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Monkey Answers “About” Comic

Friday, November 28th, 2008

Just a quick note to say that I have now published an “about” comic for my new web platform, Monkey Answers.

Basically, monkey answers is:

Twitter + Forums + Yahoo Answers + Ojo + Code + More = Monkey Answers!

You can sign up today to be notified of the release.

Enjoy! :)
Joel Drapper

Where is this blog going?

Friday, November 14th, 2008

Especially now I have started another blog, www.protwitter.net, this blog of mine has really been neglected. I have been finding it really hard to think of new content ideas, and haven’t got any plans or goals and I think it is just about time that I do something about it and get some.

What is this blog about?

I never intended this blog to be just about search engine optimization and link building. It is true that I was very passionate about these subjects at the time, but the reason I got the domain name www.joeldrapper.com and not something SEO related was because I never wanted this to happen.

However somehow it has come to be a blog about that in my mind, and this, I believe, is what is limiting my creativity. So I have decided to stop and write down a few topics that I would like to cover in my blog in the future ahead.

  • Google - News, Tips, Tools, etc.
  • Search Engine Optimization and Link Building
  • Web Apps - Tools and websites that I find interesting
  • Marketing - Much more then just SEO
  • Blogging - Yes, although I am struggling especially with this blog, I too have learned a few things that I believe can be of value to my readers.
  • Twitter - Most of my twitter tips will be posted to my new blog, www.protwitter.net, however you might see the odd twitter tip now and again over here.
  • Social Networking/Media Marketing
  • Web Design
  • Web Development
  • Tech Stuff
  • Wordpress Themes
  • Stuff

Some things I need to do

  1. Be more personal in my writing
  2. Write more often
  3. Be less limited in what I write and how long each article should be
  4. Stop calling my posts articles because that word seems to make me think of 400-500 words +
  5. Start linking out more.

Where am I going?

What can you expect from me in the near future?

More twitter tips - I have got great huge lists of articles to write and tools to review for my twitter blog so you should be seeing a lot more updates on protwitter over the next few months. I’m going to be honest and tell you that I started that blog with the intention of flipping (selling) it soon after but I think I have already become too attached to it and my new readers already.

Wordpress Themes - I have been playing around with wordpress themes lately and LOVE it. You should definitely be seeing a lot of wordpress themes here soon. I plan eventually to be designing (and coding) about one theme per week once I get a bit faster at it. I have loads of ideas and scetches and can’t wait to show you them.

Competitions/Contests - Recently I have been seeing loads of contests or whatever you call them all over the blogosphere, but most of them have just been something like this:

If you subscribe to my rss feed by email you will get 1 point. If you leave x number of comments on my posts you will get 2 points. If you blog about this contest…

(Boring, dull, contests that can only be won by chance) Now not all of them are quite like this for example the Blogging Idol 2 is far more practicle, but I have seen them a lot recently and they are just boaring.

Sure it probably helps increase your subscribers, and might also increase the number of comments on your posts, etc. but contests like this are no fun (not to me anyway).

I plan on launching several practicle contests very soon. One of them will be to do with serps and seo, and possibly another todo with twitter and maybe a few more later on, so that will be fun :D

My Blog Looks Dull

I know. I am going to be making a new theme for it soon, and will also start using pictures in my posts.

Q&A

As I am running low on content ideas how about doing a question and answer session right now?

If you would like to ask me a question, please leave a commet bellow, and I will try to answer it either here, or in a completely new post.

Joel Drapper

SEO Competition Winners

Monday, October 6th, 2008

Some of you may know that I tried to host a competition earlier on and it didn’t go very well. Other then seo google tips, only one other person entered. I think next time I should offer a prize like $100 or something and hopefully get more entries.

However, the time has come to announce the winners of the only two entries.

It appears that the tool that I had said that I would be using (Google Position Tool) has been baned by google or something and is no longer working, so I will have to use another one called Search Engine Position.

The winners

The first runner up is Free Flash Portals - Using one of his parked domain’s he did a pretty good job for the first week of link building. He set up a wordpress blog completely focused on “seo serps” and posted several articles to it. His internal linking was good, but possibly too much for readers. He managed to get his site indexed by google but that is about all. As far as ranking for the term “seo serps” the tool didn’t even find his position. But overall a very good attempt. Congratulations

and our winner is…

SEO Google Tips!

Using his already active blog, SEO Google Tips, he posted an article entitled “SEO SERPs” explaining what “SERPs” means, etc. Very little internal linking compared to Free Flash Portals, but the authority his site already had really helped him rank. His position today for the term “SEO SERPs” is #6.

Congratulations to our winner!

I hope to make a better competition latter on with a descent prize. Look forward to meeting you there.

Joel Drapper

One Week SEO Competition

Wednesday, September 24th, 2008

A co-hosted by competition Joel Drapper and SEO Google Tips to see who out there can stick a fresh post highest in the Google SERPs (search engine ranking positions).

The Challenge:

To get a blog post or page ranked higher than anyone else participating for the term “SEO SERPs” on Google within a week!

The Details:

  • Posts can only published from 12 GMT (BST) / GMT + 1 on Monday 29th September 2008.
  • The contest ends exactly one week later on the following Monday at 12 GMT (BST) / GMT + 1.
  • The winner will be judged by me (Joel Drapper) with that aid of this tool.

The Prize:

Backlinks basically. SEO Google Tips and I will feature the winner on our blogs, and we ask that all participants please announce the winner on their blog / website linking to them with the anchor text of their choosing and / or if possible, place a site wide link with the same anchor text for one month.

The winner’s prise link must be suitable for all ages.

The more participants, the bigger the prize so please take some time to warm up your link building skills by promoting this contest by posting about it in forums, bookmarking it, blogging about it, or what ever you want.

Entering:

If you have any questions, or want to participate, then please comment on this post giving saying so.

Note: To participate you must leave your name, email address, and website that you will be hosting the page that you will promote through the week on.

Participants will be confirmed and listed at the bottom of this post, so check back here to see how they are all doing.

Participants

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Changed web host

Monday, September 15th, 2008

Hi,

Just to let you know that I have just changed this website’s hosting providers, so if you couldn’t access it earlier on, then a apologise.

Everything is back and working now.

Joel

Edit: Still having problems, please be patient!

Hello world!

Sunday, September 7th, 2008

Joel Drapper

My name is Joel Drapper, and I would like to welcome you to my new blog.

I created this blog to help me learn and get better at writing, and also to share information about:

  1. Search Engine Optimization
  2. Link Building/Development
  3. Web Site Design
  4. and other things I find of interest

Stay Tuned for some great new posts!

Joel Drapper

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