Well, its this time of the year when we have to update our websites and plug in some new stuff so you don‘t get bored from seing the same thing over and over.

Today I finally updated the Content Management System with the latest version of SEO Website CMS and this post is actually more like a test rathen than some meaningful post. If I‘m correct this should work properly, but if I did some typo in the code it would be quite messy.

Please report any problems (if you find) to my email vjakimov [at] gmail [dot] com Thanks... read more..

As you may already know I‘m a big fan of the Domain Aftermarket and during the last few years I‘ve collected pretty good domain portfolio. Unfortunately not all domains are as good as they should be and this case is one of them.

Nearly six months ago I‘ve purchased the domain "usemortgages dot com" and I‘ve immediately developed DB Directory with some mortgage related stuff on it. A month later I‘ve noticed that all search engines are still trying to crawl non-existed/out-dated folders and they don‘t want to collect the new information. Google had very low crawling activity (within 1% of the total number content pages) and my site was not indexed on it (not showing any search results). I thought this was due to the large number of 404‘s (page not found) that was generated from the content switching, but this was not the case.

Eventually after more than 5 months of waiting I finally gave up and considered the domain as "blacklisted domain". This ment that I spent all that time for nothing.... read more..

As you might know, I‘m currently developing my own Blog Network of MFA (dollar-a-day) websites. For my current run, I‘m filling up my web hosting space at GoDaddy with Directories and WordPress Blogs. Yes this time I‘m using WordPress because my SEO Website CMS somehow doesn‘t work with the Godaddy accounts since they have some special permissions on htaccess and its rewrite rules. I‘ll try to fix it but currently I don‘t have the time to bother with this and I‘m using WordPress instead.

What I didn‘t know when I used GoDaddy‘s default wordpress installer was that when it installs it it sets up by default \"Search Engine Privacy\" settings. Those settings forbid Search Engines to index your website and therefore no matter how much efforts you have it won‘t get you indexed. Actually if you knew about this option, its so easy to switch the button and actually disable it and enable search engines to visit your website and actually get indexed, but in most of the cases people don‘t know about it or others (like me for example) don‘t look for it since we all know that the default settings for search engine privacy is disabled on new wordpress installations. That‘s the reason I really got pissed off because GoDaddy decided to change those for you and if you were not careful and did not have the knowledge how to work with search engines you might wonder why your website never got in the Search Engines and you don‘t get any visitors to your new website.... read more..

If you followed my experiments you can see that I did one Directory Experiment few months ago when I started developing my very own web directory network. Now thugs kinda changed and I can hit you up with some updates that kinda spoiled my day.

As you know I tested 1000 directory submissions on 3 websites to see what the approval rate is going to be and now i got the results. The unfortunate thing is that I got only 160 directory listings (I‘m not sure how many directories that is because one directory may have more than 1 listing showing up as backlink). This really spoiled my day since I paid around $60 for that and its really a big waist of time and money. Also I‘m kinda disappointed that most of my other websites got almost the same approval rate which is considered quite low. This makes me re-think my strategy and see what else we can do to get more backlinks to power the new directories... read more..

I feel like the King of the Web! Today I found out that I got one of our company websites included in the DMOZ! That‘s a groundbreaking event that is really amazing both to me and my partners. The thing is that we were trying to get DMOZ listing for the last 6 years and after applying so many times we finally got one listing up.

I was about to say that the DMOZ is dead and now they proved me kidn‘a wrong. Its still breathing (from time to time) but its far from being really successful project. The fact that it took me 6 years to get one website up is really weird and I‘m not sure what this means. Now I know that most of my websites are not that high quality but still some of them are proven to be really good and deserve to be listed.... read more..