Archive for: March 2005

If you post to your blog every day for a month, I guarrantee that you’ll have a helluva crowd of visitors every day. If your posts are relevant, interesting and informative, you will have people either bookmarking your blog or linking directly to it. By following the way I recommend, you will get your pages in the search engines in no time, but you must put in the hard yards at the start.

My last two blogs (Seo easy and Dx-currencys) I only posted daily for a week or so because of a lack of time.

However with my dogs blog, I posted daily for over a month. It was PR4 in less than 4 weeks, and was getting over 400 visitors a day. I only post to it occasionaly now, but it still gets a lot of visitors.

Another example of a blog started the way that I recommend is Johnboy’s “successalert.com”

Take a look at the posts he put on it since he started in January… he posted daily for 21 days, and his blog is now P4, the same result that I got with my dogs blog back in December.
successalert.com (archives)

I don’t think he is ashamed of his blog do you? I’m not ashamed of my blogs either, but when have you seen anyone put a spammy “Blog and Ping” .blogger blog URL’s in their sig file?

Just do it the right way, and you will get the desired results.

You don’t even have to put links to your pages in your posts to make this work if you do the “one little thing that I recommend”… you will find out what it is if you follow my directions on setting your blog up, and I’ve mentioned it here in posts before, but I think it’s best if you read my archives and find it yourself.

It’s not hard to do, it’s simple, and it will get your regular website pages indexed in no time flat if you do it… and as I said, you don’t even need to link to your website pages in your blog posts.

Your posts are to be written with humans in mind, and if you do that, the search engines will follow.

This “little” thing is to do with something Andy Williams teaches as an integral part of building websites.

And that’s about it from me… I’ve got 65 articles to put on the web using Andy’s Content Publisher… I’ve had a test version of it sitting here for about 3 weeks, and never used it till now…

“Life wasn’t meant to be easy”, but Content Publisher, SEO-wsb, KRA-wt and the Niche Blueprints sure do ease the pain.

… Russell

It’s been one of those days today. I had plans to get a lot accomplished:

1. Put RSS feeds on my blogs
2. Add new content to every blog, plus write content for a few more days
3. Use Wordtracker and Search Automator to research 2 new Niches for at least 500 profitable keywords each.

So, what actually happened?

Firefox would not load.

I have spent the better part of 7 hours trying to fix it:

1. I downloaded a ZoneAlarm update, because a forum member at Mozilla said ZA was the problem
2. I downloaded the lastest update for Firefox and Thunderbird
3. In the process I lost the Firfox update, so did it again
4. Spent hours in the Mozilla Firefox forum getting generally poor advice… every man and his dog is an expert in a forum
5. I eventually found the Mozilla Knowledge Base and solved the problem in 10 minutes!

I wish someone had just pointed me to it in the first place… but I guess 99% of them are like me, we don’t know how to use logic when it comes to fixing things in a hurry.

AAaahhh… and I just discovered I lost my Spell Checker in the process, stuff it.

My N0. 1 task tomorrow is to set-up RSS feeds into all my blogs. I’ve got Carp Evolution installed on most of the web pages of Training dog Breeds, but have never actually got around to putting it on my blogs yet… but it is definitely time. I’ve got to do something to keep the front page content fresh, and I think RSS feeds should do the trick.

I will do a bit of searching first to see if many others are doing this, and whether they’re using Carp.

With the starting of yet another blog today (on the first of my $100 a day challenge sites) it is becoming increasingly difficult to keep posting to the blogs on a regular basis. Damned blogs are fun at first, but then they become just another chore after a while.

The theme for this blog has RSS feeds going out for each category, so maybe I’ll start by contacting the guy who made this template, and see what he’s done to bring feeds into his blogs, if anything.

You’d think if he goes to the trouble to set up outgoing feeds for his blog, that he’d also have incoming feeds.

I’ve been a little slack this week, dammit. Why is it so easy to get sidetracked on the Internet? I have spent too much time in forums, and therefore I’ve not progressed much in my quest to earn $100 a day from Adsense, as I promised I would.

I’ve pretty well wasted a week stuffing around with Elance.com and Guru.com writers. They either want the world, or they can’t spell and write properly.

I think I’ll just stick with the writers I’ve got, and put up with the wait if necessary. My first 25 articles should be in my inbox within a day or two… it’s been 7 days now, since I sent the keyword list off.

I’m uploading the basic framework of my 1st new site tonight. I’ll start a blog on it straight away, to get the search engines interested. Nadav is experimenting with using WordPress as a Website Builder or CMS… something I read about elsewhere this week. I think Alex King has developed a theme for using WP as a CMS, so maybe that’s where Nadav got the idea. I have always thought that blogs, by their very nature, would make good site builders, but never looked into it any further myself.

I read about some people starting a 12 week challenge, to be earning $100 a day within 12 weeks… sounds like a great plan, so I’ve decided to go for the same target. But I’m making it tough on myself, I want to earn $100 a day in Adsense within 12 weeks!

I registered a new website last week, and tonight I start filling it out and it will be the first of at least 4 new websites I begin in the next few weeks. NO, it will be the first of at least 4 new websites I DEFINITELY begin in the next 4 weeks.

I already have 6 websites in various stages of repair and completeness. One of which is purely a Traffic Equalizer site, that I’ve all but abandoned. Will I resurrect it or not? Dunno yet, certainly not for this project anyway.

Another is the first website I ever owned… but I never built it. I paid a webmaster $1,300 to build it for me. The deal was that I’d get at least 200 visitors a day… well, 13 months on, and that website gets all of 15 visitors a month!

I demanded and got a partial refund of $800 last month.

It is because of that website experience that I decided to learn to do this friggin’ SEO shit myself. The result is Training Dog Breeds… a web site that within 6 months was getting 450 visitors a day… and still gets 250 to 350 a day (if I post to the blog, 400+), with no maintenance. I don’t earn much off of it, but that was not my goal, my goal was to prove to the friggin’ idiot expert “webmaster” that built my other site, that I could do better.

“Webmaster”… what an overused, and abused word that is. I would be ashamed to call myself a webmaster, because of the shit that is associated with such an over-rated dumb-arsed title. If I see someone calling themselves a webmaster, my first thought is… “you fucking Wanker!”

DX Currency Trades is a website that I started in early January… and I like the site, so I’ll further develop that one in the coming weeks.

I’ve got a gardening site that is dormant, it has about 4 pages of content, but has not been touched for over 3 months… I may do a fix on it, because it has some potential, though probably not for adsense income.

Then their is SEO easy, this site. I’ve not really done anything much with it either. I think I’ll develop it as a teaching site, and monetize it with SEO affiliate programs.

Anyway, I’ve now ordered my first block of 25 articles to add to my new website, plus I’ve posted a project of 25 articles to be written for me, at Guru.com, for my DX Currency website.

The bar has just been raised a few notches when it comes to searching on the Internet.

I just got my copy of Derek Franklin’s Search Automator last night, and I’ve just spent 4 hours using it… once I got the hang of it, I found more idea’s, info and keywords in 2 hours than I’ll be able to use in a fortnight!

This leaves Google in the dust when it comes to searching.

Automatically perform relevant, accurate right on the button searches for any term you want in any search data-base on the Internet, at the press of a button… web, video, audio, image, reference, news, shopping… search only for pdf files if you want — you name it, Search Automator can do it.

This thing is the most amazing tool I’ve ever seen.

Now I’m no expert, but I’m no Newbie any more either, and I can tell you this will light up faster than a haystack in a bushfire.

And best of all… the price is right!

Yahoo is running two sets of results in its search engine. I have been periodically tracking a page for 6 days by typing the keyword into the search box at both Yahoo and Google.

The reason was to see how long it takes to get indexed. I built the page on Saturday, uploaded it, and then posted a short entry in my blog to the DXGold Training page on that site, mentioning the URL to the new page.

In 2 day’s on Monday afternoon, Yahoo indexed the page at #2 and the following day it was #1, where it has remained… mostly.

Then yesterday (wednsday) it was indexed in Google at #1, where it still is (I hope)

Now, because I’ve been watching for it to get indexed in Google, I’ve also continually checked it in Yahoo… just makes me feel gooey to see my new page at number one, even if there is less than 2,000 competing pages.

Sometimes it is #1 in Yahoo, other times it is not in the top 100+ results. I could not work it out, until I realized that when it is #1 it is from approx 1350 results, but when I can’t find it, it is of 1290 results. The blog home page is at #12, and my sitemap shows at #13.

This is not just a one off thing, it’s been happening multiple times a day.

Yahoo are doing a switcheroo with two different results data-bases IMHO. Possibly when the servers become overloaded they serve results from a cache data-base? Or could it be because of some other reason? Does antone have any thoughts ion this?

I’ve compiled a list of sites that you can add to your ping list in “Options” > “Writing” > “Update Services”

Importantly, there are no duplicates in this list… for example, any sites listed in Ping-O-Matic, are not also listed in this list

http://rpc.pingomatic.com/
http://rcs.datashed.net/RPC2
http://ping.blo.gs/
http://ping.bloggers.jp/rpc/
http://thingamablog.sourceforge.net/ping.php
http://www.blogdigger.com/RPC2
http://rpc.blogrolling.com/pinger/
http://blogmatcher.com/u.php
http://www.blogroots.com/tb_populi.blog?id=1
http://www.blogshares.com/rpc.php
http://www.blogsnow.com/ping
http://www.blogstreet.com/xrbin/xmlrpc.cgi
http://bulkfeeds.net/rpc
http://ping.feedburner.com
http://www.snipsnap.org/RPC2
http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping
http://api.feedster.com/ping
http://topicexchange.com/RPC2
http://www.mod-pubsub.org/kn_apps/blogchatter/ping.php
http://mod-pubsub.org/kn_apps/blogchatt
http://ping.weblogs.se/
http://rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2
http://www.weblogues.com/RPC/
http://www.popdex.com/addsite.php
http://api.my.yahoo.com/RPC2
http://www.newsisfree.com/xmlrpctest.php
http://xping.pubsub.com/ping/
http://ping.cocolog-nifty.com/xmlrpc
http://www.popdex.com/addsite.php
http://xmlrpc.blogg.de/
http://ping.rootblog.com/rpc.php
http://ping.syndic8.com/xmlrpc.php
http://rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2
http://www.a2b.cc/setloc/bp.a2b
http://api.my.yahoo.com/rss/ping
http://bblog.com/ping.php
http://www.bitacoles.net/ping.php
http://blogbot.dk/io/xml-rpc.php
http://blogdb.jp/xmlrpc
http://www.blogpeople.net/servlet/weblogUpdates
http://www.blogroots.com/tb_populi.blog?id=1
http://www.blogstreet.com/xrbin/xmlrpc.cgi
http://blog.goo.ne.jp/XMLRPC
http://coreblog.org/ping/
http://www.lasermemory.com/lsrpc/

According to a study done by a mob called Did-it, Enquiro, and Eyetools there is a Google Golden Triangle when it comes to reading Googles search results. This was an eye study done on peoples habits while looking at Googles search results. It shows where most people look first second and third etc.

I guess it’s no surptise that the study showed a triangular piece of screen real estate covering the top left side down… which is where I’m now placing my Adsense ads. I have found an increse in CTR since moving the ads to a sqare or large oblong ad at the top left of my pages. I use no-border ads, with the links in traditional linking blue… just as you can see them on this page.

Here’s the article from PRWEB