Archive for October, 2007

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The grey pound .. Don’t forget the oldies..

Wednesday, October 31st, 2007

All over the news today and over the 2-3months is the fact that the biggest growing internet users are OLD…

The grey pound £££

All over the bbc today is a new social networking site for the oldies … http://www2.saga.co.uk/sagazone/

Saga is massive in the uk offering insurance, holiday’s etc… all designed for the grey generation!..

This is going to be a newplace to promote sites ;)

I just need a name now ;)

 

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New site stats… Viral is great…

Tuesday, October 30th, 2007

Just over 2 months ago I launched a new site…

I already have quite a few sites in that niche ;)

One of the older sites is a forum with some 6,000+ members (about 100 aday a “really” active)

Anyway.. 2 months ago I started my 3rd social book marking site… The first 2 weeks hit the viral seen big time :D

Its 2 months on and google is only #3 even with the site ranking well already… You can guess what no1 ? Another social site.. YEP SU!!!

Anyway anyone launching a new site should waiting for ranking’s and just build links like the old days… Get viral… This is nothing new but I thought I’d post my stats after 2 months of life:

Referring Sites (76.69%)
Direct Traffic (12.74%)
Search Engines (10.57%)

The best thing that got this going was a competition… with over 4,000 backlinks almost all deep and now added by myself is an interesting site to watch!

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3rd PR update this month 27th October 2007

Saturday, October 27th, 2007

This is crazy..

 I’m liking some results and not others as always…  This blog has some how gone down lol… must be all those SERT links hehehe…

 I’m very happy with 2 new PR6 sites hehehehehe :)

 Good luck all :)

 

UPDATE:

24 days old update … I have a site that has new pages added every day… up to 24 days old  pages are all update :)

 

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100% pixels.. 100% green..

Friday, October 26th, 2007

Have you had a slap from google..??

Lost that green google dust? 

Well..

I have some green pixels..  100% pixels.. 100% green …

I only have 10,000 so you better be quick…

Here is it:

  

Each pixel that is bought will be removed.. Let me know if you need any ;)

All donation in whatever form will be put in the “return my green fund” .. lol

 

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Adsense reports still a mess!

Friday, October 26th, 2007

No word on the blog http://adsense.blogspot.com/ when adsense is going to be fixed :(

A blog post on SERT http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/015122.html includes a quote from google’s “AdSenseAdvisor” from wmw…

Our engineers are aware of this aggregate/channels reporting discrepancy and are working on resolving it as quickly as they can. I’ll let you know when I know more.

Sorry for any confusion

Nothing about when its going to be fixed :(

I’ve been testing new colours … hmmm ah well… We shall wait and see…

 

 

 

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Yahoo Search Assist now in UK and Ireland

Thursday, October 25th, 2007

Today is the launch of yahoo search assist in the uk and Ireland..

Only available from Yahoo!, Search Assist goes beyond basic search “suggestions” and gives consumers real-time query suggestions as well as related topics and concepts, which is especially valuable when a person is searching on an unfamiliar topic.  

“when a person is searching for a unfamiliar topic” OR when a seo is looking for new keywords ;)

Here is a screen shot..

 

Video’s and audio are also ment to be included..

Haven’t found any yet but i’m sure its working ?

In addition to the new Search Assist feature, Yahoo! Search has also introduced multimedia integration including video, audio and photos  directly into the search results, allowing consumers to get their answer – whether it’s a Web link, photo, video or music clip — without leaving the page. 

Good luck yahoo..

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Underground link buying.. What a load of crap..

Thursday, October 25th, 2007

Sorry to anyone this may offend but come on…

To build links you don’t need to just go to TLA and spend $$$ or link sales in DP… So many ways to get “real” links..

Rember life before TLA ?

I blogging this cos I keep hearing people post that google is going to drive link buying “under ground” but come on.. Anyone who has built link has not just bought them.. The amount of emails I send asking for articles or competitions, you know “would you like to enter” create linkage…

But the above then suggests that that is sneaky, underhand and EVEN “underground” … At no point do any guidelines say your not aloud to approach a webmaster about the content of a site….

Super markets:
I’m not a fan of super markets but most lazy people are… 1 place to buy everything.. I really hate shopping centers (malls) why oh why…. Local shops.. small shops are much better..

So if I’m shopping in small shops then those are classified a “underground ?
 

 

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Non homepage link sales get under the radar. (so far)

Wednesday, October 24th, 2007

Many many big and small sites have lost massive amount of green juice (PR) today and it would seem that a common factor is that each site sells / looks like it sells links…

One that hasn’t been effected is w3schools (but imho its been blocked from passing “any / much” PR to its advertisers a long time ago).. One interesting thing with w3schools is that its not linking to its advertisers from the homepage… hmmm..

So don’t linky from your hp and your fine ? Is the radar only working on hp links then…

 

Some massive sites have been hit like phpbb, statcount, forbes, sert and many more…

We shall wait and see…

 

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Page rank update

Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007

So i’ve been away and what happens.. Yep a PR update..

This one is a funny one hehehe..

I’ve only been catching up for half a day but so far i’ve only really seen drops in pr of sites I visit…

wmw has this thread http://www.webmasterworld.com/google/3468808.htm about the drops..

Danny’s post here http://searchengineland.com/071007-173841.php about if you sell links then you might drop 1 point in pr like many sites have..

Sert has drop one to a pr6 with barry’s person blog www.cartoonbarry.com also on a 6 hehehe now that’s crazy lol…

More here: http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/014973.html

With loads of stuff on dp lol..

 

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jaiku and google ?

Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007

 

 

What is Jaiku?
A. Jaiku is an activity stream and presence sharing service that works from the Web and mobile phones. Jaiku, Ltd. was founded in February, 2006 by Jyri Engeström and Petteri Koponen from Finland. The service was released on the Web in July 2006. Jaiku is based in Helsinki.

 

I’ve just got back from my holidays which I spent about 1hr a day on my pda which was my first real experience of “working” remotely without my laptop..

I enjoyed using my pda and google is pretty cool with a super fast “mobile” search…

If jaiku and google team up that would be cool.. We shall wait and see..

http://jaiku.com/help/google