Daily content will drive your blog up in the results because Google will index your site more often. Once they see you don't post regularly they start to slow down on indexing your site. When they see your site content chagnes often then they index you more often. A client of mine writes in his blog every day, and had planned to make it onto the top 10 results page in one year. By posting regularly he made it in less than 6 months. Add Content and Add Frequently.
Hey Jack, Sorry about that. EZA is www.Ezinearticles.com. It is an article directory that Google seems to love (ie. article submitted to them rank very well). Best wishes, Joe
Doesn't it take the wind out of your sails when that happens? It has really questioned my view on the reliability of Wordtracker. Although as I said earlier, I generally get accurate data. Joe
Yes, I know that if I write and submit more articles and add more posts to my blog, that I will get more traffic. But what if the traffic equates to only 10 people a day? I mean, I was ranked #4 on Google's first page, and I got just a trickle of pageviews. And this is a very narrow niche, so I don't expect to rank very well for related keywords because there just aren't many of them. None that I can see anyway. Besides, there are plenty of other keywords and niches out there to focus time and energy on. Best wishes, Joe
I hardly follow thread and read it, but this thread really got my attention. Especially the number uf UA,backlinks,articles submitted etc Keep up the good work and you will find yourself in something. I'm tryingto get traffic for my blog too, but all i do is posting and posting.
Your giving lots of great info here, I didn't know there were such niches left. Good luck with your exeperiment
I am sorry to burst your bubble but I see several weaknesses in your strategy: 1) First you have a brand new blog and you expect to get a lot of visitors from Google. In addition to that you expect a very high CTR and focus more on the profits than on providing the information service to your readers 2) You are writing on a subject that you might not be an expert at. That could explain why noone is visiting your site. You need to have a unique view on a particular subject, based off of your prior experience. 3) You are not posting the actual URL of the project, which is tricky, because a lot of people will simply goto your other sites ( bum marketing) thinking that this is the experiment site you were talking about. 4) Last but not least you need to keep interacting with the rest of the blogs/sites in your niche. Trade links with them. Try finding a respectable site that people visit ( WebMD comes to mind) and try to write a guest post for them on their website. One of the reasons why my current blog has not been very successful is because I only have had medium knowledge about making money online and haven't interacted with others in my niche.
Trust me, the bubble was burst already. I do appreciate your input. And you're right. My plan had too many holes in it. That's exactly why I documented my progress on this thread. So that I can get the feedback of others more knowedgeable and experienced in blog promotion than I am. But one thing I will disagree with you on is that I was trying to get lots of traffic from a new blog. I never thought that would happen. What I was trying to do was write and submit articles to Ezinearticles.com, and have those article rank high (which doesn't take much time - sometimes in less than 24 hours). When those articles started to rank well, then I would get a jump in pageviews. If I do things correctly (which I have done many times with the hundreds of articles I have submitted), then I will get a fair amount of people to click on the link in my author resource box - which goes to my blog. Luckily, this was just an experiment, and not a source of income I need to rely on. And although it hasn't been very successful (so far), I have still picked up a few lessons along the way. I hope others have as well. Best wishes, Joe
JoeMack Thanks so much for the updates this thread really was a great read with information about blugs and what not, I myself have always wanted to try them and be profitable. To your success with other projects you let us know about!
it was a very interesting thread that i keenly followed.. good on you joe...... i req u to start a similar thread when u decide to startup a new site
i started up a similar thread from my site i am going to launch soon http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=993721
Hello All, I am glad that many of you enjoyed reading this blog experiment of mine. I found that by documenting my thoughts and actions, I was better able to evaluate my progress. But what bothered me most was that I chose keywords that I thought had high demand, but which in reality didn't. And because of that, much of my (limited) efforts were severely minimized. So I want to start another blog experiment (I'm itching to do it actually). Sure, I know that I can do it privately. But I like the upsides associated with doing it publicly. I just don't want to piss anyone off. I have read a few documented experiments and journals from other on DP, and in a lot of cases, the original poster is flamed. My goal is to provide enough info to be valuable to others. Yes, I will make plenty of mistakes (as I have done already). But by making those mistakes publicly, others can learn from them and hopefully avoid them. Although I'm not new to internet marketing, I am sort of new to DP (I registered a while ago, but didn't make my first post until recently). I just don't want to overstep my bounds. Do you think it would be ok to start another public experiment? I already have an idea of what I want to test out. Best wishes, Joe
Joe, Do not get dissapointed. One thing is certain- in order for your blog to be successful you need to keep writing every single day( you might skip weekends). After a couple of months google will start recognizing your site and bring visitors to you. And by the way do not just rely on one keyword. One of my sites gets traffic on a hundred different keywords per day. In total each of the key words brings is searched 10 times/day in google.. But if you have hundreds of these combinations you will find gold.. Good Luck!
yeah , do start another experiment...... and what i also suggest is not relying on KEYWORds as much. sure they are important BUT just write on topics that have demand and if you write well you dont have to find traffic, traffic will find you
Best of luck with your experiments was interesting to read hope your next project will work out better
Let us know about your experiment. I like the insight you and everyone provides. I am sure it benefits others as well.
Hello All, I have a few updates for you guys. 1. I finally made some money with my experimental blog. Yesterday, some poor fellow clicked on one of the Adsense ads. My profit: a whopping $0.06 !! Funny, I know. But it's a start. 2. I decided to reveal what my three keyword phrases are. I got a few PMs requesting that I do so. So here they are (hopefully you can have more luck with it then I did - and if you, please let me know what you did - it's would be much appreciated): Long tail keyword phrase #1: what are the side effects of gabapentin Long tail keyword phrase #2: what is gabapentin used for Long tail keyword phrase #3: dose gabapentin pain Gabapentin is the chemical name of the drug called Neurontin. It was initially approved by the FDA for treatment of partial seizures in individuals with epilepsy. Since then, it has been used to treat a variety of neuropathic conditions and mild mental disorders. If you go to Wikipedia, you'll get a basic idea of Gabapentin's history and usage. Remember when I stated that I had a potential problem getting my articles approved by Ezinearticles.com? I'll tell you what the issue was. Under EZA's guidelines, they don't allow article titles to have prescription drug names in them. You can write about the drug (although you can't promote it), but you can't use the name in the title. That posed an issue because of the importance of using the keyword phrase in the title for SEO reasons. That being said, my first article did have the name Gabapentin in it, and you know what, it made it through. Now, my second article was rejected for that very reason, and so I had to re-word the article title. The first article really outranked the second, and my guess using the keyword phrase in the title had some factor in it. I'm still sure that there is money to be made on those keyword phrases. I just don't have the time or energy to work on it when the traffic is so much lower than I had estimated. So there you have them. Best wishes, Joe P.S. If you do decide to tackle these keyword phrases, I would really try to get a more accurate idea of what sort of traffic you can expect. The numbers I got from Wordtracker and the SEO Keyword Tool didn't seem to fit with what I actually got. I just want to state that before you get too far ahead.