How I'm Fixing My Messed Up Websites
My Messed Up Websites
In the past, building websites without good information and good tools, I've made some really bad decisions. I'm coming to realize through the training here at Wealthy Affiliate how not having the right information has cost me greatly.
Do you see the picture? That's the brand new pressure gauge that I put in one of my pieces of equipment last week. The previous pressure gauge had gotten too cold one night and the glycerin filled part froze ruining the readings.
I need this gauge. It tells me how much water pressure I am using to clean carpets and upholstery. Would you like to know what a bad pressure gauge does to my business? It costs me money.
If the pressure is too low, I wont be getting all the dirt out and I'll have unhappy clients. When the pressure is too high I overwet the carpets and the clients are unhappy again. High pressure uses too much cleaning solution as well, and that is a cost that can be controlled with a simple and inexpensive pressure valve.
Why Good Tools Are Important
Some of the instruction I've gotten in the past has caused me to keyword stuff articles. No one telling me my linking internally and externally was done all wrong. No gauges to help.
My keyword searches were a lot like my busted gauge. From experience I could tell when I had enough pressure, but it was near impossible to tell when I went over the line into the "too much" pressure side of things.
One of the beauties of Jaxxy is the combination of the SEO numbers along with the QSR numbers. Those are critical gauges to telling me the proper words to choose for a new site, as well as guides to ranking once I have more traffic.
Giant Websites Made Without Good Guidance
My largest website is old, over ten years old to be exact. It's a disaster. I want to sell it or fix it. It still gets some good traffic. Part of the reason I am part of Wealthy Affiliate is I want to fix that website or sell it and let someone else fix it. I think its the worlds largest website on the topic, even though I've (barely) begun to pare down all the thin content.
I came to Wealthy Affiliate because I wanted to learn how to do it right.
I'm always telling my children as I train them to work with me in my service business, just do it right the first time. It's always less costly even if it takes a little more time and effort,
It's hard to do it right the first time if you haven't learned the right way in the first place.
Good Gauges and Grief Goes Away for Good
I am amazed at the tools that Wealthy Affiliate has assembled that act as indicators to help us stay in safe limits. The photo of the pressure gauge shows it blew its top, That was my fault, I damaged it putting it in the machine.
I replaced the Gauge with another new one, and now I once again have the proper information and a working gauge as a tool to keep me in the proper limits for my business.
I am learning so much while using the Publishing Tools. The grammer check is phenomenal. Who doesn't love Jaxxy? Where would we be without the affiliate tracking and clicks indicators? What about all the gauges built into our Wordpress platforms? My writing is improving using the All In One SEO.
What a great platform has been built here, and the tools and gauges that guide us through content research, content writing, grammer, and then tracking our progess. I've never been a great writer, and its the most difficult part of being online for me, It's why I make the effort to blog here with posts that are longer than just a few words.
Doing hard things will help me get better, and the task will be easier. I think the research and writing tools are my favorite so far on this platform.
Please like this article if its a help or encouragement in any way at all. Thank you.
Leave a comment below, tell me and anyone else who stops by, what are your favorite tools and gauges here at Wealthy Affiliate?
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That was a pleasure to read James!
You are certainly in the right place now to fix your old websites.
The tools, training and community support here are all second to none in my opinion.
I wish you the best of luck my friend!
Thank you. As far as tools go, the part of the blogging that I like is getting feedback quickly about the things I've written. With our websites the reward of interaction and response can take weeks or much longer.
Thank you. What's your favorite tool in WA?
I think you have a great style of writing and I hope you are able to get your old website working better soon.
Just do a little on it each day and other time on a new website building it right from scratch.
Wealthy Affiliate gives us all the tools.
Lily 😁🎶
Thank you for your feedback. As I mentioned, there's still a possibility I may dump that old site, or perhaps write all new content and trash the old as I go.
You're in the right place, then, Siski! Here at WA we have a bunch of tools, and very helpful people who know their way around a website or two!
Not sure if I have a fav tool, as I have used many of them, Jaaxy, training modules, etc.
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Hi James
I agree with your general messages in this post so please take my next comments in the constructive spirit that they are intended...
'Do it right the first time' works well in the context of providing a service especially when all the necessary learning can be done upfront.
Most of us need to be careful that we don't carry that ethos across to other contexts where it is less useful.
I learned the 'do it right the first time' ethos in the corporate world during the late 70s.
When I left in the 90s and became self-employed this ethos didn't carry across to entrepreneurship so well. It implies that mistakes are not an option.
The challenge as an entrepreneur, most of whom have little enough capital, is that with this ethos, they don't get started for fear of making mistakes. As an entrepreneur, it is important to do what we can to get going, learn on the fly, accept that we will make mistakes, and learn from them.
I'm sure you would agree that the possibility of setbacks and failure need to be thought of as learning opportunities (useful feedback).
;-)
Richard
Thanks Richard!
Let me first say, thank you for your criticism. I mean that with all sincerity.
I have to agree with the sentiment of your reply. The premise that I was trying to expound on was simply that learning the right things to do, and then doing your best to implement them in the first place is better than going at something without clear instruction.
As an example, when my first children were little, and I played Santa's workshop assembling toys and furniture that were written in little more than pigeon english. Missing parts did not help either.
If I had the proper tools, parts, and instruction, the process would have gone smoother, and the results would have been quicker, and in some cases constructed better as well.
I also agree that not everything in our analog world translates equally to a digital world, or vice versa. Some things don't translate or transfer well, sometimes not at all.
Again, a hearty thanks to you for your input.
Thanks for your reply. Glad to hear you appreciate constructive criticism (as do I).
In practice, I was really trying to add a little clarity as opposed to criticise :-).
I look forward to more interaction over time ...
Richard