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Tomorrow is October 1st, and I have a challenge for the next 31 days.  I will try to earn at least $100 in ad revenue from this blog in the next 31 days.  At $3/1000 page views, that will mean that I need 1000+ hits a day.  I have only been able to get around 400 hits on any one day with the average being around 15 hits a day.  That one day I got 400 hits was from posting an article about Google and Microsoft on Digg.com.  This is going to be a challenge, but I have a plan.

1) Create a list of 31 topics to write about over the next 31 days. 

2) Begin writing all 31 articles today.

3) Really polish the articles as best I can.  Go through at least 3 edit cycles.  Each article will be between 500-1500 words.  They will be about topics that should spur a lot of interest.

4) Publish one article per day.  Put links on digg.com, reddit.com, slashdot.org, any relavent newsgroups, one web groups, and any other sites we can find.

5) Try to write at least 5 other pieces a day about various subjects.

So, let’s see if we can do it.  $100 in ad revenue in 31 days.  (We will not be including donations or affiliate revenue.  Only Google Adsense will count.)

Steve Pavlina says that he earns $300/day from his site.  Last month I got about 1000 hits and about $3 in ad revenue.  So to get $300/day would mean 100,000 hits per day.  This is an unbelievable increase from the current traffic, but I do not think it is impossible.

There are several ways to get there.  First off, better content and more of it will allow me to get more hits through searches like Google (60% of current traffic).  Second, some well written, relavent articles with posts from Digg.com (9% of current traffic), Reddit.com, and Slashdot could cause traffic to ballon.  I posted a simple article yesterday about a tutoring service in India.  It was a short and poorly written article.  The headline and description on Digg.com and Reddit.com was not all that good.  Yet, that was an instant 100+ hits.  Third, if I could develop focus areas with interested people around those areas that visited regularily (12% of traffic, mostly me, I think) could really increase the traffic.  There are several blogs that I visit almost daily such as Thomas P.M. Barnett’s blog which is focused on geo-politices/economics/military and Engadget which is focused on all the latest gadets.

There are several focus areas that I would be interested in including “learning Hindi”, economics, and programming.  I might need to create several subsites focused around these areas.  Learning Hindi is focused enough.  Economics is a little too large.  I need to narrow the focus on a particular area of economics such as development economcis or labor economics or perhaps a region such as Texas or India.  Programming is also broad, but I think I could focus that on productivity plugin and tools.  How to do things quicker in Outlook, Visio, etc.

These are just some ideas.  I am still searching for a $300/day plan that I can commit to and implement.  If you have some ideas or suggestions, please leave them in the comments below.