Hope all is well. Expect more from me on NBT soon.

For websites which require ad revenue to operate, PageRank is absolutely an important consideration. If you do this as a hobby, than it probably doesn’t mean as much to you as someone who uses their website as a source of serious income.

It amazes me that SEO is lost on many of the people posting here, especially the network blogging crowd, as how well your content ranks will directly effect your income level.

@ Michelle – Community rant page? As long as comments are enabled, people are going to use them to express their thoughts related to the content provided, and those thoughts just might contain things you don’t agree with or want to hear. And like it or not, when there is a high level of negative community response, a problem exists that needs to be addressed.

Again, my initial comment was intended to bring attention to what I believe to be an issue with the new structure of the site. If people don’t care how well the site does in the long term, that’s fine. But I was just trying to help. It isn’t like there aren’t many, many, many, many other freelance writing resources on the Internet.

They’re easy to find too… they maintain PageRank.

I could care less about page rank. I get my readers from MyBlogLog, Twitter, people who see my blog listed on other blogs, etc.

Do printed books have page rank or do they rely on page rank?

Def. not.

Great content/info. pics, take-aways, something to be remembered, etc. is where it’s at.

And just a thought. Maybe somewhere there should be a rant page for people/the community to rant, criticize, suggest without swearing and put-downs and things about the format or whatever.

And now off to hunt down those awesome job leads.

@Burnman – I’m still working on making it work. Thank you for your insight. And though I do expect criticism, Kelly is right. It’s very much a downer to be so excited about a project and receive so much negativity in response.

@Kelly – Thanks for having my back. Would you like to respond to my email?

@Carson – You were always worthy of the link love. Good to see you back where you belong.

@Andy – That’s how I spend my weekend nights too.

And the skyscraper ads in the sidebar do indeed push relevant content way below the line of interest, unless long comments like this push people’s eyes that far down the page, which is far less common than if that relevant content was further up the page where the meat of the article is.

As for sinking time, money, and energy into a blog or website… I would much rather hear from my readers any issues which may turn them off from what I am doing so that I can possibly correct a problem BEFORE I see it hit my revenue stream.

It’s a safe bet that for every person who expresses a concern or posts a criticism, a couple have already moved on to greener pastures. If I didn’t think FWJ was worth worrying about, I would have just moved on with them.

Kelly, people are going to post criticism, some helpful and some hurtful. That is the nature of social interaction, especially on the Internet. You can try to silence it by jumping in defensively, you can ignore it, or you can look at why it’s coming up in the first place.

Wow Burnman.

You know what I think? I think if I were Deb and I sunk a lot of time, money and energy into this blog I’d be feeling kinda sh*tty at all the negativity directed towards what I’m trying to do.

We know she’s working on positive changes. We see new stuff every day. Everyone still comes by to tell her how much they dislike what she’s doing. Nice guys. Real nice.

It’s appreciated!

Carson