Hurray for blogs. What better way can you spend your time than constantly updating shit that you could care less about? We’re all members of PLR sites, right? Enjoy re-writing that goodness? Yea me too. It’s a blast. Getting to post it to your blog so the search engines and visitors think something cool is going on is just awesome. And the best thing? You get to do over and over and over again. Good times.
I have a few static websites built with XSitePro. More than a few really. I add a new page pretty much when the monkey’s fly. They seem to do alright in the search engines. I get clicks. I get Adsense pennies. I make a sale or two. And it just sits there. Minimal changes. Perfect for a lazy guy like me.
I had a website that I changed over to a blog over a year ago. It was a PR4. Tops in the search engines. Like a dumbass I rode the blog wave and decide to change it over to a blog. I kept the static pages that ranked, luckily. Blogging that site became ridiculous. I couldn’t come up with enough content to write about. The hazards, of course, of these stupid super niches I guess. I recently changed it back to a new XSP site. In the last month it’s gone from ranking around #27 in Google for the main keyword back up to #9. As a matter of fact it’s gone from #11 to #9 in the last week. Nothing added.
I think I’m done with blogs except for splogs I’ve been creating on Spaces, Yahoo360 and Blogger. Well, not really. If I have something to say and keep saying it, then I guess Ill blog it. But for building out all this niche content I’m sticking with XSP.
I know some of you are making mad money with your blogs. I’m certainly not making a living of this shit so what do I know? Keep doing whatever it is that makes you happy. Me? I’m just tired of flogging the blogging.
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Keeping New Year's Resolutions // Jan 6, 2008 at 9:34 am
I’ve written a few blogs.
The one I began years ago before I understood anything about how to bring visitors to your blog and the fact that it takes time to do so. Abandoned within a month.
The one that I started because it was a hot market (probably only posted to it maybe 6 or 7 times total).
An internet marketing one that I post to haphazardly. Although it has relatively low traffic, I do still occassionally sell a product that I reviewed there months ago.
And now, I just started http://www.the-new-years-resolution.com
Okay, it’s not the greatest domain name. But this blog will be different. Writing daily (or several times a week at least) about my New Years Resolutions, keeps them in the forefront of my mind (where they need to be). I really believe I have staying power on this one and that eventually, yes that could translate into money, but the money is not the primary purpose. And I guess that is exactly what you said, you are not going to blog about stuff unless you have a real reason to, not just to create content. Frankly, I wish more people would do the same. I’m tired of blogs that appear to be rewritten (or even unedited) PLR.
And I know a lot of people don’t like Blogger, but at this point I’ve used Typepad, Wordpress and Blogger and Blogger is the simplest, easiest and therefore the most fun to work with. Maybe at some point if/when I want to monetize my blog, I’ll get frustrated with Blogger, but for now I’m loving it.
Splork // Jan 6, 2008 at 1:40 pm
I love Blogger. I continue to this day to build Blogger Blogs.
I checked out some of your postings on your resolution blog. Pretty cool. Simpleology. It’s the best.
Franck Silvestre // Jan 8, 2008 at 2:25 am
Hey Splork,
What I’ve found is that it’s better to have a site AND a blog on your subdomain.
I get top rankings for my sites like this.
Now, I’ve just started to outsource my blog posting. I have many “dead blogs”.
Anyway, ehenever I enter a niche, I am almost sure that I will end up where I want to go!
Franck.
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