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Which Is Best A Professional Looking Site or a Quick Blog?
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Published on March 18, 2013
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Has anyone been looking at the rankings of their sites since Google's latest Panda update?
I replied to a blog post from Kyle about how one of my sites was at page 54,800, now it seems to have gone down even further, 57,400.
2 weeks ago it was on page 1, kind of makes you think what on earth happened. I haven't got a clue.
However, I haven't added that much content to the site in question, but it is the most professional looking site that I own.
Decent graphics - payed for.
All the SEO has been completed, H Tags etc.
Decent articles written by myself, 20.
Age of site 11 months.
Earnings zero apart from adsense which is a few cents.
What is really odd is that the majority of my websites are thrown up really quickly without a huge effort payed to SEO or any of the correctness that is required.
SEO experts say it's the wrong way to do things, I don't personally like paying attention to all the H Tags.
To me they look out of place, I prefer things to look natural but then again what do I know, it seems nothing.
Still all these quickly created blogs do make me money.
By quickly created I mean, the basic pages required, privacy policy, disclaimer & contact me.
I don't have an "About Me" page, not interested in that.
What I focus on is content, content and more content.
I put up 2 posts a day everyday, sounds a lot but you can set these up to auto post on a blog.
What I do is spend 2 days every week working on this blog and create nothing but posts which will give me 10 days worth of posts, that way I always keep ahead of myself.
This is ideal when you take a weekend off!
They are not huge amounts of text, no more than 300 words but I if possible I include a video and always pictures.
Now I'm not saying this is the way to do things but it is what works for me.
It has taken me quite sometime now to find what works for myself, by that I mean the way I like to work.
I have quite a relaxed attitude to doing things, I never say I'm going to write 5 articles in a day, not anymore, I just do what I need to do to enjoy my other hobbies.
It's all about balance.
What I will say though it does pay to learn how to set up a blog correctly because this is the very basics of learning about using wordpress.
I am by no means an expert but I do know what works and what doesn't.
Have crashed several blogs with using outdated plugins, having too many plugins working at the same time until the website came to a grinding halt!
Corrupted my database - which I still say wasn't my fault.
And have been hacked - Now I have a security plugin which prevents that.
Which is better a really professional looking site or a quick blog?
Would love to hear your thoughts.
I replied to a blog post from Kyle about how one of my sites was at page 54,800, now it seems to have gone down even further, 57,400.
2 weeks ago it was on page 1, kind of makes you think what on earth happened. I haven't got a clue.
However, I haven't added that much content to the site in question, but it is the most professional looking site that I own.
Decent graphics - payed for.
All the SEO has been completed, H Tags etc.
Decent articles written by myself, 20.
Age of site 11 months.
Earnings zero apart from adsense which is a few cents.
What is really odd is that the majority of my websites are thrown up really quickly without a huge effort payed to SEO or any of the correctness that is required.
SEO experts say it's the wrong way to do things, I don't personally like paying attention to all the H Tags.
To me they look out of place, I prefer things to look natural but then again what do I know, it seems nothing.
Still all these quickly created blogs do make me money.
By quickly created I mean, the basic pages required, privacy policy, disclaimer & contact me.
I don't have an "About Me" page, not interested in that.
What I focus on is content, content and more content.
I put up 2 posts a day everyday, sounds a lot but you can set these up to auto post on a blog.
What I do is spend 2 days every week working on this blog and create nothing but posts which will give me 10 days worth of posts, that way I always keep ahead of myself.
This is ideal when you take a weekend off!
They are not huge amounts of text, no more than 300 words but I if possible I include a video and always pictures.
Now I'm not saying this is the way to do things but it is what works for me.
It has taken me quite sometime now to find what works for myself, by that I mean the way I like to work.
I have quite a relaxed attitude to doing things, I never say I'm going to write 5 articles in a day, not anymore, I just do what I need to do to enjoy my other hobbies.
It's all about balance.
What I will say though it does pay to learn how to set up a blog correctly because this is the very basics of learning about using wordpress.
I am by no means an expert but I do know what works and what doesn't.
Have crashed several blogs with using outdated plugins, having too many plugins working at the same time until the website came to a grinding halt!
Corrupted my database - which I still say wasn't my fault.
And have been hacked - Now I have a security plugin which prevents that.
Which is better a really professional looking site or a quick blog?
Would love to hear your thoughts.
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