Blogging for a second income - does anyone else here do this?

freewheelinfranklin

patman99 wrote: »

No, not GoDaddy. The CEO shoots elephants for fun.

The elephant thing should be enough to ensure you give GoDaddy a wide berth but if you need more reasons ...

1. Their UI is a nightmare. Easy to get very lost.
2. They try to upsell you constantly.
3. They like to post pictures of scantily clad women on their site (they sell domains for Pete's sake!)
4. Their hosting support is abysmal.
5. Their servers are often overloaded.

... I could go on.

I've used Namecheap happily for many years and highly recommend them for dot coms, orgs and nets. For dot co.uk it's 123-reg although their recent UI updates are a little annoying.

HTH.

Tiptopcat

LilyLarkin wrote: »

Thanks for posting the links. Those are they And yes, very interesting commission, and also interested to hear what you think about it!

Hi LilyLarkin,

I actually followed along while you were doing this blog challenge with the guy from Viperchill.

I liked how your site finally ended up. Great name, great design etc. I even signed up to your mailing list as the travel aspect was so interesting to me.

Then you seemed to disappear. I wondered what happened?

natzini

quatrofromageo wrote: »

It's a shame, because your website can look like an absolute dog, but if it's got tons of links it will rank well. :mad:

Only good links mind - don't forget that... lots of people just believe that they need lots of links and that's it, but the quality of the link matters.

Quality content is a big, big thing too. I'm a copywriter & online marketer by profession and what matters to me is quality all round.

tommyukuk

This is a long shot.. but does anyone have any website's to start learning SEO.. I set a website up.. but i have no idea where to start with promoting it.. back-linking, keywords on pages, meta tags etc.. and the SEO companies i've looked at seem to be charging £400+ to do it.. would really like to learn myself.. but dont know where to start..

cheers.

quinechinoise

tommyukuk wrote: »

This is a long shot.. but does anyone have any website to start learning SEO.. i set a website up.. but i have no idea where to start with promoting it.. back-linking, keywords on pages, meta tags etc.. and the SEO companies i've looked at seem to be charging £400+ to do it.. would really like to learn myself.. but dont know where to start..

Hmm... Well, you could start with browsing SEOmoz - they have some useful articles about SEO and, seeing how mozRank can be important, it's worth reading from the horse's mouth.

http://www.seomoz.org/learn-seo

You could also run your website through a simple analyser, which will give you some basic pointers for improvement. Pear Analytics have a nice one, that links to various how-to articles.

http://analyzer.pearanalytics.com/

Fundamentally, SEO is all about optimising your website to be clean and fast-loading, making it easy to find and easy for bots to crawl, and writing sticky/useful content that people want to read and share.

Clean code, robots file, sitemap and interesting articles will do a lot for you. The rest of it is simply PR and marketing.

HTH x

quinechinoise

And, btw, £400+ seems way excessive for a simple report (in the first instance). I've no idea how much work your site really needs, so I can't say if it would truly run into the hundreds. For all I know, it might only need an hour or two of work put into it.

Although, you cannot stand still on SEO and marketing - it's something that you must work on, on a regular basis.

quinechinoise

lagerbreath wrote: »

Hi All,

Just seen this thread and thought I'd add my own URL if anybody is interested

Hi hun, you can't put your URL in your posts - or your siggy - so I'd edit it out before it gets deleted. It's enough for it to be on your profile link - we know where to find it.

RobinArnold

natzini wrote: »

Only good links mind - don't forget that... lots of people just believe that they need lots of links and that's it, but the quality of the link matters.

Quality content is a big, big thing too. I'm a copywriter & online marketer by profession and what matters to me is quality all round.

^ This is absolutely true, its all about quality over quantity in my opinion. Quantity doesn't hurt though!

Hoody

RobinArnold wrote: »

^ This is absolutely true, its all about quality over quantity in my opinion. Quantity doesn't hurt though!

Depends how quickly you are adding the links, if you use one of those "services" where people use computer programs to spam links on blogs/forums etc Google can recognise this and sandbox your site.

tommyukuk

quinechinoise wrote: »

Hmm... Well, you could start with browsing SEOmoz - they have some useful articles about SEO and, seeing how mozRank can be important, it's worth reading from the horse's mouth.

http://www.seomoz.org/learn-seo

You could also run your website through a simple analyser, which will give you some basic pointers for improvement. Pear Analytics have a nice one, that links to various how-to articles.

http://analyzer.pearanalytics.com/

Fundamentally, SEO is all about optimising your website to be clean and fast-loading, making it easy to find and easy for bots to crawl, and writing sticky/useful content that people want to read and share.

Clean code, robots file, sitemap and interesting articles will do a lot for you. The rest of it is simply PR and marketing.

HTH x

Thank for for those links I'm going to get reading this weekend when i get some free time. Thank you again!

Tom.