I wanted to take a minute and try and help out all you people that enjoy spamming blogs. Here are a couple things you need to know about blog spamming.
1. Most blogs are set up so each and every comment you make has to be approved before showing up on the blog. This means that your spam comment is never going to show up on the blog in the first place.
2. Most blogs have no follow tags set up in the comment section. This means that even if your comment gets into the blog it is not going to do you any good.
My thinking is that if you can make 30 plus post, per day, everyday, then by the end of one year you can be getting millions of visitors to your site just from your blog. I’ve not tested it, although I’m really interested in knowing if it will work.
I have tried a couple times to test my theory using different blogs but ended up loosing interest in the blogs with in a couple days and never making more then about 5 post per day.
I think I’m going to try it again using my GeeksOnSteroids blog and the forums to find information to post about and see what happens.
I’ve been working with a wristband company and watching their stats and trying to make the site grow a little everyday. At first I focused on the search engines and trying to get the site ranked but found that a lot of the keywords did not bring in the amount of traffic I wanted.
I moved into the social network communities and started working with them. While I’ve been trying to get our number of unique visitors per day up, Donny (the website owner) has been looking at places they have been advertising with, that have not been converting and removing advertising dollars from them. Causing our numbers to go down.
I just wanted to say that between the social network sites and the new rankings on the search engines our unique visitors per day are increasing. And I’m about to bump it up a notch to see if I can get us a new record day for unique visitors.
We have completely redesigned our website and are getting ready to enter into the year 2007. In addition to redesigning our website we have increased our prices and now do website marketing and search engine optimization in addition to website designing.
The guys are also working on bringing our forum back home and adding a couple pages to the site that talk about our new services. I’m about ready to get back to posting on the forums but wanted to do some final touches on our design first.
Right now the most valuable piece of property in Armenia is inside the new mall. This is nothing compared to places like Manhattan and the corner of 57th St. and Fifth Ave. which is suppose to have the highest trafficked intersections in the U.S but it’s still our own little mall and demands a nice little price for a small little space.
As I walk through the mall I notice that every store is nicely designed, with their products on display and three or four salespeople ready to help me the time I walk through the door. We may be in Colombia S.A but each of these store owners understand the value of a customer. It’s ashame the same can not be said of the Internet.
As the price of advertising online begins to rise we will start weeding out a lot of the half ass attempts of running an online business. At this moment in time the traffic is cheap and the site owner feels that there is no need to try and improve his visitors experience. But I’m already starting to hear the whining as the cost of traffic begins to rise.
There are some that will cry about the cost and others that will understand the free ride is over and it’s time to start improving their websites. The ones that improve their designs, fix their shopping carts, clean up their copy and look for new and better ways to improve their visitors experience. These will be around in the coming years. The ones that continue to look for free or cheap traffic will continue to find that there is never enough traffic to convert their visitors into customers.
My prediction for 2007 is that we will slowly begin seeing the cost of advertising online becoming more like the prices we see off line. This is a good thing and will improve the overall experience of the Internet.
Here’s why
1. People will start paying more attention to their advertising dollars.
A. This will cause people to stop bidding on keywords like Jewelery and start bidding on more defined searches like 18 kt gold bracelets.
B. Because of the changes in the way people bid on their products there will be less money to be made with AdSense sites and we will start to see less of them.
2. People will start building sites for the customers and a lot of the ugly hard to read sites will begin disappearing.
3. Conversion will become equally as important as getting traffic.
4. People doing marketing will be able to demand a higher price for their services. But due to the increase in competition they will also have to spend a lot more time improving the site.
