10 Reasons Why I Don’t Like Your Blog
For those of you are trying to generate traffic through blogs, here’s a good list of what not to do on your blog.
From now on you can purchase a lifetime membership to our members-only forums for $100. Yes, that’s only $100 for permanent access to the forums! At this time you can contact us at sales@learningcentre.com for more details, but hopefully by the end of the week we’ll have it completely automated on the website so that you can purchase it directly online.
Also, anyone who takes one of our seminars, you automatically get access to the forums without having to pay the $100 fee. That’s a great savings considering everything else you get with the seminar.
And if you’re new here, take a look at the forums. There’s already a lot of activity for only being around a week or so! You can read all the thread titles, you just can’t read their content without being a member.
Google has just recently updated how it updates the crawl date in it’s cache. This is very handy because it lets you know when Google last took a look at your site. In the past, it would only store the last date it crawled in which something changed, now it stores the last date it crawled period.
To better explain, please check out the video by Matt Cutts below:
Today I just came accross a very interesting website, BlogShares.com. It’s an interesting concept in that’s it’s like a fantasy stock trading game, but for blogs using fictional money. I don’t yet know the details, but it seems very intriguing, enough that I’ll probably give it a try this weekend.
As an added bonus, it might generate a lot of additional traffic to your blog (hence extra monetization) and potentially give you some high Google PR links to your blog. Not only that, it will definitely give you some additional exposure as people will speculate in you.
Worse case I see is that it will be fun to start speculating on which blogs will make it. And if enough of you try it, we can even start our own internal competition in the LearningCentre.com forums!
Essential SEO-Related Plugins for WordPress
4 good plugins for WordPress if you’re inclined. The only one I’ve had issues with is Sociable because it took a lot of processing, but that could be something I missed when installing it.
Having created and managed several websites (LandlordMax.com, FollowSteph.com, etc.) over the last few years, I’m getting pretty good at predicting a website’s chances of success, as well as which areas will generate the most traffic. I have to admit that this website (LearningCentre.com) completely through me for a loop. I expected the main page to get the most traffic, followed by the blog (free valuable content), then followed by the forums, as this last section costs $100 for a lifetime membership. Was I ever wrong!!!
The forum, based on the number of unique visitors, never mind hits, gets a little more than twice as much traffic as the blog and the main page! Yes, the paid content gets almost double the amount of unique visitors! That really surprised me, in a good way.
So all this to say that you no matter how much experience and expertise you have in creating and managing websites, you can never really predict what will happen until it goes live. The more experience you have, the more likely you are to be an accurate predictor, but you can never know for sure without trying it out first (test test test).
Another interesting tidbit of news about LearningCentre.com, we’ve already beaten the traffic (in terms of unique visitors) from last month and it’s not even half way through the month! Not bad for a brand new site.
Sometime over the last few days ago I came accross a very interesting article about subliminal spam. At first I thought it was an interesting concept, but I certainly couldn’t imagine it being that prolific in the real world. Well to my surprise today I got my first subminal spam email, well at least the first one I noticed. It behaved exactly like the article suggested!
I don’t think it’s very effective, but we’ll soon know for sure (like I’ve always said, there’s no better way to know than to try). In any case, I just wanted to make you all aware of its existence to possibly help shield you from any of its effect. Not that I think it will work on you guys since you’re already ahead of the curve, but it doesn’t hurt to know…
A very quick but very important tip, be very careful if you automate reciprocal link requests. I’ve gotten two this week for my company LandlordMax Property Management Software from my competitors! Yes, from my very own competitors. I don’t think they have any idea who they’re contacting…
Apart from the fact that they’re contacting me, their competitor, I’m going to assume that most of their link requests are going to end up on useless resource pages with hundreds or thousands of other links. This is not the way to help build your SEO value, or your traffic. Firstly, since there are already so many links on those pages, no one will ever find you, never mind click on you. Secondly, Google is starting to devalue “inappropriate” reciprocal links, or links from massive reciprocal link pages.
Bad for them, good for me! So today’s tip is be very careful if you automate link requests.
