SEO Finance and Making a Fortune is now my goal

SEO Finance and Making a Fortune is now my goal

Good day to one and all reading this blog. I have violated the cardinal rules of successfully driving traffic to your blog site and using SEO to generate revenue, I have not been consistent in my blogging and posting efforts. This is the greatest failing, besides just old or stolen content, to a blog. New, fresh content is key, updating a couple of times a week is key, getting the word out there in the blogosphere is key, having patience and methodical in updates and consistency is key, these are all things I have failed to maintain in a consistent fashion.

Still there has been some very slight and scant traffic. Pulling the traffic data from the last month shows this. Pulling the total data for Analytics shows there has been some movement, so all is not for loss. There is still time to pull myself around, learn more SEO, apply it here and be explicit in stating just what I am doing and see how well it all works out and share it with those that find me.

Saw one of the most inspirational movies for this activity not too very long ago. Julie and Julia, the movie about the woman that spent a year cooking her way through The Art of Cooking by Julia Childs, and blogging her way through it as well. The story is awesome, the movie is superb, and with my spirit having lagged, it is uplifting to use that write for a living, for a hobby, for our futures.

I heartily recommend watching the movie, should be out in DVD fairly soon. The trials of Julia Childs getting her book written is inspiring for illustrating dedication, and a post a day for an entire year seems daunting to the staunchest of us all.

I have a goal now, in my writing and blogging, affiliate sites and programs, and in Adsense revenue, etc. It is $200,000 in US Dollars between today and 12/31/2010. This will cover all the issues in my life, making it so much simpler for me. So come on, lets see how far towards my goal I make it.

An interesting item, in the traffic to a few other sites I have up, the traffic is increasing coming in from the Yahoo Search Engine instead of the Google Search Engine. In the long term so far Google is the greater provider of traffic, but Yahoo at times will surge ahead. I often think I need to research how Yahoo ranks and conducts their traffic items, and see if I can target Yahoo instead of an overall SEO sense, bringing in a more focused approach, which in niche markets is key, but this is such a large scale general market for this blog I hold little hope to pull in much from it, more an exercise and practice in adding in keywords like seo and marketing, without the overwhelming glut I personally see on most sites (and the little SEO article writing I have done had to create for others) that is just a sense of overkill. Enough on that soapbox.

Welcome back, and remember you want at least 300 to 500 words per posting, Google hits on it better once you break 300 words, and 500 words is a page of normal paperback fiction, give or take, suiting the reading speed and pace of the Internet.

Statistics Timeframe Visitors Hits Pageviews

Seofinance Month 10 18 27

Week 1 1 1

Content Works

Hello to my fine readers
I know you are out there, I see you in my Google Analytics

Which shows, even with months of no updates, no new information, the content is there and it is bringing in traffic to my blog here.

Well it has brought in 18 some visitors in the last week. None clicked on my adsense ads so no revenue was generated, but I had traffic.

So the word is, update your content, write more, post a couple times a week and the traffic will arrive. It just takes time and dedication.

Been Away

Ahh the joy of company. As much as we love them, it is so fun to sleep on the air mattress in the living room too.

So all of my content creation, all of my blogs, have been lacking in content and update these last few days. So here on a nice Sunday early afternoon, I have sat down to do some writing.

Not too many hits on this blog in the last week. Absolutely none in the horror keyword oriented one. Proof again of what I keep reminding myself, fresh, new, update, all the time to bring back the customers, or just readers.

In the last 7 days on Adsense, total ad impressions is 1. So no traffic.

Saturday Update

 

03/06/09 statistics
Statistics
Seofinance.blogspot.com
Adsense
Impressions 99

Analytics
Visitors 32
Views 55
Pages 108

Horror Oriented Blog
Adsense
Impressions 2
Analytics
Visitors 1
Views 2
Pages 2

…

So yesterday I got 2 hits on this blog, a new visitor. I think it was the person that left the advertising comment to go hit his site where he allegedly makes $40k a month. His keyword search on Google, per Analytics, was Adsense Money. So my keywords in here are starting to work. No one has clicked a single Ad yet. meaning no money for me made yet.

On one blog on this same topic, foolish me I did not bookmark nor Stumbled It, so I have not relocated it. But he has screen shots of his traffic and Adsense earnings. A huge part of the inspiration to do this blog. So his observed trend was when his traffic was under 3,000 views (a day I think wow) his payout percentage and click rate dropped dramatically. So using that model, it is the shotgun method. Pull the trigger, send a spray of lead towards the target, eventually something will strike. Same principle, the more that show up, eventually someone will see something they want to click and voila’ Adsense revenue.

So I have good keywords to get traffic. Now to improve rank, more content, some relevant images, and give it time. The blog that inspired this, he said it took a good 2 years to get to that traffic level. This one is less than a month old, long ways to go.

Have a good Weekend,

SEO Finance

Middle of the week

It is the middle of the week

Do you know how well your sites are doing? Well sadly enough I do know how well mine are doing. Adsense and Analytics lets me know that only when I post to my site, do I get traffic coming to it. Need to tighten it up, need to narrow the focus, to tighten up the ads being shown to increase the likelyhood of them being clicked, adding to my Adsense Money and making enough to get a payout.

Or I can go the affiliate route, pull an ad from Clickbank and post it right now, here in this post, and we can see if anyone finds the offer of interest. Totally blatant about it, but let us not fool one and another, many if not most of us, want to generate some extra income. I am just being upfront about it.

So if you are reading my blog here, go ahead and click on links and affiliates that are of interest to you.

Content and Updates are King

 

Proof positive

The only changes to my Adsense and Analytics happen on days I update this and the Horror Oriented blogs. So 5 days of life and being busy proves what others and I have said and thought for years.

In stores, especially small hobby oriented one (an excellent analogy for most blogs) in those stores if there is not new cool things to look at, touch, pick up and wish about and then to buy, if there is not something new to look at each time you walk into it, then pretty soon there is no reason to go in there.

Used bookstores understand this to survive and there is a constant revolving inventory that exists to tempt us to swap or buy.

So content is king and queen and the whole kit and kaboddle. Yes Social Media, Keywords and Density will aid in getting an initial indexing. Yet if there is no reason for anyone to return to visit, why should they?

 

So that is the short post for today, I hope all your finances are in order, change is coming in the form of the stimulus package and right now is the time, if you are a small business, right now is the time to position to work on government projects.

 

02/25/09 statistics

02/25/09 statistics
Statistics
Seofinance.blogspot.com
Adsense
Impressions 59
Analytics
Visitors 28
Views 48
Pages 67

Horror Oriented Blog
Adsense
Impressions 2
Analytics
Visitors 1
Views 2
Pages 2


The weekend was not one for me to do any real updates. There were things going on that really kept me from focusing on my writing, and finance of life quest. I did pick up the May 09 issue of the magazine. Lots of good tips in there, I am thinking of pulling out the highlights, the bullets, rephrasing and posting at my desks at work and home to remind myself of steps to take towards financial security and freedom.

Speaking of which, looking into Forex Trading. Foreign Currency buying and selling. Some field of investing I had not heard of until a few days ago, and something to investigate to see what the entrance fees, the costs to do business, etc would be. If they are minimal to nothing than a potential sideline besides Adsense and Ad Dollars though Google will be looked at.
One thing I do not have in my economic quest are multiple streams of passive income. I have one active stream, the wife has one and has started a consultant (Parties with products model) as well for her second one. I need to set up a good second passive stream. This blog on SEO and Financing was to be one. The pace is slower than I want, even knowing it might take years and some luck to make it happen, still it is slower than I want. Slower than the extant bills want. So time to look at other models as well and see which, if any, fit within my personality and motif.