Yougling Times Blog

Yougler Page Views for the last 12 days. Previous numbers are in ().
Stats

plugin downloads ………………… (146) 151
pages linking to site………… (2341) 2821
diggs ……………………………………… (16 articles & 36 digg) 17 & 37
page views (average last 7 days… (611) 734
Google page rank…………………… (2) 2
del.cio.us bookmarks ……………. (4) 4
registered users…………………….. […]

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Yougler Startup
Yesterday Yougler added a new feature to the blogger profile page users. Now you can add your favorite blogs or posts to you profile page so that you may share them with your readers.
To add your favorite blogs or posts to your profile, go to edit your profile and click the link under “Add […]

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Yougler Startup
Yesterday we deactivated the Mailroom function at Yougler. It was a bit more complicated than it was worth. Now emails AND their contents are sent directly to the user email account for White Pages Profiles. If the White Pages user replies to the email, the reply will be sent with their return email address. […]

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Yougler Startup
Sun and Mashable.com have partnered to present “The Startup Review” on mashable.com which is a daily feature/review of a new startup to help spread the word on unique and emerging ideas throughout the community. www.mashable.com/startup-review-sponsored-sun-startup-essentials/
Sun is also hosting a free event called “Startup Camp” in San Francisco on May 4-5, 2008 to allow […]

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Yougler Startup
For the last few days I have been working on a new landing page for the blogging profiles. This is in response to the feedback to make the site look “cooler”. The task is taking longer than planned. I always think less is more and there are benefits to that thinking other than the […]

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It seems my start up has a way to go based on what seven (so far) people think. The Yougler plugin was reviewed by at Weblog Tools Collection . The review was fairly upbeat. The comments were negative. Basically they think the way the site looks is too simple. I agree and that is something […]

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This post is some background information to help readers understand how Yougler got to this point.
Yougler was an idea of mine that came to me about 16 months ago. I was having the usual trouble with spam in my mailbox and got to thinking there must be a better way. It just seemed that the […]

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Just a quick note on the Yougler startup. Overnight I had 17 new bloggers sign up and 5 new white pages. (I have had several more in the in process of writing this post.) Downloads of the plugin almost doubled from 29 to 54. According to what stats I do have in place these new […]

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Making progress doesn’t make sense without some goals in mind so here they are.
Yougler Website Goals:

Short term goal……….500 users, 2k daily page views, 10k inbound links, top 500k web site ranking
Medium term goal….1k users, 10k daily page views, 20k inbound links, top 100k web site ranking
Long term goal……….10k users, 50k daily page […]

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As stated earlier I have changed the topic of this blog to be about the only thing I know that may be worth writing about; that is all the things I have tried that don’t work and all the little successes I may have in making Yougler a success.
As part of this “online diary of […]

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