Blogs Make All The Difference
I’m sure I mentioned this before, but after playing with HitTail I decided to put a blog on Idea Queen. This site is huge, so it was an excellent and immediate test on the damage I can do using HitTail. Within just a few hours, I had enough suggested keyword phrases to keep me busy for weeks. Now, after using this for several weeks, I have more keywords than I can handle!
So, as mentioned, I decided the best way to use all these new keyword phrases was to start a blog. Many of the phrases made perfect “add on” content to already existing pages at Idea Queen. Some also made a great lead into current pages (as in “for more ideas on this topic, see x page”).
After posting to this blog daily for about 3 weeks now, all I can say is WOW. What a difference a blog made! I knew this, I really did. And I’ve been saying to myself how much I really did need a professional blog on this site. WHY I didn’t do this sooner I’ll never know. Because once I saw my stats, I was completely blown away…..
Before I started this blog, the site was getting an average of 400-500 unique visitors a day. Pretty good right? Now the current average is well over 800 unique visitors a day. I’m not kidding here, I’ve increased my daily visitors by over 300 a DAY! (Let me say it again because I don’t even believe it – PER DAY!! 
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Now I’ve checked and rechecked my stats, rankings, and everything else ( and kicking myself for not keeping better records of my rankings over the past 3 years! 
). I’ve made sure this isn’t some fluke and really is because of the blog. I can’t find anywhere that suggests a new page was ranked – no one page is getting all these extra visitors. It’s not some heavy traffic site my link was posted on either (not only do I not see a referal link in my traffic stats to suggest this, but again it would be ONE page getting it all when it’s not).
Nope, it has to be the blog because all the pages completely across the board are getting more traffic. All 100+ of them. Not only that, but the biggest jumps are from links I’ve used in the blog. For example, one page had 84 visitors in a normal week before the blog, and now has 150 this week (and the week isn’t over yet!). From what I can see from my current rankings and stats, I’ve just been inching every so slightly in the search engines for all those different phrases. Just because of a few blog posts.
Of course with the extra visitors comes the extra income. Too bad this is a Adsense funded site, or I could really be bragging. Even still, I’m quite impressed with what these few posts have done. With only about 8 posts indexed and making a difference, I’ve seen a $1.50/day jump in my adsense income. That’s $45/mo. Not all THAT much, but it ads up. What if I were to make at least 10 posts a week? After a month, I’d have an extra $200….and that’s residual, so it’s each and every month!
Funny thing is, my “average” is a bit off. The number of unique visitors I’ve been getting every day has been increasing all week. Thursday and Friday it was in the 800s, yesterday it was over 900. Today my estimate is over 1,000. I must say it again – WOW!
The only thing I fear is a “cap” on this when all pages have reached the top rankings for all the keyword phrases I’ve optimized all those pages for. Although I seriously doubt that’s going to happen any time soon, so I’m milking this for all it’s worth! 
Haven’t got a blog for your site yet? What are you waiting for!? Didn’t I just give you enough reason to start?
Your fellow WAHM in success,
Kara
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