I don’t foresee myself making any changes to this particular blog; it’s the fun blog after all, so, though I’d love to make lots of sales here, I really don’t expect it because of the eclectic group that visits.

Now, on my finance blog, your suggestion would definitely be worth a review, if I had any real traffic at all. I have some, but it will really need to bump itself up, no matter what I do there.

With my other sites,… I’ll have to think about those some more also, as the one niched site does well with Adsense & Infolinks, but nothing else. Once again, it’s a site without products that actually fit for everyone.

And thanks for the nice comments about my writing style; that I appreciate more than anything else!

Many including myself will click links/banners here and there purely out of curiosity. However if it’s not relevant to what I do/need, I’m not going to buy it.
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Perhaps try – for the next 3-4 months – taking whatever brings you your Top 80% of blog revenue and concentrating on maximizing that…and that only.

I’d also suggest focusing your posts on a global level. You do mention that you talk about “Anything Blogging, Online Marketing, and Other Stuff” and your tag cloud (extreme bottom right) supports that.

That liberal take on content may be losing you points in terms of relevance when it comes to ranking in the SEs. Of course, then there’s the matter of not alienating your core readership.

I don’t envy you, friend…but I do like the fact that you share so openly (and your writing style is engaging, too)!

We’ve also tested quite a few selling strategies on our client sites and one of the ones that always performs well is when we ‘frame’ or ‘position’ what we are selling.

An example would be to show a super high-end product (high-cost), a low quality product (low-cost) and then ‘our’ product in the middle (mid range cost).

You explain how the low quality product may be super affordable but lacks certain features etc.

You explain how amazing the high-end product is and how you can get this this and this feature.

You then say you can get almost all of these features for a fraction of the price from ‘our’ product. Obviously it would be worded so much better than this and 100 percent factual!

This strategy seems to bring the best returns for us and our clients (you wouldn’t do it all the time as you’d dilute the effect).

There are also a lot of other strategies that really help bump-up those conversion rates; calls-to-action, customer feedback, targeted leads, etc.

Regards,

Karl
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Welcome to the discussion, and look, you’re first! I have to admit that I don’t often use keywords in my titles. Truthfully, I find many of those titles stifling for my writing style. It is a great ideas, though, for most people to focus on keywords. I do it on my finance blog, which is probably why it’s ranked pretty well. Still, I think that whatever a blog is about is a bigger draw overall.