I have been doing a bunch of reading these past couple of weeks. I do keep up with several newsletters and a couple of blogs regularly. This has been a more concentrated study.

I am about to implement some of the information that I have been gathering in the rebuild of a site. I want to make the site perform a bit better (well really a lot better). If it makes a difference on this site I will have a lot of work to do on several other sites as well.

I am a bit hesitant to mention the site because it is little more than a glorified banner farm at the present time. It is a name that I acquired some time back. The current site is actually an update of the original site. The original site was an unglorified banner farm. So that you can follow the progress if you are interested the site is The Closet Online. Fair warning: the site may be a bit frightening right now. Almost every visitor that has landed there has bounced. In the last month there have been 28 visits and 46 page views. Probably some of the 46 page views came from people that were so frightened by the home page that they missed the back button and hit the page refresh instead.

I have recommended Site Build It as one of the best long term programs for success on the Internet. I have found that they have many guides that are available as free downloads. They do sell the Site Build It program fairly hard through out the free material, but they also deliver a lot of good information. They also offer several free tools without some of the advanced functions available to their customers that can aid in site planning. This is some of the material that I have been going through.

I have also sat in on a few webinars recently.  These webinars are designed to sell products, but a lot of good information is provided without charge. The most recent was about link cloaking for affiliate links. I really wanted to buy the tool, but the information on how to do most of what the tool does manually was freely given. With the current state of my finances I will have to invest the time to do it manually for awhile. I will be incorporating some of this knowledge as well.

I’ll keep you posted as to the progress. If you have any suggestions leave a comment.

Tags: Rebuilding a Site, The Closet Online

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