GuruStop.NET

Just a hour ago, I got an interesting question via the contacts page in this blog, about search engine optimization, and I wanted to share the answer with you…

The question is:

I’m a software engineer and SE Optimizer. I’m currently assigned a project that needs general information of the mini sites and blogs regarding their SEO strategy and daily revenue. I read your blog a lot in my .net related problems and thought of finding the details about your blog.
I found out that there are daily ~900 page views of your blog and your page rank is 3.

Mohamed what I wanna know is that whether you have employed any SEO strategy on your blog or this is just the good will traffic that comes to view your blog.

Also what is the daily ads revenue of your blog and what kinda ads you have deployed on your blog.

Although my Google Analytics statistics tell me slightly better results than mentioned in this message,, this is an interesting question I’d love an answer indeed. Scott Hanselman taught us though it’s better to reply to those in public and share the benefit with everyone, let’s see:…

First WordPress Post From GuruStop.NET/Blog

A number of friends advised me to move GuruStop blog from weblogs.asp.net to its own domain, and make it a start for my own “GuruStop” brand, especially @BinYahia. Various limitations and inconsistencies in Community Server powering weblogs.asp.net supported this suggestion of course, but, still, leaving weblogs.asp.net as a primary blog domain is really hard. You know, it’s the same domain that @ScottGu and @FransBouma and other heroes park their weblogs!

Yes, this is why I haven’t blogged in the last 2+ months.  At the beginning I thought what my criteria should be. This is the second time to switch my blog hosting, and I don’t want to do it again – Finally I ended up getting WordPress with some plug-in and configuration hacks, and hence GuruStop.NET (the domain) has come to life.

I may write about how I ended up with WordPress after testing all well knows .NET weblogs, and the customizations that helped me be convinced enough with the move soon, if I see some interest from your side ;).

What about the other blog URL(s)?

Well, I hate to lose the wide reach of weblogs.asp.net RSS, so, I will be cross posting to it from now on.