Thank you for sharing your knowledge and experience! I’m always looking for ways to improve myself and I’m glad to have found your blog. Thank you for sharing with us.

Cheers,
Roy

I just came across this post and I don’t know why I overlooked it before.

It’s, IMO, one of the most useful posts (in my case) I’ve ever read – You answer a part of my questions on blog monetisation.

Way to go, Yaro!

ps: happy travelling!

If you had one you could just say – go install Google Analytics and SiteMeter for me please and you would have it done in 10 minutes.

Abi – I don’t really have any experience doing what you are suggesting. You should check out some of the domainer forums, they talk about that stuff all the time.

Thanks,
Rob West:)

Although you have written articles on the subject of website flipping, I ran across some of the more legal issues pertaining to the specific niche of “orphan domains”. This is buying .com domains and selling them to the .net or .org owners for a profit. Is it possible to expand on that from your view?

Thanks again,
Warm Regards,
Abi

“I much prefer business models that depend on attracting attention and keeping it long term, not driving it away as soon as you get it.”

PPC drives away the readers. If your readers click the ads, the landing page after clicking the ads will be opened on the same window, the readers will not looking at your page anymore. It is true that you will get paid as the result of the clicks but remembering the fact that most of the AdSense clickers are first time visitors, you will lost their attention. If you have products or services to promote and sell, you will lost the chance to convert your first time visitors into a potential customers or subscribers if they right away spotted the AdSense and then click it. It’s fine if you get for example $10 for every click, but it’s not it’s mostly far away less than that and you can’t control the price…

Yes, I know you have another course coming.

Thanks Steve,

On my wordpress blog there are site stats but it seems unreliable. The figure for visitors on a particular date varies from day to day. No idea what is going on.

How would I get a site meter or access google’s information? I really don’t know anything about the tech side of things.

I’m trying to understand google analytics at the moment. “Just paste this onto the page” doesn’t actually tell me anything at my level of ignorance.

Thanks for your responses guys.

Evan

@Iyabo – AdSense works on any site that gets traffic and the audience is not adsense blind, however the actual CTR varies a lot.

@ian – I’m not sure what kind of site example you are after? Do you mean an example of a membership site or a website that teaches people how to launch membership sites?

@Abhijeet – This post was probably 3 hours in total over the course of a day. I actually struggled a bit because I was going to respond to every single point (all 28) initially, but then realized I would probably have a 6000 word article and it would take the entire day.

Thanks a bunch Yaro.

Outstanding.

I know I need to attract more traffic. Even so, your post helps very well. Thanks for sharing.

I think adsense works best on smaller niches other than IM,such as health and fitness,flat stomach tips,etc.What do you think?

Regarding G and relying on one source for both referrals and income, I’ve trembled at thought myself over the last year or so. It would take a slap, Adsense CPM declining substantially, or both and about 70% of my income would be down the drain.

Keep up the good work.

Evan, try sitemeter to measure traffic stats, but you can just check your logs if your host provides a decent interface. If not, you have to get a third party application or sift through hundreds of pages of CSV text files. You can also use Google to measure your stats, it’s free.