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I can’t tell you how many times I preach not to get into the Make Money Online niche because more than likely you won’t make a lot of money. Plus, we know the Make Money Online niche is oversaturated… a LOT!
But if you already a site dedicated to it, built up the stats for your site and still manage to not make any money, well, you don’t need to start a brand new site, just convert it to a generic blog. And believe me, a majority of MMO blogs should do this and I will guarantee that you make more money simply by blogging.
Yes, simply by blogging. And I know what you’re thinking, “well, everyone comes to my site because they are expecting tips on how to make money. Plus, I spent so much time on this blog!”
Now, if you have a successful MMO blog, I wouldn’t suggest switching anything. For instance, if you make at least a few hundred dollars a month, have at least a few hundred subscribers, etc then you’re probably on the right path. If you do not , I would suggest switching that blog to a generic blog where you will and can blog about anything and everything. Trust me, I know a few people who have done it and now they make $x,xxx by doing so.
Here’s what you should do (assuming your blog is indexed in search engines, you have a bunch of backlinks to your site and you’re willing to take this step in converting your MMO blog):
It seems that people are contacting me more and more to become a sponsor in their upcoming contests. Now, I don’t mind sponsoring an ad spot (on one of my many blogs), text link, and a custom made banner design or whatever, but more and more people are asking and I only have a certain amount I can give away. So, I’m going to pick and choose who I sponsor.
Below are some reasons why I won’t sponsor your contest:
1. Not asking me personally and sending me a generic spam-type message. Again, I’m getting more and more requests to sponsor people’s contests so if you’re not going to even address me then you probably won’t even get a response back.
Not to sound like an ass or anything but you came to me to get a sponsor for your contest not the other way around. And if you look at any posts, it says my name right there. So when I receive a message like:
“To whom it may concern (or hi):
My name is XYZ of this site. My site is growing very fast and receiving XXX amount of visitors daily.
I am looking for sponsors for my contest that would be willing to contribute XYZ prizes.
If you are interested, please reply to me before this particular date.
Best,
Their name”
90%-95% of the time this message is either a copy and paste method or a bot. If you were to take 2 seconds to replace “to whom it may concern (or hi)” to “Jay” then I might have fell for your trick.
Though, sometimes it’s even worse. There are people who put “Dear Webmaster or Blog Owner” and you obviously know what that answer is going to be.
If you have not entered my Market Leverage contest to win a Nintendo Wii , feel free to check out the contest post. Some say it’s hard to enter but I say it’s as easy as subscribing via e-mail or posting about it on your blog.
If you’re looking to get more RSS Feed e-mail subscribers , you may want to give some sort of incentive for people. I mean, unless you have incredible unique content then it should be easier. But sometimes even incredible unique content just isn’t enough.
Before you guys jump to conclusion, when I say “give an incentive” I don’t mean holding a contest and giving away prizes. We should all know that’s only a temporary method of getting e-mail subscribers because a bunch will just unsubscribe soon after the contest ends.
But again, if you have incredible unique content that blows readers’ minds away then I’m sure a majority of them will stay subscribed for quite sometime. Or you can give them additional incentives to stay subscribed. Keep reading…
Everyone has their own way of doing keyword research and we all know how much keyword research can make a difference with our SEO, so I figured I’d show you a little bit on how I do my own keyword research.
As a lot of you guys already know, I own quite a few sites and for some reason that list keeps getting longer and longer each week. I swear I’m buying a domain name every week but that’s mainly because if I get an idea or a great opportunity that I think will help me in the near future I’m going to run with it.
For instance, I would hate to second guess myself on something and beat myself up a short time later when someone else swoops in to steal my domain name and idea and make thousands off of it. I mean .COM domains only cost around $6.00 USD so you’re not wasting much.
Now this is kind of how I do my keyword research but it all depends on which site I’m trying to do it for. I’m just going to go over the basics so I can generalize it so any niche can do this.
Finding the trends:
Finding the most popular trends that’s going on now can drastically improve your traffic, for the short term as well as the long.
For example, when Iron Man the movie came out, everyone was interested in the Iron Man Spoiler especially because there was a scene at the very end of the credits. Personally, I’ve gotten thousands of search engine visitors from that keyword alone. Though, that was only temporary because everyone eventually found out what happened (the movie was extremely popular).
A few things you can use to look up are popular trends are Google Trends and Yahoo Buzz which one shows popular search terms per day and the other shows the top 10 searches by hour.
Finding the Keywords:
Once you find the hot trends that you would like to write and optimize with, you want to check the various keywords to work with. What I like to use is the SEObook Keyword Tools which is extremely helpful. Let’s stay with the Iron Man example for this one. If you type in “Iron Man” you’ll see an entire list of different variations of Iron Man keywords that are highly searched for (see screenshot below – you can click on it to make it bigger).
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:
