Making Money Online With AnotherMMOBlog.com

Where Have I Been?

I would like to apologize to you guys in advance, especially for those of you guys that have been patiently waiting for the results of my contest that passed. I would just like to update you guys on where I have been and why I haven’t been able to post on here as often.

I don’t know how many of you guys actually know this but two people work behind this blog. My roommate and I. Although, I’m mainly the one who posts the content on here, my partner helps with everything else. I believe he posted a few times as well, but you guys probably wouldn’t have known it since we work on the same account instead of dividing it up. Of course, since I haven’t been able to update the content too often, no one has been able to keep this blog intact while I was gone.

So, where was I?

I’ve actually been dealing with a lot of personal issues with family and some financial issues as well as being sick for the last two weeks. This is a large part in why I haven’t even been able to do the simplest thing in randomly picking the winners. Or better yet, I haven’t even been able to update you guys with new content.

I’m starting to feel a little better but some of my personal issues have still been around. I’m trying to cope with it the best I can but lets say, its pretty hard.

Anyways, I’ll stop complaining because I’m sure we all have hardships. I’ll get the winners posted by this weekend so you guys can get the great prizes you deserve for being a reader and extremely patient with me.

Thanks again everyone!

Wordpress Upgrades Happen WAY Too Often

Is it just me or Wordpress upgrades happen a little too often than we’d like? Don’t get me wrong, I understand they are trying to improve the system, fix the problems and issues, protect us (the bloggers and webmasters) from being hacked but I feel these upgrades happen way too often.

I’m one of those Wordpress users that doesn’t upgrade to the newest version when it first comes out. The reason is simple: there are always issues and problems and I’d rather wait until those are fixed completely before I upgrade.

In addition, sometimes certain plugins that I use aren’t compatible with the latest version and then certain parts of my blog gets screwed up. I remember when I upgraded and the links from the commentators wouldn’t work. I soon found out it was simply because I didn’t have the latest version of the Google Analyticator.

Are these Wordpress upgrades really necessary?

Of course they are! They are only trying to improve the system each and every time. But why do we have to upgrade like five times or more each year?

Before I converted to Wordpress, I was using the Blogger blogging platform and there were definitely good things about that than WP. And yes, that includes not needing to worry about upgrading, being hacked, plugins, hosting issues and so on. But I’m already with Wordpress so I’m trying to make the most of it.

But how do you guys feel about the constant upgrades of WP?

Time For Some Changes in 2009

Time for some changes around here in 2009 and we will be discussing various ways on how making money online can actually be done. But not only that, we will be optimizing to be extra search engine friendly so we can gather in tons of organic traffic.

More than likely I won’t be posting every single day, but then again, no one really needs to post every single day. I’ll be posting probably like 3-5 times a week with proven ways of making money online. Not only that but I will be optimizing this blog for search engines even more because we should all know that organic traffic is the real traffic that will convert into money.

In addition, I will explain in details on how I will be optimizing, because I’m sure a lot of you guys are interested in getting more organic traffic. Honestly, it’s all about link building and keyword research. That’s it, really.

I will also aim to increase all my stats including the generic Alexa rankings, Technorati, RSS Feed Subscribers and traffic in general.

I’ve been sitting around the same stats for quite sometime and that is going to change. Honestly, the reason why the stats have been the same is simply the fact that I haven’t done too much to this blog since, um, September? I’m surprised I still have as many subscribers as I do now.

The only stat that changed that I’ve noticed is my Google Pagerank increase from PR1 to PR2. And like I said, I haven’t really done much to this site since September and I managed to increase it? Let’s see if I can take advantage of the opportunity. Even though Pagerank still doesn’t mean much.

Anyways, I hope those loyal subscribers will stick around and just give me a second chance to change your mind. Plus, my subscribers, particularly e-mail subscribers, will benefit in more ways than one including being automatically entered in a contest that I have coming up.

Stay tuned and let’s start this New Year 2009 on the right step!

Google Pagerank Update: Still Worthless But How’d You Do?

It looks like there was yet another Google Pagerank update and I’m sure you have been reading new blog posts, comments and whatever else discussing how each site did. Well, it looks like “Not Another Make Money Online Blog” ended up going from PR1 to PR2. Honestly, I didn’t do anything and for some reason it went up.

So, how did I end up going up in Pagerank when I did absolutely nothing different? Matter of fact, I haven’t been posting as often and I seemed to have turned away quite a few of my readers. So, how in the hell did I do even less and manage to go up in Pagerank? Actually, that just proves Google Pagerank doesn’t mean much.

If you need to know, my Google organic traffic hasn’t gone up, I checked some of my placements on certain keywords and nothing drastic changed either. Matter of fact, if you’re in the MMO niche, you should check out TheNetFool’s Latest PR Update of the Top 100 Make Money Online Blogs.

I didn’t make it on that site simply because my little site isn’t anywhere near the top 100. I wouldn’t be surprised if it was in the top 1,000! Anyways, Jim put together his “Fair Value” analysis of it and it seems pretty interesting. I agree with most of it with a few exceptions but you guys should check it out.

Anyways, how did you guys do with Google’s worthless number that they give you to determine how “important” your website is?

TheUniversityKid.com Is Up For Sale! New Blog Owners Have Tough Shoes to Fill

It’s a shame to see but it looks like one of the blogs I go to regularly, Theuniversitykid.com is up for sale. It’s just sad to see another great blog being sold to someone else that probably won’t live up to the original owner’s knowledge and style.

I have followed quite a few blogs over the time I have been blogging and there have been a lot of blogs I stopped going to since it was sold to a new owner(s). Don’t get me wrong, I gave the new owner(s) plenty of chances to do what they do to keep me around but when it comes down to it, I just don’t feel like they’re unique enough.

No disrespect to the new owners but a majority of them just do things that are pretty generic in my eyes. And I think they try a little too hard.

The couple of blogs I used to follow and don’t due to new ownership:

Johncow.com – The new owner definitely knows his stuff about making money online and he holds killer contests but the old owner had that extra kick to his posts. Things that were controversial and entertaining, always made me laugh and he also had some helpful tips.

The new owner is still good but it just doesn’t have that same entertainment appeal I liked from before.

Bloggin-Ads.com – I almost feel as though this blog took a step back with their posts. It feels like I’m reading posts that would be on blogs that were just created and from someone that probably shouldn’t be in the MMO niche.

No offense but the blog posts doesn’t have that character appeal that the old blog owner carried.

TheUniversityKid.com – Who’s going to be the new owner? Well, whoever it was, they have some big shoes to fill. Don’t get me wrong, I’m going to give them a chance but it’s hard living up to someone elses’ expectations.

And I don’t mean to sound like I’m bashing new blog owners, I’m just saying it’s not exactly the type of stuff I expected after the change. It shouldn’t be either because everyone has their own style, own vision, own way of running their site.

But tell me it’s not hard comparing it to the former owner?

Basically, what I’m saying are new owners usually have large shoes to fill and it sucks when you expect one thing and don’t get it.

Anyways, Theuniversitykid.com will be missed and hopefully the new blog owner knows what he is doing, steps up to the plate and hopefully doesn’t choke under pressure.

And if you happen to read this and go buy TUK, let Jason know that AnotherMMOblog.com referred you!