Making Money Worldwide

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I was reading Darren Rowse's post Where Do Your Readers Come From and I thought I'd take another look at where my visitors originate.

I was quite surprised to see that I have now had visitors from 136 different countries worldwide. I must admit that some of them I couldn't actually place on a world map. I guess this shows that the whole world wants to make money and that we need, therefore, something to promote that will span the globe.

So what appeals to everyone, of all nationalities? Friendship!

Based on this asumption, here's a list of all sorts of friendship sites that you can join for free.

But, better still, for one sign up - again for free - you can promote all of the sites to your worldwide visitors and make money from them.

Amigos - Personal Ads
Asian Friends
Big Church Christian Friends
French Friends
Filipino Friends
German Friends
Italian Friends
Indian Friends
Jewish Friends
Korean Friends
Passion - Romance
Senior Friends
Worldwide Friends

Adult Sites (over 18's)
ALT - Alternative Interests
Adult Friends Worldwide
Bondage
Cams.Com
Gay Friends
Lesbian Friends
To make money from any of the above, and a few more besides, simply click here.

You can promote just one or two of the sites, on your blog, or all of them. The choice is yours. Either way there is potential to make money from all of your worldwide visitors.

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Worldwide Blogging - But 95% Of Us Don't Have A Blog

We keep reading about the number of blogs that are in existence. I've seen figures suggested of between 50 and even 200 million and everyone seems to marvel at this fact.

However there is another way of looking at things:

For whatever figure is bandied about the fact remains that about 95% of the world population don't have a blog at the moment. If we see things from this angle it stresses the real potential of blogging. There is still a massive market out there waiting to be conquered - and a lot of money to be made!

I've written before about how we have to look at blogging from a worldwide perspective and not as a localised project. Sure there will be blogs for local things, of interest to local readers only but most have the potential to be reached by people from all over the world.

A friend researched the following figures. As to how accurate these are I have no idea, they could all be a figment of his fertile imagination for all I know! I reckon the real truth, as to the number of blogs, is very difficult to ascertain and even more difficult to break down into specific countries. Anyway, for what it's worth:

Australia: approx 410,000 blogs
Austria: approx 22,000
Belgium: approx 105,000
Brunei: approx 3,500
Canada: approx 750,000
China: approx 5.5 million
Croatia: approx 45,000
Czech: approx 5,500
Denmark: approx 5,500
Finland: approx 110,000
France: approx 3.5 million
Germany: approx 300,000
India: approx 120,000
Ireland: approx 79,000
Israel: approx 110,000
Italy: approx 220,000
Japan: approx 4.4 million
Malaysia: approx 12,000
Netherlands: approx 650,000
Philippines: approx 80,000
Poland: approx 1.6 million
Russia: approx 330,000
South Korea: approx 15 million
Spain: 1.7 million
Ukraine: 55,000
UK: 2.8 million
United States: approx 15-30 million

Treat the above as purely entertainment value!

From my own point of view, it's interesting that for a long time my stats showed that my main visitors originated from the UK and USA - often as high as 85%. This is now altering with a shift towards more Asian visitors. UK and USA visitors presently make up 65% of my visitors with Asia now having risen to 15%.

I guess all of this just means: Think worldwide when considering affiliate and advertising programs.

Good luck,
Mike.


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Think Worldwide To Make Money

Sometimes I think it is easy to forget that blogging is a worldwide phenomena and not something related to one or two countries. It's easy to think of a blog as being just for your own country when the reality is that it's open house to all of the world.

"Okay, so what?" you may ask.

Well this does need consideration if, like me, the theme of your blog is money making. Are your adverts and affiliate schemes, for example, suitable for whoever arrives at your blog? Or are you just looking for sales from your own country? If you are, you are limiting your potential.

Let's see what I mean by looking at a few stats about this blog. Firstly, it has had visits from 108 different countries. Now it's true that the bulk of these are from the USA and the UK but this is gradually shifting as the blog gets more known on the search engines. If you look at my last three Weekly Reports you will see how Google referrals are increasing.

Back in October 2006 over 80% of visitors arrived either from the USA and the UK whereas now this figure is down to between 51% and 60% - depending on which tracker figures I use.

The chart below shows the continents with percentages that visit this blog.

The point I am trying to make is that if you want to make money there has to be something suitable for the majority of readers and not a select few.

Using my Amazon aStore as an example, this is at Amazon.UK. It is only really suitable, therefore, for UK residents. As only about 25% of my visitors are from the UK this means that I am losing the potential business of every 75 out of 100 people who turn up at the blog. In other words I'm only getting a quarter of the commission I could possibly earn.

I accept that some blogs are directed purely at a specific country but most aren't. We have to, therefore, think global in relation to any money making attempts. I think this is one of the reasons why things like the FriendFinder Group, which is suitable for the whole world, can prove successful. I'm not suggesting that you should become an affiliate, it is only an illustration of the range of worldwide products we perhaps should be looking for.

As per usual, I'm not going to say what you should do or where you should look. I'm simply sowing a few thought seeds and emphasising the point that blogging is worldwide and the products should match this. This does sometimes appear to be overlooked.

Good luck,
Mike.


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