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Blog Consulting presents – Ten Websites for Ten Dollars a Year – Part 6
Posted by: | CommentsHere on Blog Consulting we are writing a series of articles about setting up ten websites/blogs for ten dollars a year. We are putting together a group of Alternative Energy Information sites. Currently we are setting up the sites so that they can have some potential income sources while they are developing relationships with the search engines. What kind of things should you have on your website/blog in the beginning phases? Let’s use Alternative Energy Stocks as an example.
On this site we have added a premium WordPress theme, then we added some affiliate links, we added five public domain articles about alternative energy stocks, and we added Google Adsense. If you look at the site you can see that we take time to keep the sites attractive. The Adsesne is carefully color coordinated to match the text and links on the rest of the site and the ads are placed carefully. We added a stock market ticker to give a more professional feel to the site as well. We want our content to be valuable, but the reality is that the best outcome for the site is that someone clicks on one of the Google ads or on one of the affiliate ads. If the site doesn’t look professional, the chances are that people will just move away from the site without clicking anything. This site presents well, and as we begin to see some traffic people should start to click on the ads.
A fairly normal click rate on Google is about 2 or 3 percent. That means that if hundred people visit the site, two of them will click on an ad. If the click is worth fifty cents or more than you can make a dollar for every hundred visitors. If the site is only costing you one dollar a year, it doesn’t take long to break even. It could take a while to get the first hundred visitors. We will discuss how to start getting traffic in future articles on Blog Consulting.
How Do I Get Traffic to My Blog – Part 6
Posted by: | CommentsHere on Blog Consulting we are writing this series of articles to help you develop your blog. One of the biggest components of a successful blog is that it gets a lot of visitors. We have been talking about the idea of developing keywords in this series of articles that will draw traffic to your site. We have been using the keywords bog consulting and blog consultant on this site.
Another strategy is to think about other things that people might search for to bring them to your site. For example, if someone needed help with their blog, they may not know to search for a blog consultant. They may however simply type in to a Google search “I need help with my blog”. In order to potentially capitalize on this, I wrote a series of articles called “I Need Help With My Blog”. If you were to do a Google search for that string of words today, this is what comes up:
This site shows up on Page 1 in position 10. Any time you can get your site as a page 1 return on Google it will increase your traffic flow. I am writing these articles called “How Do I Get Traffic to My Blog” with the same idea. A google search with these keywords gives the following result:
This return is currently in the middle of page 3. Over time there is the possibility that the position will improve. Each time we start a new series of articles it will be with the idea of attracting visitors to the site. This is a strategy you might want to consider for your own blog.
How Do I Get Traffic to My Blog – Part 5
Posted by: | CommentsOn Blog Consulting we are always looking at ways to increase the traffic to our sites. Most of the traffic comes as a result of search engines. That is why an understanding of SEO (search engine optimization) is so fundamental to the success of your blogs. Using the right keywords can have a significant impact on your blog.
Recently we had one of our sites show a dramatic increase in traffic after a post was made. In investigating the jump we found something interesting, the increased traffic was due to a spelling error. We forgot an ’s’ in a word and apparently so do a lot of other people. The blog is about hurricane tracking sites and we were directing people to a site called Stormpulse. We forgot the second ’s’ in the word. So apparently do 15 or 20 people a day. Here is the result on Google:
It is interesting that a mistake can sometimes be a great traffic generator. Most of the people that have come to the site this way are on the site for a while. We have also already seen some repeat traffic which means they have probably bookmarked the site. While we are not suggesting that you misspell words on purpose, this does point up how important studying your keyword stats is.
