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I'm very interested in starting a blog and I'm sure I will post a whole bunch of questions further down the road but for now I'm just researching SEO. When using the Google Keyword Tool and viewing the results, what does competition imply? The key words and phrases I'm thinking about using are marked as "Low" and "Medium", this is good I presume, but what does it actually mean? Is it a sign of how difficult it would be to get to the top spot for the search terms you want to target?
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I'm still new to this stuff but I tend to ignore the competition row. I'm pretty sure it has nothing to do with SEO but all about adwords competition. If the competition is low, then not many people are bidding on those specific words. On another note, I think I made the classic new blogger mistake. BestCartoonsEver was way to broad but it has been a great source of blog ideas. I just begun http://www.brucebanner.net and going to make an Incredible Hulk blog. Hopefully, it's much more targeted so I can start selling some affiliate products.
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beadgc posted:I'm very interested in starting a blog and I'm sure I will post a whole bunch of questions further down the road but for now I'm just researching SEO.
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Dec 19, 2011 22:22
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If you use a theme like Heatmap, making a few modifications might be helpful. Just read this article that suggests some recommended modifications for 100k blueprint users, and it seems like any ad optimized theme could suffer from similar issues. http://www.potpiegirl.com/2011/08/100k-blueprint-warning-read-this/
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Dec 20, 2011 14:03
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rocinante posted:If you use a theme like Heatmap, making a few modifications might be helpful. Just read this article that suggests some recommended modifications for 100k blueprint users, and it seems like any ad optimized theme could suffer from similar issues. http://www.potpiegirl.com/2011/08/100k-blueprint-warning-read-this/ I removed my footer from Heatmap and I went up a full page on Google. I'm not sure if that's a coincidence or not but it happened literally 24 hours after I did it.
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Dec 20, 2011 16:08
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I'm still wondering why the thread wasn't titled "I got 99 visits but a click ain't one"
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Dec 20, 2011 16:59
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FCKGW posted:I'm still wondering why the thread wasn't titled "I got 99 visits but a click ain't one" Split testing didn't support it.
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So I had some issue with my robots.txt and Bing/Yahoo. I got that fixed and now my rank on Google dropped dramatically. I had a page that had finally crept to a ranking of 10/11, bouncing between the first and second page and now it's not even ranked at all! I had to resubmit my sitemap and everything in Webmaster tools in order to get my issue fixed, could that be it? How depressing! Edit: It's like Google is indexing it for the first time. There is no preview available and no meta information. It's literally just the site name "Top Ten Smartest Dogs" and under it shows a link to the page. Yesterday it was "Top Ten Smartest Dogs," meta text, then a link, and it had a preview picture. Has this happened to anyone else? Moniker fucked around with this message at 15:37 on Dec 21, 2011 |
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Dec 21, 2011 15:29
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So I'm starting up a blog, again. Maybe two, in fact, one will just be personal, mostly. The primary one will be on automated trading, but I'm still trying to find a good keyword for that. Thanks for this thread, it's been really informative, and hopefully when I'm more set up I'll be able to share mine.
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Dec 22, 2011 20:22
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Moniker posted:I removed my footer from Heatmap I'm considering buying the Heatmap theme, was this difficult to do? Is there anything in their ToS saying the link has to remain?
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No, and it is easy to take out for beginners, as it is in the options and not the php.
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Hey there people, This is a great guide, and it helped me start up my own blog. It's mostly for the fun and experience on it. It's a blog I am building so I can learn how to actually blog. I have dedicated it to my favourite game 'Heroes of Newerth'. http://www.honforeverybody.com Would you be so kind as to put it on your list? Also, check it out if you are ever so slightly interested in the game. cheers
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Dec 23, 2011 08:54
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Gadarene posted:I'm considering buying the Heatmap theme, was this difficult to do? Is there anything in their ToS saying the link has to remain? Literally every option is customizable in the options. It's the best.
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Dec 23, 2011 13:40
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Anyone else note a drastic change in traffic during the holidays? I've dropped down 50%!
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cartooncart posted:Anyone else note a drastic change in traffic during the holidays? I've dropped down 50%! Like, over Christmas? Most people aren't on their computers when visiting friends and family.
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I'm ranking 4 and 5 for my targeted keyword on my dog site.  Lets see if this continues/brings me some traffic!Edit: Ever since this happened I've noticed weird stuff in my stats. Should I change my robots.txt to block out unwanted bots? My unique visits per day:  My robot information:  Is there something funky going on or is this normal? I highly doubt that I had 2200 visitors overnight? Moniker fucked around with this message at 06:22 on Dec 27, 2011 |
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Dec 27, 2011 05:30
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cartooncart posted:Anyone else note a drastic change in traffic during the holidays? I've dropped down 50%! Yep I've had basically zero traffic and zero clicks, normally I earn a good $5 each day..
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Dec 27, 2011 08:25
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Is there anything stopping me from setting up a site with some affiliate links, a store or similiar for an american company like Amazon, even though I live in Sweden? Does it matter where the site is hosted or where I registered the domain? Is there a suitable guide anywhere for somebody who has never bought a domain, paid for hosting or used wordpress before? How do I set it all up? I'm not completely lost when it comes to computers but I'm not sure where I'm supposed to begin here, but I'm really anxious to get going with my first blog. I'm eventually looking at starting a second blog, what type of hosting should I look into if I want to maintain two blogs sometime in the not to distant future? Edit: Added a few questions beadgc fucked around with this message at 16:43 on Dec 27, 2011 |
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beadgc posted:Is there anything stopping me from setting up a site with some affiliate links, a store or similiar for an american company like Amazon, even though I live in Sweden? Does it matter where the site is hosted or where I registered the domain?
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Moniker posted:This is all in the OP, really. Yeah, maybe I'm overthinking some things. I guess I'll just jump in and roll with the punches.
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beadgc posted:Yeah, maybe I'm overthinking some things. I guess I'll just jump in and roll with the punches. This is honestly the best way to do it. You will get to a point where you are doing too much research and never actually pull the trigger in anything. This is why people make so much money selling WSOs on the Warrior forum. You can read all you want but you will never learn how whatever happens until you try it yourself then see and learn from the results.
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Scotsman posted:It's best to jump in with something you want to do, even if it fails. At least you are motivated to work on it and learn while you are working on it - learning being the key thing. Just quoting in case anyone missed this, but his site has a TON of a really good info for anyone wanting to get started with blogging/affiliate marketing.
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Bodhi Tea posted:Just quoting in case anyone missed this, but his site has a TON of a really good info for anyone wanting to get started with blogging/affiliate marketing. This should be in the OP, can't believe I missed it :I
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Is there anything against me starting a lot of blogs in the same type of niche? For example, I have my site Top Ten Smartest Dogs, what's to stop me from starting 10 or 20 different blogs that have to do with dog training, dog food, dog breeds, dog toys, etc... then linking them all to one another? Do people do this?
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Moniker posted:Is there anything against me starting a lot of blogs in the same type of niche? For example, I have my site Top Ten Smartest Dogs, what's to stop me from starting 10 or 20 different blogs that have to do with dog training, dog food, dog breeds, dog toys, etc... then linking them all to one another? Do people do this? People do this, yes. The only problem that I'm aware of is if you interlink them in an obvious way, Google might penalize you. If you manage to get a few of your blogs on the first page for the keyword, you'll be set.
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Bodhi Tea posted:People do this, yes. Hmm. That's something to think about doing for sure. I'm ranking two different pages on the first page for 1 keyword and I'm working on driving the others up as well. Traffic Travis ftw! What do you think an "Obvious way" would be?
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So I'm looking at a keyword for strategy for a certain video game, and it gets around 4,000 global searches a month (on EXACT settings), and low competition. google insights for search lists this keyword phrase as a breakout category, and I think the market is ripe Is this a good starting point for my niche blog?
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Don't know. PM the keyword to me and I'll tell you! Seriously though, what does the competition look like on the first page of Google? Are they all high PR sites that will be hard to fight for rankings?
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So I think I completely mixed up finding a keyword for a blog I've just started. Is the estimated daily cost/clicks per day on Google's traffic estimator at all a useful metric? I just found a keyword that has ~7000 monthly searches with a CPC of $7 for an ad position of 1.15, yet the clicks per day is 0.38, which seems shockingly low. The first page of search results for the keyword has a mix of PR4 and PR1/0 sites, and I think I can outdo them on quality. Granted, I have a feeling it's a bit of a spammy topic. Should I even look into this further?
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So I was looking at this thread here in SA mart about hosting. Is there any reason to buy more than the cheapest, most basic plan if I want to just have a simple blog?
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I'd start with the cheapest plan, and then upgrade when you need more bandwidth or space.
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Doghouse posted:So I was looking at this thread here in SA mart about hosting. Is there any reason to buy more than the cheapest, most basic plan if I want to just have a simple blog? I would go with the cheapest that allows add on domains do you can run multiple blogs from the same hosting until one takes off.
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I use the cheapest plan from Lithium and I've never had any problems.
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Bodhi Tea posted:Just quoting in case anyone missed this, but his site has a TON of a really good info for anyone wanting to get started with blogging/affiliate marketing. A good resource though I disagree that metatags should be used at all, there's growing evidence that the two major engines are using them as spam indicators in some situations. Growing opinion is that they should just be ignored and are a waste of time, possibly even harmful. Plugin guide is also somewhat out of date.
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So a long time ago I was banned from adsense (My account, not site.) and I deserved it. I was clicking ads like a dummy. I was 15 though. I recently signed up under my girlfriend's name, her parent's address, using a proxy, and a different computer. I hope this is good enough for Google. I guess it's my only shot, so what does it matter anyway? I feel like I'm missing out on a lot of money because Chitika and Adbrite pay HORRIBLY.
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What's Traffic Travis like? I'm pretty sold on getting the free version so far.
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mcsuede posted:A good resource though I disagree that metatags should be used at all, there's growing evidence that the two major engines are using them as spam indicators in some situations. Growing opinion is that they should just be ignored and are a waste of time, possibly even harmful. Plugin guide is also somewhat out of date. Friend of mine builds sites for a living w/a major web market firm. When I asked him about metatags being useful or not for SEO, he linked me to http://developers.facebook.com/docs/opengraph/ and told me yes, still very useful.
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cartooncart posted:What's Traffic Travis like? I'm pretty sold on getting the free version so far. Its cool. I think the full version is available for free online (not warez, it's directly from Traffic Travis)
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Ack, well all my micro-niche sites have completely lost their google rankings. Thanks google :/ $2-$5 per day, now nothing. Anyone else get owned? On the upside my local directory site has gone to number 2 even though I haven't touched it in about 6 months. Better do something with that I guess.
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Would anyone be willing to look at http://toptensmartestdogs.com and see if they see any type of ad placement that violates the TOS for Adsense? I think I only have three per page, if that, but are affiliate links added into that mix? Or are those not included?
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