Word or Pages. All O.S.'s have the speech to text capability built-in. As a bonus, add the audio to the blog or a podcast for those who prefer to listen. You could even market it as the first Alog, Audio Blog, like the vloggers who only do video. Three posts a week, if you speak them, only takes about 2 minutes per 300 words. I just tested that by reading the previous 300 words and recording them in Otter.ai. So a blog post of 1500 words should only take about 10 minutes to get the recording and the text, another 10 minutes to edit it, format it and post it. What do you write or talk about? Go to answerthepublic.com and search for your main category keywords, collate the questions and answer them in your posts. Go to Quora and search for your topic, answer the questions that come up there. Do the same for question and answer sites (like Yahoo answers), forums or Facebook groups. Reddit is good, as are the suggested searches at the bottom of the Google results pages. If you don't know the answers, search for them, people will visit your site to get all the answers in one place rather than search for themselves. You could have three blog posts a week set up in one day of medium effort and then spend the rest of the week building backlinks and engaging in those forums and groups. Regards,
It was fascinating and looked to be worth exploring a little more. I've been away from the computer too long, and I have a head full of ideas to explore. Time is going to be the issue as always. I have been delving into LeadsLeap and trying more of their free tools. It's fascinating that they have tools that you can use at no cost and that you can use on sites other than theirs. That's right. You can use the page builder, the tracking tool, and the popup tool from your WordPress blog or an HTML element in another page builder. Autoresponders, even self-hosted ones, have their own login pages. This means that you could use all the features of LeadsLeap without ever bothering with the traffic generation modules. |
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