The Goal For Tyler Ingram dot Com

Thom of Life In The Internet brought up an interesting point this morning as I scanned through my list of daily RSS feeds (yes I subscribe to my own RSS feed for both posts and comments).

I may have missed it but I don’t see any revenue generators on your site other than ads (please correct me if I’m wrong). If that’s the case, you only make money when they click the ads (i.e. bounce) so why to you want them to stay on your site? Wouldn’t the whole idea be to get them to click an ad and bounce?

This got me thinking, why is it I want my Bounce Rate to decrease, why do I want people to stay on my site when the point of the ads is to have people click on them and move on? I guess I want to keep people interested and coming back. If they come back, then I know what I have to write is interesting to them (as it is to me). It is also allowing me to see what sort of topics people tend to like most though I base this on page views mainly. I know if I see a link I want to click on, I’ll click on it to open it in another tab and go through it later (like daily bookmarking) so that I can continue reading the site I am currently on. Perhaps, if I am in it to make money, I am then going about it the wrong way. After all I’ve been blogging for over a year and I really do not make money on it.

What are my goals for Tyler Ingram dot Com?

My ultimate goal is to increase my writing skill by reporting about the things that happen around me on a daily basis. I have had people comment that my writing quality has increased since I have started my blog (as well as the hardware reviews I do) but I do know I am not perfect. In fact English was my worse subject in High School and I still tend to struggle with it. I don’t mean the spoken aspect of it (though I do have my moments), but the writing portion of the language. You know things like sentence fragments, incorrect use of punctuation and/or grammar.

Social Networking would be another part of my goal, to get my name out there on the internet. I don’t go around saying I am a perfect source of knowledge but to get to know people around the world with similar interests and that is what I believe the blogging industry to be about. Though this would go hand-in-hand with self branding right? You see photos of people like Shoemoney or John Chow and you recognize them. Wouldn’t the majority of bloggers like to have that sort of recognition?

Monetization isn’t really a goal in this current time. I am sure I could do more in an effort to earn more income on my blog. Couldn’t you? Wouldn’t you like to make those monthly incomes in which the Dot Com Moguls make? You know like 20k-30k per month. What I like to do is look into the various aspects of monetizing a blog and I have tried most of them (AdSense, AdVolcano, TextLinkAds, TTZ Media to name a view). Though being majority of click-thru type affiliates I would follow the rest of the crowd saying those are the sites with larger traffic rates.

Another comment Thom made was:

Certainly with a low click thru that logic would seem to make sense, and it is what everyone preaches. But what if you could get 10 visits a day and make just $1 off each one? Wouldn’t that be better? And with only 10 visits, not thousands! I’d rather have one visit a day from a buyer than 1000 visits a day from readers.

Sure having a $1 per person that visited would be great! I’d even settle for $0.25 to $0.50 per person. It would definitely help out on the income front. The question would be; how would you do something like that? Perhaps that can be my next task, looking into what sort of method would allow me to bring in $0.50 per person per visit as opposed to looking at Page Impressions and the percentage rate at which they click on ads to generate a source of income right?

So the goal for my blog is to become more confident in writing. Afterwards I could look at learning how to better monetize the site (or other types of sites). I could also look at enrolling in some writing courses but I would have to look at the reason for why I wish to write better first, in order for me to justify paying crazy amounts of tuition fees since I already am planning on taking some graphic design courses to help increase my confidence in web design and development.

Thom I thank you for your comments. They definitely have been thought provoking and I appreciate them.