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I made a blog a few weeks ago (http://www.puppyleaks.com), I started off well enough reading up on SEO and getting a handle on customizing a theme but now I'm lost. I have started getting visitors to my site but I have no idea how to turn this into something that makes money. I don't know if I want to do Adsense or not, I've submitted my application but for some reason I'm scared to activate ads. I think I started off with way too broad of an idea on a heavily populated subject, but for whatever reason when I saw the domain puppyleaks I had to have it. I generally like the idea of becoming an amazon affiliate - since the blog is about dogs it seems I could easily integrate a product review section. Perhaps I shouldn't even consider making money yet - with a brand new site is it wise to keep building up consistently before you add any of the money making aspects? I feel so overwhelmed. The other dog blog/sites I've been looking at seem to have a lot of targeted advertising which leads me to believe that's a better strategy for this topic rather than affiliate marketing. I'd love to have my site be a dog news heavy site but for now I'm trying out a few general topics to see which ones are doing well on analytics. If anyone has any suggestions on a what I should be focusing on at the moment I'd love to hear it. (I do need to apparently add an about me section - I wish people didn't find that part so important)
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laxbro posted:What is the best way to get followers on twitter? As far as twitter goes I'd start by following people in your niche. Some will follow back automatically. Tweet other peoples articles that are helpful/relevant and you can get noticed that way as well.
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Ron Don Volante posted:Do you have any particular targeting suggestions? I find benefits to updating my posts; I've gotten better rankings after adding updated content to older posts. I also go back and do internal linking when I write another piece that's relevant. This article is from July of last year but it has a pretty decent checklist of things that can be beneficial to update: http://blog.hubspot.com/marketing/guide-to-updating-republishing-blogging-content-ht Royal Jeans fucked around with this message at 17:52 on Sep 19, 2014 |
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I'm sure it's not easy to get into and have any success but I must say I'm jealous of bloggers who blog about blogging. I do so much research on blogging tips (and I'm sure many other do as well regardless of niche) and it almost feels like I'm looking at blogging blogs more than blogs in my own niche. I've bookmarked so many drat blogging sites its ridiculous. I'm sure the grass is always greener; I couldn't imagine trying to stand out in that niche.
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counterfeitsaint posted:I remember there being a thread on SA years ago about adult website affiliate sites, i.e. porn blogs. Is that still a viable thing, or has tumblr and streaming sites killed it dead? It seems like there should still be some sort of money going into the industry, but what do I know? On page 31 there was a similar question and someone stated it's a hard niche to get into because of Brazzers. http://nymag.com/news/features/70985/index1.html
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teeris posted:Just read through this thread and made a black friday deals site. Looking to hopefully make some money/learn about wordpress blogging and online marketing in general. Thinking of content to put up for a deals site in the first half of October so I've just been browsing the web seeing whats out there right now. If anyone has any tips fire away. It's https://findblackfridaydeals.com I also like the theme - it's off to a great start. It's nice, clean, and easy to navigate. It looks like you're using amazon affiliates I'm assuming? Are you using shareasale or any other affiliate programs? Are you getting any commissions from listing any coupons? I see a bunch of google ads but you might want to consider changing one of them to something you find on an affiliate site. I like http://www.shareasale.com/ because they have a ton of merchants to choose from and you get to pick what ads you display. You can also search affiliates by ones that are currently offering coupons or deals with codes which will be appealing to potential buyers. I also know people speak highly of Brandcaster, Link Share, & Commission Junction but I don't have any personal experience with them. I've heard that hackers tend to target sites that use "admin" as their username, though I have no actual data to back that up. I've also read that customers like it better when they feel some sort of connection to the person writing the blog so you might want to consider changing admin to something more friendly. Changing your links to open in a new window will keep people on your site rather than automatically taking them off your page with every deal they click. Your post "Skip the lines" is having a problem loading the ad. Do you want people to be able to share your deals? You might want to consider adding some social share buttons. I don't know how easily google will index your posts if they don't contain 300 words. I don't know the exact rules on that but I've heard many times that blog posts should generally contain 300 words and some quality content in order to show up with decent rankings in search engines. I'd consider setting up some social accounts - I found twitter to be the easiest to gain a following when I was starting out. I signed up and started following other people that shared my niche and many of them followed right back. I have a few go to guides for general blogging advice: http://pointblankseo.com/link-building-strategies Great in depth article on link building tactics http://www.blogtyrant.com/how-to-start-a-blog/ How to start a blog (many great details) http://www.smartpassiveincome.com/how-to-build-a-niche-site/ How to build a niche site I don't know of any specific advice for maintaining a successful seasonal blog, so it might vary from the traditional advice somewhat.
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laxbro posted:Finally, those two white bars above Recent Posts, does something go there? Looks a little out of place. I had to turn off ad block because I was wondering the same thing. They're google ads.
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As far as Amazon goes I haven't had problems getting approved with various blogs but I did run into a problem when I started making sales off of one that I was using a woo commerce store for - they disapproved that site once I started actually making sales because it lacked original content (lesson learned). From what I can tell it seems that they pay closer attention to blogs once they start earning rather then when you first apply. I've yet to not get accepted immediately even with blogs that were just starting out.
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I've been trying to reduce my bounce rates lately but I just took a look at Quick Sprout's information on average bounce rates - http://blog.hubspot.com/marketing/decrease-website-bounce-rate-infographic Apparently blogs have an average of 70-98% bounce rates. Should I not be worrying about mine being at about 65% then? When I look into my analytics I'm happy with the growth in traffic and referrals but I was assuming the next logical step would be to try and reduce the bounce rate, which in my eyes seems pretty bad. Since I'm up to 30% organic traffic and would like to increase that should I just keep focusing on content/SEO/ranking for keywords? I've been under the assumption that google places a lot of emphasis on bounce rates when it comes to ranking sites, but maybe it doesn't matter as much as I thought. Royal Jeans fucked around with this message at 02:41 on Nov 3, 2014 |
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I really like the layout, format, and colors. It's extremely easy to read and navigate on my PC. As far as getting traffic the best sources I found were commenting on similar blogs in my niche. I also had a lot of luck with Twitter starting out as far as social media goes; if there's groups for it you could check into Triberr and join a group of like minded folks where you can share each others content. Since you're appealing to language/eduction folks you can also find some groups on Google+ & some forums pertaining to your interests. They're good places to reach out and start making connections.
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If you're going to use Wordpress comments I'd suggest using the Akismet plugin; it pretty much catches all spam comments on my blogs. It's free to use for personal blogs. https://wordpress.org/plugins/akismet/ I think leaving blog comments and receiving them is a good way to build some loyal readers. I don't know that 0 comments turns anyone off or not; often times I'll see posts that are shared a lot but don't necessarily have a lot of comments. It probably depends on the posts themselves and whether you're articles lead people to ask more questions or tell you their opinion on the matter. Royal Jeans fucked around with this message at 23:31 on Nov 10, 2014 |
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Does anyone have any recommendations for sites to check out competitors rankings? I'm looking for general traffic stats/and or search ranking info. I've been on Alexa, Ahrefs, Moz, and Blogrank. I don't know if there's any other obvious sites I'm missing.
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I'm not saying that it can't be done - It's just rare that I've ever seen ads placed tastefully into blog posts. Not that this is what you had in mind but I always giggle when I see an adsense ad right in the middle of a post. No explanation - just hanging out all by itself in the middle of some article.
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Can anyone give me some advice regarding coupon affiliates? I've heard so many mixed reviews - Some bloggers says it's one of her biggest earners yet I read some articles like this (http://www.marketingadept.com/blog/2012/12/be-wary-of-coupon-affiliates-stealing-your-affiliate-marketing-commissions/) and start to question the practice. Being in the pet niche there's always a ton of deals going on. With all this talk about cookies, people searching for promo codes, and the affiliate having to pay commissions I'm a bit hesitant. Makes me think there's a reason I don't see more bloggers jumping on the coupon bandwagon. Is there any advantage to coupons versus regular affiliate marketing?
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Eagerly awaiting to hear about your guys' Black Friday experiences this year. I tried to do a little promo in the pet niche but yeah - it's looking pretty dismal so far.
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As far as social media goes I saw a big increase after I joined triberr. Are you visiting other blogs in your niche and leaving comments? I get a lot of social media shares from some other bloggers in my niche - the ones I've made relationships with via blog comments, joining forum discussions, and sharing their content. I've had some decent success with paper.li & scoopit as well - but for me it all boiled down to sharing first to get others to notice you. A few months back I started interlinking my content better. I checked in google analytics to see which posts were getting the most hits and then make sure to link one or two of my other posts within it rather than just relying on my related posts plugin. Royal Jeans fucked around with this message at 04:30 on Dec 1, 2014 |
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Camo Guitar posted:Royal Jeans - could you paste a link to your paper.li? I was just reading about it this morning and it looks really interesting and worth a go, I just wanted to see how someone here uses it. Cheers It's ummm.. about dogs so yeah. https://paper.li/dogleak/1416356825 I don't spend too much time editing it; I have seen some really impressive ones.
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Mad Rancher posted:Looking into getting a premium theme for my first wordpress blog, but I have no idea what factors I should consider in choosing one other than "ooooh looks pretty" and active support staff. It really depends what you're looking to do with your blog. If you want something lightweight/ customizable/ good support I personally love Genesis. But there are a ton of great themes out there; the downfall of buying a framework like Genesis is that it's not the easiest to get used to as far as customizations, but once you do it's awesome. If you're not familiar with making customizations in CSS or PHP you might prefer a theme that has a great built in customizer. You'll also need to consider if you want to use the traditional blog layout or if you want something that looks like a magazine, etc. When I was doing some research into buying my first theme I found a lot of great info on Smashing Magazine http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2013/02/08/get-the-best-out-of-premium-wordpress-theme/
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Mad Rancher posted:I'm probably looking in a genesis theme. My blog will be used to write articles on game design/strategy for my business entity and convert those into money through sales of games I produced (see my avatar). What theme do you all think would be best for that from these: http://my.studiopress.com/themes/ I think the most common blog ones used are eleven40, metro, lifestyle, magazine, news. Though if you want to showcase your products more you might want to look at the others. I think some of them have built in pricing tables and stuff. Just depends on what you really plan to do with your site. If you have a site that you love the look of you can run it thru http://whatwpthemeisthat.com/ to see which theme it's using (if it's wordpress) The great thing about Genesis is that they're so customizable you can just use the basic framework and come up with something awesome. I'd take a loot at their showcase http://www.studiopress.com/showcase or browse through wpsniffer to see which themes you like. And the best part with Genesis is that you can find great information on pretty much any customizations youd like to make. They've got a support forum thats filled with code questions & there are a ton of stand alone sites that are just genesis tutorials. Royal Jeans fucked around with this message at 23:33 on Dec 3, 2014 |
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Mad Rancher posted:Cool. I like the eleven40 one the best - but personally I would use a standard content/sidebar set up on it. Check out the amazing looking sites ran on it - http://www.studiopress.com/theme/eleven40 Really any of them are great. All genesis themes come with the enews widget which means you can customize how you want your email list to look if that happens to be a concern. And if you like the idea of having an email list widget that stands out I like the free version of Hello Bar if you want one on top. http://boostblogtraffic.com/email-list-plugins/ I'd read this article if you're looking for more information on email list conversions. Seriously with sites like http://wpsites.net/ & http://sridharkatakam.com/ it's pretty easy to mix & match certain genesis styles & functions of themes. And I'm also using Metro as mentioned above and I love it.
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Zero Gravitas posted:What are people using to auto-post their updates to social media? I'm looking to tidy up my setup as I think I've still got Feedburner reading my RSS feed and pushing that to Twitter, with other social networks picking up that twitter feed. Its clunky and ideally I'm looking for something that will push to G+/Twitter/FB simultaneously. I hear great things about Hootsuite though I've never used it myself. As far as plugins go NextScripts (SNAP) has some pretty decent ratings. You can also go the Feedly, Buffer, and IFTTT route. http://www.wpexplorer.com/automate-social-share-wordpress/ I think the Jetpack plugin has an auto post option as well. When you say edit the social media post are you talking about rich snippets for each? I know the SEO by yoast plugin has that option for Twitter cards, facebook snippets, and G+ from the edit screen.
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Do you know how to access your error logs? They should have some more specific information you can look into. I don't know anything about apisnetworks but maybe these would be helpful: http://kb.apisnetworks.com/web-content/accessing-page-views-and-error-messages/ & http://chrisgilligan.com/wordpress/how-to-configure-apc-cache-on-virtual-servers-with-php-running-under-fcgid/
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This might be a tough question to answer because there's probably not one exact answer: I'm ranking well for a couple keywords ( 4 are #1 on google and I've got a few more in the top 10). How often do you need to update your articles to keep them ranking well? I've noticed if I let them sit for a month or so they lose rank. I know the algorithm supposedly takes into account social shares etc, and some other factors that make them bounce around but it's weird to rank really well and then go down 8 ranks when it looks like the others aren't updating theirs. Perhaps it has more to do with the fact that my site is only about 6 months old and the others are more established. I was just wondering if this constant upkeep of blog posts with new updates is something you have to do to rank in the top 10 of any given keyword.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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A GIANT PARSNIP posted:Can anyone recommend wordpress themes that would work well for a partially factual information/partially blog format? Also, I'd like to get a bunch of stock photos for use on my website of generic families with kids/couples/old people for emotional appeal. Can anyone recommend a place to purchase the rights to stock photos for website use? I'm a huge fan of Genesis themes myself but if you're looking for free themes there's a lot to choose from as well. What sites do you like the looks of? Find some sites that appeal to you and try http://whatwpthemeisthat.com/ to see what they're using. As far as photos go I get a lot of great free ones from pixabay.com, morguefile.com & unsplash.com
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A GIANT PARSNIP posted:I was already planning on dumping $30-$60 into a theme, so I'm okay with it not being free. A quick 3 minute search of Genesis themes brought this theme to my attention. I specifically like the drop down menus at the top, the large pictures that scroll with 3-5 of the newest articles as the focal point of the front page, and the option to have smaller boxes below for slightly older blog posts/informational posts. I don't really like the $100 price tag though. Genesis is more expensive than other themes since you're buying a framework along with it. It's great for developers or those who work with multiple sites and they offer great support. Theme forest has a ton of great themes as well; I think a lot of the business & non profit themes have a similar look to Outreach. I use the google keyword planner ( here are a couple great guides for getting started with it; http://www.searchenginejournal.com/definitive-guide-using-googles-keyword-planner-tool-keyword-research/69655/ & http://backlinko.com/google-keyword-planner) To find potential keywords I browse quora, ubersuggest & my new favorite tool is http://keywordtool.io/.
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I've been meaning to look into ebooks for awhile now. The articles I've been finding on my own so far are all about publishing as many as you can by using PLR articles; is this the norm nowadays? I'll check out the selfpub thread for sure. I thought books listed at 2.99 - 7.99 got you 70% profit, where as anything else on amazon it was 30%? Granted the stuff I'm reading is probably out of date.
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Moniker posted:
I found Twitter much easier than FB when starting out. I just started searching for relevant people to follow and it seems like half the time they followed back. Retweet popular articles in your niche as well - that works pretty well for exposure. You could also look into joining triberr which lets you join like minded "tribes" where the content is curated and you can share each others work. Since you're location based you might want to look into reaching out to other local businesses for some added exposure. Maybe even do some FB targeted ads. Make sure your FB & twitter profiles are easy to find on your blog; I even added an after post widget that has a link to my mailing list & facebook page which seems to get pretty decent results. If you're looking for some nice indepth articles I love the Buffer blog for social media tips - https://blog.bufferapp.com/first-1000-followers-twitter-facebook-social-media Royal Jeans fucked around with this message at 05:38 on Apr 9, 2015 |
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A GIANT PARSNIP posted:Can anyone recommend a site for setting up an e-mail address with your own domain? It looks like a lot of places offer this, so I'm wondering which places work well and aren't overpriced. Maybe I'm not understanding the question - do you already have a hosting plan; or are you looking to set up a hosting plan that also offers email accounts?
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It sounds like it definitely has potential; and if you search the items you're going to be reviewing in Google at the moment it should give you a pretty good idea of what your competition is going to be like. As far as facebook goes you start the page for your blog and then yes - you can invite all of your friends. When you say exchanging for a link I don't know exactly what you mean. Would you be posting their reviews & linking back to them; or asking them to link to your reviews within theirs? Adsense doesn't really pay much unless you have huge traffic - but nothing else is going to be paying for awhile when you're starting out anyways.. So at least it's a few bucks here and there. As far as making money from amazon you'd have to sell an awful lot to get any sort of profit. And if you're selling food items you're going to be making pennies on each sale. If you go for the tiered system you start at 4%, after 8 or 10 referrals per month it jumps to 6%, then 6.5%. I just started out so it's pretty slow going. In November I sold 25 items (not a lot - I know) through amazon for a total of $300ish - but when you're only making 6% I think my actual profit was only $25 that month. In January people bought $1000 from amazon and I made $60. Granted I'm not really a niche blog with targeted posts for reviews.You might luck out occasionally when someone puts a big ticket item through within 24 hours of hitting your link. Someone ended up buying a game table from mine for $700 so that was about $50 at once. I just don't want you to get excited and think amazon alone is an easy way to earn money. If your selling other peoples inexpensive objects you're probably not going to make much. But if you can convert people into amazon prime members as well.. that might be something to look into. Or check out other affiliate programs as well that might offer higher percentages. What do you want your actual blog to be about? Specific food items only? Or local healthy cooking options? If you expand your niche a little bit and include some healthy cooking tips for the products you're advertising you can open up the field a bit for earning potential. I wouldn't consider it easy by any means. If i start another site I'm either going to sell digital products or more expensive ones. I'd take a look at this guides for some detailed info on starting a niche blog: http://profitblitz.com/case-studies/ & http://www.blogtyrant.com/how-to-start-a-blog/ Royal Jeans fucked around with this message at 14:57 on Apr 10, 2015 |
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I guess what I'd probably be looking at is how much quality content you'd be competing with. The domain match is always nice but it's still easy to outrank crappy content & much harder to compete with decent stuff. I've been choosing some of my articles based on the quality of the content on the first page of Google and have had decent success with that strategy. If you're able to find some keywords that have a bunch of videos or low quality content on Google's first page of search that's a really good place to start. And for anyone looking for what seems to be an easy to rank for market: I'm in the dog niche and I stumbled upon "pregnant dog" in my keyword research. I have no interest in posting that sort of stuff but it looks like there's really no decent competition to speak of and a lot of searches, but then again CPC isn't particularily high either.  I come across a lot of these funny keywords that I have no idea what I'd do with.
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jon joe posted:Oooh, if you wouldn't mind, could you send me a list of some of your funny keywords so I can check them out myself? I don't have a saved list
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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). Now I'm wondering if it's something I should consider switching up because it's only making $20 a month with 20k visits a month. Is this a good number for that traffic or terrible? I've read so many bloggers income reports - especially in the lifestyle type categories like mommy blogs, etc - that seem to be making a lot from advertising networks I know nothing about. I've read decent things about Padsquad, The Blogger Network, Media Net, Chitika (if I'm even spelling that right), Info Links, Propeller Ads, etc... Is there a good place to start when trying to research and/or compare these networks rather than just signing up and hoping for the best? Are a lot of these networks niche based and/or perform really well in certain categories? I'm in the pet niche and the one pet only network I know of is pretty dismal.
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Pierce and Pierce posted:I can't really comment on other networks, but yes $20 for 20k visitors is very low. I should have clarified my intentions with ads a bit more vs other incomes. I do make the majority of my blog income through affiliate sales - mostly amazon (but also sharesale & commission junction) by doing reviews & linking to relevant products. I've been seeing those sales rise steadily as I increase my pageviews and rank for more keywords in google. Things seem to be going well so far as affiliate sales are concerned. I only have one adsense ad set to display text & images and it's on the bottom of my right sidebar ( i know, i know...) because I really dislike ads in posts. I think you answered my question already by asking one simple question. If I wanted to make more than just a few cents here and there via ads I'm going to have to place them in my actual content, right? If that's the case I'm completely fine with doing the affiliate sales as I've been doing, I was just wondering how these people were making so much from advertising alone. If it means putting multiple ads in my articles I think I'll pass - as it stands one little ad covers all of my hosting expenses per month and I'm fine with that. And I'm in the process of writing my first ebook as another possible source of income; we'll see how that goes.
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