Comments on: Partial Poll Results – Building Blog Readership Tips Wanted

By: Comic Strip Blogger

Comic Strip Blogger — Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:05:25 +0000

You forgot “give aways”, for example where gadgets are being given away to readers.

By: Vix

Vix — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 00:28:27 +0000

I agree with blogINDIA. My main focus is how to put together content that is of value to the reader that he/she will keep coming back.

By: Martin (HomeOfficeVoice)

Martin (HomeOfficeVoice) — Mon, 19 Sep 2005 23:00:18 +0000

Good point Stuart – it’s the old “don’t put all your eggs in the one basket”. We all should be looking at getting a mix ( the right mix is different for everybody) of income streams: what about getting direct sponsorships/advertisers for yor blog? I know that’s worked quite well for me in the past.

By: Stuart

Stuart — Mon, 19 Sep 2005 22:07:40 +0000

Yep – all those people who want to know about Adsense are being very short-sighted imho.

If you genuinely want to earn money from advertising then you should not be restricting your income stream to just one source. What happens if one day the unthinkable happens and Google cuts you off from Adsense – or even turns Adsense off?

With only one source of income you’re basically stuffed while you play catch-up to establish new revenue streams.

By: blogINDIA

blogINDIA — Mon, 19 Sep 2005 21:29:11 +0000

Building a better blog and bringing in the readers is of first concern to me before beginning to earn. More visitors will certainly mean higher income just as a matter of probability.

Also, though I didn’t vote for any other income stream than Adsense, it would be good to hear of your experiences in these other Ad systems, if you’ve been using them.

By: Allen Heat

Allen Heat — Mon, 19 Sep 2005 19:13:06 +0000

I’d love to hear more about building readership, but RSS advertising resources are so rare nowadays that i voted for it :)

Heat

By: LcF

LcF — Mon, 19 Sep 2005 18:48:59 +0000

People knows Darren is earning alot from Adsense, that’s why “Adsense” get more votes. I voted for other income streams because not many bloggers are doing well with them. Also, I am interested to increase the readership and improve content writing.

By: ~dawn

~dawn — Mon, 19 Sep 2005 16:14:56 +0000

I voted, amoung others, for other advertising systems, specifically Adbrite, blogads -wondering how people felt they worked or not, how quickly space was purchased, etc.

As for bringing in readership, I used the blog explosion and blog clicker at first, until I had regular readers… but I’m hesitant to contact MSM about my site. Now, I just post on forums, blogs and email people back when I can…. my readership base still grows, but at a much smaller rate the last couple months.

By: Jacob Gorban

Jacob Gorban — Mon, 19 Sep 2005 15:07:29 +0000

It’s also interesting to note that most people are interested in Adsense optimization and all other forms of income don’t add up together to adsense. Adsense is really easy and versatile (I’m using it myself) but with all the blogs using adsense I’d think people will be more interested to learn other revenue possiblities.

By: Matt

Matt — Mon, 19 Sep 2005 14:47:14 +0000

I think that the reason the other revenue stream generating topics are near the bottom is that if the rest of your blog is good (i.e., content, design, and you have developed a faithful readership), monetization will follow. Which is probably only partially true, but I think that means that a lot of people have their hearts in the right place. Produce a good blog first, worry about the money next.