Analysing the Big Bloggers
Analysing the Big Bloggers
I recently created a links page for most of the major Bloggers whilst doing this I thought to myself why are they so big and how do people actually come across them if they have not even heard of them before, so I decided to do a little research.
John Chow http://www.johnchow.com/
Probably the biggest of them all or at least the best known, read through his archives as earlier posts were more helpful on how to make money online when he himself started to make money online. Everytime I go to his site these days a pop up causes Avast Anti-Virus to scream or a script causes an error box to come up. Ebook – Make Money Online via signup, System selling – Blog Profit Camp http://www.blogprofitcamp.com/ There is another Ebook to get here called The Ultimate Blog Profit Model.
Twitter Followers
55608
Feedburner Readers
106000
Website Trends
Going by the Google Trends for Websites chart below John’s site has seen a fairly constant amount of traffic with a few peaks and troughs, there is a slight rise in traffic since this time a year ago. He hit 20K daily unique visits between Oct and Nov last year.
Keywords Used
john chow, johnchow.com, john chow dot com, blogging, blogger, social media, web 2.0, make money online, make money blogging, making money, make money, making money online, how to make money, technology, cars, miscellaneous ramblings, dot com mogul
Daily search results for John’s keywords
Categories Used
Blogging, Cars, Dot Com Lifestyle, Featured, Featured Video, Fine Dining, Investing, Make Money Online, Ramblings, Reviews, Technology, The Net, Trade Show, Videos, WordPress
Daily search results for John’s categories
Jeremy Schoemaker http://www.shoemoney.com/
System selling – Shoe Money System http://www.shoemoneysystem.com/ Ebook – none I could find. He has a Sister site https://www.shoemoneytools.com/ offering Internet marketing tools upon signup which I didn’t do. I did discover he has the wrong reference for his web site icon file (shoemoney8/images/favicon.png) it should be favicon.ico so even the experts get things wrong at times. I’m surprised by the amount of traffic Jeremy gets I think there has been some back scratching by other affiliates promoting his system which has helped him get the traffic he does.
Twitter Followers
96384
Feedburner Readers
Unknown
Website Trends
His site has been fairly stable around 15k daily hits with a couple of spikes in the middle of July and September of 2009, lately there looks to be a slight downward trend.
Keywords Used
None found or they are masked.
Zac Johnson http://zacjohnson.com/
Ebook – Six Figure Affiliate Blogging upon signup, System selling- Facebook Ads Guide, Zac’s Blog is easy to navigate and you can easily find his older articles via the listed categories at the bottom right hand side of his site, Zac has a lot of information for the new affiliates and also includes some freebie content like landing pages.
Twitter Followers
4307
Feedburner Readers
14918
Website Trends
Nothing at all came up in Google Trends for Websites for Zac’s site even when I changed it to the last 30 days, perhaps its too new.
Keywords Used
super affiliate, zac johnson, super affiliates, affiliate marketing, super affiliate zac johnson, ppc marketing, affiliate networks, ad networks
Daily search results for Zac’s keywords
Categories Used
Affiliate Marketing, Affiliate Summit, Bad Companies, Blog Earnings, Blogging, BlogWorld Expo, Contests, Cool Sites, Facebook, Featured, Gambling, Get Reviewed, Industry News, Interviews, Make Money, Marketing, Network Reviews, Pay Per Click, Promotions, Site Reviews, Spiderman, Stocks, Super Affiliate Guide, Twitter, Uncategorized, Web Developement, WordPress, Zac’s Life,
Daily search results for Zac’s Categories
Zac has misspelled Web Development he has an E after the P (Web Developement) maybe he knows but with 144 posts with that Category, maybe he doesn’t want to have to go and reassign all those posts to a category with the correct spelling. If Categories get picked up by search engines he may want to fix it as Web Development gets 59891 daily hits which he aint getting.
Jonathan Volk http://www.jonathanvolk.com/
Ebook – Affiliate Marketing 101, System selling – nothing I could see.
Twitter Followers
29484
Feedburner Readers
40093
Website Trends
Very odd result for his web trends, either Google’s tool is broken or Jonathan’s
site is new, it does not explain how it started at over 10k visits or jumped to
10k.
Keywords Used
None found or masked
Daily search results for Jonathan’s keywords
N/A
Categories Used
Adsense, Affiliate Managers, Affiliate Marketers, Affiliate Marketing, Blogging, Business, Email Marketing, Facebook Ads, General, Internet Marketing, Life, Make Money Online, Media, Buying, Pay Per Click, Plenty-Of-Fish, PPV, Reviews, Social Media, twitter, Web Design, Week In Review
Daily search results for Jonathan’s Categories
Joel Comm http://joelcomm.com/
Joel is also an Author his latest book release is called KaChing. As well as his main site he has social media/video sites via the links on his main page. It looks as though he also does public speaking and has a Internet show. Ebooks – Quite a few, two of which I didn’t have, Adsense Secrets 4, Kontera Contentlinks Secrets, Chitika Secrets v4.0, How to Build Profitable Websites Fast System Selling – none that I could see, but his other sites may have.
Twitter Followers
65687
Feedburner Readers
8196
Website Trends
Another case of Google’s tool showing weird data, it’s a bit better than Zac’s though. It shows a figure of just under 10K views per day in Jan 2009 to just over 15k in Feb this year.
Keywords Used
social media expert,keynote speaker,joel,joel comm,joelcomm.com,joel dot comm,joel.com,google adsense,adsense,adsense secrets,make money with adsense,adsense profits,worldvillage,dealofday,familyfirst
Daily search results for Joel’s keywords
Categories Used
I decided to examine Joel’s Tags instead as his Category headings were more random than the others.
adsense advertisers all sorts amazon attendees audience blog christmas commissions conferences dozens earnings ebay ebook ebooks email facebook few days followers game god google images internet business internet marketers internet marketing internet millionaire iphone job joel comm john kerry launch love mainstream media making money marketers marketing mike filsaime money new york times photo publishers search engine optimization traffic tweet tweets twitter web page web pages yahoo
Daily search results for Joel’s tags
This doesn’t show all the above just the highest counts.
Mark Ling http://www.affilorama.com
Mark’s site has a lot of information for newbies to Affiliate Marketing with lots of lessons and tools but you need to signup to the site. Ebook – The 5-Step Method for Making $10,000 per Month Online via signup, System Selling – Affilojetpack.
Twitter Followers
3598
Feedburner Readers
63276
Website Trends
What can I say besides damn! A steady climb here for Mark with a massive spike half way through last Month, and he hit 150K unique daily visitors! The spike coincides with his Jetpack release. Mark is obviously doing something right! I may just look into his site more I think…
Keywords Used
affiliate marketing, affiliate training, affiliate tutorials, affiliate education
Daily search results for Mark’s keywords
Categories Used
affiliate marketing, ppc, product reviews, affilorama, content creation, seo, business tips, web design, email marketing, social media, marketing, self help, action plans, programming,
traffic generation, graphic design, hosting, how to’s, copywriting, google, webinars, msn/bing,
outsourcing, domains, videos
Daily search results for Mark’s Categories
That’s all I wanted to look at, Yes I have missed some other big players in the Internet Marketing game, however get what you will from this even if it’s to go looking on these guys sites for free goodies or Ebooks. This post may also give you ideas for niches to go after or what categories or keywords do best.
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