Comments on: What Are The Odds That Your Blog (Or Website) Will Fail?

By: Guest Posts Increase Your Odds Of Having a Successful Site | How This Website Makes Money - The Blog

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 09:10:38 +0000

[...] a previous post (What Are The Odds Your Site Will Fail) I tried to determine the success rate of sites by taking the URL’s of Problogger commentors [...]

By: roman

roman — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 13:28:30 +0000

@Randy
Hello Randy,

You are right, some people do not blog for money. So for them even 10 visitors a day can be considered successful. But since Problogger’s blog is about making money with your blog, it is safe to assume that most commentors on Problogger want to make money with their blog.

Here is how I justify the three groups: dead, injured, alive: Most starting bloggers monetize their blogs by advertising. With advertising 500 visitors is not that much. If 1% of visitors click an ad and each ad pays $0.50 then all you would make a day is $25.00 (injured). At 2000 visitors a day you could make $100/day – almost enough to quit the average day job (alive). 200 visitors or less a day and your making $1 a day (dead).

By: Randy

Randy — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 12:38:29 +0000

Great post and great blog (just discovered it via websitebabble). Must have been tons of work to gather all the data manually. I like your statistical approach, too. However, I do have only one critical remark concerning your definition of dead, injured, alive and doing well based upon the number of visitors. There are many niche blogs which are not after maximizing number of visitors. And 500 visitors a day seems to be a very large number, anyway (at least for me). A lot of blogs (most?) are not after money either. If I would have that many visitors (I just started blogging and its just a hobby and way of learning some additional IT skills for me) I would be quite glad.

By: Mike's Life

Mike's Life — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 15:54:03 +0000

Mike’s Life Posts of the Week 10th July 2009…

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By: Commenting on Problogger Does Not Improve Your Blog | How This Website Makes Money - The Blog

Wed, 08 Jul 2009 06:41:09 +0000

[...] It turned out that 3 years after making a comment on problogger 71% of blogs still had less then 200 visitors a day. (for details of how the data is gathered please see post: What are the odds that your blog will fail?) [...]

By: Trey - Swollen Thumb Entertainment

Trey - Swollen Thumb Entertainment — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 01:38:35 +0000

Kudos to you Roman for introducing the Scientific Method to the world of blogging. Backing up your words with science is something that the blogosphere needs badly, because we make a lot of bold claims and fail to back it up. I admit, I’m guilty of this as well. So if anyone is equipped to call out other bloggers for not backing up what they claim, it’s you.

By: Roman

Roman — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 19:24:44 +0000

Thanks Nobi. Now I just need 1937 more visitors like you so that I can resurrect this blog from the dead.

By: Nobi

Nobi — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 13:53:54 +0000

Great article! Your articles are easy to understand, very humourous in some way and very informative.
Your writing style is unique. Never change it and never give up this blog.

Great work!

By: Robby G

Robby G — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 21:50:26 +0000

Very well written and informative post. Thanks for the recognition as well, I’m glad to have been an inspiration for this post. Cheers mate and best of luck!