Blogging for a second income - does anyone else here do this?

quinechinoise

daz501 wrote: »

WAMP! that's what i was thinking of!

Good. Because that's definitely not what I was thinking of! lol

Cocobay71

Hi,

Can anyone recommend how to find accurate long tail keywords. I have tried google but only list one or two keywords.

daz501

Cocobay71 wrote: »

Hi,

Can anyone recommend how to find accurate long tail keywords. I have tried google but only list one or two keywords.

Have you been using the Google Adword Keyword Research tool? Look for low competition keywords but with relatively few results in the search engines. If you find a keyword with a few hundred monthly searches and say, 20 thousand results in Google search, that would be something worth optimising for.

When you compare this to hundred of millions of results for the saturated niches it makes you realise how much easier it is to rank for the long tail/micro niche keywords.

Having said all that, I think people obsess a bit too much over SEO. Writing quality content for human visitors is what people will find interesting and want to link to.

Rach_0101

Hi I'm new here and just love reading about everyones blogging, I started a lifestyle and beauty blog in 2011 great if i can get some feedback on it I dont make much from it, I want to be able to expand my blog to offer more product reviews and advertising.

quinechinoise

Rach_0101 wrote: »

Hi I'm new here and just love reading about everyones blogging, I started a lifestyle and beauty blog in 2011 great if i can get some feedback on it I dont make much from it, I want to be able to expand my blog to offer more product reviews and advertising.

Edit your MSE profile to include a link to your blog? I'm sure someone here will be curious enough to take a peek! Just don't put the link in your posts - you're not allowed to advertise.

Rach_0101

I have added the link to my blog if you want to check it out

daz501

Rach_0101 wrote: »

I have added the link to my blog if you want to check it out

I checked it out, and I would like to make a suggestion if that's ok...

You nav bar is wrapping a little. I don't know if it is my browser or if it is like this on all browsers. If you took one link out of the nav bar and moved it (to the footer for example), you'd have a pretty row of links with no wrapping

I see you have a nivo slider too. I want to know how to get those working in WordPress. I don't like adding WordPress widgets though because future WP updates might not support them

Rach_0101

Hi thanks for checking out my blog, all feedback is welcome just wondering what you meant by wrapping?

Also the slider comes with my wordpress theme it can go accross the page or how it is now and I select which posts it shows, I dont think there is a plugin for it but there are many themes that have it.

daz501

Rach_0101 wrote: »

Hi thanks for checking out my blog, all feedback is welcome just wondering what you meant by wrapping?

It means the total character length of all the links on your nav bar is causing it to overflow and begin on a new line. If you remove a few links, it will tighten it up and stop this from happening.

I looked at your page links and to be honest some of those would be fine in the sidebar widget or even in the footer. Just have your most important, prominent pages in the navbar

Rach_0101

Oh I see what you mean I deleted a link from there a while ago as it was uderneath on a new line, but it also happens when people zoom in etc. But it looks fine on my laptop. I see yeah I have some links in the footer already but when I have time I will make take some links off the nav bar as there is alot.

Do you know anyways of getting ads at all? I can't use adsense as I have to wait 6 months before I can reapply.