Add more content to your site every day!

So for me, this little tip not only helps you, but it helps this site as well by planting little seeds of keywords throughought my site.. so some time in the future when someone searches Google for “little seeds of keywords” they’ll end up here! There are a few good things about this:

1. More keywords for people to find. The chances of you ranking well in search engines for a popular keyword aren’t very good. If your site has lots of relevent content to what the users are searching for they could very well end up on your site. For example: You might not have a chance of ranking well for “star wars toys”, but if your site has lots of content related to that topic you might get people searching for “empire strikes back darth vader action figure” or something similar. A main keyword that gets a lot of searches is a good indication that other related queries will probably also be popular. Most of my traffic comes from people searching for random items that happen to be for sale on my sites rather than popular keywords.
2. PageRank potential increase. If your site is setup with an optimized linking structure you increase the potential pagerank of your entire site when you add additional content. This item will be debated by many I’m sure. If you do it wrong you can lower your pagerank, so you should figure out how to set it up correctly before setting out.
3. Keep them coming back for more. Search engines love new content. The more often your site is updaded the more often the spiders will come to visit. The same thing goes for humans. People will come back every day if you offer something unique, interesting and new every time they show up. If you went to a site that hasn’t changed in 2 years, how likely are you to return?

Content is king, so stop being a joker and get writing (or hire someone to do it for you)!

Have you ever had a really good AdSense Day followed by a “much-worse-than-average” one?

The current way AdSense is setup you have no way to figure out how much money you get paid for a specific click. How do we know that they are “doing the right thing” when it comes to paying sites running ads? I have a feeling that their “do no evil” mantra will be a distant memory a few years from now. I’m actually looking forward to the time when Google is hated as much as Microsoft is today. Maybe when the ipod dies everyone will go back to hating apple as well.

Anyway, if you watch your adsense stats close enough you can more or less see how much individual clicks are worth, or at least figure out an average for a day’s worth of clicks on a particular ad channel. Do the prices paid by advertisers really vary that much? How it is I can have several $1 clicks one day, then only $.07/click the next day for the very same pages? Perhaps the ads being shown are different, but why would they be if the content hasn’t changed? I almost feel like Google has some kind of system in place to “balance” out your earnings. I had about a week straight of good days, then all of the sudden 2 really bad days in a row (with the same traffic).

The unfortunate part is that anyone can speculate about these sorts of things all they want, but since we have no transparency into Google whatsoever other than what Matt Cutts feeds us, we have no way to know what is going on. Some people believe he only exists to spread disinformation. Why would he be feeding information to SEO people when Google flat out doesn’t like SEO?

I’m not really accusing Google of cheating anybody, but merely posing the question: How would we know if they were?

~Wealthy Webmaster

I’ve been doing some reading lately about Linkbait. What is linkbait you ask? It is creating some kind of content on your site with the express purpose of getting other people to link to it. Now call me crazy, but it seems like EVERYTHING on your site should be link bait. If you aren’t trying to create something people want to link to, wtf are you doing? I’m surprised that there even needs to be a term for this practice.

Some people have come up with some pointers on how to write blog posts that qualify as linkbait.. and here is what I believe the important bits of that are:

• Controversy. People will link to you if they think you’re crazy or just to point out your point of view to others.
• Funny or Strange. I can’t even begin to guess how many billions of emails and URLs must get forwarded around the planet every day just because they’re funny or strange. Social networking sites make this stuff easy to share. MySpace whoring anyone?
• BUZZ! Clearly if you write something related to currently popular items such as the ipod, SEO, or current events, people will be more likely to be interested. The more people that are interested the more likely it will be that your link will spread like wildfire.

Do I really care about linkbait? Sure, it would be nice to get huge spikes in site traffic for a day or two, but am I going to go out of my way to do it? Not likely.

I do have one method for producing linkbait that I’m surprised hasn’t seen more widespread use, but I’m not ready to share that with the world for free just yet.

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With all the research I’ve done and experience I have with the varios methods of making money online, I have decided to create a search engine guide (SEO) which will also feature information about how to make money on the Internet with many different methods. Stay tuned for the launch, which will be soon. I am putting the finishing touches on some new information now.

While this book won’t be free, it will be very inexpensive compared to other related ebooks out there.

If you have anything you would like to see covered in this e-book please leave a message and I’ll take it into consideration.

It has been speculated that at some point links from directories would be discounted by Google. Many of my sites don’t have many other links besides directory listings, and they all got a decent PR boost during the last update. This proves to me that directory listings are still passing pagerank to other sites, however it can’t be proven whether they actually help for SERPs or not. Directory listings are a great way to get your site spidered and indexed faster, and also a good way to build permanent incoming one-way links. Just be careful not to rely on them too much in case Google does take action against them sometime in the future.

~Wealthy Webmaster