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FCKGW posted:https://www.superbowlads.org What kinda traffic do you get around the super bowl?
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So I tried my hand at affiliate / adsense / amazon marketing last year, blew about $100, never really gave it 100% of my attention and eventually killed the venture. However, the bug has gotten to me again. The best domain I have is https://www.sprainrelief.com any suggestions for how best to monetize it? Rime fucked around with this message at 21:08 on Feb 25, 2012 |
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Feb 23, 2012 18:58
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I have a very noob question and I hope this is the right place for it. I've been setting my first blog up all day today (http://www.gameswecrave.net/) -- The site is hosted from my main domain (http://www.deadendcrew.net) -- The problem I'm running into is that anytime I click a link, the path changes in the address bar to reflect the full path of the site. I know this is simple to fix, but I'm really new at this and could use the tip! Thanks
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Feb 23, 2012 23:48
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Crunchtime posted:I have a very noob question and I hope this is the right place for it. I've been setting my first blog up all day today (http://www.gameswecrave.net/) -- The site is hosted from my main domain (http://www.deadendcrew.net) -- The problem I'm running into is that anytime I click a link, the path changes in the address bar to reflect the full path of the site. I'm not entirely sure, but if it's a wordpress site, check the "Site Address" setting under General settings. Change it to the URL you want to show.
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Feb 24, 2012 00:06
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Did you run the Wordpress installer inside of a folder in your main directory? Did you use Cpanel's create subdomain?
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Feb 24, 2012 00:09
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Bodhi Tea posted:I'm not entirely sure, but if it's a wordpress site, check the "Site Address" setting under General settings. Change it to the URL you want to show. I feel like an idiot. thanks a ton. lwoodio posted:Did you run the Wordpress installer inside of a folder in your main directory? Did you use Cpanel's create subdomain? I didn't use the "create subdomain." Will this turn out to bite me later on?
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Feb 24, 2012 00:10
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Sorry I meant addon domains in Cpanel. It sounds like you fixed it though.
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Feb 24, 2012 00:23
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I may as well spam a link to my sites here. The main money maker which I bought for $220 (!) is Panasonic Pencil Sharpeners. Got a few more links out which improved the traffic greatly. Now it makes ~$80 per month from adsense and maybe $20-40 from amazon. A good candidate for selling for a large profit maybe? Others I bought from the same guy which aren't so good but still at least pay for themselves.. http://kellerwilliamsbusinesscards.net/ http://makeupartistbusinesscards.net/ http://chookarainboots.net/
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Feb 24, 2012 08:29
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So has anyone used pinterest yet as a traffic driver? I'm not exactly in the norm as my blog is quite new and not intended to make money (yet!) but I've found a great deal of my traffic comes from there. Interested to hear if anyone else has had any experience. Is it kosher to try to add my blog to the main post even though it's not quite a 'blog for bucks'? (google adsense shows a good old $1.15 after about 6 weeks)
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Feb 25, 2012 08:18
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Dog Blogs Man posted:I may as well spam a link to my sites here. I've see this template around quite a bit, do you know what the name of it is?
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Feb 25, 2012 08:27
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Of the green one or the 2 business cards ones? I'm not sure on either, and I have no idea of my login details at the moment either so I can't really look in the wordpress installation :S edit: panasonic one is just 'Standard theme 1 by Anonymous' in the panel, so probably no help. Dog Blogs Man fucked around with this message at 12:51 on Feb 25, 2012 |
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Feb 25, 2012 12:45
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Agent 99 posted:So has anyone used pinterest yet as a traffic driver? I also get a great deal of traffic from Pinterest. My posts about recipes or any other "do it yourself" project seem to get the most pins. It's been great for backlinks since the photo that is pinned becomes a link back to your post, and then there's another link with your URL underneath it. For you food bloggers who can take decent photos, https://www.foodgawker.com and https://www.tastespotting.com are awesome for extra traffic. I get an extra 1,500-2,000 pageviews (spread over a few days) for every photo that's accepted, and most of the users of that site pin photos to Pinterest, so I continue to get residual traffic from those as well.
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Feb 25, 2012 14:21
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I work as a WordPress consultant and pinterest has been driving a lot of traffic for clients. Benefits mainly my travel blog clients but really anything photo intensive with original content works well. There have been about 8 million posts about pinterest in the seo community lately but it basically boils down to make it easy for people to pin content and curate as many of your own boards as possible (within reason), making sure to embed links (link to content, don't link just to front page). If you're clever you can also do pinterest syndicates like you'd do a stumbleupon syndicate (collection of people who pin or stumble each other's content on a regular basis to seed numbers). The other thing to be aware of is pinterest will stick it's own affiliate links into your links if you don't already have an affiliate tag of your own in a link. That's lost opportunity and is their "hidden" profit model. mcsuede fucked around with this message at 17:15 on Feb 26, 2012 |
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Feb 26, 2012 16:34
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Well this thread has been a huge learning experience so far. I never realized how just how much goes into a professional blog of any kind. So very, very much more than "make sure to write every day". Just thought I'd share this with everyone. How to secure your wordpress blog. http://www.shareaschnitzel.com/how-to-secure-wordpress-wordpress-security/
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Feb 26, 2012 23:26
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Has anyone successfully held a first position rank? (Or a really high rank) I was ranked number three for a keyword with 10k+ searches per month and I was getting about 120 visitors a day just from Google alone. I checked earlier today and it was ranked on the 4th page. I just got home from work and now it is on the 3rd page. I'm gonna give it a day or so and see what it does. But how on earth do you successfully rank something in a noncompetitive niche? Jeeze it's not easy.
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Feb 27, 2012 05:11
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Finally starting to get somewhere with my blog. I think I have the base idea of it and I have a few posts in the queue scheduled for tomorrow. My graphics guy is gonna get a logo/banner/favicon for me this week. Does anyone have any constructive criticism? This is my first time really messing with wordpress or blogging in general. http://www.gameswecrave.net
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Feb 28, 2012 01:42
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Crunchtime posted:Finally starting to get somewhere with my blog. I think I have the base idea of it and I have a few posts in the queue scheduled for tomorrow. I'd get rid of the admin stuff at the bottom and fill that with something that will help you in Google, personally. Anything helps.
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Feb 28, 2012 02:24
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Moniker posted:I'd get rid of the admin stuff at the bottom and fill that with something that will help you in Google, personally. Anything helps. yeh i was debating getting rid of that admin panel. anything specific you'd add? Now that I have the blog up and actually going, this week I'm gonna focus on just having regular updates and I plan to re-read this whole thread.
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Feb 28, 2012 03:19
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Crunchtime posted:Finally starting to get somewhere with my blog. I think I have the base idea of it and I have a few posts in the queue scheduled for tomorrow. Every link needs meaningful anchor text. If you don't want it viewable, set it to text-indent:-9999px, but you need to include it.
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Feb 28, 2012 16:41
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Because of this thread, I just started a sports betting blog. I know it's not unique but it's something I enjoy doing. Registered with Lithium and still waiting for AdSense's approval. URL is http://bettingwinners.info Planning to update it every day at least once.
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Mar 7, 2012 17:11
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I've been thinking about doing some sports betting, so this is perfect timing. Be sure to add an RSS icon/link to your site. I only found it because I know the default Wordpress URL. Also be sure to add AdSense to your feed once you get approved (or only post excerpts to your feed).
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Mar 8, 2012 06:54
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I've sort of turned this blog thing into a full time hobby. I try to make 1 microniche site a week and one blog that I will actually write solid updates for per month. I've also started doing offline hustling in terms of reputation management all because I read this thread. I'm so glad that I read this!
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Mar 8, 2012 16:03
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Moniker posted:I've sort of turned this blog thing into a full time hobby. I try to make 1 microniche site a week and one blog that I will actually write solid updates for per month. I've also started doing offline hustling in terms of reputation management all because I read this thread. I'm so glad that I read this! this sounds intriguing to me. I'm still on my first site and I'm trying to use it to learn more about WP and webhosting, etc in general. Also forcing myself to provide 5 or 6 updates per day is a hard thing to get used to. I'm only getting like 50 uniques on a good day. But it is only maybe 2-3 weeks old. so I don't really know how to gauge my progress. any tips?
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Crunchtime posted:this sounds intriguing to me. I'm still on my first site and I'm trying to use it to learn more about WP and webhosting, etc in general. Also forcing myself to provide 5 or 6 updates per day is a hard thing to get used to. Keep updating and wait. The site that makes me the most money (only $20/month) gets only 100 visitors per day. The way I look at it is if I have 50 sites just like that, then we're getting somewhere.
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Mar 8, 2012 16:25
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Moniker posted:Keep updating and wait. The site that makes me the most money (only $20/month) gets only 100 visitors per day. The way I look at it is if I have 50 sites just like that, then we're getting somewhere. 20 bucks a month for 100 visitors? do you have a link? I'm intrigued!
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sim posted:I've been thinking about doing some sports betting, so this is perfect timing. Be sure to add an RSS icon/link to your site. I only found it because I know the default Wordpress URL. Also be sure to add AdSense to your feed once you get approved (or only post excerpts to your feed). Thanks for the suggestion. This may be a dumb question but what should I do so that the RSS feed will show only excerpts from my posts (e.g. first few lines) instead of the entire post? Thanks in advance.
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Can only speak for wordpress but it should be something like <?php the_excerpt ?> instead of <?php the_post ?>
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Crunchtime posted:20 bucks a month for 100 visitors? do you have a link? I'm intrigued! 100 per day. The keyword I targeted gets 10,000 searches per month and I rank number 3. I'd rather not give the link because I don't want some jerk to compete with me.
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Mar 8, 2012 18:27
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Crunchtime posted:I'm only getting like 50 uniques on a good day. But it is only maybe 2-3 weeks old. so I don't really know how to gauge my progress. any tips? 50? Man, I'm hardly getting any and I've been at it for a while. Been reading all the advice and guides and stuff. Maybe I picked a bad subject.
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Mar 9, 2012 06:08
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Zapf Dingbat posted:50? Man, I'm hardly getting any and I've been at it for a while. Been reading all the advice and guides and stuff. Maybe I picked a bad subject. most days its like 20 so dont feel too bad. like i said, 50 on a good day.
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No, I mean I have 13 total over 3 weeks. Today I'm going to take a look at my keyword use and see if I can improve anything.
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Zapf Dingbat posted:No, I mean I have 13 total over 3 weeks. Today I'm going to take a look at my keyword use and see if I can improve anything. What the heck? Go write a few articles and submit them to ezine, hub pages, and the like. Also do some link building or guest blogs! With minimal work, you could get 40 people a day. That takes almost no maintenance.
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Yeah, I did the article thing, spent about 4 hours on it this week. When do you usually see some results from that? I'll work on other link building techniques.
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Zapf Dingbat posted:Yeah, I did the article thing, spent about 4 hours on it this week. When do you usually see some results from that? To be honest, I don't use the articles to drive much traffic, but more to boost my search engine rankings for my targeted keyword. What is your keyword, if you're comfortable posting it.
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Now that you ask it, I guess that's the problem, I'm wishy-washy about my keyword, I think. I have a home brewing blog, but I guess I got caught up in making the site about my favorite hobby more than the strategy. There's a million blogs like this out there, but at least I figured out some of the mechanics and practicalities of putting together a site. It's been helpful since the last time I built a web site was in 1994 (with notepad!). Anyway, it's http://justmakebeer.com.
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Moniker posted:To be honest, I don't use the articles to drive much traffic, but more to boost my search engine rankings for my targeted keyword. What is your keyword, if you're comfortable posting it. I'd like you to look at mine too, if you feel like it! I'm sort of wishy washy too. I use "esports" with the site gameswecrave.net
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Crunchtime posted:I'd like you to look at mine too, if you feel like it! Spelling. The word you're looking for is "cannon" not "canon".
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Crunchtime posted:I'd like you to look at mine too, if you feel like it! Word Count Density 2012 11 3.10% march 11 3.10% place 10 2.82% game 8 2.25% team 8 2.25% teams 6 1.69% series 5 1.41% star 5 1.41% games 5 1.41% play 5 1.41% final 5 1.41% esports 3 0.85% uses 3 0.85% 8220 3 0.85% 8221 3 0.85% league 3 0.85% ross 3 0.85% 8217 3 0.85% title 2 0.56% participating 2 0.56% best 2 0.56% power 2 0.56% dota 2 0.56% season 2 0.56% note 2 0.56% prize 2 0.56% mike 2 0.56% finals 2 0.56% offline 2 0.56% gootecks 2 0.56% online 2 0.56% quantic 2 0.56% tekken 2 0.56% australian 2 0.56% finally 2 0.56% counter 2 0.56% professional 2 0.56% moonglade 2 0.56% crave 2 0.56% episode 2 0.56% mousesports 2 0.56% claim 2 0.56% head 2 0.56% gamer 2 0.56% call 2 0.56% fighter 2 0.56% street 2 0.56% fnatic 2 0.56% asia 2 0.56% sltv 2 0.56% Use the phrase way more in order to even think about being considered for that keyword. I don't know anything about this stuff, really, but you're not adding the keyword nearly enough.
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Raskolnikov2089 posted:Spelling. The word you're looking for is "cannon" not "canon". how embarrassing. that was lifted from the youtube description.. fixed.
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Crunchtime posted:I'd like you to look at mine too, if you feel like it! If you're going for "esports" as a keyword, you're not really using it very often. I only see it twice on the page, and one of those is in a tag cloud, and in the title tag. Your site seems really light on content. Each post rarely has more than a few lines of text. You have a strong focus on video, which is fine, but it's not backed up with original content. The videos themselves won't rank particularly well on their own accord, since they aren't original. Are you doing much linkbuilding around "esports"? I did some checking, and I don't see any links at all?
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