Trying to figure this ranking issue out is a real pain in the ass!  However, what good learning experience is not difficult?  Exactly….

I’m at the stage of slinging mud at the wall and seeing what sticks. I just noticed that I haven’t put many outgoing links on my site which may look weird to a search engine. So I am in the process of adding a few relevant links to useful spots on the web, the first of which is to the Google Keyword tool. I figure that if any of my visitors want to do their own SEO they might as well start at the right spot, which is figuring out if there is any search traffic for the keywords they would be optimizing for.

No traffic, no point in optimizing the site for those keywords AND if they are counting on search revenues as a significant part of their income, they may want to find a different niche.

Where wuz I? Oh yeah, slingin sh..  stuff at the wall…  So I’ll try the outbound links thing on some of the pages and see what happens.  Still haven’t added any content beyond this blog post, gotta get to that today or tomorrow.  My new best friend (link indexing tool) told me that my inbound link map grew by 200 links in January, too bad they seem to be mostly gray barred pages.

While I am not yet ready to abandon the flaming wreckage of my site as plunges into the deep abyss of 50th page rankings, I have scored a couple of new domain names to begin building anew.  One will be a WordPress blog only, the other will be a traditional site that I will eschew automated link building services on. The focus will be on good content and high page rank links that I retain control of. Be interesting to see how many it will take to start ranking where I want it to rank.

Stay tuned, the saga continues!  (anyone else remember Njarl and HIS saga?)

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