DannyDang.com

To my surprise, dannydang.com is now Google search results #1 & #2!! (As of April 17, #2 & 3) The poker guy probably thought he had a good few months before he had to worry about this Dang.

Week in review: I have done a lot of tweaking to the site. I have added Brian’s awesome Threaded Comments plugin, but I am still working on the placement of the MyBlogLog avatars. Also this week, I decided to join the Dofollow movement.

Some of you may have noticed that the site was down on Saturday for a bit. I wanted to correct a mistake of installing my blog at dannydang.com/blog. Reading up on all the posts I could find on moving Wordpress, I thought I was prepared. Boy was I wrong! The Wordpress site has a great step-by-step on Moving Wordpress. After following the steps and reloading the site, to my horror all I got was a page of error messages. Luckily for me a I had a backup. I can’t stress enough to backup all your files and databases before doing any major work to your site. I highly recommend Austin Matzko’s Wordpress backup plugin, which can automate the process for you lazy bloggers.

Enough geek, on to the good stuff…

Week 2

• Feedburner Readers: 14 (+12)
• Technorati ranking (-454,371)
  
• Alexa - 978,638
• Google Search Page: #1 & #2

Now that I have reached one of my goals and can scratch another item off the dot com mogul requirement list, its time to set a new one! Why settle for #1 and #2, its time to dominate. The only Dang you should be seeing WILL be me.

• Unique Visitors: 58.14 Daily Average (+50.97)

What’s that huge spike you may ask? It’s all the Will Ferrell fanatics in search of his latest viral video, “The Landlord“. I was lucky enough to stumble on the video early on and someone submitted my site to UniqueDaily. It’s not the best kind of traffic as only a small percentage of visitors will actually come back, but its good exposure to a relative new and unknown site.

That wraps up my quick week in review. I learned a lot this week from trial and error (isn’t that the best way?), and have lots in store for this blog. Thanks to all the new faces visiting and also to the bloggers that have help point me in the right direction!

Update - April 17th: One day can change a lot.  I am now ranked #2 and #3 for Google Search results, but I am #1 on Yahoo!  This is just going to make me work harder to dominate these pages. 

1. -Update: Week 1
2. -My quest to overthrow that Poker Guy and make some money while I’m at it.
3. -Selfish Promotion of My Blog: Technorati.com
4. -My Obsessive Thoughts
5. -NoFollow No More.