Comments on: The Importance of Pillar Articles and why Obama and McCain are Idiots

By: farouk

farouk — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 13:15:49 +0000

i strongly agree with you, my first website gets around 400,000 hits a month and i never depend on blog comments or forum posts for traffic, mainly i get 83% traffic from Google and yahoo.

Building traffic through search engines is the slow guaranteed way while building it through comments and posts is the fast risky way that might or might not work

By: Peter S

Peter S — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 16:48:33 +0000

Thanks, Darren. This is all new to me. I’ll be writing a pillar article on my blog this weekend!

By: Karen

Karen — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 17:15:28 +0000

My experience has been similar, don’t have much time to social network, but people are finding the blog via searches, and seasonal posts have attracted a lot of visitors. Great article!

http://favoritechildrensbooks.blogspot.com/

By: Ganesh

Ganesh — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 14:36:21 +0000

I was really surprised to see that you are receiving most of your traffic from search engines. That’s really awesome. It only goes to show how good you’ve been blogging and promoting your blog. :)

By: Vinayak

Vinayak — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 12:07:16 +0000

Great use of title!

By: Jeremy Day

Jeremy Day — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 01:15:48 +0000

I like the idea, but not the approach. While it is clever it may do more harm to your brand then good. I agree that it may bring some people that don’t already subscribe to a personal finance blog, but I say it may be few. Take it for what you will, but I think you should write more articles like your 50 highest paying careers rather than spicy political articles that will get you flamed and possibly ruin your rep. Just my 2 cents…

Cheers,
Jeremy

By: Clare Swindlehurst

Clare Swindlehurst — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 18:52:57 +0000

I wrote a ‘pillar article’ on my book review site a few months back and was quite surprised when it ranked no1 in google and brought in more traffic in a day than the year to date! Even now I receive 200-300 hits a day – which might not sound a lot but it was a niche topic and now I’ve added an adsense block to the article I’m even earning a few cents!

By: Joi

Joi — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 13:29:57 +0000

Great information. I side with those who disagree about our candidates being idiots, but we read the post right?

Point taken!

By: mando magazine

mando magazine — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 05:27:22 +0000

Very offensive!!!

I didnt even take time to read the post because the title is offensive.

Its even more offensive when it come from an Austrailian person.

By: Andy T

Andy T — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 03:53:41 +0000

Pillar articles? An article, which has a high interest that everybody would likely to search, to read. How many of your article can qualify as pillar article? 1 out of 10, 20?
I believe everybody would like to have in their blog. However, I don’t think my post will ever qualify as pillar article. So… I don’t care. I just write what I enjoy to write about. If you like to read my post, enjoy! If you do’t like it, sorry! See you!

By: Caleb

Caleb — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 18:55:18 +0000

Now this describes a refreshing strategy because I too found out this thing by accident about making posts that coincide with something presently going on in the world...just didn't have a name for this concept(Pillar Articles). Lately I've been feeling the same way as CJ about using social sites. As for commenting on other relevant blogs, it does require more time,but it has proven to be productive for me. Of course,if one has the extra bucks,buying traffic media would be ideal. "Post about what you want to know or learn" is exactly what I do and I only do what works!

By: Keral Patel

Keral Patel — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 04:27:16 +0000

LOL nice timing on those posts though. Great marketing tactics.

By: Dimitri

Dimitri — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 23:33:05 +0000

I never thought of that, great material and very practical too. Thank you…

By: JB

JB — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 18:13:18 +0000

C.J., great job with the pillar post, it is an interesting idea, but do you feel like it will ever tun-off some of your subscribers by misleading them?

By: Rahul

Rahul — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 17:41:43 +0000

I must admit, after a long long time, this is one of the subject that I like. I do believe in things such as “Pillar Articles” which would not only help just blogs but other websites as well to bring in search engine traffic which helps to grow your popularity in the web.

Thanks to CJ and Darren for bringing out this post.

Cheers.

By: Paul

Paul — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 16:31:02 +0000

Interesting that your Obama post is no1 whilst McCain is 32nd. I guess there is a lot more content linking McCain and idiots together.

By: Paul

Paul — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 02:31:09 +0000

Don’t try to write a pillar article. Just write the way you always do. Your readers will decide which articles are the best!

By: Char

Char — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 22:57:58 +0000

wow! for someone who is so busy you really brought one home with this one :-)

I am visiting your site now~ I think you provide a resource for students who visit my site

By: CJ

CJ — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 19:51:25 +0000

I guess I need to write an article about “How not to let your site go down when you write a big guest post”

Sorry guys. I got it fixed but my whole network went down and I was in a different city and had to walk our maintenance guy through how to fix it.

It should be back up, and I think it’s time to switch to an external hosting service rather than doing it myself.

By: Alison

Alison — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 19:06:32 +0000

Anyone else can’t get to the Wise Money matters site? I keep getting an error message, whether I click on links in the article, type it in directly, or even google it and click on a link there. ???