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April has been a pretty emotional month with the passing of Pop and the purchase of our new house. I actually have a few things I have been mulling over concerning Pixelheadonline , and will hopefully be addressing them in May which include:

Raising Pixelheadonline directory submission prices.
Increasing directory marketing.
Selling Pixelheadonline lock, stock, and barrel.

Upcoming posts include but are not limited to:

Another Link Building post is due out shortly.
I am working on a resource page of directories that I use, which will be an ongoing list that develops on a weekly basis. It will be broken down into various categories to include niche directories like real estate, medical, sports, as well as a general list of directories.
In conjunction with the Directory list page, I want to start doing a weekly post where I review a number of directories, which will be added to the directory list page.
A review of DirectoryRate.com, which is a new site that provides lists of directories, much like Directorycritic.com.
A review post of March/April 2007 posts.
A commenting rant post.
The April Top Commentators post will be out this later on this week or early next week.

Well that is just a few of the upcoming posts that should be heading your way. If you have any suggestions for upcoming posts, or would like to guest post, please let me know.

Written by Pixelhead on April 30th, 2008 with 19 comments.
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New Homes Phoenix
#1. April 30th, 2008, at 11:54 PM.

Did you get a bump up in your PR Pixelhead?

Pixelhead
#2. May 1st, 2008, at 1:51 AM.

I have not noticed any change. I’ll have to check the PR of all my sites tomorrow.

Phil from I’m no electrician
#3. May 1st, 2008, at 11:15 AM.

Looks like a busy month for you. I need to start making plans for my blog else I will end up all over the place.

Nicole Price
#4. May 1st, 2008, at 12:57 PM.

Sounds interesting except for the one bit about “Selling Pixelheadonline lock, stock, and barrel.” Why would you want to do it?

Pixelhead
#5. May 1st, 2008, at 1:10 PM.

Phil, I highly recommend planning. The more organized you are the better. Take it from one who is perpetually disorganized.

Nicole, I actually started this site back in 2006 as a directory, and then a blog. Selling it was always part of the plan. I actually want to start another blog that will be more focused. One of the thoughts about selling was actually selling shares, to bring in other owner/bloggers because mutli-author blogs do so much better. Also I am a big fan of the Master Mind philosophy.

Phil from I’m no electrician
#6. May 1st, 2008, at 1:16 PM.

An evening of planning it is then. Thanks for stopping by and commenting too. If you make enough from the site sale any chance of a camera, lol.

Pixelhead
#7. May 1st, 2008, at 1:24 PM.

Phil, it very well maybe, but I can’t talk about a new camera with my wife because that is a point of contention with her. I need to hold onto my Canon S5 for at least a year before I can upgrade to a real camera like the Canon EOS 400D.

Vending Guy
#8. May 1st, 2008, at 2:08 PM.

I hope you don’t mind the off-topic comment but I see your site survived the “dreaded Google PageRank update” (insert ominous voice) unscathed.

Congratulations

Charles

Pixelhead
#9. May 1st, 2008, at 4:22 PM.

I am learning to ignore the updates. I still have not checked all my other sites.

Davin
#10. May 2nd, 2008, at 6:07 AM.

Rarely I see a blog with monthly programme…It’s very nice you have socialized the topics of the coming month. I’m waiting to read those article, especially about increasing directory marketing.

Greentac
#11. May 2nd, 2008, at 6:36 AM.

The PR of my blog remain in PR 0 since my blog are just one week old.

Nicole Price
#12. May 2nd, 2008, at 10:43 AM.

What would your new blog focus on? I am just trying to think through this for a very valid, personal reason and I hope that you would not mind my prying like this.

John Walters
#13. May 3rd, 2008, at 12:16 AM.

My blog grabbed a PR2! Which I am extremely happy about. I know I know, page rank actually means nothing unless you are trying to sell links, but it’s simply a sign of progress which I find really rewarding.

Submitting to directories is time consuming but is it beneficial? You get almost 0 traffic and although the homepage of the directory may have a page rank the normal case is that the inpages don’t have any whatsoever. What’s your opinion on this Pixelhead?

John

Pixelhead
#14. May 3rd, 2008, at 3:30 AM.

Davin, make sure you check out my previous link building posts for more info on directory submissions and link building.

Greentac, congratulations on your first month, keep up the great work. You can never have enough environmental blogs. If you have any posts or stories to submit for my mid month environment post, please let me know.

Nicole, I have always felt like Pixelheadonline as I have been blogging on it is way too unfocused. I kind of had a feeling that it should or could be more if a person who focused on graphic design or photography would be able to do more with it.
I was thinking about making an active blog on Baldydog.com that focuses on marketing/seo/blogging and the like.
I also might do a more personal blog on a totally different domain. But while I have to focus on Pixelheadonline, these others have to wait.
I would actually like to not sell it, but take on a partner or something.
More creative juice is needed to make it grow.

John, I remember the first time my PR went to 4 on one of my blogs, that was a bit of rush. It was a bit disappointing two updates ago when it dropped to 3. Now I am not so sure…I still have yet to check the PR on any of my other sites. But keep working on it, I am sure you will get it up there. Good commenting, guest blogging, forums and yes directories are all part of it.
Obiwan, or an SEO mentor of mine once said that sure the little directories with zero pr really don’t matter, but if you submit to 20 directories, maybe 10 will accept your link, of that 10 maybe 1 or two will be cached. But all those links do add up. Just a little bit of Google juice plus a little more Google juice could eventually add up to a lot.
And yes, you will submit to a ton of directories that won’t accept your link(can increase this by doing quality submissions) and a ton more that will but won’t be cached, or might be cached a year, or even two years from now.
You can also try building links to your links…

Davin
#15. May 3rd, 2008, at 5:19 AM.

@Pixelhead,
Thank you for your response. I do enjoy reading your blog.

John Walters
#16. May 3rd, 2008, at 8:47 AM.

Thanks for the explanation. At the moment I find commenting on blogs the most rewarding. Although time consuming, I am actually learning whilst helping get my site out there. I’m commenting more because I find reading these posts interesting and thought provoking more than to get PR though.

John

Eva White
#17. May 5th, 2008, at 11:18 AM.

Sounds good. may should be a good month. Looking forward to reading your upcoming posts.

Chat Forums
#18. May 7th, 2008, at 10:01 PM.

Interesting coming posts, keep up your posting

Chetan
#19. May 8th, 2008, at 7:02 AM.

Looking forward to read your posts this month
And when i visited Directoryrate, it said “Sorry, our site is getting some TLC, we will be back very soon!”

I always visit that and my directory is in the top 50 directories list

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