Chris over at Performancing (yep this is one of the blogs that made it through the first round of cuts) Has a good article on Digg

In the end he basically says that maybe all of the sites that are getting banned may not be getting on the bad side of the digg community because that they are SEO/Webmaster/Ecommerce/Blog related, but because all the community knows of these users is that they keep submitting sites from so or so domain, and then never contributing to the discussion of other submissions.

I have a theory that at least some of those banned domains and the users who submitted them were unknown to the Digg community at large outside of the Digg submissions.  Nobody likes people who take take take without giving back. Just an idea.

This really does make sense.  If you had a forum and there were these users that would simply visit the forum simply to start threads about this great offer, or this site that you just have to visit you would ban them wouldn’t you.  Isn’t that all the Digg community is doing?  Just getting rid of the people that are simply submitting sites and not contributing.

That said I do think that the Administration should answer people’s questions on why they may have been banned.  Especially in some of the cases where the owner of the site didn’t know anything of digging of their articles.  Maybe their articles and tools are JUST that GOOD.

So Digg, get out there and get your PR machine going.  Tell the webmasters what is going on, they are the ones that are giving you the content for your site after all, and if they are spamming your site then ban them, but just be sure that you are not getting to big for your briches.

Yesterday I started working on my new site.  I have started working on a layout, and structure of the site.  However the first thing that I did was register a new domain, and then get drupal installed.  I haven’t used Drupal for a large scale site yet so I figured that this was as good of a time as any.  The set up was VERY easy since I have fantastico installed via Cpanel, so it was literally 1 click.  I love it.

Anyway, I have also decided on the modules that I am going to add, and next is the topics that I am going to target first.

My plan is to start the targetting with a blog entry.  The blog entries are going to be on the front page until I have more content and more activity on the site.  After the blog entry I am going to write a story on what ever is happening with that topic, maybe one or two a week.  After about a month I am going to publish an in-depth story on it.  This will be filled with the key-words that I am going to target, and will lead into the next target.

As for SEO I will be doing little for the blog, well I will be doing some for the front page, but I am going to be doingt a lot for the in-depth articles.  This will include buying links, getting some people to write articles on their own blogs, etc. 

Then after the blitz is done, I will spend a week to monitor traffic and revenues.  If that topic seemed to bring in the visitors I will then continue with that one, maybe just take it in a different direction.  Spreading the work out like this will give me time to analyze what I am doing in a manner that I never let myself before and will help me learn how to do it for the next site.

This will be the only site that I build this year, so I better make it good.  If I feel that I have made it grow enough I will move on to another site or two next year.

This morning I left the house in a hurry to get to work. The bed just felt too good. Anyway on my way out I grabbed what I thought was my SD-jump drive (small SD card reader). I have Portableapps on there since I am not often sitting at my own computer and want to keep all of my bookmarks, email, etc in check. Anyway, back a month ago I bought a second reader for a backup/gift. And that is the one that left.

It really wouldn’t be a big deal, but I have found that I have a bit of free time today, and I brought my lunch so I was planning on writing some blog entries for my new site. The problem is that I have the Performancing plugin on that drive, and ever since I started using that, I find the admin area of Wordpress slow.

Anyway, I guess I should learn my lesson and slow down in the morning…..

I think that I have come up with my next theme for my website, its ….

HA!  I bet you thought that I was going to tell you.  Well it is not that big of a secret of one, and it is not really in a market that is THAT easy to break into, but it is something that I am sure going to enjoy writing about, so that makes the task that much easier.  Also I know few people that can give me some help, and the topic is one that most tech savvy people don’t really pay a lot of attention to, so that means it is more likely that these people will hit my ads

Anyway, I am going to start gathering my information in the next couple of weeks.  Maybe get a couple of good articles written from some people on elance and then get a press release written up.

I am going to set a limit on the money that I am going to spend on the site start-up and a specific amount of time before I earn that money back.

Enjoying what I am spending my time on is not enough, if all that I am making is a dollar for every hour of my time I am better off playing low limit poker online.

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Well I have the domain, set up a quick drupal site and am all ready to start adding some content. To do that I have to do some reading, and then do some more reading. However since it is something that I haven’t done a whole lot of reading on before it will be fun to re-learn everything about it.

I am starting to find that I am spending more and more time reading other people’s blogs and not enough time working on my own sites, business plans, niche research, etc.

Since the New Year I have set a strict time limit for spending in my online endeavor.  I found that I was spending too much time in the virtual world last year so that is why I set a limit this year.

Now I am finding that I have way too many blogs in my list, and to make the situation worse it seems that few of them have original news.  A lot of them are just posting what the last guy posted, or regurgitating what someone else said.  Too little important stuff and too much fluff.

I am going to start weeding through the ones that I think are fluff, and the ones that I truly think are good.  Right now there are not that many on the top of my head that I think I am going to keep around.  The ones that I do I will add to the “Blogs that I Read” list, and if I find one more, or if one starts to go down hill I will delete it.

Maybe then I will spend less time reading what other people think is important and spend more time working on what is going to make my online experience better.

I will let you know how long this lasts