Archive for October, 2009
I’m sure a lot of people overlook this aspect but using Wordpress tags as keywords can take you to a place you’ve never been. Maybe not that drastic but it can definitely increase your search engine traffic as well as increase your earnings if you do it right.
What Are Wordpress Tags?
I have to explain this because I’m going to assume not everyone who uses Wordpress uses the post tags feature. I mean, when I first started using Wordpress, it took me a while to figure everything out. Plus, I didn’t think it would really help me as much as it did.
But if you’re writing up a post, you have a “post tags” feature on the right hand side (check out the screenshot below).
Basically, I try to put as many keywords, especially longtail keywords, within the post tags. And that’s what you should do too. Tags are essentially keywords for each page/post you create.
How Can Post Tags Increase Traffic?
The funny thing is search engines love tag pages. If you’re using Wordpress, each “tag” (which should also be one of your keywords) is its own individual page. So, let’s say you have 100 tags within your Wordpress blog, that means you have 100 pages potentially getting picked up by search engines.
And get this, a lot of my tag pages tend to get ranked higher than the actual post.
Let’s give an example, shall we?
You guys already know I have multiple blogs including iBlogtoBlog.com. Well, check out one of the posts in which I wrote about an online game and some cheats.
First, let’s check out how popular this keyword is by doing our keyword research. As you can see in the graph below of Google Trends, the straight line going up means a lot of people are searching for this term.
Now, if you simply search the term in Google, you’ll see my tag page and not the actual post as the first result (see screenshot below).
So, today if you visited this internet entrepreneur and you checked out my little Feedburner chicklet which displays my feed count, you would have saw the little image below:
Of course, this is the closest you can get to 1,000 without actually getting to that number. As you guys are well aware, feed counts fluctuate on a daily basis so I’m pretty sure tomorrow it will drop down to 970 or so. But I’m getting a little excited simply because once I officially hit that 1,000 mark, there are a few things that are going down.
And yes, that includes having a contest to celebrate. I already know what kind of contest it will be and I’m hoping it does not disappoint. But I’m also still looking for sponsors so if you are interested in contributing anything, that would definitely be appreciated!
There are a few other things I’m probably going to be changing once I officially hit the 1,000 subscriber mark.
Easy Access to Subscribe – I should have done this a long while ago but if you look at DatMoney, there’s really no easy access for new visitors to subscriber. And by that, I mean simply typing in your e-mail address on the sidebar or something equivalent.
If you guys came to DatMoney (or most of my sites for that matter) sometime last night, you would have noticed that it was down for about an hour or two. It was down sometime around 11pm EST but don’t worry, my servers didn’t crash or anything but rather my hosting company was moving all shared and VPS servers to a new datacenter. And yes, I’m currently on a shared server.
The Bad Part of Shared Hosting
There are a few bad parts about having shared hosting but one of them is the fact that you have no control on whether your server is going to go down for some maintenance, or in my case, servers getting moved to a new datacenter. Of course, there’s really no way of anticipating this and in the long run, you lose money from it.
When I say “you lose money from it” I mean you’re not earning revenue because obviously your site is down. So, if you have PPC or CPM ads on your site then you’re not going to be earning anything in that short time your site is down.
Are you looking for the best CPM ad networks out there? Well, let me ask you this: do you get a lot of traffic and page impressions to your site but a low click through rate? Then I’m sure your Google Adsense earnings isn’t as good as it should be, huh? Well, CPM (cost per 1,000 impressions) is a good way to go to help monetize your site even further.
A lot of people seem to mention they get a lot of traffic from search engines but yet, their Google Adsense earnings is pretty low. That either means the niche/topic have low paying keywords or the ads aren’t in good placement and they have low click through rates. In some occasions, it could be both. Well, CPM networks pay you by the impressions rather than the actual clicks. So, if you’re looking for an added way to monetize your site, CPM networks are the way to go.
Well, let’s get into some of the best CPM ad networks that I have seen, heard of and worked with. (This list is in no particular order.)
There seems to be people that just comment to get on my top commentators list, well, don’t spam or else I will delete your comments and mark them as spam. And in the long run, you’ll probably be marked as spam in the akismet system so whoever has that plugin installed, your comments will end up in the spam filter on every site you comment on.
I know all the tricks and tactics of commenting to get backlinks and get on top commentators lists and I let a lot of things slide here but people seem to continue to take advantage of it. If you don’t have anything useful to add as a comment, you simply don’t need to. I mean, most readers and subscribers don’t even comment to begin with.
But again, I know a lot of people comment a lot just to get on the top commentators list. So, what happens if I remove that from my site? Will most of you guys just stop commenting?
Anyways, here are a few things that people do as comments that will probably get deleted and marked as spam:
Copying and Pasting My Own Text As a Comment - How thoughtful of a comment is that? Really? If you just copy and paste text from my own post as your entire comment or for most of your comment, your comment is worthless.
Generic Phrases - A lot of people just use generic phrase like “Great Post!” and “Thanks for sharing this info to all your readers!” Those are just a few comments that people tend to say just to get a comment in. Those generic comments doesn’t help anyone and I’ve seen them way too many times as spam.
Matter of fact, I bet someone will leave a comment like “this is a really nice post! Thanks for sharing!” on this particular post. I mean, people already leave those posts on my free Blogger template posts.
“Insert Here” Type Text - A lot of people have generic lines they want to say and they try to trick people by including a sentence or their title within that generic line. Well, I let a lot of these things slide by but these are the same people who do everything that forces me to write this post.
An example of this would be some that says “This is a good post related to I Will Delete Your Comments And Mark It as Spam. It is really nice info and good article.”
So, if you didn’t notice, I simply had a generic line in which I could insert the title or topic of the post just so it might seem less spammy. Well, guess again, that’s still spamming.
I’m sure there are other ways of spamming my comments that I don’t appreciate but those are the few that I literally just seen in my comments. If you guys continue to do it, its not very hard to remove you from the top commentators list. Don’t get me wrong, I appreciate all the thoughtful comments but I really hate spam.
And guess what? Everything I mentioned above is spamming. I let things slide before but I’m going to be a little stricter about it.
Thanks!
