Whether you’re building a new domain or rehabilitating an old one, you need to consider what keyphrases you want to rank well for in search engines. You have only so much control over this, as keyphrases come from the anchor text other webmasters use to link to you. Obviously, you can make clear what the [...]
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As I said recently, I’m working on rehabilitating this domain. One of the problems I’ve diagnosed with it is that my pagerank is zeroed out. Well, you know how I feel about that, but they won, we lost, and people still factor visible pagerank in when deciding what a domain is worth. Which really doesn’t [...]
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I changed my mind – I’m not selling the site yet. I was going to post about this the other day, then I discovered this site had been totally splogged, and that made me even more certain about getting the site into better shape and then selling it for a decent price eventually. Then I [...]
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AdSense has been my big money maker the past couple of months, but for no reason other than it was what I had on the site that got Dugg. Granted, if I’d had AdBrite instead of AdSense on it, I’d have earned less. AdSense is not a bad earner.
But after a couple of days, suddenly [...]
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UPDATE: if you respond to the email that says your feeds moved over successfully, Google does actually get back to you several days later with an email that indicates they’re reading the emails and getting to them as they can, but are overwhelmed at the moment. This might be the best way to make sure [...]
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Suddenly, Google is sending two of my best site a heap more traffic. Is anyone else seeing this?
I thought I was getting a lot of search visits throughout last month, but I wasn’t sure until the Thanksgiving holidays drove away Stumblers and the others who send me little storms of traffic now and again. Suddenly, [...]
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There are actually times when Google does your site more harm than good. Unless all you’re concerned about is traffic.
A couple of months ago, I switched domains for Project B-2 Bomber. At first, the traffic stayed high, then it dropped from 20-25k per month down to about 13k. Reason: Google had kept the PR on [...]
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I haven’t posted on ChillyCool in weeks, yet stats and feedreader subscriptions are up. Glad someone’s enjoying is…? I have no idea why that site does as well as it does (which is not well at all, I’m just saying it should be even worse).
I haven’t been posting as regularly as I like on Project [...]
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I’ve got a bunch of article reprint sites and used to make several hundred from text link ads, back before Google went on a rampage about that. During Google’s rampage, a curious thing happened: this site, one of those reprint sites, and one other site got their visible PR zeroed out. I eventually took paid [...]
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I was looking for a better option than SEDO for earning some money from my parked domains, and came to the following conclusions:
SEDO works because it forces people to exit the page, which they sometimes do by clicking an ad.
If that’s not working for your particular site, or you’re concerned about the domain building some [...]
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