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Originally Posted by Tempest
I'm pretty green when it comes to blogging... and yeah. I'm sure you guys will say I'm a moron... but I started building my own little network of blogs a couple days ago over on thumblogger... I just want to see what I can accomplish on there before I start spending money on domains and hosting etc. for that.
I'm treating it as it's own little network from "scratch"... i.e. no linking from my established sites... All I've done so far is submit the first one to a bunch of blog directories and do some pings. First day it was interesting it got over 200 hits from the directories and has been dropping like a rock over the last 3-4 days... I haven't seen any bots crawl it yet.
So here's my question.. What do you guys do to get "real" traffic in there? Is it basically going to be SE long term? Other than directories, pinging and SEs, is there anything else I should do that yields "real" cost effective (time) traffic?
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Forget thumblogger, you might as well give me you cc info and hope I'm a nice guy. Lets say you build your thumlogger blogs, you work your ass off and at some point are making $5 000.00 per month, then one sunny day the thumblogger owner finds god and you're screwed. Well, not very likely scenario but you get my point.
If your budget is low or you just don't want to spend too much money but you want say 50 blogs network then wait for a .info domain special and register 50 of them for $50.00, then get some small virtual host for $10.00 per month and that's basically it. The rest is hard work.
What to do to get 'real' traffic - post unique content, get backlinks, do some simple SE optimization - its that simple. When will you get some good SE traffic? It depends on quite a few factors, but in many cases be prepared to wait 6 months or more.
Mistakes I made:
-aiming too low when choosing targeted keyphrases. The thing is you shouldn't aim too high or two low. If you aim too high then be prepared to work really hard for 2-3 years if you want to get on the 1st page of Google for the chosen keyword. If you aim too low and and build your blog around say "black shemales with 2 1/2 inch cocks" you will get to No1 on Google but the amount of traffic you'd be getting is simply not worth your time and effort
-I should've started with original content from the scratch but I didn't. Using RSS feeds only didn't get me far but then again if you have a script to modify the feeds and "create" original content from them you should by all means do it - nothing better than making big $$ with little work. This "morphing feeds" thingy sounds pretty promising too ;)