I’m referring to my previous post about ICANN releasing the .blog TLD.
Now, it was a shameless hoax, and I make no apology for that.  I mean, I even tagged it as a hoax (*edit* - since become aware that this theme doesn’t print the tags at the bottom of the post.  I thought it did - […]

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In a recent announcement, ICANN has stated that due to the massive increase in the percentage of internet traffic related to weblogs (blogs), it will be releasing a new gTLD (generic Top Level Domain) for blogs.
The new gTLD will be “.blog” and will become available from April 1st, 2008.  It has also been stated that […]

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One of my pet peeves is a blogger going out and writing blog posts without proof-reading them.
Now, the great thing about blogging is that there is a huge diversity of people in the blogging community, and not all of them are from English speaking backgrounds, so allowances must be made.
But even if your blogging program […]

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Welcome to the cleaner, greener AndrewMesser.com.  There are no more ads on this site (for now).  Why did I ditch them?  This site is too small to make any money from ads right now, so why should I waste space showing them.
If the site gets up and going, and you the reader, or I the […]

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In line with talking about traffic yesterday, I have analysed the past three weeks of traffic in respect to which days of the week are busy for this site.
Here is the graph:

So you can see the truth in the statement that it is important to blog every day where possible, because I have not generally […]

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I was reading Blogosis on his current move up the Alexa rank and I realised that traffic is so much more important than PageRank.  This flies in the face of what I read on SEOnoobs about Google’s sharemarket on searches.  But I still think it is true.
(Now note that I am saying traffic is more […]

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In response to Blogosis’ blogging goals, I thought it would be good to finally commit to some myself, because its the only way I’ll improve both my blog and my blogging activities.
So here they are (expiry/due date - December 31, 2008):

Get on the first page of Google for the keywords “Andrew Messer”
(Stay on the first […]

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This is becoming a bad habit, I’m getting concerned about my position on Google.  At last I am on page 3, at rank 22.  Here is the snapshot from Google.com.au.

I am still only 33 on Google.com, but perhaps they haven’t crawled again yet.  Anyone know if Google crawls differently in different countries? Let me know […]

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So I changed the blog’s name from AndrewMesser.com to Andrew Messer dot Com at the suggestion of Glen Allsopp, and since then Google has dropped my main page out of the index!  I see a link to the about page of this blog on page 6 (so a rank of 60+) of Google for the […]

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To me, this seems like a great deal.  Blogosis is running a competition, and all you have to do to enter is subscribe to the RSS feed by email!
And what is the prize you ask?  10% of the monthly income from the blog.  Now apparently, the current prize pool is about $50.  I want a […]

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