Stupid Mistakes.
by TonyI registered this site on Sept 23 2007
Decide to put up this blog on Oct 16, so I changed my DNS info on Oct 16.
After changing the DNS info, I set up the site, then I have decided to look around for stuff to blog about that can bring me instant traffic and possibly some links. I was picking between shoemoney and johnchow as topic, then I saw belowabuck post, so I jumped on it.
After I was done with the post, I was debating whether or not I should release it right away, because as most of you know, DNS takes 24 to 48 hours to propagate, I was afraid that some people might have problem to see the site due to not having the up to dated DNS info, but the same time, belowabuck.com post was sinking down very fast on Shoemoney.com, he posts a good average about 2 or 3 posts a day, so I really wanted to release my post before it goes down to the bottom of the main page.
Therefore, I gambled…. I was not expecting a “blog post” on shoemoney about my site, I was more expecting just a pingback and possibly some traffic coming from his comment section.
After I released the post, I made a comment on his blog, then miracle happened. Instead of just a link back, he actually gave me a blog post about it, even tho it was very negative, but it was great exposure, at the same time, I realized he didn’t link it directly to my site. Instead, he linked to a cache/proxy type of site because he said when he clicked my site, it was taking forever to load while others are getting server not found error 
Traffic Result - about 8k people saw my site from coral cache and about 2.4k people clicked in from Coral cache.
I guess it is 50% successful, got the exposure, but didn’t really get the link. Damn you DNS propagation!!!!
Some people are saying I am not optimize this blog for profit at all. Well, it is a new site, 2 days old, what do you expect? I always like to let my sites mature a bit before putting on any type of ads.
Btw, if you are reading this post and you haven’t subscribe to Shoemoney’s blog, hurry up and do it, I want him to win, his blog is way more informative compare to john chow.
Don’t Worry, just for the belowabuck post i realised you are at least something smart so i instant added you to RSS, keep coming posts like that and you will build a community in no time.