Hello All! www.oldnotredame.com I've been running a Notre Dame Football/Basketball blog for quite awhile now. However, I recently decided to take a step towards making money from the site and getting more visitors. I've exchanged links with many other Notre Dame related websites and blogs and have submitted to many search engines. My two main keywords that I focus on are "Notre Dame football" and "Notre Dame basketball". Google has my site listed on the bottom of page 8 in a search for "Notre Dame football" and the top of page 12 for "Notre Dame basketball". I would really like some tips on how to get these sites listed higher. Also, I would like to be able to make as much money as possible through Google Adsense. I have three ads posted on each page. Two in the main content area and one in the sidebar. I've made approximately $2 so far today. So any suggestions on how to improve this would be appreciated. And in conclusion, any other suggestions or comments that you have that could help improve my website, would be greatly appreciated as well. Thank you for your time and my website is: www.oldnotredame.com
You would think A big program like Notre Dame would get the top notch recruits, but year in year out they come up short. Why is that? They are on NBC for crying out loud.
Not to sound rude, but I don't think you follow college football recruiting very much. Notre Dame currently has the number one recruiting class for 2008 on both rivals.com and Scout.com. Their 2006 and 2007 recruiting classes were both ranked 8th according to rivals.com. Prior to 2006 however, Tyrone Willingham was recruiting, and he did a terrible job. Charlie Weis has been able to get three top ten classes since, and the Irish are looking up after the rough season. But anyway, can anybody review my website for me?
The theme is pretty basic if you want to build traffic you need to build links and promote. There are many articles on that you can read at the directory in my sig.
That's what I've been working on, building links. I've been exchanging links with many Notre Dame sites. It's tough to promote my site by paying for an ad or something because I want to drive people that will come back to my site. So therefore it has to be either college sport related or Notre Dame related. Most importantly though, I'm trying to see how I can make my site better and what will keep people coming other than writing articles.
I like the design, it's very crisp. Just keep adding original content, your site has potential. Good luck
Thank you for the compliment. I designed the site myself. If you can come up with anyways to improve my site, that would be great.
is this a new site, how come it doesn't have any pagerank? Anyway, design looks good to me , onsite seo is fine as well, All you need now is to get loads of backlinks with relevant anchor text (notre dame football and notre dame basketball), i think you can rank good easily for these terms. Submit your blog to lots of directories with these anchor text, at least 1000 - 1500. Get backlink from high pr site.
I've actually had the site since May of 2007 but just recently started working on it a lot. I've always wondered why it never received a page rank. Are there any services that will submit my site to thousands of directories with the anchor text?
Kevin, as owner of GoldHelmet.com, it's a long road monetizing your site. It took quite awhile before my old Irish site made any coin and I sold it off to buy a better domain and now it has been humming for a year now. BTW, if you want to check it out, it's http://www.goldhelmet.com Good luck.