If your site does not have good content, you are having troubles with getting visitors and incoming links. You are also unable to get returning visitors (what is very important to have). The best way to create content is to write it yourself. You have to pick a topic that you really like, and put your heart into it. If you enjoy the topic where you are writing about, than the quality of the content will be a lot higher and you enjoy writing it.
Google Adsense works better than every other type of textual advertising because of the fact it reads your content and will display ads that are relevant to the content on your page.
You all know this information I just shared, I am sure. But it is really important to write new quality content. Search engines love new content and will rank websites that are pulling out new content higher than other websites.
The traffic on this blog that is coming from search engines is at 15 % now. The amount of visitors from search engines always was below 10 %. But the search engines are ranking my blog higher and higher, and this brings in some extra traffic. I hope to reach 20 % soon.
I think visitors from search engines are also clicking more on google ads. This is because those visitors are searching for something. And they are targeted visitors. These visitors will click more on google ads than normal visitors that are returning to your blog, or just dropping by.
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March 25th, 2007 at 8:16 pm
I don’t know about AdSense. Sometimes they put up ads that have nothing to do with the content!
March 25th, 2007 at 8:34 pm
I read somewhere that Yahoo! search visitors have a higher tendency to click on ads…than from google…does anyone have any info on this?
March 25th, 2007 at 9:17 pm
true content is king and backlinks are the throne! and as usual audience are the kingdom. . .
March 25th, 2007 at 10:50 pm
I agree with Steve…A lot of times I see google adsense ads with links that don’t even relate to the content..who knows
March 25th, 2007 at 11:15 pm
I still get over half of my traffic from Google alone.
March 26th, 2007 at 3:06 am
I’m headed towards where Steve is. I’m at just under 40% of my traffic coming from Google. About half of those are from my sports-relted posts. And with the Bloggers Tournament and the NCAA Tournament going simultaneuosly, I’m seeing some extra traffic.
March 26th, 2007 at 1:00 pm
Very nice guys !! I am behind of you
March 26th, 2007 at 4:09 pm
Steve, the thing I see (from time to time) from AdSense is that a few keywords that are bid really high will make Google think the content of your page is something it’s not.
I’ve seen this a lot of “Crackdown”–lots of ads about criminals and justice and crap!
March 26th, 2007 at 7:19 pm
Search engines love quality and original content more original content more traffic.
March 28th, 2007 at 8:21 am
I get about 30-35% of my traffic from Google, but I haven’t seen a similar trend in terms of Adsense CTR. I do find some not-so-relevant ads sometimes though…. that and many people turn a blind eye to ads these days.
March 28th, 2007 at 8:32 am
Thats true Michael. I hope i see a trend in CTR when i get more SE traffic though
March 28th, 2007 at 10:07 pm
For me on my forums, search engine traffic CTR is much higher than the regular visitors. I don’t think anybody should be striving to get “50% of traffic from Google” because that just means you are not getting enough traffic (percentage wise) from other important sources such as other websites.
April 4th, 2007 at 6:46 pm
hmm…my web site gets some traffic from google and mostly from yahoo! made me realize that there r ppl using yahoo! ! jokes apart..
April 7th, 2007 at 10:09 pm
i have good content but i cant get any traffic, can you help me out. my website is http://www.undergroundrevolt.org
July 25th, 2011 at 11:00 pm
Hm, I’m ok with this nevertheless not absolutely positive, therefore i am going to research a little more.