An Experiment of a Webmaster

Ok, while this isn’t a business, I think its an ok predictor of how popular a web site can be when it has ok content and very little promotion. The site has gotten a little bit of traffic recently from google and other search engines. It seems my story on the comcast […]

My sitemaps admin screen has shown me the first helpful thing yeserday. The Dark Grimoire started using sitemaps on the forums as of the 2nd to try and get all of its posts indexed where they may have been more difficult to find before. I also modified the posting functions of phpBB2 to notify […]

I’m adding a link directory to this site to help out webmasters who are trying to get the word out about their site. While in development I’m deciding whether I want to make it a webmaster niche directory or not. I have a while to decide that though, because I still need to […]

So, I got my directory submissions done for 2 sites. I set up an email account to receive the emails at yahoo so I couldn’t get spammed and had been checking it regularly. I am fairly happy with the results so far except for one thing. On the game site that I […]

I don’t like to haggle, but I really like the “marketplace” type feel of buying services. A forum that I frequest has a section where people can announce their services and buyers reply in the post. Its a chance for people to promote their services without having any real established presence like a […]

Ok, that headline is a little blatent, but still I meant it. Link to me. I have no problem with blatently asking people to link to me I am interested in getting the word out on my blog. Receiving links to your web site home page is critical for the […]

So far Google Sitemaps is really interesting me. For those who don’t know, Google Sitemaps is googles attempt to let a webmaster describe the characteristics of their site, how often the pages change, and most importantly what pages exist at all. Googles crawler is extremely effective at browsing your whole site and indexing […]

This is another article in my series on starting a web based business. The first article was all about finding a cheap web host with php and mysql. The second told you where to get cheap domain names and set them up quickly. This article is going to take a step back […]

I am not a patient person. I tend to be very impromptu person on top of that, which makes for some interesting times. When I really want something I am borderline obsessive about it. Take web site creation for example. I am constantly researching new methods for traffic generation and promotion. […]

I’ve never actually used blog software before because I’m not a person who normally likes to talk about my personal life, and thats what I’ve always thought of blogs as for. After dipping more into the search engine optimization and content targeted advertising, I began to understand why a blog could be useful […]