26 Oct
Posted by Dom
Tags: advertising, revenue, success, techcrunch
If my previous post about quitting blogging was enough to make you want to go and jump off the nearest bridge, take heart, because this proves it is possible to make a living out of blogging - and then some.
Michael Arrington set up TechCrunch - a blog about Internet startups in silicon valley - [...]
So Money Blogger has been round for a whole week now, so I thought I’d share a few stats with you.
Total page views: 400
Feed subscribers: 11
Pages indexed by Google: 19
Total revenue: $27.77
That’s a fairly stonking $69 CPM!
Now, with that level of traffic, those figures are still fairly meaningless, so one of the things I’ll [...]
I’ve been using Text-Link-Ads on my other sites since April, so I wanted to give a specific example of how TLA enabled me to kick start a site that previously made very little revenue.
If you don’t already know, TLA allows you to sell “hard coded” text links on your site. Advertisers benefit because not [...]
36 cents!
Ok, so it’s revenue rather than profit as I’m still out of pocket for the domain name, but it goes to show you can make money from your very first day blogging. That 36 cents came from one click generated by 78 page views.
The other interesting statistic is that Feedburner is reporting we [...]