Well, I have been working kinda hard lately, not getting enough sleep so my video might be hard to understand but I am showing you how you can boost 20-30% more “search” web traffic on your blog.
I simply don’t have time to go into detail in writing as of now but when I get a chance, I will make sure to make some real diagrams to explain how everything works.
Here’s links to the videos in different formats:
Click Here to View in Full Screen Mode
Well, here’s possibly the biggest new blogging theme style ever, a blog theme focused on ’search’.
“People who tend to search click ads more. They need to find what they are looking for.”
I have some exciting news to tell you, that is the new Adsense Optimized Search Engine Wordpress Blog Theme.
Basically, the layout of this new theme allows people to easily search for anything on your blog.(You can see example at Zedomax.com here)
My research and analysis show that people who “search a LOT” tend to have higher chance of clicking on ads, simply due to the fact that that’s how Google works too.
Anyways, this new theme can drive your CTR much higher. (in theory still and experimenting)
I will have this theme free available for download soon on this blog. Plus, I will have a pro version which comes with extra AJAX features (that I will be developing).
If you want the free pro-version without having to pay, write a blog post about this blog post and I will put you on my guestlist. 
Well, in the light of political voting all around the country today, we will be going over the Proposition 8, which has been causing a quite a stir among the advertisers online.
First, we will look at the 2 main sites, one which supports Prop 8 and the other one that doesn’t.
http://www.noonprop8.com - No On Prop 8 is a site that features California politicians such as Senator Diane Feinstein claiming that Proposition 8 is unconstitutional and about discrimination.
http://www.protectmarriage.com - Protect Marriage is a site that doesn’t feature any politicians and claims that this Proposition will “protect” people’s marriages. Speaking of, our marriages aren’t protected enough already? I don’t think there’s any more things to “protect”.
Anyways, I don’t want to get involved in the politics here, just the web traffic.
Here’s it is:
As far as web traffic, I think ProtectMarriage.com is doing really well due to the fact that they spent a LOT of money on Google AdWords ads, I’ve seen a slew of them on my site as of yesterday.
Will that be a factor in people’s votes for Prop 8?
Well, to a certain extent yes, but it’s really going to be up to the voters who have to be educated enough to make their own decision.
In my opinion, Prop 8 does look like a completely targetted bomb towards California’s recent legalization of gay marriage. I think it will be very unfair for those people who have been fighting for their rights, only to be anulled by some new Federal law.
Am I educated enough? I think so, I live in a very diverse community of Asian, White, Black, and Gay people and I know how each of those groups are like and many of my friends are spread among different races, even redneck people. Yes, I do believe San Francisco is slightly ahead of rest of the U.S. as far as cultural diversity is concerned. People are more about who’s better, not what color or sexual orientation someone is.
If San Franciscans or Californians were still stuck behind the discrimination curtain, we wouldn’t be the #2 greenest city in the world or the fact that people all over the world “flock” to this small, peninsula city.
I also do feel New York is sorta similar on the East Coast. As far as the “rest” of the U.S., I think we still need to go over 4th grade history class couple more times on Constitutional rights. Okay, that’s far-fetched idea for those of you who are still not “diverse”.
How about ProtectGayMarriage.com?
I think this has absolutely everything to do with civil rights movement and the decision to voting against gay marriage will have a devastating effects on some gay people who are already married. Not that I care that much, that’s why I’d vote against anything unconstitutional.
You don’t have to be gay to protect people’s rights. You are one of the people too. Vote No on Prop 8, it sounds like bunch of BS to me.
Here’s a list of all the organizations who are for No on Prop 8.
Well, as promised, I am actually going to apply what I blogged about last couple days by providing you with a new Blog Internet Marketing 101 E-Book.
This E-book is pretty much composed of all the best blog posts I have made in the past.
Although I could have written an E-book from scratch, I made this E-book in about 30 minutes using scraps of blog posts on this very blog.
In this blog post, I will show you how to “time” blog posts using Google Trends to get a good share of traffic during those holidays such as Halloween, Thanksgiving, New Years, etc…etc…
Above is a chart of term “Halloween” and it’s search volume over the period of last 5 years. (You can see it on Google Trends here)
Regardless of what “topic” your blog is about, you can take advantage of these “massive” traffic sprouts that occur on American holidays. (or any other “events” of the world)
As an example, I started researching which keywords would have the most volume out of all the relevant Halloween keywords and found that “Halloween Costume Ideas” would be a good target keyword to go for.
So, I started posting all type of Halloween Costume Ideas on my tech blog Zedomax.com about a month before the holidays. Of course, the result was that I had few extra visits but not much results.
Well, it turns out that I had also done “Weird” Halloween Costumes blog posts over at our weird blog DeClubz.com. (This site is actually what Keetsa was going to be named, one of the logo candidates. Since it no longer was needed, I simply used the domain name for a new blog. I had this domain name registered for 3 years so why not?)
Anyways, the result was that DeClubz.com now show up on the first page of Google for the term “weird halloween costumes” and I though that was really “weird”. From that, I have been receiving a good 200-300 traffic everyday and continuing to grow until Halloween the end of this month. (The Peak hasn’t hit yet as you can see in the Google Trends graph above)
Well, whatever your blog is about, let’s say a Business Blog, you can write about “Business Halloween Costumes” and take advantage of the holiday traffic spike.
The fact is that there’s a HUGE increase in how many people search for Halloween-related stuff as we near the holiday. If you can even take 0.00001% of this traffic, that could equal 200-300 extra unique visitors for your blog.
That’s simply what I did and you can too by simply writing about Halloween but you need to add that “niche” topic, you can simply go for “Halloween Costumes” as that’s too competitive.
Here’s some ideas for your blogs:
Music Blog - Music related Halloween Costumes such as “Rapper Halloween Costumes” would be good.
Food Blog - You can feature blog posts about the Top 10 Food Halloween Costumes”.
Golf Blog - You can feature a blog posts about “Pro Golfer Halloween Costumes”.
The great part is that this isn’t a hack or anything, it’s just common sense and it’s great for your blog readers to read about “current events” while providing an idea for their Halloween costume this year, related with your blog.
Since your blog is already highly “niche”, for example, a Golf Blog, you are going to show up near the first page of Google when you write about “Golf Halloween Costumes”.
Well, there’s still about 9 days to go before Halloween so if you haven’t written anything about Halloween on your blog, go do it as you this might actually the best time before the traffic spike.
Now, the greatest part about writing such Halloween-related blog posts is that your effort isn’t all about just this year. Next year, your blog posts written this year will get traffic plus the new ones you post next year.
Call it a “snowball” effect if you want. But I just told you, one of the simplest ways to increase your blog traffic by writing great content, just title it right. This is also where to money is too, the more search traffic you get, the better chance that those visitors will click your Adsense ads.
In my previous post about how to write an E-book in 5 hours, I also mentioned that you need to create a link on your RSS Feed so people will be able to download the E-book only if they subscribe to your blog via e-mail. (also check out the 1-day results of the E-book phenomena)
Well, to do this, you need a little bit of hacking but it’s simply as I will outline it for you.
First, you will need to create an XML file that FeedFlare needs to recognize.
I create an XML file like this:
<!DOCTYPE FeedFlareUnit SYSTEM "FeedFlareUnit-1.0.dtd"> <FeedFlareUnit> <Catalog> <Title>Download FREE Zedomax DIY HOWTO E-Book with 300+ Pages of Electronic Projects</Title> <Description>Download FREE Zedomax DIY HOWTO E-Book with 300+ Pages of Electronic Projects</Description> </Catalog> <FeedFlare> <Text>Download FREE Zedomax DIY HOWTO E-Book with 300+ Pages of Electronic Projects</Text>
<Link href="http://zedomax.com/diy/diyebook.pdf"/> </FeedFlare> </FeedFlareUnit>
(UPDATE: If you have hard time seeing the code, try opening up http://zedomax.com/diy/diy.xml and right-click->View Page Source)
Now simply copy and paste above code and save it as “sample.xml” or whatever you want to name it with .xml extension. Of course, you might want to change the wording to whatever you need. (Change the Title, Description, Text, and Link href.)
Then upload this file onto your website. (I uploaded to http://zedomax.com/diy/diy.xml, you can click to see)
Second, go to FeedFlare, which is under the Menu->Optimze->FeedFlare in your Feedburner dashboard.
Simply past in your xml http address. For me, I simply plugged in the http://zedomax.com/diy/diy.xml address like this:
Once you do that, you should see the following:
Make sure that the checkmark is checked and you are pretty much done.
When reader subscribe via E-mail, they will see something like this:
(NOTE: It might take couple minutes or a new post before this change appears on your feed. If you don’t see it, try writing a test blog post.)
and the link will of course lead to the Link href I set in the beginning of this blog post. (http://zedomax.com/diy/diyebook.pdf)
Of course, this is a very “crude” method of actually knowing how many people downloaded your E-book.
Next time, I will show you how to add statistics to track how many people are downloading your PDF E-book. (And I will show you how to do this without paying for any statistics services)
I know how to do it, just haven’t implemented it yet.
Although there’s not much traffic and subscribers yet on this blog, I will be soon making another E-book from the content on this blog to try the method.
Stay tuned and connected folks! (Networking is major key to bloggin success)
Well, as you know, I did a post on how I made an E-book in 5 hours using the content I had sitting somewhere in my blog.
Within just 1 day, Zedomax.com hit the highest RSS subscription of 1286, 74 more than ever, which was 1212 subscribers on October 7th.
Here’s the screenshot to prove the point:
I will have a full DIY How-To post on how to do this with Feedburner (hopefully tomorrow as I got about 3 major projects for clients, my computer is asking for a vacation right now).
Well, in short, the short term results look real good, I even added a sidebar “ad” to make sure new visitors to Zedomax.com will see the free DIY E-book too.
That’s all for today but my advice is to look for any old content in your blog, harddisk, wherever, you may not need to write an E-book from scratch, just put it together.
On the side note, Josh Whitford from Unconventional Marketing has joined our Zedomax Blog Network. I should have a full review on his blog and what Josh does well on the Zedomax.Net blog.
We are also currently looking for PR4+ blogs with a good amount of good content to add to our blog network so if you are interested, e-mail me at zedomax [at] gmail.com.
And another side note, this blog seems to taking a life of its own (very steadily), thanks to you readers who have been commenting and visiting.
Well, yesterday I wrote a 300+ page E-book for my tech blog, Zedomax.com in just 5 hours!
Well, I had about 29+ original content DIY blog posts (hiding somewhere in my blog). I simply opened up my Word, copy and pasted those blog articles, then converted to PDF via Adobe Acrobat with interactive bookmarks and hyperlinks so people can also click an image to see the larger version online.
That’s right! You don’t need to write a new E-book from scratch, you may already have tons of content right there on your blog. You simply need to organize it, add Table of Contents, Intro, etc…etc…
A lot of bloggers have been reaping tons of more new readers and benefits, simply by offering a free E-book in return for subscribing to the blog via E-mail.
John Chow also has a great article, I can’t find the original article but here’s something close to it.
I’ve seen bloggers go from zero to like 8,000 RSS subscribers in couple months using this method.
If you have a lot of original content you can stich up into an E-book, it can be very valuable for the readers since they don’t have to be online via internet to read your book.
On top of it, the E-book can spread virally like a wildfire if people do like it.
One more thing, with addition of new E-book reader such as the Amazon Kindle, E-books can also now be downloaded in many forms to even PDAs, cellphones, etc…etc…
Well, since is my very first E-book, I don’t know how the results are going to be but I am already now working on an E-book for this blog, so watch out for that.
I will also have a HOW-TO article on how to get your Feedburner to show the E-book download link next. You will need that gimick in order for the E-book marketing to work effectively while gaining more RSS readers.
Well, today I did a write up on How to Get a Job Overseas on my tech blog. (I should have really written it here…)
It’s actually a real life story, something I did in order to get a job, I went to South Korea for a year right out of college because I couldn’t find a job in the States.
If you just graduated from college or have been jobless for months, this article may help you find a job and think “outside” the box, box being America.
Even if you don’t speak another language, there’s thousands of big U.S. companies who have overseas offices and they actually need English-speaking people working there too with great pay and benefits. They will even pay for your flight, rent, and any funds required for relocation. (You just gotta “look” for the jobs.)
That’s right, if you just lost your job or can’t find a job around where you live, just go find another “place” in the world that needs you.
In short, you need to find a job that’s high in demand, low in supply. In America, this is a BIG problem for everyone who graduates from college, as there’s NO JOBS! It’s been like that couple years ago and will get worse and worse as most of start-up jobs are gone overseas. (Now, I took advantage by going overseas, you can too.)
