But after being hit by Panda in April, I had started wondering about exploring non-search sources of traffic. My Linkedin network had about 1,000 connections, the Facebook Fan page boosted 240 + 500 friends, Google+ had quickly grown to a network of 300 people and search was obviously search. Comparing the results of a traffic generation campaign for an e-learning blog focused on Finance
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Google Adsense Adventure: Three simple tweaks for higher Adsense revenues and incremental traffic
September 8, 2010
I did three quick posts on Ping lists (list included), Directory Submissions (list included) and restricting low yielding ads through the competitive ad filter on your Google Adsense panel. The first (ping) and last one (competitive ad filter) certainly work, the one in the middle (directory submissions) I am not sure about. But feel free to try your luck. Here …Read the Rest
The search for incremental traffic – WordPress ping lists for your blog
September 8, 2010
And now finally, the last and final tweak that possibly contributed to the traffic increase. Within your blog setting there is an option to define ping lists. Lists that track blog updates and changes and pass the results on in an incremental fashion. Here is the list that I use. Please feel free to review and tweak it. http://rpc.pingomatic.com/ …Read the Rest
Google Adsense – Increasing your Adsense yield through the Competitive Ad Filter
September 8, 2010
I run a portfolio of four blogs. A collection of online corporate finance courses that goes by the name of Learning Corporate Finance, a personal blog that serves as my blood pressure control device, an oil analyst blog that follows crude oil price movements and startup insights my online mentoring attempt for new entrepreneurs. Earlier on in my Adsense adventure …Read the Rest
Directory Submissions list – a possible tweak to generating more traffic
September 8, 2010
There are hundreds of directory submission lists and directory submission providers. We used one to do a submission for one of our sites and then put an internal resource to repeat the process for the other blogs in our portfolio. This effort was done in a rush towards the end of April and early May. Most directory submissions did not …Read the Rest
Corporate Finance Blog make over immediately generates Google Adsense revenues.
September 6, 2010
Not sure if it was luck, hard work, persistence or all three combined but the immediate impact of the Corporate Finance Blog Make Over yesterday was an immediate jump in Page views and the breaking of the Sunday taboo. Over the last six months, we had never booked a cent of Google Adsense revenues on a Sunday. Last night we …Read the Rest
Corporate Finance Blog gets a make over
September 5, 2010
Learning Corporate Finance, our Corporate Finance course portal started with the simplest of word press themes in February 2010. I had managed to get a crash course in word press management when Awab pointed out that my primary blog had been infested by spam injections that pointed the source on the page to everywhere but where I wanted to go. …Read the Rest
Google Adsense Adventure: Adsense revenue, impressions and clicks analysis for an online education business
September 4, 2010
Here is some additional detail on the review of traffic on the Learning Corporate Finance Portal that I ran a little earlier. I exported a simple dump out of Google Analytics to take a look at earnings and clicks in a given month. The graph below shows Adsense earnings and Adsense clicks on the vertical axis and the number of …Read the Rest
Google Adsense adventure: The search for traffic and adsense revenues continues
September 4, 2010
Figure 1 Corporate Finance Traffic Stats The search for incremental traffic and revenues continues on Learning Corporate Finance, the finance E-education portal I have now been running since early March 2010. First the good news. Apparantely all the directory submission work done in May 2010 has finally started to payoff. Either that or Google has loosened the traffic spigot. Where …Read the Rest
