Comments on: Mistakes that kill your blog and drive your viewers away!

By: Terence Chang

Terence Chang — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 01:30:31 +0000

@Mirjam:

That sounds very familiar here. I tried to cut down the time spend on those things. It’s a good learning though.

By: Mirjam

Mirjam — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 15:18:44 +0000

number 7 is a good one. I did underestimate the time it takes to blog well. Last post took about 3 hours to put together, just the writing, proofreading, correcting and editing in a readible way plus add another hour or so to do a little research and finding a picture that would go well with the theme. But then, it is problably the longest post I ever made!

By: Terence Chang

Terence Chang — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 11:58:32 +0000

@AV Enthusiast:

Thank you for stopping by. I am glad that it helps you.

By: AV Enthusiast

AV Enthusiast — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 14:01:48 +0000

Great advice. I would never have thought about the impact of moving the location of my domain’s folder on the server. Thanks for saving me a potentially damaging misstep down the road.

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Tue, 31 Jul 2007 19:23:12 +0000

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By: Terence Chang

Terence Chang — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 16:13:09 +0000

@David Airey:
I am your loyal reader. I really like your design, which is very unique. I am glad that you stop by! Keep up the good articles. I am watching you!

@Aword:
Thank you! I am glad that you enjoy!

@kanak:
Hmmm… You bring up a good point. If you are NOT manipulating your content and NOT trying to get people click on you the ads. I don’t think Google can argue with that.

Well. I have tried almost everything that Google said “Not to do.” Here I come again. Now I am sure I will do it right this time.

By: kanak

kanak — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 10:15:03 +0000

@terence , with two versions i actually meant .. like for example , if you directly visit my page , you can c only one google add unit place , but at the same time when you visit through google search engine .. you will see 3 add adsense unit … similarly you will have other add network also switched on. thats what i meant … ( i havnt implemented it .. but have seen on some blogs that number of adds increase exponentially once you come to their blog through google. )
I wonder google can ban someone for displaying less or more…
Sad to hear about your relation cut with google. I am sure there might be some other reason than having two version of website.

By: AWord

AWord — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 08:08:40 +0000

Very interesting info…This article is great.

By: David Airey :: Graphic Designer

David Airey :: Graphic Designer — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 07:47:03 +0000

Hi Terence,

Thanks very much for the mention, and I’m glad you enjoyed reading my article.

That’s some hit you took with the Page Rank! I only lost 1 point, but to lose 4! Oh well, with all your content still intact you have a great base from which to re-grow.

Too much advertising does hurt a site. Absolutely. You list a few great additions to my original thoughts.

By: Terence Chang

Terence Chang — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 07:20:32 +0000

@kanak:

Great thoughts. I have seen people having two different versions of content. One is optimized for search engine and one for viewer. Some of the sites will create content just straight for search engine. The content look so wrong and have much worst English writing than mine. The content is full of keywords and hidden text. If you read the content, you thought you were reading a dictionary.

I think Google specific said in their webmaster guide line that webmaster should have the content for their viewer not for search engine.

I have some viewers subscribe to my RSS feed, whom were from search engine. In contrast, most of my stumbleUpOn viewers won’t stay on my site for too long. Whenever I got stumbleUpOn traffic boost to the sky, my average visit length on my blog just drop dramatically. Those users are looking for some topic which my site don’t have. So they walk away.

If you have two versions of content like you described for advertisement. You will be banned by Google FOREVER. Don’t even think about it. To be honest! I have done that few years ago. That’s why you will never see AdSense on my site.