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Building Link Popularity updates - SEO News

2010-06-23T06:24:00.000-07:00

One οf thе mοѕt difficult challenges аmοnɡ SEO professionals іѕ decoding thе algorithm οf search engine (read Google). Thіѕ means thе experts ѕhουƖԁ know hοw thе search engine works аnԁ whаt criteria іt uses whіƖе ranking sites. Thеrе аrе many criteria a search engine looks аt whіƖе determining a websites ranking. One οf thеѕе criteria іѕ link popularity, whісh саn bе achieved through link building. In fact, a search requires уουr site tο hаνе аt Ɩеаѕt a few incoming links fοr іt tο bе indexed. Building link popularity іѕ essential іf уου want tο secure a higher ranking. Hοw рοрυƖаr уου site іѕ measured bу thе quality аnԁ quantity οf οthеr sites thаt link tο уουr site.

If уου open аnу commercial website, уου wіƖƖ find thаt within thе pages thеrе аrе many hyperlinks whісh land οn pages οf different websites. Link building аѕ such increases уουr online presence apart frοm doing a world οf ɡοοԁ fοr уουr sites ranking. It іѕ hοwеνеr impossible tο ѕtаrt a link building campaign bу yourself. Tο hаνе a strategic рƖаn іn рƖасе, уου need hеƖр frοm companies offering link building services. Thеѕе companies саn ѕtаrt a link building campaign bу asking strategic partners, organizations, customers, аnԁ suppliers, tο add thеіr links tο уουr site. In return, уου саn аƖѕο link уουr pages tο thеіr sites.

Fοr effective аnԁ economical services, уου саn bank οn link popularity building India. Thеrе аrе many SEO companies іn India whісh offer a comprehensive solution fοr уουr site. Being a рοрυƖаr outsourcing destination, Indian professionals аƖѕο offer customer-centric service apart frοm registering a higher ranking fοr уουr site. Thеу wіƖƖ аƖѕο adopt thе best link building method fοr уουr site аѕ per уουr requirement.

Thеѕе service providers wіƖƖ offer уου two type link building methods one-way аnԁ reciprocal link building. One-way links аrе those links whісh point frοm different websites tο уουr website. Thеrе іѕ nο reciprocation involved іn thіѕ process. Search engines give more weight tο one-way links thаn reciprocal links. Reciprocal link building involves linking уουr site tο a site whісh links tο уουr site.

How to Become Digg Power user? This time make it better

2010-06-08T04:26:00.000-07:00

Before you move further do remember there is no shortcut to success and if you are reading this to promote only your posts I will rather say this is just an article which gives you some power tip which help you understanding Digg better and help us to make it more beautiful community.

It’s most common thing that people say that it is as easy to get on the Digg front page just dugg and dugg. For those people I will say it’s never the way and it’s never will.

It’s true that story submitted by a power user is recognized more but you can’t take things for granted that It will make a Front page without good article and reliable resources.

Now what do I mean by reliable sources :

It’s very true that there are few white listed websites like Mashable, blog.wired and many more which require less Digg to make FP then other sites and if we start talking about the discrimination on it that can lead us to endless debate.

I can justify the concept of white listed website as right from Digg point of view and I can also justify it as a wrong decision from a normal user point of view.

I have joined Digg almost an year ago though i was not using it for a while but an old profile helped me a lot.
People always suggested me that Stumble upon is more powerful then Digg and that’s why because the traffic from Digg is not ever lasting where as Stumble upon traffic last for long time.

I would not have supported Digg but then when one of my other blog post made homepage and then the Google analytic stats gone made almost 20K click in a single day.

Then i started looking back to things in more analytic way, went through my history and submission and all the details related to my Digg account and finally i got to know few things and thought i should share it with my readers.

First of all Digg is a powerful tool which can make your blog and can break your blog so its very important that you should use it wisely.

There is no shortcut for anything, so you have to spent some quality time on Digg. It is very true Digg need quality time and it’s up to you if you want to be a part of it or not.

My suggestion before start submitting anything understand digg for almost 2 weeks. Understand what kind of quality people are actually looking for, what is blogspam and then most important understand the simple concept of digg.

Oh yes I forget to mention do read the Digg TOS else you might feel bad later when your account might get deleted and banned for violation of any of these TOS. This is what happened to many of the Digg users.

Many of you have joined Digg to promote stuff but don’t forget majority is the people who joined Digg because of interest and who scan everything before it make a Front page.

Digg has two button Digg and bury. I will rather call Digg as Digg bury game where if you enjoy something Digg else bury. One more important thing to understand why Digg made so many category so that people can select there own niche. Though for becoming a power user you don’t have to stick to it because in the end you have to face the harsh truth that you going to Digg a lot. Stuff which you never read and things you have no interest you are going to Digg them because there is a part of give and take relation on Digg.

Anyways getting back to the point,

I have seen many people who have 1001 friends, sounds great !!Not worthy
No you are wrong, because even they have 1000 friends but still they have hardly 100-150 mutual friends and that’s the catch. Read more

Why SEO Alone is Not Enough

2010-04-25T04:16:00.001-07:00

I stumble upon this article from submitexpress.com and it helps me improve to understand the general rules about Internet Marketing.

When it comes to search engine optimization, one thing is true: shift happens. The landscape is continually changing, as evidenced by recent movement in the search engine industry. Will the partnership between Microsoft Bing and Yahoo! impact search or create a long-term competitor to Google? And will the new initiatives that Google rolls out in response impact the search placement of other companies? These are all questions that have been raised in recent years.

It's instructive to look at a typical Google search result to see how much things have changed recently. For example, when you do a search for the "xbox 360" on Google, you get more than just organic results from sites that mention those words. What you see is a broad range of content including news, paid advertising, product feeds and social media results (see image below). This means that you need to concentrate on more than just increasing your organic search placement if you want your Internet marketing plan to succeed.

The importance of Press Release Marketing

2010-03-09T05:47:00.001-08:00

Do you run any online business? If yes, you would know the importance of press release marketing. First of all, there is a need to understand what press release marketing is and how it works for your website. Actually, a press release is considered as a strong article that is finished in a journalistic style and pattern. The aim of creating a press release is to highlight the most interesting news, parts and features about a company or a website. Thus, press release marketing comes as an amazing tool of internet marketing that helps your business or website gain benefits.

In fact, press release promotion is essential for your website or online business, if you want to bring into the notice of visitors from all over the world. The press release promotion services are offered by a PR marketing company that you can find making a search on internet. A PR marketing firm release the information about your website, products and services in a very powerful and interesting manner that force people to visit your site once.

If you also wish for hiring press release promotion services for your website, you can quickly go with PR marketing firm in order to make your online company available using best PR marketing techniques. Since press release promotion is a good idea that you can use to spread good and healthy news about your company.

Press release promotion services are considered the best tool of internet marketing. Avail them to meet the challenges for your website!

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6 Ways to Use Google's Backlink Data

2009-12-12T06:29:00.000-08:00

Here are 6 ways to make backlink information work for you. (read full article here)

1. Find your link-bait. You might find that you have several links to an article that you never even promoted. This is a hint that the article may be of interest to a wider audience and that you should spend some time promoting it to get even more hits.

2. Create More Good Stuff. Once you've discovered which pages attract links you didn't even intend, figure out how to create similar pages with similar content and form that might attract an audience. The hard work in this scenario comes from discovering the characteristics that your popular pages have in common and duplicating it rather than promoting your articles.

3. Optimize. If you find that a page you haven't intentionally promoted has garnered a lot of links, capitalize on the link strength of that particular page. Optimize it for other keywords, or just optimize it if you haven't done it already.

4. Identify Those Linking to You. Some of the sites that link to you won't come as a surprise. After all, they're in your niche or they're interested in the same things you are. But you might be surprised by some of your links. Google sites related to those that are linking to you unexpectedly and see if you can get similar sites to link to you as well.

5. Find Out What Pages Others Are Linking To. If another site is linking to one of your pages, maybe they'd also be interested in other pages as well. Why have them link to just one page on your site when they can link to five or six?

6. Use Article Directories. If you're serious about SEO, then you should be submitting articles to directories religiously. You may find sites that have picked up your articles without you knowing it. Find out if those sites would like you to submit articles right to them and eliminate the middle man of the directory.

Legitimate Link Building Strategies

2009-12-12T06:26:00.000-08:00

In search engine optimization, "off page" factors have become more and more important as they relate to rankings. In particular, solid link popularity can literally make or break a site with the search engines.

Before we go any further, what is "link popularity"? In very simplistic terms, link popularity refers to the number and quality of the incoming links that are pointing to your site. These other sites consider your site important enough to link to. So, in the engine's view, your site is considered important as well. What is meant by "link popularity" can get much more complex, which is discussed further in this article.

However, one of the most difficult areas of SEO is building link popularity. Why? Because the engines don't want "artificially created" (or useless) links, so there are no easy ways to build link popularity. The days of link farms and huge link exchange programs are over. Try those strategies now and you can easily find yourself booted out of an engine.

Rather, the engines want links from authoritative sites, or links from sites that share the same focus as your site.

But besides the link popularity you gain by getting an authoritative site to link to you, you also gain additional visibility for your Web site. So, when working on building link popularity, don't forget those two basic reasons for requesting links. Read in full details

System requirements to run Windows 7 in your PC

2009-12-04T01:46:00.000-08:00

If you want to run Windows 7 on your PC, here's what it takes:

1 gigahertz (GHz) or faster 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor
1 gigabyte (GB) RAM (32-bit) or 2 GB RAM (64-bit)
16 GB available hard disk space (32-bit) or 20 GB (64-bit)
DirectX 9 graphics device with WDDM 1.0 or higher driver

Additional requirements to use certain features:

Internet access (fees may apply)
Depending on resolution, video playback may require additional memory and advanced graphics hardware
For some Windows Media Center functionality a TV tuner and additional hardware may be required
Windows Touch and Tablet PCs require specific hardware
HomeGroup requires a network and PCs running Windows 7
DVD/CD authoring requires a compatible optical drive
BitLocker requires Trusted Platform Module (TPM) 1.2
BitLocker To Go requires a USB flash drive
Windows XP Mode requires an additional 1 GB of RAM, an additional 15 GB of available hard disk space, and a processor capable of hardware virtualization with Intel VT or AMD-V turned on
Music and sound require audio output

Product functionality and graphics may vary based on your system configuration. Some features may require advanced or additional hardware. Download it here

Dynamic URLs vs. Static URLs

2009-12-02T22:09:00.000-08:00

The Issue at Hand
Websites that utilize databases which can insert content into a webpage by way of a dynamic script like PHP or JavaScript are increasingly popular. This type of site is considered dynamic. Many websites choose dynamic content over static content. This is because if a website has thousands of products or pages, writing or updating each static by hand is a monumental task.

There are two types of URLs: dynamic and static. A dynamic URL is a page address that results from the search of a database-driven web site or the URL of a web site that runs a script. In contrast to static URLs, in which the contents of the web page stay the same unless the changes are hard-coded into the HTML, dynamic URLs are generated from specific queries to a site's database. The dynamic page is basically only a template in which to display the results of the database query. Instead of changing information in the HTML code, the data is changed in the database.

But there is a risk when using dynamic URLs: search engines don't like them. For those at most risk of losing search engine positioning due to dynamic URLs are e-commerce stores, forums, sites utilizing content management systems and blogs like Mambo or WordPress, or any other database-driven website. Many times the URL that is generated for the content in a dynamic site looks something like this:

http://www.somesites.com/forums/thread.php?threadid=12345&sort=date

A static URL on the other hand, is a URL that doesn't change, and doesn't have variable strings. It looks like this:

http://www.somesites.com/forums/the-challenges-of-dynamic-urls.htm

Static URLs are typically ranked better in search engine results pages, and they are indexed more quickly than dynamic URLs, if dynamic URLs get indexed at all. Static URLs are also easier for the end-user to view and understand what the page is about. If a user sees a URL in a search engine query that matches the title and description, they are more likely to click on that URL than one that doesn't make sense to them.

A search engine wants to only list pages its index that are unique. Search engines decide to combat this issue by cutting off the URLs after a specific number of variable strings (e.g.: ? & =).

For example, let's look at three URLs:

http://www.somesites.com/forums/thread.php?threadid=12345&sort=date
http://www.somesites.com/forums/thread.php?threadid=67890&sort=date
http://www.somesites.com/forums/thread.php?threadid=13579&sort=date

All three of these URLs point to three different pages. But if the search engine purges the information after the first offending character, the question mark (?), now all three pages look the same:

http://www.somesites.com/forums/thread.php
http://www.somesites.com/forums/thread.php
http://www.somesites.com/forums/thread.php

Now, you don't have unique pages, and consequently, the duplicate URLs won't be indexed.

Another issue is that dynamic pages generally do not have any keywords in the URL. It is very important to have keyword rich URLs. Highly relevant keywords should appear in the domain name or the page URL. This became clear in a recent study on how the top three search engines, Google, Yahoo, and MSN, rank websites.

The study involved taking hundreds of highly competitive keyword queries, like travel, cars, and computer software, and comparing factors involving the top ten results. The statistics show that of those top ten, Google has 40-50% of those with the keyword either in the URL or the domain; Yahoo shows 60%; and MSN has an astonishing 85%! What that means is that to these search engines, having your keywords in your URL or domain name could mean the difference between a top ten ranking, and a ranking far down in the results pages.

The Solution
So what can you do about this difficult problem? You certainly don't want to have to go back and recode every single dynamic URL into a static URL. This would be too much work for any website owner.

If you are hosted on a Linux server, then you will want to make the most of the Apache Mod Rewrite Rule, which is gives you the ability to inconspicuously redirect one URL to another, without the user's (or a search engine's) knowledge. You will need to have this module installed in Apache; for more information, you can view the documentation for this module here. This module saves you from having to rewrite your static URLs manually.

How does this module work? When a request comes in to a server for the new static URL, the Apache module redirects the URL internally to the old, dynamic URL, while still looking like the new static URL. The web server compares the URL requested by the client with the search pattern in the individual rules.

Please visit Dynamic URLs vs. Static URLs for complete explanation.

Reciprocal Link Checker Top List

2009-11-28T22:28:00.000-08:00

1. Webconfs

2. Iwebtool

3. Seo Tools

4. Search engine genie

5. Seo Mastering

6. Submit Express

7. Build Reciprocal links

8. Hoover web design

9. Recip links

10. Kreation

List from linkbuildingscool.com

SEO is ever an Absolute

2009-11-20T01:44:00.000-08:00

Base your search optimization on facts, and not on myths or misconceptions! And always remember that nothing about SEO is ever an absolute.

by Sharon Housley

A "myth" is a traditional story, idea, or explanation which is widely accepted, but actually untrue or unproven. Misconceptions can also be described as modern-day myths. When it comes to Search Engine Optimization (SEO), the myths and misconceptions are abundant. We will try to dispel some of the more common Search Engine Optimization myths here...

Myth #1 - SEO Is A One-Time Deal

Search engine optimization is an ongoing process that requires attention and effort over an extended period of time. To do it properly, it is an ongoing process, and definitely not a one-time action.

Myth #2 - Quantity Is More Important Than Quality

When it comes to backlinks, quantity is simply not as important as quality. Attracting a huge number of backlinks is simply not as important as obtaining relevant links from related and trusted sources.

Myth #3 - Meta Tags Are No Longer Relevant

While meta tags are not the be-all and end-all of search marketing, they still matter. Including a unique and keyword-rich title and description on each page of a website will help the site rank better in organic search results for those terms. Meta tags may not be as important as they once were, but they do still matter in the world of search optimization.

Myth #4 - PPC Will Help Search Ranking

There is no association between PPC (Pay Per Click) advertising campaigns and how well a website ranks in organic search results. There is simply no evidence to suggest that advertising via AdWords will help improve an organic search ranking.

Myth #5 - Submit Your Website Early And Often

Submitting your website to search engines is no longer a necessity. Search engines use spiders to follow links on a website.

Myth #6 - SEO Is A Scam

Search engine optimization, when done properly, is quite effective. In fact, a website may have a difficult time ranking well at all if it is not optimized adequately.

Myth #7 - SEO Is A Guarantee

As the old saying goes, the only things guaranteed in life are death and taxes. When properly implemented, SEO can very likely improve your organic search rankings. But be leery of any search marketing company that makes guarantees. There are simply too many factors and variables for SEO success to be guaranteed.

Myth #8 - Build It And They Will Come

Once upon a time, before the Internet became so cluttered, you could build something new and interesting and it would attract attention without any effort. But now, with the noise ratio so high on the Internet, you must work to draw attention to your innovation. Do not assume that people will find it simply because it is cool!

Myth #9 - NoFollow Links Are A Waste Of Time

Acquiring links that are tagged as "NoFollow" are not a waste of time. A mix of both DoFollow and NoFollow links looks far more natural to the search engine algorithms than a website that has all DoFollow or all NoFollow links. Additionally, some search marketing studies suggest that not all search engines pay attention to the NoFollow attribute, and they do in fact value a NoFollow link the same way that they would value a DoFollow link.

Myth #10 - Google Is The Only Search Engine

While it is true that Google is by far the largest search engine, a decent volume of web traffic can still be generated by achieving a high ranking in other search engines for competitive search terms.

Base your search optimization on facts, and not on myths or misconceptions! And always remember that nothing about SEO is ever an absolute.

Original content from: SEO Myths: Nothing about SEO is ever an Absolute

The News about Marketing SEO Company and SEO

2009-11-16T06:24:00.000-08:00

Large websites 'make SEO easier
DirectNews It is easier to rank well in terms of search engine optimisation (SEO) for companies with large websites and wide product ranges, according to an industry. The Ultimate Fast Guide to SEO Flash Mediapost.com

Introducing Affordable SEO Services by Professionalseoservice.net Live-PR.com (Pressemitteilung) Website Marketing SEO Company Mumbai India Announces Local Google SEO Services ... PR-inside.com (press release).

SES Chicago Features 85 Percent New Sessions and Tracks Compared to SEO and . PR Web (press release) rom Search to Discovery, led by Incisive Media's Mike Grehan, will focus on social media-related trends and attendees can receive advice from long-time SEO.

Worker at Gaeseong Site Diagnosed With H1N1 Flu Korea Times - Kim Sue-young The man, identified by his surname Seo, exhibited fever symptoms last Saturday and was diagnosed with the H1N1 flu after being examined in the South.

Nation1 picks up SEO for Barrhead Travel as Boyd goes fulltime The Drum - Travel agency Barrhead Travel has appointed Nation1 to manage is SEO over the next 12 months. The appointment by Barrhead Travel will run.

Houston SEO Expert Provides Online Marketing Capabilities to Small Business . WebWire (press release) Small businesses in Houston can now turn to a local SEO expert to get found on the Internet. HOUSTON, TX – Nov. 16, 2009 – The key result of an online.

ccTLD around the world wide web

2009-07-14T05:31:00.000-07:00

Listed below are the Country-Code Top Level Domain around the world wide web

Domain	Country	Domain	Country
A		L
.ac	Ascension Island	.la	Laos
.ad	Andorra	.lb	Lebanon
.ae	United Arab Emirates	.lc	Saint Lucia
.af	Afghanistan	.li	Liechtenstein
.ag	Antigua and Barbuda	.lk	Sri Lanka
.ai	Anguilla	.lr	Liberia
.al	Albania	.ls	Lesotho
.am	Armenia	.lt	Lithuania
.an	Netherlands Antilles	.lu	Luxembourg
.ao	Angola	.lv	Latvia
.aq	Antarctica	.ly	Libya
.ar	Argentina	M
.as	American Samoa	.ma	Morocco
.at	Austria	.mc	Monaco
.au	Australia	.md	Moldova
.aw	Aruba	.me	Montenegro
.ax	Åland Islands	.mg	Madagascar
.az	Azerbaijan	.mh	Marshall Islands
B		.mk	Republic of Macedonia
.ba	Bosnia and Herzegovina	.ml	Mali
.bb	Barbados	.mm	Myanmar
.bd	Bangladesh	.mn	Mongolia
.be	Belgium	.mo	Macau
.bf	Burkina Faso	.mp	Northern Mariana Islands
.bg	Bulgaria	.mq	Martinique
.bh	Bahrain	.mr	Mauritania
.bi	Burundi	.ms	Montserrat
.bj	Benin	.mt	Malta
.bm	Bermuda	.mu	Mauritius
.bn	Brunei	.mv	Maldives
.bo	Bolivia	.mw	Malawi
.br	Brazil	.mx	Mexico
.bs	Bahamas	.my	Malaysia
.bt	Bhutan	.mz	Mozambique
.bw	Botswana	N
.by	Belarus	.na	Namibia
.bz	Belize	.nc	New Caledonia
C		.ne	Niger
.ca	Canada	.nf	Norfold Island
.cc	Cocos (Keeling) Islands	.ng	Nigeria
.cd	Democratic Republic of the Congo	.ni	Nicaragua
.cf	Central African Republic	.nl	Netherlands
.cg	Republic of the Congo	.no	Norway
.ch	Switzerland	.np	Nepal
.ci	Côte d’Ivoire (Ivory Coast)	.nr	Nauru
.ck	Cook Islands	.nu	Niue
.cl	Chile	.nz	New Zealand
.cm	Cameroon	O
.cn	People’s Republic of China	.om	Oman
.co	Colombia	P
.cr	Costa Rica	.pa	Panama
.cu	Cuba	.pe	Peru
.cv	Cape Verde	.pf	French Polynesia
.cx	Christmas Island	.pg	Papua New Guinea
.cy	Cyprus	.ph	Philippines
.cz	Czech Republic	.pk	Pakistan
D		.pl	Poland
.de	Germany	.pm	Saint Pierre and Miquelon
.dj	Djibouti	.pn	Pitcairn Islands
.dk	Denmark	.pr	Puerto Rico
.dm	Dominica	.ps	Palestine
.do	Dominican Republic	.pt	Portugal
.dz	Algeria	.pw	Palau
E		.py	Paraguay
.ec	Ecuador	Q
.ee	Estonia	.qa	Qatar
.eg	Egypt	R
.er	Eritrea	.re	Réunion
.es	Spain	.ro	Romania
.et	Ethiopia	.rs	Serbia
.eu	European Union	.ru	Russia
F		.rw	Rwanda
.fi	Finland	S
.fj	Fiji	.sa	Saudi Arabia
.fk	Falkland Islands	.sb	Solomon Islands
.fm	Federated Sates of Micronesia	.sc	Seychelles
.fo	Faroe Islands	.sd	Sudan
.fr	France	.se	Sweden
G		.sg	Singapore
.ga	Gabon	.sh	Saint Helena
.gb	United Kingdom	.si	Slovenia
.gd	Grenada	.sk	Slovakia
.ge	Georgia	.sl	Sierra Leone
.gf	French Guiana	.sm	San Marino
.gg	Guernsey	.sn	Senegal
.gh	Ghana	.sr	Suriname
.gi	Gibralter	.st	São Tomé and Príncipe
.gl	Greenland	.sv	El Salvador
.gm	Gambia	.sy	Syria
.gn	Guinea	.sz	Swaziland
.gp	Guadeloupe	T
.gq	Equatorial Guinea	.tc	Turks and Caicos Islands
.gr	Greece	.td	Chad
.gs	South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands	.tf	French Southern Territories
.gt	Guatemala	.tg	Togo
.gu	Guam	.th	Thailand
.gw	Guinea-Bissau	.tj	Tajikistan
.gy	Guyana	.tk	Tokelau
H		.tl	East Timor
.hk	Hong Kong	.tm	Turkmenistan
.hm	Heard Island and McDonald Islands	.tn	Tunisia
.hn	Hondura	.to	Tonga
.hr	Croatia	.tr	Turkey
.ht	Haiti	.tt	Trinidand and Tobago
.hu	Hungary	.tv	Tuvalu
I		.tw	Taiwan
id	Indonesia	.tz	Tanzania
.ie	Ireland	U
.il	Israel	.ua	Ukraine
.im	Isle of Man	.ug	Uganda
.in	India	.uk	United Kingdom
.io	British Indian Ocean Territory	.us	United States
.iq	Iraq	.uy	Uruguay
.ir	Iran	.uz	Uzbekistan
.is	Iceland	V
.it	italy	.va	Vatican City
J		.vc	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
.je	Jersey	.ve	Venezuela
.jm	Jamaica	.vg	British Virgin Islands
.jo	Jordan	.vi	United States Virgin Islands
.jp	Japan	.vn	Vietnam
K		.vu	Vanuatu
.ke	Kenya	W
.kg	Kyrgyzstan	.wf	Wallis and Futuna
.kh	Cambodia	.ws	Samoa
.ki	Kiribati	X-Y-Z
.km	Comoros	.ye	Yemen
.kn	Saint Kitts and Nevis	.yt	Mayotte
.kp	North Korea	.za	South Africa
.kr	South Korea	.zm	Zambia
.kw	Kuwait	.zw	Zimbabwe
.ky	Cayman Islands
.kz	Kazakhstan

A message from my Network in Facebook.com

2009-07-07T23:54:00.000-07:00

Are you wasting your time in Social Media?

that's a very good question and one that I've asked myself occasionally but more importantly, one that has been asked of me plenty of times. What do you think? Is Social Media and Social Networking a complete waste of time?

My Answer:
It can be....

...If you are jumping from one social networking and social media site to the next and if you don't have a clear social marketing plan.

Over the last year I’ve tried, tested, explored, and stubbed my toes on many of the new social media networks. Of all the ones that I tried, three have emerged that I consider the “Golden Trio” in Social Media.

This Golden Trio has produced a steady stream of profit generating nuggets for my business. These nuggets come in the form of new leads… new clients… new business partners… and even new friends to network and share ideas with. In fact, it’s a downright FUN way to do business.

By focusing on these top three (3) Social Media tools you can achieve the Biggest, Most Profitable & Best Results for YOUR Business.

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RecognizeGood.com Launched in Austin

2009-06-18T11:56:00.000-07:00

The Samaritan Counseling Center, 5425 Burnet Road, Ste. A, has created a new social media website called www.RecognizeGood.com where citizens can reward, acknowledge and promote others for their acts of kindness and unselfish charity. Developed through a partnership with Austin-based TyRex Group, the site helps honor the good deeds of others while supporting and promoting charitable giving to organizations. [more...]

Top 50 Social Media Resources for the1st quarter of 2009

2009-05-08T09:13:00.000-07:00

Building Quality Inbound Links

2009-04-21T19:42:00.000-07:00

How to build Quality Inbound Links Original Article

Links are most important factors for reached to a High Page Rank in Google. Every link is count as a vote for a particular site. If you have more links, it will be very easy for your site to getting a High PR. Everyone want to get a High PR in Google. So linking is most important factor to get a High Page Rank. If you’re going to start building you need to understand, how to get quality links? Here you can read some tips to getting quality links.

1. Keywords in anchor text of inbound links
Keywords in Anchor text is the most important factors for getting a good page ranking It will be best if you put keyword in anchor text If not possible don't worry Links which have keywords in the anchor text are the more valuable than links without anchor text So try put anchor text in links if possible.
2. Links from Reputable Sites
Next Important factor is getting links from reputable sites. It will be good if the website that links to your site is reputable. Means, if you are getting links from the page which has high Page Rank it will be good for sites.
3. Links from .edu and .gov sites
Links from .edu and .gov sites are most valuable and important because these sites are the more reputable sites than other domains like .com, .net, .info, .biz or others. Links from these types of site can be difficult but these are the most important links.
4. Links from Similar themes
Getting links from similar theme is very useful. Google and other Search Engines always give more value of a links if this is coming from a similar site. So try to get links from the sites which are the related to your site.
5. Numbers of back links
More links mean more votes. Google counts every link as a vote for your sites. So try to get more and more links for your site. But don't forget about quality links because links from reputed sites gives more value. Getting some links from high page rank is a best but having tons of links from sites which have 0 PR is useless.
6. Surrounding text of a Link
Surrounding text of Links is important. Always try to links which look like a naturally links not artificial. Natural links are valuable than artificial links. Text around the links is indicates that links are relevant or not.

Twitter tools that can help you manage your profiles

2009-04-06T02:05:00.000-07:00

Managing your followers and friends on Twitter is not easy. But its a fact that your success ratio and influence power is directly proportional to how active your followers are. I’ve realized that rather than who follows you or how many people follow you, its important to know whom you are following and how active they are.

Some of the factors that will determine your influence power on Twitter are
- How active your followers are.

- Do they ReTweet your tweets.

- Whether they are regularly updated and have a good following.

- Are those whom you follow, following you back etc.

With the default options on Twitter, its not really easy to manage your followers, but here are some interesting web based applications that I found to be of great help. Hope you find them useful too.

Twitter bird icon courtesy – Aravind Ajith

1. Mass Unfollow those who are not following you back with Huitter

I believe that there is no use in following people who aren’t reciprocating on Twitter. I use this tool weekly, to check for people who aren’t following me back. It automatically unfollows everyone who aren’t following you back. Huitter.

2. Automatically unfollow all inactive accounts you are following with MyCleener

This is yet another tool that will help us automatically unfollow all the inactive accounts based on when their last tweet was, and help you save your follow number. MyCleener

3. Find out common users following and being followed by two accounts

This is a great tool, because if you knew two power user accounts, say from your niche, then you can find out who are the guys they keep in contact with and who are the guys they are following and followed by with this tool. Running this tool with maximum five accounts will more or less reveal the “hidden” circle among them. Very effective if you know whom to stalk. Who follows whom

4. Manage your friends and followers with tags

This tool lets you rate and tag your friends and filter them on a timeline! You can also create custom groups of your followers and filter you timeline by that group. Very effective, but a little complicated to use. Twittangle

5. Unfollow people who have not updated within “X” amount of days

This is one of the best ones out there. It lets you find out the tweeps out of your followers who have not updated within a specified number of days (you can decide how many days is it) and lets you unfollow them. Extremely helpful when it comes to keeping your followers group healthy. Untweeps

6. Find out which Tweet made you popular and which one un-popular

One of the things that’s frustrating about Twitter is the un availability of a tracking mechanism. I personally would like to know what was that one tweet that got me popular and which is the one tweet after which people unfollowed me. Very effective in finding out what people expect from you and what they don’t. This tool helps you find just that. Tweet Rank (it’s German, you may want to translate it to English.)

7. Find out your ReTweet Rank

ReTweets I believe are a good measure to find out how popular your tweets are. This site picks up all the re-tweeted stories and grades you based on the number of re-tweets. Though its not sure what the algorithm is, its a nice tool to find out where you stand. Retweetrank

8. Find out who’s following who on Twitter

Well basically this tool helps you to find out if those people you are following are following you back or not. Shows you the number of friends, fans and followers. But I use it for a different purpose. If I find out a power user in my niche who is popular and is often re-tweeted, I would like to find whom he is following and what are his sources. Simply use this tool, give in the username and it will show who all are following him, his friends and fans. The good thing is that you can sort them by the number of followers they have. So if you want to steal a power users “precious friends”, this tool comes in pretty handy. Friendorfollow

9. Find out common followers between accounts

If you’re unsure whether to follow someone or not, just use this tool to find out if you have common interests and whether there are guys you are following in common. TwtrFrnd

10. Find relevant and interesting Twitter users to follow

As I said earlier, a good twitter life is all about following and keeping in company with the most active and interesting Tweeps. And Mr.Tweet is one damn tool that lets you connect with them. I mean, its a very simple concept executed in an awesome way. It shows interesting profiles and stats such as they are active or not, responds to tweets or not and whether they’ll follow you back. Mr.Tweet

Most of these tools require username and password, so use them wisely. Hope you like them.

UPDATE

Thanks to Mark, who introduced this tool called Tweepular to me. I wish I had known them before making this list. It is “the” best tool I’ve found so far. It has almost all the features I can think of for managing followers. Do check it out and you’ll quit using all others.

Are you using TWITTER?

2009-03-31T21:12:00.001-07:00

Twitter has brought online marketing to a whole new level. with instant responses, real time micro blogging, it is like a chatting with people all around the world on the same chat screen.. it is really cool.

Twitter has brought a lot of convenience for marketers especially those looking for joint ventures, hook up with people with similar interest with just a simple search..

http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http://www.mlmabsolute.com%2Ftwittera-networkers-new-but-not-so-secret-weapon%2F

Think.... do you think Twitter can help you in your marketing efforts?

Hooking up with potential target audience at the other side of the world is POSSIBLE.

Pinging Tools just for one click

2009-03-13T09:35:00.000-07:00

Pingomatic - the most popular. Pings several popular services and specialized services. Create a bookmark for each ping url.
Pingoat - Pings a huge collection of 52 blogging services, including special services and non english tracking services. You can easily select all services by selecting the category.
King Ping - Pings multiple services - 18 in all. Easy to check and uncheck boxes. And you can also create a bookmark with your settings.
Blogflux Pinger - Pings 32 services, including several specialized services and language specific services too.
Feedshark - Ping, submit, & promote your blog, feed, or podcast for free to multiple services.
BlogBlip - Just enter the blog url and it will submit to 15 popular blog tracking services.
Ping The Empire - Pings 18 common blog tracking services.
Pingates - pings 37 services including several many Japanese ones
Ping.In - notifies several Blog Search Engines and blog directories, much like pingoat.
Autopinger - will automatically ping your selected blog services. Has a XML-RPC interface too.

350 + Social Media Networks

2009-03-13T09:15:00.000-07:00

This article is a 100% copy from MASHABLE :)

One of the main topics here at MashableMashable reviews has always been social networking. In the past several years, some networks have thrived, some vanished, while hundreds of new ones appeared. It has become a huge area to follow, and this article illustrates this well: a collection of over 350 social networking sites, all of which were covered in one way or another here at Mashable. We hope to have created an extensive and useful resource for anyone interested in social networking. Enjoy.

Feel free to add more apps in the comments. And don’t forget to subscribe to Mashable for the latest web news and resources.

Books

Americabookshelf.com - One of the largest book exchange clubs across the US.

BooksConnect - A book sharing community site connecting readers, authors, publishers, librarians and booksellers.

BookCrossing.com - A community of users from over 130 countries who exchange books with each other at public places like cafes, parks etc.

Bookhopper.co.uk - Free community for UK residents to share used books with each other.

Bookins.com - Book sharing website that enables members to exchange used books with each other in real time.

BookMooch.com - An interesting concept where users can exchange books with others through points. Users gain points when they give books to others.

Booksalescout.com - Online community of users allowing them to sell books in the US.

Bookswim.com - Book borrowing service with free shipping for registered website.

ConnectViaBooks - A social networking site connecting book lovers and enabling them to discover other similar interests.

GoodReads - GoodReads is a book reader’s community enabling members to review, share books they have been reading.

PaperBackSwap.com - Users can share books amongst each other and only pay for the delivery charges.

Pazap.com - A book trade engine for students to buy and sell old books.

Read It Swap It - A free service that allows users to exchange books with others.

Revish - Revish is another community for book lovers, letting them review their favorite books, group up, or simply tell the world what they’re currently reading.

Shelfari Shelfari reviews - Shelfari is a popular social networking service for book lovers.

Socialbib - Book swapping network between students.

Business Networking & Professionals

AdvisorGarage - It is an online directory of advisers who are willing to assist budding entrepreneurs.

ArtBreak - ArtBreak is an artist community for sharing and selling artwork.

Blogtronix - Blogtronix promotes corporate social networking, enterprise 2.0 and wikis.

Commutal - Commutal is an online sharing platform for businesses to create media rooms, participate in domestic groups and share event happenings with each other.

CompanyLoop - An online co-working community for global businesses.

ConnectBeam - Connectbeam offers social networking specially designed for corporate users.

Decorati - An interior designer community enabling users to post items for sale and for exchange.

DoMyStuff - A good site for working professionals looking to find online assistants.

Doostang - An invite only career community for professionals.

Fast Pitch - It is a quickly growing business networking community in corporate world. Its online provides users with a one-stop shop network to market their business.

iKarma Inc. - iKarma is a specialist in providing customer feedback for organizations and professionals.

ImageKind - ImageKind is a community and marketplace for professional artists.

Jambo - Jambo lets you connect with your neighborhood friends.

Jigsaw - An online business card networking directory for users to establish contacts with each other. Each business card is listed with an email id and a contact number.

Konnects - Konnects enables members to create their own professional networking communities.

Lawyrs - A professional social networking community for lawyers.

Linkedin - LinkedIn is a professional social networking website for business users, one of the most popular such sites out there. Some aspects of it are free, but many are paid.

mediabistro.com - mediabistro.com is for professionals in content or creative industry.

Pairup.com - Pairup connects business travelers assisting them to travel together.

Ryze.com - A site for establishing new connections and growing networks. Connections for jobs, building career and making sales.

Spoke.com - Spoke offers access to business network of over 40 million people worldwide.

Visible Path - Visible Path helps organizations to integrate social networking into their existing tools.

WebCrossing Neighbors - It provides a private label social network with personal spaces and user groups.

XING - XING is a networking directory of business contacts powering relationships between business professionals allowing users to connect with each other.

Family

Amiglia - A family networking service enabling users to connect to family members by publishing and sharing family trees, photos etc.

CafeMom - CafeMom is a social networking site for mothers to connect and share thoughts with each other.

Cingo - Cingo users connect with each other to organize their family life.

CommonGate - A social networking platform that enables users to create their own social network for their friends, family or organization.

Family 2.0 - Family 2.0 helps you create your own family social network, you can add family members, send personalized emails and create event alerts.

Famiva - A premier social network to connect with family members and relatives in a secure environment.

Famster - A private secure social network for family members.

Geni.com - An exciting social networking site enabling members to create their family tree. Although it’s a relatively new site, it has grown tremendously fast, and has hundreds of thousands of users.

Genoom - Genoom creates a meeting place for its site users. They can create a family network by inviting their relatives and discover their past memories.

Kincafe - An ideal social network for families to connect with their beloved ones.

Kinzin - Kinzin is an online meeting place for families to share family events, photos, stories and recipes.

MayasMoM - A family networking site for parents.

Minti - A collaborative parenting site.

MomJunction - MomJunction allows mothers to find reliable answers to questions, create private spaces with friends and build communities.

MothersClick - MothersClick connects mothers in a neighborhood with each and provides parenting advice to them.

myfamily.com - An excellent way to connect with your family members.

OneGreatFamily.com - An online shared database with combined knowledge and data at a single place.

OurStory.com - OurStory enables users to share stories of their families with others.

Parentography - A social network offering advice and advice for families.

The Family Post - A sharing network for communication with family members.

Friends

43 Things - A tagging based social networking site. Users create accounts and list a number of goals or hopes and these are parsed based on similarity to goals of other users.

Amitize.com - Amitize is a worldwide friendship network.

aSmallWorld - aSmallWorld is a private online community designed for individuals who would like to connect, re-connect to share similar thoughts with each other.

Badoo.Com - Badoo is a dynamic multi-lingual social networking site with innovative photo and video features that allows its users worldwide to gain an instant mass audience and interact both locally and globally.

Bebo - Bebo is a hugely popular site (especially in the UK), and similar in philosophy to MySpaceMySpace reviews. It allows users to communicate with their friends in multiple ways including blogging, sending messages and posting pictures.

Eons - An online gathering place for the elderly; most of the users are over the age of 50 years.

Facebook.com - FacebookFacebook reviews is a social networking phenomenon connection people with their friends, family and other users with similar interests.

Faceparty - A UK based community social networking website. It started for youngsters but has now risen to popularity among all age groups.

Flingr - Flingr allows users to connect with all categories of friends – colleagues, college mates and school buddies.

Friendster Friendster reviews - It is a popular global social network for finding new friends and developing friendships as well as searching old friends.

hi5 Hi5 reviews - Hi5 is a prominent social networking service in India with over 40 million users. However, Hi5 has recently experienced an upsurge beyond India and has shown increasing popularity in EU too.

Lovento - Lovento allows you to discover news friends and also find information about latest events.

Multiply.com - MultiplyMultiply reviews is a social networking website providing easy way to share digital media which includes photos, videos and music.

Mycool - Mycool enables members to find and share their interests with special groups.

MySpace.com - MySpace is an interactive social networking website consisting of personal profiles, blogs, groups, photos, music and videos. It’s currently the biggest social networking site out there, and while it might not be the most advanced one, the users seem to love its simplicity.

NetFriendships.com - A comprehensive social networking site enabling users to make new online friends and discover old ones.

Netlog - A social community of more than 20 million young Europeans.

Orkut - Orkut is a social networking service owned by GoogleGoogle reviews. It enables users to meet new friends and create communities.

Passado - Passado is Europe’s no.1 re-union website connecting members with friends from school to workplace.

Piczo - Piczo offers safe social networking environment to youngster around the world. Piczo users can design their personal website with photos, videos etc. and share it with their friends.

Plazes - A social networking website for connecting with local users.

Pownce.com - Pownce is a mix of social networking and microblogging. It enables users to send messages, files, events and links with each other.

ProfileHeaven.com - A UK based social networking site for teenagers.

reunion.com - A leading online service for discovering old friends, classmates and family members.

Vox.com - VoxVox reviews is a social blogging service where users share their ideas, photos, videos with family and friends.

Xanga Xanga reviews - Xanga is one of the biggest social networking platforms with features of sharing photos, photos and videos.

XuQa - An online college social networking site with poker gaming features.

Hobbies & Interests

ActionProfiles.com - It is social networking community for sports and action. The features of the website are profiles of users with photographs and videos, reviews of products and job discussion boards.

Arts community - Arts community provides a dynamic community experience by providing extensive listing of exhibitions, events and openings.

BeGreen - BeGreen is a community that aims to generate environmental awareness for users.

beRecruited - beRecruited is a dedicated online community for sportpersons and coaches.

BottleTalk - BottleTalk is a wine lover’s community making it easy for members to share their drinking experiences.

CarGurus - An automobile community website enabling users to post car reviews, photos and share opinions.

Change - Change is a nonprofit social networking website that connects like minded users and allows them to exchange information.

ChangingThePresent - A nonprofit fund raising community with membership of over 400 nonprofits.

ChickAdvisor - ChickAdvisor is a sharing community for women users.

CircleUp - CircleUp is one of the best community website connecting users to groups, clubs for knowledge sharing, information exchange.

Coastr Coastr reviews - Coastr connects beer lovers with each other.

ColShare - ColShare is a community for people who have hobby of collecting items like coins, stamps etc.

coRank - A rating community for users to share interesting information on internet.

DailyStrength - A huge community of over 500 groups dealing with health issues and various medical challenges.

Dundoo - Dundoo enables users to create image collages out of social networking profile. A big amount of ads on the site somewhat diminishes the overall impression.

Flixster - Flixster is a community for movie lovers.

FuelEmpire - FuelEmpire brings automobile enthusiasts together at one place.

GirlSense - A community for girls to promote their fashion designs & creations.

Greenvoice - An online networking platform for people who are conscious about the environment, who want to inform each other on environmental issues and create a difference.

iYomu - iYomu is an adult social networking website and it allows users to search for site members who have similar interests or for business needs.

Motortopia - Motortopia is community for automobile lovers. It consists of passionate lovers of bikes, planes, cars and boats etc.

MyCatSpace - MyCatSpace is a community for lovers of cats passionate to share experiences of their cats with others.

MyDogSpace - MyDogSpace users can share their dog pictures, write blog posts about dogs and communicate with other dog lovers, all in a very lovely community.

Uniteddogs - A social networking website for dog owners. The dog owners can creae profiles of their dogs, create blogs and share their thoughts.

vSocial - vSocial is a video based social networking platform allowing content owners, site operators to deliver the message online with video.

Language

15+ Language Communities

Media (Photo, Video & Audio)

25+ Video Sharing Services

30+ Photo Sharing Services

20+ Music Sharing Services

Buzdeo - Buzdeo provides secure video sharing service with friends and family.

Fotki - A photo sharing service enabling users to connect with friends.

Fotolog - A big online photo sharing community.

Music

Asoboo - Asoboo is a sharing network for cultural artists from around the world.

BandChemistry - A network for musicians uniting music bands all over.

BandWagon - BandWagon is a music community website for music fans to manage their web pages, profiles, videos and music.

CrackSpace - A common place for fans of hip-hop music.

Moob - A dedicated community of hip-hop fans.

MOG - An online community powering site members to discover music and music lovers.

Mobile

CrackBerry - A community dedicated to BlackBerry users.

Dodgeball - A New York based service facilitating social interactions through mobile phones.

Friendstribe.com - A mobile phone based social networking site.

GotZapp - A mobile social network for sharing images, audio and graphics with your friends’ mobile phones.

Groovr - An ultimate mobile social networking site for staying connected with friends. It is compatible with iPhone.

Jaiku - Jaiku is essentially a microblogging service with an SMS gateway, very similar to TwitterTwitter reviews. They’ve recently been acquired by Google.

Loopt - Loopt is a cool mobile based friend locator website. It uses GPS to show its users the location of friends by updating maps on mobile handset.

Mixxer - Mixxer enables users to content on their mobile with site members.

Mobango - A mobile community service powering users to search for user generated music content, videos and other data.

Mozes - Mozes enables members to connect & socialize with each other through mobile phones.

Partysync - Partysync helps users to interact with people using mobiles.

Peepsnation - Peepsnation allows users with similar interests to connect with each other on location basis.

Rabble - A location based social networking service for mobile phone users.

Socialight - Socialight is a mobile based social networking site where users share their travel experiences with other mobile users.

Wattpad - A mobile phone social networking platform allowing users to discover, read and share their stories with each others.

Shopping

18 Sites for Social Shopping and Deals

3LUXE - A community generated product research site.

AgentB - A common place to find out the best shopping deals on internet.

bringsome.com - A global goods delivery platform enabling community members to assist each other with access to best items from across the world.

boxedup.com - Boxedup.com users add their favorite products to their list and share it with others.

CoWorkersAds - An online marketplace listing allowing site members to discover and sell items among coworkers community.

iliketotallyloveit.com - A user generated marketplace where users submit cool products.

MyItThings.com - A user generated magazine for shopping.

MyStore.com - A social market place for buyers and sellers.

Productwiki.com - ProductWiki is a common place for users to share information about consumer products.

RedFlagDeals.com - RedFlagDeals.com is Canada’s most popular shopping community which offers huge discounts to site users.

Sale Grab - SaleGrab is a social shopping site for best sales and discount deals.

Shoppero - Shoppero offers profit sharing to site users for writing product reviews.

Smashing Darling - A collaborative market place connecting buyers and sellers at one place.

Social BookMarking

50+ Social Bookmarking Sites

Students

AlumWire - AlumWire has been created to assist college students, alumni with professional opportunities.

B4Class - A social network for high school and college students.

Campusbug - A college student social networking website.

CampusRank - CampusRank members select and rate their old school friends and group them into various categories.

College.com - An online community for college students.

CollegeMedium.com - A student classifieds website for buying and selling items, jobs search etc.

College Tonight - A great place to meet fellow college students and alumni.

DormItem.com - A local classifieds listings for schools in various cities.

Graduates.com - A social networking site assisting graduate school students to stay in touch post completion of course.

Half.com - A leading student market place for buying and selling textbooks at discounted prices.

iHipo - An international community for college students and business professionals looking for networking opportunities.

LocalSchools - A networking site connecting students with local US colleges and universities.

Pazap.com - A student trading site for buying and selling on-campus books with other students.

Quizilla - Quizilla is a social network for young teens.

RateMyProfessor.com - RateMyProfessor connects students aspiring to study similar courses by assisting each other.

Student.com - Student.com is a big online community for college students, high school students and teens with around 1,000,000 members.

Studentbid.com - Studentbid.com is a student market place for sales and purchase of items without any fees.

StudentSN.com - A social network allowing users to create home pages with contact information, personal information and photo albums.

Uloop.com - Uloop allows students to trade textbooks, promote community events and do host of other activities.

Travel & Locals

Amicoz.com - Amicoz is slightly different from conventional social networking sites; it doesn’t have some of the common features found on socnets. It is dedicated to assist users in sharing their travel experiences, nothing more, nothing less.

Citizenbay - Citizenbay is a user community for discovering local information.

CityTherapy - CityTherapy is an easy way to find and share places of interest (restaurant, bars) in Europe.

CouchSurfing - A global travel network connecting travelers with local communities.

fatdoor.com - A fun and an interactive way to connect with the folks from your neighborhood online.

Going.com - A fun way to interact with people locally.

iloho - An online travel community with similarity to social bookmarking services like digg.

MatchActivity - A site connecting people on the basis of their activities. Users can find things to do and join people in their area.

Matador - A travel based social network with an integrated blogging service.

myTripbook.com - myTripbook.com is a place for people who want to share their travel experiences through photos, videos and blogging with others.

OurFaves - OurFaves is a community of urban savvy folks who enjoy the Toronto city and find out cool places to hang out at.

Outside.in - A nice way to explore local communities to keep track with neighborhood news.

Rummble - Rummble enables users to discover as well as share places of interest in your neighborhood.

TravBuddy - TravBuddy is a cool site for sharing travel experiences, finding new travel friends or reading travel reviews of fellow friends.

Travellerspoint - An international meeting point for worldwide travelers.

TravelTogether - A travel based social networking service enabling users to share travel plans, travel deals and experiences.

tribe.net - Tribe.net is one of the easiest ways to connect with people for finding a restaurant, a killer apartment, a gentle dentist or a hiking friend.

TripUp - A travel community site for finding travel information and planning for trips.

Triporama- Triporama provides an easy way to plan and collaborate on group trips.

VibeAgent - VibeAgent is a site about hotel reviews, travel meta-search and social networking.

WAYN - A social networking website uniting world wide travelers.

WeExplore - WeExplore provides an online platform for volunteers and travelers from all over the globe.

Wikitravel - Wikitravel is dedicated project for creating a trusted, up-to-date travel guide. It has over 16,641 travel destination guides maintained and written by Wikitravellers from around the world.

Zoodango - Zoodango is a website enabling users to connect with urban professionals either online or face-to-face at local venues.

Search Engine Optimization important terms

2009-02-27T11:24:00.001-08:00

G B L: Google BackLinks: This data shows the number of backlinks reported for your site in Google. Google don't show all your backlinks so there is nothing to freak out. Yahoo reports better backlinks.

G I P: Google Indexed Pages: This data shows the number of pages indexed by Google for your website. Our tool will update your number of pages indexed every week and will report current status for your website.

Y B L: Yahoo Back Links: This data shows the number of backlinks you site has according to yahoo. Yahoo's data is more reliable than Google and currently Yahoo is the only search engine to show any sort of decent backlinks to your website.

Y I P: Yahoo Index Pages: This data shows the number of pages indexed for your site by yahoo search engine's crawler yahoo Slurp. Yahoo updates their index once a week and we will do the same when you use our widget.

M I P: MSN Indexed Pages: MSN now called live search is one of the top 3 search engines according to market share. MSN is currently in 3rd position only next to Google and Yahoo. It's very important to know how your site performs in MSN Live search. Our search engine widget will give you up to date information of the number of pages indexed by yahoo crawler.

A L R: Alexa is the No.1 site in internet to value a website. They use various sophisticated methods to judge the value of a website. It's important to have decent Alexa rankings. Any ranking in top 100,000 is worthwhile. Our tool will update every week to give you the latest Alexa rankings for your website.

A T W: All The Web indexed pages. Alltheweb.com is another search engine mostly powered by yahoo. It has its own set of loyal users it will be good to know the number of pages indexed in Alltheweb search engine too.

A V I: Altavista Indexed pages: Altavista.com was once the industry leader in search. After a buyout by Yahoo it's now used by a small amount of search users. But they have some great features very useful for webmasters. A site performing in top 10 search engines is best for internet. Altavista is one of the top 10 search engines and it's good to know how your site is being indexed in Altavista.

Midnight Train to Georgia

2008-11-30T03:00:00.000-08:00

30 ROCK - Midnight Train to Georgia
30 ROCK really rocks

New York, HMMMM..... prove too much for the man (too much for the man)
(he couldn't make it) so he's leaving the life he's come to know
He' leavin' (leavin')
On that Midnight Train To Georgia
Levin' on that Midnight Train.... well, well,

Yes, He's leavin'...Yes, He's leavin'.......
On that Midnight Train To Georgia
Levin' on that Midnight Train, hmmm, ummm, yeah!

My World, Her World, His World, Our World (mine and his/her alone)
I've got to Go, I've got to Go,
On that Midnight Train..
Gonna board (here a board), Gonna board (here a board), Gonna board on that Midnight Train..

I miss it (he miss it) I miss that that Midnight Train to Georegia (You miss that Midnight Train)
Ohwoohhhh there's 11:45 and I was missing form about the time (missing form about the time didn't even get stand in line)

Yeah I miss it (He miss the Midnight Train To Georgia)

Companies that uses Social Media

2008-11-10T06:45:00.000-08:00

I have stumble upon this page of Being Peter Kim and I think this is very helpful in advancement our social media community. Below are the list of company that uses social media as the other wing side of promotion online.

3 Italia. Social networks: Facebook Business and La3 DVB-H groups.⁸⁰
Abbott Labs. Social networks: Facebook Labs Are Vital scholarship contest.⁴⁵
Absolut Vodka:
- Online video: ABSOLUTworld.²⁰
- Social networks: Top Bartender page on Facebook.⁵⁶
Accenture:
- Blogging: Nine corporate blogs.¹⁹
- Podcasting: Five corporate podcasts.
- Social networks: Borderless Workplace.³
Accuquote:
- Blogging: Life Insurance blog.¹⁹
- Podcasting: Life Insurance podcast.
Acura:
- Social networks: Facebook Acura TSX Connect fan page.
- Widgets: Acura RDX Traffic on Yahoo.
Acuvue. Social networks: Facebook "Wink" application.³
Addison Avenue. Crowdsourcing: Suggestion box.⁷³
Adidas. Social networks: adidas soccer on myspace; 70% of ROI driven by pass-along, aka "never-ending friending."
Adobe. Tagging: Delicious account used to bookmark primarily tutorials.²
Airplay. Social networks: Baseball Gameday Challenge Facebook application.⁵⁶
Alltop:⁹⁸
- Content aggregation: By topic.
- Online video: Alltop tutorial on YouTube.
- Widgets: The Alltop widget.
Amazon:
- Social networks: Shelfari.⁷⁰
- Blogging: Web Services blog.¹⁹
AMC's Mad Men. Microblogging: Fake Twitter accounts.
American Express. Blogging: OPEN Forum.⁶⁷
American Legacy Foundation. Social Networks: MySpace, Bebo, hi5, xanga, Facebook, and Ning pages.⁹⁴
American Red Cross. Blogging: Red Cross Chat.¹⁹
Animal Planet. Widgets: Killer Clips widget on Yahoo.
Annie's Homegrown. Blogging: Bernie's Blog (offline).⁴
AOL. Blogging: Vincent Ferrari tries to cancel his account.¹
Apple:
- Blogging: iPod's dirty little secret.¹
- Social networks: Apple Students group on Facebook.
ArcelorMittal. Virtual worlds: Second Life presence.³
Artful Home. Social networks: Community site.⁷⁷
AT&T:³⁰
- Microblogging: ATTNews, ATTblueroom , and OnwardSmallBiz on Twitter.
- Online video: Share AT&T channel on YouTube.
- Photosharing: Flickr photostream.
- Social networks: Facebook fan page.

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CDO Bloggers First Meet Up

2008-11-07T09:08:00.000-08:00

It is the first step and the starting point for CDO Bloggers. Indeed, it's another turning event of the Blogging Population in Cagayan de Oro City where 18 bloggers in different niche of blogs preference meet together for a great leap forward in organizing Kagay-anons bloggers.

It was held at Mindys Cagayan de oro (Saturday, November 7, 2008), the discussion is fun yet all of the bloggers are aspiring to group in the bigger scaled-CDO. If you are in Cagayan and doing blog or about to do blog, whether you are a student, out of school youth, earners or non-earners (as of the moment) you can Join CDO bloggers, sign up now for more blogging and see you there!

The Online Community effect on Obama's Winning the Election

2008-11-05T05:56:00.000-08:00

One of the reason why Barack Obama wins not just simply because people finds him very interesting but the other reason is he uses well the Online Communinty as influential tools in his Campaign.

Barack Obama wins the US United States presidential election of 2008 because many American finds him very exciting in terms of change. People need changes and it always be, Barack Obama need to proves this changes not only in America but the impression's of of the whole world of what America can do.

This year is very breathe-taking, this is not about the color or race descendant but how to change the relation within America's experience during George W. Bush Administration, how he handles foreign policy, what can he do to those Countries that really in need.

In my subjective view, Barack Obama is a natural peace maker and I hope he can develop more on the principle that he believe in SPREADING THE WEALTH, with this political stand many countries will follow not because for popularity but for the timely needed of what we don't have now a days.

In McCain's concession speech, he recognizes Barack Obama achieving this significant day in the history of America, he even congratulate the new elected United State President in front of John's supporter.

This is another turning event, that utilizing the advancement of Social Media or the Online Community really helps a lot in touching ones heart

7 Social Media Must (not) do.

2008-10-06T20:57:00.000-07:00

Trying to participate in too many tools If you are siging up and building a profile on every new thing that comes out, you better be a writer for Mashable. No one can keep up with all the new things. Find some you like and do a good job in them.
Expect that just setting up an account will yield results Guess what - you have to do more than just set up an account to get results. If I had a dollar for every person that has told me they set up a LinkedIn account and nothing happened, I’d be rich.
Not using the tools to connect with people Nearly every site makes it possible to connect with other people (I think that is why they call is SOCIAL media). If you are not connecting, no one is finding you.
Giving up after a short time Social media is about making and sustaining connections. The only way you can grow your influence is long term. Stop crying - if you do not like the fact that it takes time, don’t do it at all.
Promoting yourself without providing value The fact that you signed up for an account does not give you the right to promote yourself constantly. And it is a sure way to get people to run in the other direction.
Not using the tools to link to other resources Similar to not connection to people, if you only link to your website or blog and never bookmark or link to other interesting resources, you will never gain the respect of your audience. Nor should you.
Not intentionally building a target network Don’t pick the biggest network or the one that your kid brother said you should use. Find out where your current customers go and your target audience hangs out online. Intentionally build value and influence in the right communities, even if they are smaller.

Original post by: 7 Stupid Social Media Mistakes

Safety Tips upon joining Social Networks

2008-10-01T09:31:00.000-07:00

No social networking site is safe, including myYearbook.

Reporting bad people to the police is important. Remember to call law enforcement if threatened.
Don't lie about your age.

If you lie about your age, your profile may be deleted without notice.
Don't give out your contact information.

myYearbook is a public space, including your profile. Anything you post is available to the whole world. Don't post things you wouldn't want the whole world to know. Don't post your phone number, address, IM screen name, or your specific whereabouts.
Report nudity, harassment, hate speech, and other inappropriate content.

Call the cops if you think anyone is in danger.
You can be denied admission to college or a job based on things you put in your profile.

It has happened. Don't let it happen to you. Don't post things that can embarrass you later.
Don't meet people in real life that you only “know” online.

As you have heard in the news surrounding MySpace, people who have met others in real life have been raped or murdered. Predators are out there, and they are very dangerous. Don't meet people in real life. They may not be who they pretend to be. If you do decide to meet someone you've met on line, tell your parents first, meet in a public place and bring a trusted adult.
Sex with an underage person is rape.

It does not matter if that person lied about their age. It's rape and you will go to prison.
Don't be a cyber bully.

In many states, you can be charged with a crime. If you are being bullied here are some things you can do to make it stop: call the police -- best idea; block the harasser -- doesn't always work; delete your profile -- starting over isn't really that hard; document your harassment -- save your IMs, text, and messages to give to the police; don't respond -- sometimes they will get bored and go away; don't ever meet them -- this is the worst thing you can possibly do. You never know who you are dealing with. Always assume the worst.
Get Suicide Help.

If you or anyone you know needs help with depression, coping, or life in general, free help is available. Tell an adult or trusted friend, or contact the National Suicide Hotline at 1-800-784-2433 or through your state crisis center at http://suicidehotlines.com. You can also check out http://www.hopeline.com and http://www.suicidepreventionlifeline.org.
Take Threats Seriously.

If you read threats of suicide, violence, or other illegal behavior on a profile or message, forward the link to your local authorities. You can always call 9-1-1. You do not want to be the person who failed to act and as a result have a tragedy like Columbine or VA Tech happen.

The behavior of Google SERP

2008-09-18T06:26:00.000-07:00

Traffic coming from search engines is traditionally considered to have the highest value since search engines have emerged on the web. Thousands of webmasters work hard every day to make sure their sites are better optimized for better search engine rankings. It's no secret that the amount of work and money needed for desired results largely depend on the niche of the search queries a site is optimized for, and their search volume. Moreover, sites in different niches require different promotion techniques. It is natural that the competition between market players drives the optimization technology forward.

Additionally, search engines never stop developing. Ranking algorithms are constantly improving, server capacities are increased, SERP (search engine result page) moderation has been introduced, and so on. As a result, optimization techniques which brought guaranteed results yesterday may be not at all efficient today.

This report focuses on analyzing Google's SERP to spot the variations observed in different niches and with keywords of different search volume. [read more]

Complete Blogging Tools

2008-09-07T20:52:00.000-07:00

Here is a collection of useful and valuable free blogging tools that you can use to check your blog performance and enhance your blog rankings. Visit all the free blogging tools and discover what they can do for you and your blog.

Search Engine Tools

Google Page Rank Checker - Check your page rank from the major Google data centers.
Google and Alexa Rank Checker - Use this tool to check your Google Page Rank and Alexa Traffic Rank at the same time.
Google Page Rank Prediction Tool - This tool lets you predict your Google Page Rank in the next page rank update.
Backlink Checker - Use this tool to check how many backlinks do pages of your website have.
Search Engine Position Checker - Check the position of your website on certain keyword in the Google result page.
Search Engine Index Checker - Check how many pages of your website is indexed by Google, MSN and Yahoo!
Google Banned Checker - Is your website banned from Google? Use this tool to find out.
Link Popularity Checker - Link Popularity Checker lets you find out how many links a domain has on the most common search engines.
Search Engine Listing Preview - Use Search Engine Listing Preview tool to check how your pages appear on major search engines (Google, MSN and Yahoo!).
Spider View Tool - Spider View Tool will enable you to view the perspective of a search engine spider, from the website you require to view.
Keyword Suggestion Tool - Keyword Suggestion Tool will display up to 10 popular keywords matching your initial keyword.
Cloaking Checker Tool - Cloaking Checker Tool let you enter a URL and compare how search engine sees it as opposed to real website browsers.
Visual Page Rank Checker - Visual Page Rank Checker tool will enable you to view all the links along with the page ranks on the page that you require to view.
URL Redirect Checker - URL Redirect Checker is a tool that helps you determine if the redirect you have created is Search Engine Friendly.
Keyword Density Checker - Use Keyword Density Checker to help you achieve optimum keyword distribution.
Google Data Center Search - Use this tool to search for keywords and key phrases through different Google data centers.

Domain Checkup Tools

Alexa Traffic Rank Checker - Instantly check your website’s Alexa traffic rank.
Reciprocal Link Checker - Make sure your link exchange partners still have your links. You may check it with this tool.
Domain Name Availability Checker - Check whether the domain name you have in mind is still available for registration.
Domain Whois - Get more information about a domain name with this tool.
Broken Link Checker - Use this tool to detect and correct broken links in your website.
Domain Name Lookup Tool - The Domain Name Lookup tool lets you find out more about domain names including Google Page Rank, Alexa Traffic Rank, number of backlinks, age of domain name etc.
IP Locator Tool - The IP Locator Tool helps you determine the country of origin of certain IP address.
Link Price Calculator Tool - The Link Price Calculator estimates how much you should pay and charge for a link in certain pages of your website.
Ping Test Tool - The Ping Test Tool lets you check for an active connection.
Reverse IP Lookup Tool - Reverse IP Lookup Tool lets you search for domain names hosted on your IP address. Just enter a domain or an IP address to get a list of domain names that share the same IP address.
Server Status Checker - Use this blogging tool to instantly check for the status of any website.
Website Speed Checker - Check the loading speed of your website with the Website Speed Checker tool. Too slow? Perhaps you need to optimize the page or move to a faster server.

HTML Blogging Tools

Source Code Viewer - This tool lets you see how a website is scripted and coded.
Meta Tag Generator - Meta tag generator helps you create a functional meta tag you can use in your blog. Google don’t use meta tags but there are still some search engines that do.
Meta Tag Extractor - Find out what meta tags are used by your competitors with the Meta Tag Extractor tool.
Link Extractor Tool - The Link Extractor Tool will enable you to extract links from a specific web page with associated anchor text, HTML code, attributes and Google pagerank
HTML Optimizer Tool - This tool lets you optimize your HTML code to make your website load faster.
HTTP Header Extractor - The HTTP Header extractor extracts the HTTP Headers of a server. Find out exactly what your browser reads.

Miscellaneous Blogging Tools

Browser Detail Tool - Use this tool to find out your IP address and hostname, your browser details (User-Agent, Cookies Enabled, Java Enabled , JavaScript Status, Screen Width & Height, CPU class/type, Screen Colour Depth, Window Width & Height) and browser headers.
Google Adsense Calculator - Google Adsense Calculator predicts changes in your earnings depending on Impressions, Click Rate and Cost Per Click.
Google Adsense Preview - Google Adsense Preview tool will display some sample ads targeted for your website by Google Adsense.
Link Shortener Tool - The Link shortener is a tool that lets user to make a long web address short and easy to remember link for that web address.
List Cleaner Tool - The List Cleaner Tool will give you the capability to clean and remove duplicates from a list in a matter of seconds.
md5 Encrypt Tool - The md5 Encrypt Tool is a simple online converter tool to encode any inputted text to md5 encryption.
Unix Time Converter - The Unix Time Converter is a useful tool when dealing with UNIX internal time formats. You can use this tool to convert UNIX internal time formats to a date or Vice versa.
.htaccess URL Rewrite Tool - The .htaccess URL Rewrite Tool will convert your long and dynamic address into a short and search engine friendly URL.

If you found these free blogging tools useful, go ahead and book mark them, share them to your friends and let them know about it.

Enjoy Blogging!

Complete list of SEO and Internet Marketing Glossary

2008-08-31T20:21:00.000-07:00

I posted the "almost complete" SEO and Internet Marketing glossary list for my friends and regular visitors consumptions. The list can help you figure things and terms along with your works and hobbies in understanding the world wide web. If you have something new, keep me posted and I will add on the list.

A good online credit to: AZLA Management Institution for the list

AdWords: is the Cost Per Click text advertising used by Google. Its position in the paid search engine result depends upon not only the advertiser's bid but also the clickthrough rate. Thus ensuring that the paid search results are useful, relevant and popular.

Alt Tag: it is an alternate text that provides a description of a visual or a graphic and contains key words that are relevant to it. They are visible when the mouse is over the image. Alt tags are useful for the visually impaired as with a web browser that reads aloud text they will be able to understand that there is a graphic or visual on the web page and also what it shows.

Automated Submitting: is the use of software or an application service provider to make web page submissions to search engines. The search engines do not like it.

Anchor Text: is the actual text of a web page or a link and it plays a tremendous role in proving a good ranking on search engine results.

Agent Name: is a term used for the spider that is visiting a web page and cataloguing it.

Banned: is a term used when a website is not allowed to feature in the results of a search engine. There can be many reasons for banning a site. it might be having duplicate content or it may be involved in spamming a search engine.

Blacklist: includes websites listed by search engines or vigilante users as spammers.

Bid Management Tool: An ASP service or software that handles bids FOR pay-per-click on search engines is called a bid management tool.

Bidding: is the term used when you bid for a top spot on PPC search results on a search engine.

Blog: A blog is a 'web log' that can be like a personal journal or one maintained by a website. It provides information and provides a chance for other people to convey their views and thoughts.

Body Copy: is the text and content that is visible to the visitor to the website and contains all the information that the website wishes to convey to its audience. It does not include visuals or graphics, navigation information or HTML code.

Bulk Submission Services: An ASP that on behalf of a client makes bulk URL submissions to a search engine is said to provide bulk submission services.

Bot: A short form for robot, which is a term used for the computers used by the search engines to regularly search out the content of websites that it stores in various categories.

Cache: refers to the memory area which stores copies of web pages on your PC that make it easier for you to open up a website. Google allows its users to access cached pages of listed website.

Click-through Rate: is the rate at which visitors on a search engine click on search listing or banner ads. The click-through rate for search listings is far higher than that for banner ads.

Cloaking: is the process by which websites provide spiders keyword rich content so as to assure a good search listing. However the audience is not shown this data and in contrast finds useless and irrelevant information.

Conversion Rate: is the actual rate at which visitors to the website become customers.

Cookie: is the information that is placed by a web server on a visitor's computer. It is accessed and retrieved once the web site is visited. Cookies are frequently used for user IDs, for e-mail addresses, etc.

Cost-Per-Action: As the phrase suggests it is the price charged for an action such as signing up for an e-zine, downloading trial software, entering a contest online, etc. It is an online advertising payment model.

Cost-per-click: or CPC is the charge that has to be paid to a search engine every time a visitor goes to your website by clicking on a link.

Cost per Thousand: is the price that is to be paid by the client to the search engine for a thousand click impressions. Impression means the number of times an ad or a banner is downloaded and is assumed to be seen by the visitors.

Crawler: is another term for search engine spiders that regularly search websites for data and information and store in the database.

Google Bombing: is when a group of websites mostly blogs link an unfavorable page to a company website in a manner that it ranks high on the Google search result. This takes advantage of hyper link and PageRank as a group of websites with high PageRank can link to the unflattering page that would lead to it coming up on search results when you search for the company.

Google Cache: are the cached pages of website that are stored on Google and visitors are free to access them. It is a snapshot of how the Google spider saw it when it indexed the page.

Googlebot: Googlebot is the spider used by Google to search or crawl websites. It usually does so monthly but for websites that show a daily change in content it visits it daily and marks the search result as 'Fresh'.

Googleware: refer to the various tools available on Google to search, research, report and play with. This includes Adwords, Google Earth, Blogsearch, Google News and Froogle.

Heading Tag: is an HTML tag used to mark an important page or section of a web page. This is important to the website search engine ranking as search engines pay importance to heading tags that are considered as being important to the web page.

Hits: Whenever a user requests a page from the server, each request is termed as a ' hit'. A hit doesn't just stand for the one page being opened but will also include the graphics that open on the web page i.e. each element present in a page is counted for a hit. Thus a page with 10 graphics would have 11 hits every time that it is down loaded: 10 hits for graphics and 1 hit for the HTML page.

HTML: stands for Hypertext Markup Language, which is a programming language utilized to mark web content. It is shown in a set format.

Hyperlink Text: is the underlined text that links to another web page. Search engines pay special attention to the keywords used in the hyperlink text and relate it to the web page. This may be used negatively for Google bombing.

Hyperlinks: are links that are shown as URLs and take the Internet user to another web page. Hyperlinks may be text or graphics.

Impression: An impression is a page or ad viewed by an Internet user. It is also referred to as 'pageview'.

Inbound Links: Links from sites other than your own that point towards your website are called inbound links. They help in improving PageRank.

Index: is the textual content database of a search engine, where text from each page that the spider has crawled is stored.

Invisible Web: Refers to the huge amount of information on the internet that is not stored -INDEXED-by search engines.

Java Applets: Java applets are basically small programs written in Java that can be embedded in the web pages. These run on the internet user's computer and not on the web server's. So since these Java applets are invisible to the search engine and if content or navigation is embedded in it, it will not be indexed.

Java source code combined into executable code is called 'bytecode'.

Java Scripts: Programs written in the programming language Java are called JavaScripts. They don't run on the web server's computer and only run on the Internet user's computer. JavaScripts cannot be run on search engines and if navigation or content is embedded in a JavaScript, it will be invisible to the search engines and will not get indexed.

JavaScripts are not compiled, i.e. the source code and the executable code are the same. By selecting the 'View Source' option an Internet user can view the website's JavaScript source code. They are used to design interactive sites.

Key Phrase: Key phrase is a phrase that contains key words.

Keyword: A keyword is a word that the internet user may use to find relevant web pages. If the keyword doesn't appear in the page it is unlikely to find a place in the search result, unless the website has bid for the keyword in a pay-per-click search engine.

Keyword Density: is the number of times the keyword occurs in a page. It is calculated as: number of keywords of the page/ number of words on the page. It is expert opinion that maximum density should be 4-8%.

Keyword Popularity: is calculated from the number of times a keyword has been used in searches done by internet users. WordTracker.com and Overture's Search Term Popularity Tool (http://inventory.overture.com) provide keyword popularity numbers.

Keyword Prominence: Keyword prominence is the placement of the keyword in the HTML source code of the web page. The higher up in the page that the keyword is the more the keyword prominence and more weight provided by search engine. Thus it is ideal to make the first paragraph keyword rich.

Keyword-rich: is a description of a web page or text that is full of keywords and not meaningless words.

Keyword stuffing: is the excessive use of keywords that renders the page unreadable and reduces its usability. Keyword stuffing may be in the form of making the text and background on the same color or over-filling alt tags with long strings of keywords.

Keyword Research: is the process of deciding the keywords and phrases used by internet users for searches. Keyword research may be provided on web pages, etc.

Landing Page: The landing page is the page that an Internet user goes to by clicking on a banner ad or a search result listing.

Link Building: is the process of requesting webmasters of other web pages to link to your website. This is done to increase link popularity and to increase PageRank. Link building also includes directory submissions and press release syndication.

Link Popularity: is based on the number of other web pages that are linked to your web page; the more the number of linked pages the better the link popularity.

Links: may be text or graphics that when clicked take the Internet user to another website. Links are expressed as URLs.

Log File: is a record of all access to a web server. This includes date and time of access, filename accessed, user's IP address, referring web page, user's browser software and version, and cookie data.

Mod_rewrite: Mod rewrite is a part of apache servers that can rewrite requested URLs on the fly. As it supports an endless number of rules that in turn have unlimited attached rule conditions it is very flexible and an important URL manipulation mechanism. It can be used for internet users and for search engine friendly URLs. This increases the chance of the database driven website to be indexed.

Mirror: Static HTML files that are a copy of a dynamic website or a set of web pages from it.

Machine-generated: These web pages are without much meaningful content and don't use software tools that auto-generate doorway pages.

Manual submitting: is done by hand and don't use an automated submission tool or service. It is appreciated by search engines.

Meta description: is the meta tag that describes the content of the page and is embedded in the HTML. It is about 12-20 words long and is a good chance of influencing the manner in which the web page is described in search results.

Meta keywords: is a meta tag that contains keywords pertaining to the web page content and is hidden in the HTML. It is now ignored by most search engines due to the abuse of meta keywords by search engine spammers. Only Inktomi still pays it attention.

Meta tags: These are basically meta information or information about information about the relevant page and are within the HTML. They cannot be viewed by internet users and are usually paid no attention to by search engines. The two important examples of meta tags are meta description and meta keywords.

Meta Search: A meta search is a consolidated single SERP that is got from search results from various sources.

Miserable Failure: This is an example of Google bombing where inbound links are abused and affect SERPs. In this case hyperlinks with the keyword phrase miserable failure were used.

Mousetrapping: Mousetrapping is when the 'Back' button of the web browser is rendered ineffective in websites where pagejacking has been done. The user finds it frustrating as he is unable to leave the website either because of appearance of repeated pop-up windows or the window cannot be closed. In other words, he is made a captive.

Noframes tag: The Noframes tag is an option for non-framed HTML on a frameset page for old non-frames capable browsers and search engines. Placing keyword rich noframes tags is a good idea for a framed website. However the ideal option is to change the entire structure of the website. A framed website with a noframes tag is not search engine friendly.

Negative SEO: constitutes bringing down a page or website from SERPs.

On-theme: On theme is related to content that is specific to a certain topic.

Outbound links: These are links that direct the Internet user to another website.

Page title: The page title is displayed on the blue bar that is on the top of the browser, above functions such as 'Back' and 'Forward'. While it may go unnoticed by the user the page title is given a lot of importance by search engines. Many a time it is even displayed in search results. The words used in the page title must be carefully selected.

Pageviews: A page view is a banner ad or page viewed by an Internet user. It is also referred to as an impression.

Pagejacking: Pagejacking is the act of stealing content from a high ranking web page and placing it on one's own website in order to influence search engine results. This practice is frowned upon and discouraged. It can be termed as digital plagiarism .

PageRank: PageRank is a weighted link popularity used by Google. Not all links are treated as equals and links from high PageRank web pages help with a website's own PageRank. PageRank is scored from 0 to 10 with 10 being the best. With everything else remaining equal a high PageRank insures good performance on Google.

Paid inclusion: is the practice of paying a search engine to include a website's pages to the search engine index.

Paid placement: Paid placement is prominent placing of your listing by a search engine. It is also known as 'sponsored listings'.

Pay-per-click (PPC): Pay-per-click is a pricing model where payment is made on the basis of performance. So payment for banner ads and search listings needs to be made only for 'clickthroughs'.

Pay-for-performance: is a pricing model that is based on performance. And thus payment is made in accordance with the performance of the advertising. It is calculated on the basis of sales or some either criterion set to ascertain performance.

PDF: Portable Document Format or Adobe's PDF allows a file to remain and be viewed just the way it was created and does not depend on the computer and web browser software that is being used. It is usually used for files that are to be printed.

PHP: A popular web programming language PHP was created for web development and can be embedded into HTML. It is vastly popular because of its quick response time, good security and the fact that it is easy to learn. Over nine million websites or 24% of the internet uses PHP.

Pop Up: A pop up is a web page that displays in a new and smaller window rather than on the already active web browser. Pop ups are usually used for advertising, newsletter invitations and promotions.

Pull-down list: A pull down list is typically found on a web form where the user has to select from a list of items. The first item is often displayed in a box and to its right is an arrow, which, when clicked it opens the pull-down list. Search engines are unable to access pull-down lists and any information on it will not be indexed and will thus be a part of the invisible web.

Query: A query is a keyword or phrase used by an Internet user in a search engine.

Redirect: A redirect is an action that takes an Internet user to another page without his or her clicking on a link. This affects PageRank and is viewed negatively by search engines. Also there is a chance that the spider will not follow the redirect.

Referrer: A referrer is the web page that contains a link to your web page and results in delivering visitors to your website.

Relevance: Is the probability of a web page being useful to an Internet user making a keyword search on a search engine.

Render: The stylized HTML code and format that is finally shown on the user's screen is called render. For instance content within tags will be shown as bold.

Replica: A replica is a static HTML copy of a dynamic website or a set of web pages. It is also called 'mirror'.

Resubmitting: Resubmitting is the process of again submitting your web page address or addresses to a search engine. This is after you having submitted it earlier or been included in the search engine's index. Resubmitting increases their queue with duplicate submissions.

Rewrite: Rewrite refers to URL rewriting.

Robot: A robot is a search engine spider or computer that crawls websites in order to index content.

Robots.txt: This is the text file that is usually found in a website's root directory. It is linked in the HTML code.

Reciprocal linking: Reciprocal linking, as the name suggests, is when websites link to each other.

Real Simple Syndication (RSS): Real Simple Syndication is a meant for content sharing and usually contains headlines with descriptions with links to the actual publishing site of the story. RSS is in XML-based format. It is meant for collection of information from across the web.

Search engine: A search engine is a website that provides visitors the opportunity to search for web pages with specific content based on the keywords that they provide. A search engine regularly uses its spider to index content from websites so as to offer users a large and updated database. While search engine results bring up web pages which have the relevant keywords or keyword phrases, a directory only provides website addresses and descriptions as written by reviewers.

Search-engine marketing (SEM): Search engine marketing or SEM is essentially the strategies and tactics used to increase the number and quality of leads created by search engines.

Search engine optimization (SEO): SEO or search engine optimization is the process of improving web pages to get better rankings on search engines.

Search engine positioning (SEP): Search engine positioning is the strategies undertaken to increase a website's ranking on search engines for certain keywords.

Search term: A search term is the keyword or keyword phrase used by an Internet user to initiate a search on a search engine.

Search term popularity: A replica is a static HTML copy of a dynamic website or a set of web pages. It is also called 'mirror'.

Spamdexing: Spamdexing is the use of unethical tactics to gain high rankings on a search engine. This includes submission of doorway pages with spamglish.

Spamglish: is basically keyword rich gibberish used to gain high search engine rankings. Spamglish usually contains keywords written in a meaningless manner.

Spamming: Spamming with respect to search engines is the use of unethical actions and tactics to get high rankings on search engines. It is also known as spamdexing.

Spider: A spider is a search engine computer that searches websites for content or text, downloads it, removes what it considers unnecessary and indexes it. It is also called a robot, bot or crawler.

SEO tutor: A search engine optimization specialist who educates others on how to optimize their website in order to gain high rankings.

Spider trap: A spider trap is an endless loop, created by a dynamic website in which URLs are constantly changing, where a spider may get caught. If search engines indexed dynamic websites they would end up downloading unnecessary content and web pages.

Splash page: A splash page is a homepage with very little content and usually has something like "Enter Here" or "Choose Flash enabled site or HTML site" on the homepage. This is annoying for the Internet user as it involves one more step to getting to a web page that they want to visit. Also since search engines consider the homepage extremely important and a splash page can negatively affect a website's ranking on search result listings.

Stop character: Characters such as ampersand (&), equals sign (=), and question mark (?) suggest that the page is dynamic and search engines usually avoid such pages due to spider traps. Eliminating stop characters from your URL tremendously increases the chances of your web site being indexed by a search engine.

Stop word: Stop words include 'a', 'an', 'the', 'of' and 'with' and are ignored by search engines when they index a page. Thus if your title tag has too many stop words it will effect keyword density. Search engines often replace stop words with a marker in order to save space.

Submitting: is the process of submitting one's web address to search engines in the hope that the web pages will be indexed by it. Submitting may be done manually or by automated methods. Some search engines penalize web pages that have been submitted as compared to web pages found by a spider.

Supplement Pages: are pages that are indexed in Goggle but currently do not exist. However when searching for a related keyword phrase they are shown to provide the internet user more information about the search.

Standards compliant: Characters such as ampersand (&), equals sign (=), and question mark (?) suggest that the page is dynamic and search engines usually avoid such pages due to spider traps. Eliminating stop characters from your URL tremendously increases the chances of your web site being indexed by a search engine.

SEM: Acronym for search engine marketing.

Search engine algorithm: These are the operational programming rules that determine how a search engine indexes text or content and shows it to the Internet users.

Stemming: This is the practice of showing search results based on the keyword's root spelling.

SERP: Acronym for search engine results page.

Title tag: The title tag is displayed at the top of the browser window on the blue bar and is paid special attention to by search engines. In fact often the title tag is displayed in the search results and thus need to paid keen attention by websites.

Traffic: is the number of Internet users accessing and viewing a website.

URL: URL or Uniform Resource Locator is also often called the address of a website. A URL can provide the location of a web page, an e-mail address, a FTP server file, etc.

Unique visitors: This is a count of the number of people who have accessed the website. The 'user session metric' doesn't provide accurate number of unique visitors as a single unique visitor can create multiple user sessions.

User session: A user session is when an Internet user accesses a website for a while and then exits it. In a single user session any number of web pages may be viewed. Generally a user session is considered finished after 30 minutes of inactivity. It is determined by IP address or cookie.

Visibility: Visibility is a description of how well placed a web site is on search engines for significant keyword searches.

Visit: A user session is also called a visit.

Web browser: A web browser is the software installed on an Internet user's computer to view web pages. Some popular web browsers include Microsoft Internet Explorer and Netscape.

Web Standards: Web standards require content to be separate from presentation. Web standards websites tend to do better on search engines as they are coded properly.

XML: XML or Extensive Markup Language is a scripting language that is characterized by the fact the programmers can define the properties of the page.

Yahoo!: Yahoo is one of the oldest directories on the internet and is also one of the top three search engines.

Show your Followers, new Blogger Widgets

2008-08-31T09:24:00.000-07:00

(Important Note: The Following feature will be rolled out to all over the next few weeks, so if you don’t see it right away, don’t worry. It’s coming soon.)

Would you like to know who enjoys reading your blog? Or stay updated with your favorite blogs right from your Blogger dashboard? You can do those things and more with Blogger’s new Following feature.
By following your blog, your readers tell you and the world that they’re a fan of what you post. Your Dashboard now shows you how many followers each of your blogs has. With a click on the Followers icon, you can browse your followers, see what blogs they write, and read the other blogs they’re following.

Now that you know who your Followers are, you can show them off by adding the Followers gadget to your blog’s sidebar. From the “Layout | Page Elements” tab, click “Add a Gadget” and select “Followers” from the gadgets list. The Followers gadget shows the profile pictures of your followers and gives your readers a “Follow This Blog” link to join up, too.

Your followers can stay updated with your blog with the Reading List that we’ve added to the Blogger Dashboard. The Blogs I’m Following tab automatically shows the latest posts from all the blogs you follow. You can follow any blog from your reading list, even blogs that haven’t added the Followers widget or aren’t hosted on Blogger. Just click the “Add” button and type in the blog’s URL.

If you’re a Google Reader user, you’ll now see a special folder in Reader called “Blogs I’m Following,” full of the subscriptions for all of the blogs you follow. You can follow blogs you’ve subscribed to in Reader, too: From the Reading List on your Blogger Dashboard, click “Add,” then “Import from Google Reader.”

And.... there's more to come! We are also in the process of integrating with Google Friend Connect so you can give your readers more engaging social features. For more details about what we've launched, check out the help articles here:

Flickr

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This is a test post from , a fancy photo sharing thing.

Web Search Help: basic queries

2008-08-21T04:23:00.000-07:00

Looking for pages that have the words search engine optimization?
Use the notation: search engine optimization.
Pages that have the word search or the word engine or the word optimization.
Use the notation: or
i.e. search or engine or optimization
Pages that have the exact phrase search engine optimization.
Use the notation: " "
i.e. "search engine optimization"
Pages that have the words search engine but not the word optimization.
Use the notation: - (minus)
i.e. search engine -optimization
Pages that have the words search engine optimization and the word marketing, adding a + to marketing it means that every match must have the word marketing even if Google wants to discard it as irrelevant.
Use the notation: +
i.e. search engine optimization + marketing
Pages that have the word optimization and synonyms.
Use the notation: ~
i.e. ~optimization
Pages that have the word SEO or the word SEM or the word Marketing
Use the notation: SEO|SEM|Marketing ( Google sees "SEO" or "SEM" or "Marketing" ).
To group search terms together use pharantesis:
i.e. ("SEO" or "SEM" or "Marketing")
Pages that point to a specified website, i.e.: http://mediapluck.blogspot.com/
Use the notation: link:
i.e. link:http://mediapluck.blogspot.com/
To find info about a specified page, i.e.http://mediapluck.blogspot.com/
use the notation: info:
i.e. info:http://mediapluck.blogspot.com/
To find related pages to a specified website, i.e. http://digg.com
use the notation: related:
i.e. related:www.digg.com
To find cached page of a specified website
use the notation: cache:
i.e. cache:http://mediapluck.blogspot.com/
Search for keywords within document titles
use the notation: allintitle:
i.e. allintitle:"mediapluck"
Search for pages that contain a specific word in URLs
use the notation: inurl:
i.e. inurl:mediapluck
Search for pages that contain a specific word in the anchor tags
use the notation: inanchor:
i.e. inanchor:mediapluck
Search for pages that contain a specific word in body text
use the notation: allintext:
i.e. allintext:mediapluck
Search for pages that contain specific word and exclude a d u l t content
use the notation: safesearch:
i.e. safesearch:body
Search pages that contain a specific word within a number range
use the notation: #...#,
i.e. condominium Vancouver $200,000...$300,000
Search pages that contain a specific word within specific date range
use the notation: daterange:
i.e. condominium Vancouver daterange:199801-200801
Search for web sites with a specified domain, i.e. .gov
use the notation: site:.gov
If you are looking for a code of a specific country,
use the notation: site:.ca"Vancouver"
If you are looking for a phone number,
use the notation: phonebook:,
i.e. phonebook:Web Search Techniques Canada
If you are looking for a business phone number,
use the notation: bphonebook:
i.e. bphonebook:Web Search Techniques CA
If you are looking for a residential phone number,
use the notation: rphonebook:
i.e. rphonebook:Stephen Harper Ottawa Ontario Canada

Build Links in 66 ways

2008-08-17T20:00:00.000-07:00

This list is from brandon-hopkins.com, I hope the list will help us build links - its a matter of practice and time

1. Write an authority article. (Without a doubt the best way to gain deep links.)
, last indefinitely and are free.

1. Write an authority article. (They'll stand the test of time.)
101 Ways to Build Link Popularity in 2006
40 SEM 2006 Predictions
Why that site with 50 backlinks beats your site with 1000 backlinks
10 Mistakes that Will KILL a Forum

2. Write great linkbait. (This is the ultimate for 2007.)
The Link Baiting Playbook: Hooks Revisited
Andy Hagan’s Ultimate Guide to Linkbaiting and Social Media Marketing
How To: Linkbait Your Blog

3. Use numbers in your titles. (People like numbers.)
5 Tips to Increasing Blog Traffic
3 Solid Gmail Productivity Tips
Put Your Best Foot Forward: 19 Gorgeous Website Footers
Top 10 Link Popularity Services

4. Spend 10 hours and put together a huge list. (The link value will be worth the effort.)
Huge List of 390 Search Marketing Blogs

5. Say nice things about people who link out. (My momma always said, “If you can’t say anything nice, you won’t get links.”)
WBP Testimonials
Thanks Jim Boykin
Back from Boston Pubcon

6. Start something crazy like “Blogtipping”. (Good job Easton! Blogtipping has been around for about 6 months and has almost 200k results in Google.)
Blogtipping @ Google
Blogtipping - The Beginning

7. Offer awesome resources, free. (Everyone likes, and links to free.)
Free Vector Web Page Elements
WBP Free Internet Marketing and SEO Tools
Internet Marketing and SEO Tools Compiled
Free Vector Stuff

8. Spellcheck everything, twice. (I plead ~~guitly~~ guilty.)

9. Link to others, and they’ll link back. (Most of the time right?)
Speedlinking at Technorati
Speedlinking by Problogger
Speedlinking by Dane Carlson
Pay it Forward Tuesday

10. Design an award worthy blog or website. (Not just a site you like, a site everyone likes.)
CSS Beauty
CSS Zen Garden

11. Create a contest in your niche. (These don’t have to be SEO related.)
Nigritude Ultramarine
v7ndotcom elursrebmem
Dave Pasternack

12. Say something stupid. (Jeremy did it best.)
SearchEngineJournal doesn’t link?
The Top Ten Most Practical Superpowers

13. Write a complete “How To” resource. (They get dugg frequently.)
How To: Make a Killer Photo using 8 Simple Composition Rules
How To: Achieve the Perfect Post Frequency
How To: Evaluate If The Free Laptops and Plasma TVs Giveaways Are Scams
How To: Theming your Ubuntu desktop
How To: Comment to the Top

14. Release a Firefox extension. (Make sure you support it.)
Performancing Firefox
FoxyTunes
Google Pagerank Status

15. Interview your industries experts. (Make it easy and quick for them.)
Interview with Google’s Matt Cutts about Next-Generation Search
Five Link Development Experts: A Group Interview

Off-Site Content Creation

16. Presell and content pages. (My content page on your site.)
PreSell Pages - Striving for the Perfect Link
Pre Sell Pages - a Better Way to Rent Sitewide Links
Pre Sell Pages vs Site Wide Links
A Positive Step Forward in Link Strategies

17. Write and submit articles. (Don’t forget your byline link.)
“5 ways to use your Business Cards more effectively” (514 Google results)
EzineArticles
GoArticles
iSnare

18. Submit articles to specialized sites. (Big sites in your niche, ESPN, SEJ, Scrapbook.com, etc.)
Sometimes these sites will pick up your article and feature your link in the byline.

19. Write and submit a press release. (Don’t forget your byline link.)
Optimizing press releases
PR Newswire Testing SEO Press Releases
Next Level SEO: Press Release Optimization
Benefits of an SEO Press Release

20. Offer to be a guest blogger. (Almost anyone is up for free content.)
How to be a Good Guest Blogger
How to Get Guest Blogging Jobs

Spending Money to Build Links

Spending money isn’t anything new for 2007, but it can still be effective.

21. Buy under the radar direct links. (You can email website owners asking to buy links.)

22. Buy in-content links on old pages. (Ask to buy a certain word on a certain page, make it simple for the owner.)

23. Buy old sites and link to your site. (Can be expensive.)
Screw the Sandbox - Buy an old site
Today is the Right Time to Buy Old Sites…

24. Pay for a sponsored post. (I usually pay $5-50+ for a small footer link in a post.)
Top 10 Reasons Why Proposals Fail
Looking for a VPS

25. Buy direct directory listings. (Some directories are better than others.)
Yahoo! Directory ($299/yr)
Business.com ($199/yr)
StartingPoint ($99/yr)
Best of the Web ($69/yr or $199 one time)
Joe Ant ($39/yr)
Aviva Directory ($50/yr or $75 one time)

26. Pay for bulk directory submission. (You can find people willing to submit your site at forums usually for less than $20 to 400 directories.)

27. Trade something for a link. (Often times you can buy an office staff pizza on Friday in exchange for a link on their website. Or maybe you can sponsor an office contest or promotion in exchange for publicity on their website.)
Buy, Borrow, Beg, and Barter: Techniques for Link Development

28. Pay a link builder. (This will involve substantial cost and results aren’t guaranteed.)
WeBuildPages
Todd Malicoat
Andy Hagans
Eric Ward

29. Send your product to potential reviewers at no cost to them. (I wrote a review for a flash drive that had military grade encryption because they sent me a 512 kb model.)

Finding Free Links

30. Post your link in forums. (Use footer links on forums that allow links.)
DigitalPoint Forums
Webmaster Talk
SEOChat

31. Post your feed in forums. (Many vBulletin forums show your latest post (on your blog) by your name, in your “User CP>Options scroll down to the bottom and put your feed address in.)
DigitalPoint Forums
Webmaster Talk
SEOChat

32. Comment on blogs. (Pick a reasonable number, and try to post that many every day.)

33. Submit to generic directories. (Directories without major branding.)
Easy Google Search
DirectorySEO
Fresh Directory

34. Submit to the big free directories. (Everyone’s invited here.)
DMOZ
HAABAA
Ezilion
AddURL

35. Ask for a link. (You’d better have a good resource, or be the authority in your niche.)

36. Sign guestbooks. (I know this just reminds you of Geocities, but there are thousands of guestbooks on sites with PR that are abandoned. Go get yourself a free link.)
Free Template guestbook

37. Find out where your articles are shown, and offer exclusive content. (This only works when real sites, not article-only sites, pick up your article. Explain why an exclusive piece would benefit them.)

38. Ask friends to read a new post, and reference it if they like it. (This can go over really well if you are well connected.)
New blog recommendation
Blog Recommendation
Blog Recommendation - The Housing Bubble Blog

39. Leave a testimonial. (Do it for every product you use, be specific when necessary.)
Testimonial Generator (just a joke, write your own…lazy.)

40. Support a non-profit website/company. (Make sure they have a website and will link you first.)

41. Build a website for a non-profit organization. (I’ve built 3 non-profit websites. You might also get paid for this work.)
The Resource Partnership (link at bottom)
South Shore Conservatory (designer didn’t link himself!)
American Vaulting Association (link at bottom)
IRCPS (link on left sidebar)

42. Form partnerships with online “friends”. (I have 6 people on my gmail chat list that I chat with regularly, I don’t mind asking for a link to a new site, or a great post. In exchange, I Digg their articles, post links to their good articles, etc.)

43. Create an awesome tool. (This is just one example of the many free tools out there)
Mom’s Salary Wizard (PR6, over 100k links to this page alone.)

44. Send targeted emails. (Make sure the first email asks a question, or helps them. Then ask for a link.)

45. Create a Del.icio.us account and start tagging. (Del.icio.us Popular Pages can send as much traffic as Digg.)
My new Del.icio.us page

46. Talk to manufacturers or retailers that you buy from about linking to you. (This could work with #36, leave them a testimonial.)

47. Post a listing on Craigslist. (Posts below are pretty spammy but do have links.)
Grand Opening Sale!!! Modern style furniture, Sofa, Platform beds…
ResumeOutlet.com - Resume Writing Service for Sale (Website + Domain) - $3000
2005 Chevrolet Impala Sedan! Like New! Pic! Look! - $13999

48. Post a helpful post with a link at Google Groups. (Gotta love the straight html links.)
300 Links, PR of 1?

49. Post ~~link spam~~ helpful posts to Yahoo! Answers. (Do they ever moderate this stuff?)
SEO: What words come to mind?

50. Join your local Chamber of Commerce. (Every city has one.)
Orlando CoC
Madera CoC (could have links)
Palm Desert CoC

51. Join the Better Business Bureau. (Join your local chapter, most have a directory of members with links.)
Central California BBB
Northern Nevada BBB

52. Talk to similar but non-competing businesses offline, and ask for a link. (Explain how, by linking to you, their customers will see their site as the complete resource and are more likely to return.)

53. Create a free template or theme. (Wordpress or CSS/XHTML are both popular in the free template sector.)
Kaushal Sheth
615+ Wordpress Themes List
Free CSS Templates

54. Review a product or service. (Bonus points if you have authority in the niche, and are one of the first to review it. Many times you’ll rank right behind the product.)

Search for text-link-ads.com and you’ll find:
Site #4 - Opinions on Text Link Ads.com
Site #8 - Text-Link-Ads.com Review

Best Practices for Gaining Links

55. Have a privacy policy. (Every reputable company does.)
Privacy Policy Generator
Create an Online Privacy Policy (From the B.B.B.)

56. Create a contact page. (Mine is coming…I never said I was perfect!)
Contact Seattle Times
Contact Intel
Contact Apple

57. Don’t post spam content. (This includes PLR articles, only RSS feeds, or just “borrowing” content.)
Stolen Content: What to do first
How to Stop Those who are Stealing your Content
DMCA @ Google

58. Hire writers who are better than you. (Especially important when you have multiple sites and don’t know what to do.)
How to Locate, Hire, and Work With an Article Writer
GetAFreelancer

59. Get 1 link per domain. (Sitewide links are SOOOO 2006.)
Get 1 Link and Go! Drive By Linking

60. Stay ahead of the curve. (You’ll get thousands of links if you have the first and oldest site about new technology.)
TechMeme

61. Link out, especially to blogs. (I always read people who link to me. Technorati keeps great track of who is linking to you.)

62. When writing, never lose sight of the “Super Digg”, and write accordingly. (Who doesn’t love a good super digg?)
Anatomy of a Super Digg

63. Install a page translator. (Anyone have a recommendation?)
WordPress Plugin: Automatic Machine Translation for Your Blog
Plugins/Translations and Languages - Wordpress Codex

64. Submit to a sub-category on Reddit. (Submit to the sub-cat and the homepage.)
Get â€˜er Dugg - A Comprehensive Guide to Going Viral on Digg (Scroll down half way and look for “Going Viral on Reddit”)

65. Ping appropriate sites with every new post. (Wordpress and Typepad make this easy.)
List of Ping Services
RSS Ping List
Pingoat

66. Be creative when link hunting. (You’ll be getting links nobody else is even asking for.)
Want a Free .edu Link? How about 64,200?

Social Bookmarking in alphabetical order

2008-08-07T05:30:00.000-07:00

30daytags.com
( main url )
BlogMarks.net
( main url )
a1-webmarks
( main url )
aboogy.com
( main url )
ambedo.com
( main url )
backflip.com
( main url )
blinklist.com
( main url )
bloghop.com
( main url )
bluedot.us
( main url )
bmaccess.net
( main url )
bookkit.com
( main url )
bookmarktracker.com
( main url )
buddymarks.com
( main url )
butterflyproject.nl
( main url )
bwsmith.com
( main url )
chipmark.com
( main url )
citeulike.org
( main url )
clipclip.org
( main url )
clipmarks.com
( main url )
complore.com
( main url )
connectedy.com
( main url )
connotea.org
( main url )
corank.com
( main url )
de.lirio.us
( main url )
del.icio.us
( main url )
digg.com
( main url )
diigo.com
( main url )
ez4u.net
( main url )
favoriting.com
( main url )
feedmarker.com
( main url )
feedmelinks.com
( main url )
freelink.org
( main url )
fungow.com
( main url )
furl.net
( main url )
gravee.com
( main url )
hanzoweb.com
( main url )
i89.us
( main url )
icerocket.com
( main url )
ikeepbookmarks.com
( main url )
imp.etuo.us
( main url )
kaboodle.com
( main url )
kinja.com
( main url )
librarything.com
( main url )
lilisto.com
( main url )
linkatopia.com
( main url )
linkblog.com.br
( main url )
jamespot.com

linklog.nl
( main url )
linkologia.pl
(main url)
listible.com
( main url )
looklater.com
( main url )
lookmarks.com
( main url )
ma.gnolia
( main url )
markaboo.com
( main url )
meme-stream.com
( main url )
mobleo.net
( main url )
myHq.com
( main url )
mylinkvault.com
( main url )
mypip.com
( main url )
myvmarks.com
( main url )
netscape.com
( main url )
netvouz.com
( main url )
nowpublic.com
( main url )
optimiz.us
( main url )
otavo.com
( main url )
oyax.com
( main url )
pixelmo.com
( main url )
portachi.com
( main url )
putvote.com
( main url )
rawsugar.com
( main url )
reddit.com
( main url )
searchles.com
( main url )
segnalo.alice.it
( main url )
shadows.com
( main url )
shoppersbase.com
( main url )
simpy.com
( main url )
sitejot.com
( main url )
spurl.net
( main url )
stumbleupon.com
( main url )
syncone.net
( main url )
tabmarks.com
( main url )
tagtooga.com
( main url )
tallstreet.com
( main url )
technorati.com
( main url )
tektag.com
( main url )
urlex.info
( main url )
web-feeds.com
( main url )
wink.com
( main url )
wirefan.com
( main url )
wists.com
( main url )
wykop.pl
( main url )
zoogim.com
( main url )
zurpy.com
( main url )

50 Sites and Online Applications to Consider

2008-08-07T04:53:00.000-07:00

Blogging

Blogger - free blogging and hosting.
Movable Type - paid software, needs host.
TypePad - paid blogging and hosting.
WordPress.com - free blogging and hosting.
WordPress.org - free blog software, needs host.
Tumblr - free blogging and hosting.
Microblogging
BrightKite - microblogging, mobile, location.
FriendFeed - microblogging/ aggregator.
Identi.ca - open source microblogging.
Jaiku - microblogging, mobile too.
Posterous - microblogging, and/or sends to other sites.
Pownce - microblogging and file sharing.
Plurk - microblogging and threaded conversations.
Seesmic - video microblogging.
Twitter - microblogging and mobile.
Utterz - microblogging, mobile, video.
Social Bookmarking
Delicious - bookmarking.
Ma.gnolia - enhanced bookmarking.
Sphinn - bookmarking/voting.
StumbleUpon - bookmarking and browsing.
Social News Sites
Digg - social news.
Mixx - social news.
Reddit - social news.
Social Networks
Facebook - general networking.
Flickr - photo and video sharing.
Last.fm - music sharing.
LibraryThing - book lovers.
LinkedIn - professional social networking.
MySpace - general networking.
Ning - white label social network.
Pandora - music sharing.
Yelp - rating restaurants and businesses.
Miscellaneous and Useful
Twitter Search (formerly Summize) - search for what matters to YOU.
Picnik - free online photo editing. Good for avatar pic touchups.
Evernote - online and desktop note syncing/storage.
Upcoming.org - event sharing site (great for finding cool conferences).
Netvibes - web start page (has Ginger social features now, too).
Twingly - blog search.
Compete - web ranking analysis.
AideRSS - rates your blog posts.
Skitch - screen capture tool (mac).
Video Platforms
Blip.tv - video hosting, sharing.
Google Video - video hosting, sharing.
Viddler - video hosting, sharing.
Vimeo - video hosting, sharing.
YouTube - video hosting, sharing.
Mogulus - live video platform.
uStream.tv - live video platform.
BlogTV - live video platform.
ooVoo - live video chat.

SEO SpyGlass (Professional License)

2008-07-24T02:52:00.000-07:00

SEO SpyGlass (Professional License)
SEO SpyGlass is an extremely powerful competition research tool designed to let you see exactly how your competitors got to the top in search engines.

Category: Internet
Vendor Name: LinkAssistant SEO Software
Vendor Website: http://www.link-assistant.com
Vendor Email: support@link-assistant.com

SEO SpyGlass (Enterprise License)

2008-07-24T02:49:00.000-07:00

SEO SpyGlass (Enterprise License)
SEO SpyGlass is an extremely powerful competition research tool designed to let you see exactly how your competitors got to the top in search engines.

Category: Internet
Vendor Name: LinkAssistant SEO Software
Vendor Website: http://www.link-assistant.com
Vendor Email: support@link-assistant.com

LinkAssistant SEO Tool

2008-07-24T02:47:00.000-07:00

LinkAssistant SEO Tool

Get your site to Top 10 positions in major Search Engines with LinkAssistant, the most powerful link exchange software out there! Find and manage thousands of quality link partners, track if they are linking back, see your ranking progress, create a custom Links Page and upload it via FTP! Designed to improve link popularity and get your site up in Search Engines, LinkAssistant will beat out any competing link exchange SEO software on the Net!

Category: Internet
Vendor Name: LinkAssistant SEO Software
Vendor Website: http://www.link-assistant.com
Vendor Email: support@link-assistant.com

5Star Video Converter, is good for you!

2008-07-23T11:39:00.000-07:00

5Star Video Converter (Site License)
5Star Video Converter is a wonderful video converter provides a completed solution on video conversion.

Category: Multimedia
Vendor Name: 5Star Video Software, Ltd.
Vendor Website: http://www.starvideosoft.com
Vendor Email: contact@starvideosoft.com

GSA Email Spider : Try Now!

2008-07-23T11:24:00.000-07:00

GSA Email Spider
Collect and compile e-mails, phone and fax numbers from the websites around the world using the keywords you enter for. The websites will be analysed by this application using the keyword you entered as search string. The program will spider, grab, crawl, rip, harvest, extract and parse for the items. It is also possible to send an e-mail to your new customers within the program automatically making it the ultimate tool for email-marketing.

Category: Internet
Vendor Name: GSA
Vendor Website: http://www.gsa-online.de
Vendor Email: software@gsa-online.de

Collect and extract emails, phone and fax numbers from the websites around the world using the keywords you enter for! The websites will be analysed by this application using the keyword you entered as search string. The program will spider, grab, crawl, rip, harvest, extract and parse for the items.

It is also possible to send an email to your new customers within the program automatically making it the ultimate tool for online marketing and mass mailing (but should not be used to spam).

It provides benefits to your business and dramatically open up your new customer base with easy advertising!

The demo version provides only limited functionality and does not include many functions avaliable in the registered version (e.g. no mails will be send directly from within the application).


Size: 4MB		Price: 45 Euro / 69 USD

Some keywords to this Email Extractor

Extract emails from a starting web site
In addition to the email grabber you can search for phone and fax numbers
Send emails automated to your new customers
Harvest emails with the help of search engines (300+ included)
Support for https web sites
Support for SSL-only email providers (like google mail)
Send emails directly with internal snmp server
Javascript analysis to find protected email addresses
Protection from anti spider engines (e.g. random user agent)
Collect emails with their extra data (e.g. address)
Many filters to only extract emails you want
Very fast processing (with 100 threads you can easly extract 500 new emails a minute)

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2008-07-21T02:42:00.000-07:00

(x)batumark.com: Japanese text-based.
365Key:[PR6] Chinese
alce: NEW! Brazilian social bookmarks using tags.
Alltagz: German social bookmarks using tags.
Baqoo:[PR4] Japanese, using tags and thumbshots.
BLINK: Japanese version of BlinkPro.
Bokee:[PR7] Chinese multi service with weblogs and bookmarks and blogging.
BlogPeople Tags:[PR4] Japanese. Poeple powered search with bookmarking and tagging.
BobrDobr.ru: Russian.
Bookmacro :[PR3] Japanses with drag and drop for managing iTunes favorits.
Bookmarks.fr: French, text-based.
bookuma:[PR3] Japanese for mobiles using tags.
bukkuma-ku no mori:[PR5] Japanese social bookmarks.
CoRich:[PR4] Japanese social network including social bookmarks and a social news like digg called CoRich Newsclip
Favolink:[PR4] French social bookmarks
Favorites:[PR4] Chinese social bookmarks using tags.
Favr.nl: Beta, dutch social bookmarks with rating.
flash-clip:[PR4] Japanese with Tags and Thumnshots.
fc2:[PR2] Japanese social bookmarks with Thumbshots.
Fisz.nl: Dutch, simple text based social bookmarks.
Flog:[PR5] (Frog) Japanese multi service with bookmark Thumbshots.
Gootza:[PR5] French for recomendations
HotPhpper:[PR3] Japanese social bookmarks for PHP
icio.de:[PR5] German social bookmarks.
neffabile.it:[PR4] italan social bookmarks using categories and tags.
JoltMark:[PR4] Japanese social bookmarks with drag and drop by livedoor.com.
karigane:[PR3] Japanese, text-based with Tags.
Hatena:[PR7] Popular Multi Japanese service.
HemiDemi:[PR4] Chinese, still Beta. Don't think it has an import feature.
kopikol.net:[PR6] French, public social bookmarks
leze.de:[PR5] German popular Scuttle
limpe.de:[PR4] Romanian using tags, thumbshots, in page music player. ;)
linkBlog:[PR4] Dutch and Brasilian Portuguese public with tags.
LinkMeter:[PR3] German.
Linkologia:[PR4] Polish.
LinkStore: Russian.
LiveBm:[PR4] German.
ListFreak:[PR4] Japanese for listing
livedoor lislog:[PR6] Japanese, like listible.
MM/Memo:[PR6] Japanes Social bookmarks with amazon support, account opens with a Typekey.
MesFavs:[PR4] French Scuttle
mister-wong.de:[PR5] German Social bookmarks with tagging
MoëMesto.ru: Russian. [+10/02/07]
NiftyClip:[PR5] Japanese, Tags using Ajax.
Okiniiri-zu:[PR2] Japanese social bookmarks using Tags.
Oneview:[PR5] German social bookmark and community
phigita.net:[PR5] Greek and English service for collecting and shareing knowledge, but seems mainly used by Greek users.
PingKing:[PR5] Japanese, social bookmarks with rating a bit like digg.
Pookmark Airlines: NEW! Japanese with thumbshots. “Airlines" as travel around the web.
RSS drecom:[PR5] Japanese, Aggregator and clipping using Tags.
RBOOKMARK:[PR3] Japanese private clippings
Saaf bookmark Japanese, tags and images or thumbshots.
Segnalo:[PR6] Italian social bookmarks with tags.
SocialDust:[PR4] Italian
Snippy:[PR4] Japanese Social bookmarks.
Socialtunes:[PR5] Japanes for Amazon.co.jp products bookmarking with thumbshots.
synClick: Japanese, with favicons.
tag.artefact:[PR4] Swiss German Scuttle
taggle.de:[PR4] German.
TagMos:[PR4] Dutch Scuttle with thumbshots
TagSpot: Polish social bookmarks using tags.
TagSpot Video: Polish social bookmarks for videos using tags.
Textnotes:[PR4] German Social Bookmarks and annotation.
toodoo.ru: NEW! Russian community with bookmark star rating. [21/03/07]
Wat vinden wij over:[PR5] Dutch, public with Tags and Thumbshots. Quite nice,
web2list.cn:[PR5] Chinese, like web2list.com, public collecting of web 2.0 applications..
webarchives folksonomy:[PR3] Japanese, tags bookmarks, media and any file format.
webshot:[PR4] Japanese social bookmarks with Thumbshots.
Wykop:[PR4] Polish social bookmarks with Gavatars.
Xoolyx News:[PR4] French, collaborative news site like CommonTimes or Wikio
Zenlog α:[PR3] Japanes Social Bookmarks and aggregator (public).

71 public social bookmarking sites

2008-07-21T02:31:00.000-07:00

BlinkList*:[PR5]BETA Web 2.0 style interface using Tags and Ajax in page features. Update! Interface is being translated to 18
Chipmark*:[PR5] by a group of Computer Science students, Open source social bookmarks using folders and labels.
Connectedy*:[PR5] Text based interface Social bookmarks using Folders.
Connotea*:[PR7] Open source for academics, research, entrepeise social bookmarks using tags. Update! Complete update, faster
del.icio.us*:[PR8] By Joshua Schachter and acquired by Yahoo.
Diigo *:[PR6] "Digest of Internet Information, Groups and Other stuff." Web 2.0 style text-based interface, bookmarks and annotation using Tags. The toolbar gives highlight and blogging support.
Feed Me Links!*:[PR5] Open Source Social Bookmarks using Tags
Furl* :[PR8] "File URL" by Looksmart. Social Bookmarks using topics (categories)
Lookmarks*:[PR4] by Adam Text based interface with many format support and playlisting.
Ma.gnolia*:[PR3] by Gnolia Systems and Happy Cog. Web 2.0 style community driven social bookmarks using Tags.
Netvouz*:[PR7] "interNET rendezVOUZ" Social bookmark manager using tags and folders.
RawSugar*:[PR6] Web 2.0 style social search engine with Clustered tagging. Update! Advanced BlogSync integration.
Simpy*: Social Bookmarks and notes using Tags with a Text-based interface. : import users from de.lirio.us as it will shut down.
Spurl*:[PR7] For SPecial URL. Web 2.0 style interface using Tags and Folders. Uses zniff as search engine.
Unalog:[PR6] Text based interface using Tags.
Yahoo! My Web*:[PR6] Update! BETA Social bookmarks using tags, folders and thumbshots. Now with global access options (Private, the Yahoo! community or everybody).
i89.us*:[PR4] Social bookmarks using tags with tabbed interface.
AllMyFavorites.net*:[PR4] Social bookmarks using folders and thumbshots.
Backflip:[PR7] Social bookmarks using folders.
BibSonomy*:[PR6] Social bookmarks and publications using tags with a text based interface.
blabb.com:[PR0] Web2.0 style Public bookmarking and aggregator where everybody can submit.
Blogmarks.net*:[PR7] by BmTeam. Web 2.0 style Social Bookmarks with Thumbshots. Network and interface has been redesigned.
BmAccess*:[PR5] Web 2.0 style Social bookmarks using tags and folders with thumbshots.
BookmarkTracker*:[PR5] Bookmarks using folders and public directory.
BuddyMarks*:[PR5] Update! Social bookmarks using Tags in a directory style interface. Now has publishing!
ButterFly:*:[PR5] Web2.0 Social bookmarking using tags with annotation and page editing capabilities.
CiteULike*:[PR7] by Richard Cameron. Text-based service with tagging to help academics to share, store, and organise the academic.
Complore*:[PR5] beta "Come Xplore" Network community with blogging, forums and bookmarks using tags.
de.lirio.us*:[PR6] Open source del.icio.us clone using Tags. ! Will shutdown. Users are moved to Simpy!
excites :[PR3] NEW! Social bookmarks using tags and thumbshots.
ez4u.net *:[PR4] Social Bookmarks using categories.
Frassle:[PR6] by Shimon Rura. No longer supported. Alpha and is no longer being actively developed. Open source Social Bookmarking and blog using hierarchical categories and tags, used to also have an aggregator but is now disabled.
Fungow* :[PR4] "fun-go!" Launched! Web2.0 Social bookmarking using Folders
Goesby:[PR4] Social bookmarks using search with RSS suppot. Didn't have much information.
GUIcookies:[PR4] Dynamic(?) bookmarks using folders for Windows Internet Explorer with drag and drop support, even to the task bar. Public/Private or make it only available to one friend.
igooi* :[PR5] Simple text based interface using Tags, categories and folders.
iloggo: NEW! Social bookmark startpage using tags, tabs and thumbshots or logos.
iKeepBookmarks.com:[PR4] Web1.0 style Text based interface.
indiamarks:[PR5] Social bookmarking using tags and categories focused on India.
indiza.com:[PR5]Public social bookmarks using tags. Didn't manage to register.
Jots:[PR6] Text based interface using tags. [Ruby/Postgres/FastCGI/Apache]
Linkatopia:[PR5] by Design215. Web 2.0 style Social bookmarking using Tags.
Linkarena:[PR4] Social bookmarks using folders and search. Free, premium and Pro accounts available.
Linkroll:[PR6] Social bookmarks using tags(called categories).
Markboo*: [PR3] Web 2.0 style Open source Social bookmarks using Tags with image and music support.
MyLinkVault*:[PR5] Update! Ajax enabled, bookmark startpage with expand/collapse blocks.
myHq*:[PR5] Simple text based interface where the bookmarks are automatically formatted into a table.
MyPIP*:[PR4] Service for creating personal pages of bookmarks.
myVmarks*:[PR5] Web 1.0 style Social bookmark startpage.
Namakkal:[PR5] WordPress style interface with a simple public bookmarking using tags.
OpenBM*:[PR5] Beta. Text based interface, has support in English and German.
onelurv:[PR4] Social RSS reader, social bookmarks startpage using tags and password manager.
Oyax:[PR4] Beta. For non-commercial use only.
PennTags:[PR6] Text-based. by University of Pennsylvania.
Plum: [PR4] Private BETA. Social bookmarks that also allows users to bookmark items on their computer, share emails and photos.
Pocket: Web2.0 style Social bookmarks using tags.
sa.bros.us:[PR4] Open source del.icio.us clone.
Shadows*:[PR7] Update! Bookmarks and Network,
Sitetagger.com:[PR0] Nice simple text based interface.
Smarking*:[PR5] BETA For Social bookMARKING. Social Bookmarks using Tags.
Socialbookmarking.org:[PR5] Web2.0 style Social bookmarks using tags, where each user gets his own domain URL and a startpage.
SyncOne.net*:[PR4] Web 2.0 style Social Bookmarks and RSS reader, tabbed interface for bookmarks/clips, Media(only with extension) and Feeds. You can search public bookmarks but not browse them.
StyleFeeder:[PR5] Social bookmarks using tags, small images and a simple text based interface, basicly for shopping items.
Sync2It*:[PR5] Social bookmarks using clusters.
Taggly *:[PR5] English and Italian Social bookmarks using tags and thumbshots.
Tedigo.net*: 'Te digo': 'I tell you'. Simple Social bookmarks using tags (keywords) where bookmarks are only visible as search results.
URLex:[PR4] Community with clippings and RSS aggregator
WireFan:[PR4] Social bookmarks using tags.
Xilin.us*:[PR5] Web 2.0 social bookmarks with a nice comment section to post, discuss features.
Yattle ALPHA : Simple text-based Social bookmarks using categories.
Yoono:[PR6] Suggestion and Social bookmarking using folders.

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