Material Boy

I know i’ve been blogging a lot about Material Boy and how it ranks in certain search engines, but it really excites me to see the progress of this site.

Material Boy started 12 days ago with small content and not a lot of sense. Material Boy slowly climbed up the Google Search Engine ladder being the 9th, then 6th, then 4th… and now it’s 2nd.

Imagine! Top 2 and I didn’t really exert that much effort! Now my only problem is that Google doesn’t index my posts instantaneously. And that’s my next priority.

Update: I ranked 2nd over 32,900,000 results for “Material Boy”

My Search Engine Optimization method is slowly working. Although my experiment is still under construction, i am seeing progress. A few minutes ago, i typed the word “Material Boy” in Google Search Engine. And to my astonishment, I wasn’t expecting to be in the first page, but there it was… “Material Boy. Insights of a materialistic boy…“.

A little background about this blog of mine. I made an account around 10 days ago. I have lots of other blogs out there, but I realized that i want one also for personal use. So here it is. I uploaded some of the posts i made as test articles that was a little more than 15 days ago. I started blogging. Fixing everything. Making sure that everything was optimized for Search Engines, preferable Google.

As seen in my previous entries, I already felt this high ranking thing a few days back. But it started going down after I made significant changes. Changes which I had to do to make my Material Boy blog user-friendly. I check everyday in Google search if my blog is climbing its way back up, but to my dismay, it wasn’t. I’m not really planning to make Material Boy a public thing. I just want to blog about personal stuff. My blog are, yes, a little more on the marketing side, considering that this was the way i’ve been blogging ever since.

Little did I know that this blogging type of mine will give Material Boy a better rank. I am not getting much traffic though. Who would search for material boy anyway, right? I’m just happy that at least it’s there lurking somewhere on top of every other Material Boys out there.

Being 6th is an accomplishment. It was 9th before, but hey, during that time I wasn’t even blogging about anything. And given that my blog layout isn’t Search Engine Optimized, which takes my blog posts a longer time to be indexed in search engines like Google, Yahoo and MSN, I think being even in a Search Engine is an accomplishment. My other blogs are all optimized giving them better ranks. But this Material Boy blog? Not totally. Maybe it’s the way I write? Who knows? I’m too tired to even think of how Google really works. As for me, Material Boy ranks 6th in Google Search and that’s all there is to it. It made my day.

I have been experimenting on SEO for Material Boy to earn a few bucks this vacation. I have other experimental sites too working their way up in the search engine ladder. A few days ago Material Boy, my site, ranked top 8 in the search for Material Boy in Google. Although some of the posts didn’t index as fast, I had very high hopes considering that since the main index site of Material Boy ranked high on Google, it will then let the spiders crawl further into my blog.

Everything changed when I used google sitemap. I installed a sitemap script for Material Boy, thinking that it would boost the SEO of the site. I then registered the site to Google Sitemaps then added the sitemap. A day later, I found that Material Boy was not even indexed in Google anymore. Instead of being a Search Engine Optimization agent, it totally removed my site index page from Google. I decided that this wasn’t a good idea, so i automatically removed Material Boy from sitemaps and deleted every trace of it.

Next day, my site was once again in the first page of “Material Boy” search page in Google. Not only was it in the 8th, but it went up to 6th. Material Boy was already ranked 6th on Google even if it only was its 3rd day.

I gave sitemap another chance to SEO my blog. To my dismay, the same incident occured. I removed it again from sitemap, but voila… until now, Material Boy is nowhere to be found in Google Search. The problem is, not only did it affect the experimental blog, it also caused the other sites within the domain to decrease its ranking.

I was looking for a quick fix, but what i got was a whooping SEO disaster.

Since i’m guessing that Material Boy’s Google Search issue is gonna be problematic for a longer time, i took the opportunity to change the blog template. Only to find out that the template i used wasn’t recommended for money-making blogs. It wasn’t optimized for indexing. Oh well, at least the site looks good.

For fun, i tried Blog Juice even though my site has only been running for a couple of days. Obviously, since i’m not anywhere near being an online guru, my blog juice score was only 0.1. And it was expected. Hahaha. Anyway,you can try it out and see what your site’s blog juice score is.

I’ll blog juice again after a few months. I hope my score gets higher tho. If not, then that would be dreadful.

Update: (10/13) My current Blog Juice score is 0.6. This means i don’t have to commit suicide since it got higher. That’s all.

This is a test for Google Sitemap and Google Indexing.

Ok so i waited for adsense review for 8 excruciating days only to find out that i was disapproved to to an unassociated application, which i have no idea of. Oh well, i might as well just share with someone’s adsense and just ask from my revenue there. Haaay. I’m pissed.

I’ve been blogging in this new site for almost 3 days now. And the last time google indexed my site was more than a day ago. This is not supposed to be this way. I transferred since i thought that it would index so much faster. And by fast, i mean less than an hour after posts. I’m quite devastated about this unfortunate event.

Let me give google a few more days. If not, i’m gonna have to increase my efforts with $$$. Hahaha.

As of this very very very very moment, i’m trying out wordpress. I just transferred from blogspot to my own domain and i’m using a blog powered by wordpress. Anyway i’m doing this so i can have my own domain name. This domain is only temporary. It doesn’t matter anyway since i’m the only one reading so no one would really care except those spiders from Google and Yahoo. Hehehe.

I have to get my own domain name soon. This one’s kinda crappy considering that i’m on a /blog. Domain registration is such a hassle, but since i’ve done it before, i think i can manage. I need strength. Hahaha.

Google Adsense registration delay. From 2 days to 2 weeks!

How long has it been since i joined Google Adsense. I think i registered more than 4 days ago. They said they’re gonna review it and ill get a result in 2 days. Now whenever i go to the site it says it’s still under review. My sister told me she had hers for about 2 weeks after she registered. How long are they gonna take. I wanna start harvesting money. (As if i have readers! Hahaha)

Finally. A perfect Design! Classy brown with a touch of blue.

Yey… i was able to get a good design for my blog.

Thanks to webtalks for this nice template.

1 day down… years and years to go!

How i hate this theme. I’m supposed to be writing about how i wanna get leaner because i’m BIG BERTHA in the flesh and my tummy is slowly crawling its way out of my shirt as I type… but to my dismay as i viewed my blog…

TA-DA!

Just awful! I thought it’s only my belly that’s big… the font too is ENORMOUSLY out of proportion! OMFG! I know this Blogpost or Blogger thing is free… but.. but… you know.. i need customer satisfaction! Hehehe. Well ok maybe i’m just too lazy to figure out the problem right now.. or maybe i’m not… i just don’t know how.

I want the Andreas02 or Andreas04 or Andreas08 theme. I forgot the name of this theme. I think it has the stretch denim denim something (which i actually don’t get why they call it denim coz it’s NOT anywhere near the color of my denim pants). But that one seems to be having problems… i wish i learned HTML Or XML or something-ML when i was younger.. well yeah actually I did learn from blogging from different blogs liek Tabulas and Wordpress… but still today in this advanced world where there are words that you can’t even pronounce like HTTP or WWW, things like html or flash are difficult to learn.

College is indeed sucking the fun out of me.

Oh anyway. There’s no use getting annoyed. I might as well get something done.

Productivity… here i come!
ZOOOOOOOOOOOM!

Finally. I just wanna be anonymous. Is that a crime? Hahaha. Well who cares about who am I anyway. The important things is i’m able to tell the world what I want.

I crave for material things, but that doesn’t mean that i’m against other beliefs… so don’t go screaming nonsense at me. I also had this blog before about how I love my life.. all I got were hate messages. I must have overdone it with my annoying thoughts. Hahaha.. I’m not blogging for anyone but me, right?

What will I write about?

1. My every desire
   • Material Things: Laptops. Cars. Houses. Everything! Money!
   • Travel: I wanna get out of this country…! I’ve been to most of the places here in the Philippines but I wanna see the outside world. I wanna see cultures and appreciate them and of course spend spend spend. Asia… Europe… whatever else is out there.. I wanna go go go. Seriously.
   • Goals: I have lots of goals but sometimes i feel that i’m too lazy to even start. I need motivation. MOTIVATION PLEASE!
   • a lot more.. i just can’t think of them right now cause i didn’t have enough sleep last night.

I’ll post another one right after this about how i’m dying to get thinner after gaining 10 pound over the past few months.

Oh.. just some things i wanna make everyone aware of… i’m mature now unlike before. I think that’s good. Awww i’m really getting older. I turned 20 this year… TWENTEEN. hahah. yeah whatever, right? well at least i can pretend that i didn’t have my birthday so i’ll still be 19. I’ll miss my teenage years. Free from stress. The stress is killing me. I need radiant skin that’ll be the envy of the world. But i don’t have that. So i’ll just post about how i’d love to have one. Sounds pathetic. Well it is. And it doesn’t matter.

Hmph!