Also this week, our house is looking very sad on the inside. We’re going to take advantage of the spring break time and get the house painted, so everything is off the walls and packed away. It kind of reminds me of when we’d move in or out of a new apartment and the place was bare. However, I’m also looking forward to that “new paint” smell and having the interior feel fresh again.
Blog Updates:
If anyone would like to help me out, I’d really appreciate you voting for my How to Achieve Financial Freedom post in Round 2 of the Free Money Finance March Madness contest. All you have to do is comment with the word “achieve”.
In other news, my efforts to optimize old blog posts are showing some promise. In the last two weeks, I was able to take a post that was ranking +500 for a particular keyword and bring it to page 1 of Google! Using some of my newly acquired niche building talents and applying them to my main site, I believe I can make all kinds of improvements to my site. But it will take a decent amount of work and focus, so I’ll have to limit myself to only a few of them at a time.
Blogs You Should Check Out:
In case you missed them, here are a few great stories you should check out this weekend:
- Eyes on the Dollar – We Flipped a House!-Part 1, Buying the House
- The Happy Homeowner – Realistic Ways to Recover from a Financial Setback
- Making Sense of Cents – Tips For Beginner Bloggers Part 1 – The Basics
- Club Thrifty – I’m a Workaholic: A Club Thrifty Confessional
- The Free Financial Advisor – How Colors Affect Your Investment Decisions
- The Canadian Budget Binder – Open Houses and Nosey Neighbours, Are They Worth It?
- Budget and the Beach – I’m Breaking Up with my Hairdresser
- Plunged in Debt – Things I Don’t Understand: Designer Clothes
- Evolving Personal Finance – Marginal Tax Brackets, Deductions, and Credits Explained Graphically
- Nurse Frugal – One year Blogiversary
Carnivals & Mentions:
My Money Design was featured on the following sites this week:
- Investing Ideas – Wealth Management Carnival #10
- Moscow is Over – The Carnival of Money Pros
- Lifestyle Carnival: Exxon Valdez Edition
- Financial Carnival For Young Adults
- Carnival of Retirement – 63rd Edition
- Investing Ideas – Wealth Management Carnival #10
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:
Learn How to Manage Money Better – Like a Large Company CFO
Taking a “Pay Off Credit Card” Niche Site to the Next Level
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That is awesome on the keyword ranking. How are you achieving such great success?
Great work on the blog, keep it up!
Hi Jacob and welcome to the site. I’ve been applying a lot of the SEO tricks I’ve been learning from trying to build up my niche site. You can read more about them here:
https://www.mymoneydesign.com/passive-income-2/blogging-passive-income-2/building-my-money-earning-sites/
Promotion through Google is an excellent idea, and great job bringing the post up by so much! Great links, as always. Enjoy your weekend!
Thanks Tony! Hopefully I can keep up the magic.
Good for you bringing your posts up to page 1 on Google. Have you blogged about what you are doing to achieve this now? Tips? Happy Easter with the kids and don’t get into too much chocolate… ah, who am I kidding.. get it while you can! Cheers mate!
Thanks CBB, and Happy Easter to you as well! As a matter of fact, I did already post my secrets. I simply recycled my strategy from my niche site building and tested it on one of my posts. I’m very pleased with the results!
https://www.mymoneydesign.com/passive-income-2/blogging-passive-income-2/building-my-money-earning-sites/
Voted. Having fun painting the house. I like the smell of new paint too, but too much and I find myself getting high lol.
Thank you very much! I do appreciate the vote!
Fortunately we’ll be outsourcing the painting to someone more qualified than myself to do it.
Happy Easter also to you. This is the best time to have a little bonding with the kids especially now that spring season is finally here.
Thank you! Yes, this is a great time to spend with the kids. They blow through those Easter eggs so fast! All that planning and filling eggs, and they had the hunt completed in under 10 minutes!
Thanks so much for including my post and huge congrats on the Google ranking, that’s great! It’s always nice to see hard work and efforts pay off.
You’re very welcome, and happy Easter! It is nice to know that someone will finally be finding and reading that post, and maybe I’ll see a nice bump in Adsense clicks 🙂
Happy Easter. Congrats on the google success. The other day I got an unexpected payout from paypal (I have a few articles on the old associated content (now yahoo voices or something like that). One of my articles was the top search result for my niche on google (cool). I wrote the article a few years back and never had many views, how it became the top search result in google I don’t know, but I’m happy for that extra $30.
Congrats on your article. It’s kind of funny how Google ranks and mixes things up, and sometimes your old work can resurface to the top for no reason. Making a little money from something like that is never bad either! Now if you could just figure out replicate the same thing on your site, you could make potentailly a lot more from Adsense or affiliate income!
A little paint can go a long way to freshen up the place! Although I personally hate painting myself. lol! Have a great weekend and Happy Easter!
I hate painting too. That’s why I will be contracting it out! 🙂
You crafty blogger, you with the page 1 post. I can only dream. My daughter’s birthday was 2 days before Easter. Sugar overload at our house. Thanks for mentioning my post.
Thanks! Now if only I had enough time, energy, and luck to re-create that same success for every blog post! 🙂
So you have March babies as well? My kids not only have too many toys now, but they also have WAY too much candy as well. I’ll be taking a big bowl of it to work to try to thin the supply.
Isn’t it amazing how just a few easy changes can make a world of difference for how you rank in Google? Gotta love all that free traffic it will bring you! Good to hear some of those SEO tactics are working for single blog posts, not just niche sites.
Thanks Matt! It really is incredible how just a few tweaks and some backlinks can really change your position. I was happy to see the similarities in strategy between the niche site and blog post. But I will admit that I found it slightly harder to get one post to rank. For example, when you’re using comments to get links, you usually don’t have the luxury of posting a link to your site unless you slide it somewhere in the text. But then I always feel spammy doing that.