For the second month in a row, posting my freelance writing income stats has resulted in an increased number of emails in my inbox. This time around, after only a day, several readers have asked why I do not attempt to monetize this blog. As I have mentioned in the past, monetization is important to me, but not until I reach certain traffic levels.
Now that I have built a solid readership, surpassed my traffic goals, and have the okay of my readers, I think it may be time to add some Google AdSense blocks. For the most part, when I decide to do this it will be more or less an experiment. There are two things that I will be looking for.
1. How much money can I make with Google AdSense? Is it really worth adding, or will it do nothing more than make me a few pennies every day?
2. My readers are important to me, and although they are known as “traffic stats†they mean more to me than that. Will Google AdSense affect my reader base either negatively or positively? This is what I will really be keeping my eye on.
With no technical skills, adding Google AdSense to this blog is not going to be easy for me. In fact, it will be a trial and error process. While I do have other blogs that use this advertising program, I have always paid others to help me out with adding the code, etc. But on this blog, my goal is to learn this kind of stuff on my own. So bear with me if there are some changes along the way that are not as they should be!
Related Link:Sabahan.com offers plenty of information and tips on Google AdSense.
Ever since the big response to my freelance writing income last month, I have been looking forward to disclosing my earnings for August. Well, the time has finally arrived!
Over the first 10 days of August I was slightly concerned that my income was going to stay just about the same as the previous month. But as the month wore on, I began to pick up a lot of repeat work. Additionally, I also secured a few new jobs through referrals.
Listed below are my freelance writing income stats for the month of August 2007.
Number of Completed Projects: 30
Payment by PayPal: 28
Payment by Check: 1
Payment by Bank Wire: 1
Total Income: $5,705.61
As you can see, I earned $810.83 more in August than in July. This is not a huge jump in income, but a good sign nonetheless. I am still several thousand dollars away from my highest months earlier in 2007, but once again, setting up other income streams and working on new projects has cut into my time.
After posting my freelance writing income in July I received 51 comments; the record by far on ChrisBlogging. Additionally, the article was stumbled time and time again. Even though comments and stumbles are nice for me, they are even better for the people out there who want to reach this income level as a freelance writer. So once again, I hope that you guys and gals can add some great comments, and stumble this article if you see fit!
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Yesterday was the 100th post on this blog. The first one was on June 4, 2007, and since then I have been going strong at a pace of at least one post per day.
Even though I have a lot left to accomplish, I am glad that ChrisBlogging has built such a strong readership in just about three months. After all, there are millions of blogs that simply die down after a month or so.
Here are three tips that have helped me during my first 100 blog posts, and are sure to guide me from here on out.
1. Posting at least one time per day is essential. Yes, it can be difficult to stay on this pace, but if you want your blog to succeed, you need to put the time in. Remember, readers come to your blog to get updated on fresh content. You need to give it to them on a regular basis.
2. One post per day is important, but one quality post per day is even more crucial. Making quality and quantity work together will help you to grow your blog from day one.
3. I try my best to stay on topic with each post that I make. Even though this can be difficult because I have so many thoughts to share, it is not something to be taken lightly. If I start to post about off-topic subjects it is safe to say that readers will start to look elsewhere for their information.
Try to keep these tips in mind know matter how experienced you are, or how long your blog has been around. They will help you to reach 100 quality posts in no time at all, and hopefully 100 more just as quickly.Â
