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Jeffz posted:Has anyone else almost given up on Facebook? It's infuriating to see my post reach 117 people out of nearly 10,000 fans. I'm having much better luck with Pinterest, Instagram, and of course, Twitter. It seems to me that facebook is overcrowded with ads for its format, and so it's hard for them to show everyone everything. We're having better luck with Pinterest from a hits perspective but they don't stick around for the other parts of our site. I think there's got to be best ways to use every social media outlet from a marketing perspective, one just has to find it. dhrusis fucked around with this message at 01:57 on May 17, 2014 |
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Jeffz posted:Has anyone else almost given up on Facebook? It's infuriating to see my post reach 117 people out of nearly 10,000 fans. I'm having much better luck with Pinterest, Instagram, and of course, Twitter. Having the same problem here. Reach is basically nil now. Trying to get around it a bit by just posting images from articles rather than a share link. On the subject of pinterest, I'd love to hear how everyone promotes through them. I'm basically relying on a heavy influencer just happening to pin something from me 2-3 times a month to get any meaningful traffic from them. Do you guys link to your pinterest page from your main site? Right now I'm only linking to my Facebook, twitter, and Google+. I have a Pinterest page as well as tumblr but I don't link to those.
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May 17, 2014 03:13
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Here's an interesting video about Facebook advertising and why it's useless. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVfHeWTKjag
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Moniker posted:Here's an interesting video about Facebook advertising and why it's useless. This is great and it pisses me off at the same time. We have about 1100 likes, and we paid for them mostly, to get things started with our promotions. I need to go back and see if they are legit or not. We have very low engagement, and I previously thought it was because of how we posted stuff, or the fact that folks are overwhelmed in general with facebook so only the 'best' (most colorful, easiest to understand, least text, etc.) stuff gets through. That may still be the case. Either way I need to get some new promotion out. Whats the new hotness?
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dhrusis posted:This is great and it pisses me off at the same time. If you paid for likes then they are not legit. The very act of you paying for them makes them not legit. Think about it for a second. Edit: Paying for likes is good for unlocking all that extra crap Facebook puts behind how many likes you have but you aren't going to make money from a bunch of bot accounts. jabro fucked around with this message at 17:02 on May 17, 2014 |
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jabro posted:If you paid for likes then they are not legit. The very act of you paying for them makes them not legit. Think about it for a second. I "promoted my page". I didn't buy them on fiverr or something. I was under the impression that paying facebook to put your page in front of people that you've targeted with specific keywords was legit. That's what I meant by that.
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dhrusis posted:I "promoted my page". I didn't buy them on fiverr or something. I was under the impression that paying facebook to put your page in front of people that you've targeted with specific keywords was legit. That's what I meant by that. That's different. When someone says they paid for likes they usually mean they paid some guy to give them a bunch of likes.
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jabro posted:That's different. When someone says they paid for likes they usually mean they paid some guy to give them a bunch of likes. Roger. So how many of you guys have had success marketing blogs with adwords to get readers? Is that smart? We have some products I want to get some traffic to... Online coaching, nutritional testing, food sensitivites/alergies, etc.. I did some keyword research and it seems not many folks are looking for that. But I'm still going to put out ads just to cover the bases. We want to get this info to folks to as to help them.
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dhrusis posted:I "promoted my page". I didn't buy them on fiverr or something. I was under the impression that paying facebook to put your page in front of people that you've targeted with specific keywords was legit. That's what I meant by that. It's legit in that it is not against the TOS. You basically paid to have a thousand fake accounts Like your page. 7 minute mark on the video. Clickfarms Like pages even when they're not being paid to Like them in order to get around Facebook's anti-clickfarm algorithms.
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KetTarma posted:It's legit in that it is not against the TOS. You basically paid to have a thousand fake accounts Like your page. 7 minute mark on the video. Yeah I watched the video and thats why I said I was pissed.. its good information to have, I'm angry that Facebook deceived me. Note however that I did see interaction/engagement improve, but not by the same or similar margins according to how many likes I have. Note I'm working with a n=1200 likes population here. I'm going to see what I can do to promote elsewhere... what else have you guys done in order to get some good promotion? Looks like there's a lot of other good options to drive traffic, adwords (potentially), things like commenting on other pages in your blog 'category', as well as blog directories and squidoo, etc.. nothing looks to be as 'powerful' as Facebook SAYS it is, however, if that makes any sense. Facebook talks a good game. We get a lot of hits from pinterest too, perhaps we'll invest more time into that. dhrusis fucked around with this message at 18:30 on May 17, 2014 |
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I'm fixing to buy a ton of stuff on Amazon. If any of you guys have a referral link you want to send me, send me a PM... soon
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dhrusis posted:I'm fixing to buy a ton of stuff on Amazon. If any of you guys have a referral link you want to send me, send me a PM... soon I'm probably too late but you can click on any of the links here... http://thesavvybackpacker.com/backpacking-europe-packing-list/
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May 22, 2014 04:06
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Anyone benefit from the new Panda update? I'm seeing some nice gains in traffic.
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May 22, 2014 04:07
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Just had a friend write an article for me about his grad school research. He's happy because it gets Google results for his name that link him to some research and I'm happy because it was free, extremely well sourced content.
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I might be in the wrong thread here. I just started learning Wordpress today. I bought hosting, a domain, and a premium theme. I am slowly figuring things out, but I was wondering if someone could help me out with setting up picture links and columns in the style of my theme. I'm not sure what to select or edit in order for my website to start displaying like the Theme's demo version. The demo of my theme is here for reference: http://demo.dankov-theme.com/?theme=ProStore In essence, what I'm trying to do is get my blog to display picture links like the ones in the style of the theme. I'd like the first two Picture Links to be my 2 most recent blog posts, and the row of 4 picture links that go under the two to become Sticky Links where I keep my "about me", "Ebook", "How to", "Why to" pages. Any help, or maybe even a link to a good guide, as I'm sure I'll need more help soon, would be appreciated.
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Anyone else get a jump in the rankings after Panda 4.0 was rolled out? Four of my sites stayed the same, but a fifth has seen daily Google search traffic go from 120-130 to 300-350. http://searchengineland.com/panda-4-0s-big-loser-ebay-winners-losers-chart-192123
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Scott Justice posted:I might be in the wrong thread here. I just started learning Wordpress today. I bought hosting, a domain, and a premium theme. I am slowly figuring things out, but I was wondering if someone could help me out with setting up picture links and columns in the style of my theme. I'm not sure what to select or edit in order for my website to start displaying like the Theme's demo version. Usually with the a theme like that, there is an admin section where you can replace that original pictures with the ones of your choice. It might also fall under the appearance->widgets section depending on how the theme is set up. You may have to edit the content inside of the index page widget to display your picture. Unless I'm unsure on what you're asking?
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Supersonic posted:Anyone else get a jump in the rankings after Panda 4.0 was rolled out? Four of my sites stayed the same, but a fifth has seen daily Google search traffic go from 120-130 to 300-350. I'm up about 25% on my main site so I'm pretty happy.
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Is porn dead as far as money making blogs are concerned? Are any of you still doing it?
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Gadarene posted:Is porn dead as far as money making blogs are concerned? Are any of you still doing it? Eh, I considered it, but how the gently caress would you make a dent in tumblr or other established blogs/streaming sites? It'd be like pissing into a tornado.
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Zero Gravitas posted:Eh, I considered it, but how the gently caress would you make a dent in tumblr or other established blogs/streaming sites? It'd be like pissing into a tornado. I'd imagine sites like NSFW beeg.com NSFW make money still but they provide a fairly unique service. If you can offer a good amount of video clips and have some sort of niche I'm sure you can still make good commissions from account leads.
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Moniker posted:I'd imagine sites like NSFW beeg.com NSFW make money still but they provide a fairly unique service. If you can offer a good amount of video clips and have some sort of niche I'm sure you can still make good commissions from account leads. Why do I get the terrible feeling that this will send the other poster delving into a bizarre niche porn wormhole that will cause him irreparable harm?
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The vast vast majority of porn sites out there are owned by a handful of companies, many of them being the content producers themselves. It's one of the hardest niches to penetrate (heh) Brazzers owns nearly every streaming site out there in fact. http://nymag.com/news/features/70985/index1.html FCKGW fucked around with this message at 02:46 on May 28, 2014 |
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LLCoolJD posted:Why do I get the terrible feeling that this will send the other poster delving into a bizarre niche porn wormhole that will cause him irreparable harm? Tentacle porn all day, son
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6 months in trip report: ~3k views, about 10 per day that I dont publish/social media blast, mostly from Google 53 published articles Facebook likes: 125 Pinterest shares: 4 Twitter followers: 35 Earnings last month: 0.23$ Costs last month: 4.25$ Total Amazon sales: 13, for a total revenue of 10.38$ Total Google Adsense review: 23$ Net earnings to date: negative 40.23$ Seems crappy.
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I'm in the same boat, but I think it just takes time unless you're actively promoting and back linking every day. 2.5 months in and getting a consistent average of ~10 visitors a day on my main site. An interesting thing about my blog is that two-thirds of the traffic is international due to my blog being about tropical fruit. Once I return to the states I will start blogging about local American fruit. Started a second blog yesterday. Made a bid on it at an expiring domains auction on godaddy. $155 was definitely more than it was worth, so I learned a tough lesson about only making bids if you really want the item. Will keep on slapping some content up there. The keyword I'm aiming for has about 1,100 visits/month and not much competition so hopefully I can get it to rank decently. Also made a website, https://www.campglowgrenada.com for a peace corps project some other volunteers are working on. So overall I've sunk a decent amount of money into this. Would have been pretty cheap if I hadn't made stupid impulse buys on things like facebook and stumbleupon advertising. Luckily I can spare the money and it has been a great learning experience. A really great way to pass the time, and any money I make in the future will be a bonus. grenada fucked around with this message at 00:04 on May 15, 2015 |
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After the latest panda update I'm close to traffic levels I was at two years ago when I got dinged. Sort of interesting that two years of work to try to get back up in rankings was pointless and uncontrollable due to Google updates. Though it has pushed me higher for the event-specific news stuff I do, so that will have long term benefits.laxbro posted:I'm in the same boat, but I think it just takes time unless you're actively promoting and back linking every day. 2.5 months in and getting a consistent average of ~10 visitors a day on my main site. An interesting thing about my blog is that two-thirds of the traffic is international due to my blog being about tropical fruit. Once I return to the states I will start blogging about local American fruit. Not sure what your fruit blog is, but for the tropical stuff you might want to do articles on growing tropical fruit in the US. I say this because I'm growing some pink banana trees and there are tricks to get the seeds to sprout that aren't on the instructions, but people in communities that grow bananas and other fruit trees know them. Heck bananas and oranges both have diseases threatening to wipe out entire crops, and the orange debate has moved into GMO territory in an effort to find resistant types.
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Tars Tarkas posted:Not sure what your fruit blog is, but for the tropical stuff you might want to do articles on growing tropical fruit in the US. I say this because I'm growing some pink banana trees and there are tricks to get the seeds to sprout that aren't on the instructions, but people in communities that grow bananas and other fruit trees know them. Heck bananas and oranges both have diseases threatening to wipe out entire crops, and the orange debate has moved into GMO territory in an effort to find resistant types. Great idea! Will look into that. The best way to get your seedlings to germinate is to wrap them in a wet paper towel and put them inside a ziploc. Put the ziploc near a window. Then replant. You can also try seedling kits which are pretty cheap from home depot or wherever. Check out tropicalfruitforum.com for more in depth discussion on how to get your poo poo to grow. Also might be able to get people to send you actual saplings.
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Does anyone have any experience serving their own ads? I want to take control of my remnant inventory and start serving custom made ads with amazon affiliate links and or house ads leading people to underutilized areas of my site.
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It's pretty easy to serve your own ads. We use Doubleclick, which works pretty much the same as plugging in AdSense code. OpenX is another option. We used it for a while, but found it clunky. That was years ago, though, so it's probably a lot better now.
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Is it worth it to block certain categories or ads on AdSense to increase earnings? My last few clicks have been only around 20 cents. Would it be better to try to only display the highest paying ads that AdSense can offer for my site or should I trust that AdSense is putting the best ad up?
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Adsense probably isn't going to work with my site, so is it even worth the effort of putting in other ads?
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laxbro posted:Is it worth it to block certain categories or ads on AdSense to increase earnings? My last few clicks have been only around 20 cents. Would it be better to try to only display the highest paying ads that AdSense can offer for my site or should I trust that AdSense is putting the best ad up? Don't trust that Adsense knows what's best for your site. They'll often make suggestions on ad placements that aren't good for revenue at all. I have categories like dating blocked on my site because my target market would be really turned off by the porny-looking Thai dating ads (at least I know I was). Big Bob Pataki posted:Adsense probably isn't going to work with my site, so is it even worth the effort of putting in other ads? Absolutely. Adsense is basically the only general ad service that matters, but you can make much more with well-targeted CPA campaigns (and will have much more freedom in how you place your ads). Just find some relevant companies to your niche on Commission Junction.
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I was reading some SEO info and saw a lot of it mentioned submitting articles to sites like Squidoo to build traffic. Does anyone have experience with those?
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Squidoo links are nofollow so they won't help you with the search engines any. Actual human traffic you could get directly from Squidoo, I don't know anything about.
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Is there anything that would make this test by socialseo invalid? It was done awhile ago. http://www.socialseo.com/blog/an-experiment-nofollow-links-do-pass-value-and-rankings-in-google.html
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Kiwi Ghost Chips posted:I was reading some SEO info and saw a lot of it mentioned submitting articles to sites like Squidoo to build traffic. Does anyone have experience with those? As far as I know the practice of creating lenses depends greatly on the actual content that you provide. If you provide a great deal of quality content then it can actually drive people to yourself. Squidoo doesn't, however, really offer any benefit in regards to getting links on the site and SEO since as someone else pointed out they are no-follow.
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So I'm trying to set up a page on my blog where if people enter their name and email address they may then download my free ebook. Would I do this via a plug-in? Any recommendations?
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Use Mailchimp for that. You can just email them your eBook after they fill out your form, or send them to a hidden page on your website where they can download the book.
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