Archive for July, 2008
I used the different forms of “Youtube” such as Utube, Yotube, Yutube and Youtube as my examples for misspelled words. So, why in the hell am I misspelling these words? Well, the main reason is the fact that you can take advantage of the traffic it generates; particularly search engine traffic.
I know we should all be professional with grammar and punctuation when it comes to certain niches - particularly MMO, entrepreneur, blogging tips type of blogs - but once in a while a misspelled word (or words) can go a long way.
In my example with the “Utube, Yotube, Yutube and Youtude” words, many people spell these wrong when they’re searching for what they are really looking for. And I bet a majority of the times they don’t do it on purpose.
Now, I’m not saying Utube, Yotube, Yutube or Youtude are the only words that can generate traffic but if you look up potential traffic they can generate through search engines, you’d be amazed.
I took a quick screenshot of the estimated traffic from SEOTOOLS you could get from “yutube” as an example.
If you look, people could potentially gain up to 912 daily unique visitors. Now, it would require some knowledge in SEO but if you can manage to get yourself in the top 3 spots within that keyword rank, you’ll be all set. Of course, we are all aiming for that number 1 spot.
Now don’t go misspell every single word you can think of because more than likely your readers will get turned off on the fact that you’re writing is like a 5th grader. But if you do some keyword research, keep in mind misspelled words can help you as well.
Side note: I know the other day I wrote “Search Engine Traffic = More Money and More RSS Subscribers”, I’ll be writing the second part to that this week as well as revealing the new contest for the Nintendo Wii prize.
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I don’t want to say it’s unfortunate, but it’s pretty unfortunate. I hate deciding from two great prizes for the next contest that I will be hosting, sponsored by the one and only Market Leverage. I let you guys vote between the Nintendo Wii and iPod Touch and if I counted right (or wrong), the majority of the votes went in favor for the Nintendo Wii.
I know I originally favored the Wii before the voting begun but as time passed, I started to favor the iPod Touch a little bit. I mean, I was looking at specs for it and it’s a great device. I also had countless discussions with people on which was better and more helpful, etc. When it came down to it, from a professional standpoint of a webmaster and online entrepreneur, the iPod Touch was definitely the way to go.
But then it hit me, I can’t win my own contest so why does it matter? That’s why I left it up to you guys to vote because one of you guys will be the winner of this great prize. Well, let’s hope it’s one of my regular readers instead of a drive-by contestant.
I apologize for those iPod Touch voters, I was truly favoring that product. I know I can overturn the decision but I’m the type to let my readers speak, and if you speak enough or loud enough then you’ll be heard. And according to the votes, you have been heard so the Nintendo Wii will be the prize for my upcoming contest.
I haven’t decided how I’m going to run the contest just yet. The last couple of contests I ran was fairly easy. I did it that way because who likes to enter a contest that requires you to do so much, right? But I may consider doing something that will benefit the contestants as well as myself, and of course, our one and only sponsor, Market Leverage.
I like to come up with creative contests or at least something fun. If you guys have any ideas, feel free to toss out the ideas, maybe that will help me in deciding what the contest will be about or how I’m going to run it. Either way, I’ll make up my mind this week so feel free to check back or just subscribe to my RSS Feeds. Who knows, maybe I’ll make that as a requirement.
(And look out all Market Leverage sponsored contest blogs, I’ll be entering ALL of them since I can’t enter my own!)
Credit SI.com for Beyonce Pic
I used to try to build a readership from social networking but did you know it could be better through search engine traffic? Matter of fact, search engine traffic not only can increase your readership with RSS Feeds but it can equal more money as well too!
Let’s start off on how search engine traffic can increase your RSS Feed subscribers and build your readership. When people use search engines, their primary focus is looking for a specific item/topic/product/information, etc, right? Well, when they find that information from your site, it’s your job to keep them there and get them as a subscriber.
You just need to know how to do it right.
See, first impression is everything to a search engine visitor because they have an unbiased opinion on your site, especially if it’s a MMO blog or something that most people bloggers despise. I mean, they landed on your page for a reason, you know?
Now, it’s your job to entice them to subscribe. And honestly, those buttons and lines saying “please subscribe here if you like this article” is fine and dandy but a search engine visitor probably wouldn’t subscribe on their first visit just based on that. I mean, would you?
Exactly.
So, when I say to entice them, you want to let them know there are going to be additional posts that will fit their needs and if they don’t want to miss it, they should subscribe. An example, you can do a ‘post series’ like a lot of bloggers do so if they liked your first post series entry, they’ll almost be forced to check back. I mean, you left them with a cliffhanger and they need to know the ending!
Another example: Say you own a celebrity photo blog, you can always write “subscribe here as I’ll be adding additional pictures of Beyonce nude here.” Well, maybe not of Beyonce nude but just additional pictures (now you get the Beyonce pic reference, right? You can see additional pictures of Beyonce below)… just make sure you actually update with more pictures or you’ll possibly have people unsubscribing like they just lost in your blog contest.
For quite sometime, this blog has been labeled a MMO (Make Money Online) blog and/or a Blogging Tips blog. I don’t mind either or but I’m actually considering changing the niche slightly. I may consider titling it more of an Entrepreneur blog.
I have been thinking about this for quite sometime now. I don’t want visitors to come here and their first reaction is “oh my god, not another MMO freakin’ blog!” I mean, people have turned the MMO niche into crap that I shouldn’t even be labeled under it anymore. Who wants to be labeled in the same niche as all these fakes or don’t earn a dime online? Or all these people who have no idea what they’re doing to make money online but they still manage to start a MMO blog.
Well, not me.
If you look at all these successful blogs like Tylercruz.com, Theuniversitykid.com, Johncow.com, etc, they’re more of entrepreneur types rather than MMO. I mean, none of them really claim themselves as MMO niche blogs but rather entrepreneurs doing than thang to make money on the internet.
design logos and banners, I make money blogging and I try to find unique ways of making money online. Now, I consider myself an entrepreneur because I am making money online in different ways. I’m not even close with the big boys so I’m not going to act like I am.
Basically, I’m starting to dislike MMO blogs more and more. And I think I have that same feeling like everyone else when I stumble across a MMO blog and the owner of it is clueless and basically a fake. We all see that; bloggers start a MMO blog, read from a more successful MMO blog and then write in their own words basically what someone else said.
A few instances: One blogger I saw wrote an article on how to get RSS Feed subscribers and increase readership… but yet, they had like 24 subscribers. Now, if you can’t follow your own tips on how to increase your RSS Feed subscribers, who in the right mind would follow those tips?
Next instance, I saw a blogger constantly write “how to get tons of traffic… blah, blah, blah” but when I checked their stats, they struggle to get daily visitors. I guess in their eyes, 50-70 visitors daily is getting “tons of traffic.”
Lastly, and this must be the best one of all – the bloggers who write posts like “make money doing this and that.” The funniest part is when you read their monthly income reports, it totals $23.74. Yup, they made tons of money doing this and that. Honestly, I think I know some bums who beg for change who make more than that.
Sorry, I went on a mini-rant, but what I’m trying to say is I’m going to probably change so this blog is labeled more of an entrepreneur blog. I’m not going to change what I write about, how I help people, well, nothings really going to change except for the label of this blog.
I just figured I’d let you guys all know!
I know we all need web hosting if we’re planning on taking this webmaster stuff seriously, so of course, you need to find out which hosting server is best for you, right? Well, I stumbled across this web hosting reviews site that breaks down almost every hosting company you can think of.
The interesting part of this site is the fact that all users have the ability to post their own opinion on different hosting servers. They have a rating system on a 1 to 5 scale on various criteria’s which range anywhere from user-friendliness, quality, price to tech support.
I was pretty impressed with the site because you would think almost every review is bad or almost every review is good but it’s a big mix. And I decided to go under the “Best Blog Hosting” tab to see which hosting server and it was BlueHost.
To all the BlueHost users, don’t give your hopes up! It only got a mediocre 3.2 stars out of 5. Matter of fact, a lot of reviews trashed it especially for the tech and customer service.
Ouch!
Of course I was curious what they said on my hosting, Lunarpages, it seemed just about the same as BlueHost. That just tells me not everyone will be happy with their hosting.
Webhostinggeeks.com breaks down every aspect that I could have ever thought of about hosting and that includes important web hosting articles , domain stuff, best web hosting and they even break down the different types of sites that the best hosting is for.
For example, if you run a forum they have the best hosting listed specifically for that. If you’re looking to blog they have the best hosting listed for that. And you see how the pattern goes.
And for all those people who plan on running an adult website, blog, forum or whatever, you have to keep in mind that not all hosting companies support that. But don’t worry, they also have links to adult web hosting sites so you can pick.
Personally, I’m not going to rate any hosting on the site but it was definitely an interesting read to see what people have to say about my own hosting. You guys should check it out and possibly leave your feedback if you want to!
