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Introducing Mugdish
I am very proud to introduce to you my latest website, Mugdish.
So what is Mugdish? Mugdish is a new sports blog with outspoken banter written by yours truly. Sports is only of the only topics I can constantly write about and not get bored with it, so it was only natural to create another sports site!
Mugdish isn’t just a regurgitation of news posted on espn.com or sportsline.com. I’m adding my own wit and satire to it. The draw to the website will be the “Make the world a better place, punch this athlete in the face” posts. You can view an example of this in my Larry Johnson post. Once I get a lot of readers, I hope people will steal those “punch in the face” images and post them around the internet, all the while telling people where they found it.
Currently, I have posted about 10 or so articles. I wanted to get some content on it before I “launched” it. I’ve also added a forum and weekly polls to help keep readers on the site.
I’m not quite sure of the goals I have for Mugdish, but I’d ideally like this site to be making $300/mo by the end of the year with a readership in the mid 100s/day. I’d also love to have a custom wordpress design in place by the end of 2007.
I also would love to have guest posters established within a few months. Readers of sports blogs can get tired of hearnig the same opinion and homerism over and over again. It would be nice to have a fresh voice on there.
So how am I going to promote the site from the get go? Well, my budget is slim to none, so I think I’ll start by posting comments on as many sports blogs as I can find. I’ll also ask lesser known sports blogs for link exchanges. I want to load up my blogroll with 20-30 other sports blogs in a week. I plan to stumble every post I make too. I’m not sure if my IP is banned by digg, so if not, I’ll submit some of my better posts to Digg.
Pretty simple stuff. I was able to get my very first website (a sports blog) up to 200-300 uniques/day by writing content and doing link exchanges, so I don’t see a reason why it can’t work again 2 years later.
If you have any tips or suggestions on how to improve the site, please feel free to critique!


Nice new blog, it has a lot of potential.
My main criticisms are about the aesthetics. When i go to the site, i have no idea that it’s a sports blog without reading the content. Most people would have left before giving the site that chance. That’s why i don’t think the theme suits the site, i know your budget is “slim to none” so you probably don’t have the funds to get a custom theme. But, i’m sure that there are better suited themes out there.
With your current theme, you didn’t put a title for the blog either? You should really have that in the header, even for seo purposes. Pick out a few keywords and start working on them. After a while, you should be getting much better search engine traffic than blogrolls can provide.
Thanks for the comments. Lots of good stuff there.
I added a header logo. What do you think?
Again, nice new blog. Very sleek in design!
In spirit of sports I’m giving away a Barry Bonds card if your interested.
http://bloggerforlife.com/free-barry-bonds-card/
I think it’s off to a good start. And as you said, it may be pretty simple stuff, but it sounds like you have a solid plan. I’ve always thought you had the makings of a good sports network. I know some of your other sites have been inactive for a while, but I bet they’re more valuable now simply because they’ve aged a bit. You may see some synergies that you didn’t have before and ways to improve some of the older sites and bring things along so they bolster one another. I think the untapped potential has grown over time simply by holding on to the sites. And that’s a good thing. Just gives more opportunities to exploit down the road.
Sorry for the inactive comment. I see you’ve been quite active.