Let the experiment begin!

August 29, 2007 Filed Under: 30 Day Challenge

Before I crack into my second niche, I want to make sure I don’t make the same mistakes I made with the first one.

The first step is finding the perfect hosting platform for my content. I need to find the next TUMBLR.Ed Dale is not going to tell us what it is, and rightfully so. That just means I have to find it.

In case you forgot, here is the list: (thanks Mike Mindel)

Spread the Text Love

I left off the video and article sites. I want my main content page to be a destination site that is updated frequently so visitors have a reason to come back.

So let’s analyze these bad boys:

I chose to look at PageRank, Y! Links, Alexa rating and google results for “free blog”

Since we know that Google loves TUMBLR, we’ll use TUMBLR as the benchmark. Tumblr comes in at 12 with a modest page rank of 6, 71,700 links and an Alexa rating between 3-360 (the Alexa ranking changed every time I clicked the Go button).

So we set a baseline of page rank of 6, 50,000 links and Alexa rating under 100.
*Blogger was ruled out because it is already very popular among thirty day challengers

The finalists are:
Wikispaces
Bravenet
GooglePages
Wordpress
Livejournal
Blog
Blogsome
Squarespaces

So this test is very unscientific test. I have no reason to believe that any of the criteria listed above will correspond with a high Google ranking for your content page.

What I do know is that I don’t have the time to test all 25 sites individually so I needed to narrow down the list. Now I can test these sites to find out which one is the most powerful.

Stay tuned for more…..

Think Critically~

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