Month of February , 2007

The Google Supplemental Index is something that most site owners know absolutely nothing about. Let’s face it, I don’t know much about it either. I just know that having pages listed in the Supplemental Index is not a good thing.

Pages that are in the Google Supplemental Index are there because they are trusted less. Since these pages are crawled less frequently and have less resources diverted toward them, it makes sense that Google does not rank these pages as high as pages in the regular search index.  read more »

I created a site with WordPress over a year ago. But lately that site has become dormant and I decided turning it into a community would be better. So what I did was, upgrade it to Drupal. There wasn’t too much content on the site, So I did everything manually. I cut and pasted everything.

Yeah, I know…there’s a way to convert WordPress blogs to Drupal. But being a Drupal newbie, I did it the only way I know how. I am happy the way everything turned out, it’s awesome. The site has personal blogs, message board, image gallery, and news feeds.  read more »

http://www.rossgerbasi.com/2006/01/21/extreme-video-plugin-20/

Lately, I’ve been spending a lot of time using Google Video Search and Youtube. You can find some really amazing things out there. They have videos for everything. Until today, I have always struggled trying to add video to my blog. I found a plugin for WordPress called Extreme Video, you can download it here.  read more »

Sage Lewis from Sagerock.com put together a really informative video called Introduction to Search Engine Optimization. It is a primer on SEO. It covers the basics to give newbies a better understanding of off page and on page search engine optimization.

Take the time to check out their site if you’d like some more information. I hope to bring you some more informative videos to help you with blogging in the future.

You can watch the Introduction to Search Engine Optimization here.

I’d like to share with you how to get 100,000 unique visitors. I run several blogs. One of which just reached the 100,000 unique visitor mark, at just over one year. This is all organic traffic. This site is on American Idol, and I have a 16 year old writer coming up with the content. We split all the profits.

Here’s what we did:

* Find an active niche
* Research the niche
* Find out who your competition is
* Find someone who is passionate about that niche
* Build a blog using WordPress
* Setup ads with Adsense
* Write often and passionately  read more »

I recently created a new Drupal site. I’ve been a WordPress guy for over three years now. But I’ve always heard how stable and customizable Drupal is. So I finally checked it out for myself. They were right, it’s awesome.

I’m still trying to figure everything out, but I’m already extatic with the site. I think I may be using Drupal rather than WordPress going forward. If you haven’t tried it, give Drupal a shot, it really rocks.