I started blogging in 2003, with a personal blog mainly for keeping friends and family up-to-date on what happening in my life in preparation when I moved to the US in 2004 and I just felt tired telling the same stories over and over to the same people. Then as my career moved into SEO, and also started monetizing my blogs… in 2006 my blogs were only making $300 to $500 a month. Mainly from PPP, Ad Publishing and some Affiliate Marketing. Today… I still earn only $300 to $500 a month, but mostly from domaining and affiliate marketing. And my blogs are almost earning zero right now. I guess I got tired of blogging.

Let’s Reboot Blogging

Well since my blogs have been stagnant, I guess it is time to revive the blogs. but of course, there is a lot to work on. I will use this blog post as my checklist of items to work on and will cross out each one as I finish each task and revive my blog.

• Upgrade WP and all Plugins Done: August 22, 2010.
• Remove all the Subdomains
  The  subdomains here were done for the wrong reasons. My site started mainly as an SEO Contest entry. The subdomain entry was like a throw everything to the wall and see what sticks. It was like optimize all 5 subdomains with different techniques and see who ranks the highest. Aside from that, subdomains were treated differently then, where they were more like separate websites and the links were weighed more because they were like external links and not internal links. After the contest, I planned on merging it all, but for some reason… each subdomain was making money in different ways, and the subdomains were register in various monetization programs that I couldn’t merge them yet, because the change in domain would cancel my membership in some of these programs. Well today… my sites are no longer earning in the same way, and now is a good time to merge these. I will do this mainly by WordPress import.
  • Update: August 22, 2010 – About.SEOReligion.com blog imported.
  • Update: August 23, 2010 – Downloads.SEOReligion.com blog imported.
• Merge SEOContest2008.com and other domains.
  It makes no sense to maintain several SEO blogs, SEOContest2008.com was mainly for a contest and today it really has no main purpose. Might as well import the post to this blog.
  • Update: August 22, 2010 – The domain ituloy-angsulong.info, now 301 redirects to seoreligion.com, it was an old domain this site used to use.
  • Udate: August 23, 2010 – Old SEO Contest entry domain, isulongseoph.com which once had a PR6, lots of link baitable content and was earning some decent amount of money from affiliate stuff just one day, was all erased on my web host for some mysterious reason and was all irretrievable. Merged them all to this blog.
• Fix 301 redirects
  Since I will be merging several subdomains and domains, to the main domain, looks like I will do some massive wildcard redirection. .htaccess and regex is not my specialty, so I will just use the same WP catch all .htaccess, create a custom index.php, and do a PHP 301 redirect, just changing the domain but retaining the $_SERVER[REQUEST_URI]  variable.
  • Update: August 22, 2010 – About.SEOReligion.com blog 301 redirecting already. Home goes to about category. Each blog post goes to corresponding permalink.
  • Update: August 23, 2010 – About.SEOReligion.com blog 301 redirecting. The homepage though goes to the tools category and will reconfigure this to the tools tag.
• Update Navigation
  • Update: August 22, 2010 – About navigational link updated.
• Update Categories/Tags/More Link
  • Update: August 22, 2010 – Updated for whole About section.
• Change the Theme
  This was a custom theme I made and was intended to attract people from the UK, to possible get more people from the UK link to my sites. And this was mainly for the SEO Contest by UK Webmaster World.
• Update Monetization Efforts
  • Ad publishing
    Add Adsense again.
  • Affiliate marketing
    Some of them no longer exist, I got to remove these and add new ones that make sense.
  • In-Text Ads
    I’m using Kontera, and I think there might be better programs out there I need to research on. Then I need to update them on here.

Time to get to work and hopefully get my blogs start earning again and possible more than what they used to earn.

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