On Canadian Personal Finance Opinions yesterday I posted an article posted Posting Number 1000 which effectively was the Favorites page from my web site. What actually happened was I started with the Favorites web page, saw that it was woefully lacking in content, so I expanded it with my favorite Pillar Posts and then posted it as a normal article.  This one article caused my hits to hit it’s highest level since I have moved the web site from blogspot but not giving my biggest income day, but that will come with readership is my guess.  I keep wondering what I can do about these 1000 posts I have and how I can make them all try to make money for me in some fashion or another, because right now, they seem to be hidden behind the Wall that is my front page, how do I get my readers to “drill down” and find more of my content? Need to look into this further.

Pingcrawl

Yesterday I found a Beta plug in that I have tried, but it is not quite working correctly called Pingcrawl. I am trying it again today and we shall see what it does:

Every time you make a post on your blog it grabs similar posts from other blogs that allow pingbacks using the post tags. It then links to them at the bottom of the post as similar posts. It then executes the pingback on all the posts. You can specify how many posts to do per tag and that many will be done for each tag you use in your posts. Typically it has about an 80% success rate with each pingback and they are legit so the ones that fall into moderation tend to get approved. This creates quite a few deep links for each blog post you make and through time really helps with your link building. Especially for new blogs.

It hasn’t worked for me yet, but I am still trying.

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The fine folks over at Unique Blog Designs (the designers of the basic version of the WordPress Theme you are looking at, and the producers of a really nifty WordPress Advertisement Rotor plug in as well), sent me a newsletter about how to increase traffic to my web sites. I found the newsletter informative, but I had read most of the tips before, but they used a term I hadn’t heard before.

What is a Pillar Post?

To quote our friends at Unique blog design:

Write at least five major “pillar” articles. A pillar article is a tutorial style article aimed to teach your audience something. Generally they are longer than 500 words and have lots of very practical tips or advice. This article you are currently reading could be considered a pillar article since it is very practical and a good “how-to” lesson. This style of article has long term appeal, stays current (it isn’t news or time dependent) and offers real value and insight. The more pillars you have on your blog the better.

On Canadian Financial Opinions I have written a bunch of “Pillar” articles, and I have submitted many of them to different carnivals and such, but I keep forgetting they are there. Here are a few chestnuts that I really like from the Financial Side of things:

1. Einstein: The Rule of 72
   Understanding what a doubling period is, and how the rule of 72 can help you with this concept is important to the start of your investment plan.
2. Don’t Pass it to the Other Team
   How does the Carleton basketball coach have anything to do with finances? Read and you’ll see a long stretch.
3. Worst Financial Advice Ever Given
   Where I tell a good friend about something I’d never dream he’d do, with disastrous consequences.

Most of these posts I resurrect over time and will replay, but I really need to send them out and post them on various Carnivals to  use them to draw more readers to my sites, and bring in more links.

Is this post a Pillar Article? Maybe not, but I think my previous posts on How to Post Amazon Ads on a WordPress Blog, might well be.

Thanks Unique Blog Designs, good information!

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