Another newb's money making journal
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Yup I like that site. I don't have any of the resources he mentions. I need to start building them. The rest of the problem is time, it hasn't provided enough revenue to spend too much time on it.
Why are you manually submitting recipes?!? There are tons of recipe databases for download, and if you know enough PHP you can just scrape an existing recipe database site and make your own.
Automate that shit, man.
It isn't worth the time to manually submit all those reicipes when you can just download the content and upload it...
Automate that shit, man.
It isn't worth the time to manually submit all those reicipes when you can just download the content and upload it...
I think your going about this all wrong. You have great designing skills and would blow my ass away but i just use generic templates and they work fine.
I spend my time on research, research, research and I think you should. Keywords, search volume, advertisers gap in bids etc...... thats what you need to look at more than anything.........
you used an old site to test when you should test around what you already have researched.......I would say scrap cooking and go with something that no one is looking at and test that........
i found one with a million searches, made a generic blog, wrote content revelant but centerd around high paying keywords and BAM, profit.....
marketing is about being creative so now use those great creative skills and think like a marketer/salesman and not a designer and you'll do fine
I spend my time on research, research, research and I think you should. Keywords, search volume, advertisers gap in bids etc...... thats what you need to look at more than anything.........
you used an old site to test when you should test around what you already have researched.......I would say scrap cooking and go with something that no one is looking at and test that........
i found one with a million searches, made a generic blog, wrote content revelant but centerd around high paying keywords and BAM, profit.....
marketing is about being creative so now use those great creative skills and think like a marketer/salesman and not a designer and you'll do fine
I'm new to the game, but here are my suggestions.
Your title is meaningless. Put some keywords there.
Your links should also contain keywords. Don't reveal the query in the URL. Search engines HATE this. For example:
Cakes archive at GreatCooking
Query is ?cat=13 and means nothing to humans, nor search engines. Change it to read something like greatcooking.com/recipes/cakes and you can have subcategories:
greatcooking.com/recipes/cakes/weddings greatcooking.com/recipes/cakes/birthday greatcooking.com/recipes/cakes/beef
etc.
You can do this using mod_rewrite. BTW, vbSEO is mainly just a mod_rewrite file. I saw the site and wondered "why are people paying for this? You can do this easily already.."
mod_rewrite, a beginner's guide (with examples)
Keywords: Healthy/organic/diet/vegan/vegetarian. Now post some "vegan recipes" (the term I usually search for). I'm hungry as fuck
Your title is meaningless. Put some keywords there.
Your links should also contain keywords. Don't reveal the query in the URL. Search engines HATE this. For example:
Cakes archive at GreatCooking
Query is ?cat=13 and means nothing to humans, nor search engines. Change it to read something like greatcooking.com/recipes/cakes and you can have subcategories:
greatcooking.com/recipes/cakes/weddings greatcooking.com/recipes/cakes/birthday greatcooking.com/recipes/cakes/beef
etc.
You can do this using mod_rewrite. BTW, vbSEO is mainly just a mod_rewrite file. I saw the site and wondered "why are people paying for this? You can do this easily already.."
mod_rewrite, a beginner's guide (with examples)
Keywords: Healthy/organic/diet/vegan/vegetarian. Now post some "vegan recipes" (the term I usually search for). I'm hungry as fuck
May 23, 2007 - Lack of updates
I hate my ISP. My internet's been shitting out a lot lately as my ISP was recently acquired by some company from Nova Scotia, so I haven't been around much. Expect some more updates soon.
I hate my ISP. My internet's been shitting out a lot lately as my ISP was recently acquired by some company from Nova Scotia, so I haven't been around much. Expect some more updates soon.
I'm new to the game, but here are my suggestions.
Your title is meaningless. Put some keywords there.
Your links should also contain keywords. Don't reveal the query in the URL. Search engines HATE this. For example:
Cakes archive at GreatCooking
Query is ?cat=13 and means nothing to humans, nor search engines. Change it to read something like greatcooking.com/recipes/cakes and you can have subcategories:
greatcooking.com/recipes/cakes/weddings greatcooking.com/recipes/cakes/birthday greatcooking.com/recipes/cakes/beef
etc.
You can do this using mod_rewrite. BTW, vbSEO is mainly just a mod_rewrite file. I saw the site and wondered "why are people paying for this? You can do this easily already.."
mod_rewrite, a beginner's guide (with examples)
Keywords: Healthy/organic/diet/vegan/vegetarian. Now post some "vegan recipes" (the term I usually search for). I'm hungry as fuck
You reminded me, I completely forgot to change the permalink structure. Changed it now:
http://www.greatcooking.info/drinks/10-minute-zesty-salsa/
Working on the other stuff, thanks for the suggestions!
the problem I see for making some good arb profits are that people are coming to your site looking for reciepes...which is what you give them.. why would they click on an ad?
Better would to turn this this into a combo arb/aff site... but you will need to customize your receipes a little. My suggestion is to have a receipe, and then suggest cookware needed (stock pots, knives, robot maids, etc). In the receipes throw in how RazerSharp Finger Slicer (which you promote via aff programs) so easily sliced through that steak, or how that salad spinner made washing those greens an easy process... this is going to take a lot more effort, but could be worth it.
If you are going to scrape millions of receipes into your site automatically then make sure that the adsense is prominent- maybe placed between the ingredient list and the steps? Target only the recipe title to get ads related to that topic? Better would be to have a 'Equipment Needed' section as well, and either have aff or target only that section for adsense ads related to items people would be buying (and what they won't be finding on your site).
Also- Unless you are going to be getting lots of organic traffic, which is unlikely since this is a very saturated niche with some very well known sites, you really shouldn't be paying more than CTR*avg EPC, otherwise you can't make money unless you are doing some aff $$$ on top of the adsense.
Better would to turn this this into a combo arb/aff site... but you will need to customize your receipes a little. My suggestion is to have a receipe, and then suggest cookware needed (stock pots, knives, robot maids, etc). In the receipes throw in how RazerSharp Finger Slicer (which you promote via aff programs) so easily sliced through that steak, or how that salad spinner made washing those greens an easy process... this is going to take a lot more effort, but could be worth it.
If you are going to scrape millions of receipes into your site automatically then make sure that the adsense is prominent- maybe placed between the ingredient list and the steps? Target only the recipe title to get ads related to that topic? Better would be to have a 'Equipment Needed' section as well, and either have aff or target only that section for adsense ads related to items people would be buying (and what they won't be finding on your site).
Also- Unless you are going to be getting lots of organic traffic, which is unlikely since this is a very saturated niche with some very well known sites, you really shouldn't be paying more than CTR*avg EPC, otherwise you can't make money unless you are doing some aff $$$ on top of the adsense.
I'll donate a recipes database to the cause. PM me.
Here's my most recent recipe's site to see what kind of data you'll be getting
anise biscotti
Here's my most recent recipe's site to see what kind of data you'll be getting
anise biscotti
No, I haven't got an appropriate site. But it seems an ideal match for a recipe site.
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