Making money with your blog
What statistics should I look at?
Blog statistics provide a medium for interpreting what your
readers are really looking for. When you
write blog posts they should be fresh and full of new content so that people
will be interested in them. After you
write a few articles you can use the Blogger stats to determine what people are
reading and where they went after they read it.
Within Blogger my favorite choices are page views by post, search keywords
and page views by Browsers. From here
you can decide to target new blog posts to those specific subjects or go
in-depth about the existing subject. Page
ranking is determined by the efficiency of your page and by how much traffic it
receives. Tuning up your page is only
the first step in a long process of making your blog successful. Once you start getting page views the
on-going goal is to gear your content to the people who are interested in you.
How can I make money now that I have views?
Assuming you have a good blog going and you are getting
enough people hitting your site, the next step is to monetize it and make your
time worthwhile. There are two options
in Blogger, AdSense and Affiliate Ads.
This is typical across most blogging engines, but the main money maker
is the AdSense option. This shows
generated ads based on your content within your blog allowing your reads to
drill into a product or website that helps better their searching experience.
Each time an ad on your blog is clicked you get a certain dollar amount that
represents what that click was worth to Google.
Over time these clicks can add up and you will receive a payment from
Google for your earnings. AdSense
specifically has an analytics engine that shows you where the ads are coming
from and how often you will receive payment.