I’ve had a lot of successful blogs in the past and I’ve used social media to drive tens of millions of visits to them, though I realized conversions were much more important than the number of visitors so I started focusing more on SEO. In the past, I was setting up blogs just for selling them. I was doing a lot of promotion on many social media platforms, like Digg, StumbleUpon, and Reddit and then flipping the blogs. It’s been a good business for me, because I was able to [...]
Most of the blogs approve comments automatically and this is because bloggers are lazy to verify each comment or they hope the anti-spam plugin will do its job. Currently I’m using Akismet and rarely a spam comments gets approvedy, so I let comments get approved automatically, though I check them all afterwards. Unfortunately, not all bloggers are like me and a lot of them don’t check the comments on their posts, which means the commentators only get exposure to that blog’s visitors. Usually when a blogger choses to approve comments [...]
A few months ago I became desperate on having more returning visitors on my blog so I started finding solutions. While one of them was to focus on better, more quality content, the other one was about increasing the subscriber base. Until then, I did only have about 1,000 subscribers and I was very disappointed about it. I knew that I had to find something I had to offer to my readers in order to subscribe, though I didn’t know what, because I am talking about a technology blog. Fortunately [...]
I have always been a fan of SEO because it’s one of the cheapest and best methods of driving traffic to your website. The advantage of SEO is that it brings targeted traffic which converts the best. If you have a blog or any kind of website, you definitely have to read something about SEO and do your best to optimize it, so you rank better for the keywords that interest you. Google is the #1 website in the world and it’s main goal is to drive visitors to the [...]
The Web 2.0 stuff has been a trend for a few years now and everybody wants a web 2.0 website. It doesn’t matter it loads in 5 minutes and 90% of the visitors don’t figure out how to navigate the menu, post a comment or contact the webmaster. Well, I think this really need to end, because people really don’t understand what web 2.0 is about. We will always get more and more new and better technologies, intended to bring the internet more features, make websites easier to use and [...]
I don’t have too many blogs in my RSS reader, because I prefer to keep only about 20-30 and make sure to check out all the posts. I wouldn’t have time to check them out if I added more, so I prefer keeping only the ones I really enjoy reading. Now here are my top 5 favorites, along with the ones known by everybody, like Shoemoney or John Chow. I will list them, along with my opinion about them, their “about me” page and a few posts written by them [...]
Like I’ve told you, I will keep you updated with my challenge and a week has just passed since I announced it. Unfortunately, it’s been a very busy week for me, because I had to travel to Bucharest, where I had no electricity, because I forgot to pay it, so I stayed in the dark for almost 2 days. After that, I had to deal with some issues concerning my company and I’ve had very little time for this blog. I’ve only posted 4 posts this week and made a [...]
Bounce rate is a very important factor for every webmaster, because it shows how many users leave the website after visiting the first page. Everyone wants to have a very low bounce rate and this isn’t always an easy task, but I have some really good tips for you that worked really great for me. One more reason the bounce rate is so important is that if you manage to increase it by 50%, you will literally have 50% more page views on your website and you all know that [...]
I’ve been sharing my first impressions about Google Instant with you a few days ago and now I’ve had enough time to track the changes and see what changed. Fortunately, I’ve noticed that the traffic on a lot of my long-tail keywords increased dramatically on one of my blogs and my earnings went up by 100%, which is more than great. Google Instant does not only suggest you long-tail keywords, but also show you the results for the specific long-tail keywords, which means you will get more SERP impressions. I [...]
Like I’ve told you before, I really have big plans for the blog, so I need a better, unique design. So I’ve hired a designer to make me a better, unique theme. Currently, he is working on it and it might be ready in about a week. I really like what he did until now, but I would also want to know your opinion about it. Currently, there’s not very much to see, except a part of the front page. Also, my plans for this blog have been screwed this [...]
