about A little bit more Steve C. He is 60 years old His favorite food is Raw honey His favorite book is Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art by James Nestor His hometown is London organic links. At the same time – if you’re working without a team - the thought and time that needs to go into adequately covering everything can be daunting. But then I got diverted with the idea that if you could rank on page one on a fewyear-old site for a 4 billion broad search term, imagine the possibilities if you were working with a genuinely aged and already deeply authoritative domain or site. Out of the blue, there was an opportunity to try out some ideas with such a site, and I’m currently working with the team. Realmoney.games is effectively parked and can continue to age for the future, though I keep it going with occasional content additions that serve to improve its structure. It’s always been a near certainty that well-written, in-depth, new, or restructured content will rank Page 1 on an aged authoritative site straight off the bat. The question was whether taking that content through several optimization techniques would help it move upwards towards the number one spot.While the exercise has worked from the perspective of delivering enhanced information to search engines and visitors, it still hasn’t been quite enough to hit those coveted top positions on improved structure and content coverage alone. That’s other than by obtaining the featured snippet if that’s an option, of course. So, there’s more at play. When aiming for the top, we all know that links will help, but the reality is even that won’t necessarily crack it. There’s much more going on than meets the eye, and work on this puzzle continues unabated. There have been some recent promising observations and discoveries, so the signs are highly encouraging. I’m enjoying the team atmosphere too. It’s great to be working with others who are experienced and clued up, and it is a great environment for bouncing ideas and aiming for strong results. How did you get started in the world of websites? I won a significant sum of money on the horses. I never had that sort of cash before and began looking around to see what investments could be made, and pretty much the first thing I landed on after a plot of land in Belize or the out islands of the Bahamas was domain names. I started registering names purely with investment in mind but quickly realized there was the potential to monetize them rather than just leaving them parked. Gambling, or at least horse race betting, had been a significant part of life for a long time, so the obvious first targets were in gambling. Unfortunately, I was just too late for the earlier gold rush in domain names, but not too late to pick up some useful ones. A few, in particular, got good levels of type-in traffic where it was effortless to turn that traffic into revenue. Where did your GPWA username “chaumi” originate? It’s part of the name of a horse that won a fairly valuable U.K. handicap horse race two years on the trot a long time ago. The horse’s name was Chaumiere. It won me a fair bit of money both times. That was in the pre-online betting days when actually collecting a grand in real cash from the bookies was a huge deal. What’s the plan for the future? Well, I love the puzzle that all this SEO stuff presents and enjoy working on it. It’s especially gratifying when something works, irrelevant of whether it’s returning cash. So, I can’t see any reason to reduce the efforts. In fact, just this year I’ve probably learnedmore than in the previous 10 put together, but you could argue that’s partly the culmination of all my early mistakes! There is still lots to learn, there aremany opportunities to applymy skills to and get some good results, and I’m sure plenty of changes are coming that will call for the ability to adapt and explore new avenues. Some new markets that everyone will know offer interesting opportunities. Canadian and California sports betting are good examples. I have great domains for both, along with a brace of Tier 1 exact match gambling domains in one of the newer TLDs that are crying out for development. It’s doubtful I’ll get time, and pulling all-nighters isn’t a viable option anymore. Realistically, the whole show seems to be heading inexorably towards being a puremonchaumi He is living in Leicestershire, U.K. London photo by S.Borisov/Shutterstock; Leicestershire photo by travellight/Shutterstock; Honey photo by Subbotina Anna/Shutterstock 47 G P W A t i m e s . o r g
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