July 3rd, 2008

Web Traffic Case Study - ProGolferDigest.com

Web Traffic Case Study - ProGolferDigest.com

Well, here’s a blog that I have been working on since couple months ago.  As you can see, ProGolferDigest.com has been around almost a year now and I was getting like good decent traffic of around 200-300 uniques per day.  The site went down for couple days due to my lazyness.

Since March, I have been doing about 1-3 posts per day, all targeted at my SEO target keywords but found that this golf is still one of the best kept hidden goldmines.

Basically, the traffic growth resulted all from Google search terms.  Hence, this type of blog is explosive for making money online as a large number of your readers are people searching on Google and other search engines.

I’ve also learned that when you write a post about current events such as the U.S. Open, you get a spike of search engine traffic due to the people who are searching for it.

With just couple Adsense, this blog is making almost couple clicks, which isn’t too bad.

I think with a larger traffic such as around 2000 pageviews per day, this type of blog can make about $50-100 per day due to the “niche” of the blog.  The golf blog world hasn’t even started, there’s not enough golf blogs yet…

By end of this year maybe that could happen if I keep blogging daily about golf…man I’d rather play golf.  (That’s why I end up going golfing because I write about it…works I guess…)

This is my mindset for Multiple Blogs

Grow multiple blogs  and start watching which one grows faster, and then concentrate on those fast blogs to expect some results.

The slower blogs can be slow so really adjust your focus on building the blogs that are “growing” faster.

I think you need to really have multiple blogs in order to be successful at making money blogs as you can’t rely on one subject.

Once you develop couple really interesting topics for you and your niche market, you simply grow it with all the other blogs but watching the results in-between.

Which ever blog is growing faster, meaning more “search engine” traffic increase over a period of time, you need to put all your bloggers and blog posts onto those blogs.

Eventually, every site you run will increase in reputation and rankings if any one site increases due to the “network” structure of multiple blogs.  The opposite can happen, but you can simply deplete that link if the worst comes to worst.

Well, that’s my theory anyways.

If you have a better one, please feel free to suggest and use the comments.

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December 8th, 2007

SEO HACK - Don’t Buy WordPress Affiliate Pro, just get the Link A Dink Plugin

I just stumbled onto John Cow’s blog while stumbling through some sites on EntreCard, then stumbled onto CashQuests. I bought this WordPress Affiliate Pro plugin which allows you to changes any keyword in your blog post to an affiliate link. I originally bought it so I could link some of my target keywords to certain blogs for SEO and whatnot. But it turns out the WordPress Affiliate Pro only let’s you link in the format of,”http://zedomax.com/blog/wp-content/plugins/wp-affiliate-pro.php?id=5″. How dumb is that? I paid $100 for something that links their text! (They are linking “wp-affiliate-pro”)

I couldn’t even change the WordPress Affiliate Pro either because the source code is encrypted so you can even change it.

I paid a fair $100 for this crappy plugin and now I find out there’s Link A Dink Plugin.

(Yes, I’d like my money back since I spent $100 on something very unuseful.)

You might wonder, what does this plugin do? Basically you can replace all keywords in your blog posts to whatever link you want so you can link up whole bunch of affiliate links and monetize your blog from your OLDER blog posts and new ones. I am sure any one blogger has a Google search term that keeps bringin’ traffic. Use this plugin and link it to your affiliate links. Don’t know what an affiliate is? Go sign up for an account at CJ.com.

Here’s the info you need:

On the bright side, now I got a plugin that I can actually use for SEO AND the source code so I can modify it, not that I’d need to.

This plugin replaces words in your posts with anything you want. I use it to replace words with links. For example, if you see my sister’s name, Ashley, anywhere on the site, it will link to a picture of her.

Upload it, install it, then go into the Link A Dink settings page in your Options.

Alright cool.

DOWNLOAD v 1.8

via CashQuests

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