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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
Google Update
2007-06-17 20:44:00 Every so often, if you monitor Googl e SERP’s positions for your chosen keywords, you may see a sudden jump in the position of your website (assuming you have been working away at your SEO strategy). I noticed this in the middle of last week. By checking in your Google Sitemaps account, you can More About: Website , Update
Summer Weather
2007-06-16 23:25:00 The weather in Munich is such that I have never actually got drenched since I arrived here nearly two years ago (and I don’t have an umbrella). That is until yesterday… and the drenching I got, made up for the previous two years. It rained very heavily as I left work. More About: Weather , Summer
Munich Life (dating, love and life in Bavaria?s capital city)
2007-06-15 09:59:00 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 ... More About: Website , Dating , City
Web 2 Sites - Dating Site Optimisation
2007-06-14 15:35:00 After a recent discussion and a little experimentation, I have concluded that it is useful to make use of the multitude of social networking sites that are shaping Web 2. I have set up accounts with the following: More About: Website , Dating , Site , Sites , Opti
Sitemap Generators
2007-06-13 14:27:00 Recently I noticed on Google Sitemap s that around 50 pages on the site were deemed ‘unreachable’. In conjunction, I also noticed that Yahoo had a poor index of Click in Love (around 20 pages). So I went to yahoo, signed up for a webmaster account and followed their instructions More About: Website , Generators
Social Bookmarking
2007-06-12 10:36:00 ‘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 ... More About: Website , Social Bookmarking , Al B
Google Alert Update for the Click in Love Dating Site
2007-06-10 20:57:00 Today for the first time, I got more than one notification in my Google Alerts. In fact Google picked up 5 sites today with links to Click in Love . I am trying to optimise the inbound links with the keyword phrase Free Online Dating and More About: Website
Time Off Work AND Good Weather
2007-06-08 22:00:00 There you have it, after all my moaning I finally get some time off work and the weather is good. I guess I should be very happy and I am, but I have to say I have yet to fully enjoy it. More About: Weather , Lifestyle , Time , Work , Good
Yahoo Search results
2007-06-06 13:35:00 Recently I have seen a drop in the number of links Click in Love has in the search results for Yahoo . To combat this to some degree, I have created a robots.txt file and created an entry in this pointing to the site’s xml sitemap. The theory is that yahoo will grab this sitemap More About: Website , Results , Search , Yahoo search
Dating Site Competition
2007-06-05 14:01:00 Click in love, as a free online dating site, is very much the new kid on the block. This means all the other sites are well settled and have secured their niche market. It will be tough to break into their market… but possible. Already I noticed one local German competitor has an More About: Website , Dating , Competition , Site , Petit
Long Weekend Again
2007-06-04 16:49:00 I have decided to be kind to myself and extend my weekend by an extra day by taking this Friday off. Couple that with Thursday being a public holiday in Germany and I have a grand total of 4 days off work. What to do? I should really go somewhere for a ... More About: Lifestyle , Weekend , Long
Dating Site Delay
2007-06-04 16:42:00 Yet again I find my progress on the dating site is slowing down. This is due to a number of factors that have influenced my ability to work effectively over the last week or so. However Click in Love, though it has missed the end of May projected deadline is still on track ... More About: Website , Dating , Site , Dati
The SEO benefits of Blogs
2007-06-01 16:33:00 To get a good Google PR it is necessary to get lots of links to your site (referred to as ‘in-bound’ links). The PR of the pages hosting your link should preferably be quite high, but that is the difficult thing about SEO… getting these high PR in-bound links. More About: Website , Blogs , Benefits , Logs , Benefit
Physical Tension
2007-05-31 15:56:00 Stuck in front of a computer day and night can really take its toll on the neck and back muscles. I am contemplating investing in something to relieve this irritating neck pain that I get. It is not so much pain, as general discomfort in that area. Anyone know of any good ... More About: Lifestyle , Physical , Tension
ClickInLove Keywords
2007-05-30 13:24:00 I am reaching a stage where the site is near completion (technically so, nowhere near completion in the design phase). My thoughts are now turning to optimisation with regards to keywords. These are the phrases which a user types into the search engines to find whatever information they are interested in. More About: Website , Keywords
Online Dating - Optimisation Efforts
2007-05-29 15:06:00 Recently I have noticed that the bahaviour of the ClickInLove site parameters are varying. By this I mean, the nature and volume of traffic alongside Google’s statistics, are moving on a daily basis. Being in such a competitive arena, dating sites need to be on the ball when it comes to how they ... More About: Website , Dating , Online Dating , Online , Fort
Bank Holiday Weekend
2007-05-28 18:01:00 Here we are at the end of May and faced with the bank holiday weekend. A bit of a washout all across Europe it seems. Even the French Open, which delights in proving how much sunnier it is to Wimbledon, has been washed off court. What a pain. I am starting ... More About: Holiday , Weekend , Bank
SEO and Online Dating sites
2007-05-25 14:50:00 SEO is an interesting topic, but when applied to a field as competitve as Online Dating it becomes a vitally necessary topic. Without trying to use SEO techniques to optimise ‘Click in Love’, I doubt it would ever feature up there with the big dating sites on the SERP’s. More About: Website , Online Dating , Sites
Making Sense of Adsense
2007-05-24 15:35:00 Most webmasters will be familiar with Adsense , the Google advertising engine. I have placed Adsense on a few of my pages. Recently I am in the process of finalising the site and I modified the layout a lot. This resulted in a reduction in the number of people registering and also clicking ... More About: Website , Sense , Sens , Maki
Dating Site Layout problems
2007-05-23 15:10:00 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. More About: Website , Dating , Site , Problems , Layout
Affiliate Links
2007-05-22 15:11:00 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 More About: Website , Affiliate , Links
English Garden
2007-05-21 16:24:00 If you ever make it to Munich, one of the major attractions and most pleasant aspects of living here is the English Garde n . 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. More About: Arden
Garden Furniture Show at Pullach
2007-05-20 22:50:00 A friend of mine, Matthias, is a Schreinermeister (master carpenter) and is selling bespoke custom-made solutions for home and garden furniture. He invited me down to a place called Pull ach when he has a tent in a garden/home furniture exhibition. His display was great (professionally designed by More About: Garden , Furniture , Show , Arden
CSS issues resolved (nearly)
2007-05-19 23:41:00 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. More About: Website , Issues , Nearly , Earl , Issue
More CSS Issues
2007-05-19 02:58:00 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 ... More About: Website , Issues , Issue
Affiliate Advertising
2007-05-18 12:58:00 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 ... More About: Website , Advertising , Affiliate , Vert
IE Dating Site Front Page is Working
2007-05-18 00:04:00 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. More About: Website , Dating , Page , Site , Front
CSS Hover Menu
2007-05-17 12:59:00 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. More About: Menu , Hove
Index Page Updated
2007-05-17 01:07:00 I have created a new design for the dating site. So far most of this evening was spent trying to port this design to both IE and Firefox. This gave me quite a few headaches. As it stands I use Javascript to determine which browser the user has. Based on this result ... More About: Page , Index
2500 Members Online
More articles from this author:2007-05-16 13:35:00 Today the dating site reached the milestone of 2500 female members. I am hoping the site will go live in the coming weeks, allowing members to upload photos and communicate with other members. The next few weeks will be very busy as I rush to get everything ready for the end of May. More About: Online , Members 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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