Content is king? No it's traffic

Quality content is useless without quality traffic. Traffic bring in sales and leads and  quality traffic generates revenue for you. I have 3 blogs. Blog 1 has 2000 visitors a day, blog 2 has 50 visitors a day and blog 3 having 200 visitors a day. Which of the blog making me the most money? You might be thinking it is blog 1, but it is not. It is blog 3. You see, income depends on the quality of traffic and of course on the product that you are selling. So talking about traffic, I have listed my top 5 traffic sources. Here they are.

1. SEO and Search Engines
Majority of my traffic comes from Google. I ranked 1 on some sort of targeted  keywords and phrases which brings in 70% of my quality traffic. How did I do that? I build a lot of quality one- way link from related sites. My other blog also got 1000 pages. Do not just create 10-20 pages. It takes time to make a thousand pages but think about your blog as long term business.

2. Article Marketing
Write short articles related to your site and place keyword links on the resource box. That way you get strong backlink plus visitors who may click on the resource box. Now where to submit this articles? One of the best is Ezine Articles. It works for me. Just try it.

3. Pay Per Click Advertising
This might be expensive but it is the quickest way to get quality traffic. Google Adwords, for me, is expensive. If you don't like to use money then just skip this step.

4. Social Media Sites
Nothing new here. Facebook, Twitter, Linkdn etc. bring in traffic. I have make Facebook to its full potential in creating quality traffic. I created a fan page and it brings me huge traffic. Most of the traffics here were temporary but It will bring you leads overnight. Do not also forget the power of YouTube! Create videos and have it watermark with your link.

5. Email Marketing
I actually suck at this and I actually pay someone to do it for me. Collecting emails is such a pain. But I learn a tactic on how to do it. Give free reports with exchange of their email addresses. That way you get repeat visitors. You can bombard them any offers you want. And oh don't be a spammer. That would make them unsubscribe. Write in your email viral messages, detailed information and make it at least once a week. That way you are making some bond with them and they might recommend you to their friends or co-workers.

That's it.  That was my top 5 traffic sources. How about you? Am I missing something important here? Tell me. I am interested to learn =)

Google PR Update last December 2009 Inaccurate

I think Google's latest PR Update was on December and I am sure it is inaccurate. Why? Mark,a member of the PMT forum, shares his accomplishment from the latest PR update that time. He announced that he has a PR of 3. The posts that followed after Marks' also reveals their websites PR and everyone has a good PR ranking except....me!

Mark's PR was 3 and the others were 4. And mine was 2 despite of my efforts in link building with dofollow blogs with high PR. Then I began to wonder.  So I've checked on their sites stats. And I don't find their sites having links with high PR sites.

The others are also  not sure of this PR update. This is from Yellowminded

I'm not sure about this new PR update. I have a blog that zoomed from PR 0 to PR 4 but I have not even done much link work on it while my other sites with decent backlinks were demoted a notch or two. Lol. Oh, Google. I expect that there will be another "corrective" PR update pretty quickly...

Other blogs that are only less than a month old achieved a PR of 3. Its a wow. If you want to view our full discussion about it you can head on to this topic.

My Blog has now a PR of 3

Google Doesn't Care About Our PageRank Anymore?

Just recently I have posted about my quest in achieving a PR3 in 90 days. Then I run a blogsearch about page ranks then I read an article saying that Google Quietly drops PageRank from Webmaster Tools. Google had indeed remove Page Rank statistics on Webmaster tools.

Susan Moskwa from the Webmaster Central team explained it was removed by Google because Google doesn't want webmasters to focus too much on pagerank. This is a good thing for webmasters since they worry so much about page rank. I myself become so obsessed about how will I rank high.

And since this is what Google wants, I will not continue anymore my quest on PR3 in 90 days and getting a PR10 backlink from Adobe. Was my decision right or wrong? If Google truly don't want us to worry too much on our rankings, it is much better if Google will give us all a PR of 10.

The Quest for PR3 Ranking in 90 days

Our goal is to climb up to the top of the Search Engines.Some got a very competetive niche and they have to prove to the Search Engines that their blog is more relevant than the others. Bloggers are  having hard time to promote their blog because of lack of time and lack of money. Having a thousand of quality backlinks doesn't have to be time consuming or costly. There are many ways to generate free PR backlinks. In the  next 90 days here is what you will do to achieve the goal of PR3 Ranking in 90 days starting now.

1. Submit your blog to directories. Submit your blog to directories as many as you can that is related to your niche. Submit it manually or automatically using semi-automatic softwares or services.

2. Write atleast three articles per week and submitting to article directories. In short, you will do article marketing. I've read that this method is very effective. Article directories also bring extra traffic to your blog.

3. Post to social networking sites.  Social networking sites are best tool for fast indexing and also bring in tons of traffic. Social networking sites like Digg, StumbleUpon, Propeller have a high Google Ranking. There are available softwares that you can use to speed up your submissions to multiple sites at one time.

4. Submitting RSS feeds to RSS directories.  Rss feeds are important in backlink building. If you don't have one have it now. You can again use RSS submitters to submit your RSS feed automatically. If you don't have RSS feed, you can do blog commenting to do follow blogs.

5. Joining forums related to your niche.  Post to forums atleast 10 times a day. Forums are indexed by Search Engines and have high ranking. Make sure to leave your link at your signature to gain backlink.

Having yor blog rank high to search engines will bring you tons of traffic. Thus increasing your income!

PR10 Backlinks from DP and Adobe: Is It for Real?

Last June, I wrote about Free PR10 Backlink from Google. Then just now I Googled how to get a PR10 backlink aside from that method. Then I've found out this post about getting PR10 backlinks on howtorankhigh.com. I've read that there are rumors that someone can get you a PR10 backlink from Digital Point Forum. Also I've read that you can get a pr10 backlink by utilizing Adobe. Hmmm..Let us try these methods I've found on howtorankhigh.com. I'll report back if anything happens to my ranking.

…if your company has done some development using Adobe products, here are a few examples of how you can get involved and subsequently rewarded….

1. Apply for the 2008 Adobe Max awards. Their 2007 site has a PR8 and both winners and honorable mentions get a PR7 backlink. In fact you get more link love if you are an honorable mention then you do for winning, so it pays to have a good but not great submission.

2. Take part in Flex Camp!

Hang around and get interviewed for quotes and you can get a backlink from a page like this one.

3. Get involved with the Flex dev community. Submit content, and you get an “About the author” plug at the bottom of your entry – write a very long entry and they break it into multiple parts – more links for you.

4. Another option is to write some content for the Edge newsletter!

See, just because a full flash web site makes you cringe does not mean you should stay away from using Adobe products for development. I’ve seen a new site come out of absolutely nowhere to a PR7 with just a few Adobe.com back links.
(Source: http://www.seowrench.com/pr10-adobe-free-backlinks/)

In another post from bayaw.com on Aug 08, it lists down the actual steps to get there by going through the Adobe forum/ communities.


1. Go to http://www.adobe.com then click “Communities”

2. New page will show, Click the “Forum” link, on the new page click the topic you want to join, I prefer Acrobat because I regularly used the said adobe product so for sure I can relate on it.

3. Click the “register” anchor link. You need to register to the site forum to gain back link and post some thread from it.

4. Once you’re done registering and you’re in the forum area where you can modify your profile information, click the “Preferences” link then click “Personal Information”. This is the place where you can add back link to your site. There are two field where you can add your link first is in the Your homepage field and second is the Your Favorite URLs field. Used this two fields wisely because they can provide you good do follow back link.

5. Now you have a back link from a pr10 site, all you have to do is explore the forum and post some question or answer some thread to provide a way bot find your account where your back link is located.

(source: http://www.bayaw.com/2008-08-31/how-to-get-backlink-from-pr-10-website.html)

Free PR10 Backlink from Google?

Getting a quality backlink is not that painful. In fact, you can get a PR10 backlink for free! Free where? Free from Google itself. There are webmasters selling the secret for $15. But I've read this many times before from other blogs and decided to make a post about it. The question is not actually how to get the backlink from Google but does it actually works? Some say yes and others are not. I don't actually believe that it works but setting it up takes only minutes and you won't lose anything.

For the sake of newbies who does not know it yet, follow these instructions.

1. Get your Google account. Skip this step if you already have one.
2. Create your Google profile and add your url.

That is so simple and no screen shots needed. And guys, I want to clarify that this is not a blackhat method.



Update: Google announces that this trick is no longer working.