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Hello everyone, I posted a bunch here for a while and then stopped to concentrate on developing a website. Everyone here has been so helpful with their free, great advice that I wanted to say thanks by sharing what's worked for me so far.
Now, when I say "what's worked" - I mean, I'm making a few bucks a day from adsense. This is my first attempt at developing a blog or website, and I have absolutely zero experience with HTML, websites, SEO, anything like that. I'm a reporter, I can research subjects and write fast, well, and coherently (so I like to tell myself), so I figured I would capitalize on that.
Right now, I have a website that gives advice on getting into and paying for nursing school. (It's actually wordpress but it's set up to look like a website.)
It went live around the beginning of November. I had someone put adsense code on it for me. I wrote about a dozen good articles to get the site started (took me a few hours spread over a couple of days). I submitted my site URL to google, technorati, Yahoo, I stumbled my site, I submitted an article to propellor...nothing. I checked day after day. Nothing. I had paid a few hundred bucks for someone to adapt and tweak a free wordsense optimized site and put an SEO plugin on the site, and show me how to upload wordpress onto my web host (I told you I was clueless.) So I was getting very disgruntled.
So, on this site, I had read Varon's post about article marketing and I thought, what could it hurt? I wrote a few articles for ezinearticles.com and they were posted in a couple of days and I IMMEDIATELY started getting traffic and clicks. I actually get a very good click-through rate on most days, given the tiny amount of traffic I'm getting (generally a dozen to a few dozen visitors a day). I think it's because my free wordpress theme is well optimized for adsense; if anyone wants the link to the free theme, pm me and I'll give it to you. (Or can I post it here?)
On my best day, I made close to $9. I've had several days where I made $4, and most days I make $1 or $2. I'm not saying this is great; however, for my very first attempt, and for a brand new website which I assume is still in the google sandbox, I'm quite happy. Also, all I do to update the site is spend about twenty minutes once a week writing new articles, so it's not like I'm killing myself. But then sometimes I'll have several days in a row where I make zero, so I'm far from ready to quit my day job.
I also wrote two articles for Associated Content and got traffic from there. And finally, I started getting some google organic search traffic.
I also paid some money to Submitedge - I got one of their cheaper packages - to submit my article to directories. As far as I can tell from google analytics, that got me about a dozen visits.
If anyone has any other suggestions for me on getting more traffic, or anything else, I'm all ears! If anyone has any questions about the article marketing, let me know and I'll tell you what I did.
And thanks to Varon, giver of great advice, for the article marketing suggestion! All hail Varon!
Now, when I say "what's worked" - I mean, I'm making a few bucks a day from adsense. This is my first attempt at developing a blog or website, and I have absolutely zero experience with HTML, websites, SEO, anything like that. I'm a reporter, I can research subjects and write fast, well, and coherently (so I like to tell myself), so I figured I would capitalize on that.
Right now, I have a website that gives advice on getting into and paying for nursing school. (It's actually wordpress but it's set up to look like a website.)
It went live around the beginning of November. I had someone put adsense code on it for me. I wrote about a dozen good articles to get the site started (took me a few hours spread over a couple of days). I submitted my site URL to google, technorati, Yahoo, I stumbled my site, I submitted an article to propellor...nothing. I checked day after day. Nothing. I had paid a few hundred bucks for someone to adapt and tweak a free wordsense optimized site and put an SEO plugin on the site, and show me how to upload wordpress onto my web host (I told you I was clueless.) So I was getting very disgruntled.
So, on this site, I had read Varon's post about article marketing and I thought, what could it hurt? I wrote a few articles for ezinearticles.com and they were posted in a couple of days and I IMMEDIATELY started getting traffic and clicks. I actually get a very good click-through rate on most days, given the tiny amount of traffic I'm getting (generally a dozen to a few dozen visitors a day). I think it's because my free wordpress theme is well optimized for adsense; if anyone wants the link to the free theme, pm me and I'll give it to you. (Or can I post it here?)
On my best day, I made close to $9. I've had several days where I made $4, and most days I make $1 or $2. I'm not saying this is great; however, for my very first attempt, and for a brand new website which I assume is still in the google sandbox, I'm quite happy. Also, all I do to update the site is spend about twenty minutes once a week writing new articles, so it's not like I'm killing myself. But then sometimes I'll have several days in a row where I make zero, so I'm far from ready to quit my day job.
I also wrote two articles for Associated Content and got traffic from there. And finally, I started getting some google organic search traffic.
I also paid some money to Submitedge - I got one of their cheaper packages - to submit my article to directories. As far as I can tell from google analytics, that got me about a dozen visits.
If anyone has any other suggestions for me on getting more traffic, or anything else, I'm all ears! If anyone has any questions about the article marketing, let me know and I'll tell you what I did.
And thanks to Varon, giver of great advice, for the article marketing suggestion! All hail Varon!
