How Soon Should You Attempt to Monetize Your Blog?
Posted 24th September 2014 at 06:36 PM by Emir Hayric
This is a bit of a departure from on or off page SEO but still in the ballpark and a question I see asked quite often on forums… enjoy!
Eureka!
Sooner or later the thought will come to you… “How do I make money from my Blog?” Everyone else seems to be doing it. I have the content, I have the fan base and I have the rankings. There are others though that would prefer to monetize starting on day one, I mean who wouldn’t? Maintaining a blog is hard work!
Sooner or later you are going to get burned out. You will experience writer’s block. Money is the great motivator and there is no better feeling than making an income from doing what you love! As a blogger myself I see no reason not to start monetization the day you open your doors to the world.
Hey… at least some sort of attempt at monetization is highly advisable. If you are one of the few who actually make it to the point where you are deciding whether to give up or not then chances are that you have already put in a significant amount of work into your personal carved out space on the internet.
If you are making even a small amount then that is great news… why? This means your site has potential to become a real money maker. Hold on now cowboy, let’s not expect a miracle though, ok?
You don’t want to get your hopes to the point where the initial realization of making money via a blog is tough work which subsequently forces you to quit before you started (whew! That was a long one). My point is PLEASE do not give up if you don’t make anything your first day or even first week.
Opening the Flood Gates:
Now as any experienced blogger will tell you, if your audience is not accustomed to being presented with advertisements, the initial ‘slap’ in the face of monetization being introduced can send ripples through the waters! It is up to YOU whether this ripple turns into a wave that capsizes your monetization vessel.
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Emir Hayric
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I see you changed some things around and the blog's not completely empty anymore. That's good.
Two Things:
1: Just a friendly heads up, you might want to work on the theme a bit. It stuffs your title into duplicate heading tags, specifically H1 & H2 tags simultaneously.
2: I'll just assume you have your permalinks set up the way you do purposefully, but if not then you might consider making them human friendly - as well as search engine friendly.
There's are both a SEO problem which would be embarrassing on a SEO Blog
EDIT: Actually look at all of the subheadings. Your theme is filling them uselessly, a rather huge problem overall.
Posted 24th September 2014 at 06:57 PM by godoveryou
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Thanks for the tips. The theme is temporary and I just have not had the time to get to it, I also work a FT job and get home very late most days. I am pretty sure I will be going with something less resource intensive such as a genesis theme. It is a long way from being ready I am just trying to get some content online.Posted 25th September 2014 at 08:41 AM by Emir Hayric - No problem, just thought I would point these things out. Obviously, I use Genesis - it works well and has some decent SEO functionality built in right out of the box, but I'm actually moving away from it to another theme as we speak. I should be pushing that update out in a few weeks.
If you do go with Genesis, be sure to check out the custom hooks plugin as well as Genesis extender. Both are fantastic in terms of ease of use.
None the less, I would change the permalink structure ASAP even though you are just in the content production phase. It will eliminate the need to redirect all of the old URL's later.
Take care,
GOYPosted 25th September 2014 at 12:43 PM by godoveryou - Permalink structure changed, thanks for the advice.
About the duplicate tags... I don't see those when writing the content so would it be safe to say the theme is not SEO friendly for adding all those tags behind the scenes? That being said though it does need those tags when I change headings does it not? If I go in and remove them I will lose my text formatting won't I? Or are you strictly speaking as to the duplicate tags?Posted 25th September 2014 at 06:24 PM by Emir Hayric - Yes, the theme is a SEO nightmare.
I'll do a post about how to use headings properly - it's just way too much to type here.
Long story short - I would dump that theme ASAP.
Sorry, I'm exhausted - long day out and what not. I may feel all sorts of energetic tomorrow and just do a mind-dump here, but really it is deserving of it's own post and detailed explanation because most people, even people that would consider themselves experienced SEO's, have no idea how headings should be used or what they mean to Google.
TTYSPosted 25th September 2014 at 08:12 PM by godoveryou - I look forward to that post please pass me the link here when you do and thank you for stopping by.Posted 26th September 2014 at 04:04 AM by Emir Hayric
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