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I just wanted to check that a couple of things on themes before I drop £40 that I cant get a refund for. 1)Most themes have things to allow adsense even if theyre not explicitly mentioned,right? Im looking at a couple of themes but some of themes on Themeforest but they dont such a mention in their descriptions even though they look like they should handle it. 2) Im guessing that themes with a magazine or news-site look work by having a static page that updates with new posts as the frontpage instead of just being a list of posts. Is that right? How do I get that set up?
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1) Correct. AdSense is just a block of JavaScript, so you can technically add it to any theme by editing the code. As long as you can add a widget via the sidebar, then you can add AdSense through the admin. In addition to just dropping the code on the page, you can also get a banner ad manager plugin that will give you more options. 2) Correct again. The Wordpress codex covers the basics and most themes will have an admin screen for tweaking the homepage, or at least instructions for setting it up.
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Jul 4, 2012 22:28
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sim posted:1) Correct. AdSense is just a block of JavaScript, so you can technically add it to any theme by editing the code. As long as you can add a widget via the sidebar, then you can add AdSense through the admin. In addition to just dropping the code on the page, you can also get a banner ad manager plugin that will give you more options. Thanks for being able to parse my horrible sentences. I cant remember what the hell I was doing but obviously distracted enough to mangle the english language. Also thanks for answering those questions. I couldnt find anything that breaks it down in simple to understand explanations so I pieced it together from how I would do it as simply as possible. I think Im one of those people who knows just enough to be dangerous. :/
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Jul 5, 2012 14:26
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I'm currently writing stuff for an instructional blog I'm planning on starting and I'm probably gonna use wordpress. I'm really new to this stuff and I was wondering if it was possible to start working on the site, doing design and stuff like that, without it "going live" on the net? I'm in a bit of a rut when it comes to writing material, and I think I need to "define" my blog a bit more and start doing the layout and stuff to get myself motivated to finish it. Probably a stupid question, but there it is!
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Jul 6, 2012 13:34
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You can make your blog private, and then switch it to public whenever you feel like it. Or just don't install the SEO or submit to the search engines until you feel its ready.
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Jul 6, 2012 14:03
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therealjon_ posted:You can make your blog private, and then switch it to public whenever you feel like it. Or just don't install the SEO or submit to the search engines until you feel its ready. Thanks man!
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Jul 6, 2012 14:05
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Just look up code for robots.txt to stop crawling and basically no one will visit your site because they will not know how to get there.
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Jul 6, 2012 15:07
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I've done a first, terrible, draft of what I'd like my blog to look like: The colors aren't final, I just picked those at random! First of all, is this a good design, layout-wise, for stuff like SEO and other technicalities? Is it any good overall? Is there a Wordpress theme that's easy to use and setup to get this look? Anything else I should keep in mind when building my site? Edit: adding robots.txt seems to have blocked Google from my site, thanks!
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Jul 10, 2012 11:15
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I think that looks alright, design wise. But you're killing your homepage's SEO by not having any post excerpts on the page. Are you planning to have so much content that each "topic" page will serve as a sub-homepage?
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Jul 10, 2012 13:15
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sim posted:I think that looks alright, design wise. But you're killing your homepage's SEO by not having any post excerpts on the page. Are you planning to have so much content that each "topic" page will serve as a sub-homepage? Yeah, pretty much. It's supposed to be a resource for beginners/novices at a martial art, and the page is supposed to be like an encyclopedia of different techniques divided into different categories.
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Jul 10, 2012 13:40
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You need way more text. Do a little thumbnail and 100 characters or something. Make sure the post titles are on the page and stuff. You're not gonna get any traffic driven to your home page.
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Jul 10, 2012 13:50
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Does the domain suffix make a significant difference when it comes to search engine ranking? The .com I'd like is being auctioned for $600 bucks, but the .ca/.net are both normal price. Would it be wiser to go with the .net or does it not matter? It took me days of thinking to come up with a topic I'd like to write about and had the proper global/local/competition numbers. Can't wait for my enthusiasm to turn to frustration and misery in a couple weeks when I have 0 visitors.
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Jul 11, 2012 02:21
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.com, .net and maybe .org. .us if i'm really desperate. Any other extensions are a waste of time, but Google doesn't seem to care all that much. Unless you're using .info, .ws or .cn. Don't ever use those extensions for a real website, ever.
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Jul 11, 2012 03:29
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Im trying to set up adsense on my site while I marshall the rest of my initial content together. Am I limited to text-only ads with adsense or are there graphical ones available? Slightly annoyed that the otherwise polished look of my site is going to go down the pan with a couple of white blocks with text in them.
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Jul 11, 2012 13:01
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Zero Gravitas posted:Im trying to set up adsense on my site while I marshall the rest of my initial content together. Am I limited to text-only ads with adsense or are there graphical ones available? Slightly annoyed that the otherwise polished look of my site is going to go down the pan with a couple of white blocks with text in them. You can choose if you want to display text, graphical, or both on your site. Additionally, you should have the option to set your own color scheme for the ads in order to make them blend in with the site better.
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Jul 11, 2012 15:34
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Forbidden Kiss posted:Does the domain suffix make a significant difference when it comes to search engine ranking? The .com I'd like is being auctioned for $600 bucks, but the .ca/.net are both normal price. Would it be wiser to go with the .net or does it not matter? I would always prefer the .com - potential income and whether it's a brandable site depends how much I'm willing to pay for it though. As a backup, .net and .org are completely fine. Only buy country specific domains like .ca or .co.uk if that country/region is 100% your target market. Scotsman fucked around with this message at 15:40 on Jul 11, 2012 |
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Jul 11, 2012 15:36
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I have a .info site that ranks top three in a pretty competitive niche. (other than the OP blog) so take that for what it's worth.
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Jul 11, 2012 22:10
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Forbidden Kiss posted:Does the domain suffix make a significant difference when it comes to search engine ranking? The .com I'd like is being auctioned for $600 bucks, but the .ca/.net are both normal price. Would it be wiser to go with the .net or does it not matter? If your stuff is local (e.g. in Canada) the .ca isn't that bad of an idea, but it is definitely less desirable than the .com/.net/.org
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Jul 11, 2012 22:12
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I am going to be spending a (snow) season over in Japan over 12/13 and have been offered to write snow reports for a blog. In return they will hook me up with a few drinks at some of the local bars. That sounds fine to me. But I would like an incentive to spruik the website and increase the viewers. Should I negotiate with the website to get some form of incentive if the amount of revenue increases. For example: If x clicks. Buy me new goggles. If y clicks. Buy me a return trip to Japan next season. With obviously a few more steps in between. I would say that the blog probably doesn't currently have a lot of viewers, but it is hard to tell. But I am there for a season and I would like to make the blog, kinda like my own. Easily able to do daily updates, I have a reasonable background in photography and cinematography of sorts so could string together some decent shots and all that. I guess these style of blogs are a dime a dozen though. There isn't really a question in all this, but do you think it is likely? Or should I just enjoy the free drinks and do a good job, but not treat it as a job?
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Jul 13, 2012 02:17
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Enjoy the drinks or whatever. I very much doubt there would be enough revenue possible from a Japanese ski blog for all that including free drinks.
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The OP talked me in to spending the 10 bucks to get hosting and set up a blog. Overall, it's been about an hours worth of work so far. Adwords, YoastSEO, Google Webmaster and Analytics all set up. I'm waiting on my buddy to design a new theme for it, so I went with the stock one. Does anything stand out to you guys as "terrible and needs to be fixed"? http://10seventyfive.com/
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invision posted:The OP talked me in to spending the 10 bucks to get hosting and set up a blog. Overall, it's been about an hours worth of work so far. “What the hell am I gonna do now?” As fate would have it, I was talking to one of my buddies from the AF on Facebook at the time, and I asked him what I should be doing with my life besides sitting around in my underwear watching spongebob. Andrew had been a volunteer firefighter in Tennessee for a long time before he joined the military, and when he got to his first duty station, decided to become a volunteer out there also. I should’ve known he was going to say “Go apply at your FD. You’ll love it.” Turns out, he was right, and I’ve been hooked since then. I’m slowly working my way towards becoming a career FF, but that’s still a while off. So let’s get down to the brass tacks – How exactly do you become a vollie? Check in your phone book and see if you can’t find your local station’s phone number. Give em a call and tell whoever answers that you’re interested in joining. They should let you know when the next meeting is. If you can’t get them by phone, then drive by the station, or if you see someone out in public that is on the FD, stop and ask them. Your First Meeting You’ll show up, be lost, and probably not know anyone. It’s okay, we all have to start somewhere. You’ll probably have to fill out an application, they might or might not have to run a background check, but that should be everything you have to do. Try to introduce yourself to everyone. Ask someone to show you around, and check out the gear. They might even let you play with stuff, but don’t get ahead of yourself and start swinging halligans around like you know what you’re doing. There is generally a period of about a month before you’ll get voted in – use this time to get to know everyone, help out as much as you can, and try to not get in the way. If you haven’t pissed anyone off or broken anything, chances are you’ll get voted in. Then you start your (usually one year) probation period, but I’ll cover that in another post. -10seventyfive [/quote] All of the following words on the side bar are just lowering your keyword density for every article. RECENT COMMENTS ARCHIVES July 2012 META Log in Entries RSS Comments RSS WordPress.org You don't need any of that stuff there. It might seem trivial now, but it will definitely help Google index your pages higher.
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Moniker posted:All of the following words on the side bar are just lowering your keyword density for every article. Awesome, got rid of all of those. Thanks. Is there a #bloggers irc channel?
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So outside of SEO and trying to get google rank, what is another good way to get my blog "out there"? I've created a facebook page, but I'm not sure how to drive traffic to it OR my blog. I feel like I should be reaching out to other bloggers with the same topic, but I'm thinking that there needs to be more content than just a few articles. Any ideas?
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Jul 31, 2012 13:52
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Got a plug from one of the largest related blogs out there: http://firecritic.com/2012/08/03/firefighter-randomness/ Feels good, man.
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So looking to strike while the iron is hot. My website has been steadily increaing visitors over the last 6 months from 1100 to just about 3500. My website blog puts out content usually daily. Looking to get in now as I am getting TV promotion of my website and getting more visitors then normally. What are some good recommendations for monetizing? I'd like to keep it as non obtrusive as possible, but want to start making some cash off of this. For reference: https://www.mrtrifecta.com
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I made a blog for the DayZ mod for Arma II. Its a new mod so I figured now is a good time to provide a nice site. What do you guys think about it? Its at http://dayzsurvivors.com/ I get roughly 100-180 unique visitors a day with around 20 returning visits each day. Stealthgerbil fucked around with this message at 02:54 on Aug 8, 2012 |
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Aug 7, 2012 22:09
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If I were to make a local blog, do you think it'd be a legitimate action to go to businesses and have them pay to advertise on my blog? Basically a community blog that people can look up for things to do/local news and having businesses pay me to advertise on the blog for them?
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You'd have to get pretty established first I would think. I know quite a few people who run local category blogs who do quite well, but it's because they built up the blog first, and then became a kind of defacto reference for the locality. I'm not sure if you're talking a blog though, or more like a directory? EDIT-Mr Trifecta; I think you can do it, it's a good blog. The downside is that your entirely category/adbase is going to be sports betting and that arena is brutal with black hat and jerkasses.
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Scaramouche posted:You'd have to get pretty established first I would think. I know quite a few people who run local category blogs who do quite well, but it's because they built up the blog first, and then became a kind of defacto reference for the locality. I'm not sure if you're talking a blog though, or more like a directory? I'm thinking more of a local blog that deals with events, weather, local news and then having directories and/or reviews set up in which I can have them pay monthly for advertising or have them pay for a review. My main problem at the moment is figuring out naming believe it or not. Both my state AND my county both have good amounts of searches per month, both global and local and neither have much in competition besides some old hobby blog dealing kind of what I wanted to do and just government sites. I'm thinking about writing content and maybe doing some free advertising, then hanging up the site location in local supermarket pin up boards to get my name out a bit faster. Slumpy fucked around with this message at 02:20 on Aug 9, 2012 |
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Scaramouche posted:You'd have to get pretty established first I would think. I know quite a few people who run local category blogs who do quite well, but it's because they built up the blog first, and then became a kind of defacto reference for the locality. I'm not sure if you're talking a blog though, or more like a directory? Hmm, where would be a good starting point? Entirely new to this adbase revenue, trying to keep it within horse racing/betting.
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Mr.Trifecta posted:Hmm, where would be a good starting point? Entirely new to this adbase revenue, trying to keep it within horse racing/betting. I've written quite a few articles that might help you out: http://www.affiliatebible.com/sportsbook/ And I'd be focusing strongly on building up a mailing list at this point. You don't even need to use AWeber etc - FeedBurner would be sufficient.
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Mr.Trifecta posted:Hmm, where would be a good starting point? Entirely new to this adbase revenue, trying to keep it within horse racing/betting. Wow hey Scotsman (I assume aka DealerDan). I was going to say a good starting point would be Google adwords, but the sports book category is so well established that they might have their own, more efficient networks; you should read up on what Scotsman posted. The 'dirty' aspect I was referring to is going to be the other guys who will be competing with you for visitors and organic ratings. I'm not directly in that category, preferring to deal with short engagement white goods instead of lead generation and affiliates and the like, but I've heard crazy stories from other guys.
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Is it safe to assume a directory site would only be able to get up in google rankings at first via backlinks and reviews?
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For everyone using wordpress's TWENTYELEVEN theme, be aware that it doesn't show the sidebar on single posts. Which is where I had my ads. I had to get a pluging called Twenty Eleven Them Extension to add the sidebar to single post pages. Ugh, no wonder I haven't been getting any clicks. Sucks that I found this out after the biggest day of traffic I've had. Which brings me to a question - The blog has been up for a week, and right now I'm at a little over 160 views for today. Is this a low number?
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invision posted:For everyone using wordpress's TWENTYELEVEN theme, be aware that it doesn't show the sidebar on single posts. Which is where I had my ads. I had to get a pluging called Twenty Eleven Them Extension to add the sidebar to single post pages. Ugh, no wonder I haven't been getting any clicks. For a week that's decent. Are you getting traffic from a forum or something or is it coming from another source?
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Moniker posted:For a week that's decent. Are you getting traffic from a forum or something or is it coming from another source?   Found a video on the internet, then posted it on the blog and put it on the blogs facebook page. someone with a few thousand likes shared it, then it got tweeted. Then I posted an old article on reddit and I'm getting traffic from that. The facebook page got 12 likes today. This stuff is really really fun. It's like some weird video game where you have to drive traffic to a site.
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So I have been trying to follow the advice in this thread. I had a major problem with my website which is causing me to have to do the entire thing over again. Any thing I am missing? It's about trying to live high fructose corn syrup free. This is my blog: Bye, Fructose
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I cant rhyme posted:So I have been trying to follow the advice in this thread. I had a major problem with my website which is causing me to have to do the entire thing over again. Any thing I am missing? It's about trying to live high fructose corn syrup free. This is my blog: Bye, Fructose Great name/domain! Small matter, but this page: http://byefructose.com/sample-page/ Should get a more appropriate URL. I'm not seeing a PP or Terms of Use - Google tends to like that kind of thing. It probably makes more sense to have some of your general content as static pages, rather than a post (like the About Us post, and maybe the general facts) More important is that you seem to be going keyword heavy, judging from this page: http://byefructose.com/high-fructose-corn-syrup-facts/ You don't need to repeat the phrase High Fructose Corn Syrup Facts over and over again. Just use it in the title and wherever relevant in the copy. Likewise for High Fructose Corn Syrup, you can use synonyms and stuff. Google is pretty smart about figuring this out with LSI, and might end up penalizing you if you go too heavy. I'd also say that your ad blocks are awkward. Rather than blocks in text, sidebar, or header, you have one skyscraper at the end of copy. This looks weird, and I think wouldn't get great CTR. Finally, how are you finding the relevance of Google's ads? The ones that I got didn't seem on target. You might want to find a few amazon books that specifically address HFCS, or similar affiliate offers, and jam those in the sidebar.
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