In an attempt to play with my knowledge of AdSense, Chitika, and SEO, I am creating a series of single page sites. Essentially, information sites, design to provide basic information and provide links to purchase products, online.
Primarily, I will be using AdSense and Chitika. If one does not perform well, it will be removed and replaced. As you can see, I am also using Amazon.com. I don’t know how well my amazon link will do… we’ll see.
The Blog Herald, Problogger, DigitalPoint Forums, and several other resources are all reporting that Google is currently updating the page rank indexes across its data centers. In other words, the dance is on, suckas.
Over the next two days, almost every Google-indexed website will find its PR updated. Some will go up, some will go down, and some will stay where they are. This, however, is the telling time for how your blog is doing in Google’s eyes. For instance, I was a PR4 before this update, I was projected to go to a PR6, and am currently a PR5. I don’t know if I’ll rise again before this is through or not. Doubtful. Remember, though, if you’re a fairly new blog, you probably won’t
have a PR this time around. Not to worry, you’ll be picked up the next round, most likely. (For instance, my political blog, MindSpeak, does not have a PR in this round of updates, even though it has been indexed and appears in the search results.)
You may have noticed that I’ve – essentially – been missing over the weekend. On Saturday and Sunday, I took the time to seperate my political posts into a new blog, MindFyre Politics. With a completely new design, and scope, MindFyre Politics will be a challenge for me. I already have traffic coming in to this website, but the new one is – essentially – starting from scratch.
As such, I’ve decided to take on a bit of an SEO challenge, and attempt link exchanging. I’m going about if through a new web forum set up by the editor of The Blog Herald (Duncan Riley). The forum is called Web Log Empire, and it is dedicated to blog link exchanges.
Technorati Tags: SEO, Blog Herald, Duncan RileyI’m sure you regulars have already noticed that my layout has changed, slightly. If you were around for earlier, you would have caught my experimenting with it, a bit. Unfortunately, while it worked decently for firefox, it broke – inexplicably – under Internet Explorer. Until I can get a good CSS designer to come in and work with me (for free, heh), I’ll be sticking with what I’ve got – for the most part. Although, I am working on another layout which, if approved, will probably be smashingly successful.
You may have also noticed some changes in the monetization of this website. Can ya blame me? heh. I never said I wasn’t going into this to make money. I just said I’d never let making money overrule my passion for blogging. As soon as making money becomes more important, well, blogging just isn’t as fun.
So, in an attempt to not only make more money, but also garner some powerful and beneficial knowledge of both SEO and monetization, I’ve partnered with One Way Adversiting and Design and Chitika News (blog) for a case study.
Originally, OneWay was going for a case study surrounding Chitika. However, with so many of the applicants using both Adsense/YPN and Chitika, the rules have changed. Now it’s the best bang for the buck (so to speak). I’m relatively free to talk about things, as they happen, and at the conclusion of the study, results will be compiled into an ebook.
If you want to play along, I highly suggest signing up with Google Adsense, and/or Chitika E-Minimalls for your own website. Referral links (and I’d appreciate it if you’d use them) are on the permalink.
So what’s happening so far?
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I was pleasently surprised, today, to check my Google Sitemap stats. According to the Google Sitemaps blog, Google is now showing the top 20 queries you list for in the SERPs, and the top 20 queries people actually clicked on to go to your site (prior, it was only the top five, each). The ultra-cool thing is that sitemaps accounts are free, and you do not actually have to have a sitemap to sign up. Once you sign up (sitemap, or no), you will instantly see these stats.
As I was checking my stats, to day, I started clicking the queries to see where I ranked for specific queries. Obviously, I was on page one for all queries, but the surprising thing was that I took page one, position one, for “Chitika Revenue“. I was very surprised at this, as this would appear to be a much sought after position and keyword combination. Additionally, I am page one, position four for the query “adsense chitika“. (Both queries were issues without quotes.) As I’m only a page-rank four (PR4) website, this is a little surprising. Very nice, but surprising. Don’t let anyone fool you, folks, SEO on your blog is an important thing. Keywords in titles, and well-written articles do get you listed high in the search engines, even with a lower PR.
