I just create a blogsite: http://www.blogafrog.com I would appreciate any comments or suggestions. It seems that blog sites are a lot easier to get traffic fast compared to e-commerce site as I see a lot of blog sites takes just weeks to get alexa ranking at around 100K! I also read articles somewhere saying that the only thing you have to do is publish something and you will get ranked by google automatically. I havent have such luck at all 2 months after I launch the site. Perhaps there have not been enough articles to get the attention of Google? Then I see people here talk a lot about links and page rank. According to my observation though, Google page rank is not necessarily proportional to Alexa traffic rank. If Alexa traffic rank is accurate enough, what good is Google PR for? I welcome any comments on my site and and any tips on how many sites can get traffic so quickly. Thanks in advance.
If you want to get indexed by google, have you submitted your site to them? If you don't they will probably find you eventually, but it's faser if you actually tell them about your site. Having a sitemap makes it easier for the bots too, and there are a fw good plugins that will make one for you if you have a wordpress blog.
I hadn't marketed my blog at all (except for the link in this sig), and I get most of my traffic from Google. Not sure why this doesn't work for you...
My blog is already 4 months old but haven't got any rank at all. It's probably because I never do a SEO before. Now, I'm doing it. I wonder when will I get a pr rank.
I checked out your home page and saw tons of advertising and very little content. The content is also not unique, it's just a feed from the associated Press that's probably on thousands of other web pages. Very few websites, directories, etc. will be willing to link to a brand new site with a homepage that's so commercial and has no original content. Just look at the submission guidelines at many directories. They don't accept overtly commercial sites or sites with little or no unique content. The person making the decision will rarely look past your homepage if it violates both of those guidelines. If your site is brand new, you won't earn enough off those ads to matter anyway, so why not put some good, interesting posts on that page and build up your incoming links until there's enough traffic to earn some money off the ads? You have some good posts on your interior pages. Why not move one or two of them to the home page. I personally don't put any advertising on my sites until they are getting 1000-2000 unique visitors per day. By that time it's easier to get backlinks even with a few ads and the ads will actually generate dollars a day instead of pennies per day. Generally, my suggestion is to: 1. Build an impressive site, blog, forum, directory, etc. that webmasters will want to link to. 2. Promote it to increase the incoming links (directories, social bookmarking, etc). 3. Then add advertising. Good Luck!
What are you trying to accomplish w/ the site? I don't understand the connection between texas hold'em poker, API news feeds, and online auctions, or what the incentive would be to the end user to visit your site. Perhaps I'm missing something, is your goal to just drive traffic and serve a ton of ads?
You guys have good points there. So here is how I build my site: I am trying to have different things/subjects which are not related to each other at all. So I use categorization on the homepage. Now since the themes of each category are so different, I am not sure what to put in the homepage. Therefore, I use the newsroom video which is not an ad and perhaps has some value since people read news. Since I do not know how to use the wordpress category, I made my own categories using hyper links. Real contents are in the subcategories. For example, the "computer help desk" category links to http://blogafrog.com/computerhelp/ , etc. I do not want to pay for a domain for each category and I do see there are blog sites that contain all kinds of categories. The dilemma is what to put in the homepage. If the wordpress category had worked, the homepage should just show one of the article randomly picked from a category, perhaps the most recently published. This is a technical issue. Now that it does not work that way, I have to find something else to put there. On the other hand since the blog submissions will be done for each individual articles so maybe not too may people will visit the homepage anyway? In that case, visitors wouldn't be confused about what texas holdem have to do with online auctions? As a matter of fact, I have been struggling to make the news video work on all 3 major browsers and up till now, it still does not work properly on IE6. So I probably have to abandon the news video eventually. Any good ideas or suggestions that I can use to replace the news video? Thanks.
I can't help with your technical issues as I've never worked with Wordpress. I also have never developed a site that had no central theme. I have seen blogs where the articles are on many varied subjects. Maybe someone else who is actually doing that can give you some tips. Often the articles on the home page are simply the newest ones at the site. Then they "roll off" onto interior pages when newer articles replace them. That gives an incentive for surfers to visit often to see what is on your homepage. I would highly recommend that you reconsider the "many different subjects" theme and concentrate on something that you're interested and experienced in. If people who sell/buy on ebay know that they can get great tips on doing business there, they will return to your blog over and over again. If they saw a good ebay article last visit and there was nothing new on auctions this visit, however, they'll probably not return again. Good Luck to You!
Just looked at your site and there didn't really seem to be any text or information. I just saw some videos and a lot of ads on each site. I for one would not want to visit a site with just ads all over it. My suggestion is to add more content.
I just made a quick change by moving the categories down so they are easier to see. Still try to replace the homepage contents the most recently posted article. Not sure how to do that now. I guess that will make the site not that themeless looking.