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Moniker posted:Heh, I considered doing it too. It's on my list of sites to create. I'd just use a content scraper and auto-blogger. Then I'd tie it into the FB API so that every new blog post is a new FB post. Steal my idea if you want. gently caress it, let's do it together.
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invision posted:gently caress it, let's do it together. If you guys do this, can I 'sit in' on it somehow? I'm still really new to this whole blogging business and content scrapers/auto-bloggers don't sound like something I want to use, but I still want to learn about them.
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What plugins do you guys use to increase email subscriptions? Optinmonster seems to be the hot one right now, but it is pretty pricey for a yearly license. Wanted to make sure there weren't any good free ones before I pulled the trigger.
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Mailchimp and Jet pack both come highly recommended. Anecdotally, Ive only had spam bots sign up for my email subscription after over a year of a sign up being on my sidebar
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Jan 3, 2015 23:06
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KetTarma posted:Mailchimp and Jet pack both come highly recommended. I'm dumb and never really pushed email subs, but I don't think I've ever had a bot sign up.
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KetTarma posted:Anecdotally, Ive only had spam bots sign up for my email subscription after over a year of a sign up being on my sidebar Did you have mailchimp (or whatever you were using) set to send a confirmation email to the subscriber? That eliminates spam and makes sure you have the correct email address. I think I am going to stop using adsense on my website and just use a discreet paypal donation button to cover hosting costs. Not worth the couple bucks a month I earn to have gaudy ads when my goal is to build a subscriber list for the ebook I'm writing.
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I've just used aweber and their form codes to create my opt-in graphics. Worked for me. As I've built a 3,000 list of subscribers for my football product, 1,200 for my blog that is stake, and 800 for my gym. Football and blog are just auto traffic stuff mainly from YouTube video traffic. They are all like 99% real emails and people though.
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invision posted:gently caress it, let's do it together. I've got too much going on to try and really put forth the effort.  quote:What plugins do you guys use to increase email subscriptions?
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I'm in the middle of a free 2 week trial of Semrush - although it's awesome I couldn't imagine paying 70 bucks (on the low end) a month for it. How many blogs or how much profit would you need to be making to justify that cost?
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Royal Jeans posted:I'm in the middle of a free 2 week trial of Semrush - although it's awesome I couldn't imagine paying 70 bucks (on the low end) a month for it. How many blogs or how much profit would you need to be making to justify that cost? I have a free trial of the Guru edition right now, and I don't see a lot of value unless you're running an SEO agency. I also have the paid of Ahrefs and Majestic and I haven't found anything yet on SEM I can't find on those two. They're absolute necessities if you want to rank for competitive terms for their backlink reports. Or if you plan on buying expired domains to make sure they're clean. Pierce and Pierce fucked around with this message at 21:10 on Jan 5, 2015 |
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For everyone here I highly suggesting submitting your blog to alltop.com. Just go to the bottom of their page under submissions and pick your niche, link your feed, and wait. I've been accepted with two blogs now, both within a few hours of applying. They've got a ton of different categories and it's a syndication type site; occasionally your posts will land on their 'most popular' stories in your niche and it can be a decent amount of traffic. And it's a free backlink with little effort. I set up a new blog a few months back, only have 12 posts and they accepted it.
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Jan 6, 2015 00:59
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Royal Jeans posted:For everyone here I highly suggesting submitting your blog to alltop.com. Just go to the bottom of their page under submissions and pick your niche, link your feed, and wait. I've been accepted with two blogs now, both within a few hours of applying. Thanks! Anyone else think the OP should be updated? A lot has changed in the past four years. At the very least it might help to have stuff like this linked in the OP instead of an outdated list of goon blogs.
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Not just the op, maybe an entirely new thread. A lot has changed since this thread started and a lot of the advice given is no longer current.
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I agree that a redo is in order. I discovered criticue.com today, and I can't believe how much fun I'm having reviewing websites. It's a free site that lets you either upload an image of a site you'd like reviewed based on design. I have yet to receive any reviews on my submission, so I can't say if it's been constructive or not. It works off of a credit system - you won't get your site reviewed until you review someone elses. I have no idea what the turn around is on receiving feedback, but I'm having fun just reviewing away.
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Royal Jeans posted:For everyone here I highly suggesting submitting your blog to alltop.com. Just go to the bottom of their page under submissions and pick your niche, link your feed, and wait. I've been accepted with two blogs now, both within a few hours of applying. This is awesome! Took about an hour for my page to get the welcome aboard email. Now to flood with content..
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Jan 7, 2015 23:39
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I had a post of mine get popular on Pinterest all of a sudden - so I think I'm going to be tweaking my images a bit more to be Pinterest friendly from now on. I'm sure it doesn't work well with certain niches, but if you have any cool photos on your blog I'd give it a try. https://blog.bufferapp.com/pinterest-marketing-guide-tips
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So I'm trying to help my sister set up a website for her husbands capentry/home repair/whatever business. She just wants something that she can post updates, pictures, and user submitted reviews. I figure wordpress will be fine, but I can't seem to find a decent review plugin that will work properly. any recommendations?
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Jan 18, 2015 03:53
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There are premium themes available on Theme Forest that have that built in.
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Hey goon bros. I'm curious if you guys might suggest a way to find a business opportunity via search. I'm looking for digital agencies/start-ups the kind that do digital marketing, seo, content, developers etc, that also go crazy for coffee. I sell coffee in the mart, and also run a site that's linked at the start of this thread and it provides me enough money to satisfy my cheese puff and wow raiding lifestyle. I'm kidding. Slightly. I'm just looking for agencies that I could sell my coffee as office coffee to. I feel as if I can find a good string of keywords that I might find a few leads. To start I did - digital agency "we love coffee" - and found a few. Local searches might be good too? What do you guys think? I guess bonus points if anyone is stuck in the agency/freelance world in the thread? I used to work at one, and have done my share of slave labor working under sperglords....I mean "freelance" and helping fellow bros is kind of my way of giving back
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I'm going to guess that most agencies/businesses probably won't have their love of coffee advertised on their pages anywhere. Maybe search for caffeine, I know I've heard of fueled by caffeine mentioned here and there. I think you might be better off just reaching out to agencies - I mean who doesn't love coffee? On an unrelated note a few days ago I ran across this article about running a Stumble Upon paid discovery campaign - http://todaymade.com/blog/stumble-upon-paid-discovery-how-to/ I figured it's only $10 so I'd give it a shot. I chose what I feel is my most valuable article and set up my campaign. I can say it did great for bringing in a ton of traffic - though it has a pretty high bounce rate . For $10 I paid for 71 visits - and because people were 'liking' it enough it started earning regular (unpaid) ones as well. So I added another $10 to see what would happen if my score got higher.  It ended last night; when I got home from work today I checked my dashboard and was a bit surprised to see this:  I was already happy enough with the bump once the campaign started yesterday, I had no idea it would bring in this much traffic. So if you're looking for some cheap traffic you might want to consider stumble upon paid discovery. If people 'like' your post it will snowball. Royal Jeans fucked around with this message at 00:53 on Jan 21, 2015 |
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Royal Jeans posted:neat tip about stumbleupon Nice! When you say 'like' is that a Facebook like, or something native to StumbleUpon?
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snagger posted:Nice! When you say 'like' is that a Facebook like, or something native to StumbleUpon? They call it likes on stumble upon, you get them when people give your entry a thumbs up. So now if I could only find an easy way to get more shares on the normal social networks... 
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Royal Jeans posted:I'm going to guess that most agencies/businesses probably won't have their love of coffee advertised on their pages anywhere. Maybe search for caffeine, I know I've heard of fueled by caffeine mentioned here and there. I think you might be better off just reaching out to agencies - I mean who doesn't love coffee? I was never able to turn stumble upon into a worthwhile form of traffic outside of the campaign. It never seemed to bring back traffic after the ad. I choose shareable content, haircuts of this famous musician, and list of great albums. Traffic was great but then 0 for the next few months. I was hoping for...1? Didn't even get that. But maybe I did something wrong. I'll give the fueled by coffee a try, Thanks for the tip!
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Trying Stumbleupon at the moment - people are clicking the ad alright but the likes are pretty slim. I had a look at the Cars section where I was targeting and it's all about multi million dollar dream machines - not so much about a $550 Subaru Vortex I found for sale in my town. Oh well, five days to go so it might turn around and if not, it's only the price of a coffee and a sandwhich 
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Stumbleupon always seemed like a waste to me. Anyways, I made a few design tweaks to my site (logo and colors). I'd love to hear all your thoughts/suggestions on how to make the site better looking — http://thesavvybackpacker.com
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I've had a few articles find their way to StumbleUpon on their own and it's real real lovely traffic. Less than $1 CPM. 6500 hits for $4.99 in Adsense earnings. If you're going to go the paid traffic route I wouldn't make them an option unless you just like seeing your stats counter spin.
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I'm starting a spinoff blog from my main one and want to use a few articles from my current blog. What's the best way to do that without taking a SEO hit? Canonical link reference? 301 redirect? Just deleting the main blog's copy?
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Whats so different about the spinoff that it *needs* to be a spinoff instead of simply another category under your established blog?/section under your established website?
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KetTarma posted:I'm starting a spinoff blog from my main one and want to use a few articles from my current blog. What's the best way to do that without taking a SEO hit? Canonical link reference? 301 redirect? Just deleting the main blog's copy? Write fresh content and link between the blogs. Whichever direction the links go will lend power that way - linking from the old to the new will give SEO juice to the new. Canonical links and 301s aren't relevant here, because canonical links are for variants on one page (think landing pages customized for different traffic sources) and 301s are for content on the same site that's been reorganized. Deleting the main copy and reposting elsewhere can't possibly end well.
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There's no reason you couldn't use a 301 to a new site. It's done all the time.
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Zero Gravitas posted:Whats so different about the spinoff that it *needs* to be a spinoff instead of simply another category under your established blog?/section under your established website? My main blog is Wirebiters.com. It's mainly aimed towards engineering-related topics and engineering projects. The goal was to transcribe all of my college notes and hobby projects into a website. After a year, I realized that I'd been writing a lot of articles about health scams and things that really had nothing to do with engineering at all. I felt like it was confusing since there were touchy-feely articles on kids getting sick due to anti-vaccine crazies next to calculus-heavy digital imaging algorithm lectures. I registered Sciencebadger.com and figured I'd move my debunking-style articles over there so that the "Pinterest" crowd wasn't getting turned off by the technobabble in other articles. Am I dumb or does this make sense?
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I think it makes sense, and I commend you for your ambition - I have a hard enough time keeping up with one at the moment. I do think engineering/health debunking are two separate niches. From what I've seen on my fb feed there's a ton of love for the science based anti vaccine articles.
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I bought a yearly subscription to optin monster at the beginning of this month. I have gotten 35 subscriptions so far using it, which is triple what I had gotten in previous 5 months. Basically, having a pop up on your site asking people to subscribe is way, way better than only having the sidebar. Just started using http://viralcontentbuzz.com which seems to be useful. You find and share relevant content from other bloggers and share it on your social accounts. You post your own content on the site and other bloggers will pick it up. You start with 10 points, it costs points to have others share your content and you earn points when you share others. It has a scheduler so you can just visit the site once a week and schedule any posts that seem relevant and then post your own content. Someone shared a post of mine on facebook yesterday and I've gotten 2,500 visitors so far. There are mostly the popular blog categories on there. I had a lot of trouble finding relevant stuff to tweet/share since I'm from a small niche. Imgur seems like a good way to get traffic. Post relevant images or memes on their social gallery, leave a relevant comment under the image, and link back to your blog page. Got a couple hundred visits from a set of images that scored very low. Can probably see huge amounts of traffic if you get a image or meme to go score high and go viral on imgur.
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Pierce and Pierce posted:I've had a few articles find their way to StumbleUpon on their own and it's real real lovely traffic. Less than $1 CPM. 6500 hits for $4.99 in Adsense earnings. If you're going to go the paid traffic route I wouldn't make them an option unless you just like seeing your stats counter spin. This is spot on. Paid Discovery traffic is real traffic, but it's not sticky unless your site fits certain niches. It's definitely not a paid acquisition channel and almost no paid acquisition channels are going to pay you back via adsense anyway. You need your average conversion to be a lot higher than adsense typically returns for paid acquisition to be worthwhile. It makes sense in ecommerce (with good margins) or high profit affiliate, that's about it.
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This might not be the best place to ask but here we go! I'm making a simple wordpress site for a client. I want them to be able to input questions and answers (FAQ page) but I don't want them to have to copy/paste HTML from the source of the input. Does anyone have any ideas or plugins that allow an idiot to add new FAQ questions? The only thing I could think of (and seems like overkill) is to: 1) Create an FAQ custom post type 2) Allow them to create new "Questions" (pages). 3) The title would be the question & the answer would be the content. 4) Display the custom taxonomy template in a way that loops through all of the "Question" posts and displays the "pages" in a list format that is SEO friendly and easy to handle. That seems to be the best option I can think of so far. Anyone else have any ideas?
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Moniker posted:I'm making a simple wordpress site for a client. I want them to be able to input questions and answers (FAQ page) but I don't want them to have to copy/paste HTML from the source of the input. Just get Gravity Forms and have the submissions create new post drafts. Also, there's a Wordpress thread in Cavern of COBOL: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3161913
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snagger posted:Just get Gravity Forms and have the submissions create new post drafts. Also, there's a Wordpress thread in Cavern of COBOL: I did it the way I posted. Created an FAQ custom post type. Then each post under the FAQ type is a title (question) and content (answer). Then I created an archive-faq.php and it lists them all. I appreciate the advice about that plugin. I haven't heard of it.
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e; never mind, found what I needed
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Okay so I do have a question that maybe the thread can help with. If I'm trying to blog about my chosen niche while promoting affiliate products, should I set up a "storefront" type of page separate from the blog, keep it all in blog format putting affiliate links and reviews in my posts, or some hybrid of the two? Can anyone suggest some good themes for this purpose?
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DarthJeebus posted:Okay so I do have a question that maybe the thread can help with. If I'm trying to blog about my chosen niche while promoting affiliate products, should I set up a "storefront" type of page separate from the blog, keep it all in blog format putting affiliate links and reviews in my posts, or some hybrid of the two? Can anyone suggest some good themes for this purpose? I'm inclined to suggest keeping it all in blog format. The experience will feel more native to a typical reader, plus you'll get a higher conversion rate by removing the store "step" in this process: blog post > your storefront > the real store (eg Amazon) > store's checkout funnel > purchase There are losses at every step of the way, and for many steps in this process you may only get 1 in 100 clicking on to the next step. Remove your storefront and you'll remove one of those layers where 99 out of 100 drop out. The result of this process is also the result of a multiplicative process, so not multiplying by 0.01 is good. There's something to be said for running a pure affiliate or dropship e-commerce operation, for sure, but I'm not sure combining the approaches is mathematically more effective than just one or the other.
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