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The Swinemaster posted: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. I have not. This is my first attempt at any of this stuff, so I've spent the majority of the time getting the site the way I wanted and consistent updates. I'll start actually providing more content as well as featuring "esports" a lot more. Thanks for advice though, it really is much appreciated.
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Crunchtime posted:I have not. This is my first attempt at any of this stuff, so I've spent the majority of the time getting the site the way I wanted and consistent updates. I'll start actually providing more content as well as featuring "esports" a lot more.
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Mar 9, 2012 19:59
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Moniker posted:Try and get 500 word articles in there now and again. Hit about 3% for the keyword that you're targeting. That way when you actually do link building, the ranking will stick. So, I've done some googling around, and I can't really come up with a consistent definition of "link building". What do you mean by that in general terms?
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Zapf Dingbat posted:So, I've done some googling around, and I can't really come up with a consistent definition of "link building". What do you mean by that in general terms? Link building is getting links from other sites back to your own site. You can go about this in a "legit" way, or by "black hat" methods. Here's a good resource for someone just starting out: http://www.seomoz.org/beginners-guide-to-seo
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I got a $100 Adwords credit I'm going to chuck if any one wants it. New accounts only, needs to be used by March 31st.
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FCKGW posted:I got a $100 Adwords credit I'm going to chuck if any one wants it. I could use it. My SA username @ gmail.
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lwoodio posted:I could use it. My SA username @ gmail. I'll email it to you when I get home.
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Woohoo, one week after launch and I'm only 3 spaces away from the front page of google results for my keyword group. For some reason the 7th post I wrote out of the 17 that I have up so far is the one Google chose as my snippet.
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Raskolnikov2089 posted:Woohoo, one week after launch and I'm only 3 spaces away from the front page of google results for my keyword group. Did you fill out your meta description?
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lwoodio posted:Did you fill out your meta description? Yeah it uses half of my meta description and half of my 7th post. The 7th post is the one that hit the front page of yahoo search results the day I uploaded it.-
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As I previously mentioned, I started doing a bit of off line marketing that sort of spawned directly from this thread. I have two meetings set up for Tuesday afternoon that could potentially net me $1,600! All of the knowledge in this thread will have hopefully paid off!
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https://www.sprainrelief.com Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong here? Barely getting a hit a week, mixture of spun content and original writing.
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Mar 25, 2012 02:44
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Rime posted:https://www.sprainrelief.com If you're depending on organic traffic: "sprain relief" has less than 10 local monthly searches according to Google Keyword Tool.
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Mar 25, 2012 02:56
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^^^^^ also thisRime posted:https://www.sprainrelief.com A quick search also shows 0 backlinks. How are you intending on promoting this website?
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Mar 25, 2012 20:03
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Here's a blog I write for a local mobile phone company. The main aim is to just write interesting articles that customers can read and have a feeling that we know what we're talking about. http://www.freedom-mobiles.com/blog
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DarthBlingBling posted:Here's a blog I write for a local mobile phone company. The main aim is to just write interesting articles that customers can read and have a feeling that we know what we're talking about. Personally, I think it's pretty tacky to remove the credit line on free wordpress themes. Especially for legitimate businesses. http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/lightword
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The Swinemaster posted:Personally, I think it's pretty tacky to remove the credit line on free wordpress themes. Especially for legitimate businesses. No idea, I just write the blog. They run the site, I'll point this out though.
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Moniker, how is your Smart Dogs website doing? I'm thinking of relaunched a couple of my niche sites and your default layout and ad placement is what I'm thinking of running on all of them.
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FCKGW posted:Moniker, how is your Smart Dogs website doing? I'm thinking of relaunched a couple of my niche sites and your default layout and ad placement is what I'm thinking of running on all of them. To be honest I've been slacking on it due to starting the offline marketing business. However, when I had good SERP ranking it seemed to generate pretty good clicks. I need to get that ranking again now that I think about it.
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Zapf Dingbat posted:It's been helpful since the last time I built a web site was in 1994 (with notepad!). Don't laugh, that's how a lot of us still write. Ok, sure I use Coda and not Notepad specifically as it offers many advantages (live remote editing, keyword colouring etc) but I'd much rather start with a blank canvas in Notepad than a fresh Wordpress install any day of the week. I think Wordpress and most of the other CMS platforms just end up producing identikit websites... fine if all you want from your site is a cash flow, but I enjoy customising the hell out of my sites and trying new things each time. Not sure what SEO tools the CMS' have in their libraries, but when I was running that Goon TV site, I was hitting front page/top 5 hits on things like 'Name of Show s01 e03' and the like, as well as various people's names (reality TV shows, decent niche but there's no way in hell have I got the tolerance to cover it myself!)
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I find it strange that you value search engine optimization, but wouldn't consider optimizing your development time with a CMS like Wordpress. There's nothing WP does that you can't do yourself with a hand-coded site and vice versa, so your SERP results aren't surprising. The key is that using Wordpress as a starting point gives you so much more in just a few minutes of work. It is still up to you keep it from being identical. I use Sublime Text for my editing.
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Wordpress is incredibly customizable. There is nothing you can't do re: SEO with Wordpress. It can be annoying to implement some modifications of the core files with filters, but anything else is cake. Vim 4 life btw!
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Sancho posted:Wordpress is incredibly customizable. There is nothing you can't do re: SEO with Wordpress. It can be annoying to implement some modifications of the core files with filters, but anything else is cake. I used Wordpress for my offline marketing site and you would never tell that it's a Wordpress backend in a million years.
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Rime posted:https://www.sprainrelief.com What keywords are you targeting exactly? I know I wouldn't google "sprain relief". "Sprained my ankle" or "treatment for sprained ankle" definitely. Raskolnikov2089 posted:Woohoo, one week after launch and I'm only 3 spaces away from the front page of google results for my keyword group. Since this heady day, I took a steep, steep dive. I don't even chart for my keyword group on Google. I'm not surprised though, I have 0 backlinks aside from the facebook page tied to the blog. I'm working on some good cornerstone content that I should be able to farm backlinks with so hopefully that will improve things.
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I want to start a blog that encompasses all of my interests and activities. Would it be smarter to have 4 or 5 small blogs or 1 multi-niche' "my life" style blog that would have more interesting content then the individual single niche' blogs? I would also like to incorporate a marketplace on the site for my glass creations, which would relate to one of my main blog topics. Input and advice appreciated.
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Onta vasa posted:I want to start a blog that encompasses all of my interests and activities. Would it be smarter to have 4 or 5 small blogs or 1 multi-niche' "my life" style blog that would have more interesting content then the individual single niche' blogs? Definitely different niches IMO.
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If any SA food bloggers are interested in trading blog roll links let me know. I'm getting about 1000 views a month but it's growing. I have PM's.
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Agent 99 posted:If any SA food bloggers are interested in trading blog roll links let me know. I'm getting about 1000 views a month but it's growing. I have PM's. Is this your food blog? If so I have a kitchen appliance blog that would be considered related by Google, I'm sure. I'll trade. If you're interested, PM me your anchor text.
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Can I get some advice? Im planning to get one site off the ground fairly soon, a blog about news from some linked high tech industries, but the close keyword match domains are all taken. If Ive got genuinely insightful posts and try to make up for the lack of domain name by some hard SEO using meta tags, article names and keyword dropping in posts will I be able to claw some of that disadvantage back? If it goes south with regards to revenue then I've chosen the subject as something that will pay to have industry knowledge about after I finish my degree.
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Zero Gravitas posted:Can I get some advice? The domain name really kills with SEO, but if you optimize on page, headers, meta, H1, and make sure you have a site map, submit your RSS, etc. Essentially everything else SEO to the best of your abilities, then you'll be fine. I would, however, target your domain name to SOME keyword in your general field. I'd use the Google keyword tool in order to find one with high search results and low competition; this will help you naturally rank higher in that keyword so you will not have to work very hard to get traffic from that keyword alone. I have a blog about a musical instrument and found a keyword that gets about 9k/month searches and I got an exact domain match and with little to no effort, I've been ranking 3-5 for months. I pull in like $25/month for doing literally nothing with this site. So to sum up, I'd find an exact keyword domain for something rather than nothing, and work on your on page SEO to target that. The rest of the natural keywords will come.
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Moniker posted:The domain name really kills with SEO, but if you optimize on page, headers, meta, H1, and make sure you have a site map, submit your RSS, etc. Essentially everything else SEO to the best of your abilities, then you'll be fine. I would, however, target your domain name to SOME keyword in your general field. I'd use the Google keyword tool in order to find one with high search results and low competition; this will help you naturally rank higher in that keyword so you will not have to work very hard to get traffic from that keyword alone. So basically if my preferred keyword is XY but I cant get it I should try for a website like Xinsight.com or XIndustryY.com ? Also is there any good source of free images? I dont want to use a photo of something and then have somebody come along claiming to be the author and slapping me with a demand for cash that I dont really have.
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So I have my blog, https://www.mrtrifecta.com which gets a few thousand visitors a month, about 1/4 of those are unique. I'd like to drive more to my blog. Anyone mind taking a look and giving any recommendations? Using two WP SEO's, the all in one and the platinum SEO. Been trying to back link on other websites as well. Content is updated daily. Ideas?
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Affiliate sales can become so addicting. I've made it a goal to update my personal blog at least 6 days a week with either an article or video from Youtube. Occasionally I'll recommend or review something and plug in an affiliate link to the product. This past week, I've made $300 doing nothing outside the ordinary. Might as well put up my blog - http://dclaiborne.com
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Zero Gravitas posted:So basically if my preferred keyword is XY but I cant get it I should try for a website like Xinsight.com or XIndustryY.com ? foter.com in the OP is a good site. Basically for domain names it's all about targeting something. I mean some of the most popular sites have domain names that have nothing to do with their industry, but if you're blogging to make money, I suggest finding something that matches directly. All of my direct matching domains draw more traffic.
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Mr.Trifecta posted:So I have my blog, https://www.mrtrifecta.com which gets a few thousand visitors a month, about 1/4 of those are unique. I'd like to drive more to my blog. Anyone mind taking a look and giving any recommendations? Using two WP SEO's, the all in one and the platinum SEO. I'd lessen your tag cloud to a few specific keywords so it will up the keyword density per page. Also add more text. For example: quote:Pompano Park Results 4/30/12 If you are targeting the title keyword then use it in the actual blog post. quote:Pompano Park Results 4/30/12 See how I got the title in a few more times? I'd make sure to stretch those words out a lot. Try and write a couple of hundred words per update and it will help in draw traffic from Google for sure. Also target your keywords consistently.
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Anyone want a $100 adwords credit? New accounts only, must be used but June 30th, blah blah blah. PM me
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Moniker posted:advice Thanks! Will put that to use.
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Moniker posted:I'd lessen your tag cloud to a few specific keywords so it will up the keyword density per page. Also add more text. For example: Now when I update, I generally do two a day. First one generally has a few hundred to a thousand words and the second is purely results. When I use WP SEO, I generally only toss in say my first paragraph as I was under the assumption you can only put in roughly 160 chars, is that correct?
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Mr.Trifecta posted:Now when I update, I generally do two a day. First one generally has a few hundred to a thousand words and the second is purely results. When I use WP SEO, I generally only toss in say my first paragraph as I was under the assumption you can only put in roughly 160 chars, is that correct? I am not sure. I don't use WP SEO.
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Maybe I'm dumb, but somebody help me. With the keyword search tool in the OP, it talks about finding words with 1000+ searches and $1+ CPC... but I can't seem to find where the CPC is when I do a search for like, Video Games, I get the various related searches and can see and sort the unique clicks and local whatsits, but I cannot see anywhere where it lists the Costs per Click. Can someone screengrab what I want to find? Here's what I'm staring at now: (click for big) 
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