Gabriel writes in and asks:
nibbledish contains around 3,000 recipes and gets around 165k uniques per month, while sparkrecipes contains nearly 170,000 recipes but only gets around 16.3k uniques per month according to quantcast. Do you have any explanation as to why this is the case? I would expect sparkrecipes to garner much more traffic since it's more established and it contains more recipes.
It's an outstanding question. Competitive intelligence is so crucial when analyzing any market, so I ... Keep reading »
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You'll never get rich blogging. 18 months ago that was the very first thing I wrote on this blog, and I still think it's true. However, that's no reason not to make some money from your blog. Depending on what you're blogging about, even 10,000 to 15,000 monthly visitors could earn you $5,000 or more annually. Not enough to quit a job on, but who couldn't use an extra $416.67 every month?
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People will always pay more if they're confident in what they're getting. That's true whether we're talking about advertisers or for the eventual acquirer of your site. Not only that, given the choice of two otherwise identical sites, they'll always choose the one with greater transparency.
Because of that, there are two free services that I strongly recommend signing up for.
Google Analytics
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