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Free Articles Directory

March 27th, 2009 No comments

So… It’s been a while. Sorry about that. I have no real excuse apart from laziness. :D Well, and I got a new job. I love the hippie lifestyle (the not working bit), but the no money bit catches up on you after a while.

Anyway, I’m going to stop being so lazy. That means, keeping my websites up to date, exercising, eating and working. But I hope to only be doing the latter (in the traditional sense at least) for the next few years.

Free Articles Directory

To the important things! I’ve spent the last couple of days working on my website, getting them up updated and whatnot. And in the process, got the article directory I was talking about a while ago, up and running!

There’s still a lot I need to do to it, mostly in terms of looks, but it is all working a ready for you other webmasters out there to get your articles published.

The website is FreeArticlesWiki.com

I had other plans for it at first (hence the wiki part in the domain name). But now, I guess, I just have to make a joke about it NOT being a wiki at all.

Free traffic and backlinks! You know you can’t resist… :D

-Cash

I’ve Been Busy, Leave Me Alone!

March 6th, 2009 2 comments

Just a quick post to let you know I am still alive. I know, I’ve been making some excuses for being lazy about updating my websites and writing articles.

I’ve just been a little busy recently. I travelled interstate last weekend for a car event and since then I’ve been working and organising things back at home.

But fear not, I’ll be writing some more awesome articles soon!

-Cash

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I have repositioned my ads!

February 24th, 2009 1 comment

That’s right folks, I have decided to reposition my ads. Why?

A few reasons:

  1. To hopefully get a better CTR (click-through ratio). Since they are now more in the content, maybe people will look more at them.
  2. To possibly be less annoying. I noticed that the drop-down menus are sometimes shown under ads, making them impossible to click.
  3. The sidebar should now be more usable without the big block ad there. Categories and archives are now visible without scrolling down.
  4. I’ve opted for less ads on most pages, so pages should load just that tiny bit faster. :D

So, I’ll see how they go. I’ll let you know if they do better.

Let me know if you think they are more anoying where they are and if you have any problem with their positioning.

-Cash

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Choosing Your Keywords

February 22nd, 2009 1 comment

I’ve mentioned the importance of good keywords/keyphrases in previous articles, but I’ve never told you how to choose them. So today, I’ll get back to basics, and I’ll introduce you some of the tools I use to find search terms (keyphrases) for my websites.

You can then use these keyphrases to help you select a domain name, a website name and also to fill in your meta description and keywords.
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YouTube to allow video downloads

February 21st, 2009 2 comments

A few days ago, I read a news article, talking about YouTube’s latest idea to boost revenue. Their idea is to allow YouTube partners to offer their video for download, for free or for a fee (choice of the partner).  They are currently testing the plan with selected partners. I think it is a step in the right direction. More information at: The Washington Post

Decrease piracy?

With the success of iTunes Store, I think YouTube’s plan has the potential for get users what they want cheaper, quicker and LEGALLY. If the big TV networks and movies producers are willing to jump on board, it could seriously help to decrease piracy.

I have no problem paying for a video (if the price is reasonable). At the moment, when you buy a DVD, most of the money you’re paying, goes to the retailer and to the distributor. So I’m all for cutting out the middle-men! I’m not saying I pirate TV episodes or movies at the moment, but I do have a friend who does.

The bad news for me

Because YouTube wants people to PAY for downloads of certain videos, they seem to be cracking down on websites allowing users to download YouTube videos.

Unfortunately, YouTubeKeep falls into this category.

Well it was nice knowing you! :P

Using www. Could Be Decreasing Your Rank

February 20th, 2009 1 comment

If you’ve used WebsiteGrader, you might’ve noticed the section mentioning that you need to redirect www.yoursite.com and yoursite.com to the same location. I’ve done my research on the effects of not doing this, but there are a lot of conflicting opinions. The general though is that your search engine score might be split between the two “seperate” sub-domains.

There is a chance that other problems can be caused also. SSL certificates are for one sub-domain only (with or without the www.), so your certificate might show the user an error if they use the other.

Some search engines may realize they are the same website, others may not, but why risk lowering your score, when it’ll take you less than 5 minutes to fix this problem?!

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