Web Development

4 new web sites, 1 sold and 2 new for a client

I have bought some new web sites the last months and recently completed one new. ArticleHub.net, recently completed. This one is coded from scratch by my partner Alkesh from my instructions, designed by my friend Praveen, script errors and additional features fixed by legend2, database bought from a guy on DP and touch ups done [...]

I start to HATE Web Hosts

I am not usually using MSN Instant Messenger but yesterday I signed in to talk to my brother. I spoke to him a bit and then I went to another room. When I came back to the computer 5 minutes later I see the following on the screen: Stephen J says: u owe me for [...]

Changing reputation image values for vBulletin

This is my first post in a serie about vBulletin. If you purchase vBulletin you will notice that the default reputation system does not fit good with a brand new board. 100 positive rep points for the next additional green is too much for a new board. This post is about changing the image values [...]

My directory now lists over 10,000 sites

Well. I could never believe when I started that stupid directory it would become so big. As of today for Add URL-Free.com: Age: 8 months Active links: 10,609 (with opt-in e-mail) Categories: 93 Pending links: 421 Indexed pages in Google: 20,100 Yahoo backlinks: 5,650 MSN backlinks: 11,161 Unique backlinks: 698 Average daily uniqes: 374 Average [...]

New site: SEO-Forum.se

I just finished making a Swedish SEO forum – SEO-Forum.se – and I am very pleased with it. There has not been any real SEO forum for Sweden before and I tell you, it was really needed. I did some special things with it, such as all members have 1 of 3 different titles depending [...]

WordPress Plugins Used

Here are the Plugins that I currently use on this blog and I like them a lot. Link to Me Textbox by Jim Westergren This plugin will set up a “link to me textbox” with HTML code in your blog posts and increase your search engine rankings. Exec-PHP by Sören Weber Executes <?php ?> code [...]

WordPress users – sharpen your URLs with Google!

Update: October 1, 2009 This article is from january 2006. In new versions of WordPress all the things in this article is being taken care of automatically. DO NOT USE IT ANYMORE. First of all you must enable the permalinks, but that you probably already have done. Now to the point. Did you know that [...]

Releasing SEO Fusion!

I am happy to announce that I now have a SEO Site for my international clients set up with all my services and their info listed! Let me present: SEO Fusion This will start my SEO business for real and moving into english speaking clients. I found it much easier doing link building for english [...]

Positive PageRank prediction!

New Edit on January 13: This tool is a bit wacko at the moment, as well as Google and the Google PageRank toolbar. The result it gave was not correct. Original post: That I like! The one I really doubt is the last one for PR 6, it will be PR 4-5. And the first [...]

Tutorial: RSS Feed inside Smarty Template files

Some while ago I wanted to set up an RSS feed according to this post on a directory of mine. The problem was that the directory is run by a smarty engine and the templates files are of the .tpl type and so the normal way to do it with simple PHP won’t work. After [...]

List of WordPress ping URLs

Latest update around 2 years later: Check out The Ultimate Plugins Smart Update Pinger Check out the big ping list of 56 URLs at this blog post. I have now added all those URLs to Options -> Writing -> Update Services in the admin, I only had 2 of them already. Will be very interesting [...]

Site sold: ArcadeShack.com

I bought ArcadeShack.com on an auction on NamePros for $75 in April 2005. I then spent a week or more improving the default site and added many features such as highscores, rating etc. I also did a real on-page optimization with mod_rewrite and KW density on game pages etc. The site has been very successful [...]

New site: SEOForReal.com

SEO For Real – all the latest SEO information for SEO Professionals automatically collected in one place. Instead of checking 5 different SEO blogs and news sites daily – you just have to visit this one. I paid a person on DP that was offering to set up these kind of sites and then I [...]

Fastest way: activate hosting and new domain

Do you, like me, sometimes need to get a new site up VERY FAST ? Here is the guide how to get a page up on the internet with new domain and new hosting in 30 minutes – I did it yesterday and I love it. Reg the domain at Godaddy – the fastest registrar [...]

New site: Link Juice – buy text links

Right now you can buy very cheap text links at LinkJuice.net and get some good discount. Boost your PR with some real Link Juice! Yesterday evening I made a new simple site to serve as a place to sell my text links. I will start to promote it in the beginning of January.

New site: OV2.net – Free URL redirection

Do you have a long URL? You can have OV2.net/you by using OVER TO free URL redirection service. Just fill out a simple form and then done. No registration, no ads, no fee, nothing – not even ads on the page in which you fill out the form. Try it out! Test it! This was [...]

How to write DOS text on your site

Do you want web site text that looks like DOS text? Here is the CSS that produces what you see on this page: .dos { width: 400px; background: #000; padding:30px; font-size: 9pt; font-family: fixedsys, LucidaTerminal, monospace; color: #909090; text-align: left; overflow:auto; border: 5px solid #909090; } Good luck! New added: I made this for fun, [...]

New site bought – SEOPlanet.net

Yesterday I purchased SEOPlanet.net on an auction. It is a very nice site with RSS news, SEO tools, a directory, articles and more with a nice design as well. Also PR 4. It is the final element I needed and will work as a center for my SEO sites, services and resources. As soon I [...]

Someone put my post in digg.com

My post Frames with CSS got submitted by someone to the design section of to digg.com and I got about 70 visitors by it. 10 people digged it so far (2 days later). Not enough to reach the home page but still ok. As soon I have a moment more I will try to explore [...]

Changed theme! (again)

This one I really like! Much better than the other one and I have integrated all the nice features that I had before. This one was not part of the around 200 themes that I was browsing before to select the previous one. I arrived to this one by following a signature link of a [...]

Frames with CSS!

I made it! After some hours I have now managed to put an idea into reality. It was not easy but now I am happy that I made it. Site: www.SEOFAQ.net If you scroll it will look like as if you have frames but in fact it is just CSS. It was not easy to [...]

GoogleBot ate my bandwidth!

Yesterday I got an automatic e-mail from my web host that this site has consumed 80% of the bandwidth. I was thinking that it was very stange, it is just in the beginning of the month and I don’t get so many visitors. My bandwidth is on 2 GB. I checked the my statcounter but [...]

New site bought – LitCollection.com

I thought that I should increase my collection of web sites and so I bought LitCollection.com on an auction. It is a directory of authors and their published work. It has great potential with over 5K pages with lot’s of text and as I know I can make it PR 5 I think I will [...]

Changed theme

Ok, it had to happen. After 3 out of 3 mentioning that it was hard to read gray on black I understood that I need to change it. I found this theme and I now spent a few hours modifying to fit my needs, I like it. What do you think about it?

Tutorial: Feed your sites by blogging!

Notice: This article is from 2005. I have written a new one in 2009 about this same thing but much more good that can be read here. Are you also the kind of webmaster with 5, 10 or even 20 web sites with the plan of making a living only through your own sites? How [...]