Traffic Rising and Keyword Blather

Lots of visitors. Social blogging. Traffic diversion. Getting rich? Not directly. But I can get a website or page indexed in about 15 minutes using one of my blogs like this. Pretty cool amount of visitors though. Folks are writing about my sites on blogs, on Twitter and in forums. Posts take about 5 minutes a day. Blah, blah, blah.

What actually interests me is the keywords. I haven’t done any keyword research for any of these type of sites. Just writing about the photo or video I post. You would be amazed (then again maybe not) at the keywords people use to get to the site. Honestly it makes me re-think the whole keyword methodology I have been taught or follow.

People make a career out of teaching keyword theory. There are sites dedicated to the pleasure of finding the perfect keyword. Software programs scoop out keywords from god knows where. And after it’s all said and done after a few months of writing posts or articles I will have more keywords than I ever thought would be used to find my site. None of them show up in keyword tools.

However, if your idea for riches is via Adsense then all those thousands of keywords is mostly shite. You’ll make very little money with them. But then again you endure a lot of pain finding those money makers too, TKA’s new membership green keyword site discovery thingy notwithstanding (No, I’m no longer a member).

But I’m not really focused on Daddy G anymore. Haven’t been for a while. I’m not thrilled with relying on so many effed up variables to make money with Adsense. There are a lot of talented folks out there doing quite well with that type of monetary model. I’m not on their team.

The keyword dance required for Adsense glory is obviously a career model. The perfect keyword is money. Both from guberus and for webmasters. I guess I don’t even try for the green keyword anymore. Too much work. Not enough reward.

So I guess the point is I try to get traffic from as many keywords as possible. The long tail I guess. But I’m not researching for the long tail, or the short tail. I like using photos and/or videos. They are on topics that a large swath of people have an interest. I write about the media. What color is the model’s shoes? Where is the photo taken? How many bones did the tool break? I tag the shit out of it. Amazing how people find the blog from the search engines. Both in general search and images. Then I link out to blogs and Ebay sites that are very niche. The keywords are money. But I pretty much know I won’t rank the blog for that keyword. My blog is in essence the search engine.

I have discovered some keywords that are quite popular that aren’t highly thought of in the search engines. I use them to make Hubpages, Squidoo lens and Tumblr blogs. I can monetize those.

As stupid as all this sounds, I am simply writing on topics that I can get visitors. The graph above of one of my blogs show I can do it. Across a handful of (social) blogs I probably get at least 20K visitors a day. I link to sites of mine (and those that aren’t to try to camouflage my deal). I link to money sites. If I get 5% clicking, that is 1K people trolling over to money sites to possibly click an affiliate offer or Adsense to further their boredom. The sites are well-written original content sites. Nothing that daddy G would get upset over.

That’s my deal. I like to try shit out. Some things fail. Some don’t. I just don’t care to follow the lemmings.

BTW – I’m looking forward to seeing what PLRPro is going to turn out with their new initiative. It looks good. I use AMA. The rest of the offerings look useful as well.

Update – Should have mentioned that the money blogs I link to have to be somewhat related to the blogs that bring in traffic. When I post something I have to be able to link out in a way that makes sense. So I may have a post/photo of a chick playing football and I’ll link out to a site that promotes football jerseys from Ebay. It’s not like I’ll have a video of a speeding boat and link to a landscaping niche site. The trick is try to figure out what might interest people enough to click or buy. As you would imagine it’s difficult to get people to buy when they came to visit for entertainment. That’s why numbers have to be huge and hope for 1% success. It’s probably no easier than trying to find the perfect keyword and build a site around it. Just a bit more fun. I won’t get rich from this “technique” but I will make a few bucks without losing my mind. I still build real niche sites with XSP as the mood strikes. Gotta keep things swirling.

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