Problems
for Website Newbies
October 2007
If you already have a website or
two and are trying to learn more to increase your income or to support
yourself you are probably aware of two problems that newbies are not yet
aware of:
1. People don't share much real information, and
2. The information people do share is often times myth, conjecture or just
an opinion (one of which everyone has!).
Please pay attention on discussion boards and forums to what is FACT vs
opinion.
The FACT is that no one official at Google, for example, will reveal their
actual rules and algorithms for their search engine. So . . . when all the
experts tell you this and that, they are guessing! Sometimes excellent
guesses - but still guesses.
This type issue is very common in this business. Listen to everyone - but
make your own decisions about what to do.
You will hear, for example, that a website needs to age (I believe this
myself . . .), but sometimes your brand new website will show up on page one
of Google (some of mine have/did/still do). Same issue that you "must" have
a large website with hundreds of pages - but some of my one page websites
show up on page one of Google too.
What I am talking about is that I have several "place holder" pages sitting
on numerous new domains/websites that I have not gotten around to developing
yet - really more of an "under construction" notice - and they are carefully
written - AND - they break all the rules and often end up on page one of
Google.
You will hear so much "do this" and "do that" - but use your own head, write
an excellent website with good content - and you WILL do just fine.
Don't forget that on forums there are often a lot of people participating
and expressing opinions who have NEVER done anything on which to base their
opinion.
These problems are bad - you can get bad info - and they are GOOD! Good,
because it means that you and I can become experts too - by virtue of just
getting out there and doing it and learning from it as to what works.
