My Newbie Blog is coming up on it’s first anniversary.  We have been writing articles on how to create a blog since January 26 of 2008.  The site was set up to help people walk through creating a blog step by step.  Along the way we discuss some basic SEO strategies and some of the different ways to try and make money on the Internet.  We have specifically targeted the keywords “how to create a blog” to drive traffic to this site.  Currently, we show up in position 10 or 11 on Yahoo and in position 45 on Google.  The Yahoo return generates some traffic to the site, and we also generate a fairly steady stream of traffic by encouraging people on some of our other sites to take advantage of the information provided on this site.

When this blog was started we were using version 2.2 of WordPress.  Now we are up to 2.7.  This means that some of the screen shots will be different, but the basic information is still primarily the same.  The site will still be able to asnwer your how to create a blog questions.

The site has never down well with Adsense.  I have put ads on the site at different times, but the click percentage is always bad and I have to take the ads back down.  That happens on certain sites, usually because the type of people who are visiting the site aren’t interested in the ads.

We are still hoping to get the site to become a page 1 Google return for the how to create a blog keywords.  We are page 1 for Newbie Blog on Google, but that doesn’t generate much traffic.  Most sites do better after they have been around for about a year.  We are looking forward to seeing what happens to the site in 2009.  We lalso ook forward to what the year holds and if we can help you with your blog please let us know!