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Free Online Dating BlogFree Online Dating BlogThis is an online dating blog written by the site's author and details the technical and SEO difficulties with designing a relationship dating site Articles
Munich Life (dating, love and life in Bavaria?s capital city)
2008-02-18 22:16:00 This is a collection of short comments about life in Munich . It forms part of the larger dating site, Click in Love . read more Now this is unexpected. By placing a link in digg.com to my Munich Life blog (as well as clicking an ?add to blog? button), I find that Digg has posted my original ... More About: Dating , City
Affiliate Links
2008-02-18 22:14:00 Further to an earlier post on this subject, last night I choose an affiliate link partner - youcangetme.com and loaded their banner onto the front page. Well I actually chose them as an affiliate partner last weekend, but it takes a few days before their site webmaster verifies Click In Love and actually approves me ... More About: Affiliate , Links
Garden Furniture Show at Pullach
2008-02-18 22:13:00 If you ever make it to Munich, one of the major attractions and most pleasant aspects of living here is the English Garden . Designed by Benjamin Thompson (an interesting cad if ever there was one), it is one of the largest inner-city parks in Europe and indeed worldwide. The nice thing about this park (besides ... More About: Furniture , Show
English Garden, Munich
2008-02-18 22:13:00 If you ever make it to Munich , one of the major attractions and most pleasant aspects of living here is the English Garden . Designed by Benjamin Thompson (an interesting cad if ever there was one), it is one of the largest inner-city parks in Europe and indeed worldwide. The nice thing about this park (besides ...
CSS issues resolved (nearly)
2008-02-18 22:12:00 With regards to the terrible bugs I have experienced recently, I think I can now say that most of the CSS issues are resolved. The issue from yesterday, regarding the text alignment in Firefox, was fixed just 30 mins ago (11pm)! There is only one major CSS issue left that I must tackle. This is ... More About: Issues
More CSS Issues
2008-02-18 22:11:00 Today?s task was to find a few affiliate programmes, which I managed to do quite easily. However, I find myself back on the CSS track again with another troublesome issue. This time however, Firefox is the culprit. I have a block of text (actually a <form> element) enclosed in a <div> statement which refuses to ... More About: Issues
IE Dating Site Front Page is Working
2008-02-18 22:11:00 Phew! After spending all day on this issue, I have finally managed to get the CSS hover menu working in IE! I have a headache from having spent the entire day in front of a computer. Unless you are a software engineer, it is hard to imagine the absolute frustration and lack of job satisfaction ... More About: Dating , Page , Site , Front , Working
Affiliate Advertising
2008-02-18 22:10:00 Today?s goal is to find a couple of affiliate partners for the front page. For the layperson, this means that I will place a few well-chosen adverts on the dating site. By doing this I become an ?affiliate? advertiser for these sites and they pay me a small amount for every lead I pass their ... More About: Advertising , Affiliate
CSS Hover Menu
2008-02-18 22:10:00 Continuing off from where I left last night (when I finished work after 1am), I got up early today and managed to fix the IE issue concerning the failure of the Google ads to be clickable. This problem was connected to a block of text to the right of the advert. Therefore the front page ... More About: Menu
Google Optimisation and Alerts (Part II) for Dating websites
2008-02-18 22:09:00 It seems that for dating websites the competition is severe. If you type into any search engine, terms like ?Dating ?, ?Personals?, ?Love Online? etc, you are faced with 1000?s of results. Ideally I want Click in Love at the top of these results. However, how do I achieve that when there are ... More About: Google , Websites , Part
Computer Problems
2008-02-18 22:09:00 So here I am, trying to finish the dating site ClickInLove.com on my week off work, when I have to face up to the realisation that my computer is running far too slowly recently. So today?s time was spent spring-cleaning my PC. First is the new Norton Antivirus software. I ran that a couple of ... More About: Computer , Problems
The long night of music - Die Lange Nacht Der Musik
2008-02-18 22:08:00 Once a year in Munich is ?The long Night of Music ? (Die Lange Nacht Der Musik ). Many venues across Munich play host to live music throughout the night. This is a yearly event that attracts many thousands of music lovers. All on the same evening as the Eurovision song contest (in 2007) - how unfortunate. More About: Long
The benefits of a Gantt Chart
2008-02-18 22:06:00 So, here I am with 50 different things to do on the site and a complete absence of any form of project management technique. A relatively long time ago I created a preliminary Gantt Chart with which to plan my time and work effort, but alas that document succeded in hiding amongst my other clutter ... More About: Benefits
Dating Site Layout problems
2008-02-18 22:05:00 Since the new look dating site ?Click in Love? was uploaded last week, there has been a serious drop in the number of people registering. This is a problem. I need to analyse where the visitors are exiting and determine what element of the site is failing to draw them in. On top of this ... More About: Dating , Site , Problems , Layout
Wikipedia Entry
2008-02-18 22:05:00 I decided today to try and place an entry in Wikipedia for ClickInLove. I found out through trial and error that first I wil need to build up some reputable links and articles about the site. Still, this is something that I will do and hopefully have an entry in Wikipedia soon enough. More About: Entry
Starkbierfest in Munich
2008-02-18 21:40:00 The Starkbierfest has started again in Munich . This is a beer festival which runs during the lent period. The name means ?strong beer? and is a reference to the heavy ingredients monks used to add to their beer during the fasting season leading up to Easter. Monks were not allowed to eat much during this ...
Back in Business
2008-02-18 21:40:00 Due to recent situations, the ClickinLove Blog had been temporarily suspended. Whilst these circumstances are unique, it is fair to say that things are still a bit shaky and regular postings to the blog may be infrequent for a while yet. Nevertheless, it is my hope that things will return to normal soon. Interestingly, despite ... More About: Business , Back
Blog Updates
2008-02-18 21:40:00 Having a blog is a useful tool in the SEO campaign, but using it to generate content is not enough for a site?s needs. It is critically important, in order to reach the full effect of your blog, to regularly update it. I use the term ?regularly? with a lot of emphasis here. It is ... More About: Blog , Updates
PHP Website Programming
2008-02-18 21:39:00 What does PHP stand for and what does it do? PHP is a recursive definition, much like GNU (GNU Not Unix), and is an acronym for ?PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor?. This is engineering humour and mirrors the recursive nature of some of the standard programming constructs that any programmer will be familiar with. It follows closely the ... More About: Programming , Website
Munich Speed Dating
2008-02-18 21:39:00 When it first gained popularity, Speed dating sounded like a shallow fad which would soon disappear. However, that was definitely not the case. Many years later and it is still going strong across the world with many varied spin-offs doing the rounds as well. Why the popularity? One reason is that it gives participants the chance ... More About: Dating , Munich , Speed Dating
SEO Consulting
2008-02-18 21:39:00 One of the most awkward things to deal with as an SEO practitioner is the expectations of customers. It is often hard to convince them that SEO takes a long time to fully work and campaign results will not be obvious for many months. Sometimes it can take over a year for really competitive terms ... More About: Consulting
Dating Dangers
2008-02-18 21:38:00 One of the risks of online dating is that you never really know who you are contacting. Normally this is not really an issue as long as you follow sensible guidelines and keep safety foremost in your mind. Many people are too trusting and in their haste to find love leave themselves vulnerable to various ... More About: Dating
Proliferation of Dating Sites
2008-02-18 21:38:00 Have you noticed how many different dating sites exist online today? How can so many survive when they are in fact in direct competition with each other. Well there are four main factors to explain this apparently contradictory situation: Not all are in direct competition with each other and happily manage to exist in niche markets Many ... More About: Dating , Sites , Proliferation
Social Bookmarking
2008-02-18 21:37:00 ?Web 2? is due to make an appearance and ?take the net by storm?, apparently. One of the many facets of Web 2 is what is called Social Bookmarking . These are sites centred around user-generated content that includes individuals placing their favourite links online for all to see. It is a good way to get ... More About: Social Bookmarking
Dating Site Link Bait
2008-02-18 21:37:00 A tricky subject and one which deserves a lot of attention is link bait. What sort of link bait would work on a dating site (or any site for that matter)? Ideally we would want something which would appeal both to the users of the site and webmasters looking for something hot to link to. ... More About: Dating , Site , Link
SEO Sitemap
2008-02-18 21:36:00 I have started to create what I call an SEO Sitemap . It is a cross between a roadmap and a sitemap for the site?s SEO campaign. This document will be a clickable sitemap with links to information on every page on the site. This information will take the form of page keywords/phrases, keyword density, total ...
Website Security
2008-02-18 21:36:00 The issue of website security is an important one and worth learning a bit about. Hacking is an often misinterpreted phrase which many people use to describe illegally accessing and/or modifying restricted network content. This in fact is called Cracking. Cracking is something every webmaster needs to be aware of, especially if you have a database ... More About: Security , Website
Ajax Feed
2008-02-18 21:36:00 AJAX is a useful cornerstone of ?Web 2?. As part of my effort to streamline administration of the dating site, I have placed a utilities management page online (password protected of course). With this I use AJAX scripting to populate forms with content extracted from purpose-specific databases. This in turn allows me to generate ?feeds ... More About: Ajax , Feed
RSS Reader
2008-02-18 21:35:00 I created a Google Reader account and subscribed the ClickInLove blog to it, just to see if the site feeds work ok. The results seem fine, in that Google Reader picks up the feeds ok. A Windows XP-based reader I downloaded did not work however. I need to investigate this further. What is all the fuss ...
Grey-hat SEO Techniques
More articles from this author:2008-02-18 21:35:00 Not all SEO techniques are good - not all are bad; somewhere in between lies grey-hat techniques. These are those tried and tested ?tricks? which are not not altogether unethical, but which are definitely open to abuse and nearly invariably are abused. Let us talk about Blogs and the SEO angle. It is fine to leave ... More About: Grey 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
