Building The Empire
It looks like I have not posted on this blog for a while so This might be a long update.
As my empire stands I have a lot of free blogs and a number of self hosted sites and blogs. I am going to tell you what sites I started and why, so you can have an idea of how to start your own empire.
Site one: US Travel is a huge travel site, I bit off more than I more than I can chew. I set this up with 50 subdomains, one for each state along with a social sharing section, an article submission, a forum and a travel directory. I am trying to have an all inclusive site but it is a lot of work for one person.
On the travel Site I have done some auto posts but on Camcorder HD, the auto posting covers every category. I am using multipress which is a plugin for wordpress that scans youtube for keywords that I set it up with, then it embeds the video and the summary. It can grab other types of rss feeds also but is a little glitchy with full articles. Oddly enough each page is getting indexed by the search engines, it is all duplicate content but organized together, I think they can recognize when it is all a similar topic.
I have also set up a few directories one on the travel site which is in a sub domain, it is set up like that because some directories don’t accept deep links, and I want to be able to put it in directories.
I set up Free US Directory which uses phpld a free directory script, you can do free, paid or reciprocal. It is easy to install and easy to set up. You can accept payments via paypal with it. I asked the guy at Easy Submits and the people at Directory Critic to include my directory along with submitting it to about 200 directories though easy submits. As a result it is getting a good amount of traffic, although I have captcha off so it gets some spam also.
I set up an industrial directory also but it is set up in a folder so some directories won’t accept it, it is http://industrial-websites.com/directory instead of directory.industrial-websites.com. That puts it at a slight disadvantage. That runs off of phpld also.
I have also set up a niche directory: Manufacturers Directory which is a .us domain. I got the url because it gets a good number of direct hits from google and it is a .us domain so it is targeted to US users. This directory is more complicated to set up, I used Joomla with the Sobi2 plugin. The payment options are not set up as easy as phpld or phpweby but it has a full page listing that includes, address, phone number, fax, website, products, services or you can add your own fields. This script provides a much better benefit to the business owner and the website owner in my view. They both get a lot more room for content.
Adobe CS5 just came out and I would like to get some of that traffic, Adobe has their keywords locked up in the searches but I might be able to get some traffic through long tail keywords. I set up Adobe CS5, the .com was taken so I got the .us url. I have had google index a lot of the pages in a matter of about a week, this is due to me using the google xml sitemap plugin for wordpress. I used the multipress plugin again to get some posts, all about tutorials on how to use Adobe CS5.
Each site was choosen by me researching keywords using the Google keyword tool for adwords, I looked at the number of searches along with the competition and what domains were available. If any one of the factors did not fit then I would have moved on to another topic.
I have some other sites but I think that is enough for right now.
Picking Ad companies
When I started my blog with blogger I set up adsense. It is easy to do they approved me right away based on a blog I had started a while ago but never did anything with. I put some adsense ads on there and after about 3000 impressions I only had one click. So I was still using them but wanted to put some other companies ads on there. I learned about Amazon’s Affiliate program through hubpages. So I singed up for them and although I haven’t made any money off that yet I am increasing my clickthrough rate. They have a new setup with blogger so you can post an ad directly into your blog without every leaving blogger. Since my topic is video games I just type in the name of the game and it puts an ad in there for me.
Next I applied at a few places but since I didn’t have my own domain some refused me. Commision Junction approved me. So I started using them, they have a great program. What I do is set up a smartzone, which is a website specific ad that has a certain format and its own tracking. You can do banners or links. Once you set it up and put the code on your site you can change ads from your CJ dashboard. That is a nice feature because you can have up to 25 rotating ads and if one is not performing you can pull it. Since then I have been working on what ads fits my viewer base.
CJ is not only tracks the performance of your ads but they also track the performace of the advertisers. For example they track how much revenue is made per 1000 impressions per ad and per advertiser on average. That way you can see what ones have more successful ad creation. I would not go on that information only though because they have a lot of new advertisers and they start out with 0 stats. Pick your ads according to your fan base. Mine is gamers so you will see ads for modded controllers and high tech items along with games of course.
I have not made any money with this yet but I will let you know when I do.
My internet journey
Hi I am Jadeslair and I am going to use this blog to share my expierience in becoming an internet guru. It hasn’t happened yet but it will and if you follow this then you will learn all of the secrets.
I started by setting up a youtube channel, the idea was to become a partner and get some ad revenue. My subject is gaming, which I love. Simple enough make money doing something I love. After having a few successful videos and some set up on revenue share, which is for videos that rise in popularity fast. Youtube disabled my revenue share, as it turns out they do not want videos of gameplay with voice overs they want videos of reviews or something with limited gameplay to avoid copyright violations. They will let you put the videos up but unless you are a major company you will not get paid. My youtube page: http://www.youtube.com/user/Jadeslair
My next step since I never give up was to set up a blog. Blogspot lets you do one for free, so I started with them. Here is that page: http://jades-lair.blogspot.com/ I directed some traffic from youtube by posting a link in my profile. I was getting about 100,000 hits a month on youtube at the time so my blog got a lot of views right away but it wasn’t a good blog. The format, look and feel was wrong for a gaming site. Blogspot has some bad themes and not that many options so I grabbed a modded WordPress theme. And set up some tabs to other blogs to make it look like a website. I did one for video game trailers and one for video game reviews.
I was happy with that for about a month but I was getting a lot of traffic and wanted my site to grow. Blogger is a great service but it does have some limitations such as being slow to load for larger blogs and difficult to change. I decided to launch my first website with my own domain. Which is Video Games That is not a very SEO name for a website but I am not trying to just SEO I am branding. Most gamers know of Bungie even though game developer is not in their title. So I am branding Jadeslair. That is my gamertag for xboxlive in case you are wondering.
Next up: choosing ad companies
RUSE – Strategy Video #2 – Death from above
RUSE – Strategy Video #2 – Death from above
I love strategy Games. Ruse doesn’t look to fancy but I would say it is worth a try, hopefully not a 60 buck but maybe a rental first.
The past two months I have been doing achievement guides, here is what I have done Assassins Creed II Achievement Guide and Walkthrough<a href="http://jades-lair.blogspot.com/bad company 2 achievement multiplayer maps intel Call of duty achievement glitch perks guns gameplay Call Of Duty Modern Warfare 2 Achievement Guide and Walkthrough Dragon age origins achievement completed quest
Saboteur: Chain Smoker Guide
Saboteur: Chain Smoker Guide
Sure that all we needed a video game that give you a chain smoking achievement.
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Fairytale Fights: In The Game
Fairytale Fights: In The Game (Gameplay Overview) S2E13
The past two months I have been doing achievement guides, here is what I have done , Battlefield bad company 2 achievement multiplayer maps intel Call of duty achievement glitch perks guns gameplay http://jades-lair.blogspot.com/2009/12/call-of-duty-modern-warfare-2-intel.html Dragon age origins achievement completed quest
Dragonica: In The Game
Dragonica: In The Game (Gameplay Overview) S2E11
The past two months I have been doing achievement guides, here is what I have done , Battlefield bad company 2 achievement multiplayer maps intel Call of duty achievement glitch perks guns gameplay http://jades-lair.blogspot.com/2009/12/call-of-duty-modern-warfare-2-intel.html Dragon age origins achievement completed quest
Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2- TDM Sniping Tips On Quarry By Hutch
Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2- TDM Sniping Tips On Quarry By Hutch (Gameplay Video)
The past two months I have been doing achievement guides, here is what I have done , Battlefield bad company 2 achievement multiplayer maps intel Call of duty achievement glitch perks guns gameplay http://jades-lair.blogspot.com/2009/12/call-of-duty-modern-warfare-2-intel.html Dragon age origins achievement completed quest
The Legend of Halo: Quest For Recon Part 2
The Legend of Halo: Quest For Recon Part 2 (Halo 3 Machinima)
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Blog Linkbuilding
I build links a number of different ways, here are a few.
Comment luv, I go to the main page of comment luv and search for blogs about seo or gaming and the go to the sites and post comments. I register at commentluv also. When I post a comment on these blogs I will get two links. The first link will have my name in the text, which I normally use some keywords such as Video Games or Achievement guides. This helps my SEO and pagerank. The second link is to my last post and will have the post title as the link keywords, such as: ea dice announce day 1 map pack release This is especially good if you are using joomla which has some seo drawbacks. I am building links to my individual pages and not just the main page. You can register here for comment luv
Top commentator, this one is easy. If you comment on a blog that uses the top commentator plugin and you comment the most or top five what ever the blogger chooses then you will get a link from each page of the blog(in most cases) That is very powerfull, especially if the blog has a good pr or a lot of pages.
Forums: I put links in my signature, easy to do.