Open your blog to the masses?

[soulwatcher]

Been a long time, just wanted to say hi to everyone really quick. Right now I am working on a blog with a forum and a photo gallery. Its a community blog covering 18 local city's. Now there simply is no way for me to cover all 18 city's.

So what I was thinking of doing is opening the blog so that other people can write content. And if I approve it then I will publish it. Now I see a couple of problems here. (A) its going to take of like a rocket and I am going to get tons of people adding content. And the website is going to grow out of my control. (B) People uploading porn or subjective pictures (C) Some one trys to steals my idea/content. (D) the blog is a total dud.

Now I have planned ahead for some of this. I have a Level 3 VPS from Host Gator. And the only website on it right now is the blog. I have also installed some caching software. Their VPS system goes all the way to level 9. So if the blog starts getting busy and the current VPS cant handle it. Then I can move up to the next VPS.

I haven't really checked over the photo gallery software. IDK if it has a approval system on it or not. I just want to make sure no one is uploading porn in the middle of the night.

So far I have only enabled hot link protection. Some of my content comes from the wikki. I made sure and read the guide lines. They said as long as you put a link back your allowed to use it. I am only using it for the history of the city's. The rest of my content is original.

P.S. I am not to worried about renting a VPS for a single website with no traffic. Because I am getting back into web design. I will populate the server with other websites of this one doesn't work out. I would at least like to give this website 6+ months to mature.

[soulwatcher]

Originally Posted by dojo

I think it's a big project indeed, but with control, it can be surely done. You can use wordpress for instance since it allows all level of contributors. You can then see the new content and approve.

PS: nice having you back

Thank you, its nice to be back.

[anildutt786]

hi sir

Wow, just what have I gotten myself into?

I'm just getting into SEO and have done a fair bit of research and realise it is an ongoing battle but I do have a couple of quick questions.

1. SEO is, I realise, an ongoing thing that needs to be done very often and there are several ways of achieving a higher ranking (keywords, metatags, links etc I'm sure you know more than me) but what actually is it that you do very often? I don't understand how it takes months to notice any changes yet you have to be on it all the time. What is it that your supposed to do? Check and change keywords? content? I just don't understand WHAT it is I should be doing on a daily/ weekly basis.

2. I've just had a call out of the blue to get a sponsored listing right at the top of the page for a month for £120. Is this a good price?

3. How do you find out when Google has changed their algorithm?

4. I went to list our company on Google places (maps) and missed the call back to verify it as I'm new at the office and the call didn't get through. How the hell do I pick it up again? I've just got lost in an endless downward spiral of the cycle of links on the google page that doesn't go anywhere.

I really need to learn this and am keen to do so but I'm finding it really frustrating that most of the stuff I'm finding on the net is less about actual content and more about how a little bit of SEO knowledge is a danger in the wrong hands.

Many


thanks