An Experiment of a Webmaster

Google has finally fully indexed this site. You can look back to the first post to find out when it was and do the math to figure out how long it took. An odd thing about the google index times is that the google index regularly had 2 pages of mine included at anytime. Whenever I’d search on my site name, the google index would return the home page and the most recent post. After I made another post, the previous one would not be returned once the google index was updated. Exactly whats going on with that is something I’d like to know. Maybe google didn’t feel I was important enough to list all of the pages until I hit a certain threshold.

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 create a design that makes the wordpress theme flow with the directory. We’ll see how it goes

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. When I can’t get instant gratification I normally freak out and the value of whatever I was doing goes down in my mind.

Unfortunately this means for SEO too. I know that traffic takes a while to build, but I am a stat watcher I don’t just mean this site either, since it just started and expecting it to have traffic would be crazy. I have a site thats fairly well established, its been around for few years now. I constantly use google analytics to figure out where my users are coming from and how I can direct them at my sites registration.
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I decided to make my experiments with internet business a public affair. This opens me up to the criticism associated with making stupid mistakes, but at the same time hopefully I’ll be corrected when I make them.

I’m not inexperienced when it comes to the internet as I’ve been a professional web programmer off and on since 1999. Along with some people more talented in the grammatical arts than me, I also currently run The Dark Grimoire, an online roleplaying game.

I have a lot of knowledge from a business perspective about how to run an online service business. What I’ll be learning, along with everyone who tunes in, is how to add search engine optimization and affiliate marketing to my bag of tricks.