David, This is just what I've spent the last six months working on. Monetizing my long-standing blog. I've done it very gingerly, because I didn't want it to become just another thin affiliate site. I've only added products that are directly related to my travel niche. And for every affiliate...
I have RSS feeds on all of my blogs and I've monetized them with google adsense. I've even taken the step of explaining what RSS is to people and why it's good. I've made the RSS button bigger. But no one is subscribing. It might be the topic, or it might be that RSS isn't for the masses yet...
Yes, it is certainly true about time and a continued effort. I'm finding that I have to have about 5 outside efforts for every keyword that I want to rank for on my blog. So I'm writing a huge amount at squidoo, ezine articles, I've started blogger blogs, wordpress blogs. All focused on seo for...
I use both. Squidoo does seem to help other pages rank well - and if I contribute to charity in the process - that's okay too.
Hubpages though really has been a surprise. I have been having an urge to blog about other topics but haven't had the energy or time to establish a full-blown...
While there's a no-follow on links. My tweets do come up in the search engines for key words. So if you post using the right keywords and provide a link. It helps traffic in that way.
I just make sure that everything on my blog is there for a reason and doesn't look like spam to a search engine. I'm just getting very conservative. Even if there isn't a google penalty today, it seems like they work every day to weed out spam at a deeper level.
So I've really started to...
I created 4 hubpages about two weeks ago that are related to my main blog and linked to them from the blog. I can't believe how well they are doing in the SERPs. They are outranking my blog. So I plan on making more pages.
I like Hubpages better than squidoo, because I don't use paypal - and...
Thanks for posting this. Just goes to show that every page and paragraph should have a purpose. And I've never heard of propeller. So whole new worlds opened up today!
There is so much to learn when you start to run a business online. I think if you understand your topic inside and out, it makes it easier to learn the online end of it.
If you don't understand your topic then you have to spend a lot of time learning it AND learning the internet marketing...
10 tags does seem like a lot to me. Especially if they are variations on the same few words. Then I do think it might cause a problem.
From what I can tell, and this is just subjective, Google is very fast at spotting folks to try to game the system and penalizing them. So I would cut down on...
Hello Marty and Welcome to 5 Star!
I think that there is a tremendous upside to this business, without much of a downside. The largest expenditure seems to be time and not money.
However, as I have just started to monetize a 4 year old "hobby" blog, I am seriously surprised at the effort...
I love twitter. It's allowing me to stay in touch with a lot of friends that I wouldn't normally email or call. Just a little tweet once a day and we all stay connected.
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