Breaking Free
How to Quit Your Job and Start Your Own Business
Day 12: Extended Domain Registration, More Incoming Links, Article Submission
29 Jun 2007
This is day 12 of my 30 day marketing challenge to demonstrate blogging can be a profitable business to start.
My three tasks for the day were…
1. Yesterday I couldn’t get my web host to extend my domain registration. But based on a comment by a reader, I accomplished this through GoDaddy.com today. My domain is now registered for 9 years. Thanks!
2. Sent out 10 more link exchange requests through LinkMachine.
3. Did another search on Technorati for related blogs and submitted an article to Startup Spark and Tyler Cruz’s Blog.
My Stumble Upon advertising is almost done ($4 of my original $50 budget is left). I will report tomorrow on how effective it was and the feedback I got from Stumble Upon viewers.
This post is part of a series on Website Marketing
Table of Contents:
- Building Website Traffic – Three Items Per Day For A Month
- Day 1: FeedBlitz, SEO, and Post Series
- Day 2: New Article, Amazon Cover Upload, and Digg Comments
- Day 3: LinkMachine, Google Website Optimizer, and ProBlogger
- Day 4: Interviews, SEOMoz, and Technorati
- Day 5: First Page of Google, Bugs, Article Marketing Lifehack.org
- Day 6: Email Signature, Blog Carnival, StumbleUpon
- Day 7: Link Structure, Pings, MyBlogLog
- Day 8: FeedFlares, Reciprocal Links, Broken Links
- Day 9: Page Cache, 301 Redirects, and Submitting to Blog Search Engines
- Day 10: Removed Bad Links, Earning $5639 Per Year, Tracking RSS Subscribers
- Day 11: Article for ProBlogger.net, StumbleUpon campaign, and Longer Domain Registration (attempt)
- Day 12: Extended Domain Registration, More Incoming Links, Article Submission
- Day 13: Successful and Outstanding Bloggers list, Backlinks Advice from Yaro Starak, and DMOZ
- Day 14: MindPetals Article, Slow Server, Google vs. Yahoo indexing
- Day 15: Submitted MindPetals Article, Conversation with Liz Strauss, and LifeHack.org Article
- Day 16: Engaging readers in conversation, Interview on Calling All Authors, and a Research Tip from John Reese
- Day 17: Posted Interview Audio, Faster Server, and New Business Cards
- Day 18: Article for LifeHack.org, Contacted About.com Contributer, Updated my LinkIn profile
- Day 19: Barnes & Noble, Froogle, and Shopping.com
- Day 20: Meta Keywords and Descriptions, New Article, 37Signals Blog
- Day 21: New Video On YouTube, Creating a Personal Balance Sheet, and Article Marketer
- Day 22: Purchased a Water Buffalo, Apple’s Marketing, and RSS Confusion
- Day 23: A New About Page, ProBlogger Article Finished, and More Comments
- Day 24: Keyword Research, more Links Exchanged, Article Distribution
- Day 25: Translated into 8 Languages, A Version For Mobile Devices, and Submitted To Dozens of Blog Directories
- Day 26: More RSS Directories, Alumni Networking, Alexa Screenshot Update
- Day 27: New Article on Audio Books, Removed Translation, and Networking Tips
- Day 28: Amazon, Amazon, Amazon!
- Day 29: Zero Million, Yahoo Answers, Wikipedia
- Day 30: Wrapping Up With A Few Final Links
- Conclusion
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Freddie
February 18th, 2008 at 11:51 am
Brian,
I am having a problem with my PageRank cache and backlinks, neither are registering. Everysince I put my blog into my homepage it hasn’t been registering. Is this an error with Blogger or am I doing something wrong?
I noticed your page recently cached, backlinks, and a strong PageRank.
How did you get cached? This was happening to my website before I put the blog in there.
Thank you for any further assistance you could provide, but I am having a blast following your 30 Day Challenge.
Freddie
February 18th, 2008 at 12:00 pm
I just bought your book for two reasons:
1. I have asked you so many questions already, which you have answered and I appreciate it.
2. Because at Day 12 of this challenge I have learned so much from reading your blog and I haven’t even finished yet.
So, I thought what else could I learn from your experiences. I bought the book and am looking forward to reading and gaining from your insights.
Thank you,
Brian Armstrong
February 20th, 2008 at 6:49 pm
Hi Freddie, Thank you for the kind words! Regarding page rank and cache, the short answer is that there is nothing you can do!
You just have to wait and let Google do its thing. It can take a couple months.
You can go out and get more backlinks, but I think the traditional strategies people have used for these are a little dangerous. I purchased some links when I was getting started, and I think it helped, but I’m not sure I would do that again because you don’t want Google to flag you for doing that and drop you. You can also do these link exchange programs and all that, but its probably not worth it. Also leaving comments on other people’s pages does nothing because almost all of those have “nofollow” tags in them. Google it if you aren’t sure what it is.
That being said, best way to get back links I think is to:
(1) Link to other people in your posts. They will notice and link back. Don’t ask for it, but it will happen.
(2) Write quality posts.
This is hard and not an “easy” way to get links, and it takes time, but I think thats the most effective way.
You can try some of these trickier SEO methods in the short run, and I did, like purchasing incoming links, just keep it mind it is a little riskier.
Good luck!
Brian