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.