There are many methods of earning money from your website but this is my method.
The main target in running a website is getting your visitors to keep coming back, for example lets say that every month your getting a extra 50 unique visitors but none of them are repeat visitors so if your writing amazing articles that people are subscribing to they will come back this will be a even bigger boost in traffic it can practically double your unique count every month.
First of all you need to work on actually getting people their, this can be done using the art of search engine optimization, if you can get a higher page rank then more people will be finding your keywords.
Getting this page rank can be done many ways the main important one is links to and from your website, once your getting more and more links to your website Google figure that you’ve got to have some importance and therefore make your PR (page rank) higher meaning more and more visitors finding your keywords, keywords are another very important thing there are many ways to make Google give them more importance like in this article on making keywords stand out.
I’ve been working on a new them for around 3-4 days, I thought that my old theme was possibly driving people away due to the gothic look of it so I made a new one and this is it.
I’ve tried to make it less cluttered, for example I moved the archives to the top left of the page in a drop down box hoping this will save me some room for some better options to hopefully bring in the visitors.
I’ve also added a search box which I didn’t have before so that people can now look through my articles easier, at the moment it doesn’t look pretty but I will be working on a better look for it at a later date.
Hope you like the theme would love some feedback.
Spam its on the increase constantly, so you need to be aware of how to block it.
1. Akismet - very popular way to catch spam, for me it has only ever let 3 through out of around 2,000 so its my number one.
2. Change the settings in discussion (options >> discussion), a important one i find is ticking “Comment author must have a previously approved comment” this will then only allow people that commented previously to comment again.
3. Stats programs for Wordpress, these can be brilliant tools to use against spammers, I use one called Popularity Contest this will tell you what posts are most commented on even after the spam has been removed, then you can edit the post to disable commenting, I’ve found in some cases its practically halfed my spam count!
You may of figured out by now that having keywords stand out could be important in getting your website ranked their are many ways in which you can do this:
1. Meta tags most important thing on your websites are use of meta tags these make life much easier, if your running Wordpress you will be able to do this easily by using a plugin called Ultimate Tag Warrior.
2. Bold tags you wouldn’t of thought this but using the bold tag it will make your keywords stand out more with Google so it puts them rank higher, but you don’t want to go over the top, keep it low maybe 10 per page, if you just spam your site with them Google will ignore you and lower your rank.
3. The H1 and H2 tags, these tags are used for headers and can be a very important thing in the world of SEO, by using the header tags Google will figure out that its a title theirfore ranking it higher and making your keywords much stronger, if your running a blog the header tags are a must have!
You might not have thought that it really matters how your website is layed out, as you may have noticed my page is a mess mainly because I’m trying to reconstruct it to get the most out of Google.
How should it be layed out?
Well this is a slightly simple answer, you need the most important content to be shown first, for example this design was made so that the navigator is displayed before the main content in the source code, Google rated the first 50 words the highest so use your layout to make the most of these 50 words.
Also remember to keep your word count on the page around 1500 word if need be split the pages up, this will still allow you to have even better results in Google as each page they will rate the first 50 words the highest, so the more pages the better you might find just don’t over do it.