I was wondering if any of you here on the forums have any experience with blogging and adsense combinations. With blogging I mean serious blogging wich is moderated in order to keep the content on-topic ofcourse. I ask this because some I read that a whole lot of ppl are down on blogs nowadays. I don't have a blog yet, nor do I have a website. But I am considering using wordpress for a project. Anyone care to share their experiences ? Gdev
Basically, blogs are also websites. Quality blog, quality forum thread or quality html page, it doesnt matter. As long as it is quality stuff, it will get noticed with enough marketing. But by using wordpress, you can get away with little to no SEO.
when I was browsing the wordpress site, I thought that I saw clean urls in the adress bar !? What about movable type ? Is that one seo friendly ? Gdev
I use WordPress for my blog. It's fairly new and not many people know about it, but I've put a few adsense ads on. I'm not sure whether it'll pay off. I kinda suck at marketing though, so if you've got skills in that area, you're ahead of me already.
For sure is a good idea, there are people making a lot of money from blogs... Unfornately i'm not one of them
Because things such as post title in <title> and <h1>, SE-friendly url and plugin to automatically link to related posts are already/easily taken care of with wordpress. That's not saying other blogging platforms or CMS can't do those. But since gdev is considering wordpress, I must say after using it for 3 of my sites, im very satisfied with it. Whereas Mambo has given me a bit of problem with SE-friendly url.
I use WP for all my sites. If you really study the WP documentation and know PHP, you can customize a lot of things to make WP more SEO-friendly. I've gotten my keywords to always be the 2nd word in the title (after the site's name) using the category name, for example. Thankfully WP is modular enough that you can move things around like that again, if you know the inner workings
Hmm, yes I've read the topics on wordpress SEO , and it seems that you can tweak it in order to make it more clean. That should do it ... But does anyone of you have any experience with movable type ? Gdev
I was taking into consideration also setting up a blog with WordPress. To read up on it, I searched google for 'profiting from blogs' and other searches of similar nature. A good deal of sites come up that helped me quite a bit. I'd suggest anyone else jumping into the field do the same. G'luck!
Search engines thrive on textual content and blogs are pretty much all textual. Blogs can be an amazing source of adsense revenue. Just look at the blog company that sold for like $25 million . They had to be doing something right
I have to chime in on Wordpress. It's simply an amazing software, especially for anyone unfamiliar with actual programming like myself. Their content management system is quite fantastic, as are their built-in SEO. And if you ever want to change it up, that's easy, too. Plug-ins galore, including so many beautiful ways to change up the look. Best of all? It's all free! If you're into blogging, or are thinking about it, I would very seriously consider Wordpress. It's simply an amazing software, especially for web novices.
Movable Type, from my experiences, is a more complex animal than Wordpress, especially if you're a newbie. The php pages are a little more difficult to parse through and change up. Plus, you have to pay for it, whereas Wordpress is free, including all future updates. I have used both, and would never consider going back to MT, if just because of all the "corporate" vibe you get from them.
As far as I know blogs can be big money earners. The problem is that you need to update the content constantly, so it's hardly passive income
My main page at http://yirmumah.net is setup on a Wordpress blog, and it does great for SEO-- especially when mixed with the technorati tag plugin, just about any topic I cover in my comic, i get traffic from search engines. Last Monday, my comic was about Immigration, and WOW, I had a TON of traffic flow in from that. I think the key to blogging or doing what I'm doing is keeping your finger on the pulse of what's going on around you. Technorati has a nice listing of hot topics and searches on their main page.
Wordpress, the ultimate CMS in terms of pricing and ease of use. When they first rolled out, i tried them out and i have never looked back since. Was using Greymatter previously. With Wordpress, you have a community that really believes sharing is caring. SEO compliant due to the possibility of permalinks and other tweaks, all that can be done from the GUI, rather than thru the backend, which works nicely for me, considering my miserable standard in programming.