What does it take to get 1 million visitors in a year?
2740 visitors per day for 365 days.
How long would it take to get that kind of daily traffic? It depends on how hard you work on content, linking, and networking.
It also depends on whether or not your market can spare 2740 visitors per day. Is it big enough? How many visitors can you “steal” from your competition by out shining them with your content and marketing?
Finally, ask yourself this important question:
Would you rather have 1 million visitors per year or 200,000 readers (548 / day) who buy what you’ve got to sell at a much higher conversion? 548 daily visitors are much easier to get, take much less work, and you’ll have more time to spend on quality experiences for them without having to market all the time.
So, think about the size of your market, the products you sell, and how many visitors you REALLY need to hit your income target for your blog. 1 million is just a sexy-sounding number. But far sexier is the number representing your cash balance in your bank account.
It might not take anywhere near 1 million visitors per year to get where you want to be financially.
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Hmmm… there’s that word again – content. Seems to crop up often, but still people don’t get it. All the linking, networking and marketing in the world won’t get you anywhere without truly quality content. It’s the equivalent to working smarter not harder.
wow! it is quite a tough question jack. if you are selling lots of thing on your blog and is an affiliate or marketer then the second one fits…but if you are much into earning from traffic on your blog, then its 1 million a year…but i would rather want the latter.
I rather take 548/per day, actually is the same as, the money is not in you list, the money is in your buyer list. It doesn’t matter how big your list is, if non are buyer, then is totally nothing at all…
@elmot – Good point!
Good post Jack, your post are always interesting and helpful. You know, it’s all a numbers game, the bigger the numbers, the better the return. If you heavily concentrate on building backlinks, article writing, bloging, viral marketing and social media marketing, you can really start to build up your website reputation. Especially if you create a free tool or highly controversial blog post etc that get people eager to link to your site then you’ll do fine
For articles directory, Get 1000 visitors a day is not really difficult. A million visitors a year is not big money I think. But if a million visitors per month. This is a big deal.