Search Engines SEO

You can see my initial post on the topic of Placement ads vs Contextual ads here.  Last month I had my November update when I had some mixed results.  I figured I’d do a December update now. Since my last updated was on November 21, I figured I’d look at November 22 through December 21.  For Website #1 which was up to 6.5% placement ads in November, it is now… Read More »Trying to maximize adsense revenue

In my previous post about Google Adsense Placement Ads vs Contextual Ads I mentioned that I had added channels to each of my ads on some of my sites, and I set them to be available for placement ads.  From what I understand, placement ads are where an advertiser has specifically approved their ads to run on your website and possibly even specified which place on your website the ads… Read More »November update on how placement adsense ads are doing

I spent a bunch of time today working on improving my channels in Adsense.  I had received a note from Google in my account suggesting I allow advertisers to target my channels as that would improve revenue.  They told me to do this in advance of the shopping season.  I don’t really have any big seasonal items to sell, though, so I wasn’t in a big hurry to do this. … Read More »Are setting up channels for placement ads worth the trouble in Adsense?

I noticed that I had a relatively large increase in traffic yesterday – with a few different searches actually finding their way to this website.  As this site gets very little traffic in general, a relatively large increase is still only a little traffic.  I’m curious if the traffic was increased just by the fact that I had posted more frequently?  Could that possibly lead to an increase in rankings… Read More »More visitors to my site

As I mentioned in my previous post on the speed with which WordPress blog posts get indexed, I also have an older much more established site using a popular forum software.  That forum software is nicely optimized for easy indexing and I have sitemaps set-up, etc.  Nonetheless, the posts on that forum don’t get indexed immediately like the WordPress posts do.  I made a simple post during the last week and… Read More »Blog posts getting indexed quickly, forum posts not so much

While this website continues to get relatively little traffic, I do follow the search trends pretty closely.  After the initial good results during the Mayday update, it appears Google has fine tuned the results to again include pagerank as a bigger factor.  Lack of links to this website is the main reason I think some of the posts are getting much less traffic than similar posts on another one of… Read More »Forum posts slower to get indexed than blogs

Just to give an update as to what I think is going on with Google’s update.  We’re well into June and it seems like things in some areas are maybe settling down.  At least on this site with no real off site SEO (although I suppose I could have started to get some links naturally) it seems that the traffic peaked June 2nd with a smaller peak around June 12th.… Read More »Traffic down a little