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Feature Article #1

The Series of Page 123

“The food is great.”

“So it’s not so bad after all, staying with your cousins?”

“I guess.”

Mark @ TheLocoMono | April 19th, 2008 | Continue Reading

Feature Article #2

Hey YOU! What is GREATNESS?

According to Wiktionary, the word greatness is a noun and is defined as,

The state, condition, or quality of being great; as, greatness of size, greatness of mind, power, etc.

I want to hear from you so here is my question.

Mark @ TheLocoMono | March 20th, 2008 | Continue Reading

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Feature Article #3

About WordPress Quick Tips

I will be using this icon to help you visually identify this post is about WordPress. I stumbled across this icon which is provided for free courtesy of AODdesign with certain restrictions. Click on the icon to go directly to the page where you too can share in the joys of WordPress […]

Mark @ TheLocoMono | March 18th, 2008 | Continue Reading

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TheLocoMono Website Objectives

To create awareness of other like-minded people who are on their own road to greatness.

To provide leadership for people who want to become great in their business endeavors.

To provide a clear, comprehensive, concise and informative website for people who want to better understand the 4 cornerstones, business, personal finance, real estate, and travel.

Mark @ TheLocoMono | February 27th, 2008 | Continue Reading

Feature Article #5

Attention: Guest Bloggers Invited

With the recent trend on the Internet reflecting the popularity of guest blogging, I am currently reaching out to my peer bloggers to invite them to post here on Fridays.
What is so special about Fridays?
Based on my Google Analytics report for 2007, it appears that Fridays mark the beginning of the traffic surges to my […]

Mark @ TheLocoMono | January 4th, 2008 | Continue Reading

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Why TheLocoMono Website?

I have things to do.
I have places to go.
I have people to meet.
I have only so much time to do it all.

You have things to do.
You have places to go.
You have people to meet.
You only have so much time to visit TheLocoMono.

Mark @ TheLocoMono | December 20th, 2007 | Continue Reading

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Excerpts or Full Posts

May 7th, 2008 • Mark @ TheLocoMono • 0 comments • Related • Filed Under

In order to better understand my readers, I am providing you a poll here to see whether you prefer post excerpts or full posts. Please Stumble this so we can increase feedback from a wide range of readers.

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As you can see here on TheLocoMono Website, I have my posts shown in full.

However, I am experimenting on my sub-domains with excerpts so your feedback will be appreciated.

Carnival of Twenty Something Finances - May 5th edition

May 5th, 2008 • Mark @ TheLocoMono • 1 comment • Related • Filed Under

It has been a while since I hosted a carnival so I volunteered to help with the May 5th edition. There were quite a few good entries and then your usual hodgepodge of articles. Many which I did not enjoy because they were too much information. So I am separating my picks from the rest to make it easier for your reading pleasure.

Editor’s Pick

Raag Vamdatt’s Real Estate Investment

Free Stock Market Investing Tips’ Why I Sold My Apple Shares Today

Leaving The Folks’ Creating a budget

The Personal Financier’s How To Make Saving More Rewarding and Tangible : 5 Practical Tips

The Office Diet’s 17 ingredients, 6 sandwiches, 10 days of fantastic, healthy, lunches

And the rest of the entries…

Debt Prison’s Why Americans Can’t Afford Credit

The Skilled Investor’s The Financial Services Industry Is Still The Largest S&P 500 Sector - Even after the Collapse of its Stock Value.

Finance Tips 101’s The Pros and Cons of Personal Loans

Best No Load Mutual Fund’s Avoid Large Actively Managed Mutual Funds

The Writer’s Coin’s Dream Job

You Might As Well Burn $5!’s Financial Doublethink: A Rambling Rant

Debt Free’s Debt Relief - Do Settlement, Counseling or Debt Relief Programs Really Work?

Christian PF’s How to make a budget

Short-Term Trading’s 4 Tips to Properly Save for Your Retirement

FIRE Finance’s TIPS for Inflation and Deflation

Financial Zip’s 3 Steps to a Lower Interest Rate

No Debt Anymore’s 7 Common Sense Tips to Eliminate Credit Card Debt

Until Debt Do Us Part’s Up to your eyeballs in debt - so what?

Pasenda Financial Planner’s Asset Allocation, Investment Asset Tax Location, and Emergency Cash Management

CMOE’s Strategy in Commodities

The Eclectic Female’s How To Talk About Money With Your Partner

KCLau’s Insurance Planning Guide for Malaysians

401k Look Up’s 401k Plans for a Small Business Owner

Pinching Copper’s Buying car tires online

Creditor Web’s Understanding Frozen Credit

SEO Improvements by Young Entrepreneur

May 1st, 2008 • Mark @ TheLocoMono • 1 comment • Related • Filed Under

I was thrilled to see that Young Entrepreneur offered some SEO advice for TheLocoMono Website and its’ sub-domain today in this post. He rattled off great feedback right off the back which made me laugh because every single one of them is true. I still have a ways to learn about Search Engine Optimization which is a crucial element to any website’s success.

Pick Better Keywords

I recently discovered the value of keywords but am not quite sure how to incorporate them into the blog.

I like your category idea but you should pick keywords that you have a change of ranking for. As an example, look at your Just Business section. Are people really searching for “Just Business”? Use keywords that are related to the topics you are writing about but will also drive targeted traffic for you because you can get on page 1 in Google for them

Good point. How often are you going to type Just Business in your favorite search engine. This deserve some investigation and naming changes. Any suggestions would be welcomed. The goal for my business sub-domain is to explore the relationship between money and business so I can better understand how to apply it to my life whether as a business owner, an employee, or an investor.

Use My Pictures For SEO

Really? I never realized that.

Your images can not only help you rank for select keywords, they can also drive some serious traffic to your site through the Google image search. Your logo is called TLMlogo.gif and your alt tag is “Logo”. Change your pictures around so that the file name and, at the very least, alt tags are helping you with your SEO efforts.

I am going to work on that this weekend. Obviously, by renaming it to TheLocoMono which is literally the number one result in Google for TheLocoMono would just solidify my spot. I will have to figure out this “alt” thing. I know it is there but I have no clue. Feedback or links to your articles on this topic would be greatly appreciated.

Increase My Keyword Density

If you don’t use your keywords on your page in multiple locations it will be hard to get Google to pay attention. Look at your Just Personal Finance Page. You have the key phrase Personal Finance in your title tag, in your URL, and your H1 tag. Then you don’t use Personal Finance anywhere else on the page. You need to make sure that your posts mention the keywords you are trying to rank for. If your posts aren’t related to personal finance then consider changing the topic name to something that you are likely to write about in your posts (and a key phrase that is not as competitive as Personal Finance).

I don’t know how I could have missed something so obvious. That is going to take some serious thinking. If you hear monkeys hooting, that’s my brain hurting. Feel free to leave any comments to help improve my SEO skills. There is so much more to blogging than most of us realize and every little bit goes a long ways.

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