In the last post of my adsense guide I listed 10 or so things that you should NOT do in a SEO campaing.
Just yesterday I ran in to this other blog listing 5 big seo donts here. Funny that the writer is actually listing things you should not do, but when you scroll to the bottom of the page you see… well check for yourself.
I have been talking about SEO for a long time now, and this is supposed to be an adsense guide. Ill try to list some real adsense tips in my next post :).
I’ve been around the block a few times. I’ve had successful campaigns, and a unsuccessful campaigns. Then I’ve had disasters. It’s one thing to screw up your own site, but managing to get your customers site from page 2 to page 6 due to bad seo is, well, really really bad. Luckily this has never happened to me, but some of my sites have been heavily penalized due to a bunch of bad ideas.
And Im not talking about black hat techniques here. Some might be borderline gray, but these are things most webmasters do in some scale. Sometimes you just over do them, and then you get whacked by Google Editors.
Developers of new engine say it offers a more comprehensive way to search the Internet. Cuil’s developers aimed to provide a more comprehensive search engine with more relevant results than existing search engines. Uniquely, it organizes web pages by content and displays relatively long entries and pictures for each result. It claims to have a larger index than any other search engine, with about 120 billion web pages. Cuil is managed and developed largely by former employees of Google.
The most common way to monetize your blog is by placing ads on it. Either through Google or other similar networks or simply by selling banner space.
The issue I’m going to address here is when to place ads on your blog. Many surfers feel that ads are an irritating factor when browsing the web. If you’re blog is relatively new and you have a lot of ads on your site, people might feel like you are here only for the money, not to blog. This might decrease their chances of subscribing to your RSS feed, link your blog or toss you that important digg. I believe that there is some point to all of this. Besides, when your site is new and generating less than a 50-100 visitors a day, you won’t be making much money anyways.
‘Warcraft’ Sequel Lets Gamers Play A Character Playing ‘Warcraft’. Funny, and also an interesting thought. We want more realistic virtual experiences and I guess it will eventually come down to this.
I bet I don’t have to explain what World of Warcraft is.
This guide will blow your mind. Well, it might. Do what I tell you (if you already haven’t) and I guarantee that your blogs traffic will increase. Not much in the first couple of weeks (your looking at some hundreds) but dramatically within the year.
First you will be looking at traffic from links, forums and social sites and if you are patient and ready to do some hard work, your organic traffic from Google will see a dramatic shift. Most blogs receive most of their traffic from social sites, but to get really impressive amounts of traffic, you are going to need organic (eg. search based) traffic from Google. Read on, I promise you will like what you see :)! Read the rest of this entry »
Okay, this is not a emo post where I whine about my love life (though I probably would have more to write about if I did). Lets get to the point.
Iv been running this blog for only a month or so, and Iv noticed, that if you want to be a popular blogger you definitely should avoid topics such as “AdSense guide” or “CTR” or well… any of the stuff I write about.
Writing about AdSense is in many ways, pretty much, like running a porn site. And not any porn site, but a teen porn site. There are millions of such site on the Internet, and 99% of them are there solely to make money. That’s how people see my blog!
The feedback from my readers has been mostly positive, and people who I meet on forums seem to like what they see, but its difficult to get accepted into any blog catalog, advertising program (except for AdSense) or social site. I guess all that the admins see is “AdSense-Pro”. Then they think “god, not again” and click the big button that says “DECLINE”
I regret a few things in the short history of my blog. First is the name, it’s lame and it really says spam all over. Second is still not being able to personalize my blog. I mean good god, I’m using the Wordpress default template *sigh*. And I still have no real info about the author, me. I used to think that I’m here to talk about AdSense, advertising and SEO but obviously that will only take me so far.
The lesson to be learned? Unless you are Oscar Wilde anyone can write what you write. To write a succesful blog, you have to make it personal!
I don’t even remember where I found out about these people, but they have a really good thing going on.
This post is only for you bloggers out there, other people don’t bother
Well, a few chaps/gals/guys/girls/boys/transsexuals (dunno really) by the nicknames of OddRachel, Bree623 and Glam (you should, by the way, check out Glams blog. My personal favorite when it comes to fashion blogs!) supposedly had a great idea on some dark stormy night. They decided to create a community for us bloggers to increase our traffic. Yay, that’s a new one! Well, this actually kinda is. Its nothing like Blog Catalog or Technorati. Instead its a forum, where bloggers can “trade” digs, stumbles, favs, comments, rss feeds and so on and so forth.
I love it for two reasons. First of all, there aren’t that many members yet, and it still absolutely works. Iv gotten hundreds of new visitors thanks to this forum.
Second of all (Im not sure if this is just me, but…) it seems to work only on quality content. For example I go to the Stumble exchange part of the forum and post my crappy link. No traffic.
I do this with a quality article the next day, and bam, I get 300 visitors. I’m not sure if this is intended, but its imho a really good thing :). I guess it has more to do with the way Digg and Stumble works. Firestorm forum just makes sure people really do see your page, then its up to the users to decide wheter its worth it.
Here is a third reason I like it (though this didn’t deserve to mentioned at first…) but its a good way to generate a lot of inbound links for your site. Google PR here I come!
Besides it seems like a funny community. So… I command you to join us here!
ps. sorry for ranting. I haven’t slept in a long long time.
We all do it. Link popularity is the single most important factor in any SEO campaign. Quite obviously without links there is no traffic. Links in the right place can bring you massive amounts of traffic on their own, for example in a popular blog or on the front page of Digg.
But even links that per se don’t bring you any traffic are useful. This is due to Google methods of raking pages. Every link from website A to website B counts as a “vote” for website B. If the link includes a certain keyword, your ranking with that specific keyword will go up. Due to this the Miserable Failure Google bomb was possible. The idea there was to spread thousands of links to G.W. Bush’s website. All the links contained the phrase “miserable failure”. Thus when you Googled “miserable failure” the first search result was G.W. Bush’s website. Google later altered their algorithm, but the idea is still the same. Read the rest of this entry »
Most webmasters and bloggers make money from their website through Google Adsense and I’ve noticed that not all of them include Adsense link units as part of their contextual monetization strategy.
In fact, now that I look back at my AdSense experiments, I don’t understand how I could start with something else and not link units - they’re so simple to add and integrate into your blog design, yet so effective that they’re bound to make any page with a decent content earn you some money!
What are Adsense Link Units?
Basically, link units are simply a collection of four to five links within a horizontal or vertical format. When clicked, each of these links will open up into a webpage that consists of nothing but Google ads.
This is due to Google methods of raking pages. Every link from website A to website B counts as a “vote” for website B. If the link includes a certain keyword, your ranking with that specific keyword will go up. Due to this the Miserable Failure Google bomb was possible. The idea there was to spread thousands of links to G.W. Bush’s website. All the links contained the phrase “miserable failure”. Thus when you Googled “miserable failure” the first search result was G.W. Bush’s website. Google later altered their algorithm, but the idea is still the same. 
