Comments on: Riding the Reddit Railroad: The effects of being promoted on Reddit. http://codeofdoom.com/wordpress/2009/03/19/riding-the-reddit-railroad/ Thu, 29 Jul 2010 14:18:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Mike http://codeofdoom.com/wordpress/2009/03/19/riding-the-reddit-railroad/comment-page-1/#comment-233 Mike Sat, 27 Jun 2009 01:28:56 +0000 http://codeofdoom.com/wordpress/?p=372#comment-233 This post is an excellent case study in the quantity of traffic vs. quality of traffic! I have a couple of blogs and have found that, in general, social aggregating sites like Digg, and reddit are sometimes useful for generating an influx of cheap, busy traffic but that traffic tends not to be very sticky. These are the channel surfers of the Internet and as such are looking for quick pieces to evoke an emotional response, or eye candy to entertain. As for the adsense, I can tell you for a fact that it is possible to make a decent, double-digit income on a daily basis but you have to focus on high-paying keywords as topics. Chances are good that advertisers are not paying big bucks for the kinds of tech terms found on programming blogs. Also, ad style and placement matter! I make more from my 468x60 ads just below the title than I do from any 336 x 280 entries in the content. This post is an excellent case study in the quantity of traffic vs. quality of traffic!

I have a couple of blogs and have found that, in general, social aggregating sites like Digg, and reddit are sometimes useful for generating an influx of cheap, busy traffic but that traffic tends not to be very sticky. These are the channel surfers of the Internet and as such are looking for quick pieces to evoke an emotional response, or eye candy to entertain.

As for the adsense, I can tell you for a fact that it is possible to make a decent, double-digit income on a daily basis but you have to focus on high-paying keywords as topics. Chances are good that advertisers are not paying big bucks for the kinds of tech terms found on programming blogs. Also, ad style and placement matter! I make more from my 468×60 ads just below the title than I do from any 336 x 280 entries in the content.

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