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My directory now lists over 10,000 sites
Posted in My sites on March 15th, 2006

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 daily pageloads: 1,329
Average daily submissions of new links: ca 50
Ranks:
add url free:
Google: [...]


New site: SEO-Forum.se
Posted in My sites on February 17th, 2006

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 on [...]


WordPress Plugins Used
Posted in WordPress on February 5th, 2006

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 in your posts, pages [...]


WordPress users - sharpen your URLs with Google!
Posted in SEO, WordPress on January 24th, 2006

First of all you must enable the permalinks, but that you probably already have done.
Now to the point. Did you know that these are all different URLs for the same blog post?
http://www.myblog.com/my-blog-post
http://www.myblog.com/my-blog-post/
http://myblog.com/my-blog-post
http://myblog.com/my-blog-post/
Google sees this as 4 different URLs and 4 different pages when in fact it is only one. One of them will rank higher [...]


Releasing SEO Fusion!
Posted in My sites, SEO on January 13th, 2006

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 sites with for [...]


Positive PageRank prediction!
Posted in My sites on January 13th, 2006

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 one will not be [...]


Tutorial: RSS Feed inside Smarty Template files
Posted in Web Development on January 6th, 2006

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 numerous [...]


List of WordPress ping URLs
Posted in WordPress on January 4th, 2006

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 what will happen [...]


Site sold: ArcadeShack.com
Posted in My sites on January 4th, 2006

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 and [...]


New site: SEOForReal.com
Posted in My sites, SEO on January 4th, 2006

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 put [...]


Fastest way: activate hosting and new domain
Posted in Web Development on December 30th, 2005

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 I know [...]


New site: Link Juice - buy text links
Posted in Link Building, My sites on December 30th, 2005

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
Posted in My sites on December 28th, 2005

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 a [...]


How to write DOS text on your site
Posted in Web Design on December 17th, 2005

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 [...]


New site bought - SEOPlanet.net
Posted in My sites on December 14th, 2005

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 finish the [...]


Someone put my post in digg.com
Posted in My sites, Online Marketing on December 12th, 2005

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 the [...]


Changed theme! (again)
Posted in My sites, WordPress on December 12th, 2005

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 web designer [...]


Frames with CSS!
Posted in My sites, Web Design, Web Development Articles on December 10th, 2005

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 make as Internet Explorer [...]


GoogleBot ate my bandwidth!
Posted in My sites on December 8th, 2005

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 no increase [...]


New site bought - LitCollection.com
Posted in My sites on December 8th, 2005

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 get back [...]



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