My personal blog is making me money and I only check in once a week. How is this possible?
I started publishing the Pittsburgh Flash Fiction Gazette in September of 2008. It just passed the 20,300 hits mark. The blog is still averaging 70 visits a day even though I might put up a posting once a week. This has been going on for two months. Lately, my blog has been sending five to eight hits to my Triond account every day. What’s going on?
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I have a theory that might explain why my blog continues to make money for me even though I neglect it.
For one thing there are 1,000 pieces of content on my blog. That’s a nice little online footprint. It’s nothing to brag about but it does bring a nice number of readers every day looking for the kind of content that my blog offers.
And what kind of content does my blog offer? There are flash fiction stories, articles about blogging,writing, sexuality and there is literary erotica. New writers can also submit their stories for publication in the Gazette. The Gazette is a great place for new writers to showcase their work.
In other words, there’s a lot in the Gazette to keep a reader busy. It keeps readers there.
I don’t have to blog every day. I spend hours every day on Triond. I don’t have time for much personal blogging.
The Gazette has turned out to be a great online marketing tool for my Triond content.
So, it appears that if a blogger cannot put in hours every day blogging on a personal blog that doesn’t mean his or her blog is a waste of time.
October 15th, 2009 at 7:14 am
Thanks…
October 15th, 2009 at 7:56 am
Very informative!
October 15th, 2009 at 8:25 am
good way to promote your articles!
October 15th, 2009 at 8:51 am
Interesting..
October 15th, 2009 at 9:10 am
Great article! I hope tons more people read your articles, and you make piles of money!
You are a very good writer, thanks for sharing with us!
October 15th, 2009 at 9:47 am
Awesome way to expand and get your well written article out there.
October 15th, 2009 at 10:05 am
1000 articles! Amazing.
October 15th, 2009 at 10:11 am
Teves, for a long time I would put in hours every day blogging on my personal blog. I don’t have time to do that now; but since it’s up and running I don’t have to put in all that time and it still sends several readers every day to my Triond account.
October 15th, 2009 at 10:16 am
Mrs. Heart, I’m glad my personal blog was up and running months before I became a Triond writer.
October 15th, 2009 at 10:19 am
martie, the Gazette is still very useful to me even though I don’t blog every day. I’m thinking about how I can blog more often.
October 15th, 2009 at 10:23 am
giftarist, I’m trying to figure out how to use my personal blog more effectively to promote my Triond posts.
October 15th, 2009 at 10:27 am
pattiann, I’m trying to make better use of my personal blog. That will help.
October 15th, 2009 at 10:34 am
Elizabeth, I need to get better at using my personal blog. I can’t spend hours on it like I use to but it is a good source of readers for me.
October 15th, 2009 at 10:38 am
chitragopi, it took me one year to put up those 1,000 posts. I was a busy litte bee.
October 15th, 2009 at 10:54 am
Wow, a thousand post on your blog, great! I dream with the day I can have a thousand articles on triond. It is hard work.
October 15th, 2009 at 10:58 am
i like ur way of addressing others …… simply u r awesom
October 15th, 2009 at 2:13 pm
Very useful… learning from you!
October 15th, 2009 at 3:07 pm
Marie, I would trade in 1,000 post on my personal blog for 1,000 on Triond any day.
October 15th, 2009 at 3:09 pm
Tarun, it’s great to be in a community of writers.
October 15th, 2009 at 3:12 pm
Sourav, writing is a great vocation. I hope I can continue doing it full time.
October 15th, 2009 at 5:49 pm
1000! WOW NICE JOB MAN
October 15th, 2009 at 7:20 pm
Nice, thanks for that
October 15th, 2009 at 7:58 pm
Congratulations! I was trying to read your article twice and this annoying ad on honey oats crunch kept popping up. lol. I also like the way you address others. I don’t mind learning from a pro.
October 15th, 2009 at 9:25 pm
Woow 1000 articles nice going! Sounds pretty good I wish I could do the same, I don’t really have the time for a blog now though.
October 15th, 2009 at 10:44 pm
Wonderful way to carry on.
October 16th, 2009 at 3:20 am
I liked your article. It gives me inspiration to take up Troind seriously.
October 16th, 2009 at 5:49 am
Nice sharing my friend. Do you have a website for the gazette?
October 17th, 2009 at 6:15 am
Guy that was a perfect article, we all learned a lot from your advice!
October 17th, 2009 at 11:38 am
Well, royee, it did take me a year to put up 1,000 pieces but now it’s really paying off.
October 17th, 2009 at 11:43 am
Yusuf, a personal blog can be a great wat of connecting with others.
October 17th, 2009 at 11:50 am
marlene, I don’t spend as much time on my personal blog as I use to but it is a great marketing tool for my Triond content.
October 17th, 2009 at 5:41 pm
I also started out blogging and then discovered article writing and now neglect my blog.
October 20th, 2009 at 4:07 am
I think it is eroticism at Pittsburgh Flash Fiction Gazette, which is causing multiplications of the pages for Guy Hogan. The cause & effect of the multiplications of the web pages can be understood well at the article published at this very site, under the title, Beyond The Mirage of The Alluring Programs on The Internet.
October 20th, 2009 at 5:16 pm
Glad to hear that someone is ahead of me on the route I chose to follow. Gives me improved hope that it can really work. Thanks.
October 22nd, 2009 at 3:55 am
cool