When Begging Fails
About a month ago I added one of those scratch back tip jar thingies to the blog and since then I’ve had exactly zero takers. I know what the problem was in the beginning… I set the minimum tip to $5 because that’s what it said the minimum was on the setup screen. After realizing that many other people had much lower minimums I got the bright idea to just try a smaller number despite with the site said, and viola! It worked. But even with the much lower minimum, I’m gettin nuttin.
It’s interesting to me how some things work for some people or on some sites and not for others. Depressing how few things work for me :-( I’m kinda surprised though because I thought it would do well on this blog since I have some decent traffic, good ranking, and great community. Not that I expected to be raking it in, but it’s just kinda depressing that it’s completely empty. Oh well, could be worse, right?
Anyone else having good luck with the scratchback? If so, what’s your secret?
Hey Bob, I had a paypal donation button on my blog and asked my visitors to buy me a beer if they liked my content.I had no minimum, but I got around $25 per month.Just enough to pay for the hosting.I took it down when I re-designed my blog.I guess, it´s all about traffic and content.
I’e never heard about scratchback. Like Tom’s idea above! Funny!
I’ve only been blogging two months now so I’m a bit of a rookie, but for me, the best way to get people to my site has been to pay a bit of money to advertise on Stumbleupon (5 cents a hit), and so far I’ve been getting more visitors. This is of course due to stumbleupon, but as a result in increased readership, I’ve had more Google searches and more direct readers.