Comments on: Various Announcements http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2005/12/various-announcements/ Personal Development for Smart People Thu, 24 Jul 2008 12:38:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Blog Traffic - From 0 to 1000 In Six Months » Internet Marketing For Small Business - Entrepreneur’s Journey - by Yaro Starak http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2005/12/various-announcements/#comment-10120 Blog Traffic - From 0 to 1000 In Six Months » Internet Marketing For Small Business - Entrepreneur’s Journey - by Yaro Starak Fri, 30 Dec 2005 15:17:11 +0000 http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/?p=365#comment-10120 [...] Now while I can’t boast Steve Pavlina numbers I’m really happy with how things have grown here at Entrepreneur’s Journey. My goal was to have 500 unique readers per day visiting this blog by the end of 2005 and I’ve more than doubled that number. My actual daily traffic numbers broke the one thousand unique visitors barrier a few months ago but the RSS feed count has been peaking around the 800-900 mark for a while, so I’m glad to see it break through. [...] [...] Now while I can’t boast Steve Pavlina numbers I’m really happy with how things have grown here at Entrepreneur’s Journey. My goal was to have 500 unique readers per day visiting this blog by the end of 2005 and I’ve more than doubled that number. My actual daily traffic numbers broke the one thousand unique visitors barrier a few months ago but the RSS feed count has been peaking around the 800-900 mark for a while, so I’m glad to see it break through. [...]

]]> By: Life Coaches Blog » Blog Archive » Why the Ads? http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2005/12/various-announcements/#comment-10077 Life Coaches Blog » Blog Archive » Why the Ads? Sun, 18 Dec 2005 16:11:55 +0000 http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/?p=365#comment-10077 [...] When I first surfed Steve Pavlina’s blog, I thought that this guy sure has a lot of ads on his site! But when I read his announcement that he made over $4700 in income from it in a month, 98% of which from advertising I realized, of course! Why not? After all, he’s doing something extremely important, he’s asking for the sale and he’s making it easy for the client to buy (in this case making it easy for them to click). [...] [...] When I first surfed Steve Pavlina’s blog, I thought that this guy sure has a lot of ads on his site! But when I read his announcement that he made over $4700 in income from it in a month, 98% of which from advertising I realized, of course! Why not? After all, he’s doing something extremely important, he’s asking for the sale and he’s making it easy for the client to buy (in this case making it easy for them to click). [...]

]]> By: Can You Become Good at Everything?»Blog Archive » Ads or No Ads http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2005/12/various-announcements/#comment-10057 Can You Become Good at Everything?»Blog Archive » Ads or No Ads Mon, 12 Dec 2005 21:42:57 +0000 http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/?p=365#comment-10057 [...] I find this to be the main argument against all the Google ads that have littered sites lately. It may be valid but how can I know for sure? My content is constantly being updated so more and more visitors are likely to see my site with or without ads. A good example of high visitor volume and ad usage is Steve Pavlina’s Blog. Steve Pavlina hasn’t argued one way or the other per say. Rather, he just shows you it works. He has oodles of content and has increased page impressions for his site from 36K in January 2005 to 3.2 million in November 2005. He first went about 3 months without ads building both content and readership I would imagine. He then started placing ads everywhere he could. He has tons of ads on his site and claims to make over $4,000 a month just from advertising on his one blog. If that’s not a strong argument for ads I don’t know what is. But Yaro’s point is a good one and it seems as though Steve practiced this for a while. You must build readership by supplying useful content. I would like to take it a bit further by saying people will return to your site either way once they know you will help them in their endeavors, whatever they may be. But the bottom line is you have to present your content cleanly and have enough to reach a majority of web surfers. [...] [...] I find this to be the main argument against all the Google ads that have littered sites lately. It may be valid but how can I know for sure? My content is constantly being updated so more and more visitors are likely to see my site with or without ads. A good example of high visitor volume and ad usage is Steve Pavlina’s Blog. Steve Pavlina hasn’t argued one way or the other per say. Rather, he just shows you it works. He has oodles of content and has increased page impressions for his site from 36K in January 2005 to 3.2 million in November 2005. He first went about 3 months without ads building both content and readership I would imagine. He then started placing ads everywhere he could. He has tons of ads on his site and claims to make over $4,000 a month just from advertising on his one blog. If that’s not a strong argument for ads I don’t know what is. But Yaro’s point is a good one and it seems as though Steve practiced this for a while. You must build readership by supplying useful content. I would like to take it a bit further by saying people will return to your site either way once they know you will help them in their endeavors, whatever they may be. But the bottom line is you have to present your content cleanly and have enough to reach a majority of web surfers. [...]

]]> By: inquisitive monki » Blog Archive » Why Steve Pavlina should hire me… http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2005/12/various-announcements/#comment-10037 inquisitive monki » Blog Archive » Why Steve Pavlina should hire me… Wed, 07 Dec 2005 05:06:34 +0000 http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/?p=365#comment-10037 [...] So, I think we could figure out something that would work out rather nicely for both of us. No response as of yet; but after all, thats why he needs an assistant. Maybe the trackback to his post will help too. If not I may be forced to call him, but I don’t want to seem any more overzealous. I just think I could do a damn fine job and make us both a bit happier; so if you happen to talk to him, tell him to hire me already… [...] [...] So, I think we could figure out something that would work out rather nicely for both of us. No response as of yet; but after all, thats why he needs an assistant. Maybe the trackback to his post will help too. If not I may be forced to call him, but I don’t want to seem any more overzealous. I just think I could do a damn fine job and make us both a bit happier; so if you happen to talk to him, tell him to hire me already… [...]

]]> By: Steve Closes in on Six Figure Blogging Mark: Blog Tips at ProBlogger http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2005/12/various-announcements/#comment-10031 Steve Closes in on Six Figure Blogging Mark: Blog Tips at ProBlogger Mon, 05 Dec 2005 07:11:22 +0000 http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/?p=365#comment-10031 [...] Congratulations to Steve Pavlina who posted a few days back that in less than a year he’s grown his blog’s income from less than $10 per month to last month hitting $4700 for the month. That’s some pretty impressive growth for 10 months! ‘My income goal for the year was to reach $3000/month (from this site that is — this isn’t my primary source of income). In January of this year I made less than $10 from this site, so that’s a nice increase. Aside from adding new content, every month I dive through the metrics and do more experimenting and optimizing. This year my plan was to put down a solid foundation for future growth without concerning myself too much with making an income from it — the second year will be a lot more exciting. Even if I did nothing but continue to write new content and stopped working on optimization altogether, I’d be very surprised if this site generated less than $100,000 next year, so I expect I’ll soon be joining the ranks of six-figure bloggers.’ [...] [...] Congratulations to Steve Pavlina who posted a few days back that in less than a year he’s grown his blog’s income from less than $10 per month to last month hitting $4700 for the month. That’s some pretty impressive growth for 10 months! ‘My income goal for the year was to reach $3000/month (from this site that is — this isn’t my primary source of income). In January of this year I made less than $10 from this site, so that’s a nice increase. Aside from adding new content, every month I dive through the metrics and do more experimenting and optimizing. This year my plan was to put down a solid foundation for future growth without concerning myself too much with making an income from it — the second year will be a lot more exciting. Even if I did nothing but continue to write new content and stopped working on optimization altogether, I’d be very surprised if this site generated less than $100,000 next year, so I expect I’ll soon be joining the ranks of six-figure bloggers.’ [...]

]]> By: 10 Rules For Profitable Blog Startups - Sketch Ideas http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2005/12/various-announcements/#comment-10027 10 Rules For Profitable Blog Startups - Sketch Ideas Sun, 04 Dec 2005 20:09:03 +0000 http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/?p=365#comment-10027 [...] Oh, and Steve Pavlina is the six-figure blogger now. Cat:  [...] [...] Oh, and Steve Pavlina is the six-figure blogger now. Cat:  [...]

]]> By: Joe White's Blog http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2005/12/various-announcements/#comment-10022 Joe White's Blog Sat, 03 Dec 2005 14:29:31 +0000 http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/?p=365#comment-10022 <strong>re: Month 4</strong> re: Month 4

]]> By: By Intention»Blog Archive » Free money from Ing Direct - Plenty of referrals left http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2005/12/various-announcements/#comment-10017 By Intention»Blog Archive » Free money from Ing Direct - Plenty of referrals left Fri, 02 Dec 2005 21:05:48 +0000 http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/?p=365#comment-10017 [...] In an interesting synchronicity, Steve Pavlina blogged about Ing Direct and the free $25 cash they are giving away through their referral system a couple of weeks after I had signed up for Ing, and just as I was looking for a way to use my referrals. Well, it looks like Steve is out of referrals, but I still have most of mine left! If you’re interested, just drop me a line and ask for one. The only catch is that in order to get the free $25 you have to be referred by a member, and you have to make an initial deposit of $250. You’ll receive your $25 in 30 days, and then you’re free to withdraw all your fund from that account. Ing is a legitimate bank, member of the FDIC, which is able to offer some of the best savings and CD rates out there because of their internet-based approach to banking. If you don’t care about the $25 or don’t want to make the initial deposit, you can still sign up directly at their website to take advantage of their great interest rates. • • • [...] [...] In an interesting synchronicity, Steve Pavlina blogged about Ing Direct and the free $25 cash they are giving away through their referral system a couple of weeks after I had signed up for Ing, and just as I was looking for a way to use my referrals. Well, it looks like Steve is out of referrals, but I still have most of mine left! If you’re interested, just drop me a line and ask for one. The only catch is that in order to get the free $25 you have to be referred by a member, and you have to make an initial deposit of $250. You’ll receive your $25 in 30 days, and then you’re free to withdraw all your fund from that account. Ing is a legitimate bank, member of the FDIC, which is able to offer some of the best savings and CD rates out there because of their internet-based approach to banking. If you don’t care about the $25 or don’t want to make the initial deposit, you can still sign up directly at their website to take advantage of their great interest rates. • • • [...]

]]> By: blogvp http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2005/12/various-announcements/#comment-10009 blogvp Thu, 01 Dec 2005 21:52:10 +0000 http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/?p=365#comment-10009 <strong>Your Own Blog Post? Of Course… $100 Please</strong> I really like this idea, not because I’m going to be implimenting it anytime soon, but because it’s so original. Steve Pavlina is running an experiment where you can purchase a post for $100, in his own words: However, what might work muc... Your Own Blog Post? Of Course… $100 Please

I really like this idea, not because I’m going to be implimenting it anytime soon, but because it’s so original. Steve Pavlina is running an experiment where you can purchase a post for $100, in his own words:
However, what might work muc…

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