Thursday, October 04, 2007
10/04/2007 07:27:00 AM
10/04/2007 07:27:00 AM
Looking for Chics - I mean Clicks!
posted by FH2o
This shows that readers to kennysia.com don't know how to click!Since Kenny's mention in his 2nd October posting of his Halong Bay experience; FH2o: Kuching Kayaking have had over 600 hits! But this is a fraction of the over 10,000 hits Kenny Sia gets in a day from which I can perhaps conclude that his readers are click-phobia, lazy or plain stewpig tech 'un-savy'! I do not have any idea of the demographics of kennysia.com's reader but since Kenny is only 24; I would guess that they would be still be wet behind the ears of the MTV internet generation - and yet they don't understand a linked post? Strange. Or maybe unker is famous enough already! Mind you I'm not complaining about the 600 over hits and if any of you are reading this - a warm welcome here lah! It's cool that you guys are here and you know what? You guys are even stranger than me! Whatever ...
Another more likely reason is that analogous to google's adsense program; there may be many page views but hardly any clicks. This would explain that despite having displayed adsense on my blog since early January this year, the earnings have been minimal - I received my first check after the end of July when the figure finally exceed USD100/- But this is still way much better than homegrown Advertlets (RM12.80) and Nuffnang (RM9.25) which I had since taken off my blog as the earnings are really kacang-putih! Why waste your blog's real estate space? I also find the flashing ads glaring/visually intrusive which starts to get annoying when you see them all over the place (in Malaysian blogs)! Perhaps those of you who've had better results with these either or both of the above may care to share their experience with us here?
Writing paid post yields much faster results although I have yet to sign up on the popular PayPerPost program and it would be interesting to find out if they pay better than Blogvertise that I'd already signed up. I am also wary that sponsored post may in a way spoil the 'authenticity' of one's blog and some people would find them fake and annoying. From observations and deductions, to make any decent amount I guess that one would need to submit around 3 posts per day! Unless one can research and write fast; that would take up a significant amount of time. Anyway it's all part of the experience and fun of blogging and as with most thing in life - if you don't try, you'll never know. Kayaking anyone?
Another more likely reason is that analogous to google's adsense program; there may be many page views but hardly any clicks. This would explain that despite having displayed adsense on my blog since early January this year, the earnings have been minimal - I received my first check after the end of July when the figure finally exceed USD100/- But this is still way much better than homegrown Advertlets (RM12.80) and Nuffnang (RM9.25) which I had since taken off my blog as the earnings are really kacang-putih! Why waste your blog's real estate space? I also find the flashing ads glaring/visually intrusive which starts to get annoying when you see them all over the place (in Malaysian blogs)! Perhaps those of you who've had better results with these either or both of the above may care to share their experience with us here?
Writing paid post yields much faster results although I have yet to sign up on the popular PayPerPost program and it would be interesting to find out if they pay better than Blogvertise that I'd already signed up. I am also wary that sponsored post may in a way spoil the 'authenticity' of one's blog and some people would find them fake and annoying. From observations and deductions, to make any decent amount I guess that one would need to submit around 3 posts per day! Unless one can research and write fast; that would take up a significant amount of time. Anyway it's all part of the experience and fun of blogging and as with most thing in life - if you don't try, you'll never know. Kayaking anyone?
Labels: Blogging, Making Money Online
Stumble It!6 Comments:
At Saturday, 06 October, 2007 
Pandabonium said:
At Monday, 08 October, 2007 FH2o said:
panda - Around a hundred is a very respectable figure. And your blog is so informative and your regular readers will keep coming back.
At Wednesday, 10 October, 2007 
Puteri said:
Francis, I do payperpost .. not bad, better than Blogvertise. But have to catch the good opps though. Your Google PR, and Alexa ranks are better than mine, and with that your opportunities for better paying opps are better with Payperpost.
Moreover with you own domain name, you are also in a better position, that is more opps available to those with own domain, compared to blogs with free hosting like Blogspot, like mine. However, in less than a month, I'll be able to submit another blog with my own domain. Hopefully can more from two blogs! :-)
Next time, we are in Kuching again, hope Doug can have his kayaking trip! That there'll be others who can join him for that day!
Moreover with you own domain name, you are also in a better position, that is more opps available to those with own domain, compared to blogs with free hosting like Blogspot, like mine. However, in less than a month, I'll be able to submit another blog with my own domain. Hopefully can more from two blogs! :-)
Next time, we are in Kuching again, hope Doug can have his kayaking trip! That there'll be others who can join him for that day!
At Wednesday, 10 October, 2007 FH2o said:
hi puteri! Thanks for sharing this with me which is most helpful. Frankly up to today I pay no heed to Google PR and Alexa ranking or even the idea of making money from one's blog! But I find it fascinating that the pro-bloggers are making big bugs and I am really curious to find out how they actually do it. This is after all our blog and we can explore and take our blog in a different direction if we so wish without worrying about losing readership or whatever.
I look forward to take Doug out kayaking on your next visit here. Cheers.
I look forward to take Doug out kayaking on your next visit here. Cheers.
At Wednesday, 10 October, 2007 Pandabonium said:
Thank you.
At Thursday, 11 October, 2007 Puteri said:
Those probloggers make their money thru advertising. Because of the high traffic they have, they can put a price to the advertising space that they have, or they get paid to do reviews for some company or other.
Ever since I started doing paid post, I started paying to my rankings too! Too bad, it is not rising as first as others with better things to offer! Heheh, but still a few dollars here and there every week, can amount to something we have never thought of making just thru blogging!
Ever since I started doing paid post, I started paying to my rankings too! Too bad, it is not rising as first as others with better things to offer! Heheh, but still a few dollars here and there every week, can amount to something we have never thought of making just thru blogging!
I'm not looking for big traffic, so it really isn't important in my case, but it was kind of a blow to my ego to have my traffic take such a big nose dive! Now that I understand why, I feel better about it.