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Even in white hat SEO or blogging the SEO 2.0 way you can use some dirty tricks that will make you earn 100.000$ in 3 months your blog a little more successful. I collected 5 of them, which of course I use successfully myself.
- Do not display a date on your postings and write for infinity: People don’t read yesterdays newspapers. Also people coming from Google will not read your articles if the first thing they notice is that they are already some months or years old. Many blogs are more topical than newsworthy anyways, so do not engage in the race to be the most current one.
- Link to new blogs: Many new bloggers often are not really recognized by the community. Nobody knows them, even if they publish content that is much better than the established blogs. Those bloggers are thankful for every link and are more likely to notice that you link them in the first place. While well known bloggers are too busy to befriend you, new bloggers will eventually grow in scope and reach and probably remain your friends.
- Do not befriend everybody, fight your foes: Many people and also bloggers tend to be friendly to everybody. On the other hand, many people and things really suck on the Internet. So do not hesitate to fight your foes. Many others that have to be friendly will be grateful to you for speaking out.
- Do not display ads on your blog: Unless you really have large traffic, 1000 visitors+ daily, do not use ads on your site. You won’t earn much, something like 50$ a months or less but you will scare off many visitors. Those who stay won’t take you seriously if your blog is full of ads. Especially Adsense makes your blog look like a splog unless you are really outstanding.
- Be ridiculous: Nobody will believe you from the start that you’re an authority, so the first 3, 6, 12 or 24 months you should act ridiculously, at least a little, of course not all the time. By now everybody who at least once visited this blog knows that I’m the guy with the ridiculous Mexican hat.
So now you see: You can make your hands dirty without tainting your white hat. If that’s not SEO 2.0, what else?
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…but, $50/month sounds pretty good to me.
Well, right Kelly, but what for? Polluting large parts of your blog? Rather wait 3 months and if the blogs runs all right and you probably got some PageRank by then you can sell some text links and earn more than that. 30$ is a very reasonable price for a PageRank 4 blog text link and many blogs reach PR 4.
This is not SEO 2.0 but sufficient for many people, especially in countries where most people earn 30$ a month.
That’s an interesting idea about not putting dates on posts. What if the article is sort of timeless though? As in, it doesn’t lose relevance with time?
Well Skellie, exactly! Just take your articles. Most of them are not news but timeless rules of online publishing, usability and content creation. So who cares for a date? In fact a date only makes it less likely that a first time visitor will read them.
Most normal websites that serve no news do not display dates. So you assume that the contents are still valid when you find them.
This “no dates” idea is interesting. I don’t break news on my blog, so I guess it doesn’t matter when articles are written. Good thoughts.
So do you think it would be a good idea to keep dates on the main page (to show new visitors it is current) but remove them from post pages so search engine visitors don’t know the content is old?
The only thing is… I don’t get many search engine visitors, because I’m terrible at SEO (and I also think it’s hard to use keywords for my topic). But I guess that’s an unrelated problem ;).
Skellie: You do not get many visitors via Google because your blog is relatively new and you do not have many focused links yet. So it’ll change in the future.
Your idea is interesting. It depends on the type of content I guess, some things like “New Wordpress 2.2 Is Out” age very quickly so a date would help people to know that 2.2 is not the newest version if they read it, say, in 6 months from now.
I guess the best way to add dates is to do it manually at the bottom of the post. Do it if you think it helps your visitors and don’t add where it probably scares people off for no reason (as your blogging tips are timeless).
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