Tim Dobson

My blog is not about money

8 May 2012

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Recently, I scored an ‘SEO hit’ – a blog post explaining simply and easily how to access the Pirate Bay.

Unique visits to my blog by month
Unique visits to my blog by month

My traffic graph exploded. Suddenly I had to take note of the skills I’ve built up at scaling websites rapidly which fortunately, wasn’t very difficult for me.

As the initial sense of “wow, I just increased my traffic logarithmically” faded, the business side of my brain started thinking

“Shouldn’t I be able to get advertising revenue from that kind of views?”

Obviously, the answer is yes. 10,000 page views = ~£10 via adsense. ‘Yay’.

What I have realised is that for me, the real benefit of this blog – the really powerful part – is how fast and how far, with very little effort, I can share ideas and knowledge.

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