Make Money On Wizzley - Finding The Right Readers

Lissie,

I have found that AdSense seems to be a lower return these days for me than other forms of income generation (like, Zazzle, Amazon, Cafe Press, Affiliate Links, etc). I have found this across many platforms as well as on Wizzley.

I am putting this down to more my style of articles are geared with 'buyers of product' ie solutions to problems rather than informational articles and hope drive by traffic clicks on an AdSense block.

Hence I find that desired and focused search traffic to my articles and posts results in desired and focused sales.

I will nail this AdSense beast one day.

Highly informative article, those that haven't been in this gig long will receive immense value from reading and applying your suggestions.

Great stuff Lissie, tried and true measures I know creates success. Nice attractor factor...

What an excellent article Lissie. This really gets to the meat of it and is wonderful what you are sharing usually only comes from experience. Looking at the big pictures is so important doing what we do, and can save you a lot of wasted effort. I agree Wizzley has it all. Even if a newbie is unsure whether a topic is better for Adsense or Amazon monetization, you can still experiment and try both at the same time here. So you find many of the Keyword researcher reviews bring up few or no searches on Adwords? I go ahead anyway on some that make sense. I bought my KWR through your affiliate link over a month ago and have to say thanks!

I started online last Spring and write on a number of sites also with other another user name for my homesteading niche, and I learned to listen to others on what pays best. It certainly takes experience to maximize returns on various platforms and each has their uses for me. I am not that disciplined and need the variety of easy recipes, homesteading, how to's that are quick and easy to write, but that may not pay as well (a little adsense, meanwhile I guess I am building a following for my niche and plan some e books), so have bolstered it with products reviews, they earn well, but I find my self struggling doing them 100% of the time. Anyway, I just wanted to say what you have written is so true, thanks for sharing it with everyone.

I have also found that writing articles for people looking for solutions and monetizing it with affiliate links, works much better than hoping for Adsense clicks.

I look forward to reading the rest of the articles in the series Lissie.

Good point Yeiri - most people who opened a physical book shop would have no choice but to treat it like a business - what with the bank loans and staff!

Thank goodness we don't have that online - but I agree it does mean that both us and our families tend to think more "hobby" than business - which is a mistake

@Angel Ouch - bad time to start at Hubpages - Wizzley is my much preferred platform for beginners these days. Long-term you need your own sites - but they take a fair bit of time and effort to get Google trust - Wizzley is fast and easy, like Hubpages USED to be.

@Brenda Solve a problem for people and make it easy to buy - and it will work - who cares what the product is LOL

I read this with great interest. Thanks for very practical information. 95% of businesses fail, whether online or not. More people try online because there is virtually no overhead... but that also means many people do not take online business as seriously as other forms of business. I am extremely new at this, so I have nothing to show, but I will tell you what someone told me when I asked why some people make it online and others don't... If you open a physical store (say, a bookstore), you don't think about doing it for a couple of years and see... Don't have that option... That really opened my eyes...

Thank you for this article. I was looking through the list of writers on here today and it looks like a lot of people who started 9 months ago have dropped out. I'm too stubborn to give up. Luckily I have other income. I recently gave up on the social scene. I'm still on FB, but I just don't have the time to keep up a blog and belong to 100 social sites. My best money maker right now is the Clorox Toilet Wand. When I wrote it, I thought I was just wasting my time. LOL

This is a great article. I too have been down about my success or lack of success with this online writing adventure that I set out on back in Oct 2011. That is when I put my first article on hubpages. I need good articles like this to help guide me and reassure me that there is hope. I have a lot to learn and appreciate people like you taking time to write helpful articles for people like me. Thanks again.

Jo - I started out in this business because I thought I was a loner and I hated working with idiots - and all my colleagues were, of course, idiots! What I found online were some complete scammers, and generally nasty people. But I also "met" some of the nicest people I've ever known.

Because all of us were there at some stage. And most of us succeeded because someone reached out and helped, without even the carrot of an affiliate commission to do so! And they always said - just pay it forward - so I do.

You need blind faith - I was a pure cynic, and its a problem, even now. The cynic stopped me from being scammed, but it also keeps on telling me that I'm just playing at this, and its not a real job.

The sooner you start calling it your career, business, lifestyle, whatever, the sooner you will succeed. Oh, and even when you make a full-time living, don't expect some of your real-world friends/family to take you seriously :-)

You REALLY have to believe in yourself - because, otherwise, why would anyone else?

95% of people who try to make money online - quit, just before they would have succeeded. That's almost certainly a made up figure - but I've held onto it for years.