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Originally Posted by ScreaM
Nice one but it would have been better if you'd added some spacing.
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Sorry; next time I'll spread my tutorial into 254 one-line posts.
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Originally Posted by rogue
He, well i'm trying both ways but i have a question, why shouldnt i post any more than once every two days? on my main blogs i have been posting daily, am i better slowing down a bit?
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Or the kind of blog I described 95% of the traffic is coming from search engines. In my experience between 1 post every other day and 1 post per week is the "optimum". More posts won't get you more traffic in a significant way.
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Originally Posted by Venril Sathir
I wouldn't agree with TGP part for exactly the same reason - if it's well ranked - why not trade?
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Because you don't want to lose your surfers on a TGP that offers much more free material in a more convenient way. If you want to trade with TGPs, do an a-b-c link trade using another of your sites and get a link FROM a TGP, but not to it.
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Originally Posted by NinjaSteve
Thanks for the tutorial. How much work per day do you estimate it would take a person?
In your opinion why would making one post per day be bad?
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- Accounting for content downloading, novelties research on the tours, post writing, etc... I think a well-trained webmaster shouldn't take more than 1h per post on average. (ie: 1 day/week is enough to keep 4 blogs updated with 2 posts/week)
- Making one post per day ISN'T bad. It's just sub-optimal. You'll get much more traffic on 2 blogs updated every other day than on 1 blog updated daily. That being said, when I start a blog, I indeed often post every day to build it up before I start looking for trades, etc...
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Originally Posted by Greg B
Cool! Always a free tutorial is a plus! How many blogs do you suggest we make? Make the blogs on the same domain or register 20 domains and make a blog for each one?
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I'd definately suggest to make each blog on its own domain: not so expensive, better SE results, plus that allows you to sell your blog easily if you ever want to.
If you're doing that full-time you can make as many blogs as you can maintain.
If I were doing full-time into blogs I think my limit would be about 30-40. At the moment, I actually only have 10 since my affiliate program is taking a lot of my time.
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Originally Posted by Cash
And the traffic comes from? SEs for the particular micro-niche? It always gets to traffic ...
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95% SE (both text and image search), 5% trades+bookmarkers.
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Originally Posted by born2blog
I agree with all of it except blogs on freehosts can still be good if used as feeder traffic and if you only build them in your spare time.
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yeah, free-hosted sites are nice as a hobby in your spare time; but my tutorial was about developping a good money-making business :-)
With a free-hosted site, what happens if/when:
- the free hosting/service goes belly up/forgets to renew its domain?
- you want to sell your site?
- the "free" hosting service decides to add banners/pop-ups everywhere on your sites?
Also, you'll find out that many webmasters (myself included) are now VERY reluctant to trade links with free-hosted sites. Make yourself a favour and shell out $50/month for a dedicated server. Only the extra SE traffic you'll get from the extra link trades will pay for it.
More importantly: If you decide to follow my tutorial (or already have similar sites), please PM me for link trades if you have sites in the following niches: big tits, shemales, femdom, bbw, mature. :-)