Hello guys, I opened a blog last month and the traffic has been so so so bad. Please can I use adsense safe traffic for my blog that will click on my ads for me to gain money. Am out of ideas here.... Or do u have any other advise on how to monetize my blog?
There are several ways you can generate traffic. Social is good yes, but start out by analyzing your site - run an audit and do on page seo first, make sure you're hitting the keywords you've researched (hit long tail keywords and you will rank much much easier). If you have some money to spend on PPC, buy some clicks in Bing not Google - Bing performs much better in a page that is heavy with the right language - I have tested this on clients account who spend over $100k a month and I have no idea why, but the conversion rates for many products that are more mature do extremely well in Bing.
When you create ads for PPC, use whiteboard animation as I have seen my conversions skyrocket when I started using it. My retention rate went through the roof! Over 30% view rate in my recent test on Youtube ad aswell - simply because of whiteboard animation (be careful here- some will charge you a fortune to do it, several thousand dollars) but if you do it yourself, you can get a nice wba done with very little effort (you still pay with time though).
I have used a service called VideoScribe and they're pretty reasonably priced, well worth the investment for me at least. So on the issue of landing pages - you must keep your landing page for any ppc ads short and to the point. Have only ONE call to action. Don't be tempted to put together a landing page that sells everything you want to sell. Be extremely focussed. One offer, and make it a good offer - possibly experiment with several landing pages ( I simply use a non indexed section on my site where I put my landing pages for PPC. So that all traffic I am sure only comes from paid - the data will be cleaner to analyze and not be polluted with accidental organic traffic.)
Forums are good sources of traffic generation, but I think many people like to spam the forums, so don't just go posting links to your site in a forum without offering people valuable insight and information first.
Anyway, I could talk about traffic generation all day, but hopefully this will get you started. You should stay away from buying bot traffic. Its a waste of money.