Hi All,
Before I ask my questions you should know that I am 99% white hat. I simply blog on my Tumblr, and create traffic within the Architecture/Design Niche, linking to the source etc. Everything is done manually. I receive around 1000-1300 unique users to the site per day, and they average around 4.5 pageviews. Traffic comes primarily from Tumblr and Pinterest. I don't have any comparables, but in my own modest opinion I think I am doing fairly well in terms of blogging. I have got a PageRank of 5, and an engaged community which really can't be copied. However... I have got Adsense on my blog. One leaderboard, (728*90), at the top representing 50% of Adsense income, and then have two ads on the right sidebar, (300*250), representing the other 50%. In the month of January, I average around 9.5 USD a day at 6300 Pageviews, giving a Page CTR of 0.31 and CPC is 50 cents per click for the month of January, which seems low to me. So my questions are as follows:
1. How does this compare generally across the board? (And if anyone has a similar Architecture/Design blog, how does that compare to them?)
2. I have got a great brand name, (URL's .com and co.uk owned by someone else), but don't intend to use it as a blog only. I am working on a website offering a service where I blog the same type of stuff, and the blog will be part of this little business. The blog of this site would be in wordpress, and then the post will be shared on my Tumblr. Moving to Wordpress will allow me to generate a lot more traffic through the SERPS, (Tumblr is terrible for that as Google views it as a social platform), but will it also mean I can expect higher CPC?
3. I am a bit concerned about taking the blog to my new website, as I am using/writing about other peoples photos/designs. They are meant for educational/inspiration purposes only, but A. It becomes part of a business blog, and they could therefore argue that I am making money on the photos, and B. Initially perhaps I'd put Adsense on the same pages as the photos, and hence they could argue I make money on them that way. the question is, should I be concerned?
4. This is not related to the above at all. There are a lot of people selling emails on BHW, but I need a few personal recommendations. I need email addresses that looks real, ie. [email protected], and not [email protected]. Does anyone know of any suppliers wo offers this? ( I need around 100-500.)
Sorry for the long winded post. None the less, I'd be grateful if you could help.
Jaws
Before I ask my questions you should know that I am 99% white hat. I simply blog on my Tumblr, and create traffic within the Architecture/Design Niche, linking to the source etc. Everything is done manually. I receive around 1000-1300 unique users to the site per day, and they average around 4.5 pageviews. Traffic comes primarily from Tumblr and Pinterest. I don't have any comparables, but in my own modest opinion I think I am doing fairly well in terms of blogging. I have got a PageRank of 5, and an engaged community which really can't be copied. However... I have got Adsense on my blog. One leaderboard, (728*90), at the top representing 50% of Adsense income, and then have two ads on the right sidebar, (300*250), representing the other 50%. In the month of January, I average around 9.5 USD a day at 6300 Pageviews, giving a Page CTR of 0.31 and CPC is 50 cents per click for the month of January, which seems low to me. So my questions are as follows:
1. How does this compare generally across the board? (And if anyone has a similar Architecture/Design blog, how does that compare to them?)
2. I have got a great brand name, (URL's .com and co.uk owned by someone else), but don't intend to use it as a blog only. I am working on a website offering a service where I blog the same type of stuff, and the blog will be part of this little business. The blog of this site would be in wordpress, and then the post will be shared on my Tumblr. Moving to Wordpress will allow me to generate a lot more traffic through the SERPS, (Tumblr is terrible for that as Google views it as a social platform), but will it also mean I can expect higher CPC?
3. I am a bit concerned about taking the blog to my new website, as I am using/writing about other peoples photos/designs. They are meant for educational/inspiration purposes only, but A. It becomes part of a business blog, and they could therefore argue that I am making money on the photos, and B. Initially perhaps I'd put Adsense on the same pages as the photos, and hence they could argue I make money on them that way. the question is, should I be concerned?
4. This is not related to the above at all. There are a lot of people selling emails on BHW, but I need a few personal recommendations. I need email addresses that looks real, ie. [email protected], and not [email protected]. Does anyone know of any suppliers wo offers this? ( I need around 100-500.)
Sorry for the long winded post. None the less, I'd be grateful if you could help.
Jaws