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Oh my top post on a page. Two things...first is I'm hoping to add my little niche music blog OP if that's ok? Its: https://www.britpopnews.com I'm getting quite a bit of traffic from Search but I can't crack the main term I want "britpop". There's a ton of longstanding sites out there, but I am on page 4 so I guess i'm getting somewhere. Any tips there would be cool. (I'm aware of the h1 issue and cant figure out how to fix it). I'm also curious about something mentioned previously with stumble upon. I've got an account there and stumble my pages yet nothing has really taken with the exception of one getting 4 hits. Recently I created other accounts followed the main account and then stumbled the main accounts stumbles. A syndicate strategy of sorts..but nothing has happened. Any suggestions? Is it a group of a 100 people all stumbling? I'm also afraid of reddit because of the pedo stuff with SA awhile back but any luck/suggestions there?
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Just out of curiosity - how successful does a blog have to be to actually make a significant amount of money? Will X amount of page views a day necessarily translate into an approximate amount of profit if you set up advertising, or does it depend? Picture one of those well known blogs that does well, whether it is politics, humor, etc. Are those blog owners making a living?
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MasterControl posted:Oh my top post on a page. Two things...first is I'm hoping to add my little niche music blog OP if that's ok? Its: https://www.britpopnews.com I'm not seeing many links coming in to your site externally. How are you link building? Contacting webmasters? commenting? sharing breaking britpop news anywhere? Doghouse posted:Just out of curiosity - how successful does a blog have to be to actually make a significant amount of money? Will X amount of page views a day necessarily translate into an approximate amount of profit if you set up advertising, or does it depend? Picture one of those well known blogs that does well, whether it is politics, humor, etc. Are those blog owners making a living? Totally depends on the blog and their way of making money. cuteoverload.com is making money, but they also sell calenders, shirts, mugs, books, etc. etc. If they just had google ads they would make far less.
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The Swinemaster posted:I'm not seeing many links coming in to your site externally. How are you link building? Contacting webmasters? commenting? sharing breaking britpop news anywhere? yeah, linkbuilding is happening but slowly. It's a niche blog about a topic with not many people doing much of anything about it because it's a dead scene. So some of the battle is there are quite a few out of date sites, or people just don't respond. I've started to get some traction with the bands however. Mostly I have a social strategy that drives pageviews and my stories are written to be seo friendly for certain terms where there is a vacuum. But I'm good at Social. Thanks for the feedback!
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I've posted here before, but I'm coming back for some more advice. I run a random Pokemon generator site: http://www.randompokemongenerator.com (a very large niche, I get about 30k uniques per month). I'm also the #1 result for relevant keywords, which is a big plus. I've put up some Google ads and I make around $50 per month. I'm hoping to monetize this a little more. Does anyone have any advice? I've tried using affiliate marketing and I earned less than $0.50 per month, so that didn't work out too well for me. Any advice for what I should do next in terms of monetizing?
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Oct 5, 2012 17:35
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Anyone doing halloween blogs? A good idea popped into my head the other day and I'm building a blog for it right now but I fear I may be too late to build any kind of traffic. Next year the site won't be relevant either.
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Oct 5, 2012 18:19
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Fluue posted:I've posted here before, but I'm coming back for some more advice. What were you selling when you had affiliated links? It seems like any affiliate programs that could push pokemon games/stuffed pokemons/whatevers would be a good fit. If there are no fitting programs, you could try amazon too.
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The Swinemaster posted:What were you selling when you had affiliated links? It seems like any affiliate programs that could push pokemon games/stuffed pokemons/whatevers would be a good fit. If there are no fitting programs, you could try amazon too. I was using Play-Asia with pokemon as a targeted keyword, but that netted me nothing. Amazon was about the same :\
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You should leverage your existing pagerank to throw up some more commerce oriented pages that will benefit from being on your site. Like if you see amazon has a coupon for pokemon red post up the offer+your Amazon associates link and try to hit something like pokemon red coupon amazon 2012.
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Could you do something a little more focused and maybe playing to your keywords like find out what specific Pokemon things people arrive on your site looking for and offer related items on that landing page? Like if they're looking for, I dunno, "Pokemon Black Tips", offer the strategy guide and other Pokemon tips/tricks/plan things?
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How were you displaying the Amazon links? Maybe you could have it so you can click on the name of Pokemon which would display some info along with an image of the card and other relevant products from Amazon.
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So from reading the past 2 pages or so, I take it that I shouldn't worry about tagging my blog posts if the main reason I was doing it to begin with was because I thought it would help boost SEO?
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Alfalfa posted:So from reading the past 2 pages or so, I take it that I shouldn't worry about tagging my blog posts if the main reason I was doing it to begin with was because I thought it would help boost SEO? If you're talking about WordPress Tags, then yes, don't bother if you aren't using them for some form of user navigation benefit (cross-referencing, generally). In fact, you should check the box "follow, noindex" for Tags in WordPress SEO.
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Oct 18, 2012 19:22
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So my site is slowly but surely gaining traction. I even let it sit for almost a month with no updates but I've slowly been getting likes on facebook and my traffic has been increasing slowly. I've got an interview coming up and a guest spot on one of the biggest related blogs out there. My adsense revenue has been literally nothing besides the 1.67 i made within the first week. how to fix that?
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Oct 18, 2012 23:38
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invision posted:So my site is slowly but surely gaining traction. I even let it sit for almost a month with no updates but I've slowly been getting likes on facebook and my traffic has been increasing slowly. I've got an interview coming up and a guest spot on one of the biggest related blogs out there. My adsense revenue has been literally nothing besides the 1.67 i made within the first week. how to fix that? I checked out your site http://10seventyfive.com/ and your ads really vanish into the background. I didn't see any on the home page, then didn't see any on the article page, until I double-checked. Have you experimented with colors? Making it the same as your current text and background does help it blend in, but it's blending in too much.
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Oct 19, 2012 00:02
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Also try experimenting with some placement. Put a horizontal underneath your header or post title. See how that goes.
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Changed the colors, hows that? Wordpress is confusing as gently caress when it comes to placing ads, is there a plugin for it?
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If anyone here is wondering whether they should feel bad about whoring their site out on sites like Reddit, dont. I posted one article from my site on the relevant subreddit and have got 2200 views in the last 24 hours. Before that I'd struggle to break 20 per day.
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Zero Gravitas posted:If anyone here is wondering whether they should feel bad about whoring their site out on sites like Reddit, dont. Yeah, I hit a small subreddit with a link to one of my articles and got like 1k views over 2 days and something like 15 fb subscribes from it.
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Having a bit of difficulty converting views into subscribes. Of those ~3k views I only gained 2 subscribers to my RSS and nobody followed the site on twitter or liked the facebook>  On the plus side, I have my first solid adsense earnings - all 4p of it. Im loving rich, bitches!  EDIT: Now apparently a whole £0.87! Choo choo motherfuckers! Plasmafountain fucked around with this message at 17:13 on Oct 21, 2012 |
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Oct 21, 2012 13:52
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From what I've heard, Reddit traffic is bountiful but does not convert.
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Which certainly seems to be the case. I'm getting quite a bit of traffic but certain trends are obvious. Good things: 1) Im getting a steadily rising percentage of repeat visits (which admittedly is to be expected if you post the same kind of article in the same kind of subreddit.) 2) Analytics is telling me people are starting to actively search for my site using google. 3) People are starting to share the articles around on facebook/stumbleupon. I havent even touched stumbleupon, and only posted a few of my articles to facebook. Bad things: 1) People are only reading the article for about twenty five seconds before closing, and ignoring the rest of my site. 2) Some news aggregator site is displaying my content but with their own ads on it. Any idea how I can stop this? Ugly things: 1) Im not sure if under the referrals part of analytics the "(direct/none)" refers to people either just straight putting in the address of the site, or just clicking on my site logo to take them to the frontpage.
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Reddit traffic is terrible and maybe gets 0.1% that is worth anything (I have found that if one of the porn forums links you, they're more likely to click random ads, as people who can barely spell "porn" are more likely to click on everything on the screen, but it is still bad traffic.) Otherwise all it does is bump up your hits averages and bounce rate and ruins your conversion percentages (and I have a lot of idiots trying to image leech from there with direct links to images) I think if you get more involved in the smaller subreddits you can get more worthwhile traffic, but that will take time. i.e. r/science is huge and full of people who won't click on links on random sites as they want to hurry back to comment/vote/click on other reddit threads for their e-peen scores, but r/microscopelovers would be more likely to visit your website about microscopes and click around, especially if they remember your name from comments on other links. Again, this is just a guess.
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Zero Gravitas posted:Which certainly seems to be the case. Facebook has been a huge tool for me. I spend a lot of time on facebook connecting and talking with people, getting interviews and guest spots set up, etc etc. I just did an interview with a photographer that only has like 150 likes and I got two or three facebook likes from it, a blog subscription, and some cool eye candy for my new posts. Also it got my blog linked on a few of the major ones in my keyword area.
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Tars Tarkas posted:Reddit traffic is terrible and maybe gets 0.1% that is worth anything (I have found that if one of the porn forums links you, they're more likely to click random ads, as people who can barely spell "porn" are more likely to click on everything on the screen, but it is still bad traffic.) Otherwise all it does is bump up your hits averages and bounce rate and ruins your conversion percentages (and I have a lot of idiots trying to image leech from there with direct links to images) I think if you can get into the default subreddits then you may do fine. There's tons of people reading /r/pics and /r/funny who don't run adblock, but getting anything of value into those subs is tough.
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Are there any plugins or modifications I should make to my Wordpress posts to make them not look like this in Facebook? I'm prefer to have my featured image and a quick description show up like most things I like, but my page ends up looking like poo poo in FB.
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Ya'll can't forget the importance of liking related blogs on facebook then shooting them a message asking them about a guest blog spot or something along those lines. I've been on it for a few days and I have like 4 or 5 guest blog spots coming up, have had my link posted on a few sites, etc etc. and all it takes is the 5 minutes of back and forth emails to accomplish.
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therealjon_ posted:Are there any plugins or modifications I should make to my Wordpress posts to make them not look like this in Facebook? I'm prefer to have my featured image and a quick description show up like most things I like, but my page ends up looking like poo poo in FB. Are you sharing links manually? I use http://twitterfeed.com/ and it's pretty nice, it watches your RSS feed and updates every x hours. It'll put your link in a bit.ly shortener, pull a title and first bit of content from your post and push it out to Facebook and Twitter. It'll even grab the first image too. Here's an example from one of my regular blogs (non monetized) 
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FCKGW posted:Are you sharing links manually? Its not Eastvale, its Mira Loma. 
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Thanks for the twitterfeed suggestion but it must be something I need to set up in Wordpress.
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Are you running WordPress SEO and filling out metadescriptions for every post? FB will pull the metadescription...
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invision posted:Facebook has been a huge tool for me. I spend a lot of time on facebook connecting and talking with people, getting interviews and guest spots set up, etc etc. I just did an interview with a photographer that only has like 150 likes and I got two or three facebook likes from it, a blog subscription, and some cool eye candy for my new posts. Also it got my blog linked on a few of the major ones in my keyword area. I'm not sure how well I can use that method, my site is news oriented instead of opinion pieces. EDIT: Problem fixed. If you have a problem with Feedburner RSS feeds not making it to your subscribers or linked twitter/facebook pages, make sure you havent copied any text from PDFs with funky formatting. Plasmafountain fucked around with this message at 17:11 on Oct 22, 2012 |
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jabro posted:Its not Eastvale, its Mira Loma. It was Mira Loma and Corona, but we've been a city for almost 3 whole years now!
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FCKGW posted:It was Mira Loma and Corona, but we've been a city for almost 3 whole years now! I grew up in Sky Country and lived at Homecoming until about 2 years ago before buying a house in Jurupa Hills....er, Jurupa Valley now unless Jerry Brown continues to be a dick. The power of Facebook cannot be stated enough, people. People that like your site will "like" your site on Facebook. Most people are friends with people who have some of the same tastes so their friends will check out your page from their friend's like, which in turn will get them to "like" your page. It can snowball into increased numbers going to your site. Nothing beats quality content but Facebook can help get people there to see it. Every blog should have a Facebook and Twitter, every blog.
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jabro posted:I grew up in Sky Country and lived at Homecoming until about 2 years ago before buying a house in Jurupa Hills....er, Jurupa Valley now unless Jerry Brown continues to be a dick. Tell me about twitter. I've never used it in my personal life and I guess I don't understand it enough to see the need for it for my blog. Not saying that you're wrong, I'm just saying that I don't understand it and up until this point I haven't had one. I don't even know how to use twitter.
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Took the plunge anyway. http://www.twitter.com/10seventyfive How do I use this thing the right way?
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invision posted:Tell me about twitter. I've never used it in my personal life and I guess I don't understand it enough to see the need for it for my blog. Not saying that you're wrong, I'm just saying that I don't understand it and up until this point I haven't had one. I don't even know how to use twitter. Its another way to connect to your readers. You are just basically just linking posts from your blog with a link to the post hoping your followers will retweet it to their followers. Just don't be like a robot with it though and just send an automated message every time you update your blog. Get your followers involved, ask questions that get them to respond to you. The Fireground Friday thing you tweeted was good.
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jabro posted:Its another way to connect to your readers. You are just basically just linking posts from your blog with a link to the post hoping your followers will retweet it to their followers. Just don't be like a robot with it though and just send an automated message every time you update your blog. Get your followers involved, ask questions that get them to respond to you. The Fireground Friday thing you tweeted was good. If I had any followers I'd be doing this. 
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One good thing about twitter - unlike Facebook - is that it is open and searchable. Make a habit of jumping on there once/twice a week and doing a quick search for solidworks, or related keywords. You might find somebody complaining, or who has a question you can answer.
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The Solidworks one I'm taking a break from until I move to a different place as I dont have a quiet place to record the audio for the videos anymore. So I'm getting one going about astronomy instead. Is the list of blogs being updated in the OP? Its https://www.astronomyaggregator.com .
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