23 August
Posted by Llank
I’m not sure what most readers are using for domain registrations but I’ve found Namecheap to be one of the best. They offer free domain privacy with all their domain purchases in addition to a list of other free stuff. To get the best deal for Namecheap here is August 2008 Code: summerends which brings the price to $8.41 per domain registration!
You may also consider Godaddy which offers $6.95 domains if you just search Google for “Godaddy” it will be the Sponsored Link. Godaddy also has free domain privacy with the purchase of 5 or more domains. Bringing it to a total of $35.75 with ICANN fees. However if you are planning to register 5 or more domains with privacy for longer than 1 year its better to go with Namecheap. Lets break down the costs here with RENEWAL costs cause thats the deal breaker:
Godaddy: $6.95/domain + fees or Total: $35.75 for 5 domains
Renewal: $9.99/domain
Privacy: $8.99/domain
Total Renewal Cost(5 Domains) with Godaddy: $94.90 or $18.98/domain
Namecheap: $8.41/domain or Total: $42.05 for 5 domains
Renewal: $9.29/domain
Privacy: $7.88 for 5 domains
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17 August
Posted by Llank
Keyword density is the amount of times the chosen keyword appears in a certain web page. bear in mind, keywords should not be overly applied, merely used just enough at crucial locations.
If you duplicate your keywords with every other word, then your web site will most likely be declined as an artificial site or spam internet site. Keyword density is always showed as a percent of the total word content on any given page.
If you have a 100 word web page excluding the HTML code used , and you use a certain keyword for 5 times within the same page. The keyword density on that page is acquired by dividing the total number of keywords, by the total number of words that appear on your page. For this example we take 5 divided by 100 = .05 or simply 5%
The acceptable standard for a keyword density should be between 3% and 5%, to receive search engines recognition and exceeding this number results in poor search engine placement.
This rule should apply to every page on your website. This rule should also apply to not just to one keyword but the set of keywords or related keywords.
Simple steps to check the density:
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Tags: density, keyword, kw density
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10 August
Posted by Llank
Google has released a new search tool that is more advanced than Google Trends. I tried out a few words and saw some great keyword results. The tool also breaks down keyword’s popularity for each country. This will be a very useful tool for any Webmaster.
Time to go check out some more keywords!
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Don’t know where to start? Started but don’t know what to do? Frustrated that your website isn’t making any money? To be honest we’ve all been there but its more important to stay focused on the main goals. The best advice I’ve received so far is to “just do it.” Sitting there wondering what could be will never get you anywhere. Get out there try different ideas that will be the only way! The advice may seem cliche but when it all boils down, your results are directly proportionate to your effort.
You don’t know where to start?
Ask yourself about a topic you are truly excited to talk about, once you find it, start a blog. If blogging is not for you there are plenty of other options. A good way to find ideas is search on Ebay, Sitepoint, Digitalpoint and see what other types of sites are being sold. The ideas are endless! Don’t just sit here thinking that you have no idea what to do, just go now and do it!
You have a website but there isn’t traffic?
Go comment on similar blogs with follow links, post on forums with your link in signature, add your link to directories, create backlinks with more popular sites! Give it time, traffic will come if you have good genuine content. It is frustrating at times but when the day comes it will be all worth it. I’ve sat in front of the monitor watching pennies roll in day after day until suddenly it turned into $1/day then $2 then $3 and so on! Keep your attitude positive and just do it!
You have traffic but revenue is low?
Move the ads around and change things! There is no straight formula for how much a specific website should make. Maybe yours isn’t built for Adsense? Try affiliate programs, try pay per impression ads! There WILL be something that works but only you will be able to find it. You just have to do it to find out!
It is really easy to lose sight of your goals when your websites aren’t rolling in the dough. Refocus, give it time, hit it hard and just do it! I promise one day it will pay off. 
Tags: desperation, help, not making money, Pep Talk
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Facebook has put up $50 free coupons to test out their advertising. There are a total of three coupons for $50 each which can be combined for a total of $150.
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There is also another offer for another $100 Free in Facebook advertising by signing up for Visa Business Network Facebook Application. If you decide to go for this thats a total of $250 in free advertising from Facebook. This is a great offer for anyone who has wanted to try advertising or is already advertising. What do you gotta lose? Its free money!
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One of the most exciting and frustrating struggles of becoming an online entrepreneur is building new websites. You have spent all your hard work and time to only find that no one has gone to your website. One of the easiest ways to get traffic is through search engines by getting crawled and indexed.
This is my complete SEO guide to getting your new website crawled and indexed quickly.
1.) Search Engine Submission
Submit your site to the top 3 search engines. Don’t worry waste your time on auto search engine submitters because the big 3 will get you covered. Google,Yahoo, MSN
2.) Automatic Backlinks
Major search engines will crawl popular sites more often and easiest way to get crawled is by having a link on popular sites. Here are some neat sites that will give you automatic backlinks. Replace the site url with your url.
For instance for us it would be http://www.aboutus.org/llank.com
http://www.aboutus.org/”siteurl”
http://cubestat.com/”siteurl”
http://whois.domaintools.com/”siteurl”
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Tags: crawling, indexing, link building, SEO
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I can’t take the credit on this one, it was from akdiver on Digitalpoint forums and I just wanted to share his favorite SEO technique.
One of the most important pieces of gaining more readers and traffic is search engine optimization. If your site can’t be found than no one will come, simple as that.
What we will try to do is look for high ranking keywords that are less competitive. I’ll cater this example to a money making site
1.)Go to http://freekeywords.wordtracker.com or https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal
I chose to use Google’s since we’ll most likely be optimizing for Google anyways. We will look for keywords relating to your website that are not too long and not too competitive. Searching for the term “making money money” we are returned with 110,000 daily searches. The money making sector is a saturated and a term with large volumes will be difficult to compete with. Lets move down the list and write down a few that have lower search volumes such as:
“make money online with” - 320 daily searches
“make money online without paying” - 480 daily searches
“making money online made easy”- 210 daily searches
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Tags: Increasing traffic, SEO technique
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Alright this might be a little off topic but I thought this was interesting and low balling even for Best Buy:
Linux for only $19.99
Only problem is….. Yes you are right! Linux is FREE. Oh Oh and they can have their awesome Geek Squad install it for only an additional $129.99. Seems like Best Buy is trying to sell something free for money? First time in history thats done right? *cough Bottled *cough Water.
Too F-in bad Best Buy that we will not be trixied by your silly marketing and for those of us that don’t know better here you go to download your free copy of Ubuntu Linux .
To finish it off -
“Ubuntu will always be free to download, free to use and free to distribute to others. With these goals in mind, Ubuntu aims to be the most widely used Linux system, and is the centre of a global open source software ecosystem.” -Ubuntu.com
Tags: best buy, linux, ubuntu
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If you haven’t notice we switched themes! Partly because it was getting a little old but also since it did not work in Internet Explorer(the devil) 6.0! Oh and if you haven’t already the new kickass Firefox 3.0 is out so go get it!
When I was testing the initial theme, it worked in both Firefox and IE 7.0 perfectly but I totally forgot about IE 6.0! Although its an older version the demographics of users seem pretty high. On our sites it still holds about 10% or so and each and every one of you is important to us :) Here is an IE tab plugin for us awesome Firefox users!
If you want to test further on different browsers/platforms:
Sorry guys I left you hanging and without a notice. Somewhere in between all of April till now the motivation just got swept under the table to blog. I’ve visited the site plenty of times just to look and see, but it saddens me that I gave up.
So here I am again posting/complaining/explaining all at once that I’m down but not out.
I won’t be the first to do it and surely not the last but why does this happen? People run out of ideas to write, motivation to write or the site just didn’t show any potential. You put all this work into it and in the end no one comes to read what you have to say. We’ll I’ve read before that its not what you post on your blog its what you don’t that defines your blog. I’m here to scratch that and say post whatever the hell you want and its better than not posting at all!
Nate and I will be here to stay and posts will keep flowing! Good news is I’ve had quite some time to decide about all the topics to write and they will come shortly so stay posted I know I know… but trust me once more k k?
If you are one that gave up on your blog as well maybe its a time to renew it just like me. Its never too late so give it a shot.
Tags: motivation, quitting, renewal
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