Comments on: The Right Blog at the Right Time – 1 Year SEO 2.0

By: onreact

onreact — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 22:01:11 +0000

Thanks Lorna, Ann, Alina and Gregor, glad to have you as readers or should I say followers as I notice most of you all over the place. Appreciate the feedback. It’s always good to know that web savvy people read my stuff on purpose and not only casual Google users.

Gab: You’re welcome to do so. I’m eager to take a look at it. I guess most SEO bloggers fit in the same category.

By: Gab Goldenberg

Gab Goldenberg — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 05:02:37 +0000

(So… let me know if you want me to be in touch when the business launches :) ).

By: Gab Goldenberg

Gab Goldenberg — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 05:01:11 +0000

Funny you should bring this up Tad, as I’m just getting the logo done for a new business targeting people exactly like yourself. That segment of folks who are experts and recognized as such by a niche audience who reads their blog, but don’t have the traffic to make big dollars off ads/aff.

By: Gregor

Gregor — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:10:05 +0000

Hi Tad,

Congratulations on the first year! I thought that you’d been around a lot longer but there we go. I enjoy reading your stuff (it’s one of the few blogs that I always read) and I love your approach to SEO too.

Here’s to the next successful year!

Gregor

By: Alina Popescu

Alina Popescu — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 13:39:51 +0000

Happy Blogiversary, Tad! Hope you stick around for quite a few more years. I’ve only read this blog for a few months (4 or 5 i think) and I absolutely love it!

By: Ann Smarty

Ann Smarty — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 11:19:42 +0000

Congrats on the anniversary! Great job and couldn’t agree more:

“The reason to blog is probably to feel at home on the web.”

By: Lorna Li, Green 2.0

Lorna Li, Green 2.0 — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 00:36:58 +0000

Such an honest look about the effort that goes into creating a quality blog, and the blogging ROI one can expect these days.

A big lesson I learned: If your hope is to cash in on Adsense revenue, you need to pump out a lot of content, frequently, and if you are a solo blogger, successful blogging is often a tradeoff between quality and content. Better to pump out good content frequently, than well-researched, well-written articles sporadically. It’s amazing to see the success of frequent bloggers, writing fluffy posts for a low-intelligence level audience. You said it in a nutshell:

“Selling advertising or affiliate products on a non-A-list blog which nonetheless is a high quality blog is difficult: It’s too good for Adsense (Adsense gets only clicked if your content is crap) and not important enough to get the big advertisers.”

By: onreact

onreact — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 10:53:34 +0000

Thanks people for staying with and for the feedback. Karen: Would you pay for that? how much?

James: I know but you have to pick up the people where thy are. Imagine a taxi driver waiting where nobody needs a cab. A SEO 2.0 web directory would have a twist making it more worthwhile.

Glen: I’m note sure I’m bigger. At my age you’ll be at least ten times as big :-)

Simon: Exactly, targeted microsites earn real money it seems. Not much but in relation to the work invested it seems reasonable. Blogging solely for money is not a good business model.

By: Simon

Simon — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 03:11:46 +0000

Well done. Well done indeed. This is one of the few blogs I still read regularly, despite not really have time to read blogs or even blog on my own blog much. Your blog is a fantastic read! I understand what you are saying about how difficult it can be to monetize blogs of this nature. Pingable (not all that simular, but still) only has a few post level topics which are profitable, and yet one of my niche sites, which is much less work, is now making over 100 a month in Adsense, doesn’t seem fair. Work doesn’t equal profit.

…Anyway, keep this SEO 2.0 going, we love your work.

By: Glen Allsopp

Glen Allsopp — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 03:01:05 +0000

Congrats for making the year and I think I’ve followed you from the start (although you’ve grown bigger than me :))

Premium content might be difficult to push, I’ve personally been wondering the best way to monetise my knowledge and still help as many people as possible. Unless I can get some really great clients I don’t see myself doing much service work in the future so I guess I’ll see how things pan out.

Do let me know what you decide though buddy

Congratulations again, I’m proud to have followed your journey!