Not only should you focus your energy on traffic building, but the creation of quality content. With the combination of quality content efficient marketing strategies, you will build up the traffic you need to make money. It will take some time and commitment to build up traffic that you should be prepared for. You could install 125 x 125 ad squares for other blogs to purchase advertising for the month or for other bloggers to win advertising on your blog through a contest -- this way you'd initially be making some money. Setting up affiliate programs early will usually not do you any good... I definitely agree with Steve here.
Best wishes,
Andrew
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Originally Posted by Steve Pavlina  @Sindre: I'd recommend focusing your energy on traffic building first before you worry about income at all. Ads and affiliate programs probably aren't even worth fussing with until you're getting some decent traffic, maybe 1,000 visitors per day bare minimum.
Income is a function of traffic, so in the beginning it's best to focus on traffic, traffic, traffic. Income generation isn't part of the early game -- that comes in during the mid-game.
Some people may disagree, but that's the strategy I used. |