How Many Articles Does a Blogger Need to Post to Make Money?

    There’s no magic number of articles that a blogger can post in order to go viral and make a ton of money. With that being said, those posts must be of high quality in order to attract an abundance of traffic to a particular site, and furthermore, writing multiple high-quality posts doesn’t guarantee that a blog will garner millions of visitors. My blog has over one hundred posts to date, and it only receives a sparse amount of web traffic organically for various reasons. The most notable reason why my blog doesn’t attract at least a thousand organic visitors daily from search engines like Google, Yahoo, or Bing is because of the average length of my articles. A well-written article that has between 1500-2000 words is now considered the standard prototype that will yield a multitude of curious visitors to one’s site.

    One way that I’ve solved the problem of a lack of web traffic to my blog is pay-per-click advertising from Google Ads. Their site allows advertisers to post ads that will attract visitors from various countries to their websites and/or blogs. My web traffic has risen tenfold since I’ve advertised on Google Ads, and in turn, this has helped boost my organic traffic as well as book sales. Backlink building is also an important component of increasing web traffic, and advertising on Google Ads has aided in my blog receiving numerous backlinks from other websites.

    My experience has taught me that posting a plethora of articles over a period of twelve months or more doesn’t guarantee a popular blog. Bloggers can combat this problem by using Google’s pay-per-click advertising platform to successfully draw visitors to their sites on a daily basis.

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Authors Must Be Able to Adapt to the Volatile Climate of Self-Publishing

    The landscape of the writing world can be a slippery slope at times. Self-published authors must be able to navigate around the terrain in order to survive and sustain a monthly income. The price of everything is seemingly rising every day, and a writer (author and/or blogger) should monitor every aspect of marketing with a fine-tooth comb. For example, an author needs to examine his or her advertising campaign thoroughly, or a blogger needs to balance time between social media and SEO of blog. I personally struggle with my Amazon Ads campaign for my books and Google Ads campaign for my blog.

 Analysis of Amazon Ads Campaign.

    I’ve recently hit a rough patch with the advertising of my books on Amazon. I thrived on their platform in the beginning of 2019 each month when my average cost per click was only $0.23. I was able to fine tune my ads campaigns and make a sizable profit for each one of my books regularly. However, this year has been dismal with profits plummeting ever since the CPC has risen threefold, and this stark increase in pay-per-click advertising has made selling books extremely difficult. I’ve tried multiple ways to advertise my books on Amazon―a separate group of keywords for each novel or all novels under one umbrella of keywords―but I’ve discovered that it’s more cost efficient for each title to have its own set of keywords. And with times being as tough as they are right now, I can ill afford the luxury of having poorly performing keywords in each ad campaign. I ultimately had to archive the words and phrases that don’t yield a book sale after ten dollars’ worth of ad clicks.

 Analysis of Google Ads Campaign.

    I was dead set against using pay-per-click advertising for my blog when I first launched it back in June of 2021. The initial goal was to see how much traffic the blog would attract organically once I reached 100 posts. My blog currently has 100 posts to date, but it doesn’t yield enough organic traffic to be considered successful. Needless to say, I had to bite the bullet and launch a Google Ad campaign in order to see different results. I’ll try it for a year to see if pay-per-click advertising for my blog is worth the investment.

 Conclusion.

    My situation may or may not be unique, but every writer is faced with some type of dilemma in the ever-changing climate of self-publishing. The only advice I can give a new author is to stay committed to your writing and marketing principals and adapt to any given circumstance. Failure isn’t an option for me, so I have to see past this temporary stumbling block and keep pushing forward.

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