While trying to build traffic to my ArrestedDevelopmentBlog.com website, I was asking my followers on Twitter what I should do. I got a lot of recommendations saying to use Facebook.com
Now I have a personal Facebook that I use to keep in touch with friends from High School and other personal things and I was curious if I should use that. My advice to you is if you already have a pretty good Facebook Account use it to your advantage. You can sign up for groups in your niche and start your own. And you can act like you have nothing to do with the blog you are trying to promote and just trying to give people good information.
I’ve noticed that Facebook is really tight with who they allow on. If you try to add too many friends or join too many groups, they will find out and try and stop you. The idea of Facebook is to try not to seem like you are trying to market something.
I know this because I started a Facebook account soley for my Arrested Development Blog. I was trying to add a bunch of friends from Arrested Development groups and Facebook was trying to slow me down. I just wanted everyone to join my Arreseted Development group to try and get them to go to my website. What you have to do is engage. Just like any other social media site. But I’m engaging and adding friends so I can engage more. It comes to a point where you have to rely on other people to recommend you and find you.
So is it worth starting a new facebook account – yes. If you don’t mind working at it a little or if you don’t have one at all!
ADsense Challenge Update
What next?
I had a huge increase in readers and I am starting to get excited. I am bringing in the traffic but I am not getting the clicks I want. On friday I am going to try some different ad placements and I’ll let you know how that works out.
Using Facebook to Get Traffic
So to get all this traffic I have been using Twitter. I started a twitter account @thebluths strictly for this website. I post quotes from the show and I also post my blog titles and random links I find about the show. I am slowly getting to use StumbleUpon but it is not as personal as I like. And yesterday I was told by a twitterer to start a facebook profile. So now I have a facebook profile called Matthew Bluth. See it Here
On my Facebook profile I joined a bunch of Arrested Development Groups and even started my own. This is really getting me some good traffic. I suggest trying it. Here are my results from the last two days.
Visit the Adsense Challenge Site: www.arresteddevelopmentblog.com
What next?
Not bad for the second day of the challege. I made money! Check it out
$1.35 I am pretty proud of that. All of that came from Twitter and Stumbleupon. I have yet to get into Google’s index for my site yet. But today I have added a bunch more followers to my Twitter account and I started commenting on other blog posts about Arrested Development and was sure to include my link. I did a lot of link building and Tweeting today. Let’s see what tomorrow brings.
Here are my stats from yesterday:
Read more about this: The Adsense Challenge
The Website
www.ArrestedDevelopmentBlog.com
What next?
The Challenge
Take a brand new wordpress blog with a brand new domain name and make $100 or more using Adsense in the month of December 2008.
If I fail I will send each person who has commented on every blog post reguarding the Adsense challenge one dollar.
How will you know I’m not lying?
You won’t but I don’t lie, ever!
Keywords I’ll Be Targeting
My main keyword phrase: Arrested Development Movie
My Broad keyword phrase: Arrested Development
The Website
www.ArrestedDevelopmentBlog.com
The Battle Plan
Week One:
1. Make as many friends on Twitter and StumbleUpon as possible regarding Arrested Development
2. Bookmark all my pages on StumbleUpon and Delicious
3. Submit Blog to every blog directory and every rss directory I can in one week or less
4. Write one or two new blog posts every single day
5. Create GOB widget for viral marketing
6. Create store and start selling t-shirts
7. Add sitemap to Google Webmaster tools, Yahoo and MSN
8. Create a Hubpage.com
9. Create a Squidoo page
10. Comment on every blog post that mentions Arrested Development
11. Add Blog to MyBlogLog.com
If you would like to participate in this challenge, just comment your progress on any of the ADsense Challenge Post. We are all in this together!
What next?
So I was reading TwiTip.com (one of Darren Rowse’s Blogs) and he was reviewing a site called TweetBeep.com. Which If I could explain it, I would say it’s like Google Alerts for Twitter.
I started a new blog to test adsense called ArrestedDevelopmentBlog.com which is a blog about the show Arrested Development and the movie updates. In order to start gaining traffic and readers to this site I decided to sign up for TweetBeep and get emails sent to me whenever someone mentions “Arrested Development” or “Bluth” in a tweet. About every other day I get about 20+ twitterers that post tweets about these subjects. So I follow every one of them and now I can give updates about Arrested Development and share quotes with those followers.
It seems to be working out well so far, the site has only been up for about 4 days now and I’m already getting retweets and some traffic from Twitter. So my advice is, if you have a niche and use twitter, use TweetBeep to find follwers faster!
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