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[Ash-Bash]

Hello there,

After many years of playing around with all my websites I have decided to stick with a Tech Blog. The tech blog is named

"DigitalWink"

and is a group edited world wide blog that gets on average 3,000 hits a day.

We are looking for more Authors so if you would like to apply please click here.

Please check out the blog here

Thanks for your time and please post any suggestions here.

-Ash

Edited by Ash-Bash, 02 October 2010 - 03:17 PM.

[rpgsearcherz]

Ash-Bash, on 24 September 2010 - 03:24 PM, said:

Hello there,

After many years of playing around with all my websites I have decided to stick with a Tech Blog. The tech blog is named "DigitalWink" and is a group edited world wide blog that gets on average 3,000 hits a day.

We are looking for more Authors so if you would like to apply please click here.

Please check out the blog here

Thanks for your time and please post any suggestions here.

-Ash

I've never seen so many advertisements on one page in my life. It ended up turning me away when I realized just how many there were.

[mahesh2k]

Ash,

Few things i would like to tell you. First thing is about URL's. The current URL structure will not attract what you call 3k visitors from search engines. You need to change URL structure to something better. You can have "/month/postname/" or "/postname" etc. Avoid current URL structure that you are running. I guess you are yet to tweak the blog. I don't know how blog like this can fetch 3k per day. It's far fetched claim in my opinion. Work on SEO and design of your site and i am sure you will reach 3k slowly but surely. Do these changes and come back so that we can see how it looks. Also do web page analysis for speed- tags etc. Do this and we'll see if it needs more tweaks.

[Ash-Bash]

We are reaching 3,000 visitors most days however it is going down day by day. I do think the ads have part of driving members away I may reduce them and however still have enough to earn money and maybe tell people if they become a member your ads remove for free.

I have sorted out the URL's it will now be something like "http://digitalwink.info/2010/09/sample-post/"

The SEO I sorted out the other day and am waiting for Google to update us on the DigitalWink search result.

What I could do I remove the ads from the posts on the front page and leave a sidebar and then make them display on the full posts, or I could try and get a plugin to remove them once you are signed in

Any ideas on the ads?

Edited by Ash-Bash, 27 September 2010 - 05:49 PM.

[mahesh2k]

Your blog is currently under construction. Update this thread when you take it online again. Good to hear about the new URL structure. Keep it up-waiting for your new update.

[Jonnyabc]

No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no..! This was the idea I precisely had for making a website (except that mine is from scratch instead of a pre-built, less customizable, ad-filled website. Oh well, guess I'll have to think of a Plan C for my website's purpose (while that should be the first decision of any web developer, it seems to be my last).

[rpgsearcherz]

Jonnyabc, on 28 September 2010 - 09:19 PM, said:

No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no..! This was the idea I precisely had for making a website (except that mine is from scratch instead of a pre-built, less customizable, ad-filled website. Oh well, guess I'll have to think of a Plan C for my website's purpose (while that should be the first decision of any web developer, it seems to be my last).

Don't let their site hold you back. You could still do the same thing and either

a) take it in a different direction

or

compete with them

There are millions of sites in competition with one another, so it's nothing new. The chances of you coming up with something truly unique are so low it is not even worth beating yourself up over it

[Ash-Bash]

The blog is now back up online, I am sorry for it being down there was a major cache error that was only showing parts of the theme however all has been fixed and we are up and running once again. Please give me more feedback and suggestions you guys may have & if you want to become an author.

[mahesh2k]

Okay. Here let me review again. Theme is not unique considering you are claiming 3000 visitors daily. Twitter widget never helps build visitors in fact it takes that away from you. You should remove the widget instead just put your twitter id image link on site. You want your visitors to go to twitter instead ? think about it.

You didn't edited the URL's as well. still i see the "/p=97?" type of URLs. You should take a look at that again. Chane it to "/month/postname". If that suits you. I think month wise sorting is good that year+month on url. Hope this helps.

[rpgsearcherz]

mahesh2k, on 01 October 2010 - 07:16 AM, said:

Okay. Here let me review again. Theme is not unique considering you are claiming 3000 visitors daily. Twitter widget never helps build visitors in fact it takes that away from you. You should remove the widget instead just put your twitter id image link on site. You want your visitors to go to twitter instead ? think about it.

You didn't edited the URL's as well. still i see the "/p=97?" type of URLs. You should take a look at that again. Chane it to "/month/postname". If that suits you. I think month wise sorting is good that year+month on url. Hope this helps.

You seem to have lost me with this post. What does the amount of visitors have to do with the theme being unique? Were you stating that:

a) The theme couldn't be unique because there are only 3,000 visitors

or

The theme isn't unique and that's why there are only 3,000 visitors?

That lost me because I don't think the theme really matters as much as the information. I wouldn't really care if 50 websites looked the same; I am more interested in what I am learning from the information.