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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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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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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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You need to add a privacy policy to your site if you've applied to Adsense. Just google for one and modify it appropriately for your site. I don't see any reason to wait to put up advertisements, you'd be restricted to 3 per page by Adsense anyways which I think wouldn't be overwhelming by any means for your page. What does everyone use for subscriber lists? Aweber? Mailchimp?
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Rad R. posted:Maybe I'm in the wrong thread - I'm looking for ways to make my Tumblr profitable. I'm an illustrator and designer and have developed a brand, I sell via Society6, Redbubble and DesignByHumans, and from experience, I see that promoting on Facebook has its limits, as stated here earlier. I'd like my Tumblr blog to become a better promotional tool, possibly with ads, if necessary. Image heavy posts and make sure you put the credit linking back to wherever you sell your prints (society6?) Your actual tumblr page won't make much off ads no matter how big your following because most people wont leave their dashboard. As far as getting followers so your stuff will go viral, following lots of people to get follow backs works well. Limit is 200/day and like 50/hr.
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I'd add an email subscription list. They're tougher to get than social followers but they're also much much much more likely to get the person to come back to your site when you update. Facebook has made it extremely hard to reach followers without paying them, Tweets have such a short shelf life, and nobody's on Google+.
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Ron Don Volante posted:Is there an optimal ad type or placement area? I've got a website averaging 500 uniques/day and just slapped a leaderboard banner ad on it a few weeks ago - it seems to be performing ok, with a RPM of $6 but I'm just wondering if there's a better way to do it. http://www.businessinsider.com/ten-adsense-optimization-tips-2011-9 This refers to Adsense but will apply to any advertisements. Inline ads (within the content) do the best for me, it's just a matter of finding a balance between making sure they see the ad without being obnoxious about it.
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Google still shows keywords, you just only get them if the person's not on a secure connection. I just checked the last few months and I get the keyword they used 18% of the time.
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Ron Don Volante posted:Just finished up my first month on AdSense with about $50 in earnings, on a RPM of $5.60. Not bad, considering I was making no money before! Congratulations, but it's the 20th? e: oh, I'm guessing you mean a rolling month. Pierce and Pierce fucked around with this message at 22:00 on Jul 20, 2014 |
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How do you have your ad settings? Image+Text, image only, interest ads or no interest ads?
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Quantity is not necessarily better when it comes to backlinks, bad spammy backlinks can hurt you and Google can definitely penalize for them. Adding 10,000 all the sudden out of nowhere will definitely send up red flags. If that weren't true negative SEO wouldn't be a thing. And your article title should be your H1, not solely your site title. Something like "Article Title Here | Site Name" Now, what Google says they'll penalize and what actually happens are different things. If you're going to add a bunch of spammy backlinks point them at your Web 2.0s NOT your main site, that way if/when Google penalizes those links you can simply change remove the link to your main site from the 2.0 and not risk having your main site tanked. Pierce and Pierce fucked around with this message at 16:09 on Jul 31, 2014 |
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Look, if you're only going to have one H1 it should be your article not your site name because you're targeting a keyword with each article not your site name with each article. But it's a moot point because there's not really any problem with having multiple H1's on a page anymore. http://moz.com/community/q/multiple-h1-tags-on-same-page http://webdesign.tutsplus.com/articles/the-truth-about-multiple-h1-tags-in-the-html5-era--webdesign-16824
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What Google says to do and what actually works are two different things. People who are searching for information on your site are going to be searching keywords not your brand. But yes, ultimately just do what works for you.
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Aug 1, 2014 19:51
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You don't HAVE to make a backlink for every article if you don't want to (but should if you're in a competitive niche), but do point backlinks to your articles as well, not just your domain. Make it look natural to Google. Blog commenting does count as backlinking, but keep it to relevant blogs, don't just go dropping your link anywhere. Most are going to be no follow but they can still send some traffic, they just won't help much in the eyes of Google. Here's a good place to find blogs to comment on: http://dropmylink.com/ Pierce and Pierce fucked around with this message at 18:47 on Aug 5, 2014 |
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Looks really nice, but is there any navigation at all? All I see are the footer links to your privacy policy and such. Removing bloat's good but I wouldn't go too far in that direction. Losing the tag cloud will certainly help for SEO, and I've never thought they added much if any value to the readers personally.
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How many times does that take?
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Avg. session duration is what you should pay attention to
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Well I don't know if it's different on desktop but I'm on my phone and your little about thing comes up first and I have to clickthru to get to a recent posts. Does your theme allow you to display your recent posts on the front page? I'd change that and move what's there now to an about page. It's great you have it but it doesn't need to be the first and only thing on your front page.
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Reddit traffic wouldn't be showing up in organic. You're ranking highly for some image searches.
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Don't do that.
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Get a new domain. That's almost definitely penalized. Well, maybe not if you're ranking okay with those. But I'd be really careful about a site that had a bunch of fashion links pointing towards it before. Where does your site come up if you search domain.com? Pierce and Pierce fucked around with this message at 20:24 on Dec 30, 2014 |
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laxbro posted:I come up # 1 for my domain and rank #9 for a keyword that gets 18,000 searches a month and shows a CPC of 2.50 on google keyword planner. I'm getting 1,200 uniques/month right now with only 10 articles almost all from organic search. I tried turning off interest based ads for the past couple weeks like FCKGW did but it just made a few lovely fasion ads come up. You delete them using the disavow tool in GWT. You can disavow entire domains so hopefully your links are congregated in just a handful of them, then it will just be a simple matter of putting them into a text file and uploading it to GWT. There should be some step-by-steps online. As for the ads, yeah it will take some time for Google to learn your site. Especially with circumstances like that. My only adsense site was a fresh domain which contains a word which made Google think it was about electrical services (which couldn't be further from the truth). You know that you can block domains and also ad categories, right? Add the Adsense publisher extension to your browser, then whenever you go to your site and see an ad from something irrelevant mouse over it and it will tell you the destination domain. Then just go in and block it in Adsense. It seemed like for me even when I blocked entire categories I needed to do a dozen or so sites as well before Google got the idea.
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laxbro posted:Completely separate question: While I was in webmaster tools I saw that there was a manual action on my website saying that I had been hacked. It says: "Some pages on this site may have been hacked by a third party to display spammy content or links. You should take immediate action to clean your site and fix any security vulnerabilities." I went through my site and couldn't find any changes to content or links. It also seems like google didn't punish my site at all since there are no alerts in search results or from chrome for a spammy website. They also definitely didn't blacklist the site or punish my page rank because my organic search growth has been climbing steadily for the past few weeks. Maybe I added a bad plugin? Is it possible they got it wrong? It sounds like your site was at point, or at least showed signs of, hosting SAPE links. It's basically a network of sites exploited by Russian hackers that people can buy links from. Check your site on archive.org and screenshots.com I think there should be a link to file a reconsideration request. If you're sure your site is clean, go ahead and file it and explain that you just purchased it and have cleaned up the site and any existing penalty should be lifted. Although it doesn't sound like you're under one, so it may have been placed manually then removed when the bots detected the links were gone. Pierce and Pierce fucked around with this message at 05:42 on Dec 31, 2014 |
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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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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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There's no reason you couldn't use a 301 to a new site. It's done all the time.
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laxbro posted:I seemed to have gained some traction with google, and my keyword competition is very weak so I'm hoping to hit PR 1-3 later this year. PR hasn't been updated in quite some time and never again will be according to Google. The factors that made up a high PR are still important and in place, but don't count on any publicly available indicator.
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laxbro posted:Maybe I don't know what PR is then. I'm referring to my site being listed 4th or 5th when searching for my keyword which I can see in webmaster tools. A quick wikipedia search tell me that I might be referring to SERP rank and PR is something different? Oh. Yes, you're talking about ranking. PR = page rank.
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dhrusis posted:What is an IMer? Internet Marketer
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Royal Jeans posted:Question about advertising networks - I'm currently using Google Adsense because it was easy to set up and was the easiest way to monetize my blog in the beginning (pennies a day for a long while). I can't really comment on other networks, but yes $20 for 20k visitors is very low. Where do you have your ads placed? In-content ads perform MUCH better than just placing them in your header and sidebar, for example. The niche of your website and where your visitors come from are also important. I don't know anything about the pet niche but knowing how much people spend on them I doubt that's your problem. Assuming you also have primarily U.S, Canada, Australia, UK, visitors which is likely if you're an English site, then that shouldn't be a factor either. Your ad types are also important, if you're only allowing image ads or only allowing text ads it can effect your income as you're not always serving the most expensive ad to your visitors. Give us an idea of your layout and where you're placing your ads. I'm guessing that's your issue. Long term though, you should probably look at selling actual products. You can link to products in your niche on Amazon or other stores without getting spammy.
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