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Are you using a wordpress install? Do you have the Askimet plugin? That should catch most of the comment spam (I don't know what blogger or wordpress.com uses) Much of what I've seen lately are generic complements about how awesome your writing is by free-dog-credit-scores.com or some other junk name, but askimet sweeps that all away so I only check for laughs at the random text. If you're unsure, it's probably spam.
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No, and it is easy to take out for beginners, as it is in the options and not the php.
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This may sound dumb, but are you sure you have the ads activated correctly? IIRC there is a global setting in Account settings: Overview that overrides everything else. And do you own the rights to the videos?
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Reddit traffic is terrible and maybe gets 0.1% that is worth anything (I have found that if one of the porn forums links you, they're more likely to click random ads, as people who can barely spell "porn" are more likely to click on everything on the screen, but it is still bad traffic.) Otherwise all it does is bump up your hits averages and bounce rate and ruins your conversion percentages (and I have a lot of idiots trying to image leech from there with direct links to images) I think if you get more involved in the smaller subreddits you can get more worthwhile traffic, but that will take time. i.e. r/science is huge and full of people who won't click on links on random sites as they want to hurry back to comment/vote/click on other reddit threads for their e-peen scores, but r/microscopelovers would be more likely to visit your website about microscopes and click around, especially if they remember your name from comments on other links. Again, this is just a guess.
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the posted:When I got my degree in Film Criticism, basically a degree in how to write critically about film, I thought, "This is it, I can make it doing this as a job." I've done this for nine years now, my site breaks even at current (it used to pull a small profit before I had to move to a VPS) but I never expect it to make fat figures as there are just way too many movie sites, and the level of traffic required to qualify for the bigger ad networks is very hard to reach with just yourself writing. If you want to try to sell yourself to bigger sites you need to network more and start taking freelance gigs. A lot of sites will be like "I can't pay you except with exposure!" and then you check out their traffic and they maybe get their mom to read their site. There are a few bigger sites that have paying slots, but if you follow film writers you'll see that many write for 2-4 bigger sites (which sort of sucks as that makes every site sound the same, but I digress) and barely make ends meet. Newspaper slots are rare and often the first target of budget cuts, and you'll have to compete with thousands of people. Most of those also are people who have journalism experience (not that it helps their writing, I think it's more that they are better at networking) If you want more traffic, straight reviews is not the way to go. News, lists (especially lists designed for arguments in the comments), think pieces that get put on reddit, fantasy castings, rambling on about comic book heroes, all are better. Many movie sites are also becoming TV recap sites because that brings more traffic. Have you joined LAMB? Twitter? OFCS? Do you comment on other film blogs? I see from your post history you don't seem to even post in the film forum on this site. I barely do a lot of this stuff, but I have no real plans to break out and just do it for fun. If you really love writing about film, you can find ins. Maybe find semi-popular sites that don't really have anything film/media yet and write sample pieces that would work for them. Even if they aren't interested, you got stuff to showcase. Talk to critics and ask their advice and thoughts on your work. Be friendly and respectful and don't act entitled at all, and be thankful for their help if they give it. Things like that can go a long way.
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You should source everything, either as you go or at the end of the article. A stats blog will probably bring in some academics who will appreciate proper citation. You can find some examples of different styles at the bottom of here - http://www.amstat.org/publications/jse/jse_author_info.htm If you have books you use often, you can list them on a page and then just refer to them via shorthand/link. I would try to include blogs as you cite stuff as people will begin to notice you via trackback/referrals and might leave comments. Then you reciprocate and leave comments on their blog, and check out who they link to and the sites of those linking comments. Even if you don't have interesting things to say, you might get ideas for new posts. Another thought is book citations can also include Amazon referrals.
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Sep 15, 2013 22:30
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That sounds like it could produce some cool articles/infographics.
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Every time I've been in trouble for Google they've given an example url, they also only disabled on the domain with the problem. Do you have ads all over half-naked women photos or in the middle of articles talking about sexy things?
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I whitelist my own site to make sure the ads aren't messing things up (and to occasionally spot ads from places I'd rather not be advertising on my site)
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After the latest panda update I'm close to traffic levels I was at two years ago when I got dinged. Sort of interesting that two years of work to try to get back up in rankings was pointless and uncontrollable due to Google updates. Though it has pushed me higher for the event-specific news stuff I do, so that will have long term benefits.laxbro posted:I'm in the same boat, but I think it just takes time unless you're actively promoting and back linking every day. 2.5 months in and getting a consistent average of ~10 visitors a day on my main site. An interesting thing about my blog is that two-thirds of the traffic is international due to my blog being about tropical fruit. Once I return to the states I will start blogging about local American fruit. Not sure what your fruit blog is, but for the tropical stuff you might want to do articles on growing tropical fruit in the US. I say this because I'm growing some pink banana trees and there are tricks to get the seeds to sprout that aren't on the instructions, but people in communities that grow bananas and other fruit trees know them. Heck bananas and oranges both have diseases threatening to wipe out entire crops, and the orange debate has moved into GMO territory in an effort to find resistant types.
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I use linkwithin, its fine except it displays a lot of ad trackers in Ghostery and pulls just the first image in the post for a thumbnail. I used to use a related post plugin, but that began using lots of resources which was an issue when i was on shared hosting. I personally have taboola/outbrain/similar ones adblocked on my browser because i hate them and the dumb stories they promote. I believe Discus also has a related posts feature that can be internal or external if you use it for comments. linkwithin is pretty successful for increasing page views, so it is worth it for me.
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When we click on your link we get something like this:quote:Your connection is not secure When I add an exception, I see this: quote:Future home of something quite cool.
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Big Taint posted:I'm having an issue with my WP blog and hopefully one of you guys can help. My Avantlink affiliate link encoder stopped working, and I'm getting these errors in the debug log: KetTarma posted:If you go that route be prepared for hate. Like, actual "I want to murder you" hate. Some people out there are literally crazy and will harass you. You get those people from almost everything, people are insane and will go off for the weirdest reasons you can never predict. My movie site has had 5 lawsuit threats, including an actor in softcore films mad that I figured out he acts in them under one name and in B movie films as another (he pretended he wasn't that person and then faked emailing me as various actresses to support his ridiculous claim, when I literally was in communication with directors of those films who said he was the same guy), I got actual lawyer letters from an actress upset I listed her as a cast member of a film she was in and demanded I take down the review (and two completely unrelated reviews because they featured actresses with the same first name as her), militia members upset when I made fun of their militia right after Obama was elected, and a Taiwan film company got upset I wrote about a movie of theirs from 30 years ago and seemed to think I was giving away copies of it. It was satisfying to tell all those people to shove it. I've also been with with DMCA strikes on five pages this year, none of which have videos and most of which are low traffic pages but it's annoying because I don't want to leave it alone and thus the automated software starts hitting every page I have, will probably talk to a lawyer in a few weeks.
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