Is there money in blogs? - Page 2

Halfdeck · 2007-04-14, 10:40 AM

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How would that work Bill?

It's not gonna work.

Cheap trackback links have very little weight SEO wise and if you get aggressive then the network becomes exposed. You need a link from a trusted site to rank high - I asked 3 bloggers link to a post of mine - one link from a TBPR 6 blog but it didn't have much impact. I asked a well-known SEO to link to me from the domain root of a few of his old, trusted sites and that boosted my ranking from 9th to 3rd.

A group of splogs linking to each other is not gonna outrank tens of thousands of recip links pointing to LLs. Why? Because you can only trump quantity with quality - so unless you're ready to publish 10,000 posts and trackback every one of them its not gonna happen. Now, you can build up link popularity that way, but higher PR just by itself won't translate into higher rankings. Plus if you have only a dozen bloggers swapping links the entire network will be flagged as spam or links devalued for excessive reciprocal linking, especially if you're blogging shit no one wants to link to in the first place. If you do it with a real blog, you're just going to piss off RSS subscribers. If you avoid that by linking less aggressively, you minimize your ROI.

SaucyPanties · 2007-04-21, 04:06 AM

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Originally Posted by Bill

We could try doing a trackbacking club kind of thing, to increase the links coming to each other.

Boogie suggested that a while back. I had no idea of how one even did a trackback then, ha ha.

I have done this with a couple of people. A 300 word plus article including links to the other persons blog in questions but again, you really need to do it as an ABC link unless that is what you are suggesting? Five blog owners, each writes two articles about two of the other owners in the groups site?

I like the idea of Useless Warrior and Walrus, you just give them a front index page link and then submit articles which they link to. When and if Google start mixing it up again I feel sure that blogs with more links to their 'articles' will weigh heavier.

Halfdeck · 2007-04-13, 09:29 PM

I don't blog all that often except on my mainstream blog. I got a post doing $100-$200 per pay period, but besides that I'm not seeing much in terms of consistent sales. I hear there are some high-profile mainstream bloggers making ~$15K/mo by selling ad-spots, to get to that I'd probably need a few thousand subscribers and learn how to write... I might see a good ROI if I paid someone else to blog, but right now the main reason I blog is just to get my thoughts out there. If my objective was to increase revenue, writing a blog post would be last on my list.

This guy (ok his blog is mainstream, but so what?), on the other hand, started monetizing his blog in Sep 2006 making $352.94/mo. In Jan 2007 he made $3440.66. Having 3895 subscribers (according to feedburner) doesn't hurt either. 3K/mo isn't a ton of money, but its probably more than enough to pay for the mortgage.

http://www.johnchow.com/making-money...-january-2007/

stuveltje · 2007-04-14, 06:43 PM

i am in for the money at my blog, but 2 sides here, i am building a blog make it work and have sales and sell the damn domain, thats why i only make sex story blogs, easy to make, copy and past and even for that i am to lazy to post everyday, my blog, i posted there last time in december or so, but people get back there because the other stuff i have there are updated automaticly, the sexstories, i have them purely for keywords for the ses....

Halfdeck · 2007-04-14, 06:56 PM

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i have them purely for keywords for the ses....

You mean MSN

stuveltje · 2007-04-14, 07:02 PM

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Originally Posted by Halfdeck

You mean MSN

hahahahaha i knew you would say that...but msn , google or yahoo it are all ses machines and i dont care where the traffic comes from as long it gives me sales

))) HYaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa Halfdeck

never focus on one ses...because if you do and you get hit...your doomed

Halfdeck · 2007-04-14, 07:58 PM

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i dont care where the traffic comes from as long it gives me sales

Hey, you gotta say the s word on a weekend just when I'm about to kick back and relax..What's up Stu for a sec you made me reach for my icq.

Halfdeck · 2007-04-14, 08:17 PM

BTW, all you splog owners gotta do is kill nofollow in the comments and then leave comments on each others blogs. Simple.

stuveltje · 2007-04-15, 03:12 PM

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Originally Posted by Halfdeck

Hey, you gotta say the s word on a weekend just when I'm about to kick back and relax..What's up Stu for a sec you made me reach for my icq.

grin i saw you popping up on icq, but i was just bugging the board and trying to a be a bit intelligent dutch chinese talking woman

Allfetish · 2007-04-15, 04:26 PM

I don't know yet. I put one up about three days ago with a few posts and I already received about 12 google referred hits. Hmm. One targeted google hit is worth anyhere from 10 - 100 times that amount in general tgp traffic or another such source as far as conversions often go.

If one did 100 blogs with 20 targeted hits/day from SEs, I could see that as being quite lucrative indeed.

stfuvt · 2007-04-16, 06:39 PM

very good thread

nice reading

Halfdeck · 2007-04-20, 05:41 AM

Another thing to consider:

If you're trackbacking/commenting or whatever between blog posts indexed in Google as supplemental results, those links won't mean shit.

2007-04-13, 09:29 PM	#3
Halfdeck You can now put whatever you want in this space :) Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: New Haven, CT Posts: 985	I don't blog all that often except on my mainstream blog. I got a post doing $100-$200 per pay period, but besides that I'm not seeing much in terms of consistent sales. I hear there are some high-profile mainstream bloggers making ~$15K/mo by selling ad-spots, to get to that I'd probably need a few thousand subscribers and learn how to write... I might see a good ROI if I paid someone else to blog, but right now the main reason I blog is just to get my thoughts out there. If my objective was to increase revenue, writing a blog post would be last on my list. This guy (ok his blog is mainstream, but so what?), on the other hand, started monetizing his blog in Sep 2006 making $352.94/mo. In Jan 2007 he made $3440.66. Having 3895 subscribers (according to feedburner) doesn't hurt either. 3K/mo isn't a ton of money, but its probably more than enough to pay for the mortgage. http://www.johnchow.com/making-money...-january-2007/ __________________ Success is going from failure to failure without a loss of enthusiasm.

2007-04-14, 06:43 PM	#4
stuveltje Live and learn. And take very careful notes! Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Sunny Holland Posts: 6,157	i am in for the money at my blog, but 2 sides here, i am building a blog make it work and have sales and sell the damn domain, thats why i only make sex story blogs, easy to make, copy and past and even for that i am to lazy to post everyday, my blog, i posted there last time in december or so, but people get back there because the other stuff i have there are updated automaticly, the sexstories, i have them purely for keywords for the ses.... __________________ Canadian Sexlinks - submit Erotica search -submit

2007-04-14, 08:17 PM	#8
Halfdeck You can now put whatever you want in this space :) Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: New Haven, CT Posts: 985	BTW, all you splog owners gotta do is kill nofollow in the comments and then leave comments on each others blogs. Simple. __________________ Success is going from failure to failure without a loss of enthusiasm.

2007-04-16, 06:39 PM	#11
stfuvt My wife is not a doobie to be passed around! On our wedding day I promised to bogart her for life! Join Date: Nov 2005 Posts: 278	very good thread nice reading __________________ Jakes Links - Submit Your Free Sites Here I am selling pornblog.ca

2007-04-20, 05:41 AM	#12
Halfdeck You can now put whatever you want in this space :) Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: New Haven, CT Posts: 985	Another thing to consider: If you're trackbacking/commenting or whatever between blog posts indexed in Google as supplemental results, those links won't mean shit. __________________ Success is going from failure to failure without a loss of enthusiasm.

2007-04-15, 04:26 PM	#10
Allfetish If you really need money, you can sell your kidney or even your car Join Date: Mar 2005 Posts: 373	I don't know yet. I put one up about three days ago with a few posts and I already received about 12 google referred hits. Hmm. One targeted google hit is worth anyhere from 10 - 100 times that amount in general tgp traffic or another such source as far as conversions often go. If one did 100 blogs with 20 targeted hits/day from SEs, I could see that as being quite lucrative indeed.