Dating Blog Traffic on a Budget
I am writing this piece in response to the overwhelming number of individuals that have a limited knowledge of the adult industry but have ambition and are willing to put in the effort; they just need a little coaching in order to place their best foot forward.
I can?t begin to express how many times I receive an email or ICQ along the lines of ?How can I begin earning money with little to no start-up costs?? This in itself is a tough question to answer. It?s very difficult to build traffic with absolutely zero investment, but over the years I have found the following to be the best way to build organic traffic on a budget. These days it?s not exactly easy to slap together a simple page and rake in the money, but with a little bit of hard work and dedication, you can begin to ramp up search engine traffic in due time. Just remember, Rome wasn?t built in a day.
The typical ?newbie? affiliate may not have a firm grasp on installing a complex tube or TGP script and they may lack the designer know-how of creating a beautiful page. Without that knowledge, both tasks can be costly to hand off to someone else. With that said, I am a firm believer in Wordpress as an easy, overall solution to starting a website. Whether you?re a novice or an industry veteran, Wordpress is free, simple to install, and highly customizable. If you?re brand new to Wordpress, a few hours inside the admin area will have you feeling very comfortable and familiar with the way it works. Even if you?re feeling apprehensive about installing Wordpress yourself, you can always rely on just about any virtual hosting company to do it for you, as most have the ability to do one-click installs which saves you a lot of the technical headaches.
I won?t focus on the many ways to make your blog the most eye-catching or tell you about the best plug-ins. Instead, I?d like to jump right into discussing some of the methods I have used in the past for garnering search engine traffic. So with that said, let?s assume that you have Wordpress installed, you have a theme you?re happy with and you?re ready to begin publishing content.
The first method I would like to share involves writing a blog as a typical dating site user, almost in a ?review? sense. It boils down to writing about your experience with a product. Is it a new idea? Not at all. Is it saturated? Depending on who you talk to, just about any affiliate method is ?saturated? but I?ll tell you this? it?s effective; both in earning money and climbing the SERPs. I will try and break this method down to every little detail so that you can get a clear picture of how I worked this angle and how it was effective for me.
Firstly, our ?review blog? is going to be focused on dating, written by me in the first person. You need to grab a domain. Let?s say the domain is ?HowJayGotLaid.com? or ?SingleGuyInNY.com? or some variation of those? after all, in this instance, we are going after the dating market.
I would suggest you start with an ?about me? page and do a write up to allow your visitors to really feel like they know you, the writer. You can work this a few different ways. I would do stories of how ?I? had a hard time overcoming shyness and therefore decided to give online dating a chance and (of course) it was a ?great success!? ? It?s important to come off as a ?work in progress? story and to mention that ?I use this blog to document my success one date at a time ? as a kind of personal dating diary? and ?now I wanted to share my story with the world.? Include a picture (make sure you have permission if you?re going to be using other?s content) ? this allows your visitors to put a name to a face.
From here, you can begin with the actual posts. I think its common sense to keep your affiliate links as discreet as possible. We?re writing this as though we?re writing in a personal diary, not spamming the hell out everyone. Some common blog topics and points of interests to help fill content:
Ok, ok, you get the idea by now (hopefully).
With those topics above you could easily fill a blog with 20-30 posts over a period of time, if not more.
I would advise against placing banner ads on your blog. I would suggest sticking with only text links (but feel free to do it both ways to see how your traffic reacts to it). Sometimes people will come to your site and read every single word you post, other times they are lethargic and might only click on the flashy dating banner that caught their eye. Like I said, do a test and see how the clicks fluctuate.
The great thing about this method of sending traffic is that you can apply it to almost anything. Whether it?s adult, dating, mainstream; writing a blog can be done for almost any topic. The sky is the limit.
