Posts by articlewriter1

how do you create a traffic in your blog to generate more clicks and earn bucks? any ideaas will do. thank you.

I am not sure I understand your question:?:... Do you mean that you want to know how to BRING more traffic to your blog in order to generate more clicks on the Ads you have there? Or how to get people to click on your Ad (PPC) and get to your site?

If it is the first, you always want to ensure that you are giving your visitors plenty of reason to stay there. You want them to bask in your information crave for more.

If it is the latter, then you want to analyze your Ad and see what is wrong and why people are not clicking on it.

All SEO begins with deciding on effective keyphrases and optimizing web pages for them. Try to find ones that are attainable mostly using onpage and on-site search engine optimization. Try to figure out ways to make your web pages important enough on their own for the search engine to deem the content credible enough to highly rank in its results pages. See what I'm getting at ... craft web content in such a way that allows off-site ranking influences to determine themselves. Let links to your stuff come naturally, if any. Focus internally, all that which is within your control, your webpages, your coding and how the SEO things you do within your pages reinforce keyphrases and relate to one another.

Fred is right on the money. One thing a lot of people overlook is having quality content on their site. Some people think that just writing a lot of mumble jumble stuffed with keywords is going to get them the credibility, placement and ranking they are hoping for. Having good content will give you credibility and even prestige and authority.

It is Google's version of PPC (pay per click) where you pay the company every time someone clicks on your link from their site. This said, it is important to know that PPC can be VERY expensive if you do not know how to use it properly or how to combine its use with other marketing efforts. Some keywords in some very competitive niches can have a pretty elevated cost and before you know it, you would have raked up a pretty hefty bill.

I agree with Dani, I have never heard of this being done with Google Analytics. In fact, I think it is very hard to determine the accuracy of images. I would be more inclined to think that it is easier to count the click through rate (CTR) on banners and links, but not necessarily on images. I may be wrong, but I think you are better off doing it that way. There are many trackers out there, I think it is a matter of trial and error. Testing a few of them and deciding which one works best for you.

First of all, you should never compare search engines or expect that just because one indexed you the other one should too. They are two different SE, with different bots and different algorithms. Hence, the time and way they index sites and blogs is totally different.

Second, when it comes to a blog, fresh and unique content is crucial. But most importantly is QUALITY content.

Third, if you have a free blog that affect the time of indexing. This is NOT always true, but I have seen a lot of cases like it. For example, blogspot is from Google and it tends to get pretty fast attention from Google...

Finally, with Yahoo and Bing merging pretty soon, do not rest to sure on Yahoo. No one really knows what will happen with sites and SERPS in both of these engines. So, keep up the SEO work and be patient. Soon enough Google will take you on.

yes but getting more traffic takes more energy and time I wud guess its easier to improve click through rate on the site.

UUUMMMMM... NO!!! They go hand in hand. If you want to increase the CTR for your Ads you need to bring more traffic to your site, simple as that. Maybe you should try optimizing in order to increase traffic to the site, and in return you'll increase the CTR. You certainly can not do one without the other. Actually you can but IT will be extremely uphill.

You are doing just fine... Make sure that when you submit your articles you are linking back to your site. Make sure that in your articles you are adding quality and informative content balanced with your keywords. Do the same on your site. Continue the SEO work you have been doing thus far and maybe intensify it. Be patient, SEO is a tedious and long process for which you must arm yourself with patience. Patience is a virtue but when dealing with internet marketing, it is an obligation!!!

As Dani said, join affiliate programs like Google Adwords, Amazon, Adbrite among others. You must open an account with them and submit all the pertinent information. Then sit and wait for approval. Once approved, just take the affiliate link they will provide you and place it somewhere visible on your site so that visitors can click and you start to earn money.

I do not know if it is just me... But it irks me everytime I see a thread that is FIVE years old with a new reply. Hasn't it occured to some of us that perhaps that person found his or her answer YEARS AGO???

Sorry but I had to complain. My husband was the one to introduce me to forums and one of the first things he advised against was precisely that. He always told me that it looks as if I were spamming and as if I could not add value to another thread.

Maybe I should suggest to Dani and forum moderators to close the threads after a specific amount of time. I think the internet is continuously evolving and commenting on VERY old threads is simply inexplicable.

OK... I'm done ranting... My advice to beginners, stop reviving old threads just to drop one liners. If you are going to add something of REAL value, then perhaps it can be understandble. But I think you will have a much better experience if you open a new thread and provide all Daniwebbers valuable information.

You clearly did not read the TOS or member rules at any of the forums you signed up to did you?

It is agains forum rules to advertise your site or services in any part of the forum that is NOT the designated area. Most forums have a special section for advertising your stuff. The regular and most popular sections of the forum are for discussion and the exchange of ideas.

If you want to avoid the <snipped> in your posts, add valuable information to the threads you are participating in.

Not much to worry about. Your site is still rather young. In fact PR0 simply means that your site has been indexed. Remember though, that PR does not guarantee traffic or even sales, it is just a prestigious recognition from Google. I think that you should concentrate on increasing your SERPS. Use all of the tactics and techniques associated with On-Page and Off-Page SEO. This will help place you in SERPS and EVENTUALLY bring up your PR. Keep in mind that PR updates happen every three months and SEO is an ongoing process. So continue to work hard and you should see results sooner than expected.

That seems to be rather normal... Remember that it is very difficult to determine an exact number of backlinks. I am not an SEO expert, but my husband is and the number of links crawled each day by search engine bots can vary. YET, one thing you should keep in mind is that to know the number of backlinks crawled by Google check with Google, to know the number of backlinks in Bing check at Bing and so on. Also do not rely too much on private sites that can measure your general backlinks but not necessarily individual SE crawled links.

I am not sure I understand your question... Are you asking about getting people to opt-in so that you can collect their emails? If so, perhaps you can offer a free ebook or some sort of incentive. Remember that people like free stuff. They will not be inclined to give you their email unless they are getting something in return.

Vita, I think that everyone has given you some great ideas. Keep in mind that there are many promotional methods which are free or affordable but not necessarily effective. On that same note, there are some that are affordable and free and can bring you great results. I am not trying to be biased but Article Writing and submitting is an effective way of promoting your site, if done right.

However, keep in mind that when it comes to marketing nothing is guaranteed. You can test various tactics and choose whichever one works best for you. The more you do yourself the less money you will spend but the more work you will bring on yourself!

James, congratulations on taking the steps to having your own blog. As you have already noticed, forum signatures are very powerful, as long as your posts are of high quality you will create enough curiosity in people to want to click through to your site. Do the same with blogs. Subscribe to some and make quality contributing comments. Also try social bookmarking after each new post. Sooner or later you will find people subscribing to your blog.

I really think it depends who is analyzing it... if it is a business person then it is a great promotional tool. If it is a regular JOE then Social Media is definitely the latest technological revolution, until something else that replaces it comes along.

HUH??? I am not sure I know exactly what you are referring to as "white papers". I may be new to Internet Marketing but my husband as been doing it for a while and he has never mentioned "White Papers".

Hey everyone, I am gone for a couple weeks on a mother's day vacation and I come back to this... WOW, I guess Dani stuck to the purple stage all girls go through. She probably went through it in her teenage years, as did I, hence the purple frenzy :D; BUT I LIKE IT... I know the guys might not agree, my husband sure doesn't. He thinks it now looks too much like other forums and it has lost some of the uniqueness that it had.

I do have a suggestion though, and I hope others second me on it; how about incorporating a multi-quote button. I sometimes want to respond to more than one person and it is difficult to do. So, I think that those of us who are here to learn and help others would benefit from the multi-quote button. I don't know about everyone else, but I sure will.

I think you should spread out your efforts. Do not, by any means, do all forty social bookmarks the same day. Do not get me wrong, it won't be harmful or anything like that, but you want to make sure you submit enough links to be indexed EACH DAY, and not all of the links to be indexed in one day.

Well, you are aiming quite high... You must optimize your site with all the On-page and Off-page SEO tactics. Getting to the number one spot in Google, for any particular keyword is quite a task.

Word of advice. If you are serious about marketing your site and creating valuable links, DO NOT SPAM forums. On your first post you created a link that looks like a signature. That is unethical and sooner or later will backfire on you.

I think, as others have said here, that you need to use some sort of analysis tool in order to determine what could have happened. My husband does SEO and has told me that when Google has any doubts as to the veracity or quality of any site not only do they place it on hiatus (some call it the "sandbox effect") until they investigate and analyze the origin of its links BUT could also drop or ignore many links, hence making your SERPS drop and your visitors decrease. Now, I am a little perplexed... Are you certain that much traffic came from Google?

I am totally newbie in this world of earning from google adsense, even I have this blog for a year or so, I did not make too much with it.

I have posted some sites which pays me and some payment proofs, as my site is about making money online, but seems it is not enough.

How can I increase traffic and also the clicks.I started to post my blog link on different sites, exchange traffic, but this not helped me at all.

Can you have a look on my blog and let me know what I can do to improve my blog?

www vlad-cosmin blogspot com

Thanks million times!

Ok... I think you have failed to do on-page SEO. Most people overlook the fact that Blogs need to be optimized as well. You need to add lots of unique and quality CONTENT. Once your on-page is done you then move on to off-page SEO

In order to increase traffic you should try investing in some email marketing campaigns like solo ads.

In essence, there are many things that can be done and there is no definite magic formula. Every page or blog is handled individually by search engines. Not to mention that when it comes to promotional tools, what works for some might not work for others. Everything is relevant. :)

Have you tried a SEARCH??? I do not remember hearing about such a tool!!

WOW, I am really shocked that Fred or another one of the Moderators has not removed this post or AT least the links in it. This certainly can not be any spammier (if there is such a word). :|

OK< unfortunately no one but yourself can decide what is the best working plan for your site. You should set goals and aim at accomplishing them. You are basically asking us to provide you with a course of action and that is pretty much business specific. Whatever worked for my business might not particularly work for yours. So you have to analyze your competition, examine and analyze your own site and determine where you need to make changes in order to WIN those prestigious spots on the first page!!!

First of all this is not such a significant backlink loss. I have seen worse. My husband does SEO work and he says that the number of links a SE indexes can vary from time to time, usually fluctuating a few hundred links which seems to be your case. I think you should simply double your SEO efforts and hopefully soon enough you will see the number of links increase. In case you are not sure as to which are the Off page SEO techniques here are the most commonly used.

Forum and blog posting or commenting.
Article writing and distribution
Social Bookmarking.

But... thinking about it again, I just realized your signature says you provide SEO services. Shouldn't you know that? Maybe the answer is right in your signature...

Although it is no big deal you are probably better off having a unique and different title with the same keyword or phrase. Although there is NO duplicate content penalty, Google simply indexes the first content the find and disregard the rest. So you are better off having 15 different ones than ONE repeated 15 times.

People worry too much about quantity when they should be concentrating on quality. Do not focus on the number of links you should have but rather where the links are originating from. Ensure the sites are dofollow sites, with a lot of quality information, and maybe even a higher PR.

Finally, PR is something else people worry too much about. It does not guarantee traffic. You are better off dedicating valuable time to increasing your SERPs.

SEO is by far the best FREE marketing technique compilation available. SEO techniques are great for increasing SERPs and eventually, PR. However, people need to understand what is the main function of each of the tactics and what they provide for your site. On that same note, I want to add that unfortunately, too many people claim to be SEO experts after having done their own site, but lack incredibly. I suggest everyone use SEO recommendations as a guide and not as a matter of fact.

I have used quite a few. But it really depends on what you are looking for. One of the places that offers an assortment of services is vadbox.com, I found them on a forum, and have no complaints with the results.

Alexa, this is very good information. One thing people need to keep in mind is that a blog should be informative. Adding quality and valuable content to your blog will make people WANT to visit, recommend others to visit and actually READ and even get motivated to leave a comment (but you should be able to accept of decline comments).

These are great recommendations. I have found a lot of valuable information on forums and in blogs. Luckily I have a husband that is an Internet Marketer who has taught me a lot.

Shirley, first off SEO is not something you get (unless you pay for the service). SEO is something you implement on your site and your site's promotion in order to make it more search engine friendly.

I am not an SEO expert but my husband is and as Fred said, you may need to look at your Meta tags, there are many factors important in SEO (like Tags) that many people seem to overlook. Do listen to him and others giving you advice.

Hello Dominique,

Thank you... Yes, I write my husband does the rest. He is amazing at SEO and so are his employees.

Anyway, I asked him this question and he thinks that the forenamelastname without the dot or the dash is actually best. He thinks it is much easier for people to remember. He thinks that with regards to SERPs and PR (whenever that happens) it should not matter that much, as long as you have quality content on your site and it is properly optimized ON and OFF page. He also thinks that subdomains can be optimized as well and at the same time. You can PM me if you want/ He is probably better at explaining it than I am.

He does not handle any of the Forum posting for his business, some of his employees do, that is why I can not give you a username. But if you do not get a better answer, send me a PM and I can have my husband reply with a better answer.

OK, here goes ...

Wow.

Thanks for showing up!

LOL, Fred you always crack me up with your sarcasm. More often than not, I share in your thoughts but tend not to externalize them. We just hope that securianszx will stick around and become an active DaniWeb contributor.

Very useful information, thanks alot!

SNIP

SNIP, another good point of advice is that, as you noticed an administrator or moderator edited your post for dropping a link, that is a NO NO. You should be patient, contribute with quality information and participate openly in forums. In addition, something my IMer husband taught me is that you should never revive an old post as you did here. If you look right below the user name it will say when the post was published. And, if you want people to take you seriously you should never revive an old post just to say "Thank you, nice info or post" because people can see it as spam.

You must work on your SEO, both on page and off page. Make certain that your site has unique and quality content. Work on your meta tags and your headline tags.

With regards to off page, you should do forum posting and blog commenting, classifieds, and article writing and submission. With the articles you should also make certain that you have quality content. There should be a balance between quality information and keywords. Your sentences should be well structured and informative.

Overall remember that you should prioritize quality over quantity.

I am confused... If you are providing SEO services shouldn't you know what to look for in an audit? My husband does SEO work and as far as I am concerned he does not ask questions he should have an answer for. He did that when he was beginning. This is not to say that there may be new practices he might need to learn, but it just seems odd to me what you are asking.

Techies, I think Jenny misunderstood the question, just like I did. When you first read it, it comes off as if you are trying to figure out how to use them. My suggestion is that if only one is not working you need to email the administration, or sent a message to the contact us email.

Duplicate content penalty, the never ending story of online marketing. PEOPLE understand once and for all, it has been mentioned here before and in many other forums. THERE IS NO PENALTY for duplicate content, as mackone said, what search engines do is they will index and/or rank a site according to content and keyword relevance and the rest (with equal or very similar content) will just be ignored. So, if you want to consider "being ignored" a penalty, go right ahead.

But I ask myself, why would anyone want to have duplicate content. That leaves much to be desired, people will not take you seriously and in a worse case scenario, you can be sued for copyright infringement!!!

It's funny to read this. Ever since it was launched all I have read everywhere have been negative comments. So it really does not surprise me in the least. Sorry to hear you are having such a hard time. That is why I have not even tried it and do not think I will.

Selicon I may not be a webmaster, but I do not think that is possible. You may want to ask a webmaster or a web programmer that question. It seems to me that since facebook and your site are NOT related in any way, linked together or even share scripts, I would not think this is possible. I have a husband that is a webmaster and he has never mentioned something like that. Maybe I am wrong, and if I am I would like to know the answer as well. But I think you will have to either do all changes manually or Copy paste. Then again that would not be such a great idea anyway.

I think it is a matter of preference. I know that for marketers it used to be that the harder you make the name for your visitors to find you, the less likely they will. This is not to say things have changed. My husband's site combined the company name without spaces, hyphens or dots. Whereas my blog has hyphens. Maybe that is the difference, I can get away with it in a blog. I really do not know, but I can assure you that it also depends IMMENSELY on how you market your site, and how well you optimize it using SEO techniques.

I also have a blog and I have to say that QUALITY and informative content is the key for success. Sure, other things are important as well but quality content is imperative.

Yes it does not surprise me either. I think it has to do with a way to keep the mind occupied and a form of diversion from the failed marriage. Also, I wonder if at any point during that study the socio-economic background and the education of those studied was taken into account. Coming from a very LARGE poor family I can guarantee that it may have some effects. For example, I have a college education, so does my sister and two of my cousins, out of 26 grandchildren. Neither of us are big into gaming or even playing the lotto. We work hard in our respective careers in order to offer our children a better future. YET, the family members who do not possess "the" degree rely on daily lotto games, horseback racing bets, occasional Bingo tournaments in hopes of hitting the big one. I may be wrong, but I think this is one thing someone should take into consideration when these studies take place.

Why would you buy a pre-designed or pre-established marketing plan? I would think that marketing should be individualized and designed to fulfill the particular needs of a site or business. What works for some, might not necessarily work for others. So, NO I would not buy a marketing plan, I will buy email campaigns, advertising and so on, but not a plan in itself. However, if you implement adequate SEO techniques you will be in less need of a marketing plan. After all, using SEO techniques IS a marketing plan. And a FREE one for that matter, only of course, if you do it yourself.

I was looking through your magazine and had some doubts. What is your magazine about? You stated in your post that you are a publisher... Does the magazine have anything to do with your company or is the magazine a client? What is your niche audience?

You may want to apply some SEO techniques to the site in order to make it easier to find.

Fred, I think the best place we could probably direct him to is to yahoo answers. After all, he is having problems with their game site. Yet I agree that it might also be a problem with his PC.

My husband is very knowledgeable on this matter, and one thing he told me that a sites PR does not represent more money or traffic. IT MEANS PRESTIGE. Sure, in the long run, prestige leads to sale, but in order to increase both rank and traffic you must do On-Page and OFF-Page SEO. On-Page SEO means working on your site's content, making it of high quality. At the same time you work on the placement of your keywords and your meta tags.

Off-Page SEO includes what you are already doing, backlink building through forum posting and blog commenting, classified submission and Article writing and distributing. You have to ensure the articles have unique content. They must be informative and well written. The keywords must be placed sporadically in sentences that convey a real message. Do pay attention to the recommendations others make and develop a system that works for you. But above all, as my husband says, you have to be patient!!! Things will shape up eventually.

There is not singular or particular one which is more effective. I think you need to combine the implementation of all of them. Yes, I agree with building backlinks from relevant high PR sites. But also try to consider using relevant No-follow sites with quality content. As this is also important. In the little time I have been doing business I have learned that we have to combine a lot of things.