How much traffic do you need to make money online

The conservative answer is that you will need about 100,000 visits a month to make $1000 a month. And I'm talking about traffic from search engines here - traffic from social sites doesn't count - see my post on The Buying Cycle to find out why.

I can hear the sharp intake of breath from readers. A hundred thousand visitors? Surely not. Surely there is an easier way to make the $1000 a month.

I'm sorry to have to tell you this, but there just isn't.In order to make money you need traffic. That traffic then has to do something, click ads, click affiliate links. If you are monetising with Adsense, you might not get more than 50 cents per click. The click through rate might not be great either. If you are going down the affiliate marketing route, not everyone who clicks your link will actually buy. To overcome all that, you need traffic, lots of it.

This means that instead of sitting there tweaking the theme of your blog for the umpteenth time, you should be concentrating on getting traffic, either building backlinks to your site or building new existing sites. There is no "easy" way around this. This is a volume business.

In fact you are probably getting the idea that making money online is not easy at all. Congratulations. Just by understanding that, you are miles ahead of the crowd.