Everyone knows that if you want to be cool as a blogger you’ve got to have lots of feedburner readers. So here is one awesome way to increase your stats by one whole reader - Sign up for your own RSS feeds. I did this and I went from zero feeds to one feed in seconds. I am surely on my way to becoming a zillion dollar blogger. I am so excited that I am even going to post my feedburner stats in my sidebar.
When I first started this blog I used a name that I already had registered over a year ago. But I didnt really like the name. Then I wanted to make fun of oneyeargoal.com so I registered a name that was similar. But then I was afraid that he would come and say that I stole all his ideas and something along those lines so I decided to register a different name. My first choice was milliondollarblogger.com but if you try that domain name you get one of those incredibly annoying parked domains. Then I tried sixfigureblogger.com which took me to sixfigureblogging.com which is a site offering one of Darren Rowses courses. If you dont know who Darren Rowse is then get out of blogging.
Billiondollarblogger and blogging were both taken. So then I finally decided to try zilliondollarblogger.com and guess what it was available. Yay!
I want to thank all my readers for their patience in waiting for me to register a domain name that was available.
So I just checked after being absent for a few days and noticed that Google is indexing my site and my posts. Wow. That didnt really take that long.
So lets see here. I started this blog on March 28 and noticed that it has started being indexed on April 7th. Thats about ten days. Woohoo.
Some important things related to this. First, I dont know if its the modified header of the theme I am using that resulted in the indexing or if it was the various plugins. The truth is, who cares. If google is indexing my site with just a few plugins thats great. Check one of my previous posts to see which plugins I’ve used.
Second, I hadnt submitted any of my posts to any social bookmarking sites. I didnt do anything except modify the header and add the plugins.
There are many great things about having children but one thing I really enjoy is when my three year starts misbehaving I could yell at him and say that he’s behaving like a three year old. Or if our baby starts to cry I could say “Oh my goodness, she is such a baaabbbyyy!” Sometimes I would look down at her and say “You are such a baby sometimes you know that.” She would then look up at me and then let out a burp. I know, I’m pathetic.
I am happy to announce to all my loyal readers, i.e. people who click on my ads and make me rich, that my Alexa rank is up.
Zilliondollarblogger.com has a traffic rank of: 6,600,181
To celebrate I think its time to add the Alexa rank thingy to my sidebar.
I can’t decide whether I should stick to one post a day or maybe have many. I do remember reading a post on I think Problogger where he said that a blogger should write when he feels like it. Sometimes more, sometimes less. But I also remember reading in many other places that its important to have a set schedule and stick to it. Dont bog your readers down with too many posts. Ok well no one is reading this blog so I could do what I want. Maybe I’ll put up an opinion poll on the sidebar. But then I would be the only one submitting to the poll. What good is that?
Before I posted my first post I made sure to have whatever good plugins already installed. I did this hoping that it would help my posts get indexed faster by Google.
Heres the list:
All in one SEO Pack
head-meta-description
shortstat
Google XML Sitemaps
The all-in-one-seo-pack plugin is supposed to to be the most important plugin. It should have everything already configured for you right out of the box. I have seen the results from this plugin and its kinda cool.
As for the head-meta one, i dont really know what its for except that I think its for automatically taking information for your post and inserting it in your meta description. If you dont know what the meta description then do a search on it. This is not a full service blog. I am only here to make lots of money. Yay!
Shortstat is great if you want to get some quick and short stats related to search engine traffic and the like. You could visit the shortstat plugin home page to see what it looks like. I love it cause I get quick information right inside my wordpress program. I only really use it to see what keywords people used to get to my site through Google, aol, msn. I dont think the stats on RSS and unique hits are accurate or even reliable at all. But if you want to know what keywords people are entering into google to find your posts then this is a simple plugin to use.
I just heard about the Google XML Sitemap plugin. Apparently it creates a Google sitemap for you automatically that will help google index your site faster and easier. I have read some positive things about this plugin. Follow the link above if you want it.
There are a zillion other great plugins but I am not using any others right now. If you came here ’cause of a Google search and it brought you to this post then that’s kinda sad. There are so many other posts on every single blog about blogging that discusses the “best” plugins to use. In fact, if you have a blog about blogging you absolutely need to have a list of the best wordpress plugins otherwise you are not cool.
And our tulips are sprouting. Isnt having a blog so much fun!
