Comments on: Week 6: Successful Blogging Tactics Case Study

By: SBA

SBA — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 13:23:02 +0000

Good Karma — bring it on! I enjoy the interaction that you guys are starting, this in itself is rewarding. And John, what a recent break down of your Analytics mental block! You used a report to come up with your new strategy for the site sending you the most productive visitors. Good job… there’s hope now for Creative Junkie [please, please...]

By: John Mellem

John Mellem — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 06:53:39 +0000

Yes, please contact me and I would be glad to talk to you. I can’t hardly believe how far my blog has come with the help I received. And I can see that it has a long way to go, as well. What a blessing to have people to help from the kindness of their hearts with things I probably would never have discovered on my own. I’m sure there is some very good Karma to be had from the unselfish actions of the good people like this.

By: SBA

SBA — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 15:12:02 +0000

Great to hear you’re experimenting, monitoring and adjusting — small steps take you closer to the vision. Are you using Analytics (and combining with Adsense?) to monitor clicks by content? Blending seems to do the trick and it’s quite easy.

I selected the tree diagram primarily as a post image but it does have the main components for goal setting. So it’s not perfect (I was too lazy to create my own!) I agree that in failing you learn and make adjustments that could be even more productive.

We use “Yet Another Related Posts Plugin” and set the option to display related posts in feeds as well.

By: Juscelino M. Acevedo

Juscelino M. Acevedo — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 15:04:58 +0000

SBA,

I think that is a great idea. I will look into contacting him. Thanks.

By: SBA

SBA — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 14:54:03 +0000

Maybe you and John can keep in touch and learn from each other. Be sure to come back and let us know how different tips worked out for you… thanks.

By: Matt Harris

Matt Harris — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 05:27:38 +0000

I’m at about the same point in my execution of my “strategy” as the person you are talking about here. Not more than 2 days ago I redesigned my ads and it worked wonderfully. I tied in some design changes too. I find that with sandwiching my text ads between desired content links was a great way to improve the visibility of them. I put my blended adsense links underneath my featured posts and above my tag cloud. Just today I had about 4 times more clicks than the previous week.

I disagree with your tree diagram however. It should be more branched, as some tactics fail and new strategy’s emerge sometimes you end up in a new direction but always in the direction of your vision.

Also what are you using currently for your “related post” section, I really like this style.

By: Mr. I

Mr. I — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 14:50:20 +0000

You can ask me anytime if you need help. Just send me a e-mail and I will take a look at your blog.
Although, I am not a CSS/Blogger wizard like SBA but I am sure I can help!

By: Juscelino M. Acevedo

Juscelino M. Acevedo — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 12:52:02 +0000

I have to say that after reading this I feel just like John Mellem. Same frustrations and confusions. I will definitely take the tips that you have given him and apply them to my blogs. We’ll see what happens…