If you were #1 on Google what would you do? Blog Question
 

If you were #1 on google for a few terms for a blog you have. Would you link the pictures in your posts to a FHG or straight to the sponsor?

straight to the tour or join page :thumbsup

Is your blog base url number 1 or a post page?

Sponsor.

If the sponsor is worth a shit, their tour should accomplish a signup even better than a fhg. Why tempt fate?

Remove the middle man (fhg).

My opinion.

Paysite of a sponsor DIRECTLY related to the term you rank high for.

Main page is.

Add a big FP add to the header then you will still get the click thrus and you will get the benifit of giving out some content to get bookmarkers and Rss subscribers.

Check out the Brazzers big ass dynamic ads they might have something for you

What niche is it?

........straight to tour and join pages....

then you won't be #1 on google for very long:thumbsup:thumbsup:thumbsup

Landing page. easier to switch out sponsors.

Is that so?

nono, make a 60% skim tgp and feed your traffic there, in time you will be able to sell partneraccounts :thumbsup

is that so my ass
 

Until google figures out that the tgp you created wasn't the reason you got a #1 listing in the first place and you go back to #91 ...

Figure out why you're #1 and build on it....

good luck with shit partner accounts:2 cents:

Same like him bro :)

I'm sorry :)

I'd say go straight to the join page too if I owned sites and you were an affiliate. what the fuck do I care if you build up your own site or not. do you want to be here for 6 months or 6 years and promote shit loads of sponsors ...

Im not. :):):)

I really don't use FHGs anymore. They don't convert as well as when I just send the person right to the tour page.

I am good at irony :)

We don't know what the exact number one terms are. Surely you don't believe all Google terms are equal?

To be number one with : Girls who eat watermelon seeds from bleeding anuses

is not as good as

sexy


Certainly if you are number one with a GREAT term, build on it and make your way into the upper echelons of traffic and money.

I suspect we are not talking about those terms, but if we are, my original advice would be entirely wrong.

Take care of number one, always.

Straight to the tour. The less clicks the better.

For a couple of months I was number one on Google for the keyword "fisting."

What did I do?

I raked in the money . . .

:thumbsup

and I'm not saying sponsors are any less interested in you making money with my comment - just in case it was taken that way. I'm saying the way I think ( 2 cents ) things are going in the future google is cracking down on affiliate sites and you better come up with something on your own to stay there. Stories, illustrations, flash ... licensed content. Not linking directly to the sponsor but to a page with the sponsor link on it for example. I don't know it all or try to pretend I do I've just watched how things change with them for years and things have changed a lot recently. I think it depends on your niche and domain name also like other guys said if you're going to link directly to the sponsor or not ...

depends on your goals for the site.

Linking to the tour from thumbs in posts will get sales but leaves very little reason for anyone to bookmark your blog.

Linking to fhgs/freesites/etc will give your surfers more of a reason to come back/bookmark your blog.

Then there's always using embeded content in your posts. Put flashvids in your posts linked to the tour :)

You are new at the Interwebs?!?

That's true, you will be removed in two days

And you must be new to google?

Show me your #1 spot and I'll show you mine.:thumbsup

Why don't you tell me how wrong I am. I'm down ... Do you know why ?

Okay I'll call CCBILL and tell them you said hi sweety :)

why don't you fucking assholes have anything more then 1 or 2 sentences to say. If I'm wrong tell me why? I'm not here to fuck you over or pretend I'm a fucking genious. whats the point... if you already know lets hear it ? ;D

ooops :thumbsup

so are you trying to say that google hand tweaks the results?

today ... if you don't think they do you're naive

I do think they do...... but I thought that they still try to give the public explanation that they don't? or is that just a wrong assumption by many.

I link the pic to the FHG and the text to the sponsor...

are you kidding me man ... These people give squat piss about people - they want a the click you'll ever send them. Follow the rules or under the wheel you go. Learn how to follow along and you'll be A OK :D

looking at stats for a number of sites, and with keywords dancing up and down the ranks, I get the impression that google "dials you in" to a certain traffic level, based on who knows what in their algorithm, and adjusts your keyword positions based on that level

it seems to me too coincidental that sites with many different indexed pages and keywords seem to average out to a pretty steady level of traffic... seems like when you look one day and see a big move in the rankings for a keyword and think you are on to a big rise that somehow things get adjusted in a hurry and your traffic levels level off again

maybe I just haven't been lucky enough to experience any great things from google recently, do any of you have any luck in seeing big traffic gains sent from google overnight that persist for weeks and months after?

This is what I have been doing. I think I will stick with it. Im getting pretty good results with it. :thumbsup

don't worry about changing anything, worry about keeping it updated.

:1orglaugh:1orglaugh

they fucking own you. welcome to reality. its their site. their search engine. they owe you nada ... it's all luck. "google" it and lose your brain.:2 cents: I remember when all the "know somethings" made fun of google because we all had yahoo ... go to Vegas and shoot craps

There is no money in SEO, everyone on this board should have heard that many times