They all came crashing down. I put up my fan site #4 and submitted it to multiple social sites like Digg, Technorati, Stumbleupon, Tumblr - and I had moderate first day success - as I gushed about on Friday.

On friday I had honestly thought I’d tapped into something most excellent and I really wished at that time I’d done what I’d done for my other 3 fan sites. Guess what - no more jubilation for this girl. The house of cards has come crashing down around me. I’m pumping my fist madly in the air and giving the finger to the monitor where I’m currently looking at my site stats.

I knew this would happen.

… and it did. But you know, I was just “hoping” this time would be a bit different. I think my fan site #4 has nose-dived into never never land. Actually all my fan sites have nose-dived. I’m wondering if it has anything to do with the Google PR update? Are they tweaking the algorithm again? See - this is what happens when I’ve got one search engine that’s sending me most of my traffic. Maybe it’s a weekend thing too - I always see a decline in hits on the weekend.

It could be so many things. I ‘m going to ride out the slump - keep doing what I’ve always done. I’m going back to adding more content to the site. I’m having a hell of a time leaving fan site #4 as a mostly static site too. I guess I’ve got WordPress engrained in my system and I have the mantra “content, content, content” rolling through my head - that to rank you need new content. I mean, what do people do with static sites? How to they ever hope to compete?

Other rants for another day….

Either way - this weekend has SUCKED for search results = clicks = money honey for yours truely. I’m hoping this week it picks up. I’m wondering once a sites gone through all that submission stuff to those networks if that’s it. No more link love for you - I’ve always had a hard time with the backlinks sort of thing. What do you do to get the link love?

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