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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.
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.
It looks like there has been a Google Pagerank update in October 2009 and this time, its not too good. At least not for DatMoney and for those that are die hard fans of the infamous Pagerank.
I actually just stumbled across this by accident because I was checking how many backlinks my sites were getting and where its being linked from. I usually check sites (not just mine but various sites) at dnscoop because they tell you the Pagerank, how old the site has been around, the backlinks, Alexa rating, etc all on one page.
I noticed one of my sites’ Pagerank changed recently so I figured I would check my main sites. Since dnscoop updates like every week after you have checked a site, I just Googled “pagerank checker” and checked a few sites. That’s when I noticed DatMoney was a PR0.
Oh no! What am I going to do? How am I going to live life as a big zero?!
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I haven’t been updating as much as I used to but I still manage to get a few posts in every week on DatMoney. And since I started as an internet entrepreneur I came up with a lot of friends who started around the same time, have similar stats and so on… but the difference is, I still manage to keep my blog updated.
I understand that there are other projects that have priority, maybe a day job is taking over your life or there are some personal issues but it looks like more and more blogs that I came up with are slowly fading away. Some blogs have been sold, some barely update their blog once a month and some I question “what happened?”
Great and Helpful Posts vs. “Eh” Posts
I’m sure everyone would rather take great, useful and helpful type posts over anything. And I was once told (maybe not directly) that it’s better to write great posts less frequently than to write “eh” posts daily.
Quality over quantity. And yes, I definitely agree with that point. But of course, its the blog owners decision on what they want to write about.
But in the situation I’m talking about with blogs that aren’t as active, they don’t write useful posts once a month. Instead, they seem to just write a post just so they can keep their blog breathing… with a respirator.
What Happened to These Blogs?
I don’t mean to put these blogs out there but I was a big fan until it slowly started to fade away. Again, I’m sure they’re off to bigger and better things that probably prevent them from updating but come on, at least let your readers know what’s going on so they’re not just anxiously waiting for… nothing.
But here are some blogs that I used to follow regularly that have just faded away for whatever reason.
I’m sure a lot of people overlook this aspect but using Wordpress tags as keywords can take you to a place you’ve never been. Maybe not that drastic but it can definitely increase your search engine traffic as well as increase your earnings if you do it right.
What Are Wordpress Tags?
I have to explain this because I’m going to assume not everyone who uses Wordpress uses the post tags feature. I mean, when I first started using Wordpress, it took me a while to figure everything out. Plus, I didn’t think it would really help me as much as it did.
But if you’re writing up a post, you have a “post tags” feature on the right hand side (check out the screenshot below).
Basically, I try to put as many keywords, especially longtail keywords, within the post tags. And that’s what you should do too. Tags are essentially keywords for each page/post you create.
How Can Post Tags Increase Traffic?
The funny thing is search engines love tag pages. If you’re using Wordpress, each “tag” (which should also be one of your keywords) is its own individual page. So, let’s say you have 100 tags within your Wordpress blog, that means you have 100 pages potentially getting picked up by search engines.
And get this, a lot of my tag pages tend to get ranked higher than the actual post.
Let’s give an example, shall we?
You guys already know I have multiple blogs including iBlogtoBlog.com. Well, check out one of the posts in which I wrote about an online game and some cheats.
First, let’s check out how popular this keyword is by doing our keyword research. As you can see in the graph below of Google Trends, the straight line going up means a lot of people are searching for this term.
Now, if you simply search the term in Google, you’ll see my tag page and not the actual post as the first result (see screenshot below).
