RaduAntohi.com - No conformity

I have been doing some experiments on my gadget review blog lately (which is run on WordPress) and here’s what I discovered:

1) Never allow search engines to index your tag/archive/category pages. My rankings dropped dramatically since I allowed that and from 2k unique visits from Big G I’m now receiving barely 200.

2) Do not use the following permalink structure: blogurl.com/category/postname/; I used it and my rankings fell even more.

3) Enable “Show full post” in wp options, don’t make it show a brief of the article then a “Read the full article” link. Search engines sometimes treat is as duplicate content

4) Do NOT create tags. Even if you make search engines disallow them, if one was already indexed, it’s too late. NEVER create tag pages, I will always remember this mistake. It still costs me lots of visitors.

That’s about all I discovered so far.

I have applied to www.payu2blog.com 2 months ago and I already forgot about it. Guess what, today I am receiving an email that I was declined. Here’s exactly how they sent me the email:

Thank you for submitting your blog at PayU2Blog.com.  Unfortunately, at this time your blog does not qualify.  Below are the standard requirements that your blog must meet for consideration into the PayU2Blog network.  Simply meeting this criteria will not guarantee acceptance into the network.  However, if you make the necessary improvements over the next 4-6 weeks please resubmit at that time for further review.

Keep Blogging,

 Margie
www.PayU2Blog.com
Margie@PayU2Blog.coma

Now, dear Margie, tell me which of the criterias my blog doesn’t meet. Age? No, because I signed up using another name of a relative.  I visited their site again and that site is a newbie-style design. Check, little CSS and lots of hard-loading images.

Their name: PayU2Blog. Does it seem very serious to you? Neither it did to me.

I signed up 2 months ago just give it a review, not because I was interested in their service. And this was my review.