by Jonny | Jan 25, 2012 | Updates
I’m becoming very lazy when it comes to blogging.
I have two websites which operate on the basis of blog type posts and they take a long time to make. I have to research about a subject, find reliable sources and then create an article out of them; either debating pro’s and con’s etc. Especially so for my Armoured Vehicle website. I’ve also been really lazy with my FactsonSpace website. Although my armoured vehicle website has seen increases in traffic, I haven’t really done anything for my FactsonSpace site, other than this week, I created a forum for it here. However that isn’t finished yet.
I need to look at ways of advertising my FactsonSpace website since I believe that is the real money maker out of all my websites. Considering its future potential and that space is a limitless subject which is highly interesting. But I’m no expert, so perhaps when I get my cheque from Google I’ll hire a writer to help me out there. I can see that website going big if directed well; which at current I’m not doing too well at.
by Jonny | Dec 7, 2011 | Updates
I’ve been doing some moving around of my websites to other web hosts recently. However the reason I made the recent move to another host was because I disliked the way their support system is structured. It seems they use third-party providers to provide support for customers. While that was OK for me, the design was pissing me off and I am not going to pay $30 for something like that. – Although if I am honest, they provided a decent enough service and they provided it free (I signed up using a coupon which allowed me to use their hosting services for free). So I won’t bad mouth them or say they were bad, that would be totally unfair.
The only complaint I can make is the way their website’s support ticketing system is setup. It’s as if they want to make it hard to access their billing and support center. – Why not just include a link to it on the main page or something like most hosts do? I know I could have bookmarked it, but I’m too lazy to do that, so instead I more difficulty went to their services page, then their web hosting packages page and clicked the sign up button, viola, I found their billing/support system. – That being said, although silly of me for not bookmarking, it would have been nice if they could have made their website more ‘accessible’ for retards like me. (I don’t use the word retard lightly) 😛
The reason I switched to that host
The previous host I had before the host I mentioned above, sucked big balls. Their server seemed to always overload or have slow downs which would affect me when I was at work typing up an article on my military website or my space website. Plus I believe it probably put off users as even when I thought at the time, things were normal, it was far from the truth. So I made the switch, I saw considerably improved speeds and I didn’t regret switching one bit. As for the crappy host or slow host that I was with, I paid around $15 per month, then I switched to a better host, which was $0 for three months and now I am with a host which is $3.95 per month. It’s quite funny. However now I believe I’m with a host that I’ll be with for a long time. After my websites pick up traffic and after I start making a decent net-profit, I’ll probably switch again to Eleven2 hosting, which is one of the most renowned hosts I’ve come across on a web hosting forum called “Web Hosting Talk”.
It is funny because when I was in the UK, I used to rent a dedicated server which cost me around 120GBP or $240USD per month when I was running my free web host. That server was a beast and the host I was with (WiredTree) were of epic proportions. If I ever need a dedicated server or a VPS, I know exactly where to go, WiredTree or either KnownHost. (As price matters :D)
I moved to another host, which for the good of things, is considerably cheaper. (Although they do seem stable enough, in fact their name is “StableHost”) – They have been around for quite and while and I moved all my websites onto one of their tiny shared packages which should be more than enough for now. (Plus, I cannot complain about the price since I’m paying so little)
I am also using a technology which I haven’t used before called, CloudFlare, apparently this service will run my websites much faster than before for users visiting any of my sites. – Only by a few seconds or from what I’ve tested a few milliseconds, which I have tested with various speed testing websites, so it is win-win. – Although the speed change or difference isn’t by that much. But in my opinion, faster is always better, unless there is something I’m missing with this service that negatively affects my websites. (Which I highly doubt, otherwise it would not be so popular)
Yeah.
by Jonny | Nov 14, 2011 | Updates
Dofollow and nofollow. These are concepts which are hard to explain to people who have never really been interested in SEO or who are starting to learn about the world of search. These two terms are highly important when it comes to working in a content marketing environment. It’s essentially the do or die in terms of obtaining something that’ll be useful or something that might not be so useful.
I’ll try to explain nofollow as simply as possible as my future role will be explaining what these different SEO initiatives are. Nofollow is essentially an instruction to search engines to tell search bots (Google bot, Yahoo Bot, Bing Bot) that surf the web that a link should not pass value.
This is what a nofollow attribute or instruction would look like in HTML format:
<a href="http://google.co.uk" alt="nofollow"> >Google.co.uk</a>
Google.co.uk
(This link is nofollow’ed)
So what does this mean exactly?
It essentially means that my blog (jargoned.com) is not passing value to Google.co.uk as I’ve included the nofollow attribute or instruction within the HTML code above. Search engines will scan this bit of code and they will read the “nofollow” value and they won’t count this link and you will not rank any higher in search results because the link has been nofollow’d.
So why?
Search engines like Google have to have ways to deal with spam and the nofollow attribute gives the option to web owners to nofollow links that have obviously been paid for and to not get penalised for accepting those paid links. Essentially Google looks at paid links as people trying to change or modify the search results unnaturally. Natural link building would usually only involve onsite content that would be of high quality and that would gain traction around the web with people linking to that content without any further assistance from the people who created that content. The nofollow attribute became mainstream when Google announced in 2005 that they would start using the nofollow attribute. They also announced that the nofollow attribute should be used for paid links and that sites could potentially be penalised if they were not nofollow’ing links that had been paid for. This is why nofollow is so crucial to content marketing, as you’d want to preferably be scoring links that are follow links and that have no “nofollow” attributes attached to them; however you don’t want to make it looks obvious in Google’s eyes that you’ve paid for certain links or that you’ve unnaturally made an action that would create a link. – Google will penalise you and this can be quite detrimental as Google have control of 89% of the search engine market.
Rant (No need to read this bit)
I frequent quite a few forums and there is one forum called Digital Point, and in 2011 the forum owner nofollow’d everyone’s forum signatures unless you paid for “Premium membership”. I’ve posted on Digital Point over 1,000 times and before they made the change I had 1,000 links on Digital Point pointing to my websites. Once they made the change I lost over 1,000 follow back links as they nofollow’d them. Whilst all the 1,000 links were from the same site, it was still unfortunate that I lost that many links to my websites’ back link profiles. However, if I recall, the argument that forum members were making were that people who were genuinely contributing with good quality posts were being negatively affected by this change in policy. In my personal opinion I can’t blame the owner of Digital Point for making that decision as people were just registering up and posting a couple times to get a signature link on Digital Point which is the largest digital marketing forum on the internet.
by Jonny | Nov 8, 2011 | Updates
Today there was a pagerank update, which happened to be pretty awesome, although this blog didn’t see any pagerank update and stayed at pagerank 1. Though to be honest I haven’t exactly advertised or done any marketing on this website so in the end in comes down to doing advertising and getting back link backs which is where you incur higher pagerank.
My armored vehicle website got a great update from pagerank 3 to pagerank 4. I’ll be honest and say that I thought the pagerank would stay the same however it seems it increased. Notably I am trying to rank higher for the keyword term “armored vehicles“, which is failing at the moment, however I haven’t placed full momentum on that yet. However pagerank really has nothing to do with SERPs. I’d rather have a higher SERP ranking or higher visitor count on my armored vehicle website rather than high pagerank. To be honest I look at pagerank and see it as an encourgement for your website and it is Google telling you to keep going in my opinion.
Though I somewhat feel perplexed by the fact that my YouTube page somehow got pagerank 5, yet I haven’t advertised that one bit, however somehow it has recieved a high pagerank for whatever reason. Yet really my military website should rank higher if things are to make any sense. Although I guess that YouTube being one of the largest websites on the internet is the reason for the high pagerank on my YouTube profile page. 🙂
by Jonny | Sep 6, 2011 | Updates
I have moved this blog to a new host. The previous host had overloaded servers and I was fed up with having my websites on their servers. Everything was so slow, but now things are great with this new server I moved my sites over to.
According to this host we are on a 8 core, 16 GB of RAM server. Which seems to be working great. I can feel the speed has gone up by x 10 times faster than the previous host.
Now I just have to go over and review my previous host on web hosting talk, so people don’t make the same mistake I did.