Starting a new site is no small task if you want to do it right. Even some of us who have been doing it for a long time still make mistakes, However most of us who are successful in this business don’t keep making the same ones. The site I am following is Meme Connection. I started the site five days ago with a stock theme from Revolution Two. I am quite pleased they have gone to open source licensing so I can give you the theme with all of my upgrades in the SEO department, because frankly it needed them.

Now five days on in the blog I have linked it to a couple of my other blogs, registered with Technorati, made a few posts, and promoted it off an on in my social network. For the first time today I am seeing an Alexa score which we will call my base score of 7,169,215. This isn’t bad since I know bloggers who have been around for years and don’t have scores that good. My target is to have that down to a 1,000,000 by the first of the year. I also have a goal of hitting PR 1 with the next Google PR update do out either at the end of December or first part of January. I won’t be to disheartened if I don’t make that goal since this is a very new blog. If it doesn’t happen my goal is no less than PR 2 in the March/April update with an Alexa score of 250k or lower.

What is next for the blog? In the coming days I expect to submit new memes from all of my existing blogs, and maybe from a few more new domains. Backlinks are the key to search engine success. Now that we are live I am going to work on putting the link directory and forums up on the site and start to build the community. You can follow Meme Connections on the Memes for Blogs site or subscribe to our primary feed. You can follow this continuing story and keep updated on how well the Alexa ranking is doing at least twice a week on How To Blog. You can also get twitter updates of both of these blogs and all of my others by following me, BradHart.