Best Way to make money from your blog for starters

This post is for the bloggers or website owners who have just started a blog and want to make some money out of their blog. During the inception of your blog, you will hardly have any traffic and so to get direct sponsors or advertisers is practically impossible. The chances of making money is lean and you may get desperate.

Let me tell you, every business needs some time to settle and takes some time to start generating profit. You should be prepared for this and should not have any expectation for atleast the first six months in the case of blogging. If you are using a paid hosting, you will have to be prepared to pay the hosting bills from your pocket for atleast 6 months.

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Aweber Subscribers Adds to Feedburner Subscriber Counts

Recently I had restarted using Aweber. Aweber is a newsletter handling platform at a very nominal price depending on the number of subscribers. After adding Blog broadcast to Aweber for my blogs, I noticed considerable hike in my subscriber count. What happens is the subscriber count of the Aweber is added to Feedburner.

This is a good feature when you show the Feedburner chicklet on your blog. Getting subscribers initially is a real task, but once your have around 5000 subscribers then its grows at a higher rate. I was reading a post from Johnchow where he mentions that it took 18 months to get the initial 5000 subscribers and now he get 5000 new subscribers every month.

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Reducing Bounce Rate of your blog

Bounce rate is expressed in percentage and is calculated on the basis of the visitors coming to your website and leaving the website after visiting that particular page. For example if out of two visitors 1 visitor returned back from your blog without visiting any other page or link on your blog then the bounce rate is 50%.

How to check your blog’s bounce rate?

The best tool will be to use Google Analytics which clearly gives you almost all the information that you need to know about your blog’s traffic and performance. I would suggest to get the following questions answered looking into the Google Analytics report

What is the percentage of your blog’s bounce rate

What is the bounce rate of individual traffic source like search engines, direct traffic, social networking sites, Google Adwords (If you are using or any other advertising programs). I have found in my case the bounce rate of social media traffic is very high and the best being from search engines and direct traffic

Analyze the bounce rate for individual traffic source and find out which is the source with lower bounce rate

How to reduce your blog’s bounce rate?

Proper linking

It will be good if you have the content of your blog linked well. For example the internal linking will be work good for reducing your blog’s bounce rate. Another way will be adding some plugins like related posts will be helpful

Proper designing

Your blog should be designed well with a professional template and using images which will attract or tempt the visitor to visit another page of your blog

Relevant Topics

If you have different topics covered in your blog, the chances of reducing the bounce rate is high.

Keep analyzing your blog’s bounce rate and work accordingly.

Traffic Source Distribution on my blog

Recently I was just checking the Quality of social networking site traffic. I had a few of my pages in this blog submitted to StumbleUpon and got some traffic from it. I was just going through the Google Analytics report and found something interesting that I thought of sharing with you

I use Google Adwords for this blog and get a lot of clicks from the campaigns. Please note that I do not spend more than US$ 10 for the Ads on Adwords, and I feel its worth. I get most of my traffic from Adwords as this blog is new and there is no pagerank right now. I need to wait until I get good search engine ranking for this blog and it takes time. I am not worried about that, all I need is to have good quality content. I am not buying any links or I am not planning to for the sake of increasing link popularity of to increase the number of backlinks

My second traffic source is direct traffic, which are from visitors, who type in the URL of this blog and come to my blog. So its a good sign. This traffic source of high value and its a good sign

The third one is from StumbleUpon, but I am not happy with the quality of this traffic.

Reasons - The Bounce rate is the highest of all 92.73%, the time spend on this site is an average of just 1.08 minutes which is again the lowest. Time spent by a visitor who came from Google Adwords is 02.24 minutes, bounce rate is 63.28%, time spent by a visitor who came directly to my is 4.54 minutes and the bounce rate is less than 50%.

I feel the best traffic is the traffic which come directly and in my case, the best are from my feed subscribers which has a bounce rate of just 35% and the average time spent is about 19.16 minutes which is very good.

To conclude I would like to say is don’t worry much about the traffic, just concentrate on writing good content, respond to the comments, and provide the best and latest information to your readers. Don’t just rely of traffic from social networking sites. I see many bloggers depending on these traffic. You can use the stats for getting good advertisers for your blog, that is something which is useful from these kind of traffic.