Did you pay too much for your domain name?
I thought about changing the name of this website: cashflow.gohanyo.ca. It’s not catchy, it’s not trendy - and quite frankly, now’s the time to make any major changes before we really get going! (To quote Oceans 13, this is what we call a ’soft opening’)
So I checked out a few name possibilities. HowToMakeMoney.blogspot.com. Taken. HowToMakeMoneyOnline.blogspot.com. Taken. MakeMoney.blogspot.com. Taken. See the pattern? When I visited the sites, they’re just inactive sites that haven’t had posts in years…
I did find one possibility: makeonlinemillions.blogspot.com. I started the blog in case I want to switch to this address in the near future. Then I started to research ways to redirect traffic. You know when you open that webpage, and then in a few seconds you are “redirected” to a new site? I thought that perhaps I could do that with a few different sites, all redirecting to wherever I was calling home at that time.
I googled to see if there was a quick way to do a redirect from a blog. Apparently there’s a way to do it with a meta tag and apparently this is bad.
Steven Hargrove has a website on some cool web stuff and Search Engine Optimization info. He says the following about using HTML and meta tags to redirect:
HTML RedirectionHow do you redirect using html you ask? Here is how: DONT!
Over the past 4-6 years, use of meta tag refresh redirection has been abused for uses in relation to SPAM. The result of this and other scenarios of mis-uses of it, is that when using it, that page WILL be de-indexed from every search engine.
NOTE: This also applies to javascript redirection. Search engines can easily detect javascript and meta tag redirection, so just dont do it, use the 301 redirect.
The solutions he proposes to redirect using a 301 redirect isn’t really an option from a blog like this one powered by Blogger. Bottom line? Still looking into the matter…
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March 4th, 2008 at 3:43 am
I wonder if it will de-index the page that uses the meta redirect or the page that receives the redirected traffic…
April 29th, 2008 at 5:47 am
Yea! I agree with you. I went through similar problem to get a name for my blogspot.com site. I eventurally got one similar to yours, howtheymakemoneyonline.blogspot.com. Now I’m stuck looking for ways to promote/drive traffic to to it. Please do let me know if you have any tips
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May 1st, 2008 at 5:47 am
Hey Alex - cool to know that someone reads these old posts.
What I’ve finally learned after reading everyone else’s stuff and some personal experiences, is the traffic question is the big issue. You can use social media (like stumble) to get bursts of traffic, but the question is how well will they convert into money?
I think one of the things we’re realizing is that the people who blog about ways to make money online (generally speaking), don’t click on adsense ads, don’t buy affiliate products through your links (because they’ll sign up for their own affiliate number and buy through their own link), and are generally searching for information. Which is great… if you’re a guru. (I think the Making Money Online model is basically, “this is how I made money online, and you can do it too!” - and then people sign up for whatever products you’re recommending.)
(Overall, we’ve still lost money online, so we don’t have the street credentials).
I think now, we’re going to target a different market. (One of the things we’re trying now is focusing on high paying keywords). And the way to build traffic is through building solid backlinks (i.e. article marketing) or black hat seo tactics. Google both and you’ll see what I mean.
Good luck!