It seems about time to do a monthly update regarding this blog. Even though it is only a month old now, it is doing well with a PR0 ranking. What this means is that Google has thought it worthy enough to rank immediately without throwing it in the Sandbox. I attribute this success due to the fact that I submitted ten to fifteen original articles to GoArticles with backlinks for the site. Because GoArticles offers a PR3 text anchor link, this can be extremely valuable, especially when you are trying to get your site indexed.
Just because it is ranked doesn't mean that Google decided to pull it out of the sandbox. I am fairly sure this blog is halfway in still because of the high amount of content and low search traffic coming in. Of coarse, I have to be honest that building high quality anchor text backlinks for this blog has not been my first priority. I'm currently managing several websites and until I can get some help doing some of my off-site SEO work, I'll continue to spread myself thin for a while.
Keep in mind that if you want to be successful in receiving traffic to your website, you should be spending about 20% of your time writing new articles, link bait posts and quality content and the other 80% of your time should be spent networking and trying to work out link exchanges, submitting articles to directories to score backlinks, posting comments on do-follow blogs and submitting your articles to the social bookmarking sites (I like to stick to the ones that offer do-follow bookmarks however Digg and StumbleUpon I usually make an exception for because it's possible to blow up from social traffic with those two websites).
It is funny how people react to a new blog, especially one that focuses on a niche that they are currently competing in. Everyone has their own opinion regarding how to do this niche right. I was criticized a few weeks ago by a lady that obviously was involved in the niche somehow, the bottom line is that if she is reading this right now, all I would say is that constructive criticism is appreciated and if you don't like this blog then you don't have to visit or comment for that matter lol...
Jan. Statistics - Blog Basics for Beginners :
This blog received a total of 249 Unique visitors last month. I can't remember if statcounter had a full month of tracking or not, but it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that 249 visitors would be a nice number to receive in an hour but definitely not in a month!
The reason this blog didn't receive that many visitors last month was due to several factors :
1.) Google Sandbox
2.) Poor job creating quality anchor text backlinks
Thats alright because I plan on putting in some major off site SEO work this month.
The following is the information that Alexa is currently providing from the site :
Yesterday 1 wk. Avg. 3 mos.
N/A* 0.00013% 0.00004%
As you can see there has been a slight improvement as the weekly average is roughly triple what the 3 month average is currently stating. Still, nothing from nothing doesn't leave much anyways.. Keep in mind, this is a competitive niche!
It's best to not try and make the make money online niche your major breadwinner or at least have a few different niches running at the same time.
It will be alot easier to see immediate results if you focus on a buyers niche rather than a "browser's" niche. You need to find laser targeted keywords and go after them, thats when you will start seeing Adsense revenue and affiliate sales.
It's my opinion that Blog Basics for Beginners has some very helpful content at this point. Because this blog has so much content and not enough backlinks, I will probably be taking a break from creating new articles or definitely slow down from the pace I was writing at before.
This will give me more time to launch several new niche websites I'm currently working on. However, if you are a subscriber I'd hope that you don't mind sticking around because I have quite article subjects that I will be exploring in the upcoming weeks.
If you like this blog and the content that's provided, please go ahead and drop me a comment, it might give me a little more incentive to speed up my progress with the articles that are being provided.
Saturday, February 7, 2009
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
The Google Phenomenon
It was about ten years ago when the internet was really starting to take off, new companies were springing up left and right creating new technologies that our great grandfathers would have never believed possible…
This little company came along and its name was Google, at that time Netscape was the big dog on the block and I think Alta Vista may have been around too but that part is slightly hazy… Microsoft’s operating system was functional but not graphically pleasant and people were just starting to really get the hang of the internet.
Nowadays unless you know a few google tips and tricks you are going to have a very hard time getting to the top of the search engine rankings. Does anyone ever stop and ponder what an odd relationship an internet marketer has with the company. They create content and if Google deems them fit they become indexed and steadily climb the search engine ranking system until someday if they are really lucky, they will make it to the first page for their keyword term.
Then they were flooded with traffic because they applied they’re google tips and tricks expertly… They had something called Google Adsense all over their pages and some of the people that showed up looking for info decided to click on the ads that were right in front of their face. The internet marketer was very happy that their visitors were clicking on the ads because each click resulted in income.
The company that sent the traffic to generate the income is also responsible for cutting the checks when the internet marketer effectively leveraged his 5 google tips and got the clicks rolling in… Get this, there was a chicken and an egg but which one came first? Oh ok, didn’t like that? Thought it was corny? Well a tree fell in the forest… Get my drift?
This little company came along and its name was Google, at that time Netscape was the big dog on the block and I think Alta Vista may have been around too but that part is slightly hazy… Microsoft’s operating system was functional but not graphically pleasant and people were just starting to really get the hang of the internet.
Nowadays unless you know a few google tips and tricks you are going to have a very hard time getting to the top of the search engine rankings. Does anyone ever stop and ponder what an odd relationship an internet marketer has with the company. They create content and if Google deems them fit they become indexed and steadily climb the search engine ranking system until someday if they are really lucky, they will make it to the first page for their keyword term.
Then they were flooded with traffic because they applied they’re google tips and tricks expertly… They had something called Google Adsense all over their pages and some of the people that showed up looking for info decided to click on the ads that were right in front of their face. The internet marketer was very happy that their visitors were clicking on the ads because each click resulted in income.
The company that sent the traffic to generate the income is also responsible for cutting the checks when the internet marketer effectively leveraged his 5 google tips and got the clicks rolling in… Get this, there was a chicken and an egg but which one came first? Oh ok, didn’t like that? Thought it was corny? Well a tree fell in the forest… Get my drift?
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Monday, February 2, 2009
What Are Blog
It’s been a minute since I’ve posted on this blog and I apologize but I’ve been very busy trying to make money online… What are blog is a keyword term that I found using the Google Keyword tool, I know it seems weird but it actually receives about 1000 search requests per month using the Google search engine.
One of the reasons that I’d like to target this particular search term is because after doing a little more research, I’ve found that the term only has about 6 million pages currently competing which in actually isn’t that bad compared to a term like how to make money online that has over 300 million pages of competition.
Another reason why I’d like to dominate the search term is because it has the root word blog in it, something that I would like to rank well for in the future due to the 30 million people looking for the word on Google every month!
If you notice that the name of this site is called Blog Basics for Beginners, it does have the word Blog in it among many others which makes it a little easier to optimize for the root.
Why do so many people search for the term “what are blog?”
Hey, that is a great question and I happen to have the answer to it at this point. I think we can all agree the long tail keyword term could easily be considered broken English but you would be surprised how many people look for things with misspelled words. If you are trying to dominate the results for something try to dominate the results for it’s misspellings as well.
We have talked about the need to incorporate those targets into your titles, headers, internal links and article content. In addition you should spend quite a bit of time hitting up article directories, forums, do follow blogs and wherever else you can drop a link to get some good link juice.
Why does link building take so much time?
It’s only natural that you will end up spending a huge quantity of time on this task until you build up link partners that you can make frequent 3 way link exchanges with. Eventually your page rank may grow enough so that people will contact you from time to time with offers for exchanges.
In the meantime, try to make friends with fellow bloggers, leave thoughtful comments on their articles and be subtle and frequent in your approach to build a friendship with them. Most people that are extremely successful with internet marketing have several joint venture partners so keep in mind that there is power in numbers.
Personally I have gained a huge quantity of link partners in the past year and one of the most difficult things about internet marketing is the niche partners you may use to increase the popularity of your how to make money online blog will probably not work if your blog is about nike shoes or credit card companies.
There is always a way to find these type of niche partners… One recommendation is that you can look for them in the forums on digitalpoint, sitepoint or warriorforum. Give it a shot and see if you can start to build friends on those sites. The more you reach out to people, the more success you will have.
The bottom line is that I wanted to make an article that found a way to incorporate the what are blog term. If you wanted to use the term what are blog in your article, how would you do it?
One of the reasons that I’d like to target this particular search term is because after doing a little more research, I’ve found that the term only has about 6 million pages currently competing which in actually isn’t that bad compared to a term like how to make money online that has over 300 million pages of competition.
Another reason why I’d like to dominate the search term is because it has the root word blog in it, something that I would like to rank well for in the future due to the 30 million people looking for the word on Google every month!
If you notice that the name of this site is called Blog Basics for Beginners, it does have the word Blog in it among many others which makes it a little easier to optimize for the root.
Why do so many people search for the term “what are blog?”
Hey, that is a great question and I happen to have the answer to it at this point. I think we can all agree the long tail keyword term could easily be considered broken English but you would be surprised how many people look for things with misspelled words. If you are trying to dominate the results for something try to dominate the results for it’s misspellings as well.
We have talked about the need to incorporate those targets into your titles, headers, internal links and article content. In addition you should spend quite a bit of time hitting up article directories, forums, do follow blogs and wherever else you can drop a link to get some good link juice.
Why does link building take so much time?
It’s only natural that you will end up spending a huge quantity of time on this task until you build up link partners that you can make frequent 3 way link exchanges with. Eventually your page rank may grow enough so that people will contact you from time to time with offers for exchanges.
In the meantime, try to make friends with fellow bloggers, leave thoughtful comments on their articles and be subtle and frequent in your approach to build a friendship with them. Most people that are extremely successful with internet marketing have several joint venture partners so keep in mind that there is power in numbers.
Personally I have gained a huge quantity of link partners in the past year and one of the most difficult things about internet marketing is the niche partners you may use to increase the popularity of your how to make money online blog will probably not work if your blog is about nike shoes or credit card companies.
There is always a way to find these type of niche partners… One recommendation is that you can look for them in the forums on digitalpoint, sitepoint or warriorforum. Give it a shot and see if you can start to build friends on those sites. The more you reach out to people, the more success you will have.
The bottom line is that I wanted to make an article that found a way to incorporate the what are blog term. If you wanted to use the term what are blog in your article, how would you do it?
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