Links 22 sept 2008
I thought I would share some Interesting Links with all my readers.
This is the first of the lot. I want to post some Interesting links to other blogs/websites every week. So if you have something interesting to share, let me know.
Here are some to start with:
Darren Rowse @ problogger.
Talking about how you should write your “about me” or “about us” page.
Splitting up Local and International Bandwidth.
Here is a Forum witch discusses how you can split your traffic usage Using IPCop.
Interesting Advertising Technique.
Millions of dollars and good faith in your product.
routerPasswords.com
A website that has a very big collection of Router Usernames and passwords.
Those are just a few. Have a look at them and Enjoy.
To tweet or not to twitter.
I found this great post at problogger: 9 Benifits of Twitter for bloggers
I have now started to use twitter aswell. I’m actually enjoying it. Its strange because I was never really into things like this. But twitter is Different. for me its a mixture of Chat and a forum. And a bit of Social Bookmarking thrown in.
With me starting to use twitter. I also found TinyUrl. It takes all these long URL’s and turns them into short, small ones and takes you to that Long URL.
So this URL:http://www.gitui.com/sharing/important-things-to-know-when-changing-a-wordpress-theme/
will then be turned into this: tinyurl.com/5gxv28
Now does that not look better? it also saves space in the “tweets” and if you want to generally save space on a webiste, blog, forum or anywhere else you might need to.
Robert.
pageRank Does it Matter?
PageRank is a number value that represents the importance of a website on the Internet. Google figures that when a site links to another one, it is casting a vote for the other page. The more votes that are cast for a site, the more important that site must be!
When I visit a web site, I look at the “PageRank” of the web site. To me PageRank is more of a credibility index than anything. For example, I would feel more confident making a purchase or requesting a service from a web site with a PageRank of 6 than I would from a web site with the PageRank of 2. Therefore I am more likely to convert (try, buy, or recommend) a product, article or service from web site with a higher PageRank.
Google control’s PageRank. They have the final say in what the PageRank of a site would be. It is mostly worked out by a formula. Largely unknown by the public. A basic rule of thumb is that the more links you have to your site the better your PageRank would be.
50 not so well known social media sites.
I thought I might share some social media sites with you guys:
- AgentB: On AgentB, you’ll be able to find great deals online.
- iliketotallyloveit: Visit this site to find weird, but fun products.
- Dealigg: Dealigg offers “social bargain hunting” on lots of tech deals.
Gear & Gadgets
In these communities, you’ll find discussions and links that are all about grown up toys
- AutoSpies: Find out what the spies are sharing on this social media site that’s obsessed with automobiles.
- Meme or Lame: This “citizen media platform” is all about gizmos, ranging from cars to cell phones.
Finance & Business
Stay on top of the worlds of business and money through these sites.
- Value Investing News: Get news about the stock market from other investors on this social media site.
- HubSpot: Find and share content about marketing online and off on HubSpot.
- Real Estate Voices: Read the most interesting news about the real estate market on Real Estate Voices.
- Small Business Brief: Visit this community to learn how to be a better small business owner.
- FeedTheBull: Visit FeedTheBull to see what’s hot in the market.
Sports
Read about your favorite teams, players, and sports on these sites.
- BallHype: This social media site has a great community and all of the best sports stories to share.
- SportsAg: Visit SportsAg to find an aggregation of all the best sports articles, all in one website.
- PlanetMVP: PlanetMVP is full of “sport shorts” — videos of sports players of all ages and skill levels.
- ScoreGuru: In this online sporting community, you can get the latest in sports news.
Web Development
Here you’ll find a wealth of web development sites, ranging from SEO to design.
- DNHour: Find domain name news content from other domainers through this site.
- Sphinn: In Sphinn’s discussion forums and links, you’ll find great information about internet marketing.
- DZone: DZone offers plenty of helpful links for web developers.
- SEO TAGG: SEO TAGG is home to search engine optimization content, and other related links.
- Pixel Groovy: Pixel Groovy’s community seeks out the best in online tutorials for developers.
- BloggingZoom: Read the posts on BloggingZoom to get the latest on the blogging world.
- Design Bump: Read news about web design on this fun and informative website.
- PlugIM: PlugIM is full of awesome internet marketing content.
Fashion
Visit these sites for eye candy, finds, and plenty of style.
- Stylehive: Stylehive connects stylish people with each other, offering bookmarks, links, forms, and a lot more.
- Chictini: Chictini features the latest in fashionable and cute.
Technology
Keep up with the latest in technology on these social media sites.
- Tweako: On Tweako’s site for “collaborative computing,” you’ll find guides, tutorials, and lots more for computing, technology, and the Internet.
- Hacker News: Check out Hacker News for teachnology links from the dark side.
- SWiK: In this community-driven resource, you’ll find information about open source software.
Entertainment
Enjoy videos, celebrity news and more on these social media sites that entertain.
- Video Bomb: Stop by Video Bomb to get a sampling of the best videos online.
- Lipstick: Lipstick shares all of the celebrity news that matters.
- ShowHype: ShowHype has loads of stories about movies, TV, music, celebrities, and more.
- VideoSift: VideoSift will help you get through the muck of videos to find the most entertaining and useful stuff out there.
News
These sites offer an up-to-the-minute look at news along with a sense of community.
- Newscloud: On Newscloud you can find stories hand picked from users around the world.
- Shoutwire: Shoutwire has Internet news in just about every category imaginable.
- 2CentsNews: Find community-created news and submit your own 2 cents on this social media site.
- Newsvine: Keep your ear to the ground and find out what the world is talking about on Newsvine.
- Searchles: Search for news within your social circle on Searchles.
- NewsHeat: Get the latest in popular political news through NewsHeat.
- NowPublic: Read about all of the new and interesting news events around the world on NowPublic.
- BuzzFlash: BuzzFlash’s community aims to fight ignorance with progressive news and commentary.
International
Here you’ll be able to connect with users from different parts of the world.
- Muti: Muti centers on all things Africa.
- IndianPad: On IndianPad, you’ll see all of the latest news stories in India and great finds in Indian interest.
Weird & Interesting
If you’re in the mood to find something offbeat, be sure to visit these sites.
- Plime: In this community, you can find and add weird and interesting links.
- Truemors: Check out Truemors for the latest breaking news and rumors.
- linkfilter.net: linkfilter.net is exactly what it sounds like — a filter for all of the web’s links.
Miscellaneous
These social media sites are in a class of their own.
- Wordsy: Wordsy’s links are all about books, writing, and words.
- BrewPoll: Join this community, and you’ll get the latest in home brewing and craft beer news.
- blogs4God: Get connected with Christians who blog by checking out this site.
- Hugg: Within the Hugg site, you’ll be able to find lots of different news and advice about the environment.
- Kirtsy: Formerly known ask Skirt, Kirtsy has links that women will really appreciate.
- TTiqq: Get online tips and tricks for technology, finance, and lots more on TTiqq
Tell I’m going to start using these. And bring some traffic to my blog aswell as these social media websites. 
Paying for Traffic?
Your blog/website is up, you have your tracking set up and you get about 5 to 10 visitors a day. You have links to your site, but you still can’t get your visitor count up?
One of the first things to remember is: are you writing good articles? you need to think to yourself “what would I want from this article?” If you have good articles and your traffic goes up a bit more, but still not enough. what then?
You can actually pay for visitors. There are multiple ways in witch you can do this. You can have an adwords campaign going. You can sign up with affiliate sites. You can also trade links on a credit basis. You can even offer some websites/bloggers money for a link to your site and a good review. (the latter is mostly frowned upon.)
I’ve decided to give it a test run, to see what the outcome is of it and if it is really worth the while. I’ve signed up with NewGenTraffic, and the way they work is quite interesting.
When you sign up, you get either a basic account, or you can pay for an account. When you pay for an account, you get alot more out of the deal. For me, I’ve signed up with the free account. The way my account works:
I get a code, that I can place on my website. Similar to Google adsense advertising. Ads get displayed everytime a page is loaded. When someone clicks on one of those ads, I get credit points witch I can use to promote my own website/blog. The person who’s ad gets displayed and was clicked on, uses one of his credits for that click. with New Gen Traffic you can also Buy credits. The more credits you have the more ads you can run on other sites and the more traffic you eventually get.
So you can either wait for some visitors to come to your website and click on those ads, or you can jump the gun and buy credits. With Google adwords it works the same. You sign up with adwords and decide to display ads and how much you want to pay per click. When people visit other sites that have google adsense displayed, and your ad is clicked. You get charged with a certain amount. (you can specify how much.)
In that way, you payed for that person to come to your website.
There are many other way’s in witch you can get traffic by using this system. I will let you know what results I get after a week or so.
Robert
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