As I continue with my ongoing changes here, I have to lean towards what works and push out the things that haven’t. And for a long time, Entrecard just seems as though it hasn’t been working too much and now I can finally say that it is gone from DatMoney.

One of the things I do a lot of is research and analyzing stats. Those are two key things to focus on so you can see what works and what doesn’t. I usually take what works and dedicate more time around that and eventually come back to what hasn’t worked to see what happened.

Of course, I don’t come back to most things because the things that work would take up all my time. And I’d say to focus on what works because you never know when that is going to just end and cut off completely for whatever reason.

On this particular case with Entrecard, I think I had forgotten about the fact that their widget was left on here (and all my other blogs) and it hasn’t helped me for quite sometime now. But on one of my other blogs that I haven’t really touched for quite sometime, they e-mailed me saying they were going to delete my account because of the inactivity from my blog.

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So, I’ve had a killer five-letter domain name for the last few years which I used briefly with a friend of mine to start up a site. But shortly after, it went downhill and the site is basically non-existent as we speak. Of course, now that I have a lot more knowledge with online entrepreneurship and making money online, I figured I would reinvest some time into this website.

The five-letter domain name that I have is very catchy and it’s extremely brand-able. I have a few ideas on what I want to do with the site but I’m looking for a few people who would be interested in joining me.

Well, without giving you my entire business plan on the website, I figured I’d just give you a little background on what I’m trying to do and what I’m looking for in people for this joint venture.

Plans for the Killer Five-Letter Domain Website

Because most, if not all, of you guys are already familiar with Wordpress, I figured it’d be easiest if we just stuck with this platform to continue with the develop. Originally, we were using Joomla but I would prefer not to teach everyone it from scratch but rather just stick with what people are familiar with.

I’m looking for a few dedicated people that would be willing to spend a few hours each week working on the website. Nothing too hard but you would need to have some writing skills and at least some knowledge with internet marketing and how things work. Of course, if you are creative then that’s even better.

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It seems as though every couple of months I have to write another post on my low tolerance of spam. I have to continue to remind people that no one likes spam and if people keep spamming, there will be some consequences.

Recently, there has been a few spammers that have been commenting here but there is one in particular that I gave plenty of chances but they just continue to spam. This person has been commenting here for quite a while with some regular comments but then I see a lot of generic comments and when I check, they basically copied and pasted a paragraph from someone elses’ work.

It is very easy to tell a spam comment nowadays because most of the comments either have nothing to do with what you just wrote or its so generic that they probably just used the same comment for a bunch of other posts.

Of course, occasionally I’d see the generic type comments and if I’m bored enough, I’ll simply search for that comment. What I do is copy and paste their entire comment into Google and see what pops up. Usually if its a spam comment, the first search result will be exactly the same (or like 99%) and it’ll either be on someone elses’ post in their comment section or it’ll be within that person’s content.

In the particular case I’m talking about, this person went to an article directory (ezarticles, goarticles, etc) and just copied a portion of their article and pasted it as a comment on my blog.

Well, I gave this person a few different chances because I gave them the benefit of doubt. Plus, they did have some legit comments but I think they did it to bypass the whole getting approved in my comments. Unfortunately, they just kept doing what they were doing so I removed them from my top commentators, removed those comments that I found were copied and pasted as well as removed their links within their comments.

Matter of fact, I think that is one of the reasons why I was probably penalized by Google because of spammers. So, take this as a lesson and know that spam can and will actually hurt you. So, just like anything else, make sure you take action… against spam!

As we continue to bring converted Wordpress themes to Blogger templates, we’ll continue to update you guys on various free blogger templates that are made available to you guys. In this weeks Free Blogger Template, we give you the “Bams GrayYel”, if I’m even typing it right.

The GrayYel theme is a two column Wordpress theme with a gray and yellow combination which looks pretty nice especially if you’re going for the web 2.0 type of look. This theme was originally created by Bams and it has a lot of features that you all will enjoy.

The GrayYel theme includes such features as :

- gray and yellow color combination
- mouse hover effects on the RSS links
- sidebar links
- header navigational pages
- includes psd category to add more in the sidebar, if needed

Below is the screenshot of the GrayYel theme:

Someone mentioned this last time but if you’re looking for a live demo so you can see if you like the entire theme, click here.

Click here to download the GrayYel Blogger template

Enjoy!

I’m sure a lot of people know this already but since I do this on a regular basis, I feel I should, at the very least, mention it. I mean, people overlook the small things all the time so why not give a quick reminder. Who knows, many most people don’t even notice it because its so small and they see it all the time.

There are a lot of ways on how to get long tail keywords easily and you can use all these keyword programs for free or you can pay for them but they aren’t reliable all the time too. And if you definitely pay for those programs, there’s a easy and free way of getting these long tail keywords.

Did I build up the hype for it yet? Probably not. So, let’s continue…

What Is a Long Tail Keyword?

You know I realized that a lot of people who come here or are subscribers of mine are brand new to the online entrepreneurship stuff so they don’t know all the terms and stuff. So, I’m going to try to explain things a little bit so people can follow along without having some sort of blank stare at the computer screen (or iPhone or whatever nice gadget you have).

Long tail keywords are phrases surrounded by a specific keyword. Long tail keywords are specific phrases that people search for. They are generally more targeted than the generic keyword itself which could lead to a higher conversion rate, more subscribers and simply more traffic from search engines. Let me give you an example…

Say your generic keyword is “money”, then your long tail keywords could be something like:

- make money online
- money making ideas
- how to make Adsense money
- DatMoney is the best website ever

Okay, maybe people won’t be searching too much for that last long tail keyword but I figured I’d toss that in there anyways.

How Can Long Tail Keywords Help You?

I quickly mentioned it already but long tail keywords can help you in numerous ways. Long tail keywords will help you get more traffic, particularly targeted search engine traffic. Of course, not only will you get more traffic but since it’ll be more targeted, it will lead to higher conversion rates on whatever you’re selling (if anything), possibly more clicks on your ads and or a increase in your subscribers.

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