How much traffic is good traffic for making money?

[cosmiccountrymusic]

I have a blog that gets 0 traffic so far, but I really haven't started marketing it yet.

When I do put my plan to get some traffic into action. What's a good number of hits per day that eventually translates into decent money.

I hope in the long run to make 20 dollars per day with about 10 blogs and 90 Hubpages articles...(that's where I want to be a year from now).

[WhoJayBe]

It all depends... and I always say that. But it depends on the niche of the website, how you're going to try to make money from it, how targeted your audience is, etc, etc.

But let's assume you're talking about trying to make money from Adsense or any PPC ads... you want to get low competition niches but high paying keywords. For instance, make money online pays really good (maybe a few dollars a click for some ads) but the competition is ridiculous so it's probably not the best thing.

A good way of estimating what type of traffic you need is taking the click through rate percentage. I think a good click through rate percentage is 5-10% and if you get keywords that pay out pretty good at, say $1 a click, then you would need about 200-400 visitors a day to maintain that $20 a day.

Lol... I hope I made sense. If not, feel free to ask...

[stephen todd]

Originally Posted by WhoJayBe

A good way of estimating what type of traffic you need is taking the click through rate percentage. I think a good click through rate percentage is 5-10% and if you get keywords that pay out pretty good at, say $1 a click, then you would need about 200-400 visitors a day to maintain that $20 a day.

Not many people can even maintain a 3% clickthrough rate - so you can multiply by 3 or 5 - so it's likely to require well over 1000 visitors a day

[ChickenFreak]

Yow. I'm surprised that even one percent of visitors click on an ad. In the hundreds and hundreds of times that I've read my favorite blogs, I may have clicked on ads, oh, three or four times total. I hope that they're getting paid per impression, because they're certainly not making any money from me otherwise.

[knubbl]

hmm I have a blog on Internet marketing and use Adsense to monetize it at least a little bit. I have a CTR of as low as 0.2%. It is really ridiculous. I think it simply works for some niches but not for all of them

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[knubbl]

I think I am doing something wrong. Yeah the web site is the one I referred to in my signature. I don't know what I should do in order to get a higher CTR. I have read lots of articles about Adsense and I think I have applied lots of tips but it just doesn't seem to help. Thanks anyway :P

[stephen todd]

Originally Posted by knubbl

hmm I have a blog on Internet marketing and use Adsense to monetize it at least a little bit. I have a CTR of as low as 0.2%. It is really ridiculous. I think it simply works for some niches but not for all of them

You're in a good niche - just that you're using the wrong ad block in the wrong position

You want a "in-your-face" 336x280 large rectangle positioned below the header and above the content (see positioning on my currency trading site in my signature)

Then you should remove your other adsense block - as you only want 1 adsense block per page

Bet that improves things - 2 percent should be minimum if adsense ads are targeted to your content

[iPodDanny]

What would you all consider to be a good EPC for a blog?

[RateMyBlog]

How much traffic is good for making money? - Lots and lots of traffic! Theres no way that anyone can say x amount of traffic = y amount of earnings - too many variables!

I would say you need to be looking at around 100k page views per month to be earning something reasonable - that of course depends on where in the world you live.

[stephen todd]

Originally Posted by iPodDanny

What would you all consider to be a good EPC for a blog?

EPC's vary wildly - depends who's bidding on any particular day

To get good adsense click values on a regular basis requires high quality traffic that actually does something when they click through to the advertisers site

One of the most powerful strategies is to make original content pre-sell pages for hot products - then there's a good chance you'll motivate your visitors to click on an ad and perform an action on the advertisers site

Before you write your posts, enter the primary search phrase into spyfu.com search box - then see the range of bid prices, and number of advertisers, number of monthly searches, etc. Only when you are satisfied with the likely return, should you go ahead and write your post

I did spot google adsense block way down the bottom of some of your pages - pathetic - won't make money down there