Who is trying to deceive you that money is not in the traffic?
I hate it
when people twist the truth about blogging and traffic. Recently I have read
some articles whereby on the process of the authors trying to pass some
messages across, they end up twisting the truth and telling people not to rely
on traffic for money that money is not in the traffic.
I was
particularly pieced off after reading those pieces, so I decided to put up this
post to let you know and stand by the fact about traffic and blog monetization
other than getting deceived.
The fact
about blogging, monetization and traffic have not in any way changed and will
never change as traffic still remains the key to making money while blogging on
a well monetized blog. Content can be king but money is in the traffic.
Not only
even blogging, as traffic remains the livewire of every online and offline
business or activities in terms of revenue generation. When we mention traffic
here, we are referring to massive traffic which is the major ingredient for
raking in $$$ into your bank account on any set out business.
I just want
to believe that those making such wrong statement that money is not in the
traffic don’t truly know what massive traffic can do to a well monetized blog. And
maybe they were just looking at a situation where bloggers receive only about
2K to 5k daily unique visitors and failed to see the monetary potentials in
having far beyond those number of blog visits daily.
Do you
actually know what will happen to a well monetized blog let’s say with
affiliate links and Adsense ads and that receive about 50k to 100k daily unique
visitors? Or a blog that receive beyond 100k daily unique visitors. Now tell us
if it will not easily transcend to cool daily $$$...off course a blogger with
such daily traffic no doubt will be raking in some reasonable amount of dollars
on daily basis with his/her various monetization means.
Have you
ever wondered why online marketers will keep on telling you that money is in the list? Or do you think
that when they make such statement that they are referring to list of only 10
to 20 subscribers?
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What they
meant by that is that money is in the list that contains traffic (volumes of subscribers). From now on, whenever somebody is trying to
tell you to forget about traffic to your blog and concentrate on other aspect,
you should endeavor to ask the person if he/she will be the only person that
will be making purchase through your affiliate links or if he/she alone will be
the one clicking on your ads.
Let me just
give you a typical insight on how traffic to a well monetized blog works in
generating steady cash.
I want you
to look at it in this way; it is true that not every visitors to your blog will
be interested in those your ads showing on your blog, some might be interested
whereas others might not. And it is also fact that the more visitors you have
to your blog that sees those ads, the more you will have those that will show
sign of interest to the ads, and the higher tendency that they will make
purchase through your links or click through those ads.
You can read: 10 amazing benefits of blogging
Massive
traffic to a blog is the only thing that explains why you earn more with a blog
with lower Click Through Rate (CTR) than those blogs with low traffic but with
higher CTR. And it also explains why a blog with low Cost per Click (CPC) ads
will still earn reasonably.
If you are
still wondering how possible what I just mentioned above could turn out to be, I
will break it down further with example for better comprehension.
If you have
for example a low traffic blog that receives 1000 unique daily visitors and
also receive average of 1% CTR to the ads on the blog, what that mean is that
the blogger in question is getting an average of 10 clicks to his/her ads from
those visitors.
Now on the
other hand, you have a blog with massive traffic of about 100k unique daily
visitors but receives a lower CTR of about 0.5% daily, what that implies is
that the blogger in question is getting about 500 clicks to his/her ads.
You can also read: 10 reasons why you should not just engage in copy pasting blogging
You can now
see that even with lower CTR a high traffic blog always reign supreme than low
or average traffic blog.
Do not be deceived
by anybody that is trying to twist the fact about blogging and traffic. Money
has always been in the traffic and will forever remain like that. Even
advertisers prefer spending the money and placing their ads on high traffic
blogs than low traffic blogs
If you are
happy with this piece, kindly use the comment box below to express yourself.
Who is trying to deceive you that money is not in the traffic?
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Hi Edwin
ReplyDeleteVery valid point you raised here and it must be an eye opener for all.
Traffic means the customers at your blog. What a shopkeeper can do if no one is ready to come to his shop. Same is the point with a blog but here the problem of physical presence also arises.
Whatever type of business you do offline you have a limited target audience of a specific area. By and by you get famous there and establish your brand and eventually people come to buy your products.
But in online business we have to first create our space, then promote what we are doing, then search the people who want to get what we are doing and ultimatley to influence them the best thing in the market is what we are doing. So it is quite challenging to achieve your online business goals due to its lesser age as compare to offline world and its invisibility or intangibility becuase whatever you sell you just show it with images and narrate it with words.
Thanks for sharing a post on a very unique but quite important topic.
I found this at kingged.com and also kingged it there.
Hope to see you around.
Have a wonderful week.
Hi Muba,
ReplyDeletefirst of all I want to say that I am very glad to have you over here. Secondly it shows you understood every bit of the message the post was trying to relay especially when you mentioned that traffic means customers at your blog...exactly.
I also want to go inline with what you said about being difficult to achieve online goals as compared to offline targets as regards to online invisibility of the products one is going for unlike the offline business.
Thank you so much once for rendering a wonderful contribution down here and we sincerely appreciate all the effort you put in place to make sure you contributed meaningfully.
Ow, there is a logical explanation that traffic is money. Not totally money, but could help you make money. Of course, it will start with you, work, write, publish a high quality article, sell product and services that are trustworthy, and then share it with social media, Google, use hash tags, keywords and so on.
ReplyDeleteAs a result, you’ll gain traffic, subscribers, attract new readers or customers, and make a sale. It's not simple, but it is how it works logically.
Blogging needs hard work, passion and honesty. Success is the result you'll reap if you'll use your knowledge.
It is a revelation and very mind-proving article. Thanks for this!
Hi Metz,
Deleteyeah, Metz success is truly what one will reap if one package his/her knowledge very well. You have succeeded in letting us know that blogging involves sequence of other things that must be put together first even before the traffic that will amount to money will start flowing, because traffic on its on will not just start flowing into a blog that has not has not being set up in those sequence of work put together.
Thank you for coming over and dropping your wonderful and always appreciated opinion. Do have a great weekend ahead