The soider has been here along with yahoo and msn. But as yet no entry in google? Am I in the sandbox?

Summary of today’s Actions

Bought the site.

Transfered it.

Total time 2.5 hours.

Tested out ok.

Wrote this post.

Running total: -$608.35

Outstanding tasks are to add the co-op code…

Summary of today’s Actions

Bought an existing site - free.

Transfered it- ok still doing this as I don;t know how to move email accounts…..

Wrote a few articles and submitted them to get backlinks.

Total time 1 hour.

Tested out ok.

Wrote this post.

Running total: -$558.35

Outstanding tasks are to brainstorm a better use of this funcky sounding site name…..

How will backlinks work in the future? See Google’s blog it seems google no longer likes link exchanges. Now I have a problem, they are saying that a ‘unrelated’ sites links won’t be counted maybe even count aginst you….. But what is an unrelated site? Lets take my network - they are releated - a site a day….. Theres a relationship. On another site I have links from the same area (Tunbridge Wells) - a very big spread of sites… I sort of understand why they are doing it, but it could backfire as relationships are a strange thing. Maybe google beta tool shows how they define relationships, I hope not none of my sites fit.

I love my Ipod and I really hate Apples. That was until a friend showed my a new one - its a unix box! When did that happen? Anyway I bought an existing site for apple and Ipods which has a forum on it. I’ve got no idea what to do or how to make money out of a forum…

Summary of today’s Actions

Bought an existing site.

Transfered it.

Wrote a few articles and submitted them to get backlinks.

Total time 3 hours.

Tested out ok.

Wrote this post.

Running total: -$518.35

Outstanding tasks are find directories for this site…..

On my list of things to fix was how to link my sites togeather. By the end of the year there maybe close to 400 sites… As new sites come online I wanted to be able to tell google about them in addition to the directories, articles and general backlinking I’m doing byhand. Now I didn’t want to mangage it all by hand - the interlinking of sites - as some sites may die others may need more of a push. So my first line of thinking was a central MYSQL DB with script. Perhaps a database with weighting for certain sites, stats, ad types etc etc. I did a quick search and found a few - most with big price tags…. I could buy a lot of sites for that sort of money I could alos write it myself, my php and perl isn;t too bad, but I just don’t have time…. I’m still debugging the spider for my mobile phone site  

Anyway I had heard of a co-op service for webmasters being run at Digital Point 

I checked it out and it seems to be working well getting people into Gooogle with some pretty interesting Page Ranks via the backlinks and its FREE! Yes FREE. It also tries to keep out bad - doing Evil to google sites. So it isn’t a link farm or anything like that, but a nice way for webmasters to trade links for free on a 1 for 1 basis.

It seems to fix some of the problems I have, namely a way of linking my sites, a way of getting extra backlinks and it also stops my sites being tied too close togeather as the ads will be on other sites too. There are rumours (anyone know for sure?) that the big G doesn’t like small groups of sites that only link to each other *and* are on the same class C IP address. I’m worried about this and I’m thinking my next reseller account needs to be on a different C class… I guess this is a left over problem from link farms and the new current blog farms being used. 

So anyway I spent the morning playing - must set deadlines, must set deadlines…..

Its all set up and you can see it working at the bottom of this Blog. I’m not sure what format I like yet or where it will go, I may play with different types on different pages.

One other thing, if you use the link above I get a 10% traffic referal bonus - I’m struggling to get this site in google - so any help you can give will be put to good use.

Are there any other good schemes out there?

I have another really old white lable site (sister to the Mobile phone site) that is still in google, but never made it to froogle It has never made any money.

As it was a sister site to teh Mobile Phone site I also stopped using it.

Anyway I also plan to refresh the site and see if I can get it back in google and maybe froogle or Google Base.

Summary of today’s Actions

Dusted out the domain.

Wrote a few articles and submitted them to get backlinks.

Total time 3 hours.

Tested out ok.

Wrote this post.

Running total: -$498.35

Outstanding tasks are find directories for this site…..

I have this old white lable site that used to be in google and even froogle It made just enought to pay for its hosting!

I stopped using it as the payment system was really bad and the suport forum got hacked….. Without the support forum changing the site was pretty hardwork.

Anyway I plan to refresh the site and see if I can get it back in google and maybe froogle.

Summary of today’s Actions

Dusted out the domain.

Wrote a few articles and submitted them to get backlinks.

Total time 3 hours.

Tested out ok.

Wrote this post.

Running total: -$498.35

Outstanding tasks are find directories for this site…..