In an effort to do as we bloggers and business owners typically (and usually should) do, I have moved my blog to our new sister web hosting site, WpBlogHost.

The new site focuses more on web hosting and domain products for bloggers, though the hosting can be tailored for just about anyone. This is where my blog’s new home is. All the eVentureBiz Blog articles have been transferred and I even have a few new articles already up.

So if you haven’t done so yet - and you enjoy reading my blog - please visit my new blog’s home at http://wpbloghost.com/blog and sign up for my blog’s feed and discontinue following the eVentureBiz feed.

The new blog focuses on bloggers and things I think bloggers ought to know about.

Thanks for reading and being a part of our community.

See ya on the other side

John

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Hello everyone. Thank you for visiting and reading my blog over the past year and a half. As you know, I haven’t been blogging for awhile due to the fact I’ve been concentrating all my energy on developing our new
web hosting site geared for bloggers specifically.

A couple months ago I asked everyone, What Would Make For A Great WordPress Hosting Company?

Here were some of the responses I received:

1. Easy installations of WordPress
2. A site with good WordPress tutorials
3. Ability to provide blog security enhancements for their customers

If only we could read minds. Courtesy Paramount Pictures

The other day my wife emailed me a link to a “What’s Your Personality Type?” quiz (PersonalityType.com).

At first I wasn’t too interested but after hearing the results from her test I was intrigued and headed over to the site to take the quiz. It asked me a few questions about what type of person I am, such as do I often say whatever comes to my mind or do I hold things back? It also asked me questions about how organized I am and orderly I like my universe; I prefer orderly, however, with 2 young children running around all day . . . you get the picture

So you’re probably curious as to what personality type I am, aren’t you?

I was awarded with the INTJ personality type. “Yes thank you, I accept this award and I’d like to thank my mother, father, beautiful wife . . .”

Direct traffic.

I was scanning through our company’s website stats the other day and noticed quite a few visits came from direct traffic.

This typically means either these visitors typed in our web address in their web browser’s address bar or they have our site bookmarked.

At first glance this may appear to be useless information regarding your website and how people find you, but realize this: This is what you want to see!

Yahoo! doesn’t want to see people are finding their website through your website, neither does Google. What they want is every time someone thinks “I need to search for this on the Web,” they need to go to our site.

No referrers, no links, no tweets.

What is it then they strive for (and the reason why I like seeing direct traffic in my stats)?

Brand recognition!

The other day Akemi, author of the blog Yes To Me, asked me a few questions in regards to my SEO tips article which I thought deserved a better answer than a quick reply in the comment section.

If you have a question regarding SEO, please feel free to ask below.

SEO Q&A’s

What is duplicate content and how is it created?

Duplicate content is when different URLs show the exact same content. Many times, as in the case with most blogs, duplicate content is generated automatically.

Let’s take for example my article, 20.4 Ways People Scan Your Website. When Googlebot comes to my blog and collects and records a list of URLs on my site, it will notice the following URLs all contain the content of my 20.4 Ways People Scan Your Website article (links open in a new tab):

• http://eventurebiz.com/blog/204-ways-people-scan-your-website/
  (the article’s actual page I want Google to index)
• http://eventurebiz.com/blog/?s=20.4+Ways+People+Scan+Your+Website
  (found through my search box)

Like any good business should, we are always looking for ways to grow our business by doing nothing more than solving people’s problems.

By helping you, we help ourselves - hence my Avatar selection.

I’m curious about something today and would love to get some feedback from my blog readers. I know many of you read my blog but rarely comment, but if there’s one post you would consider commenting on I’d love for it to be this one.

This blog has been primarily me teaching things I know in business and on the Web, but one thing I do know - I don’t know everything and I need your help to make my business ventures successful as well. So here it goes . . .

My Goal

I want to create the best place on the Web for hosting a paid WordPress blog.

One might say, “Shouldn’t your goal be money or a destination you see yourself in 10 years?”