I found them because of their recent post, Your Blog Sucks and I Got 20 Reasons To Back It Up

I would like to take each of their 20 reasons a bit further.

Your Blog Sucks When…

You have more ads, banners, and/or widgets than you have words that you have written.

This is a common problem. Too many ads for too many things with no focus. I personally wont place an ad unless I think it is beneficial to the readers. I also see this in forums alot, especially among new forum owners. I am sometimes guilty of this though myself. Sometimes, I am trying out a new ad system and have to populate it with something. (hence the Ad Stripe I posted about the other day)

Your blog’s color scheme hurts the eyes. Literally.

I have had a few say that about this blog, but really, to me, this refers to blogs where the text is light and the background is dark. I specifically did not do that here so as to make the content easy to read. That said, many people opt for something that looks "Cool"; 9 times out of 10 I find "Cool" looks terrible, especially after a few minutes.

Your last post was written 3 weeks ago.

Yes, this is a biggie. If you want people to come back frequently, then you need to post frequently.

Your blog only has one reader everyday: yourself.

HA – I fear this one myself.

Your blog does not offer RSS or email subscriptions.

These are very important things to offer (which is why I offer both). Most importantly, it reminds people about the existance of your site. This is a great lesson for forum owners as well. eMail your members from time to time. You’ll find more come by to post on your forum if you do.

You blog about making money online, but you have never made a cent.

This is a great one. There seem to be more and more experts out there every day. I see this alot with vBulletin webmaster forums. For awhile it seemed as if there was a new one popping up every week. Its the same with forums that tell you how to make money. I always tell people, I make a good living on the internet, but there is alot I dont do and want to learn about that. Part of what I hope I can do is share what I learn with the readers of my blog.

You waste hours putting random ads everywhere instead of writing content.

Yup. Even I have been guilty of this. It is an easy trap to fall into. I have since learned to better focus my time. I’m not perfect by any means, but I am improving. You too should try to focus on building content. I have ad spots I havent even bothered to fill yet. I dont even know if I plan to do so, I may just put something else in those places.

Your content is poorly written with bad grammar and spelling.

Short of normal typos, which I am certainly guilty of, I dont see this too much unless the blog is written by someone for whom english isnt their first language. That said. Try to write intelligently.

Your blog has no visuals that appeals to the readers.

I couldnt agree more. (hence why I posted the photos of my Tee Shirt Model – hee hee) This DOES NOT MEAN you should fill every post with 20 images. But post appropriate graphs and/or illustrations.

Your blog is not usable at all.

I a not sure what they meant by this one. Perhaps they mean blogs where most of the functions dont work and there is a script error message across the top all the time. You cant have much credibility with your readers if you cant even get your blog to function correctly.

Your blog does not link out to any other.

Let me expand on this. Your blog does not link out to any other OR you only link to your friends. People are too stingy with links IMO. How many people link out to bloggers such as Shoemoney or John Chow or a number of others – now go look at who they link to. DOnt be stingy. If you find a blog or website that you like and think your readers would like, share it. (kinda like I am doing in this post)

Your blog and its content is not search engine optimized.

Well, this is a good thing to do, but I wouldnt say your blog sucks if itsnt SEO’d. I gotta disagree wtih them on this one.

Your blog has no information about how to contact you (or who you even are).

I am half guilty on this one. I stil need to creat an About Joeychgo page. BUT the Contact Joeychgo page works just fine!

You do not have a statistic/analysis meter.

I have several, but I think they were reaching on this one.

You don’t network with other bloggers.

This is hard to do. But you can also see the "Your blog does not link out to any other" line above.

Your blog is not using permalinks.

I think they were reaching on this one.

Your blog has no focal point whatsoever.

Hmmm— Not sure what the mean on this one.

Your blog’s home page has no comments in any of the posts.

Uh, every post doesnt get commented on, and doesnt necessarily get commented on fast enough to be on the homepage.

You don’t do anything to promote you and your blog.

I gotta go along with this one. I am often amazed by people who think that "if they build it, readers will come". You have to promote and promote often and continously.

You put no effort into blogging.

Yup, I gotta go here too. WHy bother if your not putting any time or effort into your blog?  Stop cluttering up the internet.

Meander on over to slyvisions.com and take a look. They have alot of good content and articles.

A cool “stripe” appears at the very top of your blog, where you can place text ads. The ad itself is simple, easy to use, and you can have multiple ads rotating according to your needs. As WordPress Plugins goes, Stripe Ad seems to be a pretty well designed and easy to deal with plugin. There are tons of options to control the look and feel of your ads. Installation is also very simple – just download the Plugin, unzip, upload to your WordPress Plugins folder and activate. All the Plugin controls will be located in the WordPress Options section under MBP Stripe Ad.

There is alot you can control as well, such as the size and colors of the ads, how often they are displayed and more. I really like the fact you can rotate ads.

 You can get the plugin at MAXBLOGPRESS for free.

John Chow is already selling ads for $250 a month in this space. He already has 4 sold. $1000 a month in new income for a tiny piece of real estate on your blog. Not bad huh?   I need to start selling ad space here, although I would prefer to get my readership up a bit first.

MaxBlogPress has other plugins available as well such as the MaxBlogPress Unblockable Popup, BlogRush Click Maximizer and the Different Posts Per Page plugins.

Take a look.

Ok – one thing I am doing for 2008 is pushing into a more aggressive approach with Affiliate marketing. Up until now, I have mainly placed Affiliate ads on my sites and used my forum newsletters to further advertise related products.

For those of you who might not know, Affiliate marketing is similar to selling something on commission. You place the ad on your site and if someone buys a product after clicking the link on your site, you get a commission. Sometimes its a percentage, sometimes its a flat fee. It just depends on the advertiser. This can be highly profitable if you have a strong site and a related product.

I have also done some minimal advertising on Google Adwords. I puchase ads on certain keywords and those ads go to whats called a Landing Page. In online marketing a landing page is the page that appears when a potential customer clicks on an advertisement or a search-engine result link. The page will usually display content that is a logical extension of the advertisement or link, and that is optimized to feature specific keywords or phrases for indexing by search engines. Until now I have used this exclusively to advertise one product and on one keyword.

There was an ebook released recently with a target audience of people just like me (and many of you) and the book is FREE and called The Adwords Quality Guide – Free E-Book. It’s free, you might want to have a look.

My intention is to expand and become more aggressive with my online marketing. I intend to place ads on some pretty competitive, high traffic (and expensive) keywords and really try to push my overall revenue. My first goal is $5,000 a month in gross revenue from this method. The basic idea is simple. I place an ad on adwords and bring prople to a landing page where I try to sell them on a product or number of products wherby if they buy, I make a large enough commission per sale that ultimately I profit. The danger is that I pay more for advertising then I earn in commissions. The hope is that I earn more commissions then advertising costs me. With the numbers I am working with, there is a risk I could lose significantly, but it’s a gamble I am willing to take. Winners have to gamble to win. The key, is to only take calculated risks and adjust strategy quickly to minimize losses.

Identified by BitDefender as Trojan.Qhost.WU, the malware modifies the infected computer’s Hosts file, which is a local storage for domain name and IP address mappings and is consulted before domain name servers.

The modified file contains a line redirecting the host ‘page2.googlesyndication.com’. This should point to an IP of a different address. This means the infected machine’s browser read ads from the server at a replacement address rather than at Google.

"This damages both users," says BitDefender virus analyst Attila-Mihaly Balazs, "because the advertisements and the linked sites may contain malicious code – a very likely situation, given that they are promoted using malware in the first place.

"The webmasters are also hit because the malware takes away viewers and possible advertising revenue from their websites."

BitDefender says its software can delete the Trojan.

-also-

US online ad revenues set new high at $5.2 billion

Online advertising is continuing its inexorable march with more than 25 per cent growth recorded in the US over the last 12 months. The report from the Interactive Advertising Bureau and PricewaterhouseCoopers , released this week, shows that internet advertising revenues exceeded $5.2 billion for the third quarter of 2007, representing "another historic high" for a quarter, and a $1.1 billion increase over the same period for 2006.

I’m not going to tell you.

Well, not just yet. See if I posted the URL of the website, you would just ignore my little blog here and go to the 300+ plugin page. So I’m going to make you read a little bit before I give it to you.

I came across this on a post by Zhuli at the bloggeries.com forum. They are shaping up to be a pretty nice little site there.

Back to the plugins. This is just a reference site, they dont host or support the plugins, but they list them and link to them to make them easy to find. Here are just a few of the plugins they list that I found interesting:

• AjaxWP – Adds AJAX to all aspects of your WordPress site, which speeds up the load times.
• WP e-Commerce – Adds a shopping cart to your WordPress powered site.
• Digital Fingerprint – Adds a digital fingerprint to your posts so you can search the web to see if your content has been scraped.
• EasyPayPal – Allows you to accept payments for many services including subscriptions, trial periods, and more.
• PhotoZip – Allows you to upload a .zip file to create an image gallery.
• PodPress – Full featured plugin for podcasters including feed generation, iTunes preview, and download stats.
• YouTube Video Gallery – Displays thumbnails for any gallery from YouTube.
• WP-Footnotes – Allows you to add footnotes to a more detailed post.

Oh yeah, there are a bunch of free wordpress themes on this site also.

So, wanna know where to see this wonderful list? Scroll down to my blogroll on the bottom right.  

Now there is a little lesson on how to make someone read a whole post. Marketing. Remember folks, its all about marketing.

I am trying to figure out a few things. First, what is it that triggers the pagerank penalty for selling links? And second, what is a safe method of link building from here forward.

I have been looking at a number of sites trying to develop a theory regarding linking. Google has said Dont Sell Links. The first problem with this is that I have seen a number of sites that dont sell links penalized. A good example of this is vBulletin.com. vBulletin does not sell links, period. Neither does vBulletin.org. However, both took a PR hit. vBulletin.com has been a PR 7 for as long as I can remember and now is a PR 6, and vB.org has been a PR 6 and was reduced to a PR 5.

However, vBadvanced.com also was a PR 7, and managed to keep it’s pagerank level.

Why?

It’s a mystery to me.

vBulletin.com does have a scrolling bar on the left where they feature forums owned by it’s customers. You cannot buy your way into this list, they have to select you. They generally list you if they consider you to be a good customer with a solid and popular forum. But they also keep this list short. (I have 2 of my forums listed in that list, vBulletin-faq.com and lincolnvscadillac.com) They title this list "Featured Forums".

vBadvanced.com has a similar sidebar list where only a handful of forums are listed (vBulletin-faq.com is also listed from there) – This list is simply of other related sites of interest, which they label "Links of Interest".

vBulletin.org ONLY links to a few other official vBulletin sites. No other external links at all.

There is one other factor to consider. The PR of incoming links. When Google implemented this penalty many sites took a pagerank loss. Some more then others. But regardless, their PR strength was reduced and the sites they link to naturally took reductions in PR strength.

Now, lets turn to statscounter.com. This site was a PR 9 before the penalty. They sold a handful of links on their homepage. They reduced to a PR 6 when the penalty was implemented. They placed nofollow tags on their outgoing  links and almost immediately received a PR 10.

SO, this is a real puzzle. I am having a hard time figuring out this one. What concerns me most isnt the ability to sell links. It’s the ability to effectively obtain links to my sites.

More to come…   Please leave comments about your thoughts and theories.

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Before any of you ask – nope -shes NOT naked, her hair just happens to fall that way in this video. (Although she tells me she has joked about doing Naked SEO reports) – I think that would be a great breakthrough for the SEO community 

I gotta tell you, I cant wait to meet this girl at a conference. (Shame she’s not going to SES Chicago) She really seems to be on the ball. (and cute too!)   Great news on the Pam front. She is putting together a new site for herself. She’s still building it – so I’ll tell you about it when it is ready for public consumption.

Ok – enough, onto her SEO Conference Guide for girls.

Let me explain a little. I live in a suburb of Chicago. Villa Park is a small suburb of about 22,000 people. Since I moved here and bought a home, I’ve become interested in local politics. Being that I have, well, a big mouth, I’ve become a bit known in the circle of local politicians. (in a good way, I think) A new issues has come up for our village, we are having a referendum in Feburary to enact home rule. I’m involved with trying to get this initiative passed and we are forming a citizens Committee for Villa Park Home Rule.

Naturally, the first thing on my mind was "We need a website!" So I registered a domain, Villa Park Home Rule, nd have started to build a blog on the domain. This site needs to be informational. Since the election is in just under 3 months, I dont have much time to do traditional offpage SEO, and that wont likely help much anyway. I dont know people are going to search for terms such as "Illinois Home Rule" and "Villa Park", so I’ll chase those keywords. One of the tricks is going to be to get local newspapers to link to us. If I can accomplish that we should be able to get the rankings and traffic to get the information out there. ANother method I think I will use is the Digital Point COOP Ad Network, since its free and quick. I’ll talk more about the DP COOP at a later date.

Anyway, so I have a pretty good challenge on my hands with this one. But that’s how we learn, through experience.

I had a look at your website today. Very impressive site design.

My Thoughts

Domain Name
Very easy and catchy. Good on ya… in getting a domain name that goes with your own name.

Logo
I love the logo. I would only recommend enlarging the ‘www.joeychgo.com’ slightly. Right now… I can barely read it.

Template
I had a look at your template with 3 different browsers and they all worked well. Good to see that you put so much work into making it work with cross platforms.

Photos Page
I was a bit confused when I went to your photos page. The template widen to full page and the top right navigation buttons changed. Would it be possible to keep the template and navigation consistent throughout the site?

Book Store
I also found this page a little off from the others. I think it was the ‘Popular Articles’, ‘Recent Comments’ and ‘Top Moneymakers’… that was missing… I would recommend keep some of the stuff… for visitors ease of navigation and familiarity.

Contact Form
It works!

Content
The content of your site is excellent. Good to read a site that has excellent content.

W3C Validation
I’m not to sure if it is a concern for you. But I did do a test with W3C validation and it came up with 32 errors.

Conclusion
Very impressive site… just a few things to touch up.

This review was done with 3 browsers (FireFox 2.0.0.9, Internet Explorer 6.02 & Opera 9.24) on Windows XP SP2.

The other comment I noticed was a few people felt I should post more. I can tell you, this is my intention. I am still getting used to posting frequently and staying on topic. I am really trying to refrain from posting about my personal life or politics, which is one of my favorite topics. But its taking some getting used to. My intention is to get up to about 10 posts per week on average. Aside from that, thank you all who have commented. Please feel free and encouraged  to leave comments here about how I can improve this blog.

"Four and a half days of search, all search and nothing but search. SES is the biggest and oldest conference in this space. Seasoned search maven or hopeful newbie, you’ll find speakers who share expertise, new research, horizon’s edge views and knuckles-in-the code tactics.

I’ve attended this conference for the last 4 years, and I got to tell you, even if your a newbie to SEO you should consider attending. Even if just to attend the expo (which is free if you register now) and go to no training sessions, its a great exsperience. I’ll be there for sure, along with many other SEO heavyweights.

Thisis a great opportunity to learn alot about SEO and SEM.

"Pam" who is now filming a weekly video for Shoemoney’s Blog, talks about Search Engine Marketing and SEO events. YouTube hosted, Pam talks about all kinds of things related to the internet and of interest to webmasters, bloggers and forum owners.I have watched this for two episodes now and I am impressed.

Look at the marketing behind it. Pretty girl who is broadcasting relevant news = more readership for shoemoney. This is classic marketing and a great job Jeremy. Kudos!   Learn a lesson folks. This is how you market your website. Develop new things and discuss things people want to read about and will tell others about. Thats what website promotion is all about.

So, how about a little bit more about pagerank.

Everyone seems to be running around trying to figure out what to do about the major pagerank decreases many sites have seen.

There is an interesting post on BlogStorm

If you lost PR this week ask yourself these questions:

• How many links did you have from blogrolls?
• How many directories linked to you?
• How many links did you have from sites that sold links?
• How many links did you have from sites that got links from sites that sold links?
• How many links did you have from sites that got their links from sites that got links from directories?

People are looking at their site for the answers but if you understand how PR is calculated its clear that the issue probably extends far deeper than your site and even the sites that directly link to you.

If the sites right at the bottom of the chain such as directories and low quality blogs all start to lose PR it affects every single site on the web

This is right on the money in my opinion. Whenever Google Pagerank is changed, it affects ALL websites. The reason for this is that PR doesnt exist in a vaccum. All sites affect all other sites. Even sites you havent even heard of affect your site. They link to someone, who links to someone, who links to someone who links to you. If that first website’s PR drops, all the others do as well. This drop might be unnoticable to you in and of itself, but when a large number of sites are affected, the process snowballs and affects everyone.

This is a big part of why you see tremendous drops in PR. Some sites that were a PR 7 for years, went from a PR7 to a PR3.

I suspect the results were not what Google really intended. I say this because if this was Google’s attempt to stop link sales, why wouldnt they publicize it more? Why wouldnt Google say – "Hey –  if you want your pagerank back, remove all paid links and submit a renclusion request." Why is Google not telling us what to do?   Simple – because it isnt over yet. They are still making changes to the PR algo.

Truth is – I believe at this point ONLY toolbar pagerank was affected. The real PR of websites, was not. This is why there are no significant ranking changes.

But, as I said in my previous post. Who cares. Google made yet another mess. Big Deal. My only wish is that another search engine would step in and give Google some real competition. Right now, Google operates without real competition, which is bad for the internet.

I read about it on almost every blog and forum I go to. Some people are near panic, seeing their pagerank drop dramatically, then drop yet again, and yet again. My thoughts on this are simple.

Google is broken. What else is new.

Google breaks it’s own rule on this one. According to the Google Webmaster Quality Guidelines we should "Make pages for users, not for search engines." – Yet we are told though Matt Cutts that we should use rel=nofollow tags if we are selling links. Guess what Google. Kiss my ass.

Yeah, thats right. I said it.  Kiss my ass Google.

Why do I make such a blunt statement? Simple. Many very important, relevant and prominant sites lost alot of pagerank on this update, or penalty or whatever it is. But search rankings held. Do you really think these sites are going to freely give up the income that paid links provides? Nope. Some sites charge hundreds of dollars a month for a link. And dont kid yourself. People buy links for reasons besides PR transfer. People buy links for traffic as well. I buy links from time to time and its mainly for the traffic the link might provide. And if Google next decides to penalize search result rankings, guess what? They will wreck their index and be forced to start showing less relevant and less popular sites as top in the SERPS. Hell, forbes.com and washingtonpost.com even took big hits to their PR. Wanna drop them from your search index too Google?

 Barry Schwartz of SEO Roundtable says it best:

I trust my sponsors, I value their sponsorships and I couldn’t do what I do without their financial support. Some sponsors can’t afford huge sponsorships, so they sponsor in their ways. It is what enables this site and many other sites to function and operate on a daily basis. I turn down sponsors all the time because they are simply not relevant or useful to my reader. I hand select them and for them to be on my site, means I trust them. Why nofollow someone you trust and want to thank? Is that a slap in their face? Will I have to and will they continue to sponsor? Time will tell.

In my opinion, this is a great opportunity for Yahoo to jump into the fray. Google may be all powerful, but it isnt the whole internet. I sometimes think Google forgets the strength of the webmasters in all this and the strength of it’s pagerank feature from a  marketing standpoint. While we all sweat PR updates, we are all talking about Google. Its free marketing. And there is only one reason to give a rats ass about pagerank… It is an indication of your website’s value for link sales. Thats it. Pagerank has no or a minimal affect on a website’s ranking in the search engine. To me its little more then a gold star on my spelling paper. Who cares.

Aaron Wall , the Author of SEO Book, said:

Since Google is demoting PageRank’s viability as a site’s global authority score perhaps this is a time for Yahoo to bring back WebRank, or Ask to launch something like CommunityRank. The Google-webmaster relationship is fraying. This presents an opportunity for whoever wants to take it.

Many webmasters I have talked to are pissed. I say to hell with PR. I hope Yahoo gets smart and comes out with something similar right now. I bet they can snatch the spotlight from Google. Personally, I think Google needs to be taken down a few notches. Evernotice how everything Google does is intended to penalize the very same people who provide it with a substantial portion of its profitability? Go ahead Google, start penalizing rankings next and watch your adsense revenue drop. Lets call it — SmartPricing, in reverse.

I have a new logo in the works. I am pretty happy with it and we are just making minor changes and tweaks to it. I also have a blog designer working on the new theme for this site. Both will help give this site a good solid ‘look’. What you want with a blog such as this really is differentiate yourself from the millions of other blogs out there. Your blog appearance is step one of doing that. The next thing you need to do is demonstrate some expertise in something people want to read about. That will be the next step. The first part of that step will be creating a powerful "About The Author" page. Im not sure how I want to go about that yet. I feel like its bragging, which is not something I want to do. But, I have some ideas that maybe wont look like bragging. So stay tuned.

A new advertising program came out 3 months ago. AuctionAds is a program that pulls eBay auctions, inserts them into ads on your website. You in turn earn commission should someone from your site click an ad and ultimately purchase the product.

eBay thinks so much of this new program that they awarded Jeremy Schoemaker, creator of AuctionAds The “eBay Most Innovative Application-Buyer” award at its Annual Conference on June 12th.

 AuctionAds launched in March and so far have more than 18,000 publishers on board with the new model. I have been promoting this program heavily with my vBulletin FAQ members. I believe this program is a fantastic opportunity for forum owners. We have even created a AuctionAds Forum on vBulletin FAQ so that our 10,000 members can discuss strategies and implementation methods to take full advantage of this new system.

AuctionAds founder, Jeremy Shoemaker, first became famous after posting this photo of himself holding a $132,000 commission check from Google Adsense.

He immediately became a hero of the small time internet webmaster who saw how possible it is to make a significant income from the internet.

 Of course, as more people on the net become familiar with AuctionAds, a number of applications will begin to create ways to use this product. On vBulletin FAQ we have a forum modification script which automatically rewrites any ebay link a forum member posts to the site owner’s AuctionAds ID. (Rewrite eBay to AuctionAds) And because AuctionAds isnt contextual, your free to use it along with Google Adsense because it doesnt violate Google’s TOS.

In short, if your a webmaster, you really should take a look at AuctionAds as an advertising channel.

 

This is a pretty significant honor. Any of the more than 100,000 active vBulletin forums could have won this award. I am grateful for the award, but am careful to point out that this was not due to my effort alone. Many people have assisted with the website over the past year and they deserve as much if not more credit then I do for making this forum such a success.

Specifically, I would like to thank John and Peggy, my co-administrators for all their help. Believe me, this site wouldnt be anywhere near as successful if it wasnt for them. John owns a very successful Brass Band Music forum called TheMouthPiece.com and Peggy owns themesbydesign.net, a site dedicated to providing graphics and forum styles for vBulletin owners. These 2 people in particular have given tremendously to vBFAQ and to the vBulletin community as a whole.

A few facts about vBulletin FAQ.

• vBfaq was Started in January 2006
• We have 8400+ members as of today
• 40% of our visitors come from the USA
• 10% come from the UK
• 5% come from Canada, Australia and India

 

I wrote an article explaining what Google’s problem might be regarding the lack of relevancy, deindexing of sites and dramatic drop in search rankings of many websites. Big Daddy may be wrecking Google and Giving Yahoo, MSN and Ask a chance to knock Google from their pedestal.

Google is Broken – And I think I know how…

I also placed it on DIGG – Please DIGG THIS ARTICLE

Ive been waiting for this for some time. I am using a managed dedicated option, but buying my own server.

This is all a bit new for me. Ive been on shared hosting and currently on a Virtual Private Server (VPS) – But the time has come. In the coming weeks, I will move my sites, one by one, to the new server.

Ok, so here is the server I am about to order.

1U Opteron Dual-Core 165 /2G /2xGb NICs /2x 250G RAID Edition RAID1

Pre-installed Dual-core Processor:
single AMD Dual-Core Opteron 165 1.8Ghz
2x 1M L2 Cache, On-die Memory Controller

Pre-installed Motherboard:
Supermicro H8SSL-i Socket 939 Server Board
ServerWorks HT1000 Chipset
IPMI 2.0 Interface Card available

Pre-installed 1U Optimized CPU Cooling:
Dynatron A51 1U Copper Passive Heatsink
2x Delta 5000rpm 10cm System/CPU Blowers
Custom-fit “Wind Tunnel” (CSE-PT113)

Pre-installed RAM:
major brand 2048M(2G) 128-bit Dual-Channel
DDR-400 PC-3200, 2x 1G, 2x open, 8-Gig Max

Included Storage Devices:
2pcs Western Digital 250G SATA RAID Edition
WD2500SD, 7200rpm, 8-Meg Buffer, Hot-swap

Pre-installed Hardware RAID Controller:
3Ware Escalade 8006-2LP RAID Controller
2x 250G SATA hardware RAID-1, 250G Capacity

Included Removable Media Device
24x Slim CD-ROM, no floppy drive

Embedded Dual Gigabit NICs:
on-board Broadcom BMC5704C dual Gigabit NICs

Embedded Video:
on-board ATI Rage Video, 8M Video RAM

Chassis/Drive Bays/Cooling/Power Supply:
SuperMicro SC811T-260 1U Rackmount Chassis
2x hot-swap SATA carriers & backplane
1x slim CD bay, 1x open FDD bay
2x 5000rpm 10cm System Blower Fans
Custom-fit “Wind Tunnel” (CSE-PT113)
SuperMicro 260watt 1U Power Supply

Included Rack Mount Accessories:
Supermicro CSE-PT08 Rail Kit Included
2x Sliding Rails / 6x Brackets / Screws

Many vBulletin owners will find this site helpful. We offer many articles on topics such as Search Engine Optimization, Web hosting for forums, making money with a vBulletin Forum, and many more. We will be adding to these articles all the time.

We also have the vBulletin-FAQ Forums where a user can get on the spot advice. There are also articles in the forums, such as Adding H1 tags to your forums.

We did so much with vBwebmaster, I am hoping to do even more with vBulletin FAQ – My focus is different with this site. It should develop into being a bigger and better resource.

Starting a blog is pretty easy. There isnt much to it really. All you need is a domain name, hosting and a free copy of WordPress. Maybe I’ll cover those basics in another post.

First – Permalinks

This will place more keywords into the URL and remove garbage url, which make the URL look better to seach engine and people. As far as I’m concerned having keywords in your URL is an absolute must.

Don’t use %day%, %post_id% , %hour%, %minute% or even %second% in your permalink. None of these are helpful. Simple monthly archives are perfectly acceptable.

Here, I use /%year%/%postname%/ —- But I’m known for changing these things around from time to time, so dont irritate me 6 months from now when its a little different. I like to experiment.

Bonus tip: want to go really mad with your permalink SEO? Try dropping date tags all together for %category%! It does away with your neat date tags, though, so you could even try keeping %year% and %month%.

Second, when your setting up your blog, think about your catagory names a bit. They should be keywords or have keywords in them. Google and other Search engines look for keywords. Keywords are words that are commmonly searched for. For example, here I have a catagory called “Lincoln Mark VIII” – Not, MK 8 or Mark 8 – becuase those are less searched for terms. Google likes things like URLs, Title and Description Tags, and a few other things.

Search Engine Optimization, is one of the most important things that currently affects today’s websites. It’s kind of funny. Some people think its just a magic pill you take (or buy) for your website and you are mystically vaulted to the top of Google and Yahoo’s search indexes, ahead of the other 10 BILLION web pages on the internet.

How little they know.

SEO is one thing. Hard work. It takes alot of time and dedication to do well in search engines. This is because Google and Yahoo change the rules almost daily. Oh, and they dont tell you what the rules really are either. So its a game you play. They change the rules, you try to figure them out and implement them.

Ah, but really, thats the fun part. Its always challenging. And the best part, when you suceed, you are rewarded with increased earnings and traffic on your website.