Archive for September, 2006

Every few days I see a new thread posted on the various webmaster forums I frequent asking how important meta tags are to search engines. Here is a quote from Matt Cutt’s interview with John Battelle’s Searchblog.

We’ve seen the whole tagging idea in Web 1.0 when they were called meta tags, and some people abused them so badly with deceptive words that to this day, most search engine give little or no scoring weight to keywords in meta tags. You can read the rest of the article at John Battelle’s Searchblog

One of the sites I have been anxiously waiting for Google to index finally made it in this weekend. It is pretty nice to finally show up. So how am I gonna celebrate? I am gonna rip it down and start over. Isn’t that the norm?

I have noticed something else during the indexing progress. I have some of my sites on their own IP and some of them are on shared hosting from bluehost.com. I have been really pleased with Bluehost and think it is a great value, but I have noticed it takes longer for Google to find new websites. The other sites have shown up very quickly compared to the ones of a bargain hosting company.

I would change my name to Dr. Evil and take over the world. Then I would buy the internet and sell it back to it’s glorious creator Al Gore. Is there a sarcasm button around here?

I have all of these really good ideas, but I am trying to do all of this myself. So I get started on one project, and before I finish I think of another project. I am not a coder or a designer so it takes me longer to accomplish some tasks than it should. An example would be a game website I am working on, Warhammer Online Game Site. I downloaded and installed Joomla for that project. I made the header, customized a template I got on the net, started learning about Joomla which I had never seen before, started trying to become a Joomla security expert, and a billion other things. That is one example, but my portfolio of domains is pretty close to 30 (after 60 days).

That is my bitch and moan for the day, but I also gotta say I am very pleased with what I grossed the first month of my making money online adventures. I am definitely reassured there is plenty of money to made online. I now just have to work on getting my costs down. Oh, and find a coder and designer.