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[Nameless_]

Hi people...

Just realised why there aren't that many news blogs around. The reason is, the actual news channels have their own blogs themselves, so people go and subscribe to them instead...

SO, I've just wasted a few weeks of my life working on a useless project!!! I'm seriously having serious doubts about myself right now... So I'm deciding to ditch the money making thing once and for all and just work on my psychic phenomena site... I can't believe I stupid I was... At least the local webserver's working!!! That's good, though I don't even know whether this psychic phenomena site will go on the internet or not in the first place...

But I intend to use all my credits, thank you very much...

Can someone suggest a name and stuff for me? And tell me what should be in it? Because I feel like my life is in a wreck and I just really don't know what to work on now... and it feels like all this time that I was on Trap17 is just a waste of time...

Someone help me, please... thanks...

[rayzoredge]

Don't look at it as a waste of time. Look at it as a learning experience and some exposure to certain things. I'm sure you picked up quite a few things along the way whether it was from here or from self-discovery, and if you didn't embark on certain endeavors, would you have asked the questions you did? Learned from mistakes? Have the experience you have now?

Money-making things are too hyped up and people have too much hope in them, in my opinion. You have to put in the effort and time into developing them AND put the time into letting it work for you, which most people aren't really willing to be patient enough for.

Look at what I'm doing. I'm still developing marketing strategy and already having put myself out there on here, Craigslist, signing my e-mails... I'm getting some attention, which is good, but I haven't made any sales or gotten anyone to jump on board with me. Is it discouraging? Yes. But it's only been a month or so for me. These kinds of things take time. Keep that in mind with the next venture with supplementary income. You can never depend on it to rake in thousands, or even hundreds. But that's when you'll be pleasantly surprised, with years of hard work and years of being persistent with it, that it actually is working for you. The possibility of making lots of money in such little time IS fathomable and people have made it work, but one size does not fit all. Some people have more time, more money to invest, more effort available to put into their projects, less responsibilities... you get the idea.

If you are really looking into something to do, I don't know what to tell you as far as subject matter goes... but if you have the time, take a look into learning more, training more, and getting randomly inspired. Create your portfolio online. Play around with design ideas. Look at what others are doing and learn what makes them work. UNDERSTAND why they work and apply those concepts to your design(s). The idea(s) will come to you when it comes to you. Don't pressure yourself into trying to do something that you're probably not ready for.

[Baniboy]

No you didn't waste your time! Never say that! AGAIN!!!
Let's take a look at what you've learned:

How to work with your local server.
How to install, use wordpress and how to install plug-ins and themes to it.

Small pieces of information you've learned, for example when you asked me what server-side scripts mean and stuff like that.
I wouldn't call all this a waste of time?!

"Now what?", you say. Well, you're smart and quick learner, so why don't you study XHTML and CSS. Then move to Javascript and after that to PHP. When you have a basic knowledge of these, you can do many things. *Like make a whole site about me, how great I am and how helpful I've been to everyone, and how everyone should worship me... hey you! outta my dream! ahhh...*

[BCD]

Well said rayzoredge.

First of all, if something is taking too much of your time, "take a break" for a week or so. When you return to it, you will see it in a new way. And each day you were away from it, you will feel not wanting for it and when you return to it after some days you feel that you are starting it afresh with clear mind to focus on.

If you are taking internet projects as a hobby, then don't have any intention of making money at first. Proceed doing it with your full interest. And to do so, choose a niche area which you are very well or an expert with. As you mentioned there are tons of news blogs churning out constant news 24x7. So you know now that you cant compete them alone. This doesnt mean you shouldn't make a news blog. Choose a particular category/area of news which you think the people will be interested in. Produce the content in such a way that the people will be interested in coming to your site for more. News sites geneally give only the gist of the news. Research on that and give more information about that on your site.

All this way keep yourself updated with latest buzz and news. For example if you are learning web design or photoshop, subscribe to some excellent sites like smashing magazine, abduzeedo tutsplus, etc.

[mahesh2k]

@Nameless_, i don't think you've learned from this. So far i've followed your actions in this news blog project. Some of my observations are in one sentence : You didn't put much into it. First you started well with blogger. But then you moved your focus to wordpress installation and themes. In between, newstack on blogger was still there but you didn't put much in there. Do you ? Honestly. It would have been much better blog, even on blogspot domain. There are plenty of good blogs in news domain with and working fine even on blogspot domain. Some ad networks like kontera, infolinks are keeping those blogs alive for years as far as i know. Correct me if i'm wrong.

I've seen you distracted from your goal of building better blog. You distracted from your blog's content and moved to wordpress blog design thing. Which was not necessary until your blog gets hit and demands itself redesign. But you got engaged to it anyway. Damn, i'm giving too much of advice to teens these days . Sorry for that. I never had someone to guide me during my journey on blogging and forum development. So i thought giving few pointers to you. I know teens don't like advice especially from person who is 5-6 years elder to them . I know i didn't like it in my time.

Let me give you few last pointers. You don't need to start big to expand yourself big. Start small, keep up with your news site. If psychic niche is not working for you. Then break into other news items and work on it. Don't measure success of your blog in 1-2 months. Your perception about news blog is wrong. There are plenty of news blog in various domains are up and running, it just depends on the content writer. It takes 1 year or more for some blogs and forums to get up and running. So relax, keep working on content. and all the best with site.

[The Simpleton]

Hmm it's too bad that you got discouraged so soon, but like the members above me mentioned, don't expect results in a day or two, or even in a month. It does take a lot of time to reach a certain level. Take a good look at what companies like Google, Yahoo, Twitter did. Their initial strategy was not to earn money but to build a user base. In the beginning, Yahoo was puzzled at how on earth they could make money with their site which was gaining popularity day-by-day. But for the first year or so, they concentrated only on making their site better and the effort paid off. When Yahoo put in their first ads, they were scared that they might lose their visitors. But by that time people had gotten so used to using Yahoo that they didn't mind the ads at all, and thus began Yahoo's success story.

Similar is the case with the later participants - Google and Yahoo. The only thing they did when they entered the internet scene was to maintain their site's quality and build a good user base. They didn't put ads on their site right away. Also, they didn't get discouraged at any point of time and went on with their efforts. You should do the same as well. I know there's heavy competition in the field you've chosen, but you put some more effort into it I think it'll pay off in the long run. Anyway I'll leave that decision to you since it's your site after all!

If you're planning to start another site based on psychic phenomena then I suggest that you build your site before launching it. I committed the mistake of launching my site even before it was ready and am now left with an empty site. What's irritating is that the domain is getting quite a few clicks since I placed the link in my profile page. But all those visitors are just being greeted with an "Under Construction" page and I guess most of them won't go there again! So whatever you plan to do next, make sure you've done enough research and preparation to support your site. Take a good decision and all the best

[Nameless_]

Woohoo!!! Well, thanks guys... No, I'm not discouraged from building a website... it's a misconception.
What I'm saying is that I still want to build one, but I don't know what to build it on now... if you get what I mean... no news blog, then what blog? I found a successful psychic blog and if possible, I want to make something like that... but with a community. (Yes, they've got forums, but it's not very active, and the layout should be like Trap17. But as you can see, even if it's successful, no one wants to advertise on it, and that means that I won't be able to keep up with the domain hosting (.com) after a while, as well as the hosting package...

I think, like BCD said rayzoredge did sum it up pretty neatly, and well, Baniboy is right. ( I still can't say enough thanks for all you've done for me... I did learn some things during all this. And after reading all your posts I'm kinda regretting posting this post up in the first place.

To mahesh2k: Yeah, I'm a person that gets distracted easily... It's not the first time. I've been on lots of different projects, and I have so far succeeded in none of them.

But this doesn't mean I still won't succeed in this one. I'm still determined in it. It's just that I now realised that I have wasted used up a lot of my time working on a news blog, where I kinda already knew that it wouldn't be successful at all, because I will not be able to compete with the actual news channel.

And haha, I'm actually asking for advice, not pushing it away. That's the reason for this blog...

To Simpleton: Like I said, I'm not discouraged from building a site. I still want to, it's just that I don't really know what to work on now. Psychic? Or news? Or something else? (Which, by the way, I still probably won't do because it's not going to be successful at all...)

[The Simpleton]

At this point of time, I'd recommend a break to you. You're obviously tired (not physically, but mentally) of doing a lot of work online all these weeks. And after getting through a project like newstack, you're gonna have to relax for a while before you're fully ready to deal with the next one. That way, you'll feel fresh and full of spirit when moving onto the new project.

So think about it and all the best for your new project

[Nameless_]

Maybe... yes. I am tired from posting on Trap17... but I haven't even started the newstack project completely, let along finish it. I might actually keep posting on it though, but on blogspot, as Adsense is already approved on the site. Or I might start something completely different with the same posts... but maybe not. It's easy to find content on a newsblog.

[mahesh2k]

Yeah. It looks like your activity on trap17 is bit slowed down. I can't wait to see your more questions coming. . I just wish one question at time,please. . This will help us to answer you better.

In between, why not read good news blog. There are plenty of good tech blogs out there. And don't just stick to the one type of news blog. Try and read multiple niches. You can start with blog like techcrunch. This blog is more focused on technology and social media. Also ars-technica is one good news blog that covers lot of topic like open source, apple, science, programming, social media etc. Don't just stick one-two types of blog.Discover more news sites from Digg, Yahoo Buzz. More you learn about their writing style the better. From that you can break news on your blog. Also take a look at site like slashdot. You can find very interesting news stuff on that site. Contributors/commentators on that site are good as of now.

BTW, good to hear that your adsense account is accepted. Good luck with blog.

[The Simpleton]

Getting your adsense account working is a really good sign so keep it up Just don't lose the steam that you built up working till now and I'm sure you'll be fine. So go ahead and tell us soon what you next move is!

[rpgsearcherz]

Making a website should be about things you enjoy and nothing else. No site made it big because they wanted "to earn money."

Google was made by a college student for searching for files on his school's network. He was then hosting the search on their network and they forced him to remove it, in which he then made it available for others. Google grew by word-of-mouth and was not planned to.

Myspace was created for a few students at a school, not for the world. Again, it grew by word of mouth but was not planned to do so.

There are hundreds of other sites that made it to where they earn millions but that was not their plan. What you need to do is figure out exactly what you like and then go from there. If it gets big, yay. If it doesn't, it doesn't.

Don't listen to those people who say "We can show you how to make millions off your website!"

If they could, they would not be sharing the information. They would be making those websites and earning the millions instead.



And no matter whether your project goes good or bad, never say it was a waste of time. You learn from it. Life is about learning and evolving mentally. So regardless as to if you make a cent or not you still won in the end.


I have personally made a lot of websites (a few you've seen posted in the website reviews section probably). None of these have made any money because I haven't really tried to monetize any of them. The point of me making them is that I am learning from them and every site is much better than the last. I do it for fun, nothing else.

[The Simpleton]

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I have personally made a lot of websites (a few you've seen posted in the website reviews section probably). None of these have made any money because I haven't really tried to monetize any of them. The point of me making them is that I am learning from them and every site is much better than the last. I do it for fun, nothing else.

That's a really good point. Thanks to trap17 and computinghost, I can now experiment on a lot of websites by paying so very little. So I now have the freedom to experiment a lot, fail a lot, and in the process learn a lot. That's all that matters in the end. I'm sure the design for Google didn't come up in a day! (Funny how everyone's using Google as a reference!!!!) I've taken to web-designing so much that I'm planning a career shift soon. That's how exciting it is. So just keep on working

[rpgsearcherz]

The Simpleton, on Sep 16 2009, 09:02 AM, said:

That's a really good point. Thanks to trap17 and computinghost, I can now experiment on a lot of websites by paying so very little. So I now have the freedom to experiment a lot, fail a lot, and in the process learn a lot. That's all that matters in the end. I'm sure the design for Google didn't come up in a day! (Funny how everyone's using Google as a reference!!!!) I've taken to web-designing so much that I'm planning a career shift soon. That's how exciting it is. So just keep on working

I thought about changing over to designing but then I decided I would much rather it just be a hobby. I've actually had a few people offering to buy sites created by me but I just don't feel as if my skills are "up to the challenge" yet.

If anyone is interested in how I personally learn, it's due to manipulation. My ability to create things from scratch is minute, solely because I've never really taken classes or anything on how to program/design. But by reading code I can usually split things off into smaller sections and test based on that (by splitting them I can change things and see how everything reacts). Between that and Google I've yet to run into a problem I couldn't resolve.

I have a lot more self-satisfaction out of self-learning than I do from being taught by others. It just helps me feel like I am successful. By having others "teach" you, you're a parrot. By learning on your own, you're evolving mentally.

This isn't to say asking questions is bad; quite the opposite. In fact, "The masters of a subject are those who have the capability to teach others." (That's paraphrased, but pretty much it.)

Of course others will have different views based on personal desires and all, but those are mine.

[anwiii]

i'm like you. i have spent my life researching my own answers...but then there are some questions that i really have to ask and when i do, the answer never comes soon enough hah.

nameless- i am sure you want to continue with your idea of psychic phenom. if you ever get bored, can always write a blog about "nameless questions"

don't give up bud.

rpgsearcherz, on Sep 16 2009, 10:02 AM, said:

I thought about changing over to designing but then I decided I would much rather it just be a hobby. I've actually had a few people offering to buy sites created by me but I just don't feel as if my skills are "up to the challenge" yet.

If anyone is interested in how I personally learn, it's due to manipulation. My ability to create things from scratch is minute, solely because I've never really taken classes or anything on how to program/design. But by reading code I can usually split things off into smaller sections and test based on that (by splitting them I can change things and see how everything reacts). Between that and Google I've yet to run into a problem I couldn't resolve.

I have a lot more self-satisfaction out of self-learning than I do from being taught by others. It just helps me feel like I am successful. By having others "teach" you, you're a parrot. By learning on your own, you're evolving mentally.

This isn't to say asking questions is bad; quite the opposite. In fact, "The masters of a subject are those who have the capability to teach others." (That's paraphrased, but pretty much it.)

Of course others will have different views based on personal desires and all, but those are mine.

[Nameless_]

anwiii, on Sep 17 2009, 04:00 AM, said:

i'm like you. i have spent my life researching my own answers...but then there are some questions that i really have to ask and when i do, the answer never comes soon enough hah.

nameless- i am sure you want to continue with your idea of psychic phenom. if you ever get bored, can always write a blog about "nameless questions"

don't give up bud.

Haha... thank...

(By the way, does anyone know how to quote people from both the first page AND another page? That is, the second page on this thread, because I can't seem to do it. But anyway...)

Yeah... I never really wanted to do a news blog. I reason why I did it was so that it could provide an income stream for me without really needing to come up with ideas on what to write about. I've hard of a blogger's block, and I don't wish to encounter that. That's all...
But I don't like news that much.

The psychic phenomena's good. I haven't seen more than ONE single blog on that, and if possible, I would like to do something similar to that too... Do you think I'll be allowed to post a link of that blog here and try and get help basing my blog on that?

And mahesh2k (sorry I couldn't quote you, only bold you...) ... yeah, my activities slowed down a bit. I personally think I over-post too much and burn myself out, staring at the screen lifelessly.

But yeah, more questions coming, so don't worry, just need to untangle them and prioritize them once all the current questions have been answered so I'll know what to post first.

[rpgsearcherz]

Nameless_, on Sep 16 2009, 04:20 PM, said:

Haha... thank...

(By the way, does anyone know how to quote people from both the first page AND another page? That is, the second page on this thread, because I can't seem to do it. But anyway...)

Yeah... I never really wanted to do a news blog. I reason why I did it was so that it could provide an income stream for me without really needing to come up with ideas on what to write about. I've hard of a blogger's block, and I don't wish to encounter that. That's all...
But I don't like news that much.

The psychic phenomena's good. I haven't seen more than ONE single blog on that, and if possible, I would like to do something similar to that too... Do you think I'll be allowed to post a link of that blog here and try and get help basing my blog on that?

And mahesh2k (sorry I couldn't quote you, only bold you...) ... yeah, my activities slowed down a bit. I personally think I over-post too much and burn myself out, staring at the screen lifelessly.

But yeah, more questions coming, so don't worry, just need to untangle them and prioritize them once all the current questions have been answered so I'll know what to post first.

You can post just about anything here is long as it's not illegal and/or stolen work. You can even quote anything you want as long as it's in quote markers.

But I'm not quite understanding your question; are you asking if we could help you figure out things that would mesh in well with your desired theme or what?

[Nameless_]

rpgsearcherz, on Sep 17 2009, 11:27 AM, said:

You can post just about anything here is long as it's not illegal and/or stolen work. You can even quote anything you want as long as it's in quote markers.

But I'm not quite understanding your question; are you asking if we could help you figure out things that would mesh in well with your desired theme or what?

Well, it's not illegal or anything... I just want to base my blog on this site. I do hope the site owner doesn't really find this post, but anyway...
Yeah...

Something like that, but the yellowish greenish buttons are smaller and the title thing is bigger... big enough to put an ad there... And maybe slight layout changes, but that's around about it concerning what I want in my blog on my perfect niche thing...

[mahesh2k]

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And mahesh2k (sorry I couldn't quote you, only bold you...) ... yeah, my activities slowed down a bit. I personally think I over-post too much and burn myself out, staring at the screen lifelessly. smile.gif
But yeah, more questions coming, so don't worry, just need to untangle them and prioritize them once all the current questions have been answered so I'll know what to post first.

Yeah, now i guess you feel much better after taking break of day or two. isn't it ? I do that frequently, you know. Lol, on more questions coming. I like this. . Can't wait for more questions. There are very few threads coming up these days, so your threads are always interesting to answer or to participate. and see you learned one good thing that you're prioritizing your questions. Which is good thing. Cause you'll likely to learn in modular approach if you do that. This is one good thing to hear from your side.

Ok and i didn't get one comment of yours. What do you mean by "base of your blog" ? You mean traffic ? or you mean readers or commenter ? or you mean link so that google can acknowledge backlink ? This time i'm asking you questions.

[Nameless_]

mahesh2k, on Sep 17 2009, 09:22 PM, said:

Yeah, now i guess you feel much better after taking break of day or two. isn't it ? I do that frequently, you know. Lol, on more questions coming. I like this. . Can't wait for more questions. There are very few threads coming up these days, so your threads are always interesting to answer or to participate. and see you learned one good thing that you're prioritizing your questions. Which is good thing. Cause you'll likely to learn in modular approach if you do that. This is one good thing to hear from your side.

Ok and i didn't get one comment of yours. What do you mean by "base of your blog" ? You mean traffic ? or you mean readers or commenter ? or you mean link so that google can acknowledge backlink ? This time i'm asking you questions.

No, just the layout of the site.... I put a hyperlink here. The funny thing is, the domain provider isn't even top domain, and yet the site owner pays for it.... I really don't know why anyone would do that... but anyway... I'll go for free domain first and then see if I can upgrade it to top level domain once I figure out what to call it!!!

Yes... this is a psychic blog that is earning money, more than enough to keep up my hosting, and the layouts pretty good, but could do with some changes... the thing is, you can tell that he is just doing it for the commercial thing... there are other psychic blogs out there that try to earn money don't have as many commercial stuff on it. I might want to reduce that a bit... or not... but either way, I would want my blog to look like that, though the site owner might be using a premium (paid) theme because I haven't seen it before... but yeah.

And oh yeah... it's my turn to ask the question:
Why does redirect not Search Engine (SE) friendly? I'm still going for the Search Engine Optimization (SEO) thing, and I'm not really sure how to make a site or blog SE friendly...

I understand that copying won't be SE friendly, and bad for SEO, but redirection!? What!!! Why can't I hog like, lots and lots of domains???

[Baniboy]

Redirecting isn't SEO friendly. This has nothing to do with the domain you have your site on, but the other ones that redirect to it. They won't probably get indexed. And I remember reading at google's site that redirections have some bad effect on something, it had something to do with the bots crawling down your site...

[mahesh2k]

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No, just the layout of the site.... I put a hyperlink here. The funny thing is, the domain provider isn't even top domain, and yet the site owner pays for it.... I really don't know why anyone would do that... but anyway... I'll go for free domain first and then see if I can upgrade it to top level domain once I figure out what to call it!!! sad.gif

I think you didn't get one thing. There is difference between regional, commercial and top level domains. You're free to use regional and commercial domains. Google won't bite you or anyone gonna hurt your site for SEO. But domains like .tk, .co.cc and smart dots, cjb.cc type of domains definitely hurt. No matter how good content is people rarely find sites with those domains on search engines. .eu is regional domain if i'm right. So it is obvious that even if it not top level domain it is ranked based on content not on regional domain/top level domain preference. If you're going to stay with the blog and your site for longer run. Free domains like co.cc, .tk will definitely hurt your blog/SEO in future. If you're unsure, then go and ask this in digitalpoint forums. There are plenty of SEO people out there. Beware of some advice on digitalpoint forums,it comes with sales pitch.

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I would want my blog to look like that, though the site owner might be using a premium (paid) theme because I haven't seen it before... but yeah.

Yes, after a while you've to switch to paid themes. Or even get yourself custom layout for blog. This pays in longer run. Cause typical themes won't fetch traffic in long run. You can do this as experiment on your blog to see if it works. If not, later switch to premium theme. Initially you can start with simple, minimalistic themes or magazine based themes. After sometime put adsense ads then if you earned enough you can buy premium theme. If you're in US, you've multiple ways to pay for online transaction. So it will not be problem for you to purchase later.

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And oh yeah... it's my turn to ask the question:
Why does redirect not Search Engine (SE) friendly? I'm still going for the Search Engine Optimization (SEO) thing, and I'm not really sure how to make a site or blog SE friendly...

I understand that copying won't be SE friendly, and bad for SEO, but redirection!? What!!! Why can't I hog like, lots and lots of domains???

We're back on questions. Lol. I suggest you to read Google webmaster blog and guideline for these questions. Also SEOMoz is one good resource where you'll get accurate answers than from any one of us here. Redirection issue is taken in similar lines as that of copying by search engines. Though search engines can understand subdomain/with or without www thingy. But it is always better to set 301 redirects to same instead modifying or forcing user to go to www.domainname.com. This is what i've learned from my experience so far.

[Nameless_]

What??? Even if Google doesn't index your site it does badly in SEO???
But my brains stuck for ideas on what to call my site WITH the key words... "psychic" or "psionic", preferably "psychic" because even if I have more competition, not many people know the term "psionics".

Oh yeah... I couldn't find anything on the sites that you gave me, though I think that SEOmoz is a really good take to bookmark and keep it away for later use.

So, can someone give me ideas on what to call my site? Not too long, Not too short, and preferably with some key words in it.

[mahesh2k]

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What??? Even if Google doesn't index your site it does badly in SEO??? sad.gif sad.gif sad.gif

I'm not sure what you're referring here. if you mean google doesn't index .co.cc and .tk domain. then that is not the case. they prioritize such domains at lower level. and SEO term takes into multiple search engines into account not just google. SEO people even think about bing, yahoo, excite and other search engines. and to give you idea. if your domain is .ca which is Canadian regional domain for example, then regional search engines prefer higher for regional domains. So it is preference of search engines that matter. But you're not supposed to dig this much at earlier level. Stick with content and domain. Try and stay away from .co.cc and .tk type domains to save your work later.

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Oh yeah... I couldn't find anything on the sites that you gave me, though I think that SEOmoz is a really good take to bookmark and keep it away for later use.

I gave you link to Google webmaster help section. This help file gives you idea how google views your site and how you can improve your site. Also SEOMoz is one of the top resource in SEO industry. Their advice is not only helps but rocks you can say. Lot of information is scattered on SEOMoz and Aaron wall's SEOBook site. So if you get some free time out of blogging then do read more SEO articles. It helps. But make sure you read reputed blogs.

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So, can someone give me ideas on what to call my site? Not too long, Not too short, and preferably with some key words in it.

Here is hint, you can mix "psychic" name with some technology name try and restrict your domain to 8-10 letters come up with something creative. Check this domain lookup site to find out if the domain is already taken or not. If take then try regional domains like .us, .ca, or .uk etc.

[Nameless_]

What I mean is if I have a lot of redirection domain names that Google (or any other search engine like Bing and Yahoo, of course) haven't indexed yet it will still do badly in SEO...

Which is sad because if this wasn't the case then I'd be like, hogging what ever domain name's available...
(But then, who wouldn't?)

And don't worry, I think I found a good domain name, though it doesn't have "psychic" in it, but "psionic"... the reason for this is that well, I don't think that I'd do well with all the competition, and I am looking specifically for people that already know what "psionics" are, or something like that, and not for random psychics to read them,

And also in Wikipedia it said that the term "psychic" also means cold reading and stuff, which is also another term for "fake reading"... So for example, if you are to cold read someone, you don't exactly have to be psychic. And this is what you do...

You: "I see the number 9.... yes, it's very clear..."

Person: "Huh? Nine?"

You: "Yes... Nine, or October, or anything related to the number..."

Person: *bites lips* "My brother died on October..."

So you are just faking it, not really knowing what you are doing and the person provides all the information... Which isn't what I want my site to be about. My site is self-development... so yeah..

And OK, I'll have a look at the SEO thing...
I'll see if I can find anything useful again.

But I still want to be a domain hogger...
I don't get it. Why would you do badly by attaching a domain name that no one will ever know on your site be a bad thing for SEO??? I mean, that's just waiting for people to stumble upon your site, but not exactly using it!!!