Stephan Miller

1 | Marcus Hochstadt (13 comments.)

February 4th, 2008 at 12:17 pm

Congrats, Stephan! Though no wonder since you have an excellent blog.

~Marcus

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2 | Stephan Miller

February 4th, 2008 at 12:22 pm

Thanks Marcus.

3 | Andy Bailey (2 comments.)

February 4th, 2008 at 4:16 pm

well done on the Alexa rank. I tried to get mine past the 100k mark for a while (lol, tried! I didn’t do anything different!) I saw it go to 65k the other week when I got some serious stumble traffic. It’s now hovering around 76k.

writing a plugin or theme whacks up your technorati rank though. Having commentluv display a message below each comment certainly helps mine get up to 400 or so (thanks for keeping the message on your site too!)

you’re doing well on subscribers to your feed. I was thinking of different ways to up mine. I can’t put too much weight on mine though, I have a feed reader and now I rarely use it because there are always too many unread when I go to open it and I end up skipping past most of them which kind of takes the ‘reader’ out of ‘feed reader’ so I can only assume there are others like me that do the same, subscribe to a feed after being impressed by a post and then only catch up with it a few times a month..

Andy Bailey’s last blog post..Spammers use Top Commentators vulnerability to hijack top list

4 | Gary (1 comments.)

February 5th, 2008 at 2:15 am

Impressive stats there. But i think you should be trying to get more traffic from search engines as a proportion. That way your traffic and site become very more reliable and consistent. But your site is going well, well done.

Gary

Gary’s last blog post..Australia To Qualify for 2010 World Cup Through Asia

5 | Stephan Miller

February 5th, 2008 at 7:49 am

Andy,

After I installed your plugin, I knew I needed to create a plugin. I went for a theme first because I thought it was easier. But plugins definitely have a more global appeal. And if you can get a link back to your site in there somewhere, your set for links back to your site. Your the man.

Gary,

Search engine hits are coming. Right now though I am sending them elsewhere, to the sites where the cash register goes cha-ching. I am really not sure what I am doing with this blog except testing things for now. I know how to rank for search engines already. I want to know how this blogging/social stuff works. Where before I would build sites that would rank high, that I wouldn’t have to touch for months, that would catch affiliate sales passively, now I want to expand and see what other techniques have to offer.

I saw a rut and I was in it. Plus, there is not much money coming out of this site yet. About the only time I have for this site now is posting, commenting on other blogs, answering comments here, and doing a little social media investigation.

I am starting this up but I also know to focus on where the money is currently coming from. My biggest affiliate month to date was December. I was pushing for 5 figures and ended up right above $9000 profit. Not the average, that is closer to $4000, which means yes, I still have a day job also. The ironic thing is this blog has 150 subscribers and the blog where I am explaining how that check came about has 50, but it needs an overhaul and I am sort of slow playing that until I get it in line.

This blog I see as a traffic savings account and a resume. Keep it going. Write about what I do. Monetize when I can. Then when I need what I have built here, I don’t have to start from scratch. This is my blog lab.

I like writing much more than all the other stuff required in this internet marketing game. I am testing structure, monetization, social networks, Wordpress, and many other things until they become second hand.

I am also not taking anyone’s word for things until I have tested them, hence the minimal product reviews. Blogging guru’s tend to forget details and don’t place emphasis where it should be. It’s a problem of point of view, not technique. Plus they are real catty. “That guys method is spam.” “That blogger doesn’t know what he is doing” Who can you trust? Yourself, after you test it.

So some of my posts are nothing more than a series of questions that I answer months later. Sort of like buying a car and taking it apart piece by piece to see how it works. I probably should have chose another domain to put this on. I admit some of the posts make me look a little unintelligent and putting that on a domain that is also my name may give people a wrong opinion of me, but we will see.

I have about 3 or 4 blogs coming down the pike. Someone coming by my blog, realizing it took me a couple of months to finish a theme, may say, “Yeah, right”. But I have my wife. She knows that I have said things like this before. And before she knows it, she forgets I wrote a check with my mouth that seemed impossible to cash at the time I first said it because by then it seems old hat.

But first I need a model. My model. Welcome to my evolving model. And I just wrote a post where a comment should be.

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