I started a thread in the Services area to contract out my blogging services (http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=82531). But because I love DP and it has helped me so much, here's some free advice: Update your content regularly-This will keep your readers coming back and will also help keep your ads targetted Post meaningful comments-This has been my biggest traffic pull. I haven't spent much time on SEO yet, so my traffic is limited to my comments on other blogs. Take the time to read other blogs, and then post meaningful comments with a link to your blog (if this is permitted by the owner of the blog) Link exchanges-Don't waste your time or money buying links. Contact the owners of related blogs and ask if they want to do a link exchange. You'd be suprised how many people are more than happy to do this. The aspect that I can't emphasize enough is CONTENT! If you remember anything from this post, remember to POST FREQUENTLY!
Download Firefox with Google Toolbar. Enable Page Rank on the Google toolbar and put your mouse over it after you bring up the webpage that you want to determine the page rank for.
Tony, How many sites do you have and how many uniques do you get alltogether? I see your earnings are rising quite fast.
I have about 5 websites or more right now(not remember because I owned a lot of domain names and some websites are really not updated), but only 2 now that I tried to boost the income. One website got about 900 unique visitors a day and another one got 3000 visitors a day. If you ask for altogether it is about 5000 a day. Yeah, It has been amazing increased for visitors on both websites and almost visitors from search engines. My bandwidth raised up to 6GB last month and keep going in everyday. I think this month will be 12 GB. All my websites got a fair PageRank so I think that might easy to do SEO. And I try to turn it to money. I hope this informations can help you to imagine.
its really impressive how some webmaster like yourself makes it to the riches so fast. I guess along with strategy luck also plays a big role else what might be the reason behind something working for one site and not for other. lets hope your site perform its best and break all its old records this month too. good luck and thanks for the valuable tips
Is the big increase in traffic recent? Have you started getting found for some popular keywords or is it through creating lots more pages?
No I don't have any popular keywords really. Almost of them is $0.01 Many times 2 clicks got only $0.01. My website just has low paying keywords. Only once I got $1.3 per click. I create one content page in everyday or every other day, but also working on another interactive stuffs and fix links, typos, grammars, and read more how to drive the traffic. I feel that I didn't learn anything much because almost of them can't answer my questions. Looking below bandwidth graph. This tell how much BW increase since last month. What I did? (and I still do) I redirected my blog feed to feed burner which have a lot of option and I got more traffic from them. I put more ping servers for blog. (Wordpress) I submit my website to web directories. I do link exchange and monitoring them I make a sitemap (for human and robots) and submit sitemap to google. etc... I have to say I do everything
You misundertood me. I wasn't asking how much per click you were getting but rather the keywords to drive traffic. Are you getting found for any major keywords on Google, Yahoo and MSN search. You said almost all of yor traffic is from search engines. Looking at your bandwidth graph, I would assume there was a big traffic increase throughout April. of course, some of it will be robots eating through bandwidth.
oh yes. I have some popular keywords then. sorry, misunderstood. usually one of them were found on entertainment keywords.
@tonyinabox, I too am using the feedburner wp plugin. Could you give me some pointer how to tweak my feed on the feedburner side to attract some more traffic. Especially the optimize tab
Well, just use their options. put your logo to make it nice, ping when you update and add more feeder type. Smething like that. These all can give you more traffic. After you ping your feed for an hour, you can see from your logs that some of blog bot visit your website also.
On alexa, http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?url=www.extremebumming.com you can get a good idear of page rank. Mine used to be much lower than that, like 1.2 million, now it's 2.1, but I was gone for 7 months and never even saw a computer. I just got home april 5th.