I’m in the process of transfering ALL of my websites to a new hosting service and it is incredibly lame. Hostgator wouldn’t do it for me since I’m transfering from one Hostgator account to another Hostgator account. Ugh!! So I’m taking a break right now. Maybe I’ll take an extended break.
I very seriously hope I never have to do anything this excruciating again. I had dedicated hosting that I was splitting the cost with someone else but the dude is getting out of his sites. Which left a pretty hefty cost for yours truly to pony up and I just can’t justify the cost. So I’m downgrading my hosting service and am now moving like fifty freakin’ websites over to this new hosting plan and it is LAME.
Most of my sites are Build a Niche Store sites, so I’m only transferring the database and theme of each of those. But quite a few of them are WordPress sites also, and a few of those have a BANS store in a directory. Messy stuff. I’m seriously considering getting a server at home and putting it in the basement or something. My bro is a geek so he could set that stuff up for me real nice and neat, then my only concern would be the cost of a business internet service. I would want like five IP addresses and they would have to be static IP addresses. Comcast would want a pretty penny for that but at least everything would be in-house. That would be awesome-ness. Check out the cheap CHEAP pc components Tiger direct is offering for some of the latest PC hardware coming out. No I’m not getting an affiliate commission for that link, it’s just really cheap!
I’m trying to look on the bright side of things with this transfer. Mark over at The Niche Store Builder recently wrote a few articles about Spring Cleaning for websites. He talked about WordPress installs, Domain names, and webhosting accounts. With the transfers I’m making I have to do all those things! While it is lame it does let me make sure everything I have is everything I need. The rest can be garbage.
Diego Sanchez Is One of My Favorite MMA Fighters… But he is very close to psycho. Diego Sanchez recently fought at UFC 95 in the main event against Joe Stevenson.
Diego Sanchez is known as one of the more intense human beings involved in Mixed Martial Arts and I for one very much enjoy his bouts. He goes balls to the wall in every fight, even when he loses. In fact, in his first loss against Josh Koscheck, Diego went the full three rounds and lost a decision to Koscheck in that fight. After the fight had ended it was discovered that Diego had a severe staph infection!
In his latest fight, against Stevenson, Diego came out yelling “Yes!” with the beat of the song he decided to play for his entrance. It just furhter solidified his “weirdness” as a UFC fighter. Diego is weird and he probably knows it. But maybe it would be better if he keeps his odd pre-fight rituals to himself for the publics sake. I mean for everyone else at least, I don’t mind it.
If search engines weren’t as dynamic as they are then it would be damn near impossible to rank well for key words you are after. This is the magic of SEO, put in the hard work and you will be rewarded. Dynamic search engine results allow anyone to rank well for almost any phrase they want to, assuming you have the time, patience and know-how.
Dynamic search engine results also mean that just because you rank well for a key phrase one day does not mean that you will rank well tomorrow. You need to put in time for search engine optimization every day for your sites and make sure that your competition hasn’t caught up with you. As diligent as you were to find your competitors and take over their number one spot in Google, so to are other marketers going after your number one spot.
I recently neglected one of my Build a Niche Store sites that has historically done well for me. I have ranked in the number one spot in Google for months now with this particular site for it’s keywords and was recently ousted. Traffic – and more importantly conversions – instantly dropped dramatically. I got caught up in starting new projects and ignored this sites optimization and now I’m feeling the effects.
Because search engines are so dynamic, it should take just a small amount of work to get back my spot with Google but I also have to make sure I put in the time to keep it there. Researching the sites that are researching me will help. Always building solid backlinks to build trust with search engines is also important. Setting up reminders to go back to sites solely for the purpose of SEO can keep those pesky competitors at bay.
Mountain Dew
Some people do the coffee thing. I don’t like coffee. Coffee gives me stomach issues, though some people may like to have that problem (to much information Rosie!)
So I do Mountain Dew. I love Mountain Dew! I try not to drink to much because I know it’s not exactly the best thing for my to be drinking. But it gets me going in the morning and it helps me stay up when I need to get in a few more blog posts. Which reminds me I need to get in a few more blog posts…
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Blogging
I recommend to anyone that will listen to me to start a blog! Anyone can set one up and free if you use WordPress.com or Blogger. The main reason I get from people about not writing a blog is that they don’t have time. Then I see posts on MySpace or Facebook from those same people! Why are we making Facebook rich? I have a hard time with social networking. My Twitter posts are pretty much limited to blog updates. I understand why people use social networking. It’s a great way to meet new people. But why not dedicate a bit of time writing on your own blog and having the option to monetize at some point?
Whats Your Passion?
The main thing with a blog is figuring out what it is you are passionate about. That’s not hard really. Just ask yourself a few questions. What do you do every day that you look forward to doing? How much do you know about that? Could you write 100 words a day on that subject?
I think another reason why some don’t want to write a blog is because they are scared nobody is going to read it. It’s very important not to care about that! And if you can’t get over that than write the blog anonymously. Just use a different name than yours and start writing! If it’s anonymous than you can misspell words, use bad grammar, use run-on sentences and overall not make any sense whatsoever and who’s gonna make fun of you? Nobody that knows you. Go to Blogger right now and write something.
What The Hell is SEO?
What the hell is SEO and how do I use it? O.k. I understand it stands for Search Engine Optimization. But what it means seems different anywhere I go on the web. Webmasters get bombarded everywhere they go with what they need to do to their sites to get them to rank well with search engines and it is very confusing for newcomers (like myself.) WIth a few of my sites, I have managed to rank well for keywords that bring in a steady amount of traffic and I’ve decided that I need to do more with organic search results if I want to make more money. The basic thing I have learned when visiting sites that promise to help boost my rankings are:
- They all want money.
- Most of them are full of it.
- Search Engines hate the things they do.
The problem with looking at SEO this way is that it’s made me avoid looking for information about it. I hate researching SEO because of all the nonsense I have to deal with or sift through. This is bad for me because I don’t want to do any kind of advertising campaigns for my Build a Niche Store sites. I want to get traffic through organic search results. And the only way to get decent rankings in search engines is by knowing a good amount of optimization techniques! See my problem here?
I have found a few good places for learning SEO without having to deal with rubbish, like SEO Book. I think one thing I need to stay away from is places that promise automated ways of boosting my sites rankings because that is the exact thing that Google and other search engines punish.
So what the hell is SEO exactly? I’m still not sure exactly how to answer that. But I am much more commited to learning more after seeing myself how powerful ranking well for my targeted keywords can be.
Alex Rodriguez
Lame, lame, lame. It’s tough for me to understand the steroid thing. It’s such a negative thing in the eyes of the public but athletes still do it! I can’t understand that.
So Alex Rodriguez, along with 103 other Major League Baseball players, tested positive for steroids in 2003. That is also the year he won the MVP award. This is all over ESPN right now and will be everywhere for a long time. What’s so lame about this is that Alex Rodriguez is considered one of the best Pro Baseball players of all time and he is in the prime of his athletic career right now.
I know this whole steroid thing in baseball is super played out. It seems every time we get a baseball player breaking records they are then connected to steroid use shortly after (e.g. Mark Mcguire, Barry Bonds) but that is what made Alex Rodriguez so cool. He is all around a great baseball player (not just hitter.) You just kind of like the idea that someone of his ability was doing it the right way.
Of course he still has to answer to this before we can judge him. But it’s not like he can say the test was wrong. It was an anonymous test that 103 other players failed. The test results should not have gone public but the fact is it did and, as far as I am concerned, we can go ahead and get that asterisk next to his records.
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Big weekend coming up and I am sick (super lame!) So basically we have Super Bowl 43 with the Steelers and the Cardinals. I have friends who are Pittsburgh fans but I gotta say I want to see the Cards pull it off. And why not, I mean honestly, when are the Arizona Cardinals going to be in the Super Bowl again! They may not make the playoffs again. Sorry Cards fans, if it makes you feel any better I will not see a single live minute of the game as I will be on an airplane.
Before the Super Bowl, the UFC will be airing UFC 94: Penn vs. St. Pierre on Saturday. That should be a great matchup between to of the top rated pound-for-pound mixed martial artists on the planet! Super-Fight is a good description for this matchup.
And, exciting for me, I fly to California to visit my sisters for a week. I plan on enjoying my time away form Minnesota and hope this head cold clears up before take-off.
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