How Much Traffic Do You Need To Make Money: 6 Simple Secrets You Should Know
So, exactly how much traffic does a website need to make money? In other words, how many visitors do you need to make money on a website?
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If you’ve just started your blog with an eye towards making money off it and you’ve got it properly set up for monetisation, your next question could very well be: as a newbie, how much traffic do I need to make money?
Or, more specifically, exactly how much traffic does my website need to make money?
In a hurry?
This post will give you all the information you need to make sure that your blog serves its money-making purpose.
Enjoy!
Side Note: If you’re curious about making money online via a blog-style website or you just want to try it on for size and see if it fits, check out our post on how to launch a website completely free!
Another Side Note: If you want to know what I did to get 20,000 page views from zero in one month, check out our new post on the top blog courses for traffic.
How much website traffic to make money
If you’re a brand new blogger and you join established blogging-specific Facebook groups, you’ll notice that the topic of how much website traffic to make money comes up a lot.
Practically every day, someone will come and post this question: I just started last week (fortnight, month, quarter, year etc.) and I’m getting so-and-so traffic. How much traffic do I actually need to make money?
Or they’ll ask a variation: I have these many pageviews a day. Is this normal? Can I make money off it? How many website visitors or pageviews per day do I need to make a full-time income off my blog?
That’s the burning question and is actually a question I kept asking in my early blogging days.
Now, I’m a bit wiser so I’m going to give you the real answer to this question, despite the fact that I know, for sure, you’re not going to like it.
The real answer to your questions on traffic, website visitors and page views is really this: it depends.
#sorrynotsorry ?
That’s the unvarnished truth: Whilst you can definitely earn money with traffic, your golden number depends largely on so many factors, all of which varies, that your number will be very different from my number.
What are these factors?
We’ll go a little deeper below but the easy answer is that it depends on the results you’re looking for, the budget you have, your niche, on how often you post, what you post, how often you market and promote your blog and where exactly you promote your blog.
If you’re like most new bloggers (in other words, no previous blogging experience, cautious, don’t want to spend money unnecessarily, working a full-time job and slightly strapped for cash), then you won’t immediately have the time, the know-how or the budget required to make the overnight success of your blog that you read about all the time.
And that’s okay.
Blogging, like your regular brick-and-mortar business, can take time before you break even.
If you haven’t got a product to sell or a sales funnel in place, or if you want to rely solely on blogging, ads and affiliate marketing and don’t want to pay for traffic, then building a money-making blog could take about three years of consistent work.
And again, that’s totally okay.
Of course, you could get lucky and have a post or two go viral, but for most regular bloggers, you probably will have to fight tooth and nail to get seen.
Or pay for traffic to jumpstart your blog.
I’m afraid I can’t give you any overnight formula for success here.
Online business is still a business and if you want to make it work, if you really want it to be profitable and make you money, you’ll have to manage your expectations and treat it as the business it is.
The first and arguably, the only thing that you need in order for your blog to make money is to drive traffic to your website.
The more the better.
But wait, what exactly do we mean with “traffic”?
What is a good website traffic?
You can define website traffic in any number of ways, some purely technical that involves data packets sent and received.
However, for our purposes, it’s sufficient to say that traffic, or the number of web users (AKA people) who visit a website, is coveted by all online entrepreneurs.
The more eyes on your site, the better.
Why?
Simple, the more people who go to your site, the higher your chances of making money – whether you’re in e-commerce or affiliate marketing.
But how do you know that you’re getting enough traffic?
I read somewhere that for some bloggers, 10,000 pageviews (PVs) seem to be an important target. I asked around but nobody could give a concrete answer as to why that is, so I’ll take my best guess.
One of the best ways to earn money passively is through ads and when you hit 10k PVs you qualify for ad networks that pay more than Google AdSense.
Now, ads do hurt websites in some way but depending on a number of factors (detailed quite thoroughly in that link, so you’ll want to go check it out), it doesn’t have to have a massive negative impact.
Suffice it to say that if you’re a blogger intent on monetising your blog, you’ll want to make it a goal to drive enough traffic to your blog to qualify for a premium ad network.
In other words, not Google AdSense (although depending on your network, you could run AdSense alongside another ad network).
I don’t have any experience with them but for the record, Ezoic and Monumetric has got a 10K PVs per month threshold, Mediavine has 25K page sessions (so about 30K-37K PVs) whilst AdThrive has 100K PVs.
Whaaattt???
10,000 PVs?
30,000 PVs?
100,000 PVs?
Per month?!
I’m just a new blog. How the heck do I get that much traffic? I’m barely scraping by with 10 PVs a day!
Did that terrify you?
Sorry. But that should really emphasise to you that this is a business you’re creating, not a get-rich-quick-scheme.
Have patience.
Do it right.
And soon you’ll be chuckling at the memories of you agonising over your 10PVs a day as you look at what you’ve achieved so far.
But that’s not all.
You also need to remember that many advertisers are aiming for the US, Europe and Canada markets.
This is where I got hit when I applied with Monumetric after I got to 10,000 PVs a month.
Most of my traffic in those early days (when I was writing mostly about bliss and meditation) came from India and I was too new to realise that this was not an ideal demographic for a blog aiming to get accepted by one of these premium ad networks.
I got denied almost immediately.
So, what is a good website traffic?
If mostly passive income from ads and affiliate marketing is the goal, then a good website traffic that you should be aiming for is at least 10,000 PVs a month with the majority of your users coming from the US.
What affects blog income?
As we mentioned before, there are a lot of things to consider when trying to discover how much traffic you need to make money through your site.
Certain factors directly or indirectly affect your blog income and will determine how much you can make from the traffic that you have.
Can you make £3,000 per month with only 10,000 PVs a month?
You bet!
Can you have 200,000 PVs and still only earn £500 a month, at most?
Unfortunately, yes.
So, which factors can make the greatest impact on your blog’s ability to make money?
Blogging know-how, experience and education
Long story short, if you don’t know how to blog as a business, it’s totally possible that you’re seeing high traffic and yet earning peanuts.
I know of bloggers who have hundreds of thousands of pageviews a month and still only make a few hundred pounds here or there.
And that income isn’t even coming consistently.
However, if you have the know-how, the experience or the education, you might just have 1ok PVs a month and still earn a full-time income, easy.
For example, new bloggers tend to fall for the myth that blogging is easy and fun.
And it is – if you’re not in it for the money.
[Or, if you’re like me, you enjoy working 14-hour shifts to accomplish a specific goal with herculean effort.]
If you want to make money off it right from the start, your blog becomes a business.
And a business is bloody hard work when you’re just starting out!
Blogger overwhelm is real.
And why wouldn’t it be?
Blogging isn’t just about blogging.
It’s about choosing a niche, a domain name, a host.
It’s about keyword research, SEO and writing for both people and search engines.
Blogging is about promotion, specifically, self-promotion.
It’s about leveraging social media as a form of marketing.
It’s about networking with other bloggers, with potential collaborators, with likely sponsors and cultivating relationships with possible clients and customers.
It’s about setting standards so high that you can’t afford to lower and meeting tight deadlines that you just can’t miss.
Blogging is about using all your skills to attract good traffic and then using that traffic to generate an income.
And this is possibly what will most impact your website’s earning potential: your own ability, your own knowledge, your own skill.
In the end, it’s not really the traffic itself that matters.
Traffic is just a tool you first fashion and then wield so that you can then get what you want: a full-time income and the freedom that a passive full-time income affords.
Traffic doesn’t matter as much as how you use it.
Side Note: If you feel that you don’t know enough about blogging and that this hampers your ability to earn a full-time income, then I recommend signing up for reputable blogging courses. There are some totally free courses that I believe every beginner needs to take.
Niche
Oh, niches.
The first thing that stumps new bloggers and for good reason: they are as varied as the stars.
So, how does this impact the traffic you require in order for your blog to make money?
The reasons are as varied as the variety of niches available.
The first, and probably the most important, reason niches can drastically impact your ability to make money with web traffic is simple competition.
Some niches – like the personal development niche – are oversaturated.
There are so many personal development websites out there that you really need to do something special if you don’t want to drown in the cacophony of voices all peddling the same thing.
I mean, what makes your blog different from far more established and well-known brands like Tony Robbins, Jack Canfield or Jim Rohn?
How is your blog – started just this year by a novice life coach – going to compete with those three big names unless you have something unique, something special, a certain je ne sais quoi that makes you memorable?
Answer: choose a niche within a niche.
Yes, you might be a life coach that aims to help people with personal development just like Tony Robbins, Jack Canfield and Jim Rohn but maybe, you’re only focusing on young children who’ve experienced trauma and your blog is written with these children’s primary caregivers in mind.
Maybe you only want to help people of colour heal from the inner wounds caused by institutionalised racism and assist them in moving forward to lives of bliss.
Perhaps your focus is on single parents who are struggling to cope with the ennui that sometimes comes from spending 24/7 with pre-verbal children.
These three examples are micro-niches that all fall under the macro-niche of personal development.
And positioning yourself in a micro-niche like this will help you stand out instantly, make your blog posts far more focused, help you quickly establish your expertise and attract the kind of engaged traffic that can earn you a full-time income without you having to hit a million PVs a month.
Obviously, the more PVs the better.
And whilst a micro-niched blog might not have as much traffic as an established macro-niched brand, you might enjoy a higher ratio of conversions anyway.
Why?
Because when it comes to good traffic, you don’t necessarily want them to just hang around your site, randomly clicking here, there and everywhere.
You want your site visitors to engage.
You want them to talk to you, reply to your emails, read your other posts, share your posts and buy from your posts.
Another thing about niches is that some are just inherently more difficult to monetise with ads or affiliate marketing.
For example, if you’re running an adult site, you’ll likely encounter a lot of difficulty in finding premium ad networks that will work with you.
There are options, of course, as a quick Google will tell you but if your goal was to get into Mediavine, for example, then you probably should rethink your niche.
Side Note: If you want to know more about niches, this training will go into it in more depth.
Your blog set up
Not every blog is created equal.
The way you set it up, in the beginning, can determine how much you can earn and indeed, whether you can effectively monetise your site in the future.
If you’re a new blogger and you’re drowning in a sea of information, you’re probably about ready to tear your hair off.
I know the feeling.
So, take a deep breath and read this post, where I detail all the resources you could ever need to ensure that your blog is set up correctly for long-term financial success.
Once you have your site properly set up, you can start looking at factor #4.
Content and content set-up
Does your blog have a crystal clear focus?
Is your content well-researched, on-point and answers the readers questions?
Do you use the proper headings, sub-headings and paragraphs to break up your post into readable chunks?
Are your content, titles, and graphics designed to draw the reader in and get them to stay longer in your site?
Do you understand what keywords are and are you applying them in your posts?
Are you taking advantage of available keyword research tools?
Do you have a handle on SEO?
Did you make it easy for people to share your posts on social media by using a social media sharing plugin? Remember, if your content is on-point, and it’s set up, so the right people can find it, then it should be making money, and you won’t need millions of PVs for that.
Your monetisation strategy
How exactly do you plan on making money?
In other words, how are you planning to earn money with the traffic that your website generates?
Remember, in the end, traffic is really just a tool.
It doesn’t give you money on its own.
It’s simply a vehicle that allows you to generate income from your blog.
You could have 5 million PVs a month but if your blog isn’t monetised, then it won’t make you any money.
Most bloggers say that writing excellent content is the foundation of a financially successful blog.
And whilst that’s true, you also need to remember that every business needs to sell something in order to make money.
It could be your own product, an affiliate product, a service you provide or even just ad space on your site.
Whatever it is, it’s the one thing that you expect your traffic to buy to give you the money you require.
So, what’s your game plan?
Are you running ads on your site?
Are you working with big brands via sponsored posts?
Are you opening up a membership site?
Do you have your own services or products?
Do you know what affiliate marketing is and are you combining it with your website?
Side Note: Trust me, affiliate marketing is not too hard and it’s always a good idea to diversify your income streams.
There are now many ways to monetise a website and even more ways to mix and match them.
You need to have a solid money-making strategy for your blogging business if you really want to make a full-time income out of it.
Otherwise, all the traffic in the world isn’t going to help you.
Demographics
Who are your readers and where are they based?
As I mentioned before, some ad networks prefer to work with people who have a largely US audience so your application could be denied if, like me, your audience is mostly international.
That means that you may not earn much from ads but hey, if you’ve got other forms of monetisation, then you might not even miss it.
Remember, some blogs don’t bother with ads and they’re generating a full-time income anyway so don’t despair and look for another way.
Someone somewhere will say yes.
I guarantee it.
So, really, how many website views do I need to make money?
Now that you know that there many different ways to skin a fish, as they say, what can you do with this kind of information?
Well, obviously, this doesn’t give you the number you’re looking for, does it? And if you’re like me, you probably need a number to aim for.
After all, goals are important for overall success.
So, I’ll let you in on my numbers.
My main goal when I first started was a measly 1,000 PVs a month because I was staring at my Google Analytics and would only see one click an entire week (after I’d filtered my own IP address out).
And I suspect that that was a family member trying to either satisfy their curiosity or show their support.
I quickly learned that I wasn’t going to earn money that way so I eventually upped my target and decided to go for 10k PVs a month because part of my monetisation strategy is working with an ad network and, as mentioned before, some ad networks have a 10K PVs per month threshold.
My original plan was to work with Monumetric but since they denied my application, I turned Google AdSense on and started working with Media.Net.
Now, I’ve already breached the 10K target, my next number is AdThrive’s 100k PVs a month.
No sweat, right? Ha ha
Actually, quite a lot of hard work, effort and planning will go into this blog so we can achieve 100K PVs a month but hey, it’s all worth it in the end.
Now, those are our numbers. Other bloggers naturally have their own.
The Busy Budgeter, for example, writes that “If you have more than 100,000 pageviews a month on your blog (total pageviews, not unique) you should be blogging full-time (i.e. earning more than $3,500/month from your blog).”
Whilst we don’t have the research to back that claim, 100K PVs per month is a good enough number to aim for and, certainly, if you’re part of an ad network like the three we mentioned earlier, you should be earning at least $1,500.
If you have other monetisation strategies in place, then you’d obviously earn more.
Final thoughts on how much traffic to make money
So, how many page views is good for a blog?
The number of page views that allow you to earn the money you want or require through your blog.
And for you to get to that number, you’ll need to take into account a variety of factors.
First, you need to set up your blog correctly for it to make money. Without the proper structure, your blog won’t be able to generate the income you want.
That means, more than anything, expanding your know-how so you’re not just shooting in the dark and hoping something will stick.
Also, you’ll need to have a solid plan in place. That means creating an editorial plan, a social media plan and a financial plan.
What are you going to write?
When are you going to publish it?
How often?
How will I monetise this post?
Hey, this is a business, remember? Businesses operate on a numbers game: we want more posts so we can have more traffic.
Another thing you’ll want to have is support. You can get that from a lot of places but my favourite is Facebook Groups.
All you have to do is type “your niche + group” (replace “your niche” with finance or mental health or whatever niche you’re in) and get the ball rolling.
Our all-time fave is Sasha Lassey’s Blogging Babes Collective and Carly’s Blogging Like We Mean It, both of which offer unbeatable support for bloggers.
I suggest checking them out.
And of course, if you really want to make a name for yourself in the blogging world, you’ll want to study affiliate marketing.
But you need to do it judiciously. You can’t just slap some links willy nilly and expect millions in the bank.
You’ll need proper education and for that, you just can’t beat Wealthy Affiliate (clue’s in the name and all that, eh?).
They even have free training!
There you have it: our answer to the all-important question of “How much traffic do you need to make money?”.
What about you?
Where are you now in your blogging journey and what numbers are you aiming for?
Leave them in the comments section below.
Editor’s Note: This post was originally published in August 2019 and has been completely revamped and updated for accuracy and comprehensiveness.
Thanks for the great article Jade. I have recently started a blog and it is really difficult to get out of google sandbox. Moreover, the niche I am targeting is probably very competitive but has a lot of value. Its been 5 months since launch and I have still not ranked for many keywords.
My question is should I start the email subscription on my website or wait for things to grow and then start accepting email subscription.
And finally, keep posting!
Hi Amey,Â
I am grateful for your comment on my article about getting traffic to your blog. I tried answering your question about when to build an email list in one paragraph or so – but it just can’t be done. The short and sweet answer is that it depends on you. But let’s face it that doesn’t really help when you’re brand new, does it? 🙂
There are so many factors that you need to consider, so I ended up writing a post for you instead.Â
I hope you like it and good luck on your journey!Â
Yours sincerely,Â
Jade
It is astonishing to me that this information is not available in the myriad guides, courses and coaching programs that cloud the “industry” for newcomers. It’s the most useful article I’ve read in the 2 years I’ve been wasting developing my blog,
It would definitely have caused me to re-think the whole enterprise.
Thanks so much for publishing.
Jack Coleman
Great Post!
Thank you 🙂
“it depends”
i’m going to cry……
Really blogging i is very hard. I started a website previous year and income is 31 cens, don’t laugh… i started this as a passion.
i still confused,does more traffic means more money. plz don’t say right traffic
plz response…….
I agree. It is very hard! Especially when it feels like you’re not getting anything out of your hard work.
More traffic generally means more money. If you are using it well. How exactly are you monetising your website? Where are your readers based and who is your audience?
Also, how many posts do you have? How often do you post and how (and where and how often) do you promote what you’ve posted?
All these things can affect how much money you make. 🙂
If you email me your website link, I can take a look and make a few suggestions.
Hello, There are definitely other affiliates that also include a “boost” type of program where you’ll earn more if your website has enough traffic to qualify. I have often asked myself this question. I still have not come to know how much traffic I need to make money with my blog. I thus found your post very informative. There are general rules to follow but after than any blogger should be able to have flexibility and find opportunities that will make his blog more competitive. Thanks for your best guide.
You have some very great points here and I fully agree with you when you say “it depends” when it comes to traffic, visitors and page views. When I started blogging I was totally consumed with finding as much information as I could on how to get this to be running at peak efficiency, but quickly found out that it was a waste of time because I should have been focusing more on creating content.
Publishing content that employs proper SEO techniques will get you higher rankings but a blogger must also do some self promoting to further help get their content seen. I too use niche targeted Facebook Groups as well as other social media outlets. Getting organic traffic through the search engines is my number one goal but placing my content in front of a targeted audience helps to increase traffic.
As you state above, there are many factors that will go into determining how much traffic we will get. My number one focus is publishing as much quality SEO content as I can. Unfortunately this takes time for me because I like doing a lot of SEO planning in the researching of targeted keywords and the all-important LSI keywords that many bloggers tend to overlook. All in all a blogger must have patience.
Oh, traffic. Even if a blogger isn’t trying to get fame or fortune, it’s still a good feeling if people are reading all your posts and waiting for more. You’re right about the fact that being overwhelmed is a common thing for most newbies. I’ve known more experienced bloggers that occasionally get sidetracked by the whole business side of things. I’m not there yet, but I know that many bloggers actually do become successful. One must be patient but diligent to start getting serious traffic and then getting that traffic to spend money. It’s great that you are giving your readers this encouragement.
I must say that you have given a great deal of information on this new as traffic is one of the most important ingredient to make money from your blog, I ever knew This still a few months back and I swear since then I have been working hard and I have able to get up to 7k PVS,but I think trying not it this programme would shot me even higher.
Certainly, this post has me thinking. I wonder why I hadn’t consider PVs in relation to the money that is made through a blog. I think your post has helped me with the proper focus. I am eager to read some of the additional posts that you have linked here. I believe this is very good information especially for someone like me that is still relatively new to blogging.
You’re welcome, Lee and thanks for taking the time to share your thoughts. 🙂
Hi! Thank you for this explanation. I like that you have given an answer considering everything. And the answer is that we can’t come up with an amount of visitors because there are so many factors involved. Every niche is different and our ability to market our audience is also key. So having this knowledge will help me focus on these aspects that help our blogs generate revenue. Thank you!
You’re welcome, Ann. That’s exactly it. Of course, the more traffic, the better – usually. But again, it depends on how well you’re monetising that traffic, doesn’t it?
Very well written and informative, very well laid out site, very professional, lots of info to digest, I am new to, and trying to figure out how to get traffic is my biggest concern. This post has answered a lot of the questions I have, now all I have to do is implement.
Excellent! We’re happy you found this helpful. 🙂
It takes one sale to make money. It will probably take more than one sale to make a profit.
I always recommend people considering an online business to develop a business plan. The plan should include a financial projection to determine the breakeven point. The breakeven point is where profits exceed expenses.
If newbies are going to join an ad network like Adsense. They make money as soon as they get traffic and the ad network displays ad impressions. The amount of money made will be fractional.
On the other hand, if newbie plans on promoting products to earn commissions, then they will have an idea of the commission percentage and amount of money they make on each sale. Conversion rates average about 5%, some higher or lower depending on the niche. Anyone can work the numbers backward to determine the number of sales needed to cover their expenses. Over time, a person can determine how many visitors click through to the product page and purchase a product. This is the conversion rate. The marketer needs the number of site visitors, number of visitors that click through (Click Through Rate), and the number of conversions.
Glen, that is fantastic! Thank you for sharing.
Thanks for this beautiful post about making money through traffic and how much traffic could generate. I’ve been caught up in this mess sometimes ago concerning how to figure out the enough traffic to get me a great conversion rate. I had over 10PV then and my blog was making less than 300$ in a month. But now that I have understood everything concerning traffic and expectations, I would be ready to invest more on targeting my audience rather than being broad. Thanks
You’re welcome, Rodger. Glad you found the post useful.
Thank you and good article. I am using the wealthy affiliate platform and they taught me a lot about keywords and niches. I can’t say everything they taught me because it was part of the course but I will say that so far the $20 premium membership and $14 domain I bought through them has been a good value.
I am about 2 weeks into it. I have somewhere around 10 articles and most of them are indexed on Google unless they are under construction. I am receiving comments on my website. How do comments affect Google rankings? That is something I am beginning to wonder. One thing that excites me is when I find a good keyword for the topic I want to write about.
Hi Charles, thanks for sharing. You’re in the right place since Wealthy Affiliate was a game-changer for us. We stumbled upon it quite by accident whilst we were experiencing the very common 3-month slump and was instrumental in helping us move past it.
Regarding comments – it’s a bit tricky. Some experts say that comments are essential because they show Google that people are going to your website and probably find the information there valuable. Some say comments make a blog a blog. There are also some whispers of comments being instrumental to traffic because they essentially increase your word count, which of course is good.
At the same time, some other experts say they require more work than they’re worth (because you also get a lot of spammy comments) or that comments don’t really do anything for SEO or traffic.
It really depends on you as there’s no consensus. We personally love interacting with our readers so we leave the commenting facility turned on.
This is great advice! I’m relatively new to blogging so getting page views this high seems a very distant dream, however I’ve bookmarked this page for advice when I’ve started to generate more traffic. Becca x
Thank you very much for stopping by, Becca. I think it always feels that way. I certainly remember when I used to stare into Google Analytics and agonise over the fact that I don’t see any visitors on my site (I was lucky to get one or two). Now, fast forward 6 months, loads of chocolate and cups of coffee later, we’re seeing some progress. Just keep going and learning and don’t stop. 🙂
There are definitely other affiliates that also include a “boost” type of program where you’ll earn more if your website has enough traffic to qualify. Do the programs at Mediavine and / or AdThrive pay significantly better than others? Were you still using any of these programs (with lower earning rate) before you got the minimum PV’s for the premium network (or do they require that traffic before you can join)?
Hi Aly, we only recently started working with an ad network because we weren’t too sure about how ads fit our site. We didn’t really want them to look out of place. We ended up going with Media.net because it uses text-based ads instead of images. We personally find image-based ads a bit jarring, whereas text-based ones (if formatted to follow your branding) can almost flow seamlessly.
Hi Kevin and Jade,
This’s a good, informative read.
I have often asked myself this question. I still have not come to know how much traffic I need to make money with my blog. I thus found your post very informative.
I used to keep checking my traffic every few minutes a day until it hit me that money from a blog was not made by too much analysis. Rather, attracting and retaining visitors then growing their numbers is what i needed. Now I’m working on the blog as a business and so making slight progress. However, I still need to reevaluate my content to agree with what you are insisting on. That is, strategically monetizable content. I need more information on how the Monumetric Propel Program works because I’m almost at their lower limit. Any information will be welcome. Thanks.
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Boniface- AndroidBix
Hi Boniface,
You’re right. Obsessively analysing stats will definitely NOT help. We know this from experience too. Keep doing the work that will bring in traffic (reading emails and checking out stats don’t fall in this category) and let go of the rest. Check your GA stats a few times a day. We tend to check during the day to see if we’re hitting our goal so that we know if we need to amp up our promotion. Remember, you don’t need thousands of PVs a day to get 10KPVS a month. You just need 333 PVs per day. So, set that as a goal and keep promoting.
We’ll be publishing a more detailed post on how to get traffic and on Monumetric’s Propel Program so keep an eye out. 🙂
I’m liking this article, since one of my blogs is going to be highly focused on traffic now that I’m breaking 100 page views per day a few times a week. Nothing to brag about, but for a growing blog that’s less than a year old with one clear-cut, focused niche, I’m happy with the way it’s been going, especially since as recent as June, I was in the crowd that was happy to see double-digit page views per day. Something I was doing wrong was thinking that it was users, and not page views that I needed to worry about, but I definitely will start focusing more on page views. My bounce rate is still high on the site, but what’s odd is my page view count is much higher than my actual users, which I find kind of strange, but I’m sure there’s a reason behind it.
Hi Todd, thanks for your comment and congratulations on your progress. I still remember the day our bog hit 100 PVs on a single day. We were giddy and relieved. So, definitely celebrate that because it means you’ve not given up and you keep going, which is really the one thing you really need. Someone told us once that “You only really fail the day you quit” and that is definitely true.
Blogs, in general, see a higher bounce rate than other types of websites because your visitors typically read one post and then “bounce off”. There are quite a lot of things you can do to alleviate that (we’ll have to write a new post about it so keep an eye out). But depending on your niche, you might just have to accept a high bounce rate.
As for your page view, it will be higher than actual users or even visits because if one user goes to another page (which we tend to do on a new blog – after reading a post, we then go to the About Me page) then that user has had 2 pageviews. 🙂
Anyway, congratulations once again and do let us know if we can help in any way. We love hearing success stories.
Very nice article. It’s really hard to give specific answers when it comes to monetizing a blog. There are simply so many variables that any of them can make a difference and it’s not the same with all blogs so giving a definite answer on what can bring money is impossible. There are general rules to follow but after than any blogger should be able to have flexibility and find opportunities that will make his blog more competitive.
Exactly, Stratos! You said in one paragraph what took us an entire post to explain ha ha I love it! 🙂
I’m very glad to have come across your post. I have been blogging for over a year now and I’m yet to make a sale. Reading your post gave me loads of ideas and told me basically where I could be going wrong!
I’ve got Wealthy Affiliate on my side and like you said their training is superb, you just can’t fault it. I think my problem lies with social media and maybe a few paid ads too. See what I mean, ideas are flowing. Thanks for the direction and great post!
Hi Derek, happy to know that we were able to help and spark ideas. Ideas are always good in our book. Let us know if we can help in any way. 🙂
Your site is informative and I learn from it. You gave also some site where to advertise traffic site. Your site is easy to understand very unique.
When you said you have to be patient, I agree with that because you can’t earn money if you are not patient and hardworking and also don’t forget don’t give up easily.
Thanks for sharing. That’s exactly right.
This is a topic that I can never read too much about. I have been working on my blog for a long time now and it’s slowly, very slowly improving. I get about 1.1k view a month and I wish i was making a steady income from it, but I’m not. I only post once a week because my life is very busy at the moment. I figured it’s better to post once a week at the same time than twice one week and no times the next.
I hope you see much success from your blog and thanks for a great post.
Yes, Hollie, consistency is key and far more important than blasting posts every day for one week and then crickets for a few months because you ran out of time. Once a week is fine as long as you’re promoting the heck out of that one post. Leverage all your social media and use some free schedulers just to get your blog out there. When you’re starting out, you need to look for the traffic because it’s not going to come to you immediately.
Congratulations on your progress! Enjoy it even if you know it could be better. Remember, when you first started, you were on 0 PVs a month and now you’re at 1.1K. That’s definitely cause for celebration. 🙂
Hi Kevin and Jade,
This was really interesting read for me as someone who has questioned this same thing many times in the past.
When I first started I was so desperate to get traffic that I wanted to find quick ways round it, often its a case of being not only consistent but also patient and you will see that traffic rise.
I am now at a couple of thousand page views a month and I have noticed revenue picking up with the increase in page views.
I think this is a great guide for anyone new to this as understanding the process of creating a website and making money is quite important.
Anyway thanks again,
Josh
That’s excellent, Josh! Congratulations! Once you start earning revenue, you begin to realise that it’s the real deal. Keep us posted. 🙂