Comments on: Goals For 2009 http://www.romandock.com/goals-for-2009/ ham radio, computing, money, and other ramblings Fri, 12 Mar 2010 19:25:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.12-alpha by: Ben Pei http://www.romandock.com/goals-for-2009/#comment-15141 Mon, 05 Jan 2009 13:21:37 +0000 http://www.romandock.com/goals-for-2009/#comment-15141 Hey Roman, I hope I am not too late to wish you happy new year now. Wish you all the best in attaining your goals! Hey Roman, I hope I am not too late to wish you happy new year now. Wish you all the best in attaining your goals!

]]> by: ジェイソン (Jason) http://www.romandock.com/goals-for-2009/#comment-15091 Sat, 03 Jan 2009 07:36:34 +0000 http://www.romandock.com/goals-for-2009/#comment-15091 PayPerPost hasn't really offered very much recently, from what I've seen. Perhaps I've just been looking at the wrong times but, after that big Google slap early last year, PPP changed their name to Izea and it's been downhill from there. Good luck with your goals, Nick. The numbers you've set sure as heck won't be easy but, as with anything, if you put in enough effort it will pan out. Speaking of which, if you do find a way to get your subscribers up to 250, please share the secret. I've yet to break 65 readers at a time :P PayPerPost hasn’t really offered very much recently, from what I’ve seen. Perhaps I’ve just been looking at the wrong times but, after that big Google slap early last year, PPP changed their name to Izea and it’s been downhill from there.

Good luck with your goals, Nick. The numbers you’ve set sure as heck won’t be easy but, as with anything, if you put in enough effort it will pan out.

Speaking of which, if you do find a way to get your subscribers up to 250, please share the secret. I’ve yet to break 65 readers at a time :P

]]> by: Roman @ FinancialJesus.com http://www.romandock.com/goals-for-2009/#comment-15085 Sat, 03 Jan 2009 01:50:03 +0000 http://www.romandock.com/goals-for-2009/#comment-15085 Good advice Martin! I personally have a plugin that also keeps track of what visitors search in my blog - I have managed to get a few topic ideas thanks to this as well. Good advice Martin! I personally have a plugin that also keeps track of what visitors search in my blog - I have managed to get a few topic ideas thanks to this as well.

]]> by: Martin http://www.romandock.com/goals-for-2009/#comment-15084 Sat, 03 Jan 2009 01:45:48 +0000 http://www.romandock.com/goals-for-2009/#comment-15084 It's also important to check which of your posts have been the most popular (by views, number of comments, etc), and then see how people got to those posts (ie, was it from a google search?). If appropriate, you can then right more posts on the same subject, in the hope of drawing those visitors back again, as well as drawing in more visitors. It’s also important to check which of your posts have been the most popular (by views, number of comments, etc), and then see how people got to those posts (ie, was it from a google search?).

If appropriate, you can then right more posts on the same subject, in the hope of drawing those visitors back again, as well as drawing in more visitors.

]]> by: Roman @ FinancialJesus.com http://www.romandock.com/goals-for-2009/#comment-15083 Sat, 03 Jan 2009 01:40:33 +0000 http://www.romandock.com/goals-for-2009/#comment-15083 Just to clear things up - I never do any keyword research - I hate it :) I just take a topic that I feel people could be searching and make a post about that. It's not a very scientific method but I feel that all the keyword research stuff is too artificial! Just to clear things up - I never do any keyword research - I hate it :)

I just take a topic that I feel people could be searching and make a post about that. It’s not a very scientific method but I feel that all the keyword research stuff is too artificial!

]]> by: Nick http://www.romandock.com/goals-for-2009/#comment-15082 Sat, 03 Jan 2009 01:38:42 +0000 http://www.romandock.com/goals-for-2009/#comment-15082 I haven't heard of/checked out eHow, but might look and see what kind of deal they have going there. I've considered Pay Per Post in the past and might follow the lead of a certain pink site and create my own niche site of some sort to use it on, but I don't think I'd want to use it here... I haven’t heard of/checked out eHow, but might look and see what kind of deal they have going there. I’ve considered Pay Per Post in the past and might follow the lead of a certain pink site and create my own niche site of some sort to use it on, but I don’t think I’d want to use it here…

]]> by: Nick http://www.romandock.com/goals-for-2009/#comment-15081 Sat, 03 Jan 2009 01:36:20 +0000 http://www.romandock.com/goals-for-2009/#comment-15081 Thanks for the subscription, comment, and stopping by! I haven't really paid much attention to keyword density and that sort of thing so therefore my Google traffic is probably lacking from what it should be. Perhaps you are on to something here and I need to be more keyword focused! Thanks for the subscription, comment, and stopping by!

I haven’t really paid much attention to keyword density and that sort of thing so therefore my Google traffic is probably lacking from what it should be. Perhaps you are on to something here and I need to be more keyword focused!

]]> by: Michelle http://www.romandock.com/goals-for-2009/#comment-15080 Sat, 03 Jan 2009 00:06:01 +0000 http://www.romandock.com/goals-for-2009/#comment-15080 Happy New Year! You can easily make a couple of hundred doing Payperpost. Also, I've been writing for eHow lately, and the earnings are starting to stack up. I just started a month ago, and already I'm making $60 a month. That's residual, you should check it out! Happy New Year!

You can easily make a couple of hundred doing Payperpost. Also, I’ve been writing for eHow lately, and the earnings are starting to stack up. I just started a month ago, and already I’m making $60 a month. That’s residual, you should check it out!

]]> by: Roman @ FinancialJesus.com http://www.romandock.com/goals-for-2009/#comment-15079 Sat, 03 Jan 2009 00:05:08 +0000 http://www.romandock.com/goals-for-2009/#comment-15079 Your goal of growing the RSS subscribers just went up by 1 - I signed up! Also I noticed you saying that you wrote over a 100 posts last year and have about 17 visits a day. I recommend you take a look about what you write and what kind of information your potential readers should be looking to find your article - it seems to me that you have a large amount of articles but people just can't find their way to read your stuff. It could be that your articles lack the terms your potential users are searching. As an example my site www.financialjesus.com has currently 80 posts and they get about 400 unique visits a day - at least 75% of this is traffic coming from google with people searching for specific keywords. Your goal of growing the RSS subscribers just went up by 1 - I signed up!

Also I noticed you saying that you wrote over a 100 posts last year and have about 17 visits a day.
I recommend you take a look about what you write and what kind of information your potential readers should be looking to find your article - it seems to me that you have a large amount of articles but people just can’t find their way to read your stuff. It could be that your articles lack the terms your potential users are searching.

As an example my site www.financialjesus.com has currently 80 posts and they get about 400 unique visits a day - at least 75% of this is traffic coming from google with people searching for specific keywords.

]]> by: Nick http://www.romandock.com/goals-for-2009/#comment-15072 Fri, 02 Jan 2009 06:20:32 +0000 http://www.romandock.com/goals-for-2009/#comment-15072 Well, I didn't really think about it too much and ended up not making any "New Year's Resolutions" the closest I came was developing these online goals :S Well, I didn’t really think about it too much and ended up not making any “New Year’s Resolutions” the closest I came was developing these online goals :S

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