How Do I Capture The Click, Lead or Sale?
Many people wonder a few things about me. For one, how do I run so many damn blogs, and two, how do I make so much money off them. I was chatting with a new friend tonight, Paul Tocknell, who owns a site titled, Ask a CFI. The site is basically a place where you can get all your flight training questions answered by certified flight instructors. He was curious more about the second question: How do I make money online? So, here is a tip that will help you get the most out of your multiple owned blogs.
Many people think that you have to have tons of traffic to make money with a blog. While having a lot of traffic is great, it’s not required. I’ll take a blog any day that has 100 daily visits to it.
Regardless of what your niche is, the process of making money online with your blog generally remains the same. A lot of what I do to make money online is things that I don’t do, or don’t have time to do.
My site designs. Some people think they are ugly, some people think they are plain. This may be true, but there is rhyme and reason to my site designs. They are designed to micro manage and control traffic flow.
A typical blog that is trying to make money online does this by having two programs: One, a program that pays for clicks. The second program is one that pays when the site generates a commission based lead or sale.
When I design a blog, I make it so that it control the internal flow of traffic. I carefully plot out IF and THEN statements. It all typically starts with Adsense.
Here is an example of my mindset when I design the structure of a blog that is monetized and optimized for search engine traffic.
- When the user visits my blog they will click my Adsense ads.
- IF they don’t click Adsense THEN they will more closely read my content.
- IF they read my content THEN they will click my affiliate based links and I will score a lead gen or sales commission.
- IF they don’t click my links in my content THEN they get recirculated onto another page within the website by way of self promotional ads and THEN process starts over again.
- IF they do not click on the internal self promotion ads THEN they will get recirculated into another website of mine through external self promotion ads and THEN the process starts over again.
The point I am trying to illustrate to you, is that really the only way I don’t get paid money by a visit is when the user clicks the back button. As long as I keep that user pushing in a forward direction in a LOOP, eventually that user will click OUT and that action will be one that is payable to me. The whole goal for me is to exercise efforts towards making sure that the people who come IN leaving OUT using an action that PAYS. It doesn’t matter if I have 10, 100, 1000 or 10,000 visits. Percentages are percentages and mass numbers of low volume across the board of over 100 websites adds up and adds up real quick.
I hope you enjoyed the tip. Drop me a comment and tell me so.

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Date/Time: 2-7-2008 05:46:12 Comment #10645
Great tip Garry. What CTR do you target?
Date/Time: 2-7-2008 08:35:36 Comment #10660
Its goos that you are sharing your tricks here but never tell your secrets to other people and even your friends! Why? I did this and now they have forgot that it was me who told them how to earn money online and they try to tech me now LOL, they show as I am a newbie and when I have some work, they avoid me. Life is like this only, people are cruel.
Date/Time: 2-7-2008 09:55:41 Comment #10668
Hi, your website really locks the visitor into a LOOP. When I first visited this site, I was in this LOOP-ing situation too. lol. But well, you did have good contents in your sites to be able to lock the visitors.
Date/Time: 2-7-2008 09:57:31 Comment #10669
Thanks for the tips Gary. Also, I like the way the three column theme is done here with ad space on each side. Is this one that you designed?
Date/Time: 2-7-2008 13:36:18 Comment #10692
HELP ME!…….
How do I get out of this blog?
I keep going in a loop and eventually I will have to click an ad. LOL
Date/Time: 2-7-2008 15:38:36 Comment #10700
LOL!!
If you venture into the realm of blogs owned by GCDC, then I own you! Muhahahahahaha!!!!
Date/Time: 2-7-2008 18:52:47 Comment #10714
Gary:
Is it a constant struggle between what the user wants and you (the website owner) wants? The user certainly reads a website hoping for good content. On the other hand, you don’t mind if a user clicks away from your content via an ad.
Date/Time: 2-7-2008 19:11:04 Comment #10717
Hi ChowMunga!
Thanks for dropping me a comment and welcome to my blog. You are certainly right about being torn with hoarding the traffic internally versus shipping them out to somewhere else.
Sites like GCDC, I focus on maintaining a very high level of regular readers where other sites that really are built as hub stations more less act as a connector, which take the visitor from point A (the search engine) to point B (My website) to point C (the action site). In a perfect world it would be great to have a site where people keep coming back for more.
Few people have that and I’ll admit, I am cooking something up as we speak. Today I have redesigned one of my most profitable MMO sites and have converted it into a medium that will harbor regular reader traffic as well as one hit wonders. I’ll be sure to keep everyone posted on that. I have already sent out a few private invites via email to a few select people.
Date/Time: 2-8-2008 09:01:13 Comment #10781
Hmm, Maybe I was going the wrong way about this.
I was trying the following:
1) Get people to site
2) Hope they either read the content or buy my stuff
3) If they don’t hope they click an adsense ad.
I didn’t really put much thought into the design, and maybe its something I should look into investing the time into.
Thanks for the tip Garry.
@hashim - I remember the tips that people give me
Date/Time: 2-10-2008 08:27:58 Comment #11027
Surfers’ moods are erratic. They are impatient most of the time. They jump from site to site. Yes, I agree, it doesn’t matter how many visitors get into your site: the most important thing is to find a gem among the hundreds of visitors.
Date/Time: 2-11-2008 12:20:29 Comment #11177
Garry,
Good post and just what I’m trying to build up with my niche blogs at the moment. A bit time consuming, but I know it’s going to pay off after all the work I have already put in.