Posts Tagged ‘blogs’

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!

Your Blog Theme

Some of you may not know that you can change your theme on your WordPress Blogs, both here on our network and your own self hosted blog. Here it is as easy as finding the Appearance tab, clicking the right side (little arrow) to expand, then click on "Themes". You will find an assortment of I think, pretty nice looks! you can click and try any of them and easily go back to any one you like without breaking anything! Self hosted bloggers can do the same thing but need to find the theme you like, download it, then upload to your wp-content file/themes through FTP or cPanel. Then you can change it through your WP Admin just like on our network.

Excuse Me Spammers

Spam is unwanted content sent or posted on the internet….. Period!

Our network has been getting more splogs lately…. (spam blog = splog)  For those of you thinking you are going to leach off the traffic TrafficBlogNet.com gets by playing of our generosity and creating a blog and either not posting or pasting in a copied post or batch of keywords ot tags. This is not a crap catcher! TrafficlogNet.com runs this network for marketers that want to build their own web traffic streams and web presence with good solid interesting information.  Any blog not meeting Admins requirements will be marked as spam and will not be viewable online. If you believe your blog was marked as spam mistakenly, post your argument as a comment to this post.

Ours is a small blog network, receiving a few thousand hits a day for our members. Good information is what brings these hits not blatant ads and uneadable  keyword posts. As our little network grows with more good information, our hits and rank will grow, simple common sence, no tricks or gimics. This will build a huge community "web presence" atracting more and more as our hits and rank grow. Admin is dedicated to keeping the network free of spamers and continously building rank and traffic for our members.  We have already proven a few good blogs build rank and traffic faster then a lot of spam blogs.

With quality information on our blogs, the traffic will grow constantly and last for a long time to come. It will keep working for you long after you post it!  Spam, search engine tricks and gimiks sometimes can bring lots of traffic quickly, but that traffic will be hard to convert to sales and will soon stop. These techniques can also get your ip banned so your website can not be seen, you can not email, or do much else online. A huge risk for some crappy traffic!

We hope people will use our network for what it is intended and stop just making more work for us. More work means more pay – more pay = less free tools and services….. We will see which side wins!

Starting Out With Your New Blog

You signed up for a new blog of your very own!

Now where do you start?

You will receive an email with your Blog URL, Admin URL and log-in information. Save this email where you can find it again and bookmark both URLs when you get to them so they will be easy to find later.

Once you get to your new blogs Admin and log-in, you will see a menu down the left side of the page. This is where all the controls of your blog are! Some have sub-links which can be accessed with an arrow on the right side of the menu button, click it and the drop-down of the sub links will show. The most important for your first day is Posts, click the drop-down arrow to find edit, add new, tags, categories, ect. The WordPress blog platform comes with a plugin that automatically posts a first post for you. You can edit that by clicking the edit link. Our blog network comes with an added wysiwyg editor to make posting easier for you. mouse over the tool buttons to see the functions they provide.

If you went in to edit the default post, go ahead and add something! Do not worry! if you don’t like it, you can edit or delete it later! Click add new and make a new post…. Most people are afraid they are going to break their blog. Well…. It has been done! But not to worry at this point! The worse that can happen is we will have to delete and re-install your blog. No problem if you do not have a lot of content on it you want to save. Another handy feature of our network is ease support from admin!

Click around to see what your new blog can do. Pick a new theme by clicking the Appearance link.

I have WordPress Training linked along with my own training videos to give you the basics. I will also be posting regular tips here in the blogging basics category. Next post in this series will be basic settings.

Why Blog?

I heard someone say the other day they stopped blogging because they weren’t getting results.

They would rather click sites or widgets or something to get clicks back. Definitely one way to get some visitors but you must be very careful to stay within your categories to get targeted traffic back. I would think it would be more like cold calling….. just call the non targeted list of numbers until you get a positive reaction…..

I have to give it up for him! I really don’t want to work that hard for so few results!

I do know where he is coming from….. if you just slap some copy and paste articles up with no research, key words, or links in on a blogging platform like Blogger. You won’t get ANY visitors unless you send them by working at clicking or reviewing their blogs or sites. Blogger is a cool site and done right will bring you traffic but it has so many members, it makes it hard to get to the top to be seen. Most bloging platforms will give you those same results  unless you are a pro blogger and a SEO expert. So without help, blogging is just more unproductive work! …….. You Might as well go start clicking!

Why Blog?

I blog because I can produce thousands of visitors with a single post!

I blog because once my posts and keywords are up there….. they keep working for me  driving traffic until the are taken down! The traffic DOES NOT STOP when I stop clicking!

I blog because I can easily funnel my visitors to any product or program, build a list or downline, and even make money on demand!

The WordPress platform and this blog network is highly  search engine optimized (SEO) and easy to get your keyphrases seen on searchengines.  It may be a little less user friendly than blogger but the results are worth it.

By blogging you are building your web presence and as long as your blogs are online and you keep posting, your web presence grows along with your rank! (someone with non related posts on every free blog they can find that are not linked together are not building anything.  These people will not like blogging because they can’t get results……. They will not get results any other way either……except maybe, for chasing after every single lead they may not even ever sell anything to…… A  LOT of work!

You can make your blog work for you  with a few easy steps.

Watch my on the video page and SIGN UP for your own free blog and start telling the world why they can’t live without you!

Web Traffic Basics

How do visitors get to the sites they want to see?

It all starts with a key phrase or "keyword" someone types into their browsers search box.  That  search checks all indexed listings with that "keyword" in their default or chosen search engine.

Getting your website or blog to have keywords or phrases that will show up on the first page when a search is done for those words or phrases will bring those visitors to you.

No…. You can’t put up a web page with the keywords you want people to find you with and expect people to show up. Oddly enough … that has been done. What a mess these "keyword sites" have made on the internet. Picking keywords that will get you results will take some research…. think of a word or phrase, do a search on any search engine. They will tell you how many time they matched your word or phrase. Now try to find one on the same subject that has under one million matches….. (Under a million is pretty easy to get you on the first page of a search).

OK, so now you have 1 or 2 key phrases with under 1 mill. competition. To guarantee top placement with those key phrases you need to set it up like this…..

• The key phrase has to be in the url or web address. Can be like http://trafficblognet.com/keyphrase/
• All or part of the key phrase has to be in the page title.
• All or part of the key phrase has to be in the category.
• All or part of the key phrase has to be in the sub title.
• Key phrase has to be spread throughout the article or post (and still be readable).
• Key phrase or words have to be hyper linked to (the same word or phrase if possible) in different post on and of your blog.
• Lead in posts or excerpts should be posted on other high ranking sites (where allowed) and keywords or phrases linked in to your blog (same word or phase on lead in as main post linked to).

Every step above is a must for your main keyword or phrase. Using this for your main key phrase and then branching off with others using hierarchy will create the multiple streams of trageted traffic I mentioned before. I guarantee any key phrase set up like that on trafficblognet.com will be on the first page of a search withing hours! Of course you can not do every step for every keyword or phrase (the url and page) but doing the rest of the steps will get a lot of your posts seen and keep building your organic search traffic with every key phrase you ad!

The search engines like Google and Yahoo have had to keep changing how they find and report information to try and give their customers the best information possible. My forecast of future internet searches is if one does not have large quantities of interesting and informative relevant information on and linked to their pages….. they will not receive any visitors. This has the Guru marketers nervous because their marketing tactics will not work anymore.

If you want to compete in tomorrows organic search traffic, I suggest you start building your information base (your web presence) now!

You do not need your own domain and hosting to start.

You do not need to spend loads of money to get started and using my system, the more you do…… the more it gives back later. No. It is not something that takes no work at all. BUT!  You can build a HUGE reader base and multiple targeted traffic streams just by blogging about something you love to do and talk about!

Now the SECRET!………. Once you have multiple streams of traffic and a huge reader base……… you can recommend what ever product you feel they will be interested in to them and make money on demand! (if you keep milking the cow it will go dry…. so be reasonable)

Watch my Traffic Building Videos for more information or come to the live CMU7 Blog Traffic Training. every Tues. in the CMU7 training room.