Hi Everyone,
Just wanted to make an update and let you know how things are going with the projects.
The traffic generation project is still ongoing. I have stopped submitting to directories and have not really seen any effect from that as of yet. I wrote an article(more to follow) and have had one visitor from that article. I also, on purpose, slowed down my posts, stopped commenting on other blogs and such and I have seen a steady decrease in traffic. So this shows a direct correlation between my activity, or inactivity, on and off the blog and traffic to the blog.
I am still impressed by the results of MyBlogLog.comas I have always received decent traffic from that when I have used that. I attribute it to the catchy avatar that I use.
Now, Craigslist.org is a different story. I started using it to sell some affiliate links and such so I could get a feel on how it works. Also, I am still not sure how to market this blog on Craigslist either. Any suggestions? It is documented on various sites that using Craigslist is a great money maker and can drive tons of traffic to your site, but I have yet to crack the code. I have found one website that is a lot of help and that is Karmic Coaching & Consulting. Ian has extensive posts on using Craigslist and has been a tremendous help.
The biggest frustration, besides getting flagged and deleted ads, so for that I have experienced with Craigslist is what is called ghosting. Ghosting is when you post an ad and it shows active in your account(is green) and works in the link that Craigslist sends you when place the ad, but when you actually go into the section of the ad it is not there. WTF?
This must be some kind of internal check that Craigslist does just to let you know that you are pushing their Terms of Use and to correct it. Here is a post by Ian on his thinking of the subject.
As far as my WordPress niche sites I am still pondering the niche I want to use and along with that will be selecting a good domain name etc. So that project is still ongoing as of now. I am also contemplating making an e-book combining the two project and it would be about making Wordpress niche sites and the promotion of them.
Till next time…..
Scott
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