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Please be assured that we do constantly monitor earnings and payments to make sure that the Blogit system is continuing to work as desgined.
You may also consider looking at your earnings month to month rather than on a daily basis where there is more fluctuation. Furthermore, an estimate can change drastically if, for instance, one person has mostly been reading you, but then starts reading other people as well.
Here are answers to your other questions:
1. Readers are not shown for privacy reasons, but we are considering offering readers the option to allow themselves to be seen even if they do not leave a comment. Would that be a feature that would like to see?
You can also add a free web counter from a third-party service to track the number of visits but that will not convey how those visits translate into earnings.
2. Reading your own blogs has no impact on their popularity.
Regards,
Brian
posted by
BlogitStaff
on November 9, 2004 at 11:56 AM
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Further...
Brian:
Thank you for your answers.
As you say, the change in subscriptions should not increase or halve the daily calculations, and I have assumed that blogit does monitor the payment distribution calculations, which is why I asked the question. The actual $ figures are only part of the issue (much as I like getting paid) - it's the % CHANGE which startled. That, and the coincidence of the new subscriptions at the same time (no, I am NOT assuming that the two are related).
I have read the descriptions of how the payments are calculated, and understand that the amount from individual readers can change - one would expect it to vary slightly. But a drop from 14 to 17 cents per day (which seems a reasonable fluctuation) to around 8 or 9 cents a day just seems excessive, especially when the rankings of my blogs have gone up in the days when the decrease occurred. I have assumed that there is a reason, and just wanted clarification that there is a reason. If there is, I think we (the subsribers) should have the info to tell us why (and then we can amend our habits or not).
A couple of related questions:
- I know we can look up the distribution of our own reading in blogit (how we "spend" our blogit $) but, is there an equivlent place to look up who is reading our blog (other than the comments people leave, and not everyone leaves comments)?
- You say that blogit keeps track of UNIQUE readers and the # of pages they read of a writer's work. What happens when one accesses one's own blogs? Are these considered UNIQUE readers? (I know that I usually get to my own blogs through the category lists to reach the comments, rather than jumping to the comments off the WRITE link.)
Once more, thank you for your time and patience.
posted by
L.E.Gant
on November 5, 2004 at 1:08 PM
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We'll try to explain further.
First of all, the price increase should have no impact on a writer's earnings at this point. It won't increase it and it won't halve it until enough new subscribers have joined and their writer payments are being distributed.
Second, if a writer's readership increases as reflected by a corresponding increase in their blog rankings over the last few months, that will not necessarily increase every writer's earnings. It will increase many writers' earnings but some writers may see their earnings remain steady or even drop.
This is because of the following. While rankings are based on how many unique readers a writer attracts each day, earnings are based on two things: how many pages that reader reads of a writer's work *and* how many total pages that reader reads in a month. That will determine each writer's share of a particular reader's payment.
As an example, if a particular writer is now attracting double the number of readers but all of these readers are now also reading twice as much of all writers, the earnings will remain the same even though the writer's rankings will go up.
FYI, Blogit monitors views to ensure that the earnings system is accurate and reliable.
Thank you.
Brian
Blogit Team
www.blogit.com
posted by
BlogitStaff
on November 4, 2004 at 7:00 PM
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Your answer "does not compute".
As far as I can tell, readership has increased over these last few days.
No, I did NOT expect much of a change in the daily increases, if any, but I sure did NOT expect it to halve.
So, please expand further.
posted by
L.E.Gant
on November 4, 2004 at 5:19 PM
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Response
The price increase of 10/26/04 will not have much of an impact on your earnings until another couple of months.This is because of two reasons.
First, new subscribers make up a small percentage of the existing Blogit members. So more of your earnings will come from the much larger group of existing subscribers still at the lower price point.
Second, it is unlikely that you'll see any increase in earnings from new subscribers until the end of this month. This is because their payments to writers will only be distributed to writers such as yourself -- and that too only if they've been reading your blogs -- when their monthly cycles come to an end starting on November 26, 2004.
Your earnings may be dropping temporarily because of several reasons:
1. Your existing readers have been taking a break from Blogit.
2. Your existing readers are not reading you as often, or because they're reading many more writers and thus their writer payments to you are decreasing.
3. You may not be attracting as many new new readers.
Here are some suggestions that may help increase your blog's readership, which in turn helps improve rankings and earnings:
* Initially, add posts to a single blog, instead of creating multiple blogs. Readers will be more likely to remember your blog's name.
* Post frequently, at least once a day if possible. Recently updated blogs will appear on the home page under New Posts, and are also more likely to appear in Featured Blogs.
* Split long posts into several shorter ones. Many online readers prefer to read shorter posts.
* Read and comment on other writers' posts. Interested readers will click your nickname to read your blogs, and the blog's author may recommend your blog.
* When a post receives comments, it is likely that the topic appeals to readers. Consider writing on similar topics.
* To appeal to different groups of readers, write multiple blogs on different topics.
* Finally, make sure you promote your blogs to friends, family and strangers outside of Blogit and encourage them to join. If you use the Blogit Referral program you can not only earn $10 for each new subscriber but you may also find you've got readers who only or primarily read your writing...thus sending you most if not all of their writer payments.
Thank you.
Brian
Blogit Team
www.blogit.com
posted by
BlogitStaff
on November 4, 2004 at 11:50 AM
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