Browsing Category: "Blogging for Traffic"
If you don’t link to other bloggers’ post, well, you’re selfish. Lol but seriously, if you do, you’ll help your fellow bloggers out and networking is always good; but more importantly so is the traffic you get while you’re linking to them.
As a lot of you guys know, I’ve been trying to do a weekly roundup to post links on interesting articles I have stumbled across through the blogosphere. I did this to help gain exposure to fellow bloggers, hopefully they’re notice and realize I’m trying to network and help them out with the intent they might return the favor one day and of course, it gives some pretty decent traffic on top of that!
You get traffic from linking to their posts?
If you guys didn’t know that, you’re definitely missing out. I decided to start the weekly roundup as a mini experiment on how much traffic I can get from simply linking to other blog posts.
The stats aren’t as accurate as I’d like but it’s more of an estimate anyways. Since I started doing the weekly roundups, I’ve gotten a little more than 400 visitors from the blogs that I have linked to.
You’re probably asking how? And if you’re not, I’m going to tell you anyways. Well, it’s simple. You want to link to various blogs that has the pingbacks enabled on their comments. Once it is on there, anyone else commenting thereafter will see the pingback with a quick summary of your post and as the stats show, there are people interested enough to check it out.
Again, the stats are just an estimate, especially the fact that I only had three Weekly Roundups prior to yesterdays. I also figured I’d implement this strategy on another blog which is fairly new and doesn’t get too much traffic. And I linked to one pretty popular blog and in less than a few hours, I ended up getting 30+ visitors from that one site.
Here some quick tips that may help if you’re considering this method:
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.
Google updated its pagerank and all I have to say is: Google Pagerank is just a number, who cares? I’ve been preaching that for a while because it won’t stop traffic from coming to your site, you’ll still be listed in search engines and if you’re good enough at SEO, then you should have no problem.
For instance, a friend of mine recently got knocked down to a PR0 and you would think it affected his search engine traffic but nope, it didn’t. He still gets thousands of uniques each day.
So, like I said, Google Pagerank is just a number, who cares?
I checked and it looks like a couple of my sites got knocked down from PR4 to PR3 – including DatMoney.com – but a few of my newer blogs got PR2 from PR0. But when it came down to it, none of my search engine traffic got affected by this update either.
What I’m trying to say is, don’t rely on Pagerank so much because it’s not that important. I know a bunch of people who has PR5’s but they barely get search engine traffic. On the other hand, I know people who have no pagerank at all that gets thousands of search engine traffic still… so I guess when it comes down to it, if you know SEO then you’re all set.
And if you don’t, pagerank or no pagerank, it’s not going to help you either way.
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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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.
