Nextebizguy » Ebiz http://www.nextebizguy.com Exploring Ways To Make Money Online Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:39:19 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Ezinearticles and traffic http://www.nextebizguy.com/2007/09/17/ezinearticles-and-traffic/ http://www.nextebizguy.com/2007/09/17/ezinearticles-and-traffic/#comments Mon, 17 Sep 2007 00:27:01 +0000 Nextebizguy http://nextebizguy.com/2007/09/17/ezinearticles-and-traffic/ Continue reading →]]> Admittedly, I’ve been more than skeptical that an article on ezinearticles.com would produce traffic. With millions of articles already on the site, how could “my” article ever find the light of day? So, being part of the 30 day challenge, I opted to follow through with their techniques and write just ONE article with no hopes of success.

One day I sat and wrote a 295 word article for one of my sites. The article will not win a Pulitzer Prize, but it wasn’t trash either. I think it took me a total of 20 minutes. The majority of the time was spent signing up as an author.

I submitted the article and had it reviewed by their editors within two days. The article went live on 30 Aug 2007 and I was named an “expert author”. To date the article was viewed 319 times and I’ve received 25 site visits. These visits spend 4.22 minutes on the site and view 2.25 pages.

This is just one article. What if I wrote nine more? You get the picture. From my brief experience, I would definitely recommend you write a few articles to support whatever site you’re working on.

]]> http://www.nextebizguy.com/2007/09/17/ezinearticles-and-traffic/feed/ 0 The Five Pound Bar of Iron http://www.nextebizguy.com/2007/05/09/the-five-pound-bar-of-iron/ http://www.nextebizguy.com/2007/05/09/the-five-pound-bar-of-iron/#comments Wed, 09 May 2007 04:34:52 +0000 Nextebizguy http://nextebizguy.com/2007/05/09/the-five-pound-bar-of-iron/ Continue reading →]]> If you sell a five pound bar of iron out of the furnace you’ll get 6 dollars.
If you make it into fishing weights you’ll get 25 dollars.
If you make it into fishing hooks you’ll get 250 dollars.
If you make it into hunting knife blades you’ll get 2,500 dollars.
If you make it into watch springs you’ll make 250,000 dollars.

What do you see when you look at a five pound bar of iron?

]]> http://www.nextebizguy.com/2007/05/09/the-five-pound-bar-of-iron/feed/ 1 Google Rank Revealed? http://www.nextebizguy.com/2007/04/24/google-rank-revealed/ http://www.nextebizguy.com/2007/04/24/google-rank-revealed/#comments Tue, 24 Apr 2007 02:46:37 +0000 Nextebizguy http://nextebizguy.com/2007/04/24/google-rank-revealed/ Here’s an interesting read about how Google ranks your website. It’s an amazing, complicated, and arbitrary system.

Check it out: Secret is Out – How Google Ranks Websites

]]> http://www.nextebizguy.com/2007/04/24/google-rank-revealed/feed/ 0 The Best of Digital Point Forums http://www.nextebizguy.com/2007/04/21/the-best-of-digital-point-forums/ http://www.nextebizguy.com/2007/04/21/the-best-of-digital-point-forums/#comments Sat, 21 Apr 2007 21:58:00 +0000 Nextebizguy http://nextebizguy.com/2007/04/21/the-best-of-digital-point-forums/ Continue reading →]]> With the hundreds of posts a day on the DP forums, the best content posts often get buried. I’ve created a section of the site to keep a list the best posts on the DP forums. Be sure and check it out.

Also, if you have any thread you’d like to nominate from the DP Forums, just leave a comment below.

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  • Go to the Technorati Top Blogs
  • Check out those blogs and make relevant, non-spammy comments
  • Find a way to link back to your site (many let you post your name/website)

I would suggest you only start doing this once your site has compelling content.

]]> http://www.nextebizguy.com/2007/03/17/traffic-tip-use-comments-to-increase-traffic/feed/ 0 Celebrity Gossip Blog Demographics http://www.nextebizguy.com/2006/12/04/celebrity-gossip-blog-demographics/ http://www.nextebizguy.com/2006/12/04/celebrity-gossip-blog-demographics/#comments Mon, 04 Dec 2006 01:00:11 +0000 Nextebizguy http://nextebizguy.com/2006/12/04/celebrity-gossip-blog-demographics/ 6000 gossip blog readers. I recently posted on the success of a recent celebrity gossip blogger and wondered about the demographics of such readership. Inwardly, I was hoping to confirm a … Continue reading →]]> Searching around blogads.com, I found an excellent survey of >6000 gossip blog readers. I recently posted on the success of a recent celebrity gossip blogger and wondered about the demographics of such readership. Inwardly, I was hoping to confirm a hunch I had about “who’ was clicking those ads.

Here’s a summary of the respondents:

  • 49% are in the 22-30 year old range
  • 77% are Female
  • Music and Books were the highest purchases online in the 0 to 100 dollar range
  • 86% read blogs for humor followed by 73% for pictures

Need I say that if you’re doing a celeb blog, you should focus on affiliates for music and books? And yes, this did confirm my hunch.

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A celeb blogger that goes by the name “CalGuy” on Digital Point did just that and has earned over 1000 dollars a month in just three months. The amazing part is that CalGuy is making nearly every penny from Adsense ads.

Making a success in such a competitive field isn’t easy and CalGuy is posting nearly six times a day to feed the rabid readers. The traffic stats are pretty high and most of it is through organic searches (~1000 a day from Google) and link exchanges.

Here’s the site: http://www.celebslam.com/

Analyzing the site, on the main page he’s using:

  1. 1 Google Leaderboard 728×90
  2. 1 Google Sidebar 300×250
  3. A few blogads and Commission Junction Affiliates

The Google ads are showing stuff like “shopzilla” and lots of “celebrity gossip” links. While he did admit the the CTR isn’t “great” the ads are in a competitive field.

Running some numbers through the Adwords keyword estimation tool, the keywords with “celebrity” all top out at 5.00 – 5.02 dollars a click for #1-3 position. So if Adsense is paying 50% on clicks you’re making 2.50 a click. You don’t need a high CTR with that kind of click cash.

Another celeb blogger site named “Perez Hilton” claims over 2 million unique visitors a day. It’s a safe bet that he’s making some decent cash. If you’re going to give celeb gossip blogging a shot, you’ll need lots of pictures, above-average snarky commentary, link exchanges, and decent placement of Adsense ads.

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