I’ve been playing around with my personal blogs of
late to try to see if I can finds ways to boost traffic. I am currently writing
for three (3) blogs:
1. My Thoughts on
Technology and Jamaica which is about Telecommunications, Broadcasting
Alternative Energy and Cloud Computing
2. Geezam blog, the award
winning Blog owned and operated by Kelroy Brown for who I write articles as an
Associate Editor
3. My
new startup blog Jamaican
Downloads, the first of its kind geared towards commercializing Cloud Drive
downloading i.e. actually making money from things Jamaicans like to download
when the Sun goes down
Trust me, I’ve learned a lot about blogging,
scripting and web traffic ever since I started Blogging and posting my
knowledge about my field. I began blogging and dabbling with websites as was
recommended by my SDA (Seventh Day Adventist) girlfriend Audia Granston, when
she was still alive, as she found it a tad annoying that I had so many ideas
and suggestions and still had no website to showcase them.
So my writing and pursuit of my dream to become a
Commercial Writer, in every sense of the Word, is now underway all thanks to
Audia Michelle Granston! May the God Anubis keep her Company in the Afterlife
as Audia, the Cosmetologists, gives him a manicure and pedicure and tell he all
the business of the people of Earth!
Traffic increase for a Reason – monetization
of my blog traffic
The last blog has been a culminating of all I’ve
learned over time about optimization of Blog traffic as it’s cranking well,
averaging roughly US$1 per day. Thus as I’m seeking to increase and expand my
reached and before year end and hit 3000 unique visit per day as a daily
standard on ALL my blogs, twice the 1500 unique visits per day based on my
analytics.
The reason is clear. If I can hit that level of
traffic, I can eventually commercialize my blogs by adding advertisement. But
this time not from Google Adsense but from local advertisers, who’d be
interested if I could achieve higher traffic numbers, as it means I can
guarantee a certain number of eyeballs equivalent to television viewership. I
would then send them a sponsorship letter with details of my web traffic and
target audience and hope to get a contract from them to place paid advertising on
my blog.
So far I’ve managed to reach this far by writing
great compelling content with lots of pictures and videos courtesy of YouTube
and more recently videos in my Google Cloud Drive. I also note the analytics
and write articles based on trends from my older articles, thus helping to
magnify traffic already on my blog. I have long ago optimized traffic on my
blog by following the recommendations of my own article on the subject entitled
“How
to integrate a Facebook Fan Box or a Google+ Plus Box in Blogger to increase
Blog Traffic - The power of a Dedicated Social Media Profile Page”.
I’m still in the process of fully optimizing my blog
to boost traffic when the other day I hit upon the idea of using Google+ to boost
my traffic. I’ve managed to do this simply by joining a Social Network,
Google+, and setting posts on Public, thereby increasing readership to my blog
from yet another social Network. I’ll soon be posting my Geezam blog articles there
as well to increase readership.
In addition to this, I also need to make my Google+
account more attractive, as I need o add friends and contacts from Facebook to
Google+ as well as join Groups or Circles as they are called in this still
expanding World that Google has created. Google+ is a lot like Facebook,
Twitter, Instagram and Skype all rolled into one, which partly explains its
growing popularity. Its lack of Privacy snafus thus far is making it
increasingly a alternative to Facebook, hence the reason why I’m slowly moving
over to Google+!
This is all a very tedious time consuming exercise
which basically requires me to re-share most of my previously published works.
But based on the traffic boosts thus far, now threatening 2000 unique visitors
a day, I’m more than pleased as it’s worth it.
Social
Networking is a great way to boost traffic – Facebook and Google+ Integration
The integration of a Facebook Like Box and a Google
Like Box should give me an idea of all my fans I have aside from using the
built in Blogger Fan Box which is based on Google’s old Google Connect
standard. Integration involves getting code snippets from Facebook’s
Developer Page or a third party website and embedding it into my
blog’s main Template.
This requires manipulating HTML (Hypertext Markup
Language) and thus requires me to save a backup copy first before I proceeds
and mangle my blog permanently as a recommended precaution. Curious, as in the Telecoms
Engineering Field whenever installing firmware updates on BTS (Base Transceiver
Stations), we basically do the same thing.
Thus far I’ve integrated Google+ into My Thoughts on
Technology and Jamaica and Jamaica Downloads and I’m
seeing the results. Next I’ll be re-opening the comments section of my blog to
allow persons to freely post on my blog without having to be members of Blogger
or have a Google Connect pass, an older defunct method of identification
online. Since everyone is on these two major Social Networks, it makes sense to
integrate them into my blog.
Facebook traffic numbers indicate that they have
1.15 billion active users and 819 million active mobile users in the Second
Quarter of 2013 as stated in the article “Facebook’s Q2:
Monthly Users Up 21% YOY To 1.15B, Dailies Up 27% To 699M, Mobile Monthlies Up
51% To 819M”, published Wednesday, July 24th, 2013 by Josh Constine, TechCrunch. Integrating Facebook’s Comment
Page should boost my web traffic, especially as I have a very active Facebook
page and I’m a member of several very large Groups that are tech oriented.
Google+ is now ramping up to some 343 million to 345
million active users since December 2012, making them the No. 2 Social Network
behind Facebook but bigger than Twitter with more users based on statistics
from web analytics firm GlobalWebIndex as stated in the article “Report:
Google+ Bigger than Twitter with 359 Million Active Users”, published May
2, 2013 by Matt Clark, IGN News and “Google+
continues to dominate LinkedIn & Twitter, could catch up to Facebook”,
published July 8, 2013 10:16 PM by Dylan Tweney, VentureBeat.
And they continue to grow……
After all, despite my feeling on the affairs of
Google as it relates to their biasing their search results towards Google+ as
stated in my blog
article entitled “Facebook
extinct as Chrome to be No. 1 Browser in 2012AD – FB rides Bed Knobs and
Broomsticks Mobile Revolution against Google+”, they do have considerable
heft, making it better as a member of Blogger to have them as an ally instead
of being in opposition with them.
Seeing as it was
Google that suggested the idea to me on Google Buzz, the internal
Newsletter, it now seems to be the right time to get interested in posting on
the new Social Network Google+, for which I already have two (2) active
accounts. I’ll also be checking out some other Social Networks such as
Instagram when I eventually get a smartphone!
The work is ongoing and as time rolls by, dear reader;
you’ll eventually see the changes on My Thoughts on
Technology and Jamaica and Jamaican Downloads blogs!
How
to integrate a Facebook and Google+ Comment Box
These steps, which I’ll soon be implementing on My Thoughts on
Technology and Jamaica and Jamaica Downloads blogs,
are fairly simple and straightforward. As per usual, the one involving Facebook
uses their Facebook’s
Developer Page, as I’m not so trusting of embedding HTML Script from
Third-Party pages.
So here are the correct steps based on the article “How
to add Facebook Comment Box in Blogger”, published December 2012, The Great Informer:
1. Go
to the Facebook’s
Developer Page
2. Submit
your blog name and Blog URL. Note: Blog
Title = Blog Name and Blog address
= Blog URL
3. Click
Create App
4. Facebook
will then ask you to verify your identity
5. Copy
the App ID and save it on NotePad
6. Log
into your blogger account
7. Click
on Template
8. Select
Edit HTML
9. Make
a copy of your template in Microsoft Word BEFORE you proceed to do any work
10. Select
Expand Widget Templates
11. Search
for the HTML Code as follows:
12. Once
you find it, copy and paste the following HTML
Snippet below that particular HTML Script:
13. Make
sure to change YOUR_APP_ID to the App ID you'd copied earlier
14. Save
the Template
15. Disable
the Default Comments box from Google by selecting Settings and then Comments
16. Select
the hide Radio Button
17. Save
settings
18. Preview
the Blog to see if the setting have taken hold or if you need to adjust the
script
I’ve also found the correct procedure for
implementing the Google+ Comment box as explained in “How
to add Google+ Comment Box in Your Blog Simple Steps”, published September
2013, by S. Srikanth , Curiosity
Dimensions:
1. Login
to Blogger Account
2. Select
you blog
3. Click
on Google+
4. Select
the checkbox Automatically share after
posting and Use
Google+ Comments on this blog to activate the Google+ comments box
That’s it! Once it’s added you’ll have BOTH a
Facebook and a Google + Comment Box. All comments on your posts shared on
Google+ and Facebook will have the associated comments appearing there, making
it easy for you to gauge the opinions of your readers of your blog while you
browse Facebook or Google+.
Thus it allows you to handle both your Social presence
as well as monitor your blog. Even better, it set up your blog and Social Media
presence to be more easily managed by someone else.
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