Blog Network Updates

New Themes Added

Seo Traffic Blog Network Pro and Exec members now have 76 themes to chose from to individualize their blog.

Our main focus remains on quality content that will drive your blogs  SEO but well designed themes can also play a roll in your overall SEO.  We also try to offer each member their own special look.  After all, if you don’t like to look at your blog, you won’t be very convincing telling your friends to come look!

Every member of SEO Traffic Blog Network can easily change the look of their blog by logging on to their blogs control panel, scroll down the main menu to find Appearance, click on it and browse the available themes. You can preview each theme before changing, but never fear…. you can change back to your original one and your blog will look exactly the same.

Members who have set up widgets in their sidebar(s) may lose some if the new theme is not configured for the same widgets. You can save them by removing them to the inactive list while trying new themes and re-activating once you found your preferred look. The newer, high tech themes offered in Pro and Exc levels offer a verity of built in features and some are even further editable  making it easy to brand the look of your blog. Selecting your theme may involve weighing the benefit of looks you like and the features you need. We hope you will find both here at SEO TBN!

Members who took advantage of our special sign-up prices will not have access to only a few of the advanced custom themes.

Check out the themes as viewed in our control panel.
(note! all themes may not be available at all membership levels.)

SEO Traffic Blog Network Blog Themes Page 1
SEO TBN Themes page 2
SEO TBN Themes Page 3
SEO TBN Themes Page 4

Tighter Belt for Better SEO

Seo Traffic Blog Network is tightening its belt to Improve members SEO

Some say the Wordpress blog platform is to complicated and hard to use.  I Agree if you are a first time blogger and are setting everything up yourself.

SEO TBN has set everything up for you and makes it as easy as logging on and adding a post! Sure, there are lots of  controls and links to things you can change to fit your blog to your needs. But until you are posting on a regular basis, there is no need for any other changes! There is our own Just Ask Live Help available on every control panel page putting help just a click away.  How can it get any easier to actually get internet traffic?

We are dedicated to providing quality visitors to our members and have been getting a lot of tire kickers and spammers which we found we can’t totally shut down. This creates new empty blogs which is SEO hell. All new blogs and users will be deleted in 24 – 48  hours if user has not subscribed to a blog package and posted a new post.

We also have a few members blogs that were started on the free network which members have abandon even before our network turned pro. These blogs are still getting some visitors so we have not shut them down.  Members are still encouraged to contact SEO TBN admin to regain control of their blogs a a super special free members price!

To keep network quality high and offer the best service to our members we will be deleting  inactive, un-subscribed blogs, spam users with weird names and emails. and promoting better posts and pages withing our membership.  We think this is only fair for all members.

Traffic Blog Net to go Paid Only

To uphold quality and deliver better service to members Traffic Blog Net (this blog network) will only offer paid subscriptions to blog on the network. All inactive blogs and SPLOGS will be deleted.

Our network started out like a house a fire then dwindled into a splog heaven with very few members posting on their blogs. Our traffic rank which was well into the top 100,000 on the web has dropped back to 581,423 as of today. Removal of the splogs takes lots of admin time plus hurts our ranking with so much add – remove of content. A paid membership will stop the splogs, free up admin time so we can offer better SEO and faster results, plus add incentive to keep network quality and quantity high.

All active members will be grandfathered in as free lifetime members as long as their blogs remain active!  Inactive blogs with little or no quality content will be deleted and those members will have to pay to blog with us again.

Our free blog network has provided its members with millions of visitors in the past. The paid network will provide more targeted visitors, in less time (we can only target to the content you post and if you target a high competition market your visitors will take longer). No one can instantly draw visitors on a high competition market. But TBN will give you a higher rank faster because of less competition in our network.

New benefits include a simpler platform, no keyword, description, or other complicated stuff  you have to fill out,  just post and let the network do the work!
Only top quality themes. Less plugins with more features to keep your blog fast loading and easier to understand.

There will be 2 membership levels. Pro blogger will get the basic SEO blog package with everything you need to get seen quickly.

And Executive blogger which will get the same Basic SEO blog with more social media connection plus, sidebar advertising, plus will earn monthly commissions from every new member they turn on to our network. We also reward Exec members for helping the people in their blogging team. These commissions are only our way of creating incentive to build your high quality business team and  rewarding your hard work and a job well done. Not a biz opp or money making scheme.

More details will be released as we have them. We are in the beginning stages of setting up the paid membership and integrating it into the network.  This blog will probably be moved to my  blog on the network  Scott Reynolds dot com  or a new one…and the main url our network sales page. Keep an eye on TBN and add your comments and ideas now and maybe get your idea incorporated into the new TBN!

Table Of Contents For Your Blog

Recently added table of contents plugin.

The Table of Contents  (TOC)  plugin is a super easy SEO method!

TBN has tried sitemap generators and other plugins that didn't work well with our platform and no members could figure out how to use them.  TOC is as simple as scrolling down to & expanding the settings menu, then clicking the Table of Contents Creator link. Advanced users may opt for any of the page creation edits but us normal bloggers can simply scroll down and hit the create page button and you are done!

Once created you have an auto updating table of contents page you can submit to search engines as your sitemap! Your table of contents page will ensure every new post and page you add to your TBN blog will be indexed in every search engine you submit it to.

Advanced users will use their Google webmaster tools to submit it as a sitemap to Google. Bloggers not into all that SEO stuff can submit your TOC page to any search engine using a simple "submit url" search and choosing the search engines you want to submit to. BE sure you only submit to free submission sites…. This will take a little longer and you usually have to verify your submission by clicking a link they send you in an email but in most cases it works just as well as the high priced submission services.

This is by far the easiest  SEO add on I have found for our blog network. I am still working to  make it even easier for your content to be seen. Check your plugins page often for features that may help you with your blog. Contact live help by clicking the live help button on your blogs admin page if you have questions about any plugins.

The traffic is right in front of you buzzing by….. all you need is to put up your "Get (your niche) Here" sign to have them turn off at your exit! Submitting your new TOC page can do that for you!

Traffic Blog Network Updates 11/09

A note from Blog HQ.

The Blog network has been upgraded to WPMU 2.8.6.
WP link directory plugin lost functionality with this upgrade. All other plugins seem to be working fine.
To check your blog plugins or to see what other features you might want to add to your blog, simply scroll down and expand or click on the plugin tab in your blog Admin section. A list of available plugins will show with active ones showing a disable link. To activate more, just click activate. some may need more information and set up by you, just follow the instruction on the next page….

If Your Blog has disappeared!……

Try using a valid or one of your main email addresses…
Do not copy and paste word or other word processing files into your blog unless you use the paste from word or paste as plain text buttons in your post editor. Not using these buttons leaves extra code visible to readers and dead links. It looks like crap and does not link to any of your other sites or affiliates! It will cause Blog deletion!

The upgraded software should help capture some of the splogs before creation. I will catch the rest shortly!
Our blog network was created to build its members traffic and web presence with their quality content. I will uphold quality standards to help push members content to the top of every search engine! Spam and Splogs will keep getting deleted!

New advertising plugin for all members!

WP 125 will allow 125 x 125 ads or banners in your sidebar! Activate the wp125 on the plugin page and a wp125 tab should show up at the bottom of your admin menu. Click it to edit your setting and add or edit ads.

I know most of you probably think your TBN blog will never get you more traffic because you haven't seen much yet. People…. I have with the help early on of a few friends built our traffic rank to a peak a couple months ago of 224,000 out of every page on the web! That means we were only getting less traffic than 224,000 web pages on the entire world wide web! That figures out to just under half a million hits the early part of Oct! The traffic started dropping back the last 2 weeks of OCT. WE usually average from 200,000 – 300,000 hits a month and do you know why you haven't seen many? Because the main blog has been bringing in most of them! Holly, Jeannie, & Steven lead in the rest.

If you have been getting hits but no sales, you have either targeted your tags incorrectly or your copy does not draw your readers to your action (join or purchase). Also be sure that most links away from your blog are your own leading to another program for them to join or a product they can buy, do not overload your pages with ads and links! Your main purpose is to grab their interest and make them want to come back again!

The search engines are going to keep getting pickier on the content and pages they rank highly. Interesting, original copy on your blog will bring you closer to the top with every search.

Happy blogging!
Scott Reynolds
Trafficblognet.com Admin

Ad Advertising to Your Blog

The Traffic Blog Network has added an advertising plugin to our list of member comforts.

You will be able to easily add your own product ads, sell advertising on your blog, track the ads, and much more with this simple to use plugin.

Turn it on the same as you do other Wordpress Plugins. Click the Plugins tab in your admin area then scroll down through the list of availble plugins to find WP125 and activate it. (click link under WP125)

Then easily configure from the ADS links in your main back office menu.

Be sure to only use 125 x 125 banners or images or your image may not show.

The banner or image must be uploaded to the web and you will need the URL (web address) to enter in the image box. Most affiliate banners already have an image location. The URL will be in between " " like this <img src="http://yoursite.com/image/mybanner"> in the banner code. The other link in the code similar to this <a href="http://yoursite.com/?=affid165348"> has your affiliate link between the " ". This will be what goes in the other link  box.

You can set your link to any website you want the people that click the image to go to. Any 125 x 125 image can be added as long as you know the web address or URL.

Adding an Image of your own from your computer is as easy as adding an image to your post. Do a post about your product and add the image in the post using the image button in the editor. Once the post is saved you can just right click the image and either copy image location, or view image then copy from your browser address bar. You now have the image URL to add to your ad plugin page.

Post comments here with questions or problems or use the live help. I have been doing this for years and it is easy for me now. I do still remember how hard it was for me to figure out what part of what code went where to make things work back when I started….. I will be glad to help members get started.

Remember that every outside link you add to your blog is another opportunity for your hard earned visitor to click away from your blog and maybe never find you again! Make sure your ads and outgoing  links are pointing to your stuff, or can make you enough money to overcome loosing a visitor. It may be as easy as hitting the back button to come back and sign up to your blog or RSS feed, but can you afford to take that risk?

Spam Free Network?

For those of you that lost your blogs……. Where did you learn to write?

No I am not one of those people that will allow total crap and spam on my blog network just because it is content or traffic. I have been lax in the splog removal the last few months and was actually hoping the spam protection would hold most spammers off. They gradually work their way back in and I have to delete their blogs and block their domains. ……

Do they really hurt a site like ours? YES!!!

I have mentioned before about the time I have to devote to spam cleaning and our traffic taking dips as the spamming increases. Well this time I was really excited about our traffic rank climbing towards the top 200,000 on the web and was watching the traffic stats closely. Our traffic did take a dip in early September but then held fairly steady through October. Our Alexa Rank has dropped almost 100,000 in the last 3 weeks with actual traffic picking up. Why? I am not totally sure but blame the crapy content posted by the splogs…. I removed most of it last week and traffic rank immediatly started back up! I had a few minutes tonight to check and delete the rest of the spam blogs or splogs.. I will be watching the traffic stats and our rank closely to be sure if this was actually the cause or not.

I always stress the importance of origanal content! This will also help brand you as your web presence grows!

I hope that I am really seeing search engines picking up on the spammers and cheaters allowing the real articles to be seen????

At any rate…. this blog network will stay as splog free as my time allows with top quallity content from all members pushing everyone of your posts to the top of searches all over the web!

New AntiSpam Added

Spam Karma has been de-activated on TBN

A new, more powerful comment anti-spam plugin has been created! WP-Spamfree  claims to be the best in controlling comment spam on WP blogs. TBN Admin researched the plugin and decided to try it. The old Spam Karma is still available but disabled. We found most bloggers did not understand the Spam Karma (although we thought it was a great spam catcher) and it had lost support falling behind in updates, falling prey to hackers.

WP-Spamfree has been activated on all blogs. TBN members can access the WP-Spamfree control panel from the settings dropdown in your Admin dashboard. It has a simple user interface with some cutting edge functionality making it user friendly to both beginners and loging pros alike. TBN members Please comment on this post with your feedback!

Appoligy To Most People

After investigating I found some suspicious IP’s logging lots of visits to our network. Further investigation revieled that is is Chinese people that were causing the problems with the spam and splogs.  Evidently we are under Chinese attack to remove or burry any real information available to the Americans, Europeians, and probably others.

They will need new Ip addresses to infiltrate our network now. I am sure they have millions of them to fall back on. They may even sell them back to us after we have blocked them so our information is not allowed anywhere!

Something to think about!

If you took my question about everyone being greedy self serving rats to heart. You may want to re think how you do things!

I sure hope you aren’t! But you will do better by proving you are not a greedy self serving rat than bitchin cause I had the kahonies to ask!

>>>>>>>>>To TBN members:

I believe I just ruined the great news I had in my update post by keeping several hundred visits away by blocking the Chinese Spamming Ip addresses. Its up to you folks! Lets see some more of your great work!

Network Update 6/14/09

Members may be surprised of what they are doing!

Site stats are pretty impressive for the few blogs we have on our network and even better for the top few blogs!

Here are the stats since we rebuilt the network and have banned the splogs!

Usage Statistics for trafficblognet.com

Summary Period: Last 12 Months
Generated 13-Jun-2009 11:58 MDT

 Let me explain what is happening in the table above.

Feb monthly hits were down because we the move was in the middle of the month, the daily hits are up from us rebuilding our blogs (hits are every "hit" including every file on a page, (image, graphic, text, script) search engines, bots, and us).  As you can see we have been receiving around 6000 hits a day except for May (a lull in posting caused this fall) but it looks like we will be back around this number again this month! With some regular posts e can exceed that and possibly make 100,000 a day! As I said, some of these hits are search engines indexing our pages, Google itself indexed us between 50 to 458 times a day last month (depending on posting). So your post or any changes will be seen quickly! BTW, last  Aug we topped out at 40,000 hits a day! Then the spam blogs bogged us down

Files show how many actual files on the site got hits.

Pages show how many pages were viewed, not how many pages we have. Many are the same page being viewed by another person or bot.

Visits are when a person or bot looks at a page. One person or bot can make multiple visits. As you can see, our visits are pretty steady. This is from search engines and other bots along with our regular readers and RSS inquiries.

Google webmaster Tools show our network in good shape with only one blog showing to much duplicate content! I of course have some work to do removing the lost pages of the spam blogs indexed before the restructure of the network.

Regular posting brings YOU more traffic! TBN members have a great start and have web traffic at their fingertips! Keep up the great work!