THE IMPORTANT BLOGGING NUMBERS

Well now sometimes some things can just turn up out of the blue when you least expect it?!

I have been in contact with someone very nice who has been very keen to speak to me about one blog. She does not realise that I have a dozen if them! She will very shortly!

This was to do with advertising and generating revenue and many visitors on here and many other bloggers have probably asked and wondered about the same question I have and I have asked it on here!

Now as some of you know I actually took a load of adverts off my blogs 6 months ago. I stated that I was feed up and felt like I had been manipulated to give away free advertising space! I told the person this and she understood and felt sorry this had happened. I said I intended to leave any advertising off the blogs for a year before considering returning to it.

I mean ... you would not ask a TV network if you can advertise and then pay them if and when it pays off? You would not do that with tabloids or magazines either! Not even local rags!

Now I do not know what the population is of Enfield but it is one of a great many boroughs in London, albeit barely and loosely as it dues not have a London postcode and used to be in Middlesex. The county is still used when addressing letters too!

The last I looked there were 7 million people in London and there would be a lot more than 7 boroughs! It might be 9 million currently, especially with the influxes that keep hitting the news?!

So safe to say that there is under a million in Enfield and very few of them read the local newspapers! Some do but most do not. Also the locals only get published once a week too so any advertising you pay for gets forgotten within a few days.

Now I asked this person one question after I had initially told her I do not trust the advertising people. The question was 'His many visitors would I need to be attracting both in total or over a month to genuinely know you will generate income?'

Here is an excerpt of the answer..

"(at least 10 minutes of reading per viewer) of  at least 2,000 views monthly is a good chance at pay offs for you"

She also praised what I have done and what I am doing, even if she is based in New York?! Lol!

Now that is the first time I have ever been given a figure to work with! She also thought that I promoted my blog and I do not, not really. I said it I leave it all down to word of mouth. Interested to see if she is shocked by that as well as what I informed her about I am about to place next?!

I am currently uniting into a spreadsheet the current numbers and it is running from the 24th March to the 24th April. Tonight I decided to just go over the numbers despite it being just over a week and it was a surprise. I am having trouble believing the number I now have in my head, lol, so thinking I got it wrong but it is over 1,500 and my memory is yelling me it was over 2,500?!

Admittedly this includes my YouTube videos!

Now I am thinking it was about 2,000 but my head worked out a predictive score after the month of possibly 10,000?

However!! I have only just started uploading videos and linking them into my blogs after a long pause! Added to this all that will continue to increase in frequency because I not only know of around a dozen upcoming things but added to this is the fact the warm weather is here and will increase further! This means that the rising numbers each week will themselves rise faster!

I told her that in four to six months I could be getting over 15,000 and even 20,000 each month!

I am interested to see what she makes of the fact that my numbers are far bigger than she thought I was getting?! Lol!

It also begs another question but first I want to comment on a remark she said. She mentioned about visitors reading for about 10 minutes or more and I forgot to ask her about that! I do not see what difference this make with adverts! At the end of the day if someone leaves a webpage they either click on a favourite or click on an advert! It makes no difference whatsoever how long they are on your website! Your talking about a click that is all. So I am wondering if this ten minute rule is some kind of crap they come yo with to make excuses about why you are not generating revenue?!

It also begs another question!

If I only need 2,000 visitors a month and I am currently not far away from getting that each week goes come my Google AdSense is not making a damn thing? 

Lmfao!

RE-AFFILIATING WITH AFFILIATES

I had an email from someone I was affiliated with as regards to advertising on my blogs.

I will not state who it is or the affiliate agency I found them through. But I will state that I sought then out because I have been familiar with them for years! They are a well known online store for gadgets and computer equipment.

They asked me if there was a problem because they had been getting no clicks which was weird because I thought I had informed them all when I removed all the advertising, except for Google's AdSense, regarding the affiliate agencies. So I replied and I stated basically what I have stated about the free advertising on here! I also went into detail about Google and their AdSense! I explained that I had a large list of blogs and that the numbers presented to me by Google themselves make no sense and some that should NOT go backwards actually do which led me to believe there was done skulduggery going on or extremely badly chided algorithms?! I also stated that I discovered that it was not only I but a fair few people who are authors feel as if they are ripped off online!

I then pointed out what I said to Google...

1 You cannot approach TV, Magazines or even a local newspaper and expect to get free advertising, and we are talking just one issue here or for one week even!!

2 That with currently reaching the 100,000 mark and with the 2,000 per week going to rise throughout the warmer months that they seem to expect to get free advertising while we work and they make billions of pounds/dollars?!

I stated that I kicked off the ads for a year or until such a time that I can find the time to research and find out what numbers you need to reach so that I can at least make the lowest monthly payments and until then, or I reach them I am not giving away free advertising and brand awareness to anyone! Of course AdSense is left in their because I know that the longer it remains on there and the longer it takes Google to start paying the worse it looks for them, regardless of what the reason is meaning skulduggery or bad algorithms!

This is because I have lost count of the number of times I have tried to contact them and wrote to their offices in Belgravia in London some weeks ago but apparently I am too insignificant as a human being too be worthy of help, advice or even to check how their numbers manage to do the impossible?!

Lmao!

Of course the whole time I have the other numbers to compare with Blogger which looks even more ridiculous with each week that passes by. As time fires on the numbers get further and further apart between the two blogs and there will be a point when others start asking questions of this very suspicious way of making billions of pounds/dollars while sitting on their arses on the back of others who work their butts off to provide content/help and advice people/show people the truth/pictures/videos and all manner if other things and do it for free! This August that would be two whole years for me on Blogger!

I will then make a note of the figures and then wait 6 months until the other one catches up on the two year period and I will then take those figures and compare and publish the two?! I think that to predict that these figures would be poles apart would actually turn out to be quite an understatement!

I have been a bit cheeky here because I have quite deliberately not posted anything about comparisons between the two. This is because the numbers are growing apart ever faster and I want it to be a complete jaw dropping shock to all that sees it when the time comes. Of course that will be later in the year but I want it to be all based upon not only working my own butt off for two whole years but that the posts themselves would number likely over 3000, three a week would be a thousands weeks Lol, so that it appears eye watering to all that see it!

Remember I am only interested in discovering the truth and when something starts to look odd, especially when compared to something else which is more or less identical my brain starts to have trouble reasoning as to why this is. I then become extremely curious to find it the real reasons! Though I am not focused on this particular matter at all currently I will be all over it by the Autumn of this year, 2014.

That will be the time I start researching it fully along with searching around and sending of emails. But just be patient as I can find it bloody hard to finish things I started, but it will not continue like this I assure you. After all I still have those Freedom Of Information Requests to finish and publish?! Lol!

As I become fitter in my bike and the stupid arse clocks go forward in a couple of weeks time I will be spending more time in the evenings and in the daytime both on my laptop and on this tablet and seeking out more answers to the million or two questions banging around the walls of my grey matter!

Lmfao!

At the end of the day I did not expect money immediately, that would be silly and I was fully prepared to go a year at least before expecting the lowest miserly sum. But at two years with that first one and with the blog numbers going to be pretty impressive by then and likely obvious they will then be rising much faster with each week it will all look... well rather preposterous if I am honest!

Lol!

THE DE-AFFILIATION PROCEDURE

After my numbers seemed to actually go backwards and not a single penny made in the last 6 to 8 weeks I have removed all advertising and gone back to Google Adsense ads?!

It was ridiculous. 

The layout was awful and it seems that in the last 4 weeks not a damn things happened at all and I received no clicks whatsoever?! Considering that one of the three advertisers contacted me after 48 hours and said that a great deal of traffic was heading to their site and they wanted to know how I was doing it I really do not understand what was going on and went on AFTER that?!

Either the advertiser was lying to me or Affiliate Window is and in the time I was with them I estimate that I would have likely made £10 or more?!

I am also getting about double the visitors I was when I took out the Adsense ads so in theory the earnings should rise TWICE as fast?! In fact as the weekly visitors are themselves increasing it should technically rise a little under 2.5 times faster than it did previously?!

So let us oput that to the test?! £10.47 and let us give it one month and see what it is then?!

This advertising rubbish really is a nightmare, or a con, or BOTH!!!

In future I will need to be approached directly as I am NOT seeking out anymore rubbish Affiliate Agents! It really has been something I am not willing to repeat in all honesty and I wish fecking Google had never contacted me telling me I can make money from writing….as they did not mention I would have to write 3 to 4 days a week for 5 years before I start earn my pittance?!

LMAO!

If in one months time the Adsense money is rising at the same speed it was before then I am going to remove all their adverts … AGAIN and not have ANY on their.

Then I will start to become a real pain in the posterior for them.

Would be cool to find a Pay Per Clock agent with decent rates and adverts but its too much hard work to sort of the wheat, if there IS any lol, from the CHAFF?!

Hehe.

The ones I have come into contact with are…

Webgains (were not very clued up as did not think Blogger people can put ads on their sites?!)

Tradedoubler (unable to answer a simple question)

Affiliate Window (someone lied to me about traffic or reports and designer should be fired)

Linkshare (designer should be whipped to the point of sobbing, lol) nothing at all happened as far as clicks are concerned.

Aflite (UK based but like Tradedoubler unable to respond to emails)

Another industry and also like everything else on the Internet it is a bloody mess due to no governance, rules or fines for doing things badly!

But do not worry they will introduce an Ombudsman or three in the UK and we will realise after twenty years and millions of pounds of public money up the spout that they actually do not do anything?! Like all other Ombudsman and probably most governing bodies, lol.