Laser Guided Blogging - Target Your Traffic

[mrblogman]

In the last blog traffic tips it said:

After my failure at making money from my blog I
was in a bad mood and I decided that all my
efforts during the past months to grow my blog
traffic must have attracted a readership with no
money to spend, or I was pitching products that
they weren't interested in.

Needless to say I went on after my initial
problems to make money from blogging (I've since
had a day where I made over $900!) but the lesson
I learnt was a good one. Know the target audience
you want to attract, know why you want to attract
them and implement traffic strategies that will
bring in only
that target audience.

The story didn't really follow through there.

It said Yaro tried two ways to make money and they didn't work, then
months later Yaro made $900 in a day. I don't see how that explains the
essence of knowing what audience you want to attract.

Did Yaro change his writing style and content to attract visitors who
were looking to buy products or was it something else?

[Yaro]

How I made $900 was from affiliate sales - in this case some Perry Marshall product and tickets to his conference which had a $750 commission.

I guess the point I was making was that I needed to test over long term what affiliate promotions worked and not assume just because it didn't work in the first few days that it was necessarily a sign that I had wasted my time.

I also realized that if I ever wanted to make serious money from affiliate product sales that I would have to make affiliate promotions a regular occurrence at my blog, however I didn't want to turn off my audience either, so I had to be very careful with how I promoted things as an affiliate (usually by doing reviews since they provide good content).

I hope that answers your question!