We have to be content with trying to get as many offsite clicks as we can. I was looking at a few statistics today and I saw that 60.5% of yesterday's visitors clicked on something or other to leave this blog (i.e. offsite clicks). If this is considered good, bad or indifferent compared to others I have no idea and it doesn't particularly concern me.
What does concern me is:
(1) that 39.5% didn't click on an outgoing link. Though, you never know, perhaps they are still, even now, reading the blog!
Of course, not all offsite clicks are necessarily money makers. Some may be to other blogs I have exchanged links with and all sorts of other places. I'd still like to think, though, that visitors leave the blog by clicking on a link.
(2) The other thing that concerns me is that perhaps readers will go elsewhere prematurely before they have finished seeing everything that this blog has to offer.
To get round this I am now starting to make my links open in a new browser window. This way the clicker will see my blog again if he/she doesn't find the site they have gone to is of value. Otherwise the danger is that they may go off surfing never to be seen again.
To those that don't know how to force a page to load into a new browser window it is very easy to do. Simply use TARGET="_blank" after the links URL address.
So my thinking today is devoted to getting more offsite clicks - without resorting to any underhand tricks or incentives. If anyone has any suggestions or ideas they would be most welcome.
I usually give a few links on Fridays to other blog posts I have found interesting. Because of my holiday I've had lots to catch up on so I'll leave this to next week.
However I will mention three posts that Rhys has published as they may be of interest if you haven't seen them. They are entitled: Getting Easy Beer Money From Blogging.The link is to the first of the three posts, you can follow the others on his blog.
Rhys has self styled himself as the Two Hundred Dollar Blogger and he writes about ...
'... the methods I use to try and get a little extra cash from this here blog. If you’re skint, I do recommend trying these, as they’re very little work (as you’re already blogging), but could get a bit of cash in your back pocket.'
Go take a look. There's no hype, just a genuine bloke's way of making some extra money with his blog.
Good luck,
Mike.
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