I think that everybody knows that how long you have owned your domain has some impact on your search rankings. Google has made this widely known and so every SEO expert has an opinion on it. What I would guess though is that most people don’t realise just HOW important domain age is, I know I didn’t until a recent example highlighted it to me.
I’ve tried a lot of “build back links and get traffic” systems in the past, it’s not very often I find one that actually works. It’s even less often I find one that works yet is 100% free. Free Traffic System is one such rarity!
As you know I’ve been playing around with Twitter for a couple of months now. As a communication tool I still don’t get it, sorry if that offends but I just don’t. On the other hand however I have found some very good uses for Twitter and I’m going to share one of them with you now. It’s how I’m using Twitter to funnel long tail keyword traffic straight to my websites.
As part of my ongoing process of spending my cash to find out how you can best spend yours I had a review done over at JohnChow.com a little while back. The review was actually part of the Blogging Mastermind course I bought (and liked to some extent) so rather than do what I would normally do in this situation i.e. pay for a review of a product of which I’m an affiliate and hope to get my money back, I just asked in a very roundabout way for a review of this blog. I wanted honesty and got it. My goal was to find out what spending $500 over at JohnChow.com would get you for your blog. Why is this important? Because John makes a lot of money pushing high value affiliate offers for products to improve your blog. If you take him up on his offer and try to use his blog as a springboard then this is what value you get. We all know it wasn’t a great review, but then again if you go back and look at Johns review history you’ll find very little in the way of positive reviews of other blogs. Even so the review post attracted quite a bit of debate and was certainly well commented on. So without further a do here’s the raw stats:-
I’ve been avoiding Twitter like a Mexican avoids somebody with flu symptoms. It’s not so much an issue with Twitter itself, more the technology involved. I figure unless I can update it frequently and easily enough then what’s the point of using it? If I use my mobile it will cost me a fortune, the various Twitter clients I’ve tried were all bulky for what little functionality they gave. The Twitter website is not that good. So in short I couldn’t be bothered with Twitter.
I did however set up an account for my daughter. It took a little while but now she has become hooked, not only that but every day she seems to gain more followers, many from people all over the world. This has had a really positive effect on her blog (can you see where I’m going with this yet?). Am I really stupid enough to ignore something that could be so beneficial? Nope.
It’s now been 2 months since I wrote my first ever WordPress plug-in and I’m finally ready to reveal some results. The reason I’ve waited so long was that I wanted to make sure that any changes that I was seeing were long term and not just day to day fluctuations in search traffic. If you look below you can see a week-by-week traffic chart of the organic search traffic that Google has been sending me since I first implemented the plug-in (including the current part week):-
This is one of those posts where I umm and ahh to myself before writing it. Do I really want to share this with the world? A little while back I didn’t and that’s why this has been sat in my drafts for so long, but I figure what the hell, the internet is a very big place and there are plenty of niches and traffic to go around. What I’m about to tell you about is in my opinion FAR AND AWAY the best link building tool I have ever used – a system that can change your fortunes online – it goes by the name of ConnectContent.
Anyone stopping by yesterday may have noticed something strange going on with THE MAKE MONEY ONLINE DOT NET. I took it upon myself to delve into the world of WordPress plugin development, it didn’t exactly go as smooth as I’d like. The wrong comments showing under the wrong post, some posts not showing at all, random text appearing (at random). You name it and I screwed it up. Why would I do this to my blog? Simple really, I was too lazy to setup a development environment and this blog makes me less money than any of my others. It became my test bed for the day. The good news is that I eventually got “something” working and it “should” be very good.