Respeck to the DP massifv. Would some of you all please review LearnAboutLaw.com. I am a retired lawyer, and I have pretty much written the whole site myself. There are a few dozen articles, a few dozen forms. About 300 pages of state-by-state reference such as small claims guides for each of the 50 states. It has a php-based online glossary that ranks really poorly, and a forum that I haven't yet got going (just a few dozen posts in the last year). Here's where I am now: It gets about 1000 views a day from 500 uniques. A year ago it was 40 uniques. Adsense is about $300 a month, up from 100 a month before I knew anything about SEO. I also make about 100-200 a month from selling links and one affiliate relationship with bizfilings. Projected PR5, currently a PR3. The Issues: .The name and concept "learn about law" is too broad to rank for any specific term. So, most of my traffic comes from individuals searching for things like "california corporation law", etc. .What are other ways I could monetize the site. I'll consider anything: ebooks through clickbank, selling text links, affiliate relationship--I just don't know diddly about these non-adsense avenues. .How can I sell leads or get ad revenues directly (or affiliate) from lawyers searching for my readers? .Why can I not get my pages per visit up above 2.2? That REALLY low. .Anything else you think might be LAME about my site. Please be BRUTAL.
Thundercow. The site is good but you must invite lawyers to generate content and give them links back to their sites in return. This is how you will grow your site massively. Your site should be wordpress for maximum exposure and SEO. Then get the word out to lawfirms and SEOs that you will post articles on your site and in return you will link back to their site from the article bottom. There is only one real law article site out there and it is pretty bad. There is a great bankruptcy blog site that is doing very well but they do not give backlinks. You need to provide an incentive for growing content. Content is the they key. With Wordpress you could grant writing permissions. Most article sites do not pass page rank anymore. Your site will! chat me on yahoo if you want to talk qxforeman is my handle
Wow, that's great advice, but I am frankly a little intimidated by the thought of migrating the entire site. Any other reviewers out there?