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Please excuse my poor attitude, but I just do. Matt Cutts says that blogging is the number one thing that I can do to help in the search engine placement for my website, and yet, if I look at the pages that do make it to the well placed categories of page one, I do not find too many of my blog pages. I find my main page, home+business themed, and a number of pages from my article directory in the search engines profusely. Lately, the pages that have been getting the most traffic have been Myspace profile, and IPhone download related. Neither of these themes shows up in my blog. There are 24 keywords in SEODigger.com. for the Turnkey Business Blog. The resulting keywords of of little interest and no value at all: business exchange link turnkey turn key businesses turn key business turn key business definition www moxie business connection home scam what is a turn key business turnkey businesses home business connection scam what is turnkey business turnkey business turn key home business what is a turnkey business accelerator speed up internet connection business internet turnkey turn key internet business google blog connection internet home business connection turnkey internet businesses business complete internet turnkey turnkey business web site turnkey home business moxie blog blog moxie And the traffic is anemic. The monetization is worse. The best response to my blog was to take all of the adsense ads off. That makes monetization worth zero. It also makes zero sense. So now I am working for nothing. Compare this with the overall site in SEODigger.com and you can immediately see the contrast. 3,775 keywords for Moxie-Drive.com. Google is delivering 300-500 visits per day for these keywords. Not a bad return I think for a home business/internet marketing theme. There are over 330 blog posts in the Turnkey Business Blog. That is a lot of work on my part. Why do I keep doing it? I really do not know. Maybe because everyone else is? And maybe it is just because I like the environment, alone with my thoughts and hoping that this will be the post that draws the reader population in, which is also anemic. I think the secret is to get outside the very busy niche areas of blogging , SEO , social+media , and the like. I would probably get more traffic writing about the Apple Iphone or some other hot technology. Blogging about blogging is no longer hot and not recommended if you want to make money blogging. Your only readers will be bloggers and the CTR sucks. SEO is well used up also. Social Media is getting there fast. Again with the lousy CTR. No one clicks ads in these niches. The only thing you will see them do is stroke their ego and then they are off to work with their clients. Poor sods... My article directory, Moxie Drive Expressions is doing a lot better and I don't even write the content. I do police it strictly, but have recently let in articles about Iphone, Myspace, and Zune with good results. I practice SEO principles and see better results than most paid referrals. I practice Social Media Marketing and have been able to obtain some good results from Stumbleupon as well as get the votes necessary in Mixx to make page one. Not too hard to do at the moment. Want to know how much money I have made with Stumbleupon and Mixx? You guessed it, "anemia" is the correct choice of words. Blogging about blogging, or social media, is kind of like this, you climb to the top of a mountain just to find that there are many, many more just like it. You do it just for the sake of blogging or social networking, making a name for yourself, and finding clients that want your services. They think that you can make them money blogging and socializing their content. The promise, a correct one I propose, is that they will get loads of traffic, but again, the CTR sucks so any promises of income are smoke and mirrors. My thinking this through has brought me to the following conclusions: 1. Better to write and promote gadgets. New ones like the Iphone are getting a lot of attention. At least there is something tangible to sell and make money from. 2. Affiliate marketing and affiliate programs, like those available for sale on Clickbank.com are still profitable if you can find the affiliates. Everyone wants to make money on the internet. There is an ever increasing population to draw off of. There is plenty out there. 3. As long as affiliate+marketing, home business, and make+money+online themes are considered "spammy" by the social sites, I am never going to make money there. The value of social+bookmarking comes in the form of back-links. However, many social bookmarking sites are now using the "nofollow" link attribute making them worthless back-links. This is a topic I would consider blogging about. I hate blogging because I have been writing about social media, social networking, and following the social gurus into the "nothingness" of anemic CTR. Most of them also do not monetize their blogs and make their money from the clients they catch in their nets. Sorry guys, unless I am missing something, it is over. Time for me to get back on the money track that I am familiar with. No, I'm not leaving. I'm changing my approach...
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3 Comments:
I hate blogging too, I only blog when I have something too say and if i am in the mood for blogging.
Great post Len
Tanny
2:41 AM
Blogging can be a thankless job and no thanks to Google, you really can't monetize your blog as in times past.
With the amount of traffic you are receiving, I would think that someone would be interested in placing banner or text ads on your site (no follow, of course).
Still, changing your approach makes the most sense instead of stopping altogether.
7:17 AM
Hey! Don't be so discouraging. lol
Well, if it's the truth, then I must accept it.
Good post.
I look forward to hearing about stuff that I don't have, and do not need.
Dave
InIt2WinIt
1:07 PM
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