Mike's Money Making Mission

(3) I should have been more conscious initially of using keywords within my posts. I now realise that my main keywords are: money, making, make, blog and, strangely enough, Mike.

The blog also needs a good title (as does the blog itself). More on this here. If a keyword can be included within the title so much the better. Keywords help with getting referrals from search engines.

(4) Once the post is completed it’s important to ping . The easiest way is to use either Pingoat or ping-o-matic. They will ping to several services with one click.

If you are not sure what pinging is this is how Pingoat describe what they do:

"Pingoat is a service that pings or notifies a number of services that keep track of weblogs and publish them. By pinging, you let the services know that your blog has been updated and hence, they crawl and index your site, publishing your blog contents, thus increasing your blog's popularity."

(5) After writing a few posts I would then submit the blog to the search engines: Google and Yahoo.

There are websites such as Add Me who will submit a blog or website to many search engines - 14 in their case and for free. This particular site also offers some decent information on Search Engine Optimisation. In saying this, to be truthful, I can’t say that I have had any noticeable benefit from using such such a service.

(6) Now comes the thorny question of whether Blog Directories are worth while. In my experience most are a waste of time. There are, however, a few that have worked for me. My Top Ten can be seen here. These are purely based on referrals that the directories have produced for me. People tell me that directories have other value such as by helping with search engine rankings etc. Personally I have not noticed this.

(7) I would also recommend using meta tags. There is an informative article about this on SearchEngineWatch. Some now say that meta tags have lost their importance, maybe they have, but I feel that they still do more good than harm.

(8) Links in to a blog are of value both as referrers and also with search engine rankings - though again exchanged links are of lesser value than they seemingly used to be.

(9) The final thing I should have done in my first week is to have scattered my blog address wherever I could. In forums, on free advertising sites and maybe joining something similar to myLot where you might get noticed by others. As someone, I can't think who, said, 'Being shy can be cute or endearing in a person, but it's the kiss of death online.' So if you've got it flaunt it and tell everyone about it.

Okay, I'll make it (10) Have fun!

So they are some of the things I'd do if I was starting all over again. But I'm not, so I can't. But I think I've answered one of the original questions posed at the beginning of the blog.

Good luck,
Mike.


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