Radu Antohi making money online

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.

The guides at about.com are looking for what they call deep links. This may not necessarily be your homepage, but rather an article that you have written from an “expert” point of view.
Your best plan of attack is to:

•Pick an “about” category that suits your site.
•Submit an article that you have written on one of your domain pages.
•Offer a link back. Put a link to their site even before contacting them and said, “I find your site such a great resource that I’ve listed you in our links page.

As you can see becoming completely search engine optimized can be a great deal of work. Your success level might depend on the number of hours you are willing to put into writing search engine optimized words, titles and metatags and the amount of care that you are willing to put into the process of search engine submission. Why are you doing all this again? It is because getting listed in these directories can boost your rankings in Google and other search engine directories!

Seems like old Google acts weird again.

Many datacenters are off and the pagerank for my sites is set at 1. All of them.

That means a new pagerank update is ahead!

You can check your pagerank at many datacenters using:

http://www.digpagerank.com

SO FAR UPDATE RESULTS :

BidForTop.com - PR3

RaduAntohi.com - PR3

HostingLinks.eu - PR3

XETB.com - PR3

GamingType.com - PR3

WoWHype.com - PR3

CheatWoW.net - PR2

CrawlMusic.com - PR3

All others still stay at 0. Honestly, I expected alot more from this update

My latest project, the gadget review blog, was my biggest concern in the past 2 days.

As the constant readers of my blog might know,  I am an adept of in-content links. Weirdly, I didn’t use articles or blog posts at all in this SEO project.

The site has unique content. Would that be a factor? YES. I made a test. I have 3 other blogs which are one month old and still aren’t indexed by google, though I did some link building on those too. This blog is fully indexed (it has 9 pages, others were blocked by me in order to avoid google’s duplicate results).

Check : http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=site%3Areviewgadgetblog.com&btnG=Search

As you know, I am an adept of wordpress SEO as well. It seems like it worked this time. “gadget review blog” is a competitive keyphrase with over 6,000,000 competitors.  My 2-day old blog is ranking on the second page already.  Not to mention other competitive keyphrases for example:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=asus+m50sv-a1&btnG=Search

 http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Portable+Wireless+Projector+Review&btnG=Search

From those rankings in the past 2 days ReviewGadgetBlog.com has received over 5,000 pageviews.

Weird? Weird.