My website is a disaster. plz help

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Well, maybe not a disaster, but right now i struggle to get traffic.
If i blog 1 blog a day FOR Full year, will i get enough traffic to support myself?
What you guys think of my website?
please provide honest opinion ebookcashout DOT com
thanks so much
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  • Profile picture of the author E. Brian Rose
    You aren't doing yourself any favors with the color scheme that you chose for your AdSense ads. The headline is subdued, while the URL is standing out. Don't you think that's backwards?
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    • Profile picture of the author ebookcashout
      Originally Posted by E. Brian Rose View Post

      You aren't doing yourself any favors with the color scheme that you chose for your AdSense ads. The headline is subdued, while the URL is standing out. Don't you think that's backwards?

      u are correct. headline is subdued. i will change that. thank you
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  • Profile picture of the author lacraiger
    MMO is saturated and too competitive. of course you aren't gonna get any traffic.

    i suggest you think of another niche to get into.

    don't give up... theres plenty of money to be made with IM.
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  • Profile picture of the author Kaitlyn Aliano
    Nevermind.
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  • Profile picture of the author harro1
    Do some SEO, and make a good design for website.
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    • Profile picture of the author Kay King
      The cars in the header mean what? Did nothing for me.

      More banners is not better - too many bright ads and too many adsense blocks.

      Take a couple hours (or more) and do searches for blogs in your niche (and define your niche, too). Look at the design and navigation until it starts to make sense. Keep your own site minimized and when you see a site you like compare it to yours.

      You will begin to see the problem with the site in a much better way than having people here try to explain in a way that makes sense.

      When you have too many banners and too many ads, visitors become banner blind and just close the site.

      Good luck - keep posting as you adjust the site and before long it will be much better.

      kay
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      • Profile picture of the author ebookcashout
        Originally Posted by Kay King View Post

        The cars in the header mean what? Did nothing for me.

        More banners is not better - too many bright ads and too many adsense blocks.

        Take a couple hours (or more) and do searches for blogs in your niche (and define your niche, too). Look at the design and navigation until it starts to make sense. Keep your own site minimized and when you see a site you like compare it to yours.

        You will begin to see the problem with the site in a much better way than having people here try to explain in a way that makes sense.

        When you have too many banners and too many ads, visitors become banner blind and just close the site.

        Good luck - keep posting as you adjust the site and before long it will be much better.

        kay
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        • Profile picture of the author rosetrees
          My personal thoughts:

          1) What is the site actually about? It doesn't say anywhere and there are a selection of apparently unrelated posts
          2) There is no menubar or home link. How do I get back to the home link.
          3) There is a selection of random, apparently unrelated ads. Why would I want to click on them
          4) Come to that - why would I come to the site. It needs focus and a purpose.

          Once you've decided what the site is actually about and then arranged it in proper, related categories then you can start doing some seo work.

          To answer you original question - if you make one post a day for a year on this site, no - you won't make enough to live on.

          If you are promoting a particular product - then write stuff related to that product that will make me want to buy it.
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  • Profile picture of the author rankontop
    pm me , I'll help you, my rank isnt high here because of time, but.. you have to start it off right..From the start.
    ttyl
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  • Profile picture of the author garyv
    Shouldn't you write about something you know about? Don't you find it somewhat ironic that you're writing blogs on how to make money online, and then you come in here and ask us about making money online?

    You should first find a niche that you know something about. Then you'll have an easier time making money. THEN you might be able to write a believable blog about making money.

    Right now when I read your blog, it seems like a parody to me. It would be like going into the hardware store and having the cashier try to sell me a taco w/ my hammer. It may be funny, but I'm just not buyin it. Sorry.
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  • Profile picture of the author Scott Kennedy
    I personally think you are in the wrong niche. Your website is about making money online but you have trouble getting visitors to your site. Maybe narrow it down to just "how to write best selling ebooks" or something along those lines where you're not stretching the truth as much.
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  • Profile picture of the author Find
    OH man! you"ll get there my friend. Just takes practice.

    Quick tips:

    First thing is structure your site so that people and bots know what your sites about and know how to get around your site.

    Create content that has unique value (That you have) so that other webmasters and the general public link back to your website.

    Create and submit your site to blog directorys' and Rss feed directorys': This is the first and easiest part of getting backlinks. This method is really effective and can get you alot of traffic and rankings if you have good compelling content that people want to keep reading or link too.

    The rest is finding strategys' and improvement
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  • Profile picture of the author williamkmohr
    make some posts regularly on your website relating to the keyword you are targeting and do some SEO. this will help you to get more visitors daily and it will increase when you site stuff are really good
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  • Profile picture of the author Danny Cutts
    The easiest way to make an make money online blog is to actually be able to make money online.... you can see right through that you cant.

    All the comments above are all spot on but I will put my spin on things.

    Why are you trying to compete in a niche that gets hammered? You will only get disheartened when you dont get much traffic....

    Why dont you look at easier niches with a lot less competition? Its so much easier to make money when there is no competition at least this way you will then start to see what works and what doesn't then maybe in a couple of years you can tehn come back and start writing about make money online?

    Just my opinion but to be honest I would not waste my time chasing this niche just yet

    Danny
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  • Profile picture of the author sbucciarel
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    Never put all your eggs in one basket. If I have to give you an answer, I'd say no ... you will not make a full time living with this blog no matter how many times per day you post. It's the MMO niche, which is grossly saturated and unless you can really add something that hasn't already been done to death, you will struggle getting an audience and buyers or clickers.

    Expand out into some other less competitive niches. Do keyword research to find them. Don't abandon your efforts here, but don't count on this being your gold mine.
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  • Profile picture of the author simonlcroft
    Unfortunately, I agree with Danny, however it is not all doom and gloom.

    You need to put a bit more detail into each point, one or two lines isn't enough. Just do a bit of research, look at other peoples blogs, what they are writing about, the style they use etc Inject some of your personality into the post. Your writing at the moment comes across like the nervous child attending their first day at school, very unsure about what they should be doing. Personally, I don't like adsense and the rare occasions I do use it, I blend them with the site.

    With regards to the privacy policy, there is a wordpress plug-in that does it for you (ah, just seen it is powered by blogger, forget that)

    Traffic wise, there are various methods for generating traffic. Here (as in forum marketing) articles, blog hopping, squidoo lenses, video marketing, all these you can do for free. Just do a little research on the terms, there are plenty of sites and free ebooks geared up just for this. At the end of the day, getting traffic is all about building your reputation and relationships by giving value. With a little research, you will get there, just don't give up.

    Good luck

    Simon
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  • Profile picture of the author NicoleBeckett
    I agree with Alexa...the Rolls Royce's at the top are a bit much.

    However, I saw a bigger issue that made me tune out. The blog on there is a "Part 2" and starts with steps 3 and 4. Well, I didn't read Part 1, so I've missed out on the beginning. I didn't feel like searching for Part 1, and I figure Part 2 won't make any sense unless I've read Part 1... see where I'm heading with this??? You're giving visitors a reason to leave before they've even made it through a single sentence of your content.

    It's fine to do series on your blog, but there's a better way to do it. Don't call it "Part 2". You could always call it something like "More Tips for Selling Your Ebook". With a title like that, you don't necessarily have to read Part 1 to understand it.
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