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  • Going Back to Old Sites

    Due to my impatience to find the perfect the niche I have left a fair few of my older sites by the way side if they didn’t rank well or make sales in their first few weeks.  Today I decided to go back to a few of them and give them some more content and add the new on page SEO techniques I have picked up over the months since those sites were created.  Will it do these sites any good?  Who knows but I guess I will find out in a few weeks.

    Does Google keep down sites that are updated after being created with minimal content and pages and then left for a few months?

    Does Google look more favourably on sites that were indexed with a good amount of pages and content and were updated regularly ever since?

    I guess there is no way to know.

    I’ve also spent a few hours today trying to get backlinks for my top two ranking sites.  They are both number two in Google behind an Amazon product page and I have heard Amazon product pages can be overtaken fairly easily as the product pages don’t tend to have many backlinks.  I don’t know the best way to get backlinks so my time was spent looking for dofollow blogs I could leave comments on.  I know you can buy backlinks but I wouldn’t really know where to start when looking for a firm that do this.   Has anyone had any luck in buying backlinks or knows how to get them for free?

    My previous post was an attempt at creating some link bait.  I saw the big breakfast challenge information posted to a few websites I read so thought I would add the information here and see if I got any traffic from people searching for it.  Luckily that post got indexed the very same day and was on page one in Google for related search terms.  This got me a couple of hits but as I’m not really selling anything I don’t have much to gain from doing it and it was more of an experiment.

    Thursday, June 11th, 2009 at 19:17 | No comments
  • £10 Breakfast Challenge

    Check out this ten pound big breakfast challenge being run at a cafe in Westhoughton.

    If you can eat it in 20 minutes you get it for free.  The only catch is you cannot have a drink with it.  I thought it didn’t look too bad until I saw the 10 slices of toast.  No chance!

    The Big Breakfast Challenge includes 10 fried eggs, 10 slices of bacon, 10 sausages, 10 slices of toast, 5 black puddings, tomatoes, beans and mushrooms.

    If you think you can take on the Big Breakfast Challenge you can find it at: Mario’s Cafe, 67 Market St, Westhoughton, Bolton, BL5 3AG.  I hope they have enough sausages in for all the people who have seen this offer plastered over the internet.

    £10 Breakfast challenge

    £10 Breakfast challenge

    Ten pound breakfast challenge

    Ten pound breakfast challenge

    Thursday, June 11th, 2009 at 08:14 | 3 comments
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