Traffic, traffic, and more traffic!
I love traffic. I love targeted traffic… and lots of it. Unfortunately, it’s been my nemesis ever since I decided to focus on learning internet marketing.
I had gotten lots of traffic when I worked in the Adult industry a decade ago. But even then, the traffic that I had gotten to my sites (though server crushing compared to what I get to my new sites now), barely made a blip compared to sites owned by my colleagues. What they received to their sites was incredibly mind-blowing!
I have a handful of sites that I try to consistently work on, including this one. But they’re not getting as much traffic to them as I would like them to. I’ve been studying different traffic generation techniques. I feel that I need to purchase a few different wordpress plugins and software to help me along.
But one site has stood out that has now become my pride and joy: my christmas site. I built it last November so it’s a fairly new site. But it’s getting more traffic daily than all my other sites combined! I have read and studied different techniques from ecourses, ebooks and videos. Many of them overlap in methods. I pulled what I learned and can use from them and tried it on this Christmas site and it seems to be working.
It’s received over 310 visitors so far today and it isn’t 3 pm yet. I can’t wait to see what it ends up getting total by the end of the day. Traffic excites me. I know I’m doing something right. I know the methods I’ve learned work but now I need to see some sales in Amazon as further concrete proof. There are 2 sales from that site so far and a few bucks from Adsense.
What tickles me pink is that I’m ranking on page 1 of Google for a lot of keyword phrases. I’m also number #1 for a lot of those phrases too! I’ve never done that before. It’s quite exciting.
EzineArticles Terms of Service
I have a tendency to glaze over when it comes to reading rules and terms of services. They all seem to pretty much be the same across the board.
However, I was doing some research for a plugin of interest. For some reason, I went to EzineArticles.com’s terms of service page. Have you actually read it? Did you pay attention.
Apparently, I didn’t. So when I read their rules, I was taken aback. I own several websites and also sell sites that are autoblogs. If you don’t know what that means, all an autoblog is is a site that automatically posts content on its own by taking said content from sources such as EzineArticles.
I currently use a free autoblog plugin that takes articles from EzineArticles, Isnare, andArticlebase. I am saving up for WP Robot as it is a bad ass plugin that has 17 modules, one of which pulls articles. I had the opportunity to test it out on a client’s site and I love it.
Anyway, I visited EzineArticles’ TOS and realized that it only allows publishers (website owners) the ability to publish 25 articles (MAX) per calendar year per domain. UH. Ooops.
Taken directly from their TOS:
“EZINEARTICLES.COM TERMS OF SERVICE FOR PUBLISHERS:
Attention Publishers & Webmasters; Our Reprint Policies:
If you wish to publish/reprint any article from our site in your ezine, website, blog, forum, RSS feed or print publication, you must:
…Agree to limit the number of articles reprinted to no greater than taking 25 articles from our site per calendar year per unique domain that you own. In addition, for domain owners of many domains, you may not reprint more than 250 articles per year (10 sites x 25 articles reprinted per domain).”
I, for one, hate any sort of limitations. I’m also not big on breaking rules. Soooooo, I decided that I wasn’t going to be pulling articles from EzineArticles any longer. I’m assuming that plugin developers that create the autoblog plugins are aware of this rule and have somehow made it so that when a site reaches it 25 article limit, the plugin will switch to a different article source. Once can hope but I’m not going to depend on it.
I did find out that GoArticles has the same rule as EzineArticles. I’m really not quite sure why they have this rule. But I did find that Articlebase and Isnare don’t have such a rule, which is a plus for me.
It was a minor inconvenience, but one that doesn’t stand in my way. Onward!