My Blog - Having Trouble

[Lavish]

I'm impressed by what I've read here so far.

But I've been racking my brains trying to implement all this type of stuff and then monetizing it all. I'm inserting Google AdSense into my current blog but I'm having a tough time getting the Ads to be relevant to my page. I'm not really sure how to fix this.

Currently AdSense is on my sidebar and if you click on one of my blog links then it shows up on that page on the right side.

Any tips or comments would be majorly appreciated.

My blog is at The Playboy Life


Thanks.

 

[Lavish]

It seems changing my permalink structure has solved my problem regarding the AdSense. At least there are more relevant ads showing.

Now onto building a base.

I just added a tonne of servers to ping as well.

 

[joshmv]

Hey, welcome to the forums.

Nice blog, it seems like you know what your doing, so you might think about switching your free godaddy account over to the hosting side so you don't have the ugly ads up top. I believe it's only about $4.50 a month over there.

Are you looking for more ways to monetize it, design tips, etc? I'm sure we could come up with plenty.

You could always sign up for an affiliate network and start putting your own offers on the site rather than taking people away from your blog with the adsense.

 

[Lavish]

Thanks mate. I'm getting there but not quite where I want to be yet.

There's a few issues that are coming up. I notice when I put either my blog or my landing page into YSM or Google to crawl with keywords, they are all over the place. My blog is actually worse for that then my other sales landing page. And according to Google Webmaster Tools, my blog isn't even indexed yet. But that is SEO, I'm nutting it out everyday.

I know the next big thing to focus on is content and established loyal readership. I've found a few places that seem to have good information regarding that area.

Mainly in here I was looking for design tips and good ways to monetize it. Is it viable to run a PPC campaign for the same niche, redirect it to my blog and have their offer available on the sidebar, etc?

I actually did sign up for a seperate hosting account but in my haste I may have shut down the window before it finished (it was way too late at night ).


I was just looking at signing up with Copeac, I'll do that now under your link.

Thanks.

 

[Lavish]

Ugh.

GoDaddy has such a unfriendly user interface. Id never choose them again.

I just paid for the hosting. And I ended up losing my entire site. Part of it was my fault, but damn, there interface really is fucking shit. I ended up buying something that I never even knew I put on my shopping cart last time, and I couldnt get a refund.

So I lost the entire site. Had to rebuild it and I'm missing a lot of the posts I had on there. Guess it looks better now though without the ugly banner on the top.

But now the AdSense isn't displaying any ads again on the sidebar main page for some reason, when it did before.

 

[jryan21]

adsense usually takes a few days for the ads to be the most relevant. They have a different spider that they use for adsense (think it will id itself as "media partners" or something like that) Until your site gets indexed for adsense, the ads will mostly be based on the url of the page.

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