Early Stage Strategy: Building Links
Incoming links are important for a blog. Most importantly because they drive visitors to your site, and visitors are of first and foremost importance to a blog. But besides bringing visitors, incoming links are the most important factor for getting a ranking in search engines. Search engines determine the importance of a site on many [...]
Weekly Income Report - 3
Every week on I will report on the performance of this blog. Target is to give full transparency on money and hours spent and money earned. DO ask questions if things are not clear.
I put more hours into Scraping Pennies, but haven’t invested more money yet. There is a surprise income this week, although it’s [...]
Early Stage Strategy: Getting Traffic
If there’s one thing new blogs are lacking it’s traffic. Getting visitors to your blog is one of the first priorities, especially if you’re interested in monetizing it like I want to do with Scraping Pennies.
Traffic comes from various sources:
Referral Traffic
Search Engines
Social Media
Direct Traffic
Ad Traffic
I’ll cover each of these sources in this article.
Referral Traffic
Refferal [...]
Creating Redirects for Affiliate Links
You may have noticed already, but I use redirect pages when I link out to different programs. Some of those programs are affiliate links, but not all of them. I will use these redirect pages for almost all the links out for advertiser programs, for three main reasons.
Reason 1: Protecting affiliate links
Not all the links [...]
Monetization Policy for Scraping Pennies
This is only a small post now, but I will expand it as a page later on.
My aim is to give full transparency on Scraping Pennies, and I call upon you to ask me questions when things are not clear. One of the main things I’m disclosing right now, is the monetization policy. In fact [...]
