Posted on 03 January 2012. Tags: bubblegum, bubbles, com, contest, Google, google search, guinness world record, guinness world record holders, niche, search word, searchword, site, Website, world record holders
In a Google search for the word “bubblegum” (which at times has brought over 18,000,000 results) our website, bubblegumheaven.com, has made it into the top 20 and has been seemingly stuck there for quite a long time. The question is what can I do to get it into the top 10, which is the goal?
Our website is far and away the best website for actual bubblegum and bubbles on the internet. It was put together by Guinness World Record Holders for blowing the largest bubbles and also the man who has blown the actual biggest bubble ever. It has a lot about the history of bubblegum. It has pictures of the biggest bubbles ever blown. It has a blog. And it has a contest. The BUBBLEGUM WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP, the greatest bubble blowing contest ever, where the biggest bubbles ever blown in contests have been blown. Ours is not a commercial site that has a passion for some single bubblegum brand above all others, rather it’s one that has no preference for any particular bubblegum, instead it has a passion for bubblegum itself and what that bubblegum can do. There is tons of difference.
Our entire website is totally about the niche, and the niche is the search word. No other website ranked higher than us is remotely like that. Most if not all of them are almost completely NOT about the searchword.
But it’s frustrating because, unlike many keywords, “bubblegum” applies to all kinds of things that are called “bubblegum” but have absolutely nothing to do with the pink stuff you chew. Stuff that is “gumming up the works” for us. Here’s how.
At the time this is written our website is in 14th position. In the five spots above us, there is one page that is part of a huge website that sells candy, with a number of pages with bubblegum items on them for sale. It’s my opinion we should be ranked higher them because I think we have way better bubblegum content, but that’s my opinion and others may disagree. That’s ok.
But the other four spots, boy oh boy. One website is about a surf board wax that has the word “bubblegum” in it’s name. It says “bubblegum” a lot on the website. But other then that, I’m pretty sure there is nothing else on it that has to do with real bubblegum. And it deteriorates rapidly from there.
Another very small site has to do with a computer app called “bubblegum.” It too has nothing to do with real bubblegum, it’s page only mentions “bubblegum” twice and it’s URL has the word “bubblegum” in it.
Another page is about a record album for sale named “Bubblegum” on Amazon.com. It has nothing to do with real bubblegum. But it’s on gigantic Amazon.com, which I’m sure provides a gigantic lift.
Finally, and most galling of all, is a link to a page in a website that is apparently about children’s games. It too of course has totally nothing to do with bubblegum, but, different from the other pages I’ve mentioned, this page doesn’t even have the word bubblegum on it, and IT’S ranked higher then our website!
It just seems to me like Google would save a space for something like our website because it’s the essence of what the search is about, while some of the higher ranking websites are probably irrelevant to a majority of the people will do this search.
So the thing is, is we have to somehow climb over 4 of these 5 websites to find ourselves in the top 10, and they seem like immoveable objects. Does anyone have any ideas we could use that we are not already using to be able to do this (something that goes beyond “get more backlinks”?).
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Posted on 31 December 2011. Tags: affiliate marketing, affiliate programs, barnes and noble, Good, Google, information age, Marketing, money, payment, site, subscription service, traffic, Website
After putting money into marketing my website and such, Google Adsense cancelled my account and all the payments that were coming to me (costing me money actually) and suggesting that there was something suspicious about the clicks or the site traffic. They don’t provide details or allow one to have time to dispute any such claims.
Anyway, I’d like some suggestions on good adsense alternatives. I’ve tried some but hopefully I can get feedback from persons who have used these services. One that I looked at was going to make me wait 60 days till I got my first payment. That is unreasonable and ridiculous in today’s information age.
I also don’t want to use a site that is notorious for cancelling accounts with no warning, because they think that the clicks or the traffic is not valid.
Also, if you can provide tips on affiliate marketing – I’ve signed up with two. One is clickbank. Do they have products that pay a certain amount monthly – which would mean a product would have to be a subscription service? Thee is also the site I found when I wanted to sell products for Barnes and Noble – they work with a company that handles affiliate programs.
Any other suggestions on affiliate marketing?
And adsense alterntives that don’t make one wait 60 days for the first check?
Thanks,
Bruce
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Posted on 24 December 2011. Tags: blog, followers, Google, Home, home photo, luxury home, much money, niche, photo, post, Search, search engines, Tumblr, word of mouth
I have a niche luxury home photo tumblr blog..
I’ve been getting a lot of followers, but only 20 unique views a day.
I am monetizing it, and have ads. But with 20 unique views a day, I’m not gonna get much money.
I post original stuff, and it all has thousands of notes with me as the source – so that’s why I’m getting new followers, etc. All of my views come from “word of mouth” kind of.
how can I get it to show up in search engines, etc? I think I have a success, I just need to get it in google. I’ve submitted it, too.
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Posted on 21 December 2011. Tags: Adwords, affiliate business, Clickbank, conversion, conversions, couple days, disappointment, everything, Google, hello everyone, issue, problem, Website
Hello everyone,
I’ve been trying to master an affiliate business on and off for almost two years. It started really working for me only recently, to be precise a few weeks ago. I had around eight conversions a day for 5 days, which I was quite happy about. However, to my disappointment, my conversions showed up only in Google Adwords. I could not see any of my sales in Clickbank. I know that Clickbank has lags, so I waited for a couple days to see if the sales would eventually show up, after couple of day I had only 4 sales out of 40 that I have in adwords. I have had the same Google and Clickbank accounts for almost two years and I never had this problem before. I got very excited that my website was finally getting conversions, but now the described issue came up and I am totally not sure where to look for solutions. I checked everything I could think of but nothing helped. I thought that I might be having two conversion codes installed on my thank you page, but I made sure that this was the case. Any ideas on this would be appreciated. Thank you very much.
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Posted on 21 December 2011. Tags: Adwords, affiliate business, Clickbank, conversion, conversions, couple days, disappointment, everything, Google, issue, Website
I’ve been trying to master an affiliate business on and off for almost two years. It started really working for me only recently, to be precise a few weeks ago. I had around eight conversions a day for 5 days, which I was quite happy about. However, to my disappointment, my conversions showed up only in Google Adwords. I could not see any of my sales in Clickbank. I know that Clickbank has lags, so I waited for a couple days to see if the sales would eventually show up, after couple of day I had only 4 sales out of 40 that I have in adwords. I have had the same Google and Clickbank accounts for almost two years and I never had this problem before. I got very excited that my website was finally getting conversions, but now the described issue came up and I am totally not sure where to look for solutions. I checked everything I could think of but nothing helped. I thought that I might be having two conversion codes installed on my thank you page, but I made sure that this was the case. Any ideas on this would be appreciated. Thank you.
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Posted on 19 December 2011. Tags: Good, Google, niche, Rank
I have a very high targetted niche, and need good rank on google, what to do?
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