Answer me with a few questions. Does your blog make a decent amount? Is your traffic fulfilled? If yes ignore this post. If no then read this.
Do you know there are millions of blogs and websites out there on the internet world and many people surf and search daily? Now, let us imagine you are running a small blog and making 500 views daily, are you getting a good amount from advertisers. The minimum payment a blog with daily 500 views should make at least $20 per month, but most blogs fail to monetize. Now let me give some clear information. Is your traffic genuine.? The answer is no. If yes then you are lying. Because genuine traffic means traffic from search engines, social media, referring sites and feeds or newsletters. Traffic from these blogs is said to be most qualified and costly. This means a CPM of at least $2-3. Most blog owners with 1000 daily views fail to monetize because the traffic is not quality, which means traffic from PPC programs, auto-surf, and exchanges. This traffic serious useless for any advertiser.
What if I am an advertiser?
Now let me be an advertiser. Now I want to invest some bucks to generate impressions or clicks on my blog. Now I came to your blog and bid $1 for 1000 impressions. The ad started generating impressions and at the end of the day, your blog made 1000 impressions and I paid you $1, you are now happy.. what about me... now I eagerly move to my stats to check the views your blog gave to me. Shockingly, my stats show a big zero. Why? Because your traffic is not real, a PPC or autosurf.. seriously stole my $1 :( no auto surf will generate clicks on my ads. I got angry and decreased bid to $0.5, now the next day I get 2000 ad impressions and again big zero because your traffic is fake. I finally come down and bid $0.05 for 1000 impressions, I get many impressions but you get only $0.05 daily. That too I gave as a tip because you gave me nothing in back except impressions where only a bot is seeing.
Now you are a royal organic blog owner.
Let your blog making only 500 views from Google and Social media. Ohh.. a good traffic source. I come to you and bid $0.5 for 1000 impressions, now the ad started generating impressions and in the end, I paid you $0.5 for 1000 impressions, now I move to my stats and saw few clicks and one sale. And sold a product. Wow.. wasn't it amazing.. because the ad was seen by real visitors and one of them clicked and purchased. I am happy with you and continue to run with the same bid. Suddenly a new advertiser finds your blog and he now bid for $1 for 1000 impressions, he too saw an improvement, now the old advertiser here again increases to $1.5 :), both of you are happy and making fighting money finally end of the month you made $50. This is the actual power of CPM. Seriously many bloggers using fake traffic to cheat advertisers. So guys promise me that you will be away from these. Now listen, write a good post and say your friends about your blog, whatever you do make your blog a powerful one, not a bot one.
Hope this might have made you realize a real secret behind your traffic sources and earnings.
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