I think a lot of bloggers, especially newer ones, wonder how they are getting on traffic wise compared with other blogs.They sometimes believe that the average blog is getting hundreds and hundreds, if not thousands, of hits. After all, more established bloggers shout it loud when their traffic hits new heights. Must admit I've done this myself.
This can cause newbies despondency when their own blogs perhaps aren't attracting as much attention as they had hoped.
So lets have a reality check!
These are figures based on my own personal research (you are welcome to disagree). Anyway, this is how I see comparative traffic figures.
Supposing there are 5000 blogs picked at random. To be in the Top 100 you would need around 850 visitors a day, but to be in the Top 500 you'd need only about 100 and for the Top 1000 just 50.
At the bottom of the list would be blogs with just 1, 2 or 3 hits.
You see the truth is that the majority of blogs are far from successful and most don't make much money.
This fact shouldn't put anyone off blogging because with just 100+ regular hits you'll be in the top 10% of the blogging elite.
Below are some traffic figures, plucked out of the air, showing where they would place a blog in a random selection of 5000 blogs.
To be in ...
6th position would need about 7213 hits (per day)
13th position would need about 4782 hits
21st position would need about 2687 hits
45th position would need about 1898 hits
65th position would need about 1422 hits
70th position would need about 1296 hits
75th position would need about 1110 hits
80th position would need about 858 hits
94th position would need about 844 hits
108th position would need about 593 hits
279th position would need about 193 hits
393rd position would need about 166 hits
370th position would need about 145 hits
480th position would need about 131 hits
506th position would need about 104 hits
622nd position would need about 70 hits
687th position would need about 81 hits
703rd position would need about 73 hits
819th position would need about 62 hits
907th position would need about 43 hits
3563rd position would need about 3 hits
5000th position would need about 1 hit
Does all of this really matter? Nope, not a bit. With money making blogs it's about how much money you actually make, whether this is with 100 visitors or 10,000 hits.
The truth though, as I see it and keep mentioning, is that it is all a numbers game. The more traffic you can attract to a blog the more money you'll make.
With say Google AdSense you may well need 10,000 page impressions to make $10. If you, therefore, have 10,000 impression a day you'll make $3650 in a year but if you have 100 page impressions a day you'll only make $36.50 a year.
Traffic is therefore virtually the most important thing needed to make money with blogging.
Yes there is good and bad degrees of traffic, quality is important, but ultimately if you attract the right amount of traffic - any traffic - you'll make money.
It's the same as a salesman talking to people at random. If he talks to some people he'll make some money, but if he talks to a lot of people he'll make lots of money.
If a guy at a formal dance asks one or two girls to dance he'll get one or two dances, if he asks lots of girls to dance he'll get lots of dances.
If a ... you get the message!
Good luck,
Mike.
P.S. John has emailed me that his latest Proven Earners Carnival is now published.
