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Doing “Whatcha Like” In a Blog….

BJohnson — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 18:46:30 +0000

Passion+Blogging = Easier Approach to keeping the blog active and growing

Lay Up Drill

I always like to see successful people blogging about things they like to do… I came up on this blog entry the other day, “Laker Fans Should Not Celebrate Yet“.

Love the layout of the site and its content is definitely of interest to the bloggers who post there. Basketball season! And it looks like they can cover NBA, as well as College and anything pertaining to Basketball. Nice!

We think you should:

Check out their approach
Then think of topics that you are passionate about
Consider starting a blog…

What do you think? Comment Below

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Traffic Sources: Have You Search Engine Optimized Today?

BJohnson — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 11:27:59 +0000

Traffic Sources Can Reveal Search Engine Optimization Wins or Areas For Improvement

SEO Traffic Sources

Analytics and determining all facets of what they mean are an integral part of improving web site experience and action conversions! For non-commercial statistical packages, AWSTATS and Google Analytics are a regular and daily recipient of visits from me.

I like AWSTATS, because it compiles its report based on server logs. Google Analytics is a great swag also, even though it is estimated that 5-10% of site visits are not recorded accurately if site visitors have Javascript disabled. Well, here or there, stats and analytics can vary across packages… even commercial!

At any rate, without getting too granular, the purpose of this post is to mention that you can do BASIC things such as Search Engine Optimization to increase organic positioning in Search Engines and thus, increase traffic!

As you can see in the image above, the Blue Section Represents Search Engine Traffic to this blog. I always try to optimize:

Meta Keywords & Descriptions
Title Tags
Keyword Density

as any extra hits to the site, represents a possible new supporter or eventually customer…

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Site Monetization: A Look At Pre- and Post Blog Article Monetization

BJohnson — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 17:24:36 +0000

Looking for ways to Monetize Your Blog Content Forces One to Creatively Customize Blogs to Increase Conversions. Our Approach today looks at Google Adsense in Before and After locations, as compared to article post.

Some gurus for blogs, debate whether or not one should monetize before getting lots of anchor articles and content. However, along the way, one must consider the fact that they still have a few bills to pay to break even. With that consideration, we look to help people monetize their blogs and websites and show the following experiment.

As can be seen in the following image, we customized our blog postings to show Google Adsense before and after blog posts.

Pre and Post Blog Post Monetization

And, we received the following click through rate of OVER 8% for these ad placements (Specifically Ad Block 1)

Adsense Click-Through Rate

Our summary of the experiment (although only for a day) is that:

the Pre-article placement was important as we got no-click throughs for the Post-article placement.
The high click through rate should still be compared to BOUNCE RATE… meaning that we want to monetize the click through, but also want our number of page views per visitor to be high.

We will continue to look at this monetization. We also believe that the second slot, after the article is an important placement, as blog readers, once they find a good article, read it to the end.

What do you think about this strategy? Have you used it and does it work for you? Comment below

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The Roadmap To Become A Blogger report

BJohnson — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 15:55:57 +0000

A lot of you as BlackInternetMarketing.com Readers have wondered two things:

How do Bloggers make money?
How to start a blog….

Released! New report reveals tested roadmap for blogging success… Yaro Starak and Gideon Shalwick from BecomeABlogger.com have finally released their highly anticipated new report.

By the way, Yaro makes over $100K a year just by Blogging!

Click here to download!

If you’re new to blogging and still trying to figure out what exactly you’re supposed to be doing with your blog, this may be the most important report you’ll read all year! The Roadmap report covers two key concepts:

1. The step-by-step “formula” that Yaro Starak used to create his amazingly successful blog and very importantly…

2. Thirteen X-Factor strategies that you can implement immediately to put your blog into superdrive! Inside this amazing new report, you’ll discover…

- How to ethically exploit the biggest wave in technology since the invention of the telephone…

- How Yaro and Gideon stumbled upon the “X-Factor” For Blogging Success, and how it turned upside down everything they thought tehy knew about blogging…

- Why not deploying the “X-Factor” in your blog could cause your blog to crash and burn, never to recover…

- 7.4 million reasons why your blog will fail, unless you know how to take advantage of the intersection of two huge Internet trends…

- How a new way of using video, images and a blog turned a penniless actor into an Internet Superstar!

Download your FREE copy on the Formula Yaro used to make his $100K. Times like these demand special ways to make money.

Click here to download.

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