I started this as a comment to an article at viperchill.com about WordPress SEO (something I know a lot about), but I tend to get very wordy so turned it into my own article. Also you’ll note the weird title for this article “Viperchill.com, SEO Nofollow PR Sculpting, RSS Feeds and Social Networking!” it kind of went all over the place :-) Viperchill.com Viral Marketing Website One of my regular readers (Mark) made a comment on the article Making Money Online with a Funny Jokes Site? and referred to viperchill.com (which I’d not seen before). The sites by a young man (early twenties I think) that’s getting a lot of traffic, but unlike my network of sites (90%+ of my […]
Continue Reading RSS Feeds and Social Networking
SEO vs SEM Marketing
I check subscribe stats under – Google “webmaster tools” – “your site on the web” – “Subscriber stats” , when I check this I see only an handful.
So I guess my conclusion is there are SEO guys and SEM guys. If I could somehow take the best parts of SEM without changing too much, this could only help.
I want to continue focusing on the interesting content approach but with a little SEM, then maybe it would not hurt. Time users spend on my site is pretty long so I will try:
1) Put more opportunities for people to subscribe and make the invitation really tempting or easy to notice with interesting RSS icons etc.
2) Maybe in paint.net create a simple logo (gives sites more a professional I am here to stay look).
3) Start guest blogging
People tell me ‘fans’ or subscribers will start to promote the site, they like. (This is true, my cousin was the latest friend of mine to buy one if your Talian themes.)
So I think a loyal fan base is important.
However, it can not replace SEO or content. This should always be first. Content and organic search has been very kind to me.
Your election site rocked. It was higher than the BBC for many keywords. If there is no UK election in 2010 in the fall :) Make it a general UK politics site somehow.
SEO vs SEM Marketing
Finding an Event Based Niche Market
Interesting his recent post says that you should find a niche around an event (like you did with UK 2010 general elections). He says these event based niches perform very well and are one way to drive a lot of traffic very fast. In fact, some people unethically release results and videos before the event begins.
How to Make Money Online?
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Making Money as an Affiliate with AdSense
David,
You continue to amaze me that you are making so little on affiliate and adsense when you have so much seo knowledge.
Hire an employee to build your sites out. With your direction a single employee should be able to build enough websites in the next year for you to retire.
Rick
Rick
Promoting RSS Feeds
Dave, but you have rss feed on this site despite you state in the article you don’t. What is the problem with that?
Promoting WordPress Sites Through RSS Feeds
You’ve misunderstood, I said I don’t promote my sites through RSS feeds (I’ve put no effort into it and received very little interest from it).
There’s a lot of webmasters (like the author of Viperchill.com) who clearly generate a crap load of RSS followers and I was trying to explain despite receiving thousands of new visitors a day I don’t get many RSS feed followers. It’s an untapped resource.
The RSS feed link to Feedburner (top right menu) is a test to see if having a big RSS feed button will generate more interest. It hasn’t so far :-( last time I checked it was around 5 subscribers (some low number). I’ve put a similar setup on a jokes site with days it will see over 15,000 unique visitors a day and again it’s single figure subscriber numbers! Clearly I’m doing something wrong.
David
Update: Removed the feedburner link, didn’t work.
Promoting WordPress Sites Through RSS Feeds
RSS Feed Subscribers vs Organic Search Engine Traffic
Dave, I have the same issue you have. I have been trying to promote subscribers. I recently added subscribe by mail. With the exception of a real niche site most people find my sites with organic searches, rather than subscribing.
I think to get people do subscribe it is an art in itself. My friend has 100s and a loyal fan base, but he uses give aways and contests etc. He puts a lot of effort into it. I do not have the time or focus for that.
The advantage is you are independent of search engines, and loyal fans often market you and generate a lot of content for you in comments.
How you achieve this is another story, maybe it is connected to the type of site or just marketing.
On the other hand nothing beats organic traffic from search engines to make your site grow fast.
RSS Feed Subscribers vs Organic Search Engine Traffic