This weekend we’ll be getting things ready for Easter and taking our daughter out for her birthday. I also plan to start reading my new book, The A to Z of Saving Money. This is a new ebook collaboration among several personal finance bloggers, and I’ve been looking forward to reading it for a while. If you’d like to enter a contest for your chance to win a copy plus $250, then follow the link at the bottom.
Blog News:
Even though we just had a niche site update, I can tell you that things are starting to turn around. Due to some recent changes, my iravs401kcentral.com site appears to now be “out of the sandbox” and is hovering around on the third page of Google (between spots 20 and 30). It looks like I’m back in the game! I’ll continue to push on ahead and do another full niche update in a few weeks.
Now that I’m learning so much about Google and how to rank, I’m going to start applying some of the same secret recipes to My Money Design. In particular, I’ve got one page ear-marked that I would really like to focus on. So I will be desperately trying to improve the rank of that page as much as possible and see if I can use it to improve my income opportunities (like we were talking about last week).
Sorry, but I’ll keep the identity of this page hidden so as not to jade the experiment. But I do plan to do a post about it if I am successful.
Getting an internal page to rank is something I consider to be slightly more tricky since you can’t really use a lot of the same methods. But it’s a good quality content page and I’d like to see it on page 1 of Google, so here I go!
Other Bloggers Who Want to Read the A to Z of Saving Money:
In case you missed them, here are a few great stories you should check out this weekend:
- The Frugal Path – Can We Afford a Baby?
- L Bee and the Money Tree – This is Why Your Blog Sucks…..
- Monster Piggy Bank – The A-Z of Saving Money Book Launch
- Road to One Percent – Niche Site Project – What am I doing wrong?
- Budget and the Beach – So you want to save money?
- Young Adult Money – 3 Reasons You Should Blog
Carnivals & Mentions:
My Money Design was featured on the following sites this week:
- Carnival of Financial Independence, second edition
- Lifestyle Carnival! Not The Money Mail Carnival
- Carnival of Financial Camaraderie- End of Winter Edition
- Carnival of Money Pros
- Carnival of Financial Planning
Thanks to everyone for linking to my site and enjoying my posts. I really appreciate your support and hope you continue to visit!
Posts This Week:
- Who is the Best IRA Provider When You Don’t Have Much Money to Open an Account?
- Building My Money Earning Sites – Niche Website Update Part 3
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Thanks for the mention MMD. And they a year ago last Wed it was 82 around here!
I’ve been looking more and more into page rank and such and was wondering if you knew of any sites for a beginner? I’ve also been considering using Longtail pro, but not sure if I can afford it quite yet.
Good luck with the experiment and have a great weekend.
I remember it being that warm. It was really nice, and I got a lot done outside.
No problem on sending your something on pagerank! I’ll email you later.
Good for you and I hope you let the experiment out of the bag once you are done with it. I’m working on my site as well updating and making sure my pages are the best they can be. There is so much to learn but with great blogger friends that help each other out it makes life a lot easier! Cheers, have a great weekend.
Thanks CBB! I hope you can gain some more popularity on those pages you’ve updated. I’ll be sure to share my secrets as I figure out what it is that I’m doing.
Good luck getting your page to rank. I am working on something similar… hopefully it works.
Good luck to you as well. I’m glad to see we’re all trying to do some more improvements.
I`m so done with winter now.. 6 months with snow,ice and bad weather. Time for spring!
Amen to that! 6 months of this stuff is enough for me …
I just returned from my trip to India. As I landed in Newark, I noticed snow on the ground. You can imagine someone experiencing hot to cold weather in a matter of a day. I am happy to be back. Now, I can read all your post going forward MMD! I didn’t know that you have a niche site, so I need to take a peek at that soon.
Nice to hear from you again Shilpan! Actually I can imagine the hot to cold weather experience. A few months back I took a business trip to TX. It was sunny and 60 degrees there. When I got back, my car was covered in ice! All I could think of was that I should have stayed in TX!
I hope you enjoy my niche site posts. I’ve been working away at the site and pulling out every SEO trick I can find.
Thanks for helping to promote the book 🙂
Also I am glad your niche site is starting to turn around, it can be a lot of fin watching it move up the ranks, but equally disappointing when it goes backwards. I try not to look at the stats too often and just look at the end of each month.
Lets not think about it falling backward just yet. I’m just going to enjoy the slow and painful rise upward.
I can feel myself checking my stats WAY too much. I think I need to adopt your once a month policy.