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Projects in the Pipeline (and a note on staging)

Monday, July 07, 2008

It’s probably not good for a new blogger to skip 3 days of posts. I did however, have 3 posts on the 3rd, so maybe that will make up for my lull. 

I spent the weekend of the 4th working on a new project. I mentioned in one of my first posts that I’m starting to piece things together in order to go after the big picture. I was a little surprised by the amount of traffic and interest this blog was getting and I got sidetracked. Back to business. 

First things first, I am succumbing to the fact that it takes money to make money.  We have all heard it a million times, but actually spending that money sucks. Experienced MMO bloggers will gladly show you how they turn $100 into $3,000 but it takes a while (and a strong network) to get that touch. So this past weekend I laid the groundwork for the things that I will be working on over the next couple of months in my “off” time.  I will elaborate more as I progress and hopefully I’ll be able to share some lessons learned (and maybe even a bit of code) to help you build a strong internet marketing foundation as well. If that is something you would be interested in. 

As Shoemoney pointed out in his STFU post , you can’t show your cards up front. However, I think that the super affiliates leave a little too much unsaid. I guess there are little morsels of usefulness if you read between the lines, but the real juice is left for you to discover on your own. Maybe that is the way it should be? Just keep in mind that you can’t make money buying ebooks and trolling forums while you wait for your ship to come in.

I don’t want to digress but did anyone else notice that the people on the winning team of the top affiliate challenge aren’t masking or obfuscating their links?  Are they on their best behavior because of the affiliate programs attention or is this just carelessness?

I’ll start you off with one little word of advice that I learned from creating this blog (my first endeavor into blogging).  Don’t put together your blog engine and leave it for months untouched without a robots.txt, and for that matter, meta nofollows. You will end up with a fat zero page rank like I have. When I build sites professionally, the first thing I do after purchasing the domain is drop a robots.txt with a user agent *, disallow * in the root. Then I set up an index w/ meta nofollows and a dummy landing page. The normal site development process is done in stages (apply named staging) where you build the site locally, push it to a dev site and then when everything is polished and ready to go, you send it live.  Just don’t forget to delete the disallow * when you’re done.

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