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Posted By: DaveB In Response To: My thoughts (boring though they may be) about Google Adsense and SEO... (MaaMaw)
Wednesday, 29 March 2006, at 8:55 a.m.
> GOOGLE ADSENSE:
> Well, I'm finishing March with my earnings *WAY* down from last month
> despite a substantial increase in traffic. This has me extremely
> bumfuzzled (How I love this word. Thanks, Margaret!) , since I
> depend on my Google income to pay half the mortgage and I had the silly
> idea it would increase as my traffic increased.
> Jim, you said your Google earnings were down about 2/3 earlier this
> month... did that hold? Just curious.
> I've been cruising a lot of Adsense forums, and the same cry can be heard
> everywhere. I've only seen a couple of people counter it with,
> "Mine went up" or "Mine is about the same."
> Very strange.
> My husband (who knows diddly about any of this) was saying maybe people
> are hesitant to click on Google ads because of this big fuss over
> releasing information to the federal government... you spoze??
> It's very strange, and I'm interested in what other people have to say --
> not that it will change anything but it's still interesting (at least to
> me).
That is weird. For some reason my Adsense income has gone way up on one of my sites and kinda down on another.
> SEO:
> Slow but steady...
> Remember Mr. Tortoise...
> Slow but steady...
> For two months I've been working on my Giraffe Exhibit, trying to get
> "giraffe" near the top of the search engines like my more exotic
> critters are already.
> Thanks to some great advice from several Dear Board Buddies, I stopped
> trying to get "giraffe" anyplace and started focusing on less
> popular keywords and keyword phrases.
> I would have been done weeks ago if I weren't so obsessive-compulsive
> crazy, but that is neither here nor there.
> Sunil Tanna told me to Use the keyword/phrase (and only the
> keyword/phrase) in the title tag, and Repeat the same keyword/phrase (and
> only the keyword/phrase) in the H1 tag as close to the top of the page as
> possible, and Create a "hierarchy" of links near the top of the
> page (i.e., Mammals > Giraffe > Behavior). OHMIGOD!!
> I can't believe how well that worked (yes, I've got good content, etc.
> etc., but I had that before; I have to believe this is what made the
> difference!!).
> I'm seeing most of my "keyword phrases" on the first page of
> Google now -- and it was sudden, as soon as my new /giraffe/ directory was
> indexed.
> HOLY CRAPOLY!!
> Here's the "slow-but-steady" part:
> Some of my phrases only show 30 to 50 searches per month on Overture (they
> say, I believe, to multiply that by 10 for all the search engines or for
> Google or something, but I've never found that to be the case). Of
> course I always tweak my phrases to get the highest number of searches,
> but in some cases I just can't do much better than this.
> At one point I decided to drop a few pages, thinking, "You're nuts
> for wasting all this time on these stupid little phrases!"
> Then Mr. Tortoise came to mind.
> If I -- or you -- carefully target 100 phrases on 100 different pages and
> each of those phrases only gets 30 searches per month, and you get so
> close to the top that 25 of those people actually come to your site,
> that's 2500 new visitors in a month.
> To my way of thinking, that ain't too shabby.
> Sure, the keywords with a bzillion searches are better, but it's very hard
> to get to the top with those. Lots of mine have a few hundred, and
> I'm doing pretty well with those too...
> I'm just SO excited to finally have a system that seems to be working!!
> (Now if my darn Google income would keep up with the traffic, I'd have
> something to sing about.)
> Luv,
> MaaMaw
I use digitalpoint.com to search for keywords and I've learned that keywords with fewer searches work best. If I google certain keywords and there are 2 million sites I pass. If I find one with 750 sites that is the one I use. I have a site with 178 pages with 100 different keywords that are searched less than 20 times a day. 85 of those keywords are in the top ten on google. Hence my Adsense income has increased dramatically on that site..It gets complicateder and complicateder..
DaveB
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