Google gives the little guy a list boost with getting traffic

December 16th, 2009 Kevin Quinlan No comment

Today I was doing some searching on google and found in the bottom sections for News results and Blog Posts near the related topics section on page 1. I did a little searching on how that gets populated and found that basically if you have a blog that is well indexed (read, not brand spanking new) your new blog posts will show up there if your keyword was within the search criteria.

This does not mean your post will remain on page one for a long time at all but it could result in a nice little spike within your readership each time you put out a new post. This goes back to consistency I suppose. The more you post, the more potential and time you will spend on page one of a search result which could translate to increase readership. The whole point of SEO is to get on page one so that once you are found, the quality of your content can retain a reader. This new little feature gives you an edge in getting some traffic.

For the news part, if you have a blog that is posted on by many authors you can qualify for the news section of google. You just need to post at a certain pace and have more than one author on your blog. If you qualify for that you can submit your blog here to try and get it listed so that your blog posts can picked up as a news source. If you get that, there is a whole other world out there for getting traffic as then you might be able to make the most of google news alerts but more on that later.

Next time you post, go to google and search on the keywords of your blog. See if it is working for you. If not read up on what you are doing wrong. This is a pretty cool feature you should try to take advantage of especially if you have a blog that is not high ranked but has been around for a while.

Google Adsense and making money with a blog

December 10th, 2009 Kevin Quinlan No comment

I have been on the fence lately if Adsense is really the way to go for me trying to make money online by blogging. I run around 6 blogs now all with very good traffic with the Blogging Center being the newest of them getting the least traffic at this point. Seems that there are so many other options out there that will pay per impression in addition to per click.

I think the per impression is ideal given that three of my sites are on page one for the keywords I went after so gets a lot of impressions but unfortunately the click rate on my google ads is not that high. I have tried moving around the google ads to make more money but it only helped a little bit. I am thinking now might be a good time to experiment. Maybe make it my 2010 goal to try a few new marketing providers and see if I can’t increase my blogging income a little.

The good news is that while Google used to not allow you to have other ads on the same blog as google, those days are long gone. So I can still leave a google advertisement up while experiment just in case I happen to get a click here and there. I know that many of the top bloggers make a lot of money with google but I think that is a bit of a misconception.

They didn’t always make that money with google. They make that money now that they have a ridiculous amount of traffic and so while their click rate is low it is still enough to bring in big bucks online. So we will see. I will experiment a little and let you know how it goes. A few places I am thinking about trying are:

I will let you know as I go if I see an increase in pay. What are you using?

Consistency: One of the key factors on how to become a successful blogger

December 3rd, 2009 Kevin Quinlan No comment

When you read over the top bloggers like ProBlogger or ShoeMoney what you see is a dedication to their blogs. Not random updates but daily updates. More impressively multiple updates within the day and not just garbage content to fill in the void but quality words that add value to their readership.

Now it is easy for them I think since well, they are in fact full time bloggers all they need to do in a work day is post on blogs that would be any of you being surprised I work all day at my job and get paid for it. The thing that is interesting is that they were able to pull off the activity level of blogging many times a day and creating new and interesting material even when they were not full time blogging. There lies the consistency and dedication most bloggers fall short in.

I think we all like the idea of blogging. There is a chance of income. A chance of being bale to quit a “normal” job and work all day by writing a few blog posts. This sounds nice but it just is not an easy task to accomplish especially now it is only getting harder. More people are throwing up more blogs. Search engines are getting smarter and changing how they rank pages. More social network sites popup that require each blogger to learn and get involved with to get traffic to their blog.

The bottom line I think to become a successful blogger one needs to provide quality content on a normal basis that adds value to their readership. I truly believe as long as the content starts with certain keywords in mind BUT written to add value not keyword density, the traffic will come. The key again, is overtime. After years and years of doing that.

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