I am just starting out here and was curious as to what you all think is the first 5 things you should do when your blog is up and running to generate traffic, making it appealing and so on? http://eliteforex.blogspot.com/ In terms of appeal, what would you suggest I do to make it more appealing? Are my ads ok, or are they sore for the eyes? Are they put in a good place? I only make like $1.00 a day, maybe 3.00 if I am lucky. Does anyone have suggestions to get more traffic/exposure to a blog? What I do now is comment on blogs as much as I can, add my blog to my sig, post in forums, and thats about it. Thank you very much for any help you can provide, take care! -K
1. write some 2-3 good posts per day - or more if yoiu have time and material to publish - to increase content offered 2. submit to all known blog directories 3. create RSS feed and submit to all known RSS directories 4. focus on popular topics really needed by many people 5. optimize Google adsense by studying the heat map https://www.google.com/support/adsense/bin/static.py?page=tips.html and other useful information/success stories https://www.google.com/adsense/success?sourceid=ASO&subid=us_en-link-opttips&medium=link Google has on their site about Adsense optimization it looks like you have chosen adsense formats less than ideal for best CTR if you follow all first 4 points AND optimize adsense with Google's online info all - trafic and $ should go up
#1 - 5 - CONTENT! Fresh, unique and relevant will drive traffic over the long term. I would lose the Firefox and Google photos ads - in my experience they take up valuable ad space and do not convert very well. I would also move that 486x60 ad block to the end of each of the first three posts - gives people something to click once they are done reading.
The 486x60 ad (thats the link ad right, on the side), I should put those under each post? Do you mean put it in the template under each post, or in each post i put in html code for selected posts? So, I should keep the two pic ads on the top, and keep the pic ad on the side? Just move the link ad after each post? SHould I change the pic ad on the side to a pic/text ad? Thank you for the help, really appreciate it! -K
The 468x60 is the Google text ad you have ad the very top of the page. I would put it into the template after each post. You can only have 3 content ads per page and 1 link unit (that you have in the right column) so you would need to lose the image leaderboard ad you have now (it shows something about toilets anyway - not exactly relevant to your blog!
Thanks bud! The google text ad, now if I put it after each post, and I have like 5 or 6 posts, it will show up after all 6 of them, so will I be in violation? Ok, I changed it a little. I have put it under the last 2 posts, and left a pic add up top, and took the pic add off the side bar. Better? http://eliteforex.blogspot.com/ Thanks!