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Success, Fame and Making Money Online
The Thinking Blog has a posse; Watch out Blogosphere, here comes the thinkers! Now I never thought of blogging the statistics for this blog but things have gone mental ever since I wrote the Support Topless Women post. It is the most popular post followed by Nature Calendar 2007 and Microsoft Substitutes. What's more, not only it was comprehensively discussed here with 100 comments, but also on Reddit with 139 comments and Digg with 318 comments.Lasting effects of success. The number of RSS readers quadrupled from 125 to about 500 and since has been fluctuating plus/minus 10 according to Feedburner:
Traffic to my blog showed a huge jump when the article started creating a buzz and is still looking good according to Google Analytics:
Some more interesting statistics about the visitors of this blog such as operating system, browser version, screen resolution and connection speed:
The only thing that wasn't affected is The Thinking Blog's community in MyBlogLog. The number of members showed a steady increase ever since I opened an account. Of course, replacing the logo avatar with this one had a little bit of effect too. Thus, making the 5th largest community hot hot hot:
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Favicons (16x16) ..... Avatars (48x48) ..... Buttons (120x60) ..... Banners (125x125)
I'm a total noob when it comes to making money with a blog. I have no idea how much to charge, how long to display an ad or even which type of ads to go for! Please take the poll below and guide newbies towards the right direction.
If these options are totally off in your view, please share your experience/knowledge via comments. Your help is much appreciated!
SPONSORS: Don't hesitate to contact me for more information, potential offers or even just a chat!
25 thoughts:
Avatars for sure.
They aren't too big and aren't too small to go unnoticed like the favicons.
Congrats to you & all topless women for this success! Your blog rocks bro! I too would prefer the avatars! Rock on! Steli
Don't let all the fame go to your head. Be sure to give props to all the topless women who helped you to the top.
As for your question, avatars are probably the least annoying, but you may get more response from buyers if you used buttons.
You asked for it Ilker, so technically this is not a spam comment. Wink, wink. Anyway, here's how I've made nearly 5 grand online so far and what I do with my ads, etc.
Might as well get your share of the pie. You can use the extra dough to send gifts to that Natalie woman...
Adsense does indeed suck, especially for blogs that post about a variety of topics.
I mean, look at the adsense on my blog. The ads served have nothing to do with my content and more to do with the fact that I have the word "apathy" in my title.
Funny which posts attract the most interest.
I've had some great responses and found that after a week or so the feedcount dips again (but to higher than it was previously).
There are really a lot of different ways you can go with advertising on a blog - so many that it's pretty outrageous. Also, because of your higher traffic, you're open to some advertising venues that are only available to people who have 500,000+ pageviews per month and looking at your statistics, it looks like you could surpass that - especially if things continue the way they are (look at your mybloglog community). I've been reviewing advertising venues and though I have a lot to go, I'm going to keep reviewing them to try and get a good feel for what's easy and worth it and what's not.
@Paula & Bri: Thanks guys.. but I'm really not into making money with paid posts and the likes.
I forgot to mention.. The Thinking Blog community is the 5th largest community on MyBlogLog. Kudos to all the members! ;)
I was curious how yer stats were doing with that Nathalie Icon*
I like contextual ads that interest me in my Gmail*
altho i have been known to Click on just about anything with a Pretty Girl in the ad!!
;PPP
interestingly i just saw a Link for OBEY GIANT on Flickr the other day - very c0ol powerful Art*
Last night i added some Banners to my site from BannerExchange - i don't think it will really work for me but for some of U folks it may bring Traffic to yer Blog or site*
Cheers ilker + Nathalie!! Billy ;))
Peace*
Let me try that again...
You won't know the best combination of advertising formats until you start testing them.
Try AdSense, Chitika, direct ad buys, text links, CPA networks, affiliate programs and see which perform the best.
You never know what to expect purely on speculation - you have to test.
You might also like to read this article - How To Make Money From Your Website Using Advertising
Good luck!
Yaro
Wow! Contrats on growing your community and your traffic so quickly!
Your traffic seemed to jump from almost nothing to a huge amount in very little time. I guess great content spreads like wildfire once it catches!
Cheers,
M
congrats on all the feedback and traffic! There is nothing wrong with making some money as long as things don't start looking tacky. I can't stand going on a blog and seeing a whole bunch of banners for this and that knowing that they are all for profit.
I like to read something that has a little bit of heart in it too. Kudos on the awesome job of combining both of them. Good luck
JennyB
I put combination of all and it didn't show up after I voted. I think your poll is busted.
Thanks so much for posting your Google analytic stats. It's one thing to write about how to generate site traffic and quite another to show traffic results and talk about how it happened. As for Google adsense -- I don't have any advice but want to point out that you shouldn't feel bad about placing some ads on the site to make some money. Carefully placed ads won't get in the way of content. I'm still surfing around to see just how and where everyone else are placing their ads. If I find something that I particular like, I make a note and consider using it on my existing or future blog.
Favicons (16x16) ..... Avatars (48x48) ..... Buttons (120x60)
I like those. If you set up the favicons just how you have it shown, I think it artsy and will attract attention.
I love this story. I had to post about it at gmarr.com
Keep up the great work.
Sorry if i commented twice...had a little malfunction.
all the best
Gord
dude, your blog rocks!!! and so so your post, they're so interesting.
please, visit my site
What about text link ads? Here's a site that calculates how much you can charge.
Thanks MC. Another friend of mine referred me to that tool and now I'm charging the amount they suggest (the average of 4 and 6 because I will be taking 5 links).
CONGRATULATIONS! I like the favicons and the avatars both. I love THETHINKINGBLOG and MyBlogLog.com.
Thanks to everyone for making this a great community!
Adrienne
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