A big dive in MSN.com

Hello All,

As you may or may not be aware, I started my Kitten Picture blog under a blogger.com account (http://kitten-pictures.blogspot.com), but then decided to move it to my own private domain (http://kitten-pictures.com). Anyway, I had been ranked in the top 4 on MSN for my blogger url, but I just took a big dive. The blogger url, at this time is doing little more than redirecting traffic to my http://kitten-pictures.com site.

Even with a ranking in the top 4 on MSN, I wasn't really experiencing any significant search engine traffic. Everything that I've read seems to suggest that MSN is good, but Yahoo is very good and Google is great. I'm really aiming for Google at this point. I could get listed in Yahoo a little quicker by paying a yearly fee of about $200/year, but I'm being a little cheap right now.

This weekend, I took down a bunch of links on my links page - links that I was pursuing via linkmetro.com. I'm amazed, but many people, even in a link exchange program were not responding to my link request, positive or negative, they just weren't responding. Anyway, I've removed a bunch of those that were 14 days old. I decided that 14 days was probably long enough. I still have mixed emotions about having links on my link page that have nothing to do with Pets, whatsoever.

I just wrote an article for http://kitten-pictures.com called Pet Insurance - An introduction - here is the link if you want to take a look http://kitten-pictures.com/152/pet-insurance-%e2%80%93-an-introduction/. Why did I pick that topic. Well, mainly because the keyword phrase "Pet Insurance" serves up some more expensive AdSense ads. I research what keywords pay the most/best and then write the article.

The more that I think about it, the 'easiest' way to have high Page Rank sites link to your 'newbie' site is to have great content. They are starved for great content for their visitors.

Make it a great day!

Stan