Comments on: Contest UpDate

By: Terry

Terry — Fri, 23 May 2008 11:53:42 +0000

Hey Vic, I’m late to the party as usual LMAO
I just finished a big writing assignment that kept me away from everything including this place, so I just saw all this. For some weird reason I can’t watch your vids all of a sudden - I crank them up and my system crashes. Always something ain’t it?

I’m guessing from the comments that you’re buried in shit so don’t sweat the competition - hey if it can’t be done for this year there is always another fucking year follows straight on after LMAO

Anyway, I’m so behind with everything because of the writing gig that I have to catch up too. I only just got my reseller account set up and now that’s going to take time moving 60+ sites each into their own account. I’m still buying more domains and building my link farm as well as getting those links FUN FUN FUN!!!

Catch you later when the storm dies down a bit… before the next one brews up hehehe)

Terry

By: Justin Briggs

Justin Briggs — Mon, 19 May 2008 02:51:34 +0000

There are a few ways you could solve this issue.

You can change the number on your home page. Griz suggest 1 post per page on his blog I believe.

You can use a different template file for your home page and show post excepts. Then set up the home page to show ads in specific places.

There are a variety of plugins for wordpress that turn on and off ads based off different criteria. I’d check them out and play around with them.

As for search rankings taking a dive. It happens. When a site is new, it gets a bonus for being “fresh”. Eventually this bonus fades and it falls back on the other factors that control rankings. The site will then take a dive in rankings. Also, some believe monetization of a site can affect rankings. Many online marketers suggests waiting a bit before putting ads up on a site.

And it could always be a sandbox effect. It just happens some times and there is nothing that can really be done.

I’d just ignore the stats for a bit and just link build. It’ll take a while for Google to start counting links. It should go back up in rankings. If it was sandboxed, it may take a few months before it ranks properly.

If you link build for a while and see no results. Ignore it and move on to your next project if you can. Get it started and link build it. Hopefully by them you’ll see some action on the first domain.

By: Polish Bear

Polish Bear — Sat, 17 May 2008 18:57:19 +0000

btw, Vic thank you so much for helping me learn how to do everything the correct way.

By: Polish Bear

Polish Bear — Sat, 17 May 2008 18:56:19 +0000

Hey Vic, thanks for the update on everything. I have a local niche website that I set up exactly like our contest blogs. I put an ad in my posts that shows adsense to search traffic and flycell to general traffic. I used to show 10 post on my homepage but now I can’t because then I will have 10 adsense’s on my homepage. SO now I only show 1 post per page but the downfall is my search engine ranking has taken a plunge. This may or may not be related, but I have a feeling that it might has something to do with it. On our contest blogs, are we going to have 1 post per page or more? and what do you suggest I do with my blog, 1 post per page, or 10 or 3 or what?

By: The Affiliate Post

The Affiliate Post — Fri, 16 May 2008 17:53:36 +0000

Love you too Vic!

I know everyone says that you dont have to apologise for anything….which you dont, but while I always like to see you laugh and swear, it’s nice to know you have a humble side too.

Keep up the great work.

By: Kathy

Kathy — Fri, 16 May 2008 12:37:50 +0000

Thanks for the update - I didn’t want to email your already overloaded inbox asking “when are we going to start - did I miss something??”

I was just listening to the last .tv video as I was doing my morning exercises (it was long). The conversation got real interesting - it was like standing at the water-cooler and not being able to participate. Fun way to start the morning - a big THANK YOU for all your efforts.

By: Rhonda Holland

Rhonda Holland — Fri, 16 May 2008 03:05:30 +0000

Take as much time as you need Vic, we will wait. We appreciate all the time you are putting into this contest, we all owe you big time.

Rhonda

By: lissie

lissie — Fri, 16 May 2008 01:17:48 +0000

Like they said -looking forward to the comp but so busy with the BANS setup and promotion thing I am learning heaps anyway. And the BU channel is a fantastic tutorial room even when your’re not there - Dave and vinny and lots of others are just so helpful with the stupid questions! But there’re not as rude as you so come back when you have the time

By: Steve McGrath

Steve McGrath — Fri, 16 May 2008 00:49:20 +0000

Like the others are saying, Vic take your time and no apologies needed buddy. It is like many things in life: You know when you should start but don’t know when it will end either. It’s a bigger task than you expected.

You could even make the contest start Monday if you needed too. We all wait and not complain.

Btw, I did not received any email like GeradT but I know it will be done eventually.

Besides, we have BANS/blogs to keep us busy.

Plus, this could be a series of post for you to do: How to start a blog contest: Pitfalls to avoid.

Some may want to do a similar “contest” to pay it forward with another group of newbies.

By: Bruce Hollingdrake - Book Guy

Bruce Hollingdrake - Book Guy — Fri, 16 May 2008 00:38:53 +0000

Hey Vic,

While killing time waiting around for this contest to start I’m doing a few little things like:
Buying more domains
BMD like crazy (but not overkilling any account)
Fixing up Logos and Store pages
Creating blogs tied to BANS sites
commenting
Directory Listing
Article listing and writing
Blog post writing (trying your method for my .info index issue)
helping others at BU.tv
links links links everywhere

oh…and running my Bookstore…I think you get the idea. those of us using BANS have plenty of things to do, take your time and set it up the way you want it - we’ll still be here, anxious to learn. Thanks for all the work!