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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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^^^^^ 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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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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I cant rhyme posted:So I have been trying to follow the advice in this thread. I had a major problem with my website which is causing me to have to do the entire thing over again. Any thing I am missing? It's about trying to live high fructose corn syrup free. This is my blog: Bye, Fructose Great name/domain! Small matter, but this page: http://byefructose.com/sample-page/ Should get a more appropriate URL. I'm not seeing a PP or Terms of Use - Google tends to like that kind of thing. It probably makes more sense to have some of your general content as static pages, rather than a post (like the About Us post, and maybe the general facts) More important is that you seem to be going keyword heavy, judging from this page: http://byefructose.com/high-fructose-corn-syrup-facts/ You don't need to repeat the phrase High Fructose Corn Syrup Facts over and over again. Just use it in the title and wherever relevant in the copy. Likewise for High Fructose Corn Syrup, you can use synonyms and stuff. Google is pretty smart about figuring this out with LSI, and might end up penalizing you if you go too heavy. I'd also say that your ad blocks are awkward. Rather than blocks in text, sidebar, or header, you have one skyscraper at the end of copy. This looks weird, and I think wouldn't get great CTR. Finally, how are you finding the relevance of Google's ads? The ones that I got didn't seem on target. You might want to find a few amazon books that specifically address HFCS, or similar affiliate offers, and jam those in the sidebar.
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Aug 17, 2012 19:30
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Zero Gravitas posted:could you take a look at my site and suggest some things with ads for it? I haven't been happy with the ads so far. It's at solidstudent.org . You'd probably be better with specific offers related to SolidWorks - maybe a like to some of these: http://www.amazon.ca/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_1?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=solidworks&c=0&y=0 I don't think SW has an affiliate program, but check it out and offer that too. Even better, make your own e-book and sell it on there. Also, you should be gathering email addresses, so people can get new articles via email (and more offers). Finally, get your rear end on here: http://www.solidworks.com/sw/communities/read-solidworks-blogs.htm
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Aug 18, 2012 18:06
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Tom Smykowski posted:Just a quick question, would a regional travel site be too specific? Like places to go, how to get there, etc? I live in southwest China and theres a ton of poo poo to do that isn't listed in travel guides, so I figured it might be worth checking out. I don't think anything is too specific, if there are searches and searchers looking for it. Have you checked out what kind of volume you might get?
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Aug 21, 2012 04:12
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^^^ Not necessarily, as long as they are contextually related and you use your intended keywords at least a couple/few times, then you are all good. It's actually better to have a more diverse range of keywords, as you get the benefit of diverse long-tails without keyword stuffing risks. Collias posted:How do I avoid getting in trouble with quoting other articles? There is no such thing as duplicate content penalty. The only thing with duplicate content is that the specific page that has duplicate content may end up in Google's supplemental index. The overall site wouldn't be affected by that. However, unique content will help you rank better overall, since you won't be competing against the original content. The Swinemaster fucked around with this message at 18:38 on Aug 23, 2012 |
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Aug 23, 2012 18:35
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BotchedLobotomy posted:I've always wanted to start a blog with tech tips on hobbies You need to sign up and sign in to adCenter to get the CPC estimates and stuff. As far as lifehacker, it depends why you are doing it. If you just think it's fun and you have an interest - go for it.
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Aug 23, 2012 23:04
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MasterControl posted:Oh my top post on a page. Two things...first is I'm hoping to add my little niche music blog OP if that's ok? Its: https://www.britpopnews.com I'm not seeing many links coming in to your site externally. How are you link building? Contacting webmasters? commenting? sharing breaking britpop news anywhere? Doghouse posted:Just out of curiosity - how successful does a blog have to be to actually make a significant amount of money? Will X amount of page views a day necessarily translate into an approximate amount of profit if you set up advertising, or does it depend? Picture one of those well known blogs that does well, whether it is politics, humor, etc. Are those blog owners making a living? Totally depends on the blog and their way of making money. cuteoverload.com is making money, but they also sell calenders, shirts, mugs, books, etc. etc. If they just had google ads they would make far less.
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Fluue posted:I've posted here before, but I'm coming back for some more advice. What were you selling when you had affiliated links? It seems like any affiliate programs that could push pokemon games/stuffed pokemons/whatevers would be a good fit. If there are no fitting programs, you could try amazon too.
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Oct 5, 2012 18:22
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invision posted:So my site is slowly but surely gaining traction. I even let it sit for almost a month with no updates but I've slowly been getting likes on facebook and my traffic has been increasing slowly. I've got an interview coming up and a guest spot on one of the biggest related blogs out there. My adsense revenue has been literally nothing besides the 1.67 i made within the first week. how to fix that? I checked out your site http://10seventyfive.com/ and your ads really vanish into the background. I didn't see any on the home page, then didn't see any on the article page, until I double-checked. Have you experimented with colors? Making it the same as your current text and background does help it blend in, but it's blending in too much.
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Oct 19, 2012 00:02
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From what I've heard, Reddit traffic is bountiful but does not convert.
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One good thing about twitter - unlike Facebook - is that it is open and searchable. Make a habit of jumping on there once/twice a week and doing a quick search for solidworks, or related keywords. You might find somebody complaining, or who has a question you can answer.
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Oct 23, 2012 15:56
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Zero Gravitas posted:The Solidworks one I'm taking a break from until I move to a different place as I dont have a quiet place to record the audio for the videos anymore. Dang, that's going to be hard to rank and promote. Because you are aggregating other copy from around the web, you don't have any original content. So, you will always rank under the original content creator (almost always), and compete with many other high authority news sites that also repost press releases. This also speaks to the onpage time, and not visiting the rest of your site. After I got to the end of the article, I saw that it was simply a reposted press release. At that point, why would I read the rest of the site, when I know that it won't have anything new? Adding some commentary, insight, opinions, bad jokes, anything into the press release content should help a lot. p.s.: are you using a scraper to aggregate content, or grabbing it manually?
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How are you planning on monetizing that badboy?
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What kind of ads is google serving? Are they relevant? There aren't many advertisers that are going to bid on political-type keywords, since people really aren't in a buying mindset. That works against you - people are more likely to buy from Jim's Candy Blog, since they are already thinking about the products. Do you have original relevant content that you could package as an e-book, or print copy? That would be ideal. Alternatively, maybe look to Amazon and promote political type books. This would be most useful for contextually related items at the end of each post. So if you are writing on Syria, nab some links to some books that you are familiar with or would recommend, and jab them at the end. (Obviously they would have to be on target with your messaging, or your credibility would suffer.) The Swinemaster fucked around with this message at 18:28 on Nov 21, 2012 |
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Forbidden Kiss posted:I'm looking to expand my writing portfolio to include some SEO-optimized content. If anyone would like me to ghostwrite an article or two for their blog please send me a PM and we'll see if we can work something out. I am volunteering to do this and do not expect any compensation. I took up Forbidden Kiss on this, and they did a great job. They had no problem having their post shared here, and this gives me a chance to pimp my site too: https://slumberwise.com/sleep-better/the-eerie-blue-glow-sleep-deprivation/ I don't know if Forbidden Kiss plans to offer more free or paid copy, but I would definitely take them up on it again. I was worried at first that someone offering 'SEO copy' would give me unreadable keyword-crammed stuff, but this is up-to-date and magazine quality.
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Revol posted:Yeah, that's the plugin I'm using. I get caught up because when editing a post, it outlines where you're failing in SEO, in big red letters. Oh no! Keep a couple of things in mind. One, a big percentage of searches on a given topic per day are going to never have been searched before. Upwards of 25 percent. So if you're writing good in depth articles with unique content, you'll grab these long tails. Next, seo is not a substitute for quality. Focus on making good, valuable content and people will like it, share it, and link it. Obviously feel free to game certain articles towards certain kw niches but if you create good content, it's never a waste of time.
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For images I use http://photopin.com/. They are CC, so free with attribution. It can take some digging to find good pictures, but they are on there.
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I think you mean adsense. You can use adsense ad blocks anywhere on your site, so you don't necessarily need a theme based around it. They can help though, as they will have the proper sized columns, and easy plunk-in functionality. But you can get your code and put it anywhere. If you are comfortable with code, just slap a banner in your header and end-of-post. Likewise, a blank text widget can also be used to add a sidebar ad block. To get going, you need to sign up for adsense, then pick the appropriate sizes/colors. Then add the code.
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Kafka Esq. posted:what is the best way to create an online store in tangible goods? Look at exactly what your competitor is doing and do it better.
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Mr.Trifecta posted:Anyone with a shopping cart recommendations for wordpress? Looking to sell a download someone can purchase right off my home page. Just looking for something basic where they would have access to the download. A friend of mine uses wp estore and likes it. Fairly straightforward plugin.
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SweatyE posted:You could always find a creative commons photo that matches your topic and use that (make sure you give the photographer credit and thanks in a tweet!). Try searching at compfight.com - its not quite a logo but will look better than having no picture next to your name This is what I did. I then used GIMP to add on my logo/name and it looks almost professional. Depending on your requirements you can sometimes grab OK stuff from fiverrr.
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Doghouse posted:So I wanted to start a blog about Google, but I don't know what to do about the domain name, because I don't think I should use the word "Google" for legal reasons - but how can I have a blog about a subject without mentioning that subject in the domain name? i saw that the only sucessful blog about this topic is a blogspot blog, so they get around that issue that way. How about : BigGandme.com Notjustsearch.com
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Zero Gravitas posted:Im wondering if theres a website or easy way to do the following: You could get a bunch of bit.ly links and use those. But then you would have to give each person a unique link to use, and that would be a hassle.
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While we're sharing stories, I had an amazing weekend with my blog that was super encouraging. I've had a few sites, but most in the past were geared towards niche keywords, with the goal of conversions - and nothing else. I got pretty sick of that, let them all die off, and started a new site based around quality content. I wrote about interesting things, did research, and barely monetized it at all. I also barely did much in the way of promotion or link building. Somehow this weekend one of my posts exploded, and ended up on the first page of digg. I went from about 40/50 hits per day, to this weekend, when I got about half a million clicks. I did nothing to cause this, and it caught me totally by surprise. Now I've got comments, FB fans, likes, and all that good stuff. So if you're feeling discouraged, just keep putting out good content, and readers will find you.
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It was this post here: http://slumberwise.com/science/your-ancestors-didnt-sleep-like-you/ I was running ads, but it really wasn't monetized in a great way - I had links to Amazon without an affiliate link for a while. I did some updates on Sunday that helped a lot. As far as percentage of traffic, it would be kind of a meaningless number, since prior to this I had earned maybe just a dollar a day. On Saturday I took in about $100 bucks from adsense. I also had a sidebar as advertising for a bed company, and this got a bunch of clicks but did not convert. I think for this kind of article - where readers are not really in a buying mode - Google adsense might make the most sense. I recently added the targeted Amazon links mentioned above, but since nothing has shipped I don't know my profit there yet. And for Digg - maybe you can clarify how it works for me. Is it entirely self-contained, or does it use an algorithm to rank things based on likes and other social signals too?
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Couple things: Spending money on Adwords to a site monetized by Adsense will not pay off. Adwords campaigns, or any campaign, is typically directed towards a landing page, which is trying to sell something. Did you use a conversion-focused landing page, or link to your homepage? Also, what kind of keywords were you bidding on? What you sell and how you sell it will depend on what people are looking for. What do you mean about two linkbacks? Links and Adwords don't really relate to one another - Adwords neither provides or benefits from backlinks. But unless you more agressively monetize your site (with an ebook of your own, or some other product about interviews), I don't see paid ads making sense. Social media and SEO would be your best bet.
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If you already have an ebook, then that is what you should be pushing. Drop everything else and make your landing page a funnel. The thing with the current ads is that they can be skipped. They are not essential to the content of the webpage. A good landing page leads irresistibly to the sale. Give a taste on the page, but to get the rest, lead to your ebook. As far as http://www.interviewscience.com/interview-guides/learn-how-to-answer-interview-questions/, it's OK, but not ideal. There's a lot of text blocks - web writing should be in much smaller chunks, with more images, bullet points, etc. to break it up. The writing is also a bit lofty for a sales piece. People just want answers/info, especially when you are dealing with paid search. Your first paragraph is: "Most everyone is motivated to learn how to answer interview questions, but they rarely investigate how to better answer the question than the competition. Experience plays a role, but recognizing the experiences that you’ve already had is usually the dividing line. Let’s start with how to analyze the general communication structure of potential answers to interview questions." Most people would bail on that, simple because it's so clinical sounding.
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Also, start reading and rereading the Gary Halbert newsletter. The guy has an amazing casual style. He's a master. http://www.thegaryhalbertletter.com/newsletter-archives.htm
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KetTarma posted:Does this theme suck? I think it looks pretty good. The only part that stands out is the "ask a question" bit in red. It really draws the eye, but I don't think asking questions is your sites main draw. At least it doesn't look that way.
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