This website is done purely out of my own interest. In my spare time, I used play a game called Football Manager 2010, where one play as the manager of a soccer team. It is one of my most successful websites, ranking on the 6th on google out of 21 million hits for “Football Manager 2010 blog” and “Football Manager blog” after only 1 month, and ranking 1st for certain keywords related to the game. In addition, I am earning a steady revenue from Google Adsense based on this site. It is definitely by far, my most successful site in terms of SEO. You can view the site by clicking here.
Features
- Logo that matches colour scheme of site
- 2 column layout. Sidebar fully customizable with any widget, be it displaying the latest post to your latest twitter comments
- Gravatar enabled (Users can choose to display their picture whenever they comment on your website)
- Tabbed section that includes Most Popular Posts, Recent Comments and Recent Posts to save space
- Image overlay. Upon clicking images, screen would grey out and the image will appear in it’s original size
- Previous posts will appear in neat thumbnails
- Highly ranked on Google only after 1 month of going LIVE
Full-size look of site
This is how the upper half of the site looks like. Click on image for the full size view.
This is the lower half of the site. You can also see that the recent posts are displayed in the form of thumbnails.
Gravatar
This is a picture of Gravatar in action. The next time the same user posts on the site, their display picture will automatically be called up again.
Image Overlay
Before clicking on image.
After clicking on image.
Tabbed Section
Includes most popular posts.
Includes recent comments.
Includes recent posts.
Extremely Well-Ranked On Google
As you can see from the image, my site is ranked 6th out of the 27 million hits on Google for the search term “Football Manager Blog” , I have an average of 300 unique visitors each day, and I am earning a steady source of revenue via Adsense from this site.
In addition, due to personal time issues, I am managing a group of writers who write content for the site, although I am still in charge of everything related to the website.
The fact that almost all of my traffic comes from search engines shows that the site is adequately search engine optimized. The screenshot will also tell you other detailed statistics regarding traffic to the site.
