Comments on: I am not John Chow, still…

By: Ajith Prasad

Ajith Prasad — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 16:59:41 +0000

@Lee, I understand your point. The bottomline is that if you start with that kind of visitor base any monetization instrument could work for you

By: Lee

Lee — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 12:14:39 +0000

Don't get me wrong - Chitika and Adbrite don't pay as much as some other ppc programs but they certainly do add to the bottom line. Obviously the 8 days to reach $100 was AFTER I had got up to 1000 uniques per day. Getting that number of visitors for that particular site took quite some time! Lee's last blog post... 5 Types Of Social Networking Scam - #3 Profile Hacking

By: Ajith Prasad

Ajith Prasad — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 18:23:09 +0000

@Lee, thanks for sharing the info. AdBrite and Chitika didn’t quite work for me.., There was some success with AdBrite but I discontinued before the first payment. Chitika, probably I tried, when I didn;t have much traffic.

1000 uniques a day would have given you a jump start for sure

By: Lee

Lee — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 16:43:16 +0000

1) I monetized my history site when it hit 1000 uniques per day?
2) 8 days?
3) Multiple streams of income – adsense, chitika, adbrite, tla and affiliate sales all working together on the same site as the different types of ad appeal to different visitors.

PR has no direct relationship to either earnings or traffic… dont obsess over it guys!!

By: Ajith Prasad

Ajith Prasad — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 06:11:09 +0000

Technosamrat, thanks for your views on when to monetize. In your case once you get a lot of readers you could monetize regardless of the timeframe (as you already have a good PR)… May be you need more feed and direct readers.

Forget 40K, If I get to make $4000 a month consistently, I would stop working

By: TechnoSamrat

TechnoSamrat — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 05:39:49 +0000

Google PR is not important when you have loads and loads of traffic like JohnChow…. He earns a decent $40k every month ..LOL!!.. really very decent amount…

Now coming the point of monetization… My idea is like wait for atleast 3-4 months and then put up some ads when you have a decent PR and good traffic. I’m planning to monetize my Blog after 5-6 months…..

By: Ajith Prasad

Ajith Prasad — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 02:52:16 +0000

Yes Chetan, in fact his blog was brought down a couple of times in terms of PR. What is not very good though is that Google seems to have even controlled internally even beyond PR to get him no visibility on the front page.

By: Chetan

Chetan — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 17:26:14 +0000

John Chow is a true money blogger. But Google hate such people, last time google bring him down !! Even he was not on top pn his own name [Keyword] Chetan's last blog post...Send E-mails with others E-mail IDs.[Fake Mail]

By: moserw

moserw — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 13:54:38 +0000

Thanks for sharing Ajith. Will check out the make money section.

By: Ajith Prasad

Ajith Prasad — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 08:09:49 +0000

@ZK, thank you very much for your views. Your timeframe to hit $100 seems to be like mine as well, though I am not consistently above that figure every month. And definitely, social media & social bookmarking sites are among the top market drivers.

@Ramesh, you will soon get there and there’s no looking back then. And there’s no doubt that the king (content) will rule. As for the stumble thing, you are very right. If I take a look at the traffic for the last month, I see three towering spikes which was caused by three separate stumbles…

@Laura, definitely you have to put in effort to make each buck…and yous seem to be with all of us on the social media/social networking route.

@Kim, you are welcome…and thanks a lot for the stumble. 100+ people hit the make-money page yesterday

@Tom, 3-6 months is the timeframe projected by most and I am glad that you are one of the first to get there…

@Hussein, thanks for linking back and good to see that you created a post out of it

Thank you all for your views…

Cheers,
Ajith