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Comment on Running Micro-Sites and Reducing Hosting Costs by Jake

Jake — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 23:41:40 +0000

Maybe this is a stupid question, but I am still learning a lot of stuff so bare with me please, but once you get the sites setup across these free web hosts, how do you get them indexed in the SE’s. It would seem that may take longer than setting up the initial sites or is there a relatively quick way to get them indexed, a script or something.

I have no problems getting sites indexed, usually within a day or two, but if you setup a hundred or so of these “runoff” sites, it would seem challenging to index all of them. And I figure they would be worthless if not in Googles index?

BTW, thank you for the information!

Comment on Should You Be Ranking For [SEO]? by Peter Young

Peter Young — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 22:17:30 +0000

You wont hear me disagree either. I know Bigmouthmedia have prided themselves on being Number 1 (think its number 2 now actually) for search engine optimisation however I would suggest that is merely a branding exercise, rather than a lead generation tactic.

Comment on Taking Advantage of Offline Advertising by Guinness Clothing

Guinness Clothing — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 16:52:15 +0000

Really interesting idea. I’m from Ireland and have only been on the Tube (we have nothing comparable in Belfast) a few times but I get what you say about offline advertising.

Its just proof that the big advertising companies don’t really know the internet properly yet.

Comment on Should You Be Ranking For [SEO]? by Matt Sawyer

Matt Sawyer — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 14:37:13 +0000

Having been in the same position as Ciaran I would have to say I agree, having being ranked for some of the key industry terms, including top 3 for ‘internet marketing’ and ‘online marketing’ it in fact brings very little quality clients. Far better spending time and money networking and branding.

Comment on Should You Be Ranking For [SEO]? by Gab Goldenberg

Gab Goldenberg — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 18:17:07 +0000

As someone who DOES rank for SEO - albeit on Google.ca - I can confirm that most of the inquiries are from small businesses. However, other rankings have attracted business or at least leads.

@ Rob - do you find the search marketing clients are looking for PPC mostly or organic too?

p.s. Conferences are sweetness for links, and Sphinn and SU - real promotion, of ORIGINAL articles, not spam or rehashed crap - has been lovely for gaining links.

Comment on Running Micro-Sites and Reducing Hosting Costs by Lyme

Lyme — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 03:50:29 +0000

Trying to get this going, but having a hell of a time finding free hosts that support htaccess. Anyone?

Comment on Running Micro-Sites and Reducing Hosting Costs by evilgreenmonkey

evilgreenmonkey — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 16:39:53 +0000

@Jez: I don’t do anything with AdSense at the moment, so YACG wasn’t of much interest to me. I prefer spending a little more time creating half decent looking micro-sites which pass on link juice and can potentially generate sales from long tail search in future. That doesn’t mean that YACG isn’t any good though, and I’m sure that some of my friends have dabbled with it. Regarding 20linksaday, haven’t tried it myself although will sign up and take a look. Fantomaster is an evil genius, so it should be pretty good.

@Tony: I’m not jealous at all!

@Gary: No problem, I haven’t shared code in a while, so it’s about time that I put something out there

Comment on Running Micro-Sites and Reducing Hosting Costs by Gary

Gary — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 11:36:32 +0000

Hi Rob, thanks for this. have been waiting eagerly since the first mention on the WBF. Cheers!!

Comment on Running Micro-Sites and Reducing Hosting Costs by Tony Spencer

Tony Spencer — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 12:19:14 +0000

We recently built the same thing and its sooooo nice to be able to manage all sites from one central CMS. I modeled the CMS on all the good things about Drupal such as blocks and left out all the bad things about Drupal.

The end result is a system that is hosting 100+ sites with very robust features but without the headache of getting all those robust features working on 100+ hosting accounts. The hardest part was getting AJAX features to work over the proxy.

Oh and the blocks can be dragged to new locations in the admin panel with AJAX. I’m like a kid in a candy store now.

Comment on Running Micro-Sites and Reducing Hosting Costs by Jez

Jez — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 10:12:06 +0000

You ever played with yacg (getyacg dot com) a more recent version of myGen…

Also, what do you make of services like 20linksaday dot com ?