I have read so many different stories on the internet like the John Chow one where the one internet webmaster tell of how badly he had worked on his online live chat site, relying solely on Google Adsense and earning a great $6,000 from it - only to find one day that Google Adsense NO LONGER support online live chat websites whatsoever.
One story, which is just the thousands of similar stories shared by others who's rankings have been heavily deprived of by the deadly Google Penguin and the much revered Google Panda.
The question is: Do you have endeavors of starting a new blog from scratch, are in the very process of it - and plan on solely rely on google or search engine traffic?
The best advise I'd be able to give you is this: walk lightly for that panda and that penguin out there. No one knows for sure exactly how and of what their ranking algorithms are made of - but only the one thing - that they're walking like a hungry lion and tiger around waiting to make mince meat of any blog or site that seem to be infected with spam.
The results are losing half the traffic - even 90% of it. Or much much worse - getting deindexed and banned from the google search engine . . .
So what do you do?
You build up a credible list by doing nothing other that to embrace your viewers with content so mind blowing that they'd want to visit your blog every single day.
How will you be able to do just that and how will you be able to stay ahead of the line?
Simple. While creating blog posts and ensuring that you are definitely honoring your brand - you will need to take the added and drastic measures to also feed your blog readers on a daily basis.
Don't, however, just like many other bloggers out there, make the fatal fault of producing jargon every single day (just for the sake of having a blog post for the day).
There are very many ways to go about generating traffic: social bookmarking, article marketing and even guest blogging (which is something not quite for the faint hearted).
In fact - if you want to go that far - you can even throw in that auto submission tools to create a massive amount of presence on the internet in the hope for traffic to your blog. Getting 10,000 backlinks is one thing (whether dofollow or nofollow).
Being able to tag your name and blog on thousands of websites by means of an extremely well written article(s) is what is going to become a lifesaver.
In fact. Lets leave it right there. You do the math.
The next time the Panda or the bear, lion or gorilla (whatever Google calls there next update again) walks by your site and reacts spiteful of being the life source of your traffic - just throw that auto submission tool in its face - and say: Likewise.
What's the best way for your blog to get traffic or making money when the maximum amount of people visiting your blog is only 100?
There are so many hundreds and thousands of blogs - no wait - millions of them - getting only a few people visiting their blog - only to find that they never convert to cash - or do something meaningful like subscribing, clicking on ads - or showing any particular point of interest in their blog!
That is the most frustrating experience 99% of all bloggers go through - so do not go entirely miserable on having this breakdown experience or thought.
One clever solution (or as they always say you must crawl before you walk or run) is Social Spark.
Before you get to build an authority blog and branding yourself in your niche with it - find the aspiration to take on tasks in gain for getting money first.
One of the reasons most bloggers always throw in the towel is because they see nothing happening concerning succeeding with a money stream. The logical thing to do to keep your online blogging endeavors alive is by doing things to earn money online first - to convince yourself in the first place that there indeed is money online to earn.
Social Spark, without further due, is one way to earn a few crawlable and walkable money.
How, how and how?
- Firstly (this is probably going to put a little finally smile on your face) this is a way to make better bucks that you would have had with Google Adsense.
- Secondly, while you fail earning $15, $30 or a huge $100 per month with Adsense (as Adsense requires a very good stream of traffic to convert some blog visitors into clicking and so earn cash); Social Spark don't require of your blog to have a particular amount of people visiting it.You can literally get five visits per day to you blog right now, today - and you are able to make a $10 or more with Social Spark.
How?
For those having less than fifty posts on their blog and haven't achieved the blessing of decent blog traffic, yet - Social Spark sparks your blog by enabling you to gain blog content with sponsored content.
In essence, the blog marketing site brings a simple solution to those bloggers finding it hard to make cash and those bloggers who are finding it hard to get enough blog traffic.
In other words, you get those bloggers who want to earn money in the short not too distant future. They are prepared to write blog posts.
On the other side you have the blog masters that's trying to improve every aspect of their blogging optimization - and also the helping hand of getting more blog content for the gain of seeing more blog traffic.
In reality your blog self don't gain any better traffic when you are the one blogging for the money on Social Spark.
To not confusing you - it's still the old but very effective way to make a few bucks: writing for cash!
In stead of going through all the extremely formal complicated and fussy processes when trying to make a buck with Constant content and other article sites - writing posts for other bloggers via Social Spark acting as a middle man, virtually all your posts you'll be writing will be excepted.
The bad part
The bad part about making money with Social Spark is this: It takes a bit extremely long before you really see that money into your Paypal account.
Yep. That's the irony.
- It's easy signing up with Social Spark and start off by availing yourself to write posts for other bloggers. You'll get the go ahead from the blogger, the blogger will pay you (with points) - and will publish the post you wrote once that's settled. Concerning that points (you're paid with a points system in Social Spark whereby 10 points equals 10 cents and 100 points $1); you'll only see the actual points that was paid to you by a particular blogger - after 30 days he/she published the post you sold.
- Point #2 - You can only cash out once you reach a threshold of $50 into your Paypal.
So, in a nutshell, you will only make $50 into your Paypal once you have earned 5000 points, which (the points) on it's own can only reflect after 30 days each time the blogger(s) you sell your post(s) to publish them - a long process to combat Spam and fraud.
Final Verdict:
You can make that walkable income of $1000 per month with Social Spark rather than just the crawl-able cash of $100.
However, even if you can succeed in getting different bloggers publishing your posts you sold to them in one day and you earn 5000 points in that one day - you will still only cash out over 30 days when your points reflect in your account.
The reward though, if you can earn 5000 points every day (writing 5-10 posts and successfully getting it published (and it becomes live on the internet) by the person(s)buying) - you can make $50 per day from Social Spark. Cashing out $50 per day into your Paypal account, that on it's own turn translates into $1500 for the month.
Just like with everything though, there is a dear price to pay. By the measurement of writing 5 posts per day for $50, translates to 150 posts you would have needed to come up with. That may also have been a good amount of blog posts for your own blog, earning residual income over time . . .
Going through the trouble, I guess, would all depend on yourself. I guess, once again its as they say: you need to crawl before you can walk.
To your online successes.
Whilst every blogger in the world needs to get that extra special bit of traffic in the door from the blogosphere - the true point of getting GREAT traffic is always missed. Great traffic, perfect traffic - targeted traffic.
It will never ever help you to get hundreds and thousands of visitors to your website only by luring them with confusing, irritating post titles or content in general that not nearly come in handy when your visitor desperately needs it on the spot ( or isn't that what they're actually there for, you'd say?!).
Read this story of this poor Fake Steve Jobs who got on one day 500,000 (half-a-million) people to his blog - and got just over a teeny $1000 from such a massive spike of traffic at copyblogger. It could blow one's mind of thinking that someone honestly and actually hit the jackpot for a moment there only to be rewarded with . . . nothing. Nothing special indeed.
Every single line in your post's article(s) is so important that it will ultimately speak and profess the quality of your entire website. In one split second. Yes. In one split second, the entire feel and atmosphere of the words (your words) in your posts will tell the story of your background: Whether you are reliable. Interesting. Whether your site is of quality. Small visual things such as perfect grammar or a mistyped word every here and there . . .
It only takes five seconds before someone makes up his mind to leave your site today - and more importantly: It only takes five seconds before someone determines whether he or she would return or not.
There are very many different kinds of traffic.
Concentrate on the perfect ones.
It is extremely important to know exactly what you want to do before ever creating a blog. Things such as who your market will be. And what you should expect from your target market. How broad, how competitive and rewarding?
Relax. Blogging should be fun WHEN blogging is organic. Take it slow. Over months' end. Put it together like a massive puzzle. Put together one piece to the other at a time until you get the beautiful full picture.
There is absolutely no way that you're going to survive if you're going on a roller coaster with blogging and totally overwhelm you with everything in one day - as there is one thing you must always realize: you are not in an office! You are not running around all day long in a retail store. No! You are at home, working from home - blogging at your own pace and time.
Despite the constant question and daily search on how to find the precise elements and the right recipes to truthfully succeed at getting good amounts of blog traffic to a website – it remains still a mysterious puzzle to figure out. As simply by stating: “It’s a better Pagerank, obviously!” as an answer, seem even more complicatedly wrong and imprecise as time leaps by.
The internet is known as a universe consisting of millions of websites (some like supernovas, others much smaller compilations) that becomes together an ever-expanding, infinite interspersed world of different colors, shapes and sizes. And of meaning.
However, it is also an ever-bustling beehive if looked upon close: with literally billions of fast moving objects, eye-glittering – flashing everywhere. Others, although quietly still, are nothing but disturbances of spam (or so it would seem): words, trillions of them everywhere, confusing, over-believing – giving off red flashlights in one's mind – ultimately finding it hard to put trust in such words or opportunities.
Are your blog a lonely person in the world of the internet?
And the question, still stands, always remains: How do you get more blog visitors? How do you attract traffic to your website like a magnet?
The answer is much simpler – perhaps too simple to comprehend: You slow down. You actually start at the very beginning. Why? There's something you're doing wrong as even at the times when you are getting traffic to your blog, you're getting less than 0.5% of the people to do what you wanted them to do. Right?
Forget about everything what other bloggers are doing with their blogs: trying to get a few visitors (especially backlinks) with commenting relentless unappreciated comments. Installing “auto content” plugins to get the same not-so-impressive content that are on hundreds of other blogs – again just to try and gain traffic.
Define your question to yourself and analyze it with such preciseness so that it may have a more purposeful meaning to more importantly: your blog.
If you're going to do this, you'll soon be figuring out that you don't just want more people to visit your website just for the sake that you want (that you need) more traffic to it.
Why do you want more traffic to your website? Is it just to gain more sales? Do you have a long-term plan with your blog or website?
You should get traffic to your blog that make them come to a standstill. Away from the rush there in the outlying universe, you aught to be a little unexplored star that barely glows amongst the many supernovas – but one that impresses every visitor with his first eyesight of your blog.
How to grab your website visitors in awe
1 Don't panic (it only causes trouble), patience is a virtue
Panicking is the first thing that lead bloggers into their graves. This is impatience. Don't expect your blog to become a supernova when you just change it one bit. Never do what most bloggers do as a solution. They overthrow their blogs with unimpressive eyesore things: “If I can just quickly spice it up with 10 cheap PLR articles, buy more of those cheap backlinks and do a little bit more tweaking . . .”
2 Rather start putting in real effort . . .
Otherwise you'll keep struggling. Keep failing – just wasting even more time. If you really want to be a “blogger” – you'll need to blog your way up to the top. By saying this: don't do negligible petty things just because it would be the easiest thing in the world to do. Real bloggers pay for their successes they have earned with nothing other than their time. Time and effort – writing and blogging unique, insightful, entertaining content of the highest quality. This is what will determine whether a blog will become popular or not. The rewards are backlinks that will come by itself and visitors that really feel entertained. Visitors that will be staying for longer coming back – and popularize your blog through social media.
You must always remember. Your visitors can't be entertained if you are chasing them away with your fast moving objects that might seem overcrowded amongst content on your website that probably say: “I'm just here for the sales, you know”. Website visitors don't stay long for a visit on blogs like these. There is nothing worse coming off of a blog whose content count undoubtedly seem much less than the disturbing things around it. And so the visits will remain for just seconds . . .
3 Blog even though you're an internet marketer
Even when you're selling programs and products or services to keep yourself alive while utilizing your website or blog for this purpose – you need to blog. (Why is it called a blog?) Especially when your site is still new and you'll be forced to advertise on free websites such as forum sites. Blog your products to your audience. Don't advertise. Do away with the inflated over-believing approach. They'll run away. You'll look like just the rest of everything out there: frightening fast moving objects.
Impress your clients, your visitors, and your audience. Provide reviews and honest opinions to them in the most common language possible. This will appeal to them and find it more welcome. Give them a feeling that you have years' experience and knowledge of that what you are talking about. However and in whatever way you put your words on paper –let it be something welcoming.
If you still fail – ask yourself why. Is it because you haven't yet started from scratch?
If you haven't started from the beginning – you simply haven't started yet. It's as simple as that. So how can you achieve anything? If you haven't started to produce something worthwhile to look at – you really aren't going to achieve anything here.
At the end of the day when you finally realize how crucial this is – you would finally have slowed down from moving too fast. And you will actually come to thought about how simple and easy these beginning steps are. The solution at getting more people to your blog. It was never the overcomplicated things you've ever been thinking rushing from left to right and from the one guy to the other guy in panic getting everything settled that you thought was the right things to do . . .
In fact. Starting at the starting point requires no money. And how are you not enjoying it! In this simpleness (not simplicity in doing everything worthlessly easy) is intelligence. The intelligence of simpleness. A word of common feeling producing something unique and exciting. There's laughter in it. Entertainment. Real conversations. Something that your visitors would want to share with their friends and with the world.
When you'd find this intelligence you would have come to terms of your fatal previous understanding that you are just a mere person with a blog online. That this wisdom let you came to the realization that you indeed are a person who have a blog, yes, – but that your blog is nothing other than a brand. That every brand does carry one or the other reputation. And as soon as you gain this reputation (one of trust) you'll actually start reaping the organic (automatic) results of success infinitely.
