Archive for the 'The Web' Category

YearBookYourself.com – Time machine to the past

Ever wonder how you look like in the past?

I couldn’t help resist yearbooking myself at YearBookYourself.com, launched last month which lets you upload a photo (Find a picture of yourself looking straight at the camera) and allows you to see yourself with classic hairdos and vintage outfits spanning five decades. There are era-appropriate music plays while you’re waiting to be stunned. Once Yearbooked, you can save your pics and all I can say is awesome!

The site has style ranging from the 50s to the 90s. The owner, partnered with Colle + McVoy to create an innovative online and in-center experience that allows teens to see what they might looked like when their parents were in schools, all while catching up on current back-to-school fashions.

The site also features pages that allows you to save your favourite yearbook photo and then invite your friends to post their photos as well. You can also print or email your yearbook photo creation to your websites or online social networking sites such as Facebook.

Below are how Ron & I look like decades ago and it cracks me up!! LOL

Have Fun!!

Popularity: 29% [?]

Cuil to challenge Google

There’s yet another new search engine on the block, Cuil, made its public launch today and already call itself the “biggest search engine on the web”. The new engine named “Cuil” (pronounced “Cool”) after the gaelic word for “wisdom”, founded by husband-and-wife team and run by a team of former Google employees. The people at Cuil claim the new search engine uses fewer servers than other search engine big boys, yet indexes much larger chunk from the web.

I played around with the engine quite a bit, it might be good in the future, but right now, it’s just lack of something. I did a couple of test searches and the results Cuil returned were often disappointing. Personally, I think Google is much better. Cuil is good for obsure searches, and not so good when you are searching generic stuff. But its nice to see people rethinking the way search results can be displayed. Instead of a list, it displayed results in three columns (you can switch to two column as well).

Though Cuil offers a unique perpective on search, it looks to be a long while before it can challenge the top players. Cuil has a long way to go…

Will keep trying it out for the next few days.

Popularity: 17% [?]

Bill Gate’s Last Day

Well, it’s finally here: Bill Gates official last day at Microsoft as a full-time employee. That’s right! After 33 years building one of the most important software companies in the world, he finally stepped down to fully concerntrate on Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which is pretty cool considering all his money sure he can help a lot of people. However, he still remains as Microsoft Chairman as he is the largest single shareholder.

Popularity: 13% [?]

Microsoft Buy Internet Pioneer Yahoo for $44.6 Billion

Microsoft buys Yahoo? The Internet is swarming with rumors that the Software Giant is buying Yahoo to compete with Google – a leader in search engine advertising industry. As off now, there’s 57,700,000 search for the term “Microsoft buys Yahoo” in Yahoo search, 25,400,000 in Microsoft Live Search and 267,000 in Google search.

Many of you might be asking what’s the new name will be, will they come out with the new inovative Internet tools and will that be enough for them to take on Google? According to Microsoft, they have a plan to integrate employees and “retain” key Yahoo Engineers and the top people.

According to CNN: Earlier this week, Yahoo announced plans to lay off 1,000 employees by mid-February, citing what CEO Jerry Yang described as “headwinds” facing the company. It also reported lower fourth-quarter earnings — though still ahead of Wall Street’s modest expectations for the firm.

In conference call Friday morning, Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer indicated he won’t take no for an answer after Yahoo rebuffed takeover overtures a year ago.

“This is a decision we have _ and I have _ thought long and hard about,” Ballmer said. “We are confident it’s the right path for Microsoft and Yahoo.”

To underscore its resolve, Microsoft is offering a 62 percent premium to Yahoo’s closing stock price Thursday. If the deal is consummated, it would be by far the largest acquisition in Microsoft’s history, eclipsing last year’s $6 billion purchase of online ad service aQuantive.

- Bismarck Tribune

Should they merge? Anyway, this merge would obviously give Google a run, and this got to be an exciting 2008!

Popularity: 47% [?]

SEO Lab

Product Review: Subscription to Derek Gehl’s private "Search Engine Marketing Lab ."

Did you know that it’s still possible to attract 1,000s of qualified buyers to your website every month (i.e. FREE traffic!) using the organic search engines?

It’s true… And Derek Gehl has proven it with his recently released "Search Engine Marketing Lab."

To help you get #1 and #2 rankings in the "Big 3" search engines (Google, Yahoo, and MSN) WITHOUT spending $1,000s on SEO experts or wasting 200+ hours a month reading SEO newsletters…

… Derek is giving you access to the exact same SEO strategies he pays over $13,750 per month to learn.

As a member of Derek’s Search Engine Marketing Lab, you will first be run through his "SEO Bootcamp for Beginners" where you’ll be shown, step-by-step, how to apply all the basic SEO strategies to your websites.

No technical mumbo jumbo or fluff filler here. Derek and his team have designed his portion of program for the absolute NEWBIE, so you’ll know exactly how to best prepare your website for the search engines.

Then, every month you’ll receive Derek’s hard-hitting "Search Marketing Lab Report ", a 7-10 page newsletter that gives them a concise overview of the latest advanced SEO strategies that are working TODAY…

… Straight out of Derek’s own personal testing labs!

So there’s no guesswork and no wasting time reading HUNDREDS of SEO newsletters, trying to figure out what changes you need to make to keep or improve your top search engine listings!

And finally, you ALSO get a complementary membership to Derek’s SEO Discussion Forum — where you can ask his team of experts unlimited questions about your SEO campaigns.

All this for a ridiculously low monthly membership fee that makes the $1,000s per month that *other* SEO experts charge for this level of personalized assistance and expertise seem even more outrageous!

I give Derek’s brand-new "Search Engine Marketing Lab" my very highest recommendation. The monthly newsletter is invaluable… and I can’t believe the quality of information his team is giving away EVERY DAY in his private discussion forum.

To check it out for yourself, click here now !

Popularity: unranked [?]

Get Free Traffic for Your Blog

BlogRush Everyone loves free traffic. You may have a great content, a great layout design… but without traffic, you can’t make money with your blog. The beauty of blogging is each time you make a post in your blog, your blog is automatically pinged across arund 50 ping websites! Even if you do nothing other than make regular posting, you blog will still picked up by the search enigne big boys like Google, Yahoo… etc.

I’m sure everyone wants more traffic and have always looking for more ways to get it, especially FREE traffic. Internet Marketing legend John Reese has come up a great way to help you get free traffic!

BlogRush is a free service that helps bloggers to get more readers for their blog. It is a "Cooperative Syndication Network" that rewards its users for their contributions to the network. You will earn "syndication credits" based on your own traffic as well as other traffics of the users you refer to BlogRush.

You can easily refer others to BlogRush via a special links on the widget like the one on the image above. Paste some simple code provided on your blog and have your post shown on related blogs who are doing the same thing. Refer others to join for free and you earn traffic credits up to 9 generations. Let’s say you run the widget and get 2000 page views, means your blog will be viewed 2000 times on other blogs that run the widget as well. If your referer also get 2000 page views, your headline will be shown for another 2000 times.

Join BlogRush now and get tones of exposure across the web! Step by step video tutorial for installing the code are provided.

Popularity: 32% [?]

The Newest Blog Traffic Secrets

Blogging I won’t waste any time, so just read this message to see what I’m talking about… you can’t afford to miss this! – Discover the newest blog traffic secrets that can literally bring you thousands of visitors a day, for free!

I was speaking with Cody Moya the other day (a well-known Internet Marketer), and he started talking about how his website is here to give you the newest blog traffic secrets.

He reveals all below secrets in his video course:

- Overlooked traffic source that can literally bring you hundreds of visitors a day, for free!

- Easy to apply tactics that can quickly get dozens, even hundreds of links pointing to your blog … without you having to pay a dime.

- A tactic that when used correctly has the ability to bring your website hundreds of thousands of visitors

- A controversial tactic that if you’re feeling brave enough to use it, can get hundreds of links pointing to your blog, almost instantly

- Underused tactic that is almost guaranteed to get dozens, even hundreds of links pointing to your blog – if – you know how to use it the right way.

- Discover a dead easy tactic that can quickly get dozens of links pointing to your blog

- Discover a style of blog post that if done right can get you thousands of visitors, often even in less than 24 hours from the moment you publish it.

- Discover the simple secret blogs have used to get tens of thousands of visitors in just hours

- Another very simple tactic you can use to get tens of thousands of visitors to your blog in just hours

- An easy to apply yet incredibly powerful tactic that can vastly increase the amount of repeat visitors you get to your blog

- How to use and benefit from blog directories

- Dead easy to apply search engine optimization tricks that can massively increase the amount of free traffic you get to your blogs

It’s not too often that a true win/win deal comes around, so when it does… I want to make sure you know about it. I do not know how long Cody will keep that course online in introductory price.

Top Blog Traffic SecretsClick Here To Grab This Video Course

Make sure you watch video 10 – An easy to apply yet incredibly powerful tactic that can vastly increase the amount of repeat visitors you get to your blog. (…no – I’m not talking about starting an email opt in list…)

You will receive this Video Course, plus the bonus gifts, all for just $97 $47! Thanks to Cody and let my site visitors to get this introductory price…

Popularity: 8% [?]

Google Page Rank

Page Rank is Googles way of showing the user a basic ranking of a webpage. The ranking is from 0 to 10 with 10 being the highest. To calculate page rank there are numerous variables involved but the most important in link popularity. So the more incoming links you have to that webpage the higher Page Rank you will have.

Page Rank is updated all the time but not visible to users. The visible Page Rank on the Google toolbar is only updated a few times a year. Normally every 3 months. There are a few ways that you can get a general idea of your Page Rank at all times. One way requires the site to be listed in the Google directory. It has become known that the directory lists in order of Page Rank. The directory uses current Page Rank data and not the visible one that only updates every 3 months. So if you have a site in the Google directory you can always get a general idea on what your current Page Rank is.

There are also Page Rank predictor tools out there. Now these tools used to be somewhat accurate but they have been shutdown with Google changing the PK parameters to all 0s. This may change again in the future but as of right now it simply does not work.

One thing that gets me is how Page Rank consumes people that are new to the SEO world. To get a few things straight here is what Page Rank does for your. NOTHING! You do not rank higher in the SERPs, make more money, get more traffic, or look cooler. This number is just a basic guideline of how many incoming links you have to your site.

But Page Rank is good for a few things at the same time. Most webmasters base link exchanges primarily based off of Page Rank. So the higher Page Rank you have the better chance of getting a good link exchange. Also it is good for selling links on your site. The price pretty much always reflects what the Page Rank is on the page.

Written by Aaron Nimocks, SEO Professional at the SEO Company

Popularity: 7% [?]

How To Buy Expired Domain Names That Have A Huge Flow Of Existing & Targeted Traffic

Have you heard of this relatively unknown stealth traffic tactic? Many niche marketing experts have been using it to create small and instant incomes every time they penetrate a new niche.

Using this tactic, it takes just a few minutes to switch on instant targeted traffic to your site.

The only cost is the $10 or so that it takes to register a domain name.

The tactic is purchasing expired domain names that have an existing flow of traffic flowing into them. The amount of traffic could be anywhere from ten to ten thousand unique visitors per day and this article will help you understand the basics of purchasing expired domains, some of the issues involved and the simple business models you can use to profit from this potent opportunity starting today.

The Expired Domain Free Traffic Loophole

I love loopholes. That’s exactly what buying expired domain names is – a big traffic loophole. It works because over time a domain has been built up and a mixture of time, money and know-how have been ploughed into it. As a result, it draws in a good amount of traffic.

But now, for whatever reason, that domain has expired. Where once there may have been a thriving website pulling income in from various sources, it no longer exists. And it’s up for grabs to the first person who recognizes what a potential goldmine it is.

Some expired domains, the highly valuable ones, have a huge blaze of traffic flowing into it on a daily basis. This tends to be because the domain has hundreds, if not thousands of backlinks as well as high search engine placement. Some are listed in the Yahoo and DMOZ indexes.

This means that if you can isolate domain names with high amounts of incoming traffic, you’ve just acquired a living, breathing potential online business for just a few paltry dollars (the cost of a domain name). You can then put together a simple model to start earning from this bustling traffic immediately using a mixture of contextual advertising, affiliate links and more. You could also find expired domains that are related to your existing sites and products and immediately redirect the traffic to your existing business model. There are certainly no shortage of ways to create positive results using expired domains.


Why Domain Names Expire

There are many reasons why domain names can sometimes be let go of. Here are a couple of examples:

People move on. They find other business opportunities which they plough themselves into.

The business that had registered and used the domain no longer exists.
How Domains Slip Into Expired Status (And How Long You Have To Wait Before Snapping Them Up)

Domain expiry doesn’t work quite like most people think. A domain doesn’t just plop out of the previous owners hands on the expiration date. Instead, once a domain name passes this date, it enters a static period of 40 days during which the original owner can still re-register it. After this period, the domain then switches to another phase (lasting a further 35 days) whereby the owner can still re-register it (for a significantly higher fee than before). It’s after this period that the general public can then get their hands on these expired domains.

How To Plug In Simple Business Models To Start Generating Immediate Profits From Expired Domain Profits.

Once you have a domain that has an incoming stream of profit from it, it’s fairly simple to start generating an income from it immediately.

If you already have a successful model that is profitable, just redirect the traffic to it (assuming it is within the same niche).

If you’ve chosen a domain name that is new, here’s a simple way of creating an income from it:

Create some content on the domain name subject. One to five pages of content is more than enough, but it must be highly useful to the reader.

Find some targeted affiliate programs – use Commission Junction or Clickbank to find them, and enter your affiliate links tastefully.

Add in your Adsense codes – to optimize your Adsense income make sure you’re using the maximum number of ad units (3) and that your ads have the same look and feel of the page & text content.

Create an opt-in form to capture the email address of your traffic. Your aim should be to convert as much targeted traffic into opt-in subscribers as possible – this way you can approach your new subscribers with additional back-end offers (this is where the real money lies).

So there you have it – a simple way of buying up expired domain names that come with existing traffic flows, and a simple business model to use that flow for maximum profits.

FREE – Expired Domain Fortunes eBook With Master Resell Rights! Click The Below Link To Discover Exactly How To Buy Up $10 Expired Domains That Have Hundreds Or Even Thousands Of Daily Targeted Visitors:

http://www.digital-resale-rights.com/expireddomainscomp.htm

Popularity: 11% [?]

How To Get Indexed In Google Search Fast Without Submitting To Google

Most new websites think that the only way to get indexed into Google search or any search engine is to submit there website.

Once a webmaster goes and submits there website into search engines their site normally will be placed on hold. Google calls this the Sand Box affect. This can take months before your website shows in search index.

Do you have months to wait and see if your website shows in Search Engines?

If your answer is no than I have a 4 step easy process that will get your website into Google Search index in some times less than a week and you never submit it to Google.

Read on to find out how.

  1. The first thing you want to do is forget about submitting your site directly to the big engines like Google, MSN, Yahoo. This is the old, slow way.
  2. Now the next thing you want to do is look online for free online directories and websites to submit your site to. Just type Free Search Engine Friendly Directory List into your favorite search engine. This should give you a good number of websites to start with.
  3. Once you have found a list of free directories you can start submitting or suggesting your website. Be sure to place your website into the proper related categories. Try to look for directories that have a page rank of at least 2 to 3 to submit to first. They hold a bit more weight with Google Search than a 0 to 1 page rank sites.
  4. Be sure to use a text link with your keyword phrases when submitting rather than just your URL. This will help search engines determine what keywords to index your website under.

That’s it. It is that simple. Google Search and other search engines will find your website link while crawling websites and directories already indexed. Search engines look at this a vote for your site. Because most directories are human edited and if your link has been approved, engines like Google Search realize that your website must have some value.

Note: Not all directories will approve your site submission so you want to continue to find new link possibilities as this is also an excellent way to build link popularity.

Search Engines are always looking to supply new, fresh valued content websites to their update index, increasing the quality of their query results.

There are other things you can do to create links to your website like forum marketing, article submission and press releases but submitting your website to directories works just as well and free directories are all over the net.

How To Get Indexed In Google Search Fast Without Submitting To Google

Submission to Google Search can get your website sent to the sand box for months.

Most new websites think that the only way to get indexed into Google search or any search engine is to submit there website.

Once a webmaster goes and submits there website into search engines their site normally will be placed on hold. Google calls this the Sand Box affect. This can take months before your website shows in search index.

Do you have months to wait and see if your website shows in Search Engines?

If your answer is no than I have a 4 step easy process that will get your website into Google Search index in some times less than a week and you never submit it to Google.

Read on to find out how.

  1. The first thing you want to do is forget about submitting your site directly to the big engines like Google, MSN, Yahoo. This is the old, slow way.
  2. Now the next thing you want to do is look online for free online directories and websites to submit your site to. Just type Free Search Engine Friendly Directory List into your favorite search engine. This should give you a good number of websites to start with.
  3. Once you have found a list of free directories you can start submitting or suggesting your website. Be sure to place your website into the proper related categories. Try to look for directories that have a page rank of at least 2 to 3 to submit to first. They hold a bit more weight with Google Search than a 0 to 1 page rank sites.
  4. Be sure to use a text link with your keyword phrases when submitting rather than just your URL. This will help search engines determine what keywords to index your website under.

That’s it. It is that simple. Google Search and other search engines will find your website link while crawling websites and directories already indexed. Search engines look at this a vote for your site. Because most directories are human edited and if your link has been approved, engines like Google Search realize that your website must have some value.

Note: Not all directories will approve your site submission so you want to continue to find new link possibilities as this is also an excellent way to build link popularity.

Search Engines are always looking to supply new, fresh valued content websites to their update index, increasing the quality of their query results.

There are other things you can do to create links to your website like forum marketing, article submission and press releases but submitting your website to directories works just as well and free directories are all over the net.

This article was written by Wayne Hagerty certified Search Engine Internet Marketing professional with years of SEO experience. Discover how to increase traffic to your website. FREE Internet marketing news, and more. Succeed online, visit us today at: http://www.pixseo.com

Popularity: 8% [?]