Web Development

Bought some new sites (again)

I regularly invest in new sites and now I have done a new round.
Here are the new ones I got hold of:

Optical Illusions PR5, high traffic, dmoz listed etc.
Modern Pentathlon Unique content, nice domain. Got the site almost for free.
DotComPlay New Arcade site. I bought it for $20 and want to sell it for $2K [...]

Bought some new sites

I regularly invest in new sites and now I have done a new round.
Here are the new ones I got hold of:

Game Reign PR5 high trafficed flash game site
Wi-Fi-Hotspots Unique site
Find More Articles 3,2K articles, nice script
Mesothelioma Learning Nice high paying content
nishantonline.info PR4 domain for later use
turtlcafe.net PR4 domain for later use

I got them all [...]

2 big redesigns and 2 new sites

Usually I just concentrate on SEO for myself and clients and don’t do so much web site designing but the last days was an exception. In fact I even don’t offer web design anylonger to clients so when I do it is mostly for my own sites.
This is the new web design updates from this [...]

Where do I buy and sell web sites?

Aaron Pratt asked in a comment where do I buy and sell so here comes the answer.
SitePoint: http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=56
Serious place.
DigitalPoint: http://forums.digitalpoint.com/forumdisplay.php?f=52
Second best place. Sorting by thread start time here
NamePros: http://www.namepros.com/developed-sites-for-sale/
Good place to buy cheap web sites.
Whenever I have “too much” money I will go to those three places and place bids intensively. It is a lot [...]

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 by myself.
MoralStories.net
When [...]

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 hosting bro [...]

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 and [...]

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

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 on [...]

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 in your posts, pages [...]

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 these are all [...]

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 sites with for [...]

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 one will not be [...]

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 numerous [...]

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 what will happen [...]

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 and [...]

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 put [...]

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 I know [...]

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 a [...]