The other day I wrote “Search Engine Traffic = More Money and More RSS Subscribers” but I only mentioned how search engine traffic can increase RSS Feed subscribers (even though some people were simply distracted by the pics of Beyonce), well, let me write about the making more money part of it.
Before I continue with how search engine traffic can make you more money, for the record, after I wrote the first post about how search engine traffic can help gain more RSS Feed subscribers, I implemented that strategy on a few posts with popular keywords and I have gained about 35 e-mail subscribers excluding ones counted for my current Market Leverage Nintendo Wii contest .
Honestly, I think most of this stuff is self-explanatory but if there are a lot of people who still have no idea what RSS Feeds are then there must be a lot of people who have no idea that search engine traffic is what helps bloggers make money.
First, let’s start off with Google Adsense. I think a majority of bloggers rely on Adsense ads to make money from their blogs, yet, some of those same bloggers complain why no one clicks on their ads. Do you know why? It’s because those people do not get search engine traffic . Or at least not enough.
If you think about it, your fellow readers most likely aren’t the ones who will be clicking on those ads, it’s the people who end up on your site looking for something specific. The ones that were in search for something to begin with. Of course if they don’t find what they’re looking for, those ads are right there to entice them to continue their search without going through the search engine process all over again.
I continually see people questioning why they only make $0.02 a day from adsense but they supposedly get thousands of visitors a day. When people say stuff like that, more than likely they only know how to get traffic from social media sites like StumpleUpon, Digg, etc.
Guess what? People from social media sites don’t click on adsense ads . And if they do, more than likely they hate your site so much they’re trying to get you banned from Google.
That brings me to the next part; referred traffic isn’t too appealing to potential buyers for your site(s). If you intend on selling your blog/site/forum in the near future, make sure you have lots of search engine traffic. And the more you do, the more money you make, the more you can sell your blog at a higher price.
Most potential buyers want to do minimal work to make money with the sites they buy. For instance, if you need to submit your posts to social media and bookmarking sites every single day to keep your traffic up, more than likely you’re not making much from your site to begin with and more than likely you won’t get much for your site. I mean, buyers want that steady flowing traffic already coming in, and that’s where search engine traffic comes in.
The social media and bookmarking traffic will eventually die out.
Wouldn’t you rather have 1,000 search engine visitors in which some will click on your ads and make you money or have 1,000 StumbleUpon visitors who won’t click on your ads and probably get together to try to get you banned?
Exactly.
If you can manage to make a site, get a highly searched keyword or term, make a steady $20+ a day within a few weeks, you could sell the site for $x,xxx. And quite a few people are good at site flipping and can do this easily.
I’m already in the process of my site flipping. Check back and I’ll go into details on how it goes. Or feel free to subscribe to my RSS Feeds , or enter your e-mail below (and comment on my contest post) and you’ll be entered to win a Nintendo Wii .
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Thanks for sharing. Search engine optimization is indeed one of the most crucial areas in Internet marketing, it is a perfect bridge between technology and business.
You the man jay.
This post is spot on – search engine traffic is far more profitable than social traffic.
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Glad to see we are going to be reading more about site flipping. This is a topic of interest for me.
Glad to see we are going to be reading more about site flipping. This is a topic of interest for me.
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I do agree with your statement “People from social media sites don’t click on adsense ads. And if they do, more than likely they hate your site so much they’re trying to get you banned from Google”… Someone anonymously dropped a comment in my blog saying he will keep on clicking my ads so I will get banned in Google, then I was able to trace his site so I reported him to Google. Some people just keep pulling other people, you know.
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Jay, two of the links in this post have a problem. You have “/2008″ twice in the url.
Apart of that, what you are saying here is absolutely true. I run a blog about Tunisia, as a touristic destination and it’s the blog I get the most search engine traffic from. And guess what, it’s the blog that earns me the most Adsense revenue.
Trent – I’ll try to see what I can do with site flipping. Let me finish up on a few sites and sell them and I’ll report back. It may be a little bit though.
Hye Munar – Yeah, there are TONS of people from social media sites that absolutely HATE bloggers lol
O. Messaoud – Thanks for pointing that out, I’ll go fix it ASAP.
Jay
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Thanks for some great tips, and I’ll look forward to seeing how the site flipping goes.
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I agree that search engine traffic is the best as it is passive but it involves lots of research into keywords. Most bloggers do not have much success with it. That includes me.
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This is a nice post. Traffic from search engines will definitely be more inclined to click ads then regular visitors. People that visit the same site frequently tend to get ad blind after a while.
Jay, I know it will be tough. Or at least I hope it isn’t THAT easy, I need you to explain some of the struggles as well as the simplicity of it.
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Interesting concept you got there my friend.
I use keywords or tags on my posts.
Are you saying that we should add them to “Meta” tags as well or “Descritpion” of our blogs as well??
Is yes where would I insert them. I am assuming it would be in the header php Right??
Sorry for being so obtuse here but still learning lots and have a long way to go yet
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Sfphotoarts – I’m hoping I can get a sale off in a month but knowing my procrastinating it’ll be more like two.
Jeflin – It’s not too hard, you just need to know where to look and what you’re doing. Let me know if you need help and I’ll try to write a quick post.
Trent – What do you need explained and I’ll try to answer it the best I can.
Wendy – It all depends. You should always use meta tags and description but it depends if you’re optimizing for a post or just the blog in general.
If you’re optimizing for a post, make sure you include the keywords within the title and about three times within the post itself. It doesn’t hurt if you bold them as well.
Once you get the post down, hopefully you can get some links to that post and have people use your keywords as the anchor text.
Jay
Sometimes, it is really hard to get search engine traffic. I am not sure how to do it. I just happy when I get at most 100 visitors a day coming from search engines. Maybe I am not lucky enough. Do you think?
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Search engine traffic takes time, but worth it!
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Yep, for sure. Search engine traffic is the long-term traffic. When you talk about automated income, it’s really search engine traffic making you money without you having to do anything down the track.