I thought I was the only one facing this problem, but it seems to be widespread. If your revenues do not increase whatever you do, it is time to move on. This year I spent a lot of money on domains experimenting. Many things did not work out as expected, but I have managed to develop alternate sources of revenue (not from domain parking). For other revenue sources, the income increases in proportion to the effort and time. There will also not be much competition also since not everyone can afford to spend so much initially to learn from their mistakes.

The PR update is going on, and it seems the earlier formula for getting PR is no longer valid. The author has correctly pointed out that if everyone is doing something, people feel it is correct, but that is not necessarily true.

Some of my websites have lost PR , some have gained PR . I have many websites and I don’t buy text links, so I think the criteria for assigning PR has changed. Till the market for links/traffic stabilises, I don’t think I will buy any more GTLD domains and concentrate on adding content.

Getting good content for a website takes a lot of time and effort, but atleast when I need some information in future, I know where I can find it online.

Facts don’t lie, and though India incorrectly portrayed as a “IT superpower” by the mainstream media in India, it is the only country in the world with a shrinking internet user base. The speed of the internet connection on mobiles is close to zero based on my personal experience, it only causes RSI. One of the reasons is the lack of useful country specific applications, social networking online and gaming is a waste of time, what is the use of “friends” who probably have given a fake name and profile?

The other reason for the negative growth is the extremely poor quality service provided by most ISPs in India. There are some things in life that money cannot buy and one of these is getting a reliable high speed internet connection with customer service in India. Reviews on broadband and general ISPs. If I pay for any service or product, I expect them to deliver what they promise, not waste my time and increase my BP trying to get customer service.

It is better to buy a large number of not so valuable domain names.Though the renewal fees will be higher, few will waste their time stealing the domain names, which can only be sold for a few dollars more than their registration fee.

The current search engines rank “keyword rich” articles well and old websites well. For example if you search for any India related term , the first 10 search results will be the archived news of sites of major newspapers in India and rediff, which have been online for a long time. Almost all the newspapers get their news from the same press agencies, PTI / Reuters /AP or the same press release by a company’s PR agency. The search results will have the same text, only a different site design . So if you want to compile or compare information from different sources, search engines are not very useful.

Till October last year, I was getting a lot of traffic for my websites from Google, since then the traffic from Google has almost disappeared. Visitors to my websites who have found them useful, often post a link to them on forums and message boards, so I was wondering what was wrong. 

 I had specifically asked whether it was possible for a third party to get your site removed on Webmasterworld but a Google Representative said that it was almost impossible for a third party to remove a website. Now my worst fears have been confirmed, some one has been systematically removing all my websites from Google’s index.

I often check my sites AWstats and I know that there are some people tracking many of my websites (may be just to see how effective they have been in getting my websites removed). I suppose they have spent a lot of time getting my websites removed from Search Engines, they have nothing better to do. This website has also been removed from Google’s index, though I never break any rules.  

I see this happening all the time this year, you develop a good content website, it ranks in Search engines. Your competitors who fill their websites with keyword rich junk, get your site removed from the search engine and you wonder what is wrong. SEO is a complete waste of time for Google.  

Search engines are manipulated so easily to give junk results, in a few years some one will definitely develop a better way to find useful information on the internet.  

Having one large popular website may be easier to handle, but you are more likely to be targetted by competitors, who will spend a lot of time ensuring that you are removed from search engines.

If you have thousands of ( thousandsof is a nice domain name) websites, your traffic and income remains more consistent.