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Meta-tags’ importance nowadays
2007-11-27 08:20:00
Back in the early 90s, in the pioneering time of Search Engines Optimization meta-tags were the most importance factor when it came about optimizing a page. At that time it was enough to spam your title, description and keywords meta-tags with tons of keywords and rank on top of search engines for most of them. However, as the time passed, search engines algorithm evolved and more and more factors started to be taken in consideration so the importance of the meta-tags constantly dropped over time. The only one meta-tag that remained very important over the time is the title tag (<title>Title</title>). In fact it is not a meta-tag, but a simple HTML tag, but there are quite a lot of people that consider it as a meta-tag so I mentioned it too. It is important not only for the SEO value it carries (which is quite high), but also for the fact that it appears on SERPS and is the most important factor that affects the CTR ration. When writing titles for your pages you should h...
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How I lost 30% of Website Traffic within one day thanks to Wordpress
2007-09-06 15:29:00
Not you could think that this blog did not receive many visitors in the time I was not posting (and while I was enjoying my vacation) but actually the traffic did not decrease. Of course I had more visitors in the period where I was pulling out 1-2 articles every day, but in average the ...
More About: Wordpress , Lost , Website , Traffic , Website Traffic

Boxedart.com - Webmaster And Designer Heaven
2007-09-05 18:39:00
Today I came across a website that caught my attention as soon as I started to browse through it, not only because of it’s quality but also because of the great service and products they seem to offer. Boxedart.com is a development library containing hundreds of XHTML 1.0 valid coded and tabless CSS div-stle templates. For an annual ...
More About: Reviews , Webmaster , Heaven , Make Money Online , Designer

August, vacation and future projects
2007-09-04 12:59:00
In one week I will be back from my vacation across Italy. I’m not really happy about getting to normal life again but it’s something that’s not happening only to me I think. On the other side, the 1 month break I took from blogging helped me to think about a new project I’m going ...
More About: Projects , Future , Vacation , Updates , August

The Importance of a Human Readable HTML Sitemap for a Web Directory
2007-08-02 18:55:00
A human readable sitemap is nothing else than a page, linked from the homepage, that is linking to all pages of your website. This kind of sitemap seems to be very important for search engines (even if it is called “human readable sitemap”).I have recently decided to add one to the Linkrain Web Directory , which ...
More About: Page Rank , Human , Tricks , Web directories

Linkrain Web Directory New Design
2007-08-01 14:19:00
I apologize for the long time I did not blog. I was on holiday for one week and came back only three days ago. The last 3 days I emailed a lot with my web designer to get the new look online (the template I talked about in this post). Yesterday night, after some hours ...
More About: Design , Updates , Directory , Tory , Director

Selling Sponsored Links in Wordpress Themes is Dead
2007-07-23 18:25:00
I entered the Wordpress Business at the beginning of march and I was one of the first sponsored link sellers on Digitalpoint. At the beginning I made so much money, that I was designing nearly one Wordpress theme a day because I knew that many better designers than me were going to enter this business ...
More About: Selling , Wordpress Themes , Make Money Online , Links

Earnings of a six months old Web Directory Revealed and Future Earnings Pre
2007-07-21 16:44:00
After writing about the amount of money I’ve spent to create the Linkrain Web Directory , let’s now talk about the earnings you can make with a only-6-months-old Web Directory. Before I’m going to tell you how much I earn only with the Directory, you should consider some very important keyfacts: Even if you have a great ...
More About: Future , Make Money Online , Tricks , Web directories

How to make money with a Flash Game Website - Ad Placement Optimization
2007-07-21 00:46:00
While I was browsing for some free game sites to find addicting flash games like those on Addictinggames, I came across Flash games247 that caught my attention thanks to it’s great advertisement placement. This website is not only using Google Adsense to publish advertisements but also some other networks. It has an Alexa Ranking of 1.141 which ...
More About: Website , Money , Make Money

How much you need to Invest to create a Quality Web Directory
2007-07-20 16:32:00
Starting a Web Directory is still a good money maker even if many webmaster think that the directory business is not profitable anymore. Basically they think this way because they created a directory and did not succeed in making it unique and popular. At the beginning, running a directory could be frustrating because you won’t ...
More About: Link Building , Web directories , Invest , Quality

Optimising the robots.txt to get out of Google?s Supplemental Result index
2007-07-16 21:12:00
After changing my robots.txt to disallow the Google Bot to spider some duplicate pages, I finally see the first results. A while back I wrote about how to get your site out of Google’s supplemental result index and since than I made only some small changes to my robots.txt file. After one month, my supplemental ...
More About: Robots , Website Traffic , Index , Supplemental Result

Find the Leading Website for a Keyword with TouchGraph
2007-07-15 17:38:00
TouchGraph is a free tool which I came across a few days ago, that can be used to find the leading website for a certain niche. The TouchGraph Google Browser reveals the network of connectivity between websites, as reported by Google’s database of related sites. This tool is only useful if you want to make some research about ...
More About: Website , Link Building , Keyword , Find , Keywords

Some very interesting Article and Statistic Updates
2007-07-13 17:11:00
Do you remember the article I wrote about how to increase your feed readers by not updating a blog? At the end of the article I wrote that I could achieve some more detailed information about this experiment if I would stop to write for a whole week. Finally, due to a lot of travelling, I was not able to post for 6 days. These 6 days proved that everything written in that articles is true and that your feed readers will probably increase if you don’t post! The maximum number of feed readers I’ve ever reached, was 41. After not writing for 6 long days, the readership increased and went up to 49! This is really an astonishing result. It also seems that not only your feed readership will increase if you stop writing for a few days, but also your Mybloglog community. Before my blogging break, I had 43 members. Now Linkrain is counting 51 community members! In the meanwhile I also managed to get into Technorati’s TOP 10k at position 8,931! Linkrain is now between the 10...
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Is Google cheating on Image Search Results?
2007-07-13 16:27:00
Today I was doing some research on Google Image Search results to find ways about how to get traffic through image search queries, and I noticed a very strange thing. If you search for “Web Directory” you will get this result as output: The first result, is a screenshot of Dmoz, Google’s Web Directory. After a closer look at the website hosting this image, I noticed that it’s name is “dmoz.jpg” and it’s ALT text is “open directory”. This is not exactly the result I would expect to see if I’m an internet user searching fo “Web Directory” on Google Image Search. It looks like Google is placing it on the first position because it considers the words “dmoz” and “web directory” the same thing. I would call this “cheating on search results”. This result inspired me to try a little experiment. I will try to rank first in Google’s image search result pages for the words “...
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Acid Green Pro - Free Wordpress Theme
2007-07-07 02:03:00
Acid Green Pro is very stylish and professional free Wordpress Theme. Main colors are Green,white and grey (header looks similar to Technorati). It has a three column layout optimized for FireFox, IE7, IE6, IE5.5 and IE5.0 . It is also featuring a very user friendly structure: fixed width, centered layout, right and left widget ready ...
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It is Always Better to Target a Difficult Keyword if you offer a Paid Servi
2007-07-06 23:46:00
In the most recent article I wrote about search engine optimization i described the techniques I’m using to rank high in search engines for certain keyword,s and stated that I was going to target a very difficult one: “Web Directory“. After only three weeks I was able to get on the second of Google’s search result pages at ...
More About: Keyword , Paid , Keywords , Web directories , Target

Busy Days
2007-07-05 21:45:00
I will have to travel a lot the next days (until the 12th of july), so I don’t know yet if I’ll be able to write a new article every day like I’m doing since the end of April.  Anyway, I’ll try my best to make a new entry every day. Blogging frequency should be normal ...
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@rctic Business - Free Wordpress Theme
2007-07-04 20:38:00
“@rctic Business ” is a professional, very clean and light Business Wordpress theme. It has a three columns layout optimized for FireFox, IE7, IE6, IE5.5 and IE5.0 . Fixed width, centered layout, right and left widget ready sidebar makes it easily customizable. You can download it for free here: @arctic Business License: design is released under the ...
More About: Wordpress Theme , Free , Theme

Feed Readers can Increase if you DON?T Update your Blog
2007-07-03 15:58:00
Yes, the title is right, I did not make any mistake. The first time I noticed this was three weeks ago when I came across a blog called Mubinahmed.com. He had nearly 130 feed readers and was writing in average 1 post a day. Than he stopped writing for some days and his feed readers increased. He wrote ...
More About: Website Traffic , Readers , Blogging , Blog , Update

Two new amazing PageRank Tools for Search Engine Optimisation
2007-07-03 02:31:00
Today I came across two very useful PageRank tools . The first will list your backlinks (max 2500) with PageRank. This seems to be nothing new, there are a lot of backlink checkers you can find only by searching for “backlink checker” in Google. But at a closer look I noticed that this tool is featuring some functions that ...
More About: Tools , Page Rank , Pagerank , Search , Search Engine

And the Winner of the 50$ Contest is?
2007-07-01 16:48:00
Linkrain’s 50$ contest is over and we have a winner:  Elizabeth Rose. I have contacted her and I’m only waiting for the Paypal adress so that I can send her the money. As you can see, the winner is the first who entered the contest and this is really strange. I said that I was ...
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Linkrain?s Search Engine Optimization Works!
2007-06-30 16:14:00
I’m optimizing websites for search engines since many years now and I’ve learned a lot of things on how to optimize a website to rank high for certain keywords. Two months ago I wrote an article about how to get on the first page of Google search result pages that remained on the first page of ...
More About: Search Engine Optimization , Search , Search Engine , Optimization , Keywords

I?m Plugim?s Most Famous Publisher!
2007-06-29 01:44:00
Plugim is new social bookmark site (the domain is only 1 year old) that fits perfectly for webmaster related blogs. The big difference between this social bookmark site and others is that it is nearly impossible to get on the first page of Digg,Reddit and the other of the major ones if you run a webmaster related ...
More About: Website Traffic , Famous , Publisher

Recent Blog Updates, Statistics and more
2007-06-28 18:17:00
Here are some blog updates I’ve performed in the last 7 days. By scrolling down this post you will also find “Future Updates ”, “Contest Updates” and “Stat istiscs Updates”. FULL FEED IS NOW AVAILABLE. Finally I’ve managed to install the plugin to display the full text feed even if you truncate your posts with the Wordpress “<-more->” ...
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The reason I wrote a short post with the title ?What is RSS??
2007-06-28 04:25:00
Only a few minutes ago I published a post with the title “What is RSS”. I think that most of my readers already know what RSS is, because this blog is webmaster related and probably most of it’s visitors are webmasters. I.m now writing this post, to let you know that I did not become crazy and ...
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What is RSS?
2007-06-28 04:20:00
RSS is a family of web feed formats used to publish frequently updated content such as blog entries, news headlines or podcasts. An RSS document, which is called a “feed,” “web feed,” or “channel,” contains either a summary of content from an associated web site or the full text. RSS makes it possible for people ...
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My 10 favourite Wordpress Plugins
2007-06-27 05:39:00
I’m actually using a lot of plugins on this blog (much more than 10) and I’ve tested more than 70 since I’ve started blogging . It’s time to make a list of the best Wordpress plugins I came across during my Wordpress blogging experience. 1 ) Askimet - Akismet checks your comments against the Akismet web service ...
More About: Wordpress Plugins , Blogging , Plugins

Paid Links will never loose their Value - My thoughts on ?Google vs Paid Li
2007-06-26 01:44:00
I’m writing this article because I think that a lot of people did not understand yet that Online Advertising (which includes Paid Links ) is driving the Internet. There are still many people that fear that Paid Links will loose they value because they read a recent post written by Matt Cutts about this topic. You ...
More About: Google , Page Rank , Link Building , My Thoughts

Factors you have to consider before starting a Blog - Blogging Tips
2007-06-25 03:23:00
I made a list of some factors you should consider before going to start a blog. You should check them if you don’t have a specific topic in mind to write about. It is quite possible that you have so many unique talents that no particular talent is singled out in your mind. So, how ...
More About: Tips , Blogging , Tricks , Blog , Blogg

High Quality Directory Submission Service
2007-06-24 02:26:00
Once you create a new website, you will have to promote it as soon as possible to get it indexed by the major search engines (Google, Yahoo, Msn…). This can be hard if you don’t want to spend a lot of money in promotion, at the beginning. In this case, submitting to free Web Directories, could ...
More About: Link Building , Service , Directory , Web directories , Submission