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Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Traffic Stats the A List Will Never Tell You
I'm sure many of you are longing for the day when you have an RSS following in the thousands and an Alexa Ranking in the Top 10,000. Fess up...
You are impressed by stuff like that - High PR, Massive Twitter Following, all the little signs of "wow this site must be successful" and "I bet they are making money". (Success and making money do not necessarily go hand in hand.)
To that end I just thought some of you would like to know some real numbers.
Allyn Hane had mentioned in his comments on Blogger Illustrated that he was kinda shocked that Chris Brogan got so few comments on his posts in spite of 45K RSS readers. The same applies to Darren Rowse 165K or Brian Clark at CopyBlogger 105K and so on with the A list.
The thing most people don't realize is that most of those RSS numbers are grossly inflated with the numbers added by Aweber Sign Ups. Download a free report or buy one of their books and you end up in the RSS number. The numbers are in no way reflective of how many people actually sign up for just reading the post feeds.
Hence don't assume you are going to get a flood of traffic by Guest posting or racing to get a fanboy comment first in queue on one of these sites. The fact is only a very small percentage of readers ever bother to read the daily feed update, even less click over to the site in question and most readers just delete the notification in the email alert. This is reflected in just how few comments these large blogs get in relation to their "perceived" reach and influence.
Between the 3 sites they have 300K readers... and yet they manage only a 1000 members for the Problogger.com forum. A couple thousand (or so I've seen mentioned) for the Third Tribe Marketing thing/forum. Not really a whole lot of clout when you think about it. Those they do influence tend to be the same small group of fans that fawn over them on their sites while the rest of their readers have largely ignored their call to open their wallets.
I used to wonder just how much traffic do you need to breathe the rarefied air among Alexa's Top 10k sites.
Well I have broken into it from time to time - most recently the other day, and the first time I did months ago I remember thinking how far off I had been regarding just how much traffic was necessary.
Click to enlarge images.
In fact the real numbers will probably surprise a lot of you.
Here is another shot of my site compared to the "Big Guys" taken today and you'll notice that I topped Brogan's site for a day or two.
Wanna' know how much traffic he has?
Keep in mind that I'm talking averages and not absolutes. How well Alexa tracks and quantifies search traffic (they are getting better btw.) as compared to toolbar/social traffic could skew things. ie. maybe you rank better with much less traffic if it is heavily toolbar/social or maybe the same applies to search and not so much to the toolbar. Never the less, for our purposes I just thought some of you might be interested in some raw numbers...
But not until I hear your guesses...
Leave a comment and tell me how much traffic you think a site needs to sit 7k on Alexa.
I'll tell you the answer after the comments
Cheers,
Griz
Project Payday - A Legit Method to Make Money at Home
I have included Project Payday on my blog for all of my readers who write in asking if there are any legit online programs that they can use to make some quick money. Project Payday is not a get rich quick scheme - it is more like a work at home job. You don't need a blog or website as it involves getting paid to try out trial offers from online advertisers. There is work to this but you can realistically earn a couple of hundred dollars a day if you want to put in the effort.
I have written several posts about this and suggest you start with this one. Project Payday
(*See full Earnings Disclosure Below)Unfortunately Project Payday is only available to American users at this time. (Non Americans see program below - Cashcrate).
CashCrate is another program similar to Project Payday and they do accept people world wide - it's free to join.
For comparative purposes the stats above reflect my actual earnings with Cashcrate. Your earnings will obviously vary.
* Full Disclosure - Project Payday
My Actual Project Payday Earnings - Yours Will Vary
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But seriously folks...
You have probably figured out by now that you aren't going to find the answer in a $47 ebook or by following your favorite twit on twitter. The fact is many of you are still wondering how this plain free hosted Blogger blog dominates the rankings on the search engines - right? Did you find this site by typing in "make money online" in Google?
If you did then you are halfway to learning the secret to making money online - you need targeted traffic from the search engines (for any niche you pick) and once you have that, you can sell them what they are looking for. Sounds simple and on paper it is - actually dominating the search engines is the hard part. It takes time and you do need to understand keywords and anchor text links. You can spend time on this site and sift through my posts to learn this or you can do yourself a favor and pony up one buck and test drive Court's Keyword Academy Crash Course for a month and learn just why I rank number 1 in the search engines.
This isn't another waste of money or time - just an honest answer for the few of you willing to do the work and who really do want to make a long term sustainable living online. Read my blog from back to front or try a more focused approach with Court - either way you will not be disappointed.
Cheers
Griz
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Please note: These days I get more email than I can keep up with so may I suggest if you need an answer fast please use the comments section and hopefully someone will point you in the right direction if I can't. Thanks. Griz
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Janet (who hosts the video above) and owns "make money at home with Janet" is a long time reader and friend and practices my SEO method of making long term recurring income using Adsense as a prime monetization method. She has also taken my methods and created a very useful book that covers all the basics to my system of marketing online. (SEO + Search Traffic = Money) In effect she has written the book I would have wrote if I wasn't so lazy. To that end I completely recommend this as a substitute to reading my entire blog. If you are a beginner and need step by step instructions to do what I do then forget the fluff ebooks pedaled by the Social Media crowd. This is not for those of you already familiar with my methods of serp ranking and Adsense optimization. If you are new to my site and don't know where to start then Janet's guide is the best place to start. You can read more on her site: Nomad's Guide to Make Money Online
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I recommend...
Make Money Online with Vic Franqui - Blogger Unleashed (No Longer Publishes but the old stuff is worth reading)
Learn How to Make Money Online with Courtney Tuttle and check out his new Make Money site (Nov 08) The Keyword Academy
Note: Court and Mark have the best Internet Marketing course available online at The Keyword Academy Coaching
Frank at OpTempo or check out his new How to Earn Money Online blog - Earn Online Cash
Terry at his Make Money blog - The Honest Way
Trent at his Internet Marketing Business Strategies blog and his new Make Money Online site
RT at his Living in the Philippines blog Untwisted Vortex
Costa at his Home Based Business blog Blogigs
Splork at his Ways to Make Money Online blog
Fiar at his Political Humor blog
Learn How to Make Passive Income Online with Lissie or check out her Residual Income Blog
See Blogger Illustrated's Allyn Hane for Video Blogging at it's finest
A new man on the block who is doing things right - Ben at How to Make Money Online with SEO
and of course my "other" Grizzly Blog Make Money Online
If you are a beginner then read the right blogs and avoid all the nonsense you read on the so called A-List. If you want to earn money online then learn from the people who are doing it right and are not just selling you stuff you don't need or for that matter, they aren't selling anything at all.
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