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My Black Friday blog is picking up steam now. Last year I cracked $1k in a week and I'm hoping to do the same this year  I really enjoy working on seasonal blogs because I have such a short attention span, it's easier for me to really crank out some content for 2 or 3 weeks and get a big pop before working on the next site. I have a Superbowl related one as well that I'll be working on come January.
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AreYouStillThere posted:So this may be more obvious than I am making it, but I just started up my blog a week or two ago and I'm still pretty clueless. I only have a few blog entries, but all of a sudden I have all these people who are obviously commenting to get their stuff backlinked. Formulaic responses with a link to their blog in it. At first I was like well at least SOMEBODY is looking at my blog but...well I'm wondering if I should approve these comments or delete them. Never approve them. They are either a bot, or people in 3rd world countries commenting to get backlinks for someone else's site. Also, if you're using wordpress install Akismet, it should help catch most of those comment spam replies. Here's one of my worst sites: 
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Nov 17, 2011 00:29
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automatic posted:Well we are coming up on that time of year again. Update and pimp your links as much as possible over the next 3 months, most affiliate marketers selling retail poo poo do a great deal of their business in the next couple of months. Personally I make something like 50 percent of my income in Nov/Dec/Jan. Just made my first sale of the holiday season on Amazon's affiliate program for one "XtremeGUARD© Velocity Micro CRUZ Reader 7" Screen Protector (Ultra CLEAR)". Made a cool 40 cents on that one 
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Nov 17, 2011 21:24
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So my Black Friday blog did way better than last year. I ranked #1 for my specific niche. In the 2 weeks leading to Black Friday.   Also add an additional $500 from CPA offers and $300 from Amazon sales. I had to buy a new VPS service because my shared hosting had 100% CPU usage for 24 hours and had collapsed from increased traffic. A great success but probably not something I could replicate monthly. Hopefully my Super Bowl blog can get 1/4 of the same results.
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Nov 28, 2011 23:22
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The Stu posted:Do you focus on adsense or is the money from adsense just that much better than Amazon? I would have thought that affiliate links would be the way to go for something like black friday. Adsense was just my go-to income earner, Amazon and CPA offers were added as an after-thought. Next year I will probably try and incorporate some more Amazon posts though. A single post on the site about a TV deal netted me about 50 sales in that 2 week period with banners scooping up the extra 31 sales.
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Nov 29, 2011 22:02
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Well, ripping a DVD in and of itself is not illegal, but breaking encryption to do so is. As long as your emphasis is on the ripping and/or compressing of the discs and not the methods of breaking encryption you should be fine. If not, there are a metric ton of CPA offers your can do for DVD ripping programs. DVD ripping is a hugely competitive niche though.
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Dec 14, 2011 07:40
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AreYouStillThere posted:For some reason I can't get AdSense to work on my site. I posted a couple banners on Saturday, and today they're still not showing up. Could anyone take a look and see what I'm doing wrong? They're just showing up as grey boxes. Everything looks good here  Are you using Adblock or Noscript? Did you try opening in another browser or private/incognito mode?
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Dec 15, 2011 02:42
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Heatmap Theme is awesome, and a bunch of the themes from https://www.newwpthemes.com have built in ad management. I still use Easy Adsense as well. It may not be the most advanced adsense plugin, but it's super easy to use, automatically inserts ads w/ wordwrap into posts and does widgets too. It will also enforce Google's 3 ad limit for you. Just make sure you uncheck the box to divert a % of impressions to the developer.
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Dec 16, 2011 16:31
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I'm still wondering why the thread wasn't titled "I got 99 visits but a click ain't one"
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Dec 20, 2011 16:59
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cartooncart posted:Anyone else note a drastic change in traffic during the holidays? I've dropped down 50%! Like, over Christmas? Most people aren't on their computers when visiting friends and family.
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Dec 26, 2011 19:21
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Moniker posted:Would anyone be willing to look at http://toptensmartestdogs.com and see if they see any type of ad placement that violates the TOS for Adsense? I think I only have three per page, if that, but are affiliate links added into that mix? Or are those not included? Google's TOS states no more than 3 Adsense ad banners/boxes and 3 Adsense link units. In fact, Google's adsense javascript won't even allow more than 3 to be shown. You can have as many other affiliates on your page as you want, however having too many may affect your Google rankings. Your site is fine, you just don't want the number of ads to outweigh the amount of content. Your Adsense ad colors don't match though, you may want to fix that.
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Jan 6, 2012 00:08
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Moniker posted:Yeah I'm fixing that right now. Jumping between computers is so annoying. I created them quickly and did not do a good job. I'll update the colors and hope for the best. I'm nervous that I'm gonna make money then get banned. Most people getting banned for adsense get banned for click fraud, not for simple TOS violations. I wouldn't stress too much about it.
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Jan 6, 2012 00:12
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Kolta posted:I been reading the thread and wanted to share a blog that me and a few others work on from time to time. http://www.revlim.it It's an automotive blog running off of tumblr. If it wasn't for the follow and join button on the top right corner, you'd never guess it was a tumblr blog. It's certain that as the site increases in traffic, the more I will be willing to transfer to a hosted server. Make your ads blend in with your site more, color wise and I'm sure you'll not only get more clicks, it'll be more pleasing to your readers.. The black box with white text stick out like a sore thumb Moniker posted:Question, You can, but google will rank the root URL a lot easier than the subfolder.
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Jan 12, 2012 03:38
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Raskolnikov2089 posted:Anyone have any good premium themes to suggest? I like Heatmap a lot, but don't quite want to shell out $70 until I'm sure I'll be doing this more. I really like http://www.newwpthemes.com and http://www.web2feel.com. Both those sites' themes are 100% free. You can pay $20 if you want to remove the very minor footer links on some of them.
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Jan 16, 2012 19:59
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Wagoneer posted:Does anyone have any tips about starting a small niche forum? Are these doomed to fail by default? My niche is completely untapped in this area (no forums exist for it yet); but if it is a laughable endeavor I won't waste my time. Niche forum can be very profitable (I'm pretty sure someone has posted about them in this or the old thread), but your main issue is going to be getting members to join and start posting. You won't get very much revenue unless you have a solid community and lots of content, but you won't get many new members to join if your forum is a ghost town.
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Jan 29, 2012 03:15
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Moniker posted:I started a blog about super bowl commercials in hopes that by this time next year I'll have it ranked. I have a site about super bowl commercials too, I'm looking forward to taking you down punk (good luck)
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Feb 22, 2012 17:45
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Moniker posted:Aw man https://www.superbowlads.org It's an autoblog. All it does is scrape youtube for specific keywords and posts the video and comments on the site. I set it up the day before the 2010 Superbowl and haven't touched it since. It's pretty rough and it ranks for some real specific keywords, but it's not on the first page for "super bowl commercials" or anything. I'm sure if I had any original content on there I could do better but I just haven't put any work into it in the last 2 years. Right now it just makes me a quick hundred or two during the super bowl and week after then lays dormant the rest of the year.
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Feb 22, 2012 20:25
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Dog Blogs Man posted:I may as well spam a link to my sites here. I've see this template around quite a bit, do you know what the name of it is?
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Feb 25, 2012 08:27
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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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Mar 10, 2012 03:39
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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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Mar 10, 2012 03:54
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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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Mar 26, 2012 20:41
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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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May 6, 2012 01:24
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surf rock posted:I just started a political blog. I figure that the subject is so overcrowded that there's probably no realistic way to ever monetize it, is that correct? I've started it out of personal interest (it's my passion and future career), so I won't be devastated if that's the case. Thanks! You've got every major news network pouring millions of dollars into creating special political blogs/sections of their site this year, so yes, competition is pretty stiff. That being said, writing for fun never seems like it's a grind unlike if you're strictly writing to generate traffic so keep doing it!
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.com, .net and maybe .org. .us if i'm really desperate. Any other extensions are a waste of time, but Google doesn't seem to care all that much. Unless you're using .info, .ws or .cn. Don't ever use those extensions for a real website, ever.
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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 Super quick ideas:
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Aug 17, 2012 20:06
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Got another free $100 Adsense coupon. Expires Sept. 30th, new accounts only.code:
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Anyone doing halloween blogs? A good idea popped into my head the other day and I'm building a blog for it right now but I fear I may be too late to build any kind of traffic. Next year the site won't be relevant either.
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Oct 5, 2012 18:19
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Tars Tarkas posted: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 can get into the default subreddits then you may do fine. There's tons of people reading /r/pics and /r/funny who don't run adblock, but getting anything of value into those subs is tough.
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therealjon_ posted:Are there any plugins or modifications I should make to my Wordpress posts to make them not look like this in Facebook? I'm prefer to have my featured image and a quick description show up like most things I like, but my page ends up looking like poo poo in FB. Are you sharing links manually? I use http://twitterfeed.com/ and it's pretty nice, it watches your RSS feed and updates every x hours. It'll put your link in a bit.ly shortener, pull a title and first bit of content from your post and push it out to Facebook and Twitter. It'll even grab the first image too. Here's an example from one of my regular blogs (non monetized) 
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Oct 22, 2012 04:31
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jabro posted:Its not Eastvale, its Mira Loma. It was Mira Loma and Corona, but we've been a city for almost 3 whole years now!
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Zero Gravitas posted:Honestly all I would say is that you'd probably do well with getting a theme that allows for a magazine-like format. Agreed, it seems like you some really nice content but it's hard to explore it all. If I have to go to page 2 it's no good.
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Oct 25, 2012 16:42
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Man-Thing posted:There is no signup, most of our posts are by "Anonymous <my company> User", which is why the name is entered. This isn't a WordPress site, it's all custom in-house code. Do your forum profile pages allow links? A lot of times if you see a fake registration with garbage postings but no links in the post, then you can look at their profile and see if there are any links there. Many forums will ban posting links for newbies but allow profile data have "homepage" urls. It's all to gather backlinks. I paid for some "greyhat" backlink service years ago and part of it was X number of forum profile backlinks. Also, much of this is by human, not bot. It's just farmed out via mechanical turk or whatever so captchas won't work. Remove the ability for your members to have URLs in their profile and it'll stop after a while. If that's NOT the case then I don't know the method, but I guarantee it's related to backlinks.
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gogogo My blog is much slower than last year for some reason but still doing quite well. I'm placed #2 for my keywords and my CTR is over 10% 
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Nov 21, 2012 09:07
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I have a couple but they don't get much traffic anymore.
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metztli posted:I have a few questions about setting up multiple different blogs - I suddenly have a stupid amount of time on my hands and want to try this. You got a lot of different questions here mixed in, so I'll do my best to answer with what I know. Others can chime in if I'm wrong. Subdomains: Don't bother. Technically, you can rank just as well on a subdomain as you can on a stand-alone domain, but you're putting yourself at a disadvantage right off the bat. If you want to start a new blog, buy a descriptive domain for it. If you want to write about best aftershave creams, what would be better? AftershaveCreamReviews.com or aftershave.DansSite.com? Domains are relatively cheap, around $9/yr, so spending $90 a year on having 10 independent sites is an investment. Just think of this; name a popular site that's hosted on a subdomain instead of a single domain. With the exception of About.com, custom blogging platforms like blogger.com and Tumblr and massive sites like Yahoo.com and Google.com, I really don't know any that does that. Adsense: You have a single Adsense account and all your sites' ads get pulled from there. Do no make a new Adsense account for every site. Adsense lets you setup "custom channels" to segregate your sites into specific groups and you can modify each ad to change the color, font and size and show either text or images. You don't seem to have a great grasp on how adsense works. Adsense will scan your site's content and show relevant ads that match your site. They will also poll your visitor's cookies and show tailored ads based on past browsing. This works on a page-by-page basis, so if on one page on your blog you're writing about toothpaste you'll get toothpaste ads, and if the next one is about mouthwash you'll get mouthwash ads. It's completely automated, there's very little in the way of manual targeting. You're only real options are to show text ads, image ads, or both. Wordpress installs: Having multiple blogs on the same host is fine. I have about 20 blogs on a hostgator account and the vast, vast majority of blogs are hosted on shared accounts. You're fine. Cross-linking: Linking to your blogs is fine, but make sure you link to other blogs and most importantly, get them to link to you.
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metztli posted:Thanks for the response - it's extremely helpful! I think a couple of my questions weren't written properly so I will try to rephrase and separate them out: Short answer: no. Last year Google flipped how it ranks a subdomain, from an external link to an internal link. Before, Google would treat a subdomain as a whole entity, now it just treats it as another section of your site. quote:Most people think of example.com and https://www.example.com as the same site these days, so we're changing it such that now, if you add either example.com or https://www.example.com as a site, links from both the www and non-www versions of the domain will be categorized as internal links. We've also extended this idea to include other subdomains, since many people who own a domain also own its subdomains-so links from cats.example.com or pets.example.com will also be categorized as internal links for https://www.example.com. In other words, your site' SEO will depends on your base url more than ever. Your subdomains will serve as narrow content sections for your base url and your SEO will rise and fall based on the content on the base url more than on the subdomains. Subdomains work well when you have multiple pages that are all related. Let's say you have a blog about oral care at betterteeth.com. You can start a few new blogs that are tailored to aspects of better teeth, such as toothpaste.betterteeth.com and mouthwash.betterteeth.com. This is all to grow better teeth.com, but it's very unlikely that your toothpaste blog will outrank your main url. In effect, you're building multiple blogs to rise up 1 site which is fine if that's your goal, but if you stare dogcollars.betterteeth.com that subdomain won't rank and will infact hurt your base url's rankings. Don't forget that Google has sitelink in their search engines now:  The most likely outcome of subdomains is that your site will end up in the sitelinks listing, not as a separate entry. All the sitelinks in the above image are on separate subdomains and used to be separate search rankings, now they've been consolidated into one ranking. So really, subdomains purpose, in Google's eyes, are to target similar content. If these blogs are going to be different, then subdomains will make a mess of what Google thinks your content is. One last thought; If you need to have an AMAZING domain name to get into a particular blogging niche, that niche is already too crowded (please don't tell me you're writing a video game blog). More reading: http://www.webseoanalytics.com/blog/multiple-domains-vs-subdomains-vs-folders-in-seo/ FCKGW fucked around with this message at 22:44 on Dec 3, 2012 |
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Sperg Victorious posted:Do you guys have any preferred Amazon Affiliate plugins for Wordpress? I like Amazon product-in-a-post plugin. I don't use the whole post/review feature, just the shortcode links. I think the default template creates the most appealing link code of the ones I've tried. Here's an example of a page I used it on.
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Let us know how it goes!
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Zero Gravitas posted:Just so you know, right now that page is a clusterfuck of: Thanks for the heads up, Amazon's API was down for a few hours this morning. Nothing wrong on my end.
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My Black Friday blog didn't do quite as well as last year, but it still earned more in the single week than all my other blogs did the the months prior. Traffic  Earnings  I also earned an additional $150 from Amazon and ~$20 from CPA offers. Last year I had $2200 from Adsense, $500 from CPA and $300 from Amazon. Also my traffic this year was just over 50k visitors that week versus 80k the time before. CTR was crazy high though which helped to offset the earnings versus lost traffic. I think my from in traffic/earnings was from my site dropping from Yahoo/Bing. My site was not listed at all in Bing's results and I'm not sure why. Nothing has changed from this year and last year. They finally got around to re-crawling my site last week and I'm still not in their results. One good note is that About.com wrote 2 or 3 articles about my website so that should be a huge boost in authority in the rankings. On Thanksgiving and Black Friday I was listed higher than the retailer I was writing about so traffic had a good spike.
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