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Driving Traffic To New Blog Day Thirteen

May 23, 2008

May 23rd (Day 13)

* Started at 12.00 noon
* Social Booked more pages
* Submitted RSS Feeds to Various places like MY Yahoo!
* Submitted to more link directories
* Submitted to more article directories
* Got some more forum posts
* Adsense earnings so far $23.28
* Finished for the day - Time spent on project 2 hours 43 minutes.

Hey everyone

Sorry about yesterday, A few things came up that I had to take care of and couldn’t get it all done in time so I had to give yesterday a miss. Also, I’m going to have to give next week a miss too, to take care of this other stuff that I was doing yesterday, Plus I’ve got more testing to do for SEO Website Builder Pro, since more modules have been added and I need to test how they install and uninstall, etc on different servers and web hosting companies.

So with this week off, it doesn’t mean you can…lol Keep on doing this stuff until I get back. Ok?

Any ways up, today is really just like GroundHog Day, same stuff really. But the articles are starting to get approved now, even Ezine Articles, 3 days it took to approve.

I now have articles spread across 7 article directories, the blog is set up to have 90 posts posted automatically.

All my a href links are all set up in another file. I’ve got loads of Bio sections already made for pages that have already been published on the blog.

Adsense is still climbing averaging around $1.00 or so a click.
Daily average is $1.01, which one can’t grumble about at this stage.
I mean, that’s $365.00 a year spending approx 3 hours a day on one site. Now if you did 12 hours a day, you could really get 4 websites up and running. Quit after one month, and get another 4 websites up and running. So what’s that? 4 websites per month, x 12 months = 48 websites. That’s almost $15,000 a year (basic wage for some people). As the content that’s set to get published at a future date, the more money you’re going to make, and more traffic you’re going to receive.


Traffic seems to remain steady at 60 or so visitors a day at the moment.

I know I have repeated this a few times, but let me repeat it again for those who might be embarrassed to ask this question.

Submitting to article directories. The matrix linking is somewhat confusing.

All we are doing is submitting our first 5 articles that revolve around Keyword 1. these articles have links that point to our blogs pages, home page and two inner pages.

The next day, we do the same again, but for Keyword 2, and have 3 links in our bio section pointing to our home page, and two inner pages of our blog / website. These anchor text links are named the same, ie, if the page is about Personal Loans, then I’ll link up the article bio section anchor text link to that page about personal links with the actual name of that keyword (personal Loans) and so on. It’s still ok to add other related words to those pages too, since it’s nice to mix it up somewhat or even add 3 worded phrases that contain the same keyword, ie, “Personal Loan Assistance’, “Faxless Payday Personal Loans”, see where I’m coming from here?

As the days go by, the articles are being approved, as before, I jot down the links to these articles that were approved to a note pad. On my next submission of articles to article directories, I add these links to my bio section, again with the same related keyword(s). It’s still ok to link up say for instance, An ezine article that was approved to another Ezine Article that was approved, and so on, and share some link love from ezine articles that were approved to another article directory, but always leaving at least one pointing to my home page of the blog / website with the main keyword that I am aiming for.

Now I don’t expect to rank for that keyword for quite some time on the first page, it’s gonna probably take me around 100-300 one way back links to get there. I could shorten the gap more by building up the article’s importance that contain these phrases via other 3rd party websites. Remember, when a 3rd parties article is ranking high, so will yours too. :)

What I would also like you to concentrate on next week while I’m not here is to focus on creating some article snippets to post to hubpages and squidoo lens pages, and find other related websites that do the very same. So for instance, create 5 article keyword snippets and link them up to 5 of those related article snippet pages on your blog / website. Create about 5 of them, that’s 25 links pointing to your site. Then do the same for hubpages. Then create another 5 more from each but this time, link them up to squidoo to your hub pages, and to your articles that were approved.

Also, what I want you to do, is go to Yahoo! Answers, create two user names. one will be to ask a question, the next day, or the day after, I want you to answer that question. ;) Do this for every page that is live on your website / blog, articles that were approved, squidoo len’s, hub pages, social bookmarking pages. Ok. :)

Keep doing this for a while, we’ll probably be doing this along with what we have been doing so far, for at least 4 - 6 weeks more. Then when I hit the 12 week mark. I’m going to stop. And let nature take it’s course. I’ll probably review the site in about 2-3 months and repeat a few things I did 3-5 months prior.

I’ll draw up an image of what this looks like week from Monday. 2nd June when I recommence.

I also want you to find some rss feed places, take “My Yahoo!” you can add a rss feed to it. You can do the same to Google, Ask, and various other places.

With this week off, hopefully it will allow some of you guys to catch up. :)

Until 2nd June everyone, thanks for your comments, please do not be afraid to ask a question if you have any, it’ll be my pleasure to help you’s all out.

Have an awesome weekend all. ;)

All the best

Loz

Traffic So Far


Written by Loz · Filed Under Casy Study 

Comments

15 Responses to “Driving Traffic To New Blog Day Thirteen”

  1. Jeremy on May 25th, 2008 11:03 am

    I am very confused as to link structure and use of key words

    3 link from directory to inner pages of blog

    Home Page
    Page 1 = key word 1
    page 2 = keyword 2

    Article 1 = 3 links
    1 to page1 = keyword 1
    1 to page 2 = keyword 2
    home page

    How is link 2 to keyword to related to the topic of keywor 1?

    Sorry but I am just confused

  2. Jeremy on May 25th, 2008 11:03 am

    Here is a link to a diagram I set up
    http://interior-painting-diy.blogspot.com/2008_05_23_archive.html

  3. Johan on May 26th, 2008 5:55 am

    Hi again,

    Just another short question:) All ebooks and stuff i have read while learning talk about the 80/20 rule. 80% content and website development and 20% promotion.

    In this case it feels like 20% content and 80% promotion:) I guess this is because we have almost automated the content createtion. Do you have any thoguhts of this rule?

    BR,
    Johan

  4. Loz on May 26th, 2008 2:30 pm

    Jeremy…

    Here’s how I do it.

    Article Directory 1, Article 1, keyword one. points to
    Home page, and two inner pages. they’ll have anchor text as follows

    Home page = Personal loans
    Inner page = Home Equities
    Inner page = faxless loans

    Article Directory 2, article 2, keyword one points to
    Home page, and two inner pages. they’ll have anchor text as follows

    Home page = Personal loans
    Inner page = No credit check loans
    Inner page = secured personal loans

    and so on.

    Next lot of articles, for keyword two.

    Article Directory 1, article 1, keyword 2
    Home page, and two article directories. they’ll have anchor text as follows

    Home page = Personal loans
    Article Directory 1, article 1 = Keyword 1
    Article Directory 2, article 1 = Keyword 1

    And really mix it up some.

    Already I’ve got like 25 back links from other sites that are using my articles that were posted to these article directories. :)

    ————

    Hi Johan,

    the 80 - 20 rule, sure, only works when you have people working for you, but in reality, in my opinion, you’re gonna spend more of that time on your own than having a network of people helping you.

    Any hows, in this case, we’re not spending 80% in promotion here. 2 - 3 hours work a day, doesn’t equate to 80% effort put in. As time goes on, just like with many of my sites, I let them be when they’re getting around 200+ visitors a day. then pop back a few months later and spend prolly about an hour every other day getting more links.

    As mentioned before, I set up RSS Feeds on my other network websites, so the back linking is automated each time a new post gets published, so it’s all good.

    All the best

    Loz

  5. Lou G on May 31st, 2008 4:25 am

    Hey Loz. I have a few questions. What are you doing to promote your feedburner account? Is that where your messageboard posts are coming into play?

    Also, I have been submitting to directories non-stop and all of them are relaying a similar message that it will be weeks or even months before my link is approved. How are you getting such instant results using this method?

    Thanks for these posts. They are full of great information.

  6. Okezone on June 1st, 2008 7:32 am

    What kind of social bookmarking are you submitting?

  7. Loz on June 1st, 2008 10:35 am

    Hi Lou G,

    I’m not sure what you mean what I am doing to promote my feedburner account, are you referring to the RSS Feed? If so, RSS Submit.

    Okezone, Hi, I’m not clear on what you’re trying to ask. :(

    All the best

    Loz

  8. Loz on June 2nd, 2008 2:01 pm

    Hi everyone

    I gotta take some more time off, sorry. I’m not really feeling up to my best past few days. I thinks me need to see a doctor, I’m not sure if it’s something to do with my Spinal-Bifida Oculta or what (tattered nerve endings).

    I’ve sorta been ok over the years, I can walk and what have you, but I get a lot of discomfort sitting in this chair all day long, 8-18 hours a day, even without what I was born with, those many hours in a chair is enough to give anyone a bad back I guess…lol

    Any ways, it’s not the back pain that’s bothering me, I’ve kinda accepted that a long time ago and sorta automatically ignore the pain. What’s bothering me, which has been now for about 6 weeks, is right under my left Arse cheek, towards the middle of my thigh is just killing, like a trapped nerve or something, any ways, it’s bloody uncomfortable and can barely walk on my left leg, so much so I can’t sleep well at night and pumping myself full of pain killers isn’t gonna solve things.

    I prolly need more excerise, gonna see how it goes for the next 2-3 weeks and try and stay off this PC for as long as I can and see if it’s the lack of excerise that’s causing this, if it’s not, then I need to get myself off to a Doctor by the end of this month if it’s not any better.

    Speak to ya all soon..

    All the best

    Loz

  9. Jon on June 3rd, 2008 9:30 pm

    Loz,

    Take care of yourself.

    Best,
    Jon

  10. Baz on June 30th, 2008 2:51 am

    Hey Loz,

    Thinking the best 4 you,
    Kind regards
    Baz

  11. RJ on July 2nd, 2008 5:07 pm

    Hey Loz,
    Why does the Case Study end at Day 13? When can we hope to get more of this excellent information?! You’re the best!
    Also, I’ve had several companies approach me to write a review about their product on one of my blogs. How much can I reasonably charge for this service?

  12. Loz on July 2nd, 2008 6:20 pm

    Hi RJ

    If you take a look 4 posts above yours, I’m taking some time off. :)

    How much to charge? That all depends on how much traffic you get on your website and how much their product is.

    You could charge a one off fee, or a monthly fee, up to you really.

    All the best

    Loz

  13. hendro on September 18th, 2008 2:06 am

    I’m glad to found this trasure from you. I will use your system for my blog, hope will have same good result, but i/m sure it will. Btw, I want to ask about articles that you submitted to articles directory. Are you wrote the articles by yourself or you use articles from Instant Article Wizard ? Hope you can answer my question. Thank You

  14. Loz on September 18th, 2008 5:04 am

    Hi, no worries,

    Yup, I create all the articles with instant article wizard and website content wizard, this blog talks about it.

    All the best

    Loz

  15. hendro on September 18th, 2008 9:22 am

    Thanks for the answer. I will order instant article wizard and website content wizard asap.

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