Free Social Media Icons

20Aug08

Iconarchive.com offers a nice collection of social network icons. The license model includes commercial use, which is quite rare.

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SEO Metatags Hack for Boonex Dolhin Smart Community Builder

19Aug08

I have to say i really dislike this script. It’s one of there ready made scripts that you can easily install and get running. But to be honest, how often do you use a script unmodified? If you are used to Drupal, the documentation and community support for Boonex Dolphin is a nightmare. Sometimes you don’t have a choice for picking the right script. It’s more what the customers wants. Actually there is nothing in Boonex Dolphin that can not be done with Drupal.

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Adsense for Feeds

15Aug08

Google started a service for adsense ads in feeds. That’s a really important move, cause most bloggers have more feed reader than website reader. And you always need to make the decision to publish the whole feed to please the reader or just an excerps to lead the people to your blog and maybe get some ad clicks from them. Now you can publish your whole feed and integrate your ads. Conversion should be quite nice, specially at the beginning and as long as it will not be used too much. The feedreader is still almost adfree with plays to your advantage.

Bad news is that you can not automatically connect your adsense and feedburner account. you need to send an email to adsense, so it might take a while to activate it. better be quick.

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Are your snippets too good to get clicks?

24Jul08

The meta description of your websites is very important for the click through rate to your site. Ranking alone is not enough to make people choose you instead of the other nine frontpage ranked websites. You need to write an excellent copy to attract clicks.

But that short copy snipped should not be too good at the same time. Don’t tell your visitor all the information they looking for. They might not need to come to your site at all. I think this is an aspect often overseen.

Here are two examples, a good and a bad one.

The Good: There are many great translation websites with a very huge database of word pairs. Sometimes there’s only one meaning of the word you need to be translated. It would easily fit into the snipped. Instead of doing this, your could better advertise yourseld and some extras like a free translation software.

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Link building with free ebooks

20Jul08

People love to get stuff for free. That has always been like that and will probably be a fact for the future as well. Give people stuff for free and they will return link to your site. So if you feel like you know a lot of stuff to a single topic, why not write an ebook and publish it for free? Instead of writing a blogpost every day. take a break for a week or two and write an ebook. With the same content more structured and in more detail, you can gain links and reputation. The reason why people link to you is the same psychology as people return a favor, or you get invited back from someone you previously asked to come to your own party. It’s rooted deep inside our behavior as social individuals. Putting content in an ebook instead of blogpost makes them appear more physical that ust content on a website, although technically it makes no difference if a text is delivered as html in a browser, or pdf as an downloadable ebook.

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Ebay for sexual services

17Jul08

Sometimes ideas to make a successful website are just the combination of other already proven concepts. Youporn did it by melting Youtube and x-rated porn into one service. The traffic to this site is so enormous, that it currently ranks number 28 on alexas top list for websites in the us.

Now a german service did the same with the sexification of the ebay idea. The website provides a platform where users offer their sexual services for hard cash in an auction sell.

One ad reads like this:

Alone at home at always broke! Hi, as a university student the money is always short, but the free time is big So i said to myself … hey, why not try something new and combine business with pleasure! That said, done, so here i am! Celine, 22 years, slim and a beautiful beginner that like to try new things

Some of the offers are obvious professional hookers, some might really be part time prostitutes. Is that the longtail of prostitution?

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Visit gesext.de (NSFW from here on)

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SEO Tweak for WordPress 2.6

16Jul08

WordPress 2.6 got a new amazing feature. A small bookmarklet lets you start a popup window that fills out title and sets a link to the page you wanna blog about.

My guess is that many bloggers will use this feature on a regular basis cause it really safes time in the workflow. This is the first time that a huge amount of bloggers gets the link preformated. WordPress takes your title as an anchor text, so now it’s more important than before to put your most important keywords in the title first.

So this is not really a tweak to improve wordpress 2.6 itself, but to be prepared for the new 2.6 features.

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Super Quick Ranking

16Jul08

Sometimes even an easy or medium keyword is hard to rank for if you want to promote a new site. The page just doesn’t have the trust needed to get recognized by Google. If you think a little bit outside the box you can find a way to rank for easy to medium keyword combination i a very short time frame. Use other peoples website to get where you want to be.

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