Thank you for the tip Sam. I'll look into CSS. On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 1:41 PM, Sam Kreimeyer wrote: > Hey Mike, > > Not a bad start, nor a bad idea. I would drop the "Pay me $5 for the > link," though. It really sounds like you're doing something underhanded. I > would seek out alternative ways to market the site and pull some revenue. > It looks like you have Ad-Sense or something similar running already. As > long as you're bringing people in, you'll make a few bucks off the > click-throughs. > > My advice for getting people to stay is to bring a forum into the website. > I use phpBB on a website I started recently (http://whoarethedead.com/), > and it's about as easy as it gets. Boards are a great way to give people a > fun distraction while they're at the site. For your purposes (community > building, I presume), it would seem almost essential. PhpBB has plenty of > free tutorials, templates, a massive community and easy session > integration, which allows for some cool things. Dealing with spam bots > takes a little work, but google has plenty of help (though you might want > to keep them. Sometimes they're hilarious). FTP it over to your web host > and go through the install.php script to get it going. It's mostly > point-and-click (your web host does have PHP on board, right?). > > I peeked through some of the source on the pages. There are a TON of lines > dedicated to style. Have you considered referencing a style sheet? You can > do a lot with CSS, and it's a massive time saver for changes across > multiple pages. I didn't use a CMS for my site (addicted to rolling my own) > and found that formatting with style sheets is actually pretty easy. You > can check out mine if you want an example of what they look like > http://whoarethedead.com/WATD.css. Basically, I define classes in CSS and > then identify
blocks with those classes. Ultimately, it's the same as > what most toolkits would do. As long as you have a good reference guide, > you should be able to do just about anything. > > And my (from limited experience) SEO info-nuggets: > > 1- Good tags, clear formatting, etc. are nice, but they guarantee nothing. > 2- Without regularly updated content, you'll get deindexed. Heed the words > of E-40 and Scrape! Scrape! Scrape! > 3- Back-links. Get them. Do whatever it takes that is still cost-effective. > 4- Rate of change in traffic is more important than total rate (think > trending). > > Probably not as tasty as chicken-nuggets, but born from experience. If you > get the first 3 locked in, you might look into traffic sharing, buying out > competing niche-sites and such. Good luck! > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- :-)~MIKE~(-: