Despite continuing problems with getting my blog posts to show up or stay listed in Technorati and Google Blogs, it appears that at least one of Google’s spiders still loves me. Immediately after I posted “A 9K Walk Along Icey Roads in Rohdes” to my travel blog, I searched Google for the keyword phrase that […]
Bloggers: Having Problems with Technorati Indexing and Display?
Technorati has been acting very strange of late. Last week, all my sites were indexed and the posts were displaying correctly. Then a post that I made on Roamsters (about Baggallini bags and tagged ‘baggallini’) showed up almost immediately and now can’t be found for love nor money (literally). 🙂 Weirder still, the Roamsters blog […]
Carl Ocab: 14-Year Old Ranks #1 in Google for “Make Money Online”
It’s hard to believe that a 14-year-old kid who started his blog just this past summer, would rank #1 on Google for a highly competitive keyword phrase like “make money online”, isn’t it? Well, it’s true. After attempts to make money online with a tech blog and then a gossip blog failed, Carl Ocab says […]
8 Phrases Guaranteed to Boost Site Traffic
We all want more traffic to our sites… Here are 10 phrases that will help you boost traffic and bring visitors back to your sites, time after time. “Subscribe / Sign Up” Tell your visitors to subscribe to your newsletter, and when they subscribe you’ll capture their e-mail address. Each time they receive a copy […]
An Unexpected Way to Get Traffic from Flickr
Our Roamsters.com travel blog receives a little bit of traffic from the pictures that I upload to Flickr. But I discovered another way that blogger photographers can get traffic when I received the following message about the picture shown here to the left. Your photo(s) shown below have been short-listed for inclusion in the third […]
Is it Link Building or Spamming?
I received the following question about link-building practices from Richard, an NPT reader: “I am new at this and I have put much time and effort into research and learning. I have bought several books and programs including NetProfitsToday (the Super Affiliate Handbook). I’ve also signed up for your newsletter and am enrolled as an […]
#8 on Google for My Name
Back on Monday April 2nd, I wrote a post titled “Are you missing out on this Traffic? I was…” about registering your own name as a domain name to get more traffic from the search engines — or at least to dominate the first page of results for searches on your name. Well, I totally […]