Wednesday, December 20, 2006

Add your link today

This site kinda caught my attention today, and I think that it is well worth a blurb or two.

Add Link Online is basically a site where you can get your site listed for a minimum fee of $1. The higher you pay, the higher your site appears on the list.If somebody buys a spot for a price greater than what you have bought it for, their link goes ahead of yours. And if you think you need to pay a lumpsum to top, think again.You can upgrade by paying extra $$ at a later time, and your new position will be determined by the sum total of what you paid before and what you have paid now.

Many webmasters spend a considerable amount of their time advertising and buying links for their site. Value for money is therefore what they look for. This one certainly offers that.And there is a cool stats figure which tells how many links have been bought, how much has been spent on advertising, etc. And the owner appears to be promoting it quite well.

Buy $1 link here.

Monday, December 11, 2006

Avatar advertising- new way of brand promotion

Signatures at webmaster and other forums were always used for creating awareness about your site. Avatar advertising is another effective way of brand promotion.

Just check out Digital Point. This is a hugely popular webmaster forum, incase you weren't aware. Just check out the profiles of some members with greater than 500 posts. Most of them will either sport a site-sift or sevenseek avatar.Some of the generous souls did it for free, while the others were lured with $$. Cool way of advertising, IMO.

Tuesday, November 14, 2006

Walking with the Tigers

Many of you might be wandering what I am talking about. If you have some money to spare, then definitely consider this cause.

You might have heard of the Tiger Temple in Western Thailand. It keeps various animals, including the tigers. The animals are quite tame, and tourists are allowed to pat the tigers. Wat Pa Luangta Bua Yannasampanno Forest Monastery is a support site for the Tiger temple.Donors are gratefully acknowledged on the main page with a link. The higher you donate, the higher your link is placed. And the site isn't a fraud, all donations do go to the Tiger Temple.

Visit the site today

Do your bit today for a good cause.

CPayscom2 Online Casino

I am sure that some of you might be taking part in the CPayscom2 Online Casino contest.

It is an seo contest, and to win the moolah you need to get your site to the top of the SE's. I'll be writing an article on why SEO contests are so popular a little while later.

Tuesday, November 07, 2006

Times Magazine names Youtube as " Invention of the Year"

The company founded by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley and Jawed Karim has added another feather in its cap. After being taken over by internet giant Google this year, Youtube has been declared as Times invention of the year.

Video sharing wasn't new, but the phenomenon these guys created surely was.

Wednesday, November 01, 2006

Reddit has been acquired

Reddit, the online news aggregator and social bookmarking site, has been acquired by Conde Nast publications, the owner of " Wired Digital" magazine.

The sum is undisclosed but various rumours estimate it to be around the 65 million $ mark. Reddit's 4 founders cum employees will relocate to San Francisco, Wired's headquarters- Steve Huffman, Alexis Ohanian, Aaron Swartz and Chris Slowe.

Another acquisition after G bought Youtube not too long ago.

Looks like the acquisitions are flying thick and fast

Friday, October 27, 2006

Links Arena- SEO friendly web directory

Links Arena

Links Arena is an SEO friendly, human edited, spam free and family friendly web directory. It is organised via a good category structure. You can go for the regular links ( w/wo reciprocal) or buy a featured listing. The featured listing currently costs $ 20.

It also contains a collection of the best web directories across the net and is definitely worth taking a look

Submit your site today !!!

Seo and Stuff

Our site for today is Seo and Stuff

The site is a relatively new one. As the name suggests, it primarily focuses on SEO . It offers various SEO services i.e :-

1.) Directory Submission -- Various packages are available to suit individual tastes. You can choose between 100, 200, 300 and 400 submissions to various PR 3-7 directories. There is a tracking system in place for your orders, and 10 day money back guarantee is present, in the rare case that you might not be too happy with what you get.

2.)SEO Consulting

3.) Link Building

4.) Link Baiting

5.) Copywriting

The script/ tools section is under development and apart from the normal tools, will contain " Skype Reception" and " Stuff Directory".

The blog contains some interesting blurbs about China and the owner's personal life too . Also check out the interview of the owner of the Epitrope directory when you are there. It makes for interesting reading.

Thursday, October 26, 2006

The benefits of submitting your sites to directories

To begin with, lets know what a web directory is. A web directory is , as the name suggests, a directory of websites. It categorizes web sites and contains links to them.

Directories help new sites to take their first few steps in the vast world that is the internet. As you might know, search engines rank sites on basis on the number of back links, or inbound links. The greater the number of links from authority sites, the higher you move up in the results pages. The higher you move, the greater is the chance that you will start receiving visitors from the SE's for your chosen keywords. Submitting your sites to directories is thus a great way of gaining precious links.

Link Submissions to directories are of various types:
a.) Free submission
b.) Reciprocal Links
c.) Featured link
d.) Featured Home page link.

From looking at this, you might be tempted to say that free directories are the way to go. But a paid submission in a reputed directory can be of much greater weightage than say 100 free directories. Free directories do sometimes tend to look like link farms, and do not really have much credibility in the SE's. If the directory is free, there isn't much of a chance the owner would have gone that extra yard to promote his directory because of the spam that comes with it too. There are certain directories which use the no follow tag, submitting to whom won't be of any real use.

Most directories are human edited. Therefore a listing in a reputed directory would mean that your site is really worth visiting, which would therefore again increase traffic . Getting into directories like DMOZ and Yahoo therefore means a lot for the site owner.

So what are you waiting for?? Get ready, get submitting and reap the benefits.

My first post

Hello folks. This is my first post here. The World Wide Web as you might know, is one hell of a large place, and it will continue to expand as time progresses.

I intend to check out some of the best sites and directories on the web and blog about em. Plus you will also see some articles from time to time regarding SEO and Internet marketing from me.

Keeping checking out this space for more.

Cheeers