Increase Traffic and Sales with Twitter

Twitter is the latest boom in Social Networking. I created an account on twitter some time back and just tried, but did not use for a week also. I was hearing a lot about twitter by different bloggers and how they use to increase their traffic, sales and revenue.

If you are not using twitter, then you are missing something which you should not. You might be using sites like Digg, Stumbleupon, Myspace and more, but this is something which is totally different. For selling a product, you have a write a big sales page, testimonial and more, but with twitter, you can send your followers to these pages, build relation with fellow bloggers and like minded people.

Let me explain how things go different with twitter. Its very simple to create an account, but the real task is to get followers. Its very easy for popular branded bloggers or celebrities to get followers, but for normal internet user, its very difficult to get followers, but still you can get going.

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Announcement – Most Popular Post of the Month Rewards

I am pleased to announce a regular monthly contest,  the most popular post of the month (Will be announced on the last day of the month).

How is a Popular Post Decided ?

The most popular post will the post with maximum number of comments. You will be able to see the ranking on the sidebar.

How to submit your article ?

Just Register and activate your account. If you are already registered, just login and click on the Write Post Link in the Dash Board.

Please make sure that you submit articles which will be suitable for publishing on this blog. Write articles which are not less than 400 words. Don’t Upload pictures not bigger than 300 x 300 px.

What is the Reward ?

US$ 50 transferred to your Paypal Account. There are chances that you get a contract of writing on any of my blog or other blog. The result will be announced on this blog by me

How can you promote your post?

Refer the post to your friends, social networking sites. No Spamming, any complaints received may lose your account.

I have something more for you if you are having a blog, you can considerably increase traffic to your blog by getting into the top commentator list, which you can see on the right sidebar.

Register For Free and Get Started.

Do you see fall in traffic during Weekends?

I have been keeping track of my blogs traffic and doing some research and case studies. I have found that the traffic for all my blogs goes down during Saturdays and Sundays. Have you noticed this for you blog?

What could be the reasons for this fall in traffic?

It could be a simple reason, during weekends the internet usage will be less. People are at home and they want to spend time with their family rather than spending time in front of the computer. They may not check their emails or go through the RSS Feed Readers to read your posts and click on the links.

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What do you use for sending newsletters?

In affiliate marketing, sending newsletters and subscriptions are very important. There are many services which offer newsletter services. If you are planning for any new affiliate program or if you want to be in touch with your visitors, then you should surely go for a newsletter tool.

Using Feedburner for subscription is good and its free, but there are lots of limitations. You cannot send a offer letter to your subscribers. You can have a feedburner subscription box as well as a news letter subscribing form too on your blog. You might have noticed that I have recently added a new newsletter box below the Feedburner one which is of Aweber, an excellent newsletter and auto responder solution.

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Create multiple 125 x 125 Image Ads for your blog using Google Ad Manager

I just finished setting up my ads for this blog using Google Ad Manager. Its very simple, and I would like to share this with my readers.

First you need to activate your Google Ad Manager Account, every Google Adsense account has Google Ad Manager enabled by default now, so just login to your Ad Manager Account.

Create Your Ad Slots

Suppose your are planning to to display 4 125 x 125 px image ads, you need to create 4 Ad-slots. For this you need to go to the inventory tab of your Ad Manager and click on “Create New Ad Slot”. Give a name like I have given the name “Asokans_125×125_1” for my first Ad Slot. You can give any name which is meaningful. Please note that there should not be any space in the Ad Slot name. Next select the size as 125 x 125 , next you should uncheck the Adsense Ads. You should also enter a description for the Ad Slot.

Follow the same procedure and create another 3 Ad Slots in the similar way, namely, Asokans_125×125_1Asokans_125×125_2, Asokans_125×125_3, Asokans_125×125_4 with the same settings, except the description.

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Advantages of adding translation pages for your blog

After I installed the translation plugin to my blog, I have seen increase in traffic. Now you would be thinking, how can a translation plugin increase traffic?

Yes after installation of the translation plugin, my number of pages has gone 20 times higher, every page has 20 pages of translation in 20 different languages and these pages are indexed by search engines. I get visitors from different search engines from different languages. I see adsense ads in different languages and my adsense revenue has also gone up

This is real must use feature. If you are using wordpress, then you can download the translation plugin for wordpress and install it to your blog.

Where, How and What to comment

Commenting on other blogs are one the ways to get people know about your blog. Let me first give you a brief info about the advantages of commenting on other blogs. Usually on every blog you need to enter 4 information, Name, URL of your blog, email and finally the comment. Let me first tell you that 99% of comments are tagged with rel-nofollow, so don’t expect any boost in back links or any SEO gains.

What are the advantages of commenting ?

Let others know about your blog. Your comment will have your name with link to your blog. There are chances that you get visitors from this link.

You get popular if you are a regular commenter and establish yourself as an active member in the community.

Where should you comment?

Don’t just go to any blog and comment. Select the blogs that you should comment. The blog where you comment should be of the same category that your blog is. Reason, you are expecting visitors who will be interested in your blog content and is of same category. Don’t expect a regular reader from a SEO blog if your blog is related to tourism. The visitors of a SEO blog will not be interested in reading your articles related to Tourism.

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Tips to increase your RSS Feed Readers

You should be aware that one of the best way to keep your readers updated with your posts is getting them to subscribe to your RSS Feeds and the other reason is to improve your Google Adsense earnings from RSS Feeds. I have been trying to increase my number of Feed Readers, some work good for me which I am sharing here.

Subscription Widget

Add a subscription widget, by email and other news readers. Some may not be interested in receiving emails, so you should also add the feature to subscribe with popular readers. Readers are mostly lazy to type your feed URL to their reader and subscribe, so the best way is to add a widget to your blog sidebar.

Campaign Landing Page

If you are running a campaign like a Adwords campaign, you can add up a subscription link. This worked well for me.

Content for your Blog

Even if you have a widget or you run campaigns, you need to have good and interesting content in your blog or your un-subscription rate will be high. You should keep your blog live with regular posting and be sure that you do not over post..

Google Adsense Revenue Generation trends

I have been using Google Adsense for my different blogs, but the revenue is different, the CTR is different for every blog, Reasons Explained

Will Google Adsense Work for your blog?

This is a question which I have been asking myself and analyzing the revenue income from Google Adsense. I have been using Google Adsense for this blog and studying the income using the channel feature of Google Adsense. I use Google Adsense for 13 different website and I did a detailed study on the income from my different websites.

In my case Google Adsense does not work well for this blog. I get more traffic and even I have got good loyal visitors, but the clicks on this blog is very low when comparing the CTR with other websites . I have about 185 Feed subscribers which I do not have on any of my other websites, but still the clicks generated on this blog is low when looking into the impressions and traffic of this blog.

What could be the reason?

Visibility and blending of ads – The ads are placed well and well blended according to my knowledge and experience. I have used the right color and placed above the content as well as the sidebars.

Possible reasons

Do you own a blog? If yes, do you use Google Adsense? If yes, do you click on Google ads on other blogs or websites?

If I am to answer, I say NO, I very rarely click on other blogs Google Ads.

Reason – I am very scared to click on Google Ads as I do not even want to click on those and I have made an habit to always stay away from these ads. I know that I do have any problem clicking on Ads on other sites or blogs, but I am not willing to develop the habit of click on Google Ads. If I do that often, I am scared that I may click on the Google Ads on my blog too and I do not want to get my google adsense account banned.

Now how is this related to my blog Adsense CTR?

Most of my blog visitors are blog owners or bloggers who want to make money online. I do write only on this topic on this blog. Most of the visitors know what Google Adsense is and they do not want to click on these ads. I had run Google Adwords campaign two months back for about two months and my Google Adsense revenue was very high. I was getting most of the visitors who came clicking on a Google Ads and come to my blog go through some pages and again they click on one of the Google Adsense ads which they find on my blog and they go to the Advertiser’s web page. These visitors may not really know what Google Adsense is and they don’t know if this is an ad severed by Google.

My other websites, which are on different topic like  web directories, Online Encyclopedia, has very good CTR. The type of visitors on these websites are different from those I get on this blog. They are on an aim to find what they want and they do not hesitate to click any link which has a title that is similar to what they are looking for. So I get a better CTR on these websites.

I am sure that most of you who own a blog with Google Adsense, will be very hesitant to click on Google Adsense Ads even on other websites. Am I right, your comments are anticipated