Monetize Your Site

I have just finished installing a Do Follow plug-in and the KeywordLuv plug-in on this blog. I do have comments set to manual approval for all posts, so a comment will not appear until I do approve it. I am pleased that you checked out the blog and I invite you to leave a quality comment that expresses your opinion on the material in the blog or on the main site. I have also installed these plug-ins on my blog on my Before You Buy a Website site.

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I am adding some reprinted articles to the site. When I run across some good information in one of the article directories that may be of interest to my visitors I am adding them in the Reprinted Articles section of the nav pane. This will add to the information available and will be filtered to insure relevance to our site topic.

I was just going through some traffic reports on my hosting space. I had a search engine hit to the PC App Store site. I checked the link to the search results and found that my site, for the very special search term – pc app store, is ranked first of 72,100,000. This illustrates the importance of a domain name. The page rank is shown as 0 and Alexa is not even aware that the site exists. There are very few links reported to the page, but on the strength of the domain name the site is in the number one position.

I have several .info domains that get some search traffic on the strength of their domain names as well. People look down on .info domains, but if the domain name is a high volume search term and the competition is weak, a .info domain name may return a good bit of search traffic at a bargain price.

Before investing in a domain name it would be good to do some keyword research. Try to find a domain name that includes your site keywords. This will make life much easier when trying to promote the site. This is wisdom that I have learned in my website building activities.

A good domain name should be reasonably short and memorable. Single word names are ideal, but few are available. Two and three word names are good. The domain name should include keywords that are associated with the site. The domain name should also be easy to spell correctly. These things will make the name and the site more valuable to you.

I have submitted a few (very few, unfortunately) articles to some article sites. For the most part they do work. I see visitors from those articles on a regular basis. I do believe that if I had 100 times the articles in the directories that I would see approximately 100 times the visitors from these sources.

Of the articles that I have posted only one has not performed. This article is posted with EZine Articles. It is not for lack of views of the article that it has not performed. EZine has good analytics in place and I can see that the article is being viewed.

I suspect that the primary problem with the article is the call to action in the resource box. An other article that has had a similar number of views has a 16% click through rate while the article in question has had no click throughs. Perhaps it is the content or the category under which it is listed, but I think that the problem is that the resource box is not compelling.

The articles that have performed best for me have been on EZine Articles and Buzzle, the sites that have the highest standards. Because of their high standards the backlinks from these sites may carry more weight. That may help to improve your SERP, and along with good key words may get you to the front page of the search results.

Article marketing can be a good source of  ‘free’ traffic. Present good information with a good headline and the material will be read. Pay particular attention to the call to action in the resource box and you will see some traffic to your site. It does take some time, but it can be a great benefit to your and your site.