Winter 2007 Case Study Part II

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I'd suggest a CPA or affiliate marketing offer for monetization as you'd get much more.

adsense won't generate much till you have a decent volume of traffic.

The other thing about blogging is that you need to build up a critical mass of content and have it indexed before you see significant SE traffic coming in.

Take a look at Eli's indexing strategies over at bluehatseo.com.
 
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Thanks for the suggestion. I'll look into it. However I thought the average is around $1.50 per CPA, and with 450 ad impressions I've made $1.40 through Adsense. Maybe my average is way off (been awhile since I've looked into it). I'll definitely experiment with affiliate offers, never tried them before though :(
 
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I'd suggest a CPA or affiliate marketing offer for monetization as you'd get much more.

adsense won't generate much till you have a decent volume of traffic.

The other thing about blogging is that you need to build up a critical mass of content and have it indexed before you see significant SE traffic coming in.

Take a look at Eli's indexing strategies over at bluehatseo.com.
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Id suggest not limiting yourself to any one form of income. Run and blend contextual and CPA ads, also throw CPM ads into the mix if you can, although I have not found any well paying CPM companies that allow their ads to be displayed on blogs.

BTW James H there is no average CPA payout as well as no average CPC... CPA ads can pay from a few cents per action to hundreds per action, im guessing there are even offers that pay out thousands, I just have not seen any thus far.
 
andrew wee said:
I'd suggest a CPA or affiliate marketing offer for monetization as you'd get much more.

adsense won't generate much till you have a decent volume of traffic.
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Adsense works better 90% of the time. The other 10% of the time you can make more money with CPA and affiliate products, but good. Remember to sell affilliate products you need very targeted traffic that wants to buy. Adsense is much easier.
 
What is the recommended amount of daily uniques before it is actually worth putting ads up? I've managed to bring my average from 20 uniques a day to 43.
 
I wouldnt worry to much about CPA ads if your completely new and are not receiving the traffic, throw up a few contextual ads and build your site.

Theres a reason why CPA ads payout so well! I would have some contextual ads up now! One thing that makes contextual ads so nice is that the engine providing them takes most of the work out of making ads convert, they throw up ads that are relivant to your content making it more likely that people are going to click and you dont have to worry about the next big step in the process which is that person that clicked actually following through with the required action.

Its good to have a mix up, dont limit yourself of depend on just one source of advertising, but if your only getting a few uniques per day I would not worry about anything more than throwing up some contextual ads and worrying more about dropping links and getting traffic, once your getting a decent amount of traffic I would start concentrating on experimenting with different sources of revenue.
 
How long has your blog been up?
What is the search volume for your targeted niche/ main targeted keyword?
What is the site saturation for your targeted niche/ main targeted keyword?
Is your blog indexed?
If so have you been tossed into Googles supplemental index?
How often do you update your blog?
is it unique content or scraped content?
Are you making comments in your own blog?
Are you promoting your site?
Is your blog based on something that truly interests you (if your building a long term site this is very important and even more so if your completely new to the game)

I could ask a few more questions, but with the answers to these I think we can start working on getting you some traffic and in turn revenue.
 
I wish this case study would take off but its seems to have stagnated a bit.

And yea Adsense is best for new sites with little traffic. It is very easy to start making money that way.
 
How long has your blog been up? 2 1/2 months

What is the search volume for your targeted niche/ main targeted keyword? Overture shows 61,000 for the term 'sports car'

What is the site saturation for your targeted niche/ main targeted keyword? Don't know what you mean by this

Is your blog indexed? Yup, new posts are indexed in about a day (according to site:carbloggin.com search in Google)

If so have you been tossed into Googles supplemental index? Not that I know of. I'm getting Google traffic to only one of my articles though.

How often do you update your blog? Daily

Is it unique content or scraped content? 100% unique, or rewritten to make it unique (for the 'latest news' kinda posts)

Are you making comments in your own blog? As in linking to different posts in my blog? Yea

Are you promoting your site? One or two forums, digg etc

Is your blog based on something that truly interests you (if your building a long term site this is very important and even more so if your completely new to the game) Hell yea, I've always loved cars ever since I saw my first Nissan 300zx Twin Turbo. Ever since then I've had them on my mind everyday of my life :)
 
Its pretty obvious that Jon gave up on this thread and for the people that are complete newbs that found this and got involved in hopes that they were going to find help from someone with experience and is making shit loads of money doing it, I truly feel sorry for you, but dont give up, if you have something to ask, shoot! There are allot of other people making money doing this shit that are willing to help and wont fuck around with you.

I am not a huge earner, but I make enough to pay my bills and to give my family a few extras and have no problem taking a few minuets out of my day giving my opinions and experiences so that it might help a newb that is serious about learning.

The important thing to remember is that none of the people making money in this business sat around waiting for one person to give them the answer or the magic formula, it all comes down to working your ass off, learning from others and learning from your mistakes. Dont waste your time waiting for someone to show you the way, make your own way and when you get hung up ask questions.
 
Ha ha ha ha, a Nissan 300zx twin turbo, my dream ride! but since starting a family I just have not been able to swing the money to get one. Theres always something else in the way to gobble up my cash.

Question number two, do a google search and you will see "sports cars" results in a feww hundred million results.

From the looks of your blog you have about 13 posts which is shit for being live for 2 1/2 months. you really need more content! and you also need to make sure you have a decent ping list set up. you need to get hundreds, thousands of posts. If you are serious about that site, set aside a few days to set your blog to post daily using AP timestamp, then once you have your blog auto updating with a few posts daily you can concentrate on dropping links, writting and submitting articles and other important functions.

If you do the above I can garuntee you that your site will see a major jump in traffic as well as placement.

So;;;;;

Set your blog up with enough content to update daily with idealy a few posts per day for a few months or at least a few weeks, to free up time to promote by dropping links, submitting articles and participating on other forums related to your niche, also submit to directories.

You can take things a step further and do keyword research for your posts and using highly targeted and well searched keywords in the titles of your posts and within the posts themselves.

Also nonce you start building content you are going to want to come up with a linking stradegy from page to page, post to post, page to post and what not, this is very important, inter linking is very important, but even more important is getting one way links.

So content then get out there and get some links, the search volume is there even though the niche is a bit over saturated it makes no difference, if you SEO right and get incoming links you will see traffic, you may not make it to number one for Sports Cars, but I garuntee youll see a jump in traffic.

Your site right now will never see more than a few uniques per day depending on natural traffic, you reall need to focus on, on site SEO, gaining links and content.
 
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Alright, so lets make a list of what people like me, who just made a blog, need to do to get started.
  • Get Wordpress up with all of the plugins you need: site map generator, adsense plugin, database backup, to name a few
  • Start posting 2 times per day for a month, then maybe relax and go back down to 1 post a day
  • Get a lot of posts cued up, then work on backlinks with link exchanges, blog directories, regular directories, article submissions (digg, etc), RSS submission
  • Participate in forums related to your niche, and try to promote your site without pissing off the administration
Well thats the basics I guess. And jerxs, if I'm writting 1-2 posts per day. its going to take me 2-3 months in order to get 100 posts to get a lot of traffic. How come other people seem to be able to accomplish this in under a month... Do they write there ass off? Or do they just scrape the content or have an auto-poster setup? Also, yea I know I have a shitty amount of posts. I forgot about the site until April, which I haven't skipped a day of updating yet :)
 
jerxs said:
Its pretty obvious that Jon gave up on this thread and for the people that are complete newbs that found this and got involved in hopes that they were going to find help from someone with experience and is making shit loads of money doing it, I truly feel sorry for you, but dont give up, if you have something to ask, shoot! There are allot of other people making money doing this shit that are willing to help and wont fuck around with you.

I am not a huge earner, but I make enough to pay my bills and to give my family a few extras and have no problem taking a few minuets out of my day giving my opinions and experiences so that it might help a newb that is serious about learning.
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Very well put. You gave a genuine interest in helping people and thats to be respected.
 
In a way Im kinda glad.
I missed out on this thread first time round by a few days and was kicking myself - thinking that you guys where on your way to making muchos mulaah!
Sadly (for you) it sounds like you've been left out to dry.
Anyways ... whilst I was sitting in front of my comp, brooding about the opportunity I missed, I thought about how I'd do it.

Keyword Research using KeywordDiscovery/Wordtracker
Write content about each of the top keywords
Add this to a blog everyday
Get a decent ping list or use pingoat
Put a big old Digg button on the blog
Digg a few or my own articles
Add a related Post Plugin to take care of Internal Inter linking
Make sure my WordPress blog is SEOd
Get Amit from DP to do some manual link submission for me
Put a little money into PayPerPost (targetting onky related, high PageRank posts)

Now, to my reckoning, that small list of action points should fulfill the requirements Jon roughly outlined all those months ago.

I was waiting for the final whistle to blow on this thread and you all tp reveal you're earnings but, well, Im not sure that'll happen. So, will I make mucho mulaah using my plan? Only time will tell!
 
Whats a good 'related post' plugin? I tried Jerome's Keywords: Related Post plugin and I couldn't get it to work.
 
You dont have to give me + rep, I learned everything I know online from other people that were willing to share. Im not a huge earner, but I pay the bills and I am far from being a guru, but I dont mind sharing what I do know.

Its all from what I have experienced very simple, but requires some work, tons of content, decent on site SEO and incoming links thats about it.....
 
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Its really not that much trouble, just 2 clicks or so for +rep. Its the least I could do.

I really need to work on backlinks, however I want to see what your opinion is. Here's the deal. I write articles based on what I read over at autoblog.com and other car blogs, but I'd like to think that I add in my own spice which makes them unique (and I also use my own adjectives and what not, so Google shouldn't flag it as duplicate). Its all up-to-date news in the auto world. The post gets indexed in about 1 day by Google. I figure that if I want to compete with the big guys reporting the same stuff as me, I need to get more backlinks so Google trusts my site more, and indexes it faster. Also, I throw in a unique article about anything thats on my mind which the guys over at autoblog.com haven't written about, which I hope attracts some attention to the places where I submit it, and maybe a few se traffic.

So my problem is backlinks. I'm getting indexed, I have fresh content each day, and Wordpress is pretty good at SEO (I still need to figure out how to quickly interlink my posts, still looking for a decent plugin). I just need more links in order to build up my reputation in the search engines.

Am I on the right track?
 
use a latest posts and latest comments plugin, thats a good way to start interlinking within your site;

 This is one site that I have been working pretty hard on lately "GoBassFishing dot net" that seems to be doing pretty well so far, surf around and notice the different types of linking I use, this seems to work pretty well for me. I have only been adding content to the domain now for a few weeks and have almost 1000 pages indexed, which may not seem like allot, but its all unique content.....

As important as interlinking throughout your site is, you need solid incoming links from other sites.

Id say you have a good start and are working in the right direction.....
 
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