Comments on: Making Your MFA Look Legit

By: Blog Rejected - Internet Marketing Forums

Blog Rejected - Internet Marketing Forums — Sun, 11 May 2008 11:39:09 +0000

[...] blogger (Vic) explains the importance of making your blogs look less like MFA and more like legit. Making Your MFA Look Legit | Blogger Unleashed He says if it takes 30 minutes more to make blog look more like legit blog, then it will be worth [...]

By: Stephen

Stephen — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 01:02:47 +0000

Vic,

It’s funny, but one of the basic blogger templates that you are offered when you set up a new blog is the grey text on black with lime or somesuch color in the side bar text (and adsense too, I guess if used on the page). Google games itself sometimes, lol!

By: Vic

Vic — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 19:58:44 +0000

Tnx Mike

By: Vic

Vic — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 19:58:20 +0000

As you said Frank it goes against the grain but it is amazing when you sit down and look at what your ultimate goal is how easy you can understand it.

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 18:52:00 +0000

Here you go:
Plugin list

By: Shawn

Shawn — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 15:22:34 +0000

Hey Vic,
Man, I am really digging these videos. I have a “newbie” question. Do you have any suggestions for wordpress plug-ins that could help in the creation of archives and sitemap forms?

Thanks, Shawn

By: Frank C

Frank C — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 17:30:17 +0000

I was explaining this to my wife yesterday. I know it seems crazy and counter-intuitive but the worse your content is, the less useful it is to a search visitor, the more likely they are to click an ad.

I’ve got some older mini-sites that are good resource sites. They’ll get a CTR of around 0.5-2% on average. I’ve also got some newer niche blogs that have lousy content but are getting a much higher CTR, typically in the 8-15% range.

If you want to create a resource site, that’s fine. I do this for areas, hobby and professional, that I have a passion for. However, you should be aware that the earnings from them will much less than what you would get from a site with weak, search marketing focused, content.

By: Vic

Vic — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 16:53:14 +0000

Here is my answer to this dumb fuck comment.

http://bloggerunleashed.com/blogger-unleashed/comment-reactions/

By: Pablo Palatnik

Pablo Palatnik — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 16:37:58 +0000

Hi Vic,

first, nice blog, looks very nice. 2nd, I think, obviously, it is important to make a MFA look legit, but even more so, we (the marketer) shouldn’t look at it as an MFA ourselves but rather as a resource for our visitor.

Sure, a few pennies may seem ok as a very short term goal but if you can take a bit more time and provide good content to the reader, not only will they trust the site and click ads, but probably come back.

By: Vic

Vic — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 15:44:47 +0000

Alvin that is a really good question that is why I said that it still had to be legible. The fact are think about this how many times have you been on a legit site that the color combination was not the best for the reader. So in a visual inspection it might be more important the rest of the things in other words the sum of it all does it look like an MFA?

So if you have a visual inspection and you have the 300 adsense ads and the 500 affiliate ads yeah you will get into some shit but if you are prudent with the advertising you should be ok.