Blogtrepreneur - A PageRank 5 Production

All round the web and in many forums its been reported that there’s been a Pagerank update after a 92 day wait, courtesy of the Google Bots. Now the last update was pretty disappointing with no major ground gained. But this time, I’ve finally managed to break Blogtrepreneur.com into the PR5 range from PR4!

Yep, see it for yourself. At the moment only half the datacentres are showing PR5 but this should spread over the next few days as the results aggregate over the web! I’m very excited…hopefully it should mean some more TLA revenue and a better chance to get me some advertising when I roll out my private ads solution with the new design.

If you don’t know what Pagerank is then visit Google’s Explanation page or read this little extract:

PageRank relies on the uniquely democratic nature of the web by using its vast link structure as an indicator of an individual page’s value. In essence, Google interprets a link from page A to page B as a vote, by page A, for page B. But, Google looks at considerably more than the sheer volume of votes, or links a page receives; for example, it also analyzes the page that casts the vote. Votes cast by pages that are themselves “important” weigh more heavily and help to make other pages “important.” Using these and other factors, Google provides its views on pages’ relative importance.

Most webmasters these days agree that PageRank doesn’t have that much relevance as far as SERP’s and Rankings go. But for internet earners like us, it does give us a chance to raise our income and start earning into the higher bands of money. In general though, you shouldn’t see a jump in Search Engine traffic due to this update. Google does this kind of positioning according to keyword every day or even hour, so that the most relevant sites appear towards the top of the results page.

So to carry on the community spirit, how did you do this PageRank update? Feel free to comment or start your own thread on your own blog/forum!

A Big Thankyou To My Rapid Readers

OK, so yesterday I posted about how I had entered the CSS Reboot and needed 3 more votes to get through to the next round.

Lo and behold about 3 hours later, I’ve got the 5 votes necessary, and its all thanks to my readers. I did say that whoever voted for me would get a free linkout from this post, so a massive, juicy thankyou to Jim from Lazyowner and Matt at FleeingtheSocialScene, who hit me up via my contact form. As for the other voter, I don’t know who he is - but thankyou whoever you are!

As of writing, I now have 7 votes - so please don’t stop now and keep voting for Blogtrepreneur! I don’t know what will happen if I continue to get votes, but it still means a lot to me. If you do vote, then contact me and I’ll add a link here as well

UPDATE: I now have 14 votes! One word - amazing! Thanks as well to the following who’ve hit me up:
Andreas Bard
Webee
Joel at LifeGoggles
Ben Jones at BenMeansBusiness
Aaron from Phoenix, AZ Web Design
Chris
Connor
Lily

Gearing Up For The CSS Reboot

Hello and a big welcome back to yours truly. Sorry I didn’t post earlier on this weekend to notify my arrival but I’ve been swamped with dealing with the rise and then the demise of a potential JV and getting stuff ready for the start of school.

Just quickly, I want to thank and rethank all those who managed to write some content for me whilst I was away. These include: Eric, Mark, Collis, Matt and Travis - I couldn’t have done it without you guys and you helped to keep traffic and RSS subscribership levels up at that all-time high. And thanks to the readers for providing such thought provoking discussion and for trackbacking and continuing the talks on your own blogs. Its been nice to come back to some nice debates.

Anyway, back to the site - as you probably know I’ve been planning the launch of my very own new Blogtrepreneur theme. I did have this planned to be finished a little while back, but I recently had to ask my programmer to base the whole theme on the Cutline framework instead of K2 for better organic search results.

Coincidentally, we’ve also managed to tie this relaunch in with the Spring CSS Reboot 2007. In case you guys don’t know what this is:

“The CSS Reboot is a community event for web professionals and enthusiasts. Every November 1st and May 1st at 18:00 GMT, Rebooters from all over the world launch their standards based website redesigns simultaneously; bringing traffic, interest and a little respect to their sites. There are no prizes or arbitrary winners, just great exposure and the knowledge that we all participated in something great.”

So I expect to launch my brand new design on May 1st - which also happens to be my birthday! Let’s just hope that as a birthday present, the blogosphere sends me a whole torrent of traffic love!

Anyway and more importantly, I submitted my website. To be able to get to the front page after reboot day, my site needs 5 votes by viewers. At the moment I’m only on 2 votes and I really want 3 more to make it, so if you have time, quickly create a free account and vote for Blogtrepreneur!

As an incentive, whoever does vote for Blogtrepreneur will get a free PR4 link from me in my next post! Just contact me to let me know that you’ve voted and I’ll hook ya up!

UPDATE: Within 3 hours of me posting this up, I’ve secured the 5 votes needed to make it through to the next round! Thanks will be given to those who voted and contacted me…so thanks for the rapid response guys!

So there we have it…a little update and hopefully it won’t be too long before I get my new design on the road!

Keeping Your Content Flow from Running Dry

Written by Travis, partner and contributing writer at Young Go Getter.

This guest post is an example of what can and will happen at some point in your blogging career. You’ll think you’ve covered every topic for your audience and have a bit of blogger brain freeze when trying to think of what to write. I know Adnan and I can admit to this happening on all too frequent basis.

The solution comes from borrowing a practice from blog’s sister medium, magazines. Editorial calendars are created at the beginning of each year by every magazine to plan a schedule for content for the entire year. This calendar focuses on determining feature articles, not topical. These articles may be lists, holiday themed, relate to an annual event, or just an article format that your readers enjoy (ex. Sites We Love on YGG).

Being that blogs have an hourly turnaround time as opposed to monthly like magazines, I recommend your calendar be created on a month-to-month basis as opposed to annually.

The first step is determining how often you’d like to consistently post on your blog. Don’t commit to one post per day if you can’t deliver; most small blogs can develop a loyal readership with a few posts a week.

Once you decide on the frequency of posts, mark those dates on your calendar (editorial calendar). If you’ve scheduled a new post every Tuesday and Friday, you have 8 spots per month that need to be filled.

This is where recurring formats can be planned ahead of time. So say you have a bi-weekly podcast you feature on your blog; that’s 2 out of 8 spots covered for the month. You might also feature an interview every other week; only 4 more spots to go. You get the point.

I recommend leaving a couple posts per month open to be topical (current happenings in the news). A big announcement, scandal in your industry, or pop culture will invite you to comment on such incidents.

Creating an editorial calendar will help you determine the content your readers enjoy, develop a rhythm for writing posts, help you consistently grow your readership, and avoid the dreaded blogger brain freeze.

How Do You Define Online Success?

“If you don’t have time to do it right then you must have time to do it over.” -Author Unknown

This is Mark from 45n5.com, and I’d like to thank Adnan for the opportunity to make a guest post at Blogtrepreneur, again

Let’s take this opportunity to try a thread starter post and ask the question “How Do You Define Online Success?”

Not all of you can make the money that the gurus claim to make, so what is your definition of online success in the meantime?
When I started my adventures at making money online, I defined success as earning $50 dollars per day from the internet. I still haven’t achieved the goal yet, so does that make me a failure until I achieve it?

Personally I think I’m defining success wrong, and by doing so it’s probably slowed my journey, especially in my first 6 months.
It isn’t very motivating in your online journey waking up everyday and realizing you aren’t a “success” yet, and not even moving at decent pace towards becoming a success.

So…

How would you recommend somebody starting today in their online money making journey to define success?

How Do You Define Online Success? Is your definition moving you forward or holding you back?

I still define my success or failure online by earning $50 dollars per day, so for me, and for the sake of all the newbie readers here, we look forward to you thoughts and opinions in the comments.

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