For those who have a personal blog related to tech, how much traffic does it receive per month?<p>If you have any stats related to your to the traffic patterns of your blog, feel free to share.<p>How much traffic does your blog receive when it makes the front page of HN?<p>How much traffic does your blog receive when it receives substantial attention on one the tech/programming related subreddits?<p>How many users as a percentage have adblockers enabled?<p>Would tech related blogging and including ads from google adsense make money considering tech/programming related content is a sort of niche and also presumably a lot of users have adblockers?<p>Disclaimer: I am planning to start blogging with ads.
IMHO, don't put ads on your website until you build some traffic, something like > 500 pageviews/day. You will make a few cents per month until you have consistent traffic and there is no point in annoying your users with ads.<p>Most important thing is to put good content on your website. Blogging consistently, as in 2 - 3 articles per month, is another good tip.<p>Promote your articles on HN and Reddit, but don't spam these every day, just when you think you have something good to share.<p>To give you an example, for a technical blog with an average of about 2500 pageviews per day you get around $50/month from AdSense.<p>AFAIK, for technical blogs you can potentially get more money from affiliate links, like Amazon.
<i>How much traffic does your blog receive when it makes the front page of HN?</i><p>Not a tech blog, but when I hit the front page, even briefly, it tends to go to between 5k and 10k page views over the course of a couple of days or so. My best, most overwhelmingly successful page has a bit over 20k total page views currently. I think something like 15k of that came from hitting the front page when someone (not me) posted it, much to my astonishment.<p>I have reason to believe this is not even very good in the grand scheme of things for hitting the front page.
I get 100-200 a week. Once in a while I see some referral spam on my GA.<p>When I post to a subreddit or get on HN I usually see several hundred visits for the day. But then things calm down after a day.
For my personal blog (raed.it/blog): Very little traffic, around 50 visits per day.<p>But I don't publish that often.<p>I used to have another blog running on a shared hosting plan; it went down when it got to the front page [0], so I'm guessing a fair amount of traffic.<p>[0] : <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8339841" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8339841</a>
I chose very broad competitive niche. So it gets very little traffic around 500 visitors per months.<p>Find the pain, and then start with a very specific niche to cure the pain.
I get around 3.5k visitors a month; most of my articles are code snippets or brief tutorials to do with code.<p>I make around £2 a month from ads on these articles, so it's not exactly lucrative :)