Ask Me a Question, Get an Answer (Part II)

Hi Cristian,

Traffic. Yes, that is one of the more popular things that I talk about on my blog. Just for instance, for increasing traffic I would suggest reading the following articles:

http://www.garryconn.com/how-to-use-google-analytics-to-increase-web-traffic.php

http://www.garryconn.com/make-money-online-with-google-insights.php

http://www.garryconn.com/how-to-get-a-ton-of-traffic-to-your-blog-after-leaving-only-one-comment.php

http://www.garryconn.com/its-not-about-how-much-traffic-you-get-but-rather-what-you-do-with-it.php

Of course I have written many more, use the search bar on my blog to find additional articles. Search is located in my top menu navigation on the far right.

As far as organic vs paid, I favor organic simply for the fact that it doesn’t cost money and the results last so much more longer than PPC. With PPC the minute you run out of money is the same minute your ads go away in Google. Using the organic section is better. You can remove a blog post (creating a 404) and it could be months until Google removes that page from their index.

My advice to you is to heavily research your keywords and then write amazing content. Start a mailing list and start building up your readerbase one person at a time.

I hope you found this helpful, if you have additional questions, feel free to ask.

Laura,

I have done this before. I have had a blog with a ton of awesome content but the traffic wasn’t serving it justice. I have totally taken a back up of the content written on one blog, destroyed it, and then imported the content onto a different blog that I felt would perform better.

Hi Alex,

using CSS to control the size, font style, font family and position of the text in your header isn’t too difficult, but can be tricky if you don’t know CSS. I would seriously recommend getting a small book on CSS. Seriously, you won’t be cramming tons if information here, but on the same note, you’ll learn a lot real quick. Learning CSS offers a huge reward with litle amount of money and time invested.

This might not be the answer you were wanting, but you’ll have to trust that you’ll thank me more after you learn this skill. Learn CSS Alex, it is time.

Hi Kent,

I write my own unique content and hire other people to do it for me. I actually have over 10 content writers who work very hard for me and do an amazing job. I am always on the hunt for content writers.

With that said, I don’t even try to mix up, mash up, and use other published content on the Internet. It is so very easy for me to find writers, the need to use other content just isn’t there.

I am not sure what you are asking about the video part. Can you explain further?

You are very welcome!

Anything else I can help you with?

Hi Goonie,

You can reply back and give me some URL’s. Keep in mind, when you do so, your comment will go into moderation, but I will approve it shortly and then give you some feedback.

Hi ibu,

Traffic is the single most difficult element in this business and that is why I build and build and build. It is easier for a blog to get 100 visits per month naturally, than it is to invest time and energy into getting that same blog 10,000. With that said, instead of me investing time into gaining that much traffic to one blog, I use that same time and energy into creating multiple blogs.

I would much rather have 100 blogs that get 100 visits per day than one blog that gets 10,000 visits per day.

You can also read this comment for more answers: http://www.garryconn.com/ask-me-a-question-get-an-answer-part-ii.php#comment-25699

Hi Ardi,

I have 12 freelance writers who work for me. On an average day I output around 100 articles and launch around 4 new blogs. I don’t know how many hours my writers work as they get paid on a per article basis. If it takes them 1 hour to write the article or 1 minute, it makes no difference to me as long as they do the job to my expectations.

I myself, work around 50 to 60 hours per week.

I tried doing YouTube videos and pointing a link in the description to my blog or various blog post, and I don’t get much traffic from YouTube at all. But that’s just me. Some YouTubers get like a million video views. My videos only got a few hundred.

I hate doing videos, I am not comfortable with them, nor do I get a return in the time invested towards doing them. So, no… YouTube and other video sites are not a contributor to my traffic.

Social networks are though… StumbleUpon is a great place for traffic. Same with Twitter. You just need to be creative in how you make the best use of the traffic. Traffic like this typically doesn’t buy things or click things. They read, laugh and leave.

See this comment:

http://www.garryconn.com/ask-me-a-question-get-an-answer-part-ii.php#comment-25828

There is nothing wrong with Google Analytics. It is a great system and widely accepted by advertisers and for authentic stats when you attempt to sell your site. Server logs can be destoryed while you can always count on having Google Analytics.

Angel, I am honestly too busy to invest time into studying traffic analysis programs. I’d rather see the stats in the money I make. Keeping things back to basics. If I don’t have cash in my hand, then I don’t have traffic. If I have cash in my hand, then I have traffic.

Sorry, this isn’t the answer that you are looking for. But I am not very particular about traffic stats programs. I use Analytics, I shut up and I write as many blog posts as I can in a day and I make a killing doing it.

I have templates that I use when I build niche blogs that already has the Google AdSense code and many other programs already installed. So, I start putting ads on my site starting day one, simply because I don’t feel like going back and doing it later.

I build, I post, I publish and I forget….

If you are developing eBooks you should look at ClickBank.com. For a $50 dollar charge you can then upload your product into their database and then there are people like me who willingly advertise your product on our blogs in hopes of scoring a commission.

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Hi Adam,

After about two years of experimenting with various things, I find that building niche blogs works best for me. Really though, they aren’t blogs they are websites that are created using WordPress. Each blog I make has a total around 20 to 25 articles on them. After a blog is built, then I move on to the next. Each blog i build I leave behind a Google Analytics tracking code and also record a URL entry into Google AdSense.

When certain sites are performing well, I will revisit the stats and make sure that the site is performing to my expectations. If minor adjustments need to be made, I make them. Also too, if a site is performing too well (i.e. AdSense conversion higher than 10%) I revisit the site and make adjustments to tone things down. Reason being is that a healthy site is one that also converts well for the Google AdWord advertisers.

The short answer: No, I do not try to try to earn more. Rather, I look at conversion instead of earnings. My sites need to have a conversion between 7.5% to 12.5% If they fall outside from that range, then I make adjustments. The cpc will vary over time because certain elements trigger advertisers to pay more per click while other times during the year it triggers them to pull the cost down quite a bit per click.

Self-hosted WordPress is the way to go… no question about it. Contact me if you need to hire someone to help you make the conversion. If you order web hosting through HostGator.com using my referral link: http://tinyurl.com/cheapwebhosting I will help you make the conversion as long as your existing blogger.com blog doesn’t have a TON of posts. Contact me if you need help with this, I’ll be happy to help.

For me, search engines. Google is the #1 source of traffic for all my blogs. StumbleUpon and Twitter are very promising as well… however, you have to treat that traffic with kid gloves. Twitter and SU traffic doesn’t monetize well. This kind of traffic come to see a show.

Read this post: http://www.garryconn.com/stumbleupon-traffic-can-make-you-money-online.php

to learn an alternative way to make money online with StumbleUpon traffic. It’s pretty creative and I think you’ll enjoy reading it.

I am bored and have nothing better to do than use my blog as a digital coloring book.

Joking…

I love designing, I really enjoy building themes and a lot of my themes I use on my niche blogs have been created from GCDC designs.

Organization isn’t my strong suit and that is partly the reason why I do very well with my system. It took me almost two years to finally FINE TUNE my blog building system. Today the whole process is very simple and doesn’t require much maintenance or follow up at all. My blogs don’t get updated… they really aren’t blogs, they are web sites running on WordPress. I monitor my stats and can have a visual on any sites that aren’t performing to expectation. When that happens I can invest time into researching the problem and making adjustments.

The process of building the blogs is simple.

Keyword Research
Domain Name Availability
Install Blog / Upload Theme / Upload Plugins
Register Site in Search Engines / Create Sitemap.xml
Content Creation / Internal Blog Filing system (i.e. Categories, Tags, Pages)
Content Publication

… repeat the process.