If you come across this site for the first time and you see that there’s no posts for over a month, it’s because I’m taking a month off from blogging to do a few things.
TESTING-
#1- Testing to see if frequent posting is REALLY necessary to gain more traffic or can you just spend time getting more links to your pre-existing pages and posts to increase their traffic?
#2 – Testing to see what’s going on with my adsense project ( to make 5k/month in Adsense by end of the year)
Current customers –
I’ll only be responding to Marketer’s Relief members (http://marketersrelief.com) and doing the coaching with them
Other projects:
- Responding to customer support tickets..
- Finish up my niche affiliate marketing book (was done 4 months ago but never released)
- Test out some more link building services, traffic generation services, and some content provision services for my niche adsense sites.
- Get in shape for the summer, to do yardwork, planting trees and bushes
SO…
If you leave a comment during the Month of May, now you know why.
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Hi Dan
Hope you’ve enjoyed your month off.
It’s certainly a good idea to spend time recapturing your passion for writting. I think we can all relate to over-extending oneself. It doesn’t work, and quality drops, readership falls and all are somewhat unhappy in the end.
Much better is indeed to find the “first love” for the product, increase focus and then DO something about your business.
Looking forward to your posting in the month of June.
Have a nice weekend.
Hi Henri, thanks for checking in. I’m still cleaning house and wrapping up some new projects, and almost done with everything.
I will be posting again regularly soon.
Thanks,
Dan
Hi Dan,
This is Marc (signed up under you in WProsperity and I own webprosperityblog.com, which I don’t really use anymore). I’ve always admired your work. Anyway, I was wondering why you hadn’t posted for over a month. I have over 40 blogs myself and did some testing on frequency of posts, whether it mattered or not and which ones (if any) ranked better because of the variable.
My results and randomly picked 3 of my blogs:
- Have a blog that started in Oct 08 (has total of 21 blog posts)…PR3 and averages about $1200-1800/month on affiliate commissions. Great traffic to this day. Alexa Rank 500,000 area
- Have another blog started 3 months ago, has over 13,000 posts (mostly articles and duplicated). PR0 and hardly any traffic.
- Another blog has over 22,000 blog posts started 1 year and 4 months ago, PR2. (All duplicated content, articles). Good traffic. Didn’t put any affiliate links until about 2 months ago.
SEO-wise for the three above:
- #1 for my keyword (Out of 1.3 million Google search result pages)
- n/a as I did not SEO, nor optimized for a word
- #1 for my keyword (Out of 93 Million Google search result pages) and #2 for secondary keywords (out of 138 Million Google search result pages).
** Conclusion: It’s all about Unique Quality Content and NOT the number of posts. Plus link popularity. Although my examples above are to the extreme (from my smallest amount of posts to my outrageous 20k posts), the blogs that were in the middle had similar effects. Because of the quality content, many people linked to my site without being asked (some PR4′s and PR5′s), which also increased traffic due to readership.
** And my best advice for everyone is to learn WordPress SEO. Onsite is just as important as off-site optimization. I know, because I’m ranking very well on another new project now and it’s #5 out of over 3.5 Million and have people signing up without me knowing.
I would have to say you have some really valuable reviews on some of the great tools out there. And quite honestly, are the exact ones I’ve used, for example UAW and NL (which you didn’t quite prefer because it’s pretty much “renting” the backlinks, great analogy). I’ve signed up on your ALB, unfortunately, I have not had a chance to use it.
Which leads me to my next testing….gonna try out your ALB.
Thanks Dan.
To Your Success.
- Marc
@Marc, thanks for checking in and your multiple “feedbacks”, if that’s actually a real word
Regarding NL (Neurolinker) yes, I’m not a big fan of renting links there’s no real long-term results to be gleaned from that, as opposed to using UAW.
That’s why ALB (automatedlinkbuilding.com) is always going to be a low-cost service, because it’s a service that’s good for “starter links” for a site to get them indexed and some gradual links.
NL’s has article marketing system now and social bookmarking clubs but there’s 2 issues with that:
1- the article marketing will be very limited in effect because the sites linking to you will probably be the same sites linking to you via the 3-way service, and there’s not going to be a continued positive effect as more and more links come from the same sites and IP addresses. (which is why Unique Article Wizard is superior in service and effects).
Regarding unique content and frequency of posting etc… so much debate about this and everyone’s disagreeing on it.
Here’s what I’ve discovered about unique content;
IF you’re posting spun or dupe content BUR ARE THE FIRST kid on the block to be posting the UAW-generated article via their system by auto-approve settings with the Unique Article Wizard plugin, then you stand a chance of getting indexed first, and everyone else who doesn’t auto-approve posts but waits to publish that content pending a review gets left behind.
On the other hand, auto-approving articles can lead to irrelevant content being posted to your site which hurts, so the trick with using UAW is to tweak it by leaving it on auto-approve for a while then whatever article authors are repeat offenders (posting irrelevant Cisco training articles to a gaming category for example) then you just edit those user accounts in WP admin area under users and make their status a contributor so their articles never get auto-published, but you still get to keep the site running on autopilot.
But overall, I think it’s best to use Unique content because the niche sites of mine that do the best for traffic and sales are the ones with unique content on them.
I’ve done the auto-sites route and if you’re not the first one to publish the syndicated article, then you’re fighting an uphill battle for SERPs and rankings no matter how much linkbuilding one does.
REGARDING my tests from taking a month off, I guess I should have published my findings, eh? Sorry about that.
Long-story short, with a site like mine with over 100 posts on it, 99% unique content (I republished some of my EZAs = articles published via EzineArticles on here) there’s plenty of tags and keywords and what-not on here ot draw in enough traffic.
When I took a month or so off, I decide to build some backlinks to some of my older posts that had keywords in them that I wanted to rank well for…
And traffic increased as a result, so NO, frequent posting isn’t necessary, and more traffic can be had for all sites not by posting new content constantly, but by writing unique content filled with niche specific keywords in there…and getting good links to those post urls.
A tightly-focussed site with spot-on site-and-theme relevant articles doesn’t need a lot of content or links to rank well.
I know this reply might seem like I’m preaching to the choir here (to you Marc) but some of this reply is to help others understand more of what we’re discussing here.
Marc, thank you for signing up to WP under me, I hope it’s going well for you and the WebProsperity Marketing Toolkit should have helped you build your downline base some…
Thanks especially for your feedback on my writings and reviews.
Oh, and yes, on-site SEO is becoming more and more important these days since it’s too easy to get content and links now, which leads to the next evolution of SEO, or rather back to basics… create unique content or have it created for you and be different so you stand out and visitors take notice of that.
Dan