Hello all first forum post. Was referred here by a fellow writer as I need a logo done, but as there's a wait to post a job I figured I'd pick a few brains on some other topics. I'm a writer online for a few sites and have been making my living writing online for the past 2 years. Last year I decided it would be fun to branch out by purchasing a few domains so I did just that and snagged 6 domains I thought would do well with sites, and picked up a fully functioning Wallpaper site to boot. I've had the wallpaper site up for around 4-6 months I think, and honestly haven't put much into it as time hasn't allowed me to do so until now. It's been running on autopilot with a few ads, but I've only added maybe 20 new wallpapers in that time. Without getting into to much detail, they way it was setup was with some kind of linking setup, and the previous owner had wallpapers that weren't original in anyway, mainly just scanned in magazine pages that were keyworded, linked, etc... I wanted to run a "legit" site due to all the fuss over Google, Panda, etc... so I've hired someone to make all original wallpapers to avoid any issues with duplicated content, suspect links, etc.. Now I've never been that great with SEO (thank god for WP plugins) and the sites I work for handle most of that themselves as they just rely on me to provide original content daily and the rest kind of takes care of itself. With Wallpapers or images in general I'm finding there's a lot more to it, and I've been unable to make any kind of impact with traffic so far. The site is setup to where I simply have to post the new wallpaper and fill in the blanks in wordpress, just like most other sites I've dealt with. I followed the original owners "way of posting" as far as using similar keywords, etc..etc.. and I write a brief original description for each wallpaper I've posted, just like they did. I know they build traffic with link building, but I'd like to know if it can be done without all that and just by using quality content on a daily basis? I'm really clueless in this area, when I first got the site it was averaging around 100 per day, and now it's around 20-40 with the new good stuff. Any tips or advice would be appreciated as I'd like to get this one running right so I can concentrate on other projects. I'm also curious as to how other wallpaper sites do money-wise; I don't plan on keeping this one, but would at least like to get it running right so I can get my money back and turn it over to someone that has the time to work with it. Knowing what I know now, I should have just stuck with an article-based blog as that's what I'm good at and I know how to build traffic with those. Unfortunately like a lot of folks I got hit with the "website" bug and leaped before I looked... lol
Hy. Running a website is the same for all the website. The guideline are: on page SEO (content, kw density, meta..etc), off page SEO(link building- no matter how you do it) You wrote a very big post and maybe I start to lose you at the end. So what you want to do with this website? Get traffic and monetize it or get some traffic so you can sell it? One thing is for sure to make a good website that can bring you some earning need to keep an eye and a hand on it every time.. So to rise it a little and then stop, this will bring you back. So from this point of view I will suggest to sell it. Now while I will wait for you clarification, since, as I said, you lose me at some point, I suggest you to send me a PM with your website link to take a look at it. Thank you
Thanks for the response. I generally tend to write long and ramble on occasion so sorry if I got a little out there or didn't make much sense somewhere in the post lol. I understand the general guidelines for what you should & shouldn't do in "general" on websites to build traffic. I work on article/news/review based sites and wasn't sure if there was something special that applied when you're just dealing with a website that only does images/wallpapers vs regular articles. As for selling the site vs keeping it... I'll probably sell it, but obviously need to get the traffic back up to get my money back as I don't think a site with 30 page views per day is going to go for much. Would just like to break even so I can move on to other sites and projects. Having to produce top-notch wallpapers on a regular basis is much more difficult than producing articles, and much more expensive lol
I understand.. as I said i would like to talk in private about this since I got an idea while typing the first answer. Since then clear my mind a little more and I would take the permision to ask you if you are interested in JV. I got the SEO ability's you got the writing maybe together we may find a solution to grow this website and make some money and increase it's value.... So if you are interested send me the website to take a look over it. Thank you
The problem with a wallpaper site is it doesn't offer much content to Google Bot. Essentially its just seeing loads of pages with an iamge on it and a load of internal links. What I would suggest you do is add content throughout your site. Now I realse that its probably impossible to add content to every single one of your wallpaper pages, but what you could do is add 500 words of content to each of your category pages. This would allow you to rank your category pages pretty easily, for example 'space wallpapers' and related terms. You should also be looking at how to squeeze more out of your traffic. Your primary goal shouldn't be for the site to generate money, it should be to increase user engagement and sharing. Once you have that in place correctly the money will naturally flow afterwards, a lot of people approach this the wrong way round. Ensure the wallpapers are easy to share, available in a variety of formats, perhaps ask people to share when they download and so forth