Science of Money: Experiment One, Week Two

Okay, so its been another five days, and Im going to update ya'll on the current progress of the newest experiment. I posted new content, then posted ten links for this blog, and this is what I got.

Firstly, as you know, new blog content will generate a few hits for a blog, approximately five per post. So if you really do want quite a few hits per day, multiple blog posts per day will do that for you. However, it is my belief, after last week's experiment, that none of this is residual traffic. Unless that person becomes enamored with your content and subscribes (or just checks back frequently), it wont produce any residual unique visitors. This makes sense, as the updated blog content itself has been cycled out by the new variety of other updated blog content, from either your blog, or another person's blog.

But taking this into account, my ten backlinks produced five new visitors in a five day span. However, even this has be be segregated. The first four of these were produced within 24 hours of the posting of a backlink. All the backlinks posted were comment backlinks or forum backlinks. The added value of an article segregates backlinks produced by such. So thus, for every single comment leveraged out onto the internet, my studies show that you will get .4 visitors from the backlink immedietly, and .1 visitors every five days.

Given that the initial posting only happens once, this .4 visitors doesn't do much for you, unless you posted comments en-masse. However, a single backlink will produce a unique visitor every 2 1/2 months. I tend to think that this is probably an inverse parabola, where the amount of visitor return reduces over time, getting closer and closer to zero, but never going away, simply because your comment backlinks will get overrun by others who post. And of course, if you aim your backlinks for high-traffic blogs, they might perform significantly better. I aimed for blogs and pages between PR 2 and 3, with content similiar or close to mine. The average comment backlink takes 30 seconds to write, but a grand total of 10 minutes to develope.

Now, how about building to a 1000 visitors per day? Well 100 backlinks will produce one visitor, 1000 will produce 10 per day, 10,000 will produce 100 per day, and 100,000 backlinks will give you your 1000 visitors per day. Given that you have good content, you should see a CTR of 4 to 5%. I estimate $20 in income from click throughs for 1000 hits. This would be an income of $600 per month. The cost of producing content, whether or not you made it yourself (you essentially pay that cost by doing it yourself) would be .02 per word, with a post-length of about 700 words. About 14 USD per day. Thus, profit would be $180 a month. The value of a backlink to you, at that point .0018 of 1 USD. Almost a fifth of a cent. The total value of your blog as a whole would be between 1800 to 3600 USD; plus or minus details such as charges for content, increased monetization, or intellectual property. The asset as a whole might be worth 4000 USD to an eager buyer.

That pretty much sums it up for you! Adios