If you want a good fix of how to setup a profitable blog/site. Go and visit Court and his internet marketing school he is currently running a series of 50 or so video posts of exactly why you need a blog, niches to focuss on, setting up and buying a domain and hosting and onwards to making money from them. Very useful if you are just starting out.

When the ban happened i filed for reinclusion. This is done in webmaster tools, when doing this i wrote what had happened and what i though had happend. Since then I have been working on other projects and let Pacdesco simmer. I seems to have paid off. The ban lasted a good 4-5 months. Hopefully i haven’t been damaged to much and can continue to produce some useful information.

how i got hacked

I’m not to sure how i got hocked but it was more than likely because i hadn’t updated my version of wordpress to the latest version so someone probably got in via an Wordpress hole.

What did the little bastard do?

I first noticed something was up when my incoming traffic was looking really strange. People were coming in to the site via porn/spammy keywords in Google, this was really wierd as i have no inbound links from porn sites that i know of.

I viewed the source of the home page and there it was. A div tag had been put on the footer of each page, the contents of the div was links to porn websites and placed to the far right of the site off the page so people couldn’t see the links, just engines.

Obviously i removed the div tag but i’ve lost all traffic and ranks i had on Google, great thaks alot you little toss pot who did this. But dont worry i will bounce back, i’ve been working on some other website projects but ill get back to writing regular content once i get the status of my sites sorted.

First of all I’ll go through the IP tool. located at IP Checker This will list all websites hosted on the same IP as your website for free. So don’t pay to use similar tools use link vendor.

Why Top Blogs Are Crap

I was really dissapointed with content produced by many “top bloggers” which was a waste of time I won’t name names unless you want me to, but i’m sure you can work out which are rubbish yourselves!

I think they are crap as they trade on reputation, so are less willing to try new strategies and ideas, think of new ways to get on top of the search engines and are generally less innovative! They also have loads of wannabe’s kissing their ass all the time hoping that they will teach them a magic way to make money. The time that it takes you to read all of your RSS feeds you could have written some quality content for your site, or setup a new project.

Top bloggers will not share techniques that make them the most money as everyone will be doing it. If you want some proper advice try going to some smaller blogs that are more likely to provide some useful ways of making money.

One of the best articles I read was done by Court on Keyword Sniping check it out. Once you have read the article don’t think that was a good article then go and read another blog or article. Buy a domain and impliment the knowledge you have learn’t, to many people spend far to much time reading and not enough time doing.

1st position: 120,047.00 :eek::eek::eek:

WTF!

2nd position was far behind. around almost 20k / month.

Now that dude who is making 1.5 mills a year. I wonder how much money he has to PUT IN into advertising to pull out 120k of profits.

I also wonder how much management overhead he has to make sure everything runs smoothly and he stops campaigns that turn unprofitable quickly. Do these guys hire people? ( must not be easy, as soon as said employee see how much money the guy is making and by then he knows how, they’ll leave )

Anyways, it made me think.

HH