If the Google Mayday change has done one thing for me, it’s gotten my head deeper into actual Webmaster duties, than I have been in a long time! I guess I got lazy… or complacent… who knows. Yesterday, I started fixing bounce rates, and today… while using Google Webmaster Tools to look for more issues, I found a ton of soft 404 issues for pages like 1970/page1/feed/ etc.
Not sure if you saw the news last week – but Google is now reporting soft 404 issues in the Webmaster Tools interface.
I’m …

Having a few sites being affected by the Google Mayday Update, I’m going to do my best to remain positive and look for solutions, versus loathing on the negatives and complaining about the lost traffic.
One of those positives I have found in the short several-day span… is that my reduced flow of traffic is converting MUCH BETTER! Someone is going to slap me for this… but it’s almost like Google is HELPING me! (Damn… I slapped myself, and I liked it!!)
With that in mind… I want to pick one site, and:

Find …

Just trying to get a quick pulse of the traffic and earnings outlook in 2010 so far… and looking for feedback on the questions below. Just to be transparent, I will also answer them myself first! :-)
I truly don’t want or expect to get any EXACT numbers… just a pulse.
Share Your 2010 Traffic & Earnings
I am going to try and make this as copy/paste easy as possible! Just copy from the ___ red line on top of question 1, to the ___ red line at the last questions, paste it …

One of the biggest areas ANY website owner struggles with, is finding ideas for new content! Sure, we all “think” we know whats best for our visitors based on our own experience and research, but how about taking it up a notch, and delivering content on top of what they already like!
This post is going to walk through a simple way of discovering exactly what your existing readers like, turning that into fresh content, and ultimately appealing to an even wider reader base. Along the way, we will also see …