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Driving Traffic To New Blog Day Four

May 2, 2008

Hey everyone,

Well, it’s another one of those days, motivation is, well, hardly non-existent. Things are so much easier when they’re automated. ;)

Any way I’m gonna call it short for the day bit busy with other stuff that I need to take care of.

2nd May (Day 4)

* Started at 8:14am
* Submitted to another page to Onlywire
* searched for more social bookmarking sites
* Submitted blog to more 27 link directories
* Created more article snippets for forum replies
* Got 9 forum back links, and some on .edu domains. ;)
* Traffic received before starting 15 visits
* Adsense earned so far for May 1st (Day 3) $2.22
* Traffic received after finishing for the day 43 visits
* Finished for the day - time spent on project 2 hours 21 minutes

Recap.

As you can see, this is pretty much all we do to get traffic and do offpage SEO.
Locate Social Bookmarking sites and post your page, one a day or every other day and take note of those you submitted to.
Find Forums and blogs and submit comments and or article snippets.
Obviously there’s a lot more yet that I haven’t even mentioned of, we’ll get to those towards the end of next week.

So, so far, April Unique Visitor Count for 29th & 30th April = 47. May 1st & 2nd = 104. We’ve almost tripled our visitor count. :) And averaging 1.61 visitors / visit.

Traffic received so far

Above image shows this morning before starting.

No adsense clicks yet. But here’s yesterday’s total

Adsense Earnings So far

Here’s a little tip before I go so you can follow me as I do this.

“Your keyword” “powered by wordpress” site:.edu
“Your keyword ” “powered by vBulletin” site:.edu
“Your keyword” “powered by wordpress” site:.edu
“Your keyword ” “powered by vBulletin” site:.edu

Use the above, I’ve only done the vbulletin boards today, 10 so far and 4 of them has a PR4 on the TOPIC itself. Take some time to check the PR on the forum and then find an OLD post, and or an old thread that has been updated and just say thanks for the info, or what ever, but don’t forget to put your signature file in your profile area first before posting.
I anticipate that by the end of these 30 days, my potential PR will be PR3-5. If I kept at it for 60-90 days, PR5 shouldn’t be a problem. ;)

Here’s another tip, ready? you’re gonna love this.

site:edu
site:gov

site:edu blog “your keyword”
site:gov blog “your keyword”

Who needs Dmoz when you can get links this way? ;)

K, that’s it for now, off to work I go and update my forum for these free MLB Picks.

See ya all tomorrow.

All the best

Loz

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14 Responses to “Driving Traffic To New Blog Day Four”

  1. Anish on May 2nd, 2008 12:26 pm

    Hello Loz,

    I am following the progress and have signed up for the feed update.

    Really like the way you are going about it.

    May you have more success than you have planned.

    Anish

  2. Loz on May 2nd, 2008 12:32 pm

    No worries Anish. :)

    Just want to show that one doesn’t really need to bust their butt here, I’m a multi-tasker by nature, I get too bored doing the same thing all the time.

    One thing also to note the newly installed wordpress blog is new. pages are getting indexed in just under 24 hours.. the posts here are getting indexed in just under 12 minutes. When you have a new blog, it’s best to just start off slowly, then in about 2 months from now, one can go about adding two articles to the blog, which will require 56 articles for the month.

    I may even extend this case study to 60-90 days and see what happens. :)

    Give us a digg when you get the email from feedburner bud, there’s
    links at the bottom click on each one. ;)

    Cheers.

    Loz

  3. mark on May 3rd, 2008 7:38 pm

    Loz,
    Following case study and duplicating process, were do you suggest getting wp themes and what features to look for?
    Mark

  4. Loz on May 3rd, 2008 8:37 pm

    Hi Mark

    To be honest, I can’t really say, I know wordpress.com has some there, but I don’t like 99.99% of them. The ones I use are purchased from the same guy who made this template, see the footer of this page to be taken to his website.

    Sorry I couldn’t help much more in regards to that. Though I can only suggest to type in “Wordpress SEO themes” in google and take a look at what’s out there.

    All the best

    Loz

  5. Sharon on May 4th, 2008 12:09 am

    Loz, this is a wonderful project…thank you.

    But this line: “and just say thanks for the info, or what ever, but don’t forget to put your signature file in your profile area first before posting.”… I have just started watching videos so haven’t gotten there yet but - what is your signature file when you want to post on someone’s blog? Do you mean that you fill in your website (such as this blog where you have the option to do that) when you put in your name and email address which then allows you to post? So that there is a link to your site?

    Sorry if this is a dumb question but I don’t know what a signature file is.

    Sharon

  6. Jon on May 4th, 2008 12:43 am

    Loz,

    Another great post. You mentioned .edu and .gov domains- are links from these domains weighted differently by Google? I’m wondering why you singled them out.

    I wasn’t successful at getting the Adsense ads in between the paragraphs. I kept getting error messages. Maybe it’s better if I keep my hands off the HTML code.

    Speaking of Adsense, how come you don’t have it in this blog?

    Thanks,
    Jon

  7. Loz on May 4th, 2008 5:20 pm

    Hi Sharon

    Ok a blog doesn’t use a signature file, forums do. When you login to the forum and go into the profile / UserCP area you’ll see a section for signatures. That’s where you add your anchor text links, so each time you make a post your signature file will be attached.

    For blogs, where it shows an area to place your name there, you put in your keyword phrase instead, followed by your email address and website address.

    Hi Jon.

    I singled out the .edu and .gov sites cos they hold more weight, their trusted more than C-class IP addresses. ;)

    Regarding the adsense, all you need to do is install that plugin I mention in another post, add your code into the section of “save as default”, then in your posts you just add the token:

    [ad]

    where you want your adsense ad to appear.

    I don’t have it on here cos I don’t want people clicking on my ads and running up fraudulent clicks out of jealously. It happens, I read about it all the time, that’s why I don’t tell people what ALL my sites are. So be careful when you get to the stage I’m at earning over $10k a week in adsense via my business account, and showing people how you do it.

    All the best

    Loz

  8. Sharon on May 6th, 2008 3:14 pm

    Loz, let me make sure I understand this. I looked up anchor text links and think I understand them now. In your case, when you post forum entries that have your name and then 3 or so of your websites listed (and linked) underneath your name - that’s what you’re talking about for your signature file, right? Like this:

    Loz
    truth about forex (link)
    askloz (link)
    blah-blah (link)

    And for a blog, let’s say you had one about breakfast cereals. Instead of putting in “Joe Smith” for your name you’d put in “Breakfast Cereals”, then your email, joesmith@yahoo.com, and then the website, http://www.breakfastcereals.com. Right?

    By doing either option above, Google views the signature or the blog poster “name” as just another set of keywords on the page, which makes SEO better for that site…right?

    I’ll get it, honest! :)

    Do these links also count as links to your website and thus help your Alexa ranking?

    PS: Enjoying the videos, by the way!

  9. Loz on May 6th, 2008 4:16 pm

    Yup, but you don’t want to put your email address anywhere, there’s enough email spam going on as it is dear.

    it’s like a vote, if you have a piece of paper that says you’re going to elect for Obama Barack, and the more of these that are found with that name, the more chances are you are going to be elected, same thing here, more links there are out there with your anchor text link the more chances are you are going to rank for that keyword. :)

    It’s not your alexa ranking that you want to worry about, that goes up based on traffic and places that alexa monitors and has no bearing where you rank at all. The misconception about alexa rank when people say go over to those sites are ONLY for one reason and one reason only and not like what some have said stating that it helps you rank higher, it’s complete BS. What people are really trying to say is go over to high alexa ranked sites cos they get more traffic, and if they get more traffic the chances are the quicker your pages will get indexed since it’s quite possible that the site has thousands of links pointing to it and a lot of regular content being placed on that site which invokes the search engine bots to crawl the new content, thus, crawling the page in which your link is on. :)

    Cool, glad the videos are helpful :)

    Hope this helps

    All the best

    Loz

  10. Home Resources on May 7th, 2008 11:23 pm

    Jon, I have a similar blog site as you do (see my name) - where I am using the ‘old’ Adsense code without any plugin.

    I am of course also using Adsense Deluxe plugin from
    http://www.acmetech.com/blog/2005/07/26/adsense-deluxe-wordpress-plugin/

    If I want to put Adsense “inside my post” I am using Tables with the HTML version

  11. Loz on May 8th, 2008 9:41 pm

    Adsense Manager is MUCH better. :) It’s not just limited to Adsense, you can put all sorts of stuff on it. :)

    try it out, easy to install and configure. :)

    Loz

  12. Internet Marketing SEO on May 14th, 2008 7:28 am

    Just tried those .edu and .gov search strings.
    Pure gold dust!
    Cheers Loz.

  13. Rebecca on June 10th, 2008 6:16 pm

    First, I want to say how much I am enjoying this case study–it is so educational and helpful. Thank you for taking the time to do it.
    I don’t want to jump ahead, so I’m writing to you from this day, although I plan to follow each day’s advice. I do, however, have a few questions!
    1. I already have a wordpress blog (rjlacko.wordpress.com) and from all I can tell, Adsense is not allowed on Wordpress. How are you bypassing this?
    2. I am using your advice for my other blog (unassumingfoodie.blogspot.com) Even though I am trying very hard to follow your advice, I have yet to get a single click on my ads, and I am only averaging 10 visitors a day (my blog is roughly 1 month old. Granted, I don’t have Article Wizard feeding it on a daily basis, I am writing everything myself, and many days I don’t have time to post because I’m working so hard at just building the site/ads. But even still, not a single ad click? What can I do??
    Thank you again.

  14. Loz on June 13th, 2008 4:04 pm

    Hi Rebecca

    Sorry for the late in replying, I’ve been taking some time off

    Wordpress a long time ago did allow you to do this, then they decided that you couldn’t. But now apparently you can, I’ve read forum posts and blog posts stating that you can now. I personally don’t use wordpress.com to add ads on. I’ve not tried it, but there is a way to load them from an external source if you can add javascript to the posts.

    I took a look at your foodie blog, what i would do is add a 160x 600 ad unit at the top right hand side, above the image.

    Your 60×468 ad units rather than leaving it right at the bottom, stick it in the middle of the post using “adsense manager” plugin.

    That should help.

    Other than that, for me personally blogs don’t convert well, but normal websites do, so if you can find yourself a good template, many out there for free around the food industry, and copy the text you have on your blog and start building a new site and placing the ads in the right place that stand out, should increase click through rates.

    Hope this helps

    All the best

    Loz

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