End of November 2012 Blog Update 
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As some of you will recall, we recently had some rankings problems at my structured settlement daytime job. After a month of patiently waiting and taking steps to get back in Google’s good books, we are finally starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel. Some keyword rankings have fully recovered and others continue to improve.
It would be a huge understatement to say that we’re relieved about this. It’ll be a welcome change of pace to go back to working on website marketing where progress can actually be tracked. Business around here should pick up too. So it’s a big weight lifted off my shoulders. I might even feel the need to celebrate the achievement this weekend.
While I did expect the rankings to recover eventually, it is still a little stressful dealing with the unknown. We didn’t know how long it would take, what level of recovery we’d see or whether any hiccups would hold us back. We could’ve ended up fighting this thing for months.
On the blogging front, I’m involved in a few big giveaway contests this month. Two of them will be group contests that I am co-hosting, one of which I am quite excited about. Tomorrow I have an exclusive contest that I will be announcing on my blog. I’m sure you will all like what I have planned. So check back tomorrow to enter. Also stay tuned in the next 2 weeks for the other contests.
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Thank you to all the awesome bloggers who mentioned Modest Money this past week. Here’s a little love back.
Frugal Friday: Posts That Ruled This Week, I Ate Too Much Turkey Edition on Frugal Rules
The Round Table – November 23, 2012 on Money Smart Guides
Weekly Personal Finance Blog RoundUp – 11/23/2012 on Debt RoundUp
Don’t Let Them Silence the Voice of Reason on Fix Em Up Rent Em Out
Weekend Links – Thank You! on Vix Money
Friday recap, an herb garden and a casualty on Reach Financial Independence
Weekly Roundup on Making Sense Of Cents
Weekly Link Love: Travel Bug Edition on Mo Money Mo Houses
Can’t Take My Eyes Off These Blogs #15-RIP JR Ewing Edition on Eyes On The Dollar
Updates: November 18 – 24 on The Outlier Model
Weekly Wrap-Up, Mentions and Good Reads #21 on iHeart Budgets
Friends of the Family: Thanksgiving Weekend Edition on The Family Finances
Blue Collar Roundup — Alternative Modes of Transportation Edition on Blue Collar Workman
The Only Real Get Rich Scheme on This Is Common Cents
Great Reads of the Month (Monthly Roundup for November – 2nd Addition) + a video to bring in December with a smile on Frugal Habits
Fearless Men’s Weekly Round-Up | November 29th, 2012 on Fearless Men
Weekend Reading – Giving thanks U.S. style, a good week and great blogs on My Own Advisor
Blog round up for November 23, 2012 on My Canuck Buck
Places I’ve Been: Week Ending November 24 on Edward Antrobus
Friday’s Fork in the Path: My Second Month Recap on The Frugal Path
What I’m Most Thankful For This Year on Planting Our Pennies
Carnival of Money Pros on Vanessa’s Money
MPB – Pool Room Posts #5 on Monster Piggy Bank
Link Love/Week in Review 11/23/12 on Budget And The Beach
Happy Thanksgiving and William Shatner Deep Fried Turkey on My Money Design
Carnival Of Financial Camaraderie – Black Friday Edition on One Cent At A Time
Yakezie Carnival:The End of Black Friday Edition on My Family Finances
The Money Mail Carnival – Fourth Edition on The Money Mail
Carnival of Retirement #47 on Finance Product Reviews
Festival #364 on Festival of Frugality
Mr.CBB’s Weekly Blog Post Picks-Nov 23,2012 Shop Til You Drop! on Canadian Budget Binder
The Saturday Weekend Review #6 November on Canadian Budget Binder
Weekend Ramblings – Black Friday! on Young and Thrifty
What I read this week – episode #1 on Grown Up And Stuff
Got any big plans with your blog to wrap up the year? Or will you be too busy with the holiday season?
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Excited to hear about your giveaways!
Michelle @ Making Sense of Cents recently posted..eBooks: A Frugal Minimalist’s Dream
Well you know about one of them already. Check back tomorrow to hear about one of other ones.
Thanks for the mention Jeremy. Also, congrats on getting the rankings back up. I know how much of a pain that is. I am part of a giveaway starting Monday, but I look forward to seeing what you have planned for tomorrow!
Grayson @ Debt RoundUp recently posted..Little Debt Wrangler Coming Soon, Any Advice?
I might be part of that very same giveaway on Monday. The one I have planned for tomorrow is even bigger though. Then the one in just over a week will be especially awesome. And yeah having the rankings back is a nice relief.
Glad to hear things are going better with work, I say a celebration is probably in order. I am looking forward to your contest tomorrow.
John S @ Frugal Rules recently posted..Frugal Friday: Posts That Ruled This Week, It’s December Already Edition!
I’m all for celebrating the small achievements in life
I’m not going to get pissed drunk, but with a little less stress in my life I might let loose a bit.
Sounds like work was a bit stressful, eh? Glad to hear it’s smoothing out a bit. And I, too, am excited for your upcoming giveaways. Mostly, I just want free stuff.
Jacob @ iheartbudgets recently posted..Mortgage Refinance Completed!
Fighting Google is always stressful. Since you can’t get in direct contact with anyone there, you’re just left hoping things will work out. When they finally do it’s a good feeling. It just sucks in between when you’re left waiting and wondering.
Curious to see what your exclusive contest is all about!
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I think fellow bloggers will especially like it. Some of the prizes are just for them.
I busted my nut with the big Blogoversary giveaway, so there is nothing major planned for the end of the year. Saying that, all of the new staff writers will be making appearances in December…so that should be exciting. I’m also brainstorming a few ideas about January and how to best take part in the “Debt Movement.”
Glad all the work stuff got resolved!
That’s awesome that your staff writers are starting next month. That’s the direction I’ll eventually head in. I won’t be taking part in any ‘movements’ since those are really just the organizer leveraging a good cause to promote himself.
Ouch, sounds painful – a busted nut. Hehe! You did a good job on the giveaway, I’m curious to see what kind of links / likes / tweets you got as a result from it.
I think he did quite well with his giveaway. Giveaways are great for getting attention for your blog and increasing your stats.
Thanks for the relink love back. lol! The only thing new I want to try is submit some articles to carnivals, and maybe try and do more guest posting.
Budget & the Beach recently posted..December Goals/Link Love 11/30/12
Carnivals are pretty important in my opinion since they get you dofollow links on random blogs. I personally try to submit to a bunch of carnivals every single week. Guest posting is even better but is much more time consuming.
I am in the giveaway going up Monday. Other than that, I just hope to keep my head above water.
Kim@EyesontheDollar recently posted..The Sandman, Hypnosis, and The Village People
I’m liking those free giveaways, but I’m expecting much better results for the other 2 giveaways I have planned for December.
I get stressed enough about my own rankings, nevermind my employers too! Kudos to you though – have a great weekend
Savvy Scot recently posted..Safe in the Cloud
I actually don’t look at my own rankings at all these days. I’m not really focusing on any specific keyword rankings at this point. First I want to build up more strength within my domain.
Awesome to hear your rankings are coming back. I know it’s tough to recover a site after it’s been hit by the almighty Google. I going through the same thing as well right now.
My problem was though that I made some pretty poor choices with my site early on that I feel could have been the culprit. Now I’m in the process of doing a complete clean up of my site and making things right with G.
Chris @ Stumble Forward recently posted..10 Most Common Life Insurance Mistakes To Know Before You Buy
Well luckily it wasn’t an actual penalty in this case. It was just a matter of Google needing time to reindex new urls and give credit for previous links. Some onpage issues might’ve slowed things down too.
Hey Jeremy,
Thanks for including my link – really appreciate it
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No worries Jon. Just returning the favor.
Thanks for the mention!
Man, rankings and website stuff — it gets overwhelming and frustrating so fast! Glad you’ve worked out the ranking problems.
TB at BlueCollarWorkman recently posted..Ambulance Chasers
It’s even more frustrating when your job security depends largely on being able to resolve those problems. There’s a lot you can do to speed things up, but ultimately it’s in Google’s hands.
Not too sure but I’m betting I’ll be busy drinking egg nog and spiced rum for about a week then back to work. No, nothing big planned for the blog… that I’m willing to share
Cheers mate. Mr.CBB
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mmmm eggnog and rum….good stuff. I’m going to have to get me some of that soon.
I am participating in a challenge to post at least 5000 words per week until the end of the year. That is double what I was writing before. It’s been tough, and I’m glad there are only 4 more weeks to go! But at least it gave me the push to get back on my guest posting schedule.
Edward recently posted..How to Save Money on Gas Prices
Wow, 5000 words per week? That is quite ambitious. I don’t think I’d be able to manage that unless I made major sacrifices with other stuff in my weekly schedule. Good luck with that Edward.
Thanks for the link back, Jeremy. Glad to hear the job front is moving in the right direction. It’s very satisfying to get results on such long term projects.
That’s for sure. With such a long term project, the last thing you want is to be held up for a long stretch with a large amount of uncertainty.
Can’t wait for the contests!
CF recently posted..There’s Never a Right Time
Well you can stop waiting for the first contest now
The next will be up on Monday. You know all about the 3rd contest already.
Boy, you get around! Sorry to hear about the rankings doing the dance. I’m sure with your whitehat techniques all will be good. Hey, employer, if you’re reading this, give him a break, this fella knows his stuff!
In this case I’ll take that as a compliment lol. Who said anything about my techniques being all whitehat?
Almost every SEO professional is at least a shade of grey.
I can’t stop entering these giveaways lately! Looking forward to seeing what you have coming up this month. I will be hosting my very first giveaway (ever) as well sometime in early December. Should be interesting.
Matthew Allen recently posted..Keyword Research to Optimize Your Blog Posts
For a while I was entering a ton of these too. Back then I didn’t win any. Then when I was barely entering any I won prizes in 2 last month. Good luck on your upcoming contest.
Jeremy, thanks for the mention. At Fearless Men, Todd and I are going to launch our ebook. Other then that I think the holidays will consume alot of our time.
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Awesome to hear that your ebook will be launched soon. I’m sure that will be quite well. I’m interested to see how you use that on your blog, whether you will be selling it or giving it away to build your subscriber base.
Thanks for the mention Jeremy. I always get a kick out of your images for your blog updates. This one is a hoot.
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Hey what says November blog update like a cat staring up at the ceiling?