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If you own a news site how you maximized it's earning potential

by edpudol1973
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If you have an approve google news site, what would you do to maximized its potential in terms of earnings money and getting more traffic?
#earning #maximized #news #potential #site
  • Profile picture of the author timpears
    A news site is no different from any other web site really. You are chasing what is in the news or hot topics. Google Trends has worked for some, yet it is hard to monetize those items most of the time. When i did this, I avoided the celebrity stuff and only went after the other stuff that I thought would lead to AdSense clicks. Not that I am mercinary, but my writers had to be paid, so I had to make money doing it.

    Google Insights has a graph to show the news traffic if the keyword has enough traffic. But my best traffic usually came when I got blended (listed in Google SERP) results. So if you figure out which of your keywords has blended results, and write articles on that list, hopefully you will manage to get the article on G as well as GN. I was getting most of my articles in a high spot in G in the last week that I owned the site, before i sold it. My traffic was five to fourteen thousand per day that last week. I almost wish I hadn't sold it, but I made the right decision.

    Anyway, I hope that helps. That was what I learned from my tenure as a GN publisher.
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    • Profile picture of the author LiquidSeo
      Originally Posted by timpears View Post

      A news site is no different from any other web site really. You are chasing what is in the news or hot topics. Google Trends has worked for some, yet it is hard to monetize those items most of the time. When i did this, I avoided the celebrity stuff and only went after the other stuff that I thought would lead to AdSense clicks. Not that I am mercinary, but my writers had to be paid, so I had to make money doing it.

      Google Insights has a graph to show the news traffic if the keyword has enough traffic. But my best traffic usually came when I got blended (listed in Google SERP) results. So if you figure out which of your keywords has blended results, and write articles on that list, hopefully you will manage to get the article on G as well as GN. I was getting most of my articles in a high spot in G in the last week that I owned the site, before i sold it. My traffic was five to fourteen thousand per day that last week. I almost wish I hadn't sold it, but I made the right decision.

      Anyway, I hope that helps. That was what I learned from my tenure as a GN publisher.
      Tim,

      Did you find that running/operating the GN site sucked tons of time? I had thought about creating a hardcore content blog and work to get it approved, but didn't want it to consume all of my time.

      Brian
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  • Profile picture of the author timpears
    Brian,

    You can do it in an hour or two a day if you choose to, but I tended to spend more time on it than that. I am into the news anyway, so I tended to spend more of my time than many. You can't just set and forget, like with so many blog projects as the news needs to be reported each day. And GN requires that you publish a minimum of three articles per day, but they don't clamp down on that too much and weekends are ok to take off. But in my mind, the more you publish, the more you should make if you are publishing articles that are getting clicks.

    Hope that answers your question.
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