10 Things To Do Instead of Whine About Your Lost Page Rank
Okay- the pity party should be over by now. Your page rank REALLY is gone. Posting on message boards and boring your spouse with how unfair it all is isn’t going to bring it back.
Here are some productive things to do instead of sitting in your bathrobe and refreshing page rank checkers over and over again.
1. Set up some new sites. If you had good page rank and good traffic you are probably on to something. Try a different theme and give your new site a different look- distinguish it from you other blog. You can use your existing data to figure out work what and what doesn’t. You may even want to try an offshoot of your existing blog; i.e., if you blog about candle making and you notice heavy traffic for soy candle products an ideas- set up a separate site with a heavy slant on soy candles.
2. Learn a new trick. Figure out how cascading style sheets work- change the colours in your theme. Make an “old” theme new again. Have widgets terrified you in the past? Jump in. Learn some HTML code or improve on your existing knowledge by turning off visual editor in Wordpress. Look for some new plugins- if words like mySQL database and php scare you and you have avoided installing a great plugin because “you don’t know how” figure it out.
3. Get rid of clutter on your site. Remove stale links from your Blogroll. Clean up your categories.
4. If you haven’t all ready- remove paid links or add nofollow tags. “Clean” your site of any grey/black stuff going on. Especially if you are going to submit your site to Google for reconsideration.
5. Submit your site to Google for reconsideration. This is up to you. If you have noticed a drop in traffic that you think its resulting from your page rank drop then worth considering.
Clean up any paid links and posts remove your references to PayPerPost, Textlinks ads, etc. I would leave your PPP up- just add nofollow tags and remove tracking links from posts. Advertisers can give you negative tack rating at any time so keep this in mind if it matters to you.
6. Find a new way to make money from your site. You new, clean site might be a good way to try out some new things- try using Yahoo or Amazon contextualized ads. Read up on new ways to earn money. Try some affiliate marketing if you have never done so before. Sign-up for a
WidgetBucks account. At time of writing they had a 25.00 sign-up bonus.
7. Make new friends. Bloggers can be a very anti-social bunch- preferring others to come visit them in their own house. Go out into the world and start posting comments. Become a regular on other blogs with similar themes as your own. Relationship building can never hurt.
8. Dive into Social Media. My Internet savvy/IT husband asked me the other day- somewhat embarrassed- what Web 2.0 and what is Social Media. Its a bit like missing that first wave of a big news story- it comes to point where you can’t avoid it but you have no clue what people are talking about- you are either afraid to ask or are beyond caring and wait for it to blow over. Learn about social media. Register for a Digg account, StumbleUpon or figure out what all the twitter is about Twitter .
9. Post on your blog. Do something useful and create some content for your site.
10. Take a break. If you have been glued to your keyboard the last week or so- get off up. Take a shower. Talk about something else other then Argus. Read a book. Play with your kids. Removing yourself from all the drama can help you feel better and give you some perspective. This too shall pass.
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