Anybody making over $30k with a blog?

Yes people are making 1k a day and they have a blog, but it's not really their main source of business....

The question you should ask yourself is if you can get your visitors to become loyal to you. If you are getting repeat visits and lots of comments, I would expand. But if it's just random traffic, I would focus on figuring out how to get them to sign up to an email list where you can build a relationship with them, then send them into a sales funnel.

It all depends on what your business model is...

The guys I know who are making ridiculous (more than 30k) a month have built up a huge following and now they do JVs with other people in their niche who also have huge followings. They both have blogs... But it's not their core business.

3k visitors per day, but you are not making any money from it ? Time is going away my friend, I am wondering why are you not monetizing it ?

Oh man at least put some adsense on there and you will make money right away.

Ideally you should come up with a digital product of some kind and sell it.

Third alternative is to sell affiliate products.

I make pretty great part time money with a blog getting only 900 visitors a day.

The Internet Marketing arena can be a harsh environment to enter and conquer.
I'm learning and build a blog. hope will get 1000 $/month

Hey the question here is what are you doing to monetise 3k visitors a day....do you have any idea of the amount of money you can make just from one thing such as adsense let alone all the other income streams?

OP, what kind of traffic or niche is your blog?

I've got an inspirational blog, but I've recently added health and other categories, which I'm trying to expand.

No I'm not sure what the potential my blog holds, I know I wont make much with adsense, and I dont want to nickle and dime.

If anyone has much experience in monetize traffic and would be interested in helping out that be great.

I beg to differ . . . for you, getting 3K visitors a day . . . that's exactly the question you need to solve. Why worry about growing your blog when you are not currently able to convert?

Steve

Build that list. You should have at least 3 opt-in forms on your blog. I put one in the sidebar, one at the bottom of every blog post, and one that pops up when they try to exit.

My blog is not even something I even try to make money with. I post on it maybe 2-3 times a month with a couple of reviews of products I really like or maybe a couple of tip posts. I hardly pay any attention to it. It gets maybe 80-100 visitors a day and still I get 5-8 subscribers every day from it on average. I hardly spend any time on my blog or put any work into it and it still produces 100-200 new subscribers per month for me. I also get some sales from the product reviews in there every month.

I guess the point I'm trying to make is that with 3000 unique visitors per day even if you could capture just 1% that would be 30 subscribers per day. If you had a halfway decent funnel to send them through you would do pretty well. Not to mention that since you have their email address you can always market to them in the future.

If you don't want to go the autoresponder route, at least sign up for a free service like Feedburner that will allow people to sign up for updates from your blog. This way every time you publish a new blog post it will automatically get emailed to anyone who has signed up to receive updates. They even provide a free form you can put on your blog to capture subscribers. It's not the same as building a list with an autoresponder, but ti will still give you the capability to communicate directly with your followers.

Don't underestimate the power of a blog. It can be a very powerful marketing tool, and yes, there are people out there who are making $1000 a day from their blog and their blog is their main business. There are people out there who are making over $100 every day from Adsense alone.

It sounds like you have a niche that you are passionate about and I know the "motivation/inspiration" niche is huge and loaded with passionate people. Monetize your blog right and my guess is you can turn 3000 visitors a day into a nice little money machine for yourself.

1. Try Adsense first to see what's the potential like.
2. Look for those CPM ad programs where they typically return USD $1-2 per 1,000 pageviews.
3. Try to sell some of your personal services.
4. Sell ad space directly.
5. Try selling affiliate programs (e.g. Sign up with Amazon Associates). If you're into inspirational stuff, you can sell inspirational books for example (though they might not make much because books are rather cheap)

Perhaps people like shoemoney and John chow are, I don't think many are though

$1K per day is a nice figure. But it's really hard to achieve. Only a few bloggers are making this kind of money from their blog. But with a proper plan and work it can be achieved. By the way, I am just making a few thousand per month

It's Time to MONETIZE Your Blog

Not anyone can get 3k visits per day !
That's a rad number my friend


#1 Build a List
- Create a proper followup to the list THEN start collecting.
- Then Put in : popup optins, sidebar optin at the top, footer optin and an some inside the articles themselves. Stuart Walker at Niche Hacks dot com is doing a great job with it.
- Promote some relevant affiliate offers

#2 Forget about adsense.
If you're in the health, wealth or relationships niche ..
or any other niche really that you can monetize via some Affiliate Products.
Never ever ever ever install adsense ads. They suck.
Affiliate marketing in most niches is way more profitable than Adsense.
If you can't figure out where can you find the products to promote,
here's a little trick
1- Check ClickBank.com - It's the Number one place to find some good products.
2- Google it. Use this search string: {Niche + affiliate programs}


I hope this helps
Thank you for posting this thread

My second website gets only! 30 - 50 visitors and im earning enough money to pay bills, food and travel!
Your website has 3k?! Jesus christ!
Thats a lot of potentional customers, I would recommend digital product, advertising on your website or add some VIP services, upgrades on your website for readers to start earn!

Maybe I shouldn't be, but so many of the testimonies or even recommendations on this thread and elsewhere in this forum read and sound apocryphal to me. I hope I am wrong. 3,000 unique visitors sounds like a lot but certainly doable. My site, which is on Blogger @ blogpost.com gets 300 to 500 a month. I have an adsense account, which earns me a couple of dollars each month. Can't write home about that one.

Have not tried affiliate. The recommendation from parka regarding Amazon Associates sounds promising. But again it would be nice to get specific and tractable tips where within the first month of implementation the subscriber sees genuine results that they can report back on here.

I just see too many general comments here. And that is disappointing. Glad that everyone else is doing so well.

Making money with a blog is a long, slow, approach. Do people generally go to a blog to purchase things or do they go to read and obtain information? Adsense requires an amount of traffic that will take years to build for even a paltry return.

I like to think of a blog as inbound marketing. It's discovery. Nothing else. Every post on our blog has an opt-in at the bottom which offers our complementary digital magazine (something of actual value... and no, we're not teaching you how to make money). This converts pretty well.

Now they're in the funnel and we stratify and make initial offers.

The key is STILL to build something that people actually want to buy... Something that solves a problem. I know it's old fashioned, but, doing so works more reliably than trying to make 30K a month from a blog.

Lol, not making anything while focused on two random numbers ($1K & $30K).

If you can't make $1 you'll never make $1,000.

My site gets about 600-700 daily visitors. I just slapped on AdSense on the right sidebar and the revenue covers the cost of running the website.

Within the most popular articles I've embedded affiliate ads which gets about 6%-7% Ctr. No sales so far so I'm testing out which affiliate product will convert. I know this doesn't answer your question on how to make $1k per day but thought I'd share what I do. I'll use some of the suggestions in this thread about review articles and list building and report back how it's doing. Cheers

John Chow is making that kind of money and more. And he is doing this because he has 'strong calls to action' all over his web pages.

John Chow doesn't recommend Adsense, he calls it "Online Welfare".

He makes most of his money from a 'Big Ticket' top tier internet system that is geared towards 'the make money niche'.

If you are getting 3K visitors per day then you need to learn how to:

1- Collect Leads

2- Build your 'own' list

3- Give them value

4- 'Convert' all those leads into $$$

If you learn how to do these 4 things right, you won't ever have to worry about 'nickel and dimes' ever again.

Another way JC makes a lot of money from his blog is by 'selling' ad space directly to advertisers.

Lastly...

All bloggers who want to 'Monetize', need to learn "CALL TO ACTION".

Tell your visitors what you want them to do!

John Chow makes $40k+ per month from his blog, and shares a lot of info on how he does it: I Make Money Online By Telling People How I Make Money Online

Willie

This is really a huge amount and needs more hard works, consistency, dedication and time.

My blog is music-related. The training element of it. The blog in itself, doesn't make money. It's more of a branding and information portal. My earnings come from the bookings that I get to train people, physically, in my studio. But in my part of the world, corporations will pay thousands of dollars a month to advertise on busy blogs. Maybe you can seek local businesses in your area to place ads on your blog for a monthly fee?

There some GOOGLE AD SENSE alternatives like Adversal and Revenue Hits ! Yuo can try them !

What is your blog and what is it about? I want to see it so that i can make analysis of it. What are your current methods of attempting to monetize your blog?

Like allot of people here say, I hope you are building a list?

Sign up with aWeber and you could simply create an autoresponder series like "self improvement weekly tips" and point people to a blog post. You dont need a fancy free eBook at first, some people will sign up just to get "updates" like that.

Find a clickbank or other affiliate product that matches the tip you are giving and link to it in your blog post. It can be that simple.

Once you see the kinds of affiliate products that sell, then make your own product.

You need to rethink your goals.. set the bar at 10$ a day. play around with ad placements and test & monitor results. Lowering the bounce-rate drastically will give you more ad impressions and more clicks in the long term.

I'm dumbfounded that you are not making money yet. One of my sites gets 1k traffic a day and makes 2k a month.

If you have a blog with 3k/daily visitors a day without earning, you should jump to another niche. I used to have a blog with 10k visitor a month and make $3k every month before I sale it for great price.
However, I can check your site before give further advice. May be, you did not discover the gems. Just PM me.
Good luck.

please teach me how to get traffic and income from my blog

When monetizing, remember that in-line text links (to affiliates, etc.) convert well.

You're getting 3,000 visitors to your blog every single day but you're not making any money? If that's the case you have a serious problem with conversions. I would also question the kind of traffic you're getting to your blog...it could be what they call "junk traffic."

With 3k visitors per day you should be making at least $3k a month, bare minimum, unless your traffic is ridiculously low quality (ie SEO traffic from keyword spammed pages).

There are people like Pat Flynn making much more than 30k with their blogs. However, don't fall victim to the survivorship bias. There are hundreds of thousands bloggers who try hard but don't make a single buck.

Those who have made over $30k with there blogs are the ones who have a large following and have established themselves in the game a long time.