Day 14: MindPetals Article, Slow Server, Google vs. Yahoo indexing

In: Education| Marketing By: Brian Armstrong

2 Jul 2007

MindPetals Young Entrepreneur NetworkIt’s day 14 of my 30 day challenge to build traffic to my blog. As you recall, I’m proving that blogging can be a profitable business anyone can start via live demonstration!

Today I…

1. Wrote the draft of an article for David Askaripour’s MindPetals.com. Its about Toastmaster’s, a public speaking club, and why I think everyone who is interested in starting a business should join. I’ll provide a link once it goes live on the site.

2. I’ve been battling my hosting company 1and1 to fix the performance problems with the server. I notice it being frequently slow (although never down) to the point where I imagine many users get frustrated and leave. I’ve asked them to be moved to a different shared server (sometimes one bad apple on a particular shared server can wreck the experience for everyone), but they don’t seem to do this without big cause, so I’m staying on them. What has been your experience with the speed of browsing StartBreakingFree.com?

3. I spent some time today checking progress in terms of back links and indexing in both Google and Yahoo. As of today Google shows only 7 people linking to this site (most of which are no-name sites), which I find rather bizarre because Yahoo is showing 4264 incoming links at the time of this writing (many from important high PR sites). I’d heard that Google had a higher standard for what they considered an incoming link, but they seem to be counting poor links and missing some of the best ones. Finally, it looks like only two pages of this website are indexed in Google while Yahoo has indexed 53 pages. I have the Google sitemaps plugin installed for Wordpress and an Archive/Sitemap page at the top (both of which should help Google index the entire site). I’m hoping this is just a temporary side effect of my changing the link structure that will be resolved soon!

This post is part of a series on Website Marketing

Table of Contents:

  1. Building Website Traffic – Three Items Per Day For A Month
  2. Day 1: FeedBlitz, SEO, and Post Series
  3. Day 2: New Article, Amazon Cover Upload, and Digg Comments
  4. Day 3: LinkMachine, Google Website Optimizer, and ProBlogger
  5. Day 4: Interviews, SEOMoz, and Technorati
  6. Day 5: First Page of Google, Bugs, Article Marketing Lifehack.org
  7. Day 6: Email Signature, Blog Carnival, StumbleUpon
  8. Day 7: Link Structure, Pings, MyBlogLog
  9. Day 8: FeedFlares, Reciprocal Links, Broken Links
  10. Day 9: Page Cache, 301 Redirects, and Submitting to Blog Search Engines
  11. Day 10: Removed Bad Links, Earning $5639 Per Year, Tracking RSS Subscribers
  12. Day 11: Article for ProBlogger.net, StumbleUpon campaign, and Longer Domain Registration (attempt)
  13. Day 12: Extended Domain Registration, More Incoming Links, Article Submission
  14. Day 13: Successful and Outstanding Bloggers list, Backlinks Advice from Yaro Starak, and DMOZ
  15. Day 14: MindPetals Article, Slow Server, Google vs. Yahoo indexing
  16. Day 15: Submitted MindPetals Article, Conversation with Liz Strauss, and LifeHack.org Article
  17. Day 16: Engaging readers in conversation, Interview on Calling All Authors, and a Research Tip from John Reese
  18. Day 17: Posted Interview Audio, Faster Server, and New Business Cards
  19. Day 18: Article for LifeHack.org, Contacted About.com Contributer, Updated my LinkIn profile
  20. Day 19: Barnes & Noble, Froogle, and Shopping.com
  21. Day 20: Meta Keywords and Descriptions, New Article, 37Signals Blog
  22. Day 21: New Video On YouTube, Creating a Personal Balance Sheet, and Article Marketer
  23. Day 22: Purchased a Water Buffalo, Apple’s Marketing, and RSS Confusion
  24. Day 23: A New About Page, ProBlogger Article Finished, and More Comments
  25. Day 24: Keyword Research, more Links Exchanged, Article Distribution
  26. Day 25: Translated into 8 Languages, A Version For Mobile Devices, and Submitted To Dozens of Blog Directories
  27. Day 26: More RSS Directories, Alumni Networking, Alexa Screenshot Update
  28. Day 27: New Article on Audio Books, Removed Translation, and Networking Tips
  29. Day 28: Amazon, Amazon, Amazon!
  30. Day 29: Zero Million, Yahoo Answers, Wikipedia
  31. Day 30: Wrapping Up With A Few Final Links
  32. Conclusion

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