Yes, it’s that simple. When you are operating a website that is monetized with CPC (cost per click) advertising, or any kind of advertising, the more traffic you get on the site, the more money you will make. Let’s face it, if you get 100 page views per day and earn a certain amount from that, you will certainly earn more if you suddenly get 1,000 page views per day! No way to deny that.
So, there are two tricks that you need to pull off. One way to get more traffic is by bringing more people to your site. Another way to get more traffic, and the one I will talk about in this post, is by having those same visitors look at more pages on your site. The longer they stay on your site, the bigger the chance that they will respond to the advertising present. Also, if you are doing some CPM (cost per thousand views) advertising on the site, the move pages they view, you will automatically earn more money!
So, how can you get them to view more of your site? Most people who surf the web will come to your page, take a quick look, maybe skim over your latest article on the site, and quickly move on to another site. I have found a way, though, to get a few more page views, and keep people on your site longer. I started doing this a few months ago, but I have found a way to revolutionize it and make it much easier!
On one of my sites, I have a blog, which is the main part of the site. I also have a photo gallery that you can click over to if you want to view photos. But, I never made a huge amount from the Gallery. I knew it had potential, though. I started putting links to photos from within my posts. For example, let’s say that in one of my posts I mentioned something about Cebu City. I would link the words “Cebu City” to a Photo Gallery of Cebu City. Or, if I mentioned a race car, I might link to a photo of a race car that was in my gallery. The more opportunities that I would give people to look at something else on my site, the more pages they would view, and the more odds that they would act on the ad that happened to be on one of those pages. It also kept them surfing my site longer than they would have if I didn’t link over to that race car that they wanted to see.
All of this was OK, but it’s kind of cumbersome to have to keep putting in those links every time you write an article. Sometimes you forget to put a link to something, and that blows the whole concept. Well, luckily, I found a plug-in for my WordPress blog called “ALinks” which does this automatically. What you do is that you make a list of keywords that you want to have linked to other pages. After you have done this, every single time you type that word into your post it will link over to the page where you tell it to go! It’s all automatic. For example, if you enter the term “race car” into the list on ALinks, and tell it to go to a certain URL that has that race car photo, then every time that the term “race car” appears on your blog, it will link to that photo! No need to manually do the hyperlink any longer! Cool, don’t you think?
I just set this up on one of my blogs two days ago, and my advertising earnings on my Photo Gallery are now 10 times what they ever have been! I consider ALinks a great success on my site! Give it a try.
very informative and practical site Bob! Keep it up and ear more~!
Hi Remo – Thanks for stopping by and having a look! You are the first commenter on the blog! Sorry, no prize, though! 😉
I hope you enjoy the blog and find it useful.
Bob, I hope you are more honest than expected. I am now expecting more from your Virtual Earner (Blog).
Please take time to email me. Thank You…!
NKG – What are you talking about? I have always been honest on every blog I publish.
You say that I should take the time to e-mail you – what about? Honestly, I don’t know who you are. Can you tell me what I have been dishonest about, who you are and what I should e-mail you about? You are free to click on the “contact bob” link at the top of this site to e-mail me anytime.
Slow down Bob, did I mention the word “dishonest…”? anyhow, you are free choose your thoughts and you are the judge and critic of your own mind.
Ofcouse you do not know me, but I do not want to think that I made a mistake in taking time to read some of your articles…
If knowing each other among your readers (and with you)is not one of the aims of your blog, then, I should say goodbye…
Yes I said take time e-mail me… but that is an optional from your side I beleive (if you have time), and what for…? take or leave it.
You are an American, you are more educated.
Thank You…
Hi NKG – I think we must be misunderstanding each other’s use of the English language. You said on your original comment that you hope that I am more honest than expected. To me, that means that you expect me to not be very honest, you are just hoping that I will be.
If you look at my various blogs, you will see that community building is what I am all about. I want to get to know all of my readers, and for them to get to know each other. All of my sites are like that. I respond to every comment posted, to show the reader that I am interested in his thoughts.
I don’t have a lot of time to do e-mail, because I get several hundred e-mails every day, so I prefer to communicate through comments. But, if a reader has a special need, I am happy to do private e-mail too. You are asking me to e-mail you, but I just don’t understand what topic I need to e-mail you about, that is why I asked. I think we just are not understanding each other.
NKG, I don’t believe that being American makes you more or less educated than people from other countries. If you want me to be honest, I only have a high school degree, I never completed college. But, I have taught myself many things through my experience. In honesty, I think you probably have more formal education than I do. But, honestly, I also feel that that is beside the point.
I wish you good luck, and I hope to be your friend, NKG, but I also am very confused, because I feel that your words have shown some hostility toward me. I do honestly feel that we are just misunderstanding each other, and I hope that we can put that aside.
Good luck to you.
Hi Bob,
I must say im impressed with this site, what a fantastic idea.Knowing you it will be packed full of great information and HONESTY (Sorry could not help that after that reading NKG comment). There are already many members of LIP who will wish for your help, to start a on-line business, but does it mean in comments any member here can also offer any advice as well?
Regards Graham
Hi Graham – thanks for stopping by! Sure, you or any member can offer advice, ask questions, or whatever the case may be via the comments!
Hello Bob, Bill Huff here. This is great Bob, i have been a private business man in Retail my whole life, and know nothing about marketting or developing a business on the internet. I will enjoy this new site of yours very much….As far as NGK’s comments go…i was as confused as you, and they seemed hostle to me also. It almost sounds as if he has not always agreed with you in the past, but thier is nn evidence that he has ever contacted you before…???…maybe he means that now that you are talking about business as your main topic, that he will expect even more from you. But honestly Bob….i read it as insulting and lacking maturity….thier, i said it. Keep up the great work….will see you sometime after September…
Hi Bill – Nice to have you drop by my new digs! Thanks for your encouraging words. I hope that NKG will hang around and add some contribution to the site. Only time will tell.
Hey Bob, great post. I’ve been visiting your sites for a while now and talked to you about building a house in PI some day. I’m really interested in this post though. I live near Anchorage, AK and me and Precy (my wife) have talked alot about doing the snowbird thing (you know be in Alaska in the summer and in PI during the rest of the year). So if we could get enough money to do that it would be great. But starting a Blog and earning some money from the internet would be good, but I a little shy, scared of that. Some years back (while still in the military) I went to a seminar about an internet business (long story short, it was hard, it cost money for the software, credit card accounts ….., I got no help and it cost me $3000.00 plus (money we really couldn’t afford), I got burnt). I would like to do a Blog, but is it difficult? And the way you explain it, it sound almost free? I sound like you’d be giving some good advise if just asked.
Hi Ed – Thanks for stopping by! I hope that you become a regular visitor to my new blog.
You know, over the years, many people have fallen victim to web scams. “Start a new business and earn $10,000 per month!” I’ve seen these kind of ads for years. They make it sound like you’ll almost have a printing press to make money. No matter what, I find that you still have to work to earn money! It’s just a different type of work.
In my experience, you don’t need $3,000 or even $1,000 to start making money on the net. I have often told people that I can start a new business on the web for under $100, and you can too.
Blogging is not difficult. I just started a series of posts on blogging and how to get started, so be sure to follow along. If you have questions about what I write, be sure to ask through the comments.
Hello Bob, we are just getting started (to know each other)there is nothing in you to make me feel bad about.
May I just congratulate you for what you are doing…?!
I 25% agree to what Bill Huff has said…
Anyway, “we are not enemies we are friends” (“American History X”-a movie-correct me if I am wrong)
Again, congratulations!
Thank You…!
NKG – Thanks for clarifying. I appreciate your comment.
Hi Bob,
Just Confused .. Why is it that the dates of the comments appear much later than your post. 2007 vs 2010??
Any way, More Power to you! and I appreciate your great handling of your online visitors.. a true Filipino hospitality seems innate with you.. no doubt you’re happily living in the Philippines.
( While many Filipino wanting to go out of it, to make a living abroad )
Can I commend you Bob? I hope you take it no offense. but you are a Filipino Dude!
Jeff
Hi jeffuplb – I originally wrote this article in 2007, but republished it in 2010, that’s why the dates may appear at first to be off.
Thank you for your compliment, jeffuplb. Certainly, I take no offense to anything you said.