Growing Money

Google is giving this site a page rank of 0. I’m not sure why they penalize me. I didn’t do anything crazy. I did some research online and this site lists some reasons:

• your page is banned by Google (hand penalty is made by Google employee)
• your site was down when Googlebot last crawled your site
• your page is considerated as duplicated content by Google

The last reason seems to apply since I have two blogs. One of them is on blogspot, where I originally started. However I have moved my blog to my own domain now. But I believe it was only until recently my Page Rank changed to 0. It was probably after I have updated my blogspot account in Google, and that could have triggered a duplicate alert to Google. Unfortunately, I have not checked my page rank prior to the blogspot move. I believe I had a page rank higher than 0 before. I’m not using the blogspot account, the blogspot site automatically redirects traffic to this site. Is there a way to clear up this issue?

If they have to penalize one site, I would rather they penalize the old blogspot account and not this site. Is there someone I can contact to resolve this issue?

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I want to monitor the number of clicks for each post/page of my blog. Is there a plugin where I can use to track the number of clicks for my posts?

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I updated my permalinks and changed my template this week. I notice I’ve spending a lot of time on the blog. I would say that I probably spend about ten hours a week on the blog. How many hours do you spent blogging?

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I wanted to switch to a three-column template and this one has the color scheme I like. Green is good. My only complain is that this template is still in beta and the widgets are not working. I have to manually edit the codes. My blogging hours are starting to add up. Jonathan was right, it does takes a lot of time to set up blogs. I wish I could get paid for it.

I hope you guys enjoy the new theme. Lots of good posts to come.

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The domain was down last night and today morning. I’m not sure what the reason was, but it’s back up now.

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Thanks to Martin, I’ve fixed the sidebar on the left of my blog. Now it’s displaying correctly. Check out his blog, http://moneyblogsite.com/.

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The sidebar on my blog sidebar is not displaying correctly. Instead of showing up on the left side, it’s displaying on the bottom. I don’t recall changing any settings or code. Does anyone has an idea of what’s wrong and how to fix it?

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WordPress offers a lot of themes. I haven’t had time to browse all of them yet. I like the theme I’m using now, but I want a 3-column blog template. I emailed the author of the template I’m using but he has not responded to me. I planning to switch to a 3-column template with a similar theme as this one. If you know of any good themes, please let me know.

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Jim from Blueprint for Financial Prosperity is hosting the 85th Carnival of Personal Finance.

There’s a link to my post, Money Management 201.

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