Zillion Dollar Blogger

And an even more important question is why do their parents let them?? This is one of those things I simply can not understand. Its supposed to be a religious school so how are these girls allowed to wear miniskirts? Some of these skirts barely cover their upper thighs. I dont get it!

There is a catholic girls school in my area and you could see as your driving by all these male drivers slowing down to gawk at them. They dress more modestly at the local public school. This makes absolutely no sense. Unless of course the parents and teachers want their children to show off their legs even in the winter.

And if you think I am being ridiculous check out the popular adult costumes around Halloween time. You’ll find many varieties of Catholic School uniforms enabling adults to look just as sluty as the teens themselves. Something is very wrong with society today.

I sort of thought that this was cool so I decided to write a post about it. I actually noticed a difference in Google SERPS how my results looked before and after the all-in-one-seo-pack plugin.

This first screenshot contains search results of posts that I wrote and published BEFORE activating the all-in-one-seo-pack plugin.

You can see that the look of the google result with the >>> came from the layout provided in the Brightside theme that I used before activating the plugin.

Here are the results after activating the plugin.

I like this look a lot better. Also notice the small description that follows the title of the search result. I didnt get that similar description format in the first screenshot.

So there you have it folks. The all-in-one-seo-pack plugin actually does work.

Alright, I tested out the brightside theme and saw very impressive results. Like I said before, its hard to tell if it was the theme or the plugins.

In my next post I will write about how my posts looked different in Google SERPS before and after installing the all-in-one-seopack plugin.

This new theme looks more professional. I say that cause it seems that it looks like a theme that all the big shot bloggers are using. Its called Pandagan and I found it on this site here.

I am judging by the fact that it says “no comments” below that all of you really like it.

Ok I know this is a topic that Blogs about blogging deal with but since i am a ZDB (ZillionDollarBlogger) I feel that its necessary to write about how to start a blog right without having to read a zillion (no pun intended) different blogs on the topic. I think that I finally got it down and if you have read all my previous posts then you would know it sort of works for me so it should work for you.

1. Install wordpress. If you dont know how then go somewhere else.

2. Make basic but important changes right away. Here are the following changes you should make:
a. Go and change your password if you installed it using an autoinstaller right away. Click on the Users tab then go to your profile and change your password and contact info

b. Click on your Options tab, go to General and change your Title, Tagline, Wordpress address (add in the www), and Blog address.

c. Click on Permalinks tab and change your structure from the default to /%postname%/.

d. create an .htaccess file using Notepad (the program that comes with Windows). This is a little tricky. I have this file saved on my PC and I just use it all the time. If you need do a search on how to create this file. You need to have this file.

e. copy and paste this .htaccess file to your root directory of your blog folder via ftp.

f. Change the permissions of this .htaccess file so that the server can write to it.

g. go back to your permalinks tab and click on ‘update permalink structure’. If you did everything right it should tell you that it was updated correctly.

3. Install and activate the following plugins: all-in-one-seo-pack, and Google XML Sitemaps

4. Find and install a good theme.

5. edit the .htaccess file so that the Googlebot doesnt index categories and archived pages. This is important if you dont want to mess with Google’s duplicate content filter. As to how to do this I am not sure yet but I know it should be done.

more to come…

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.

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.

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.

I want to let all my loyal readers know the steps that I went through to get to this important milestone of having the most talked about blog in blogosphere. This is really for myself so I could document how long it took until various things happened with this blog i.e. indexed by google, alexa rank, and so on.

So here goes.

This name for this blog is going to be a post in its own right for two reasons. 1. I think its interesting how this name got chosen so I am going to tell everyone. 2. It gives me another post to write. You got to post frequently to build up a blog and get tons and tons of traffic.

I registered zilliondollarblogger.com through 1&1.com on Wednesday afternoon on March 26. The domain name was ready until Thursday at which time I transferred the site over to my web hosting’s DNS servers. The updating process took another several hours until I was able access the site.

Then on Friday morning I was finally able to install an older version of Wordpress using my hosting providers auto installer tool.
I love these tools. It takes literally seconds to install wordpress using this tool. Once Wordpress was installed I was able to import the current theme (at the time of this post - brightside) and start making all the minor changes to get into to the basic working level. The first post went up on March 28.

So here we are. How is everyone feeling today?

At the time of this post I have the Brightside wordpress theme. As I mentioned in my about page I think having a good theme is important for SEO purposes. I have used this theme in the past with other blogs and I have seen very impressive results. However, the posts on my other blogs were submitted to blog carnivals and have a whole bunch of links. Also someone stumbled upon one of my posts and that resulted in over 16,000 hits from Stumble Upon. So I could be wrong about this whole theme spiel.