It is two o’clock and I finished watching an interesting movie called “Untraceable”. Thought it is not a good movie to watch at night, it was fascinating because it includes some interesting topics like Internet, hacking, FBI which I enjoy, excluding the part with killing people and video streaming the crimes online. Here is a little summary from imdb, you can read more about this movie here:
“FBI agent Jennifer Marsh is tasked with hunting down a seemingly untraceable serial killer who posts live videos of his victims on the Internet. As time runs out, the cat and mouse chase becomes more personal.”
Unfortunately some people enjoy watching on the Internet gore and disturbing content and in my opinion they are lunatics, but that is their problem as long as I don’t meet them on the street 
. The fact is that this movie, “Untraceable”, was promoted and is promoting a website called killwithme.com. In the movie this website is the place where the psycho hacker was broadcasting live his crimes and in the real world, this is the website that promotes the movie (the official website), with an interesting marketing strategy. As you can see bellow in the alexa ranking charts, killwithme.com has two periods of time when it was highly browsed, on 25 January 2008 when ”Untraceable” was released in USA and this period of the month (April) when the movie was released in other countries, on DVD’s or blu-ray rips especially.
As you can see the traffic and alexa rank for this website is increasing and a funny thing is that most of the users come from the United Kingdom and not from USA where all the action happened and where the movie was released. Maybe the United Kingdom has more psychos, just joking!
It is interesting how a movie like this is able to create buzz, based on the fact that somewhere out there, there is an audience interested in a specific topic, prepared to spread the “news” worldwide. This method is called word of mouth marketing (WOMM) and it is great if you know how to use it. I have an idea and I think I’ll develop a website soon; don’t worry, I am not a killer lol 
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Overall “Untraceable” is a great movie and I recommend you watch and analyze it, because who knows, maybe you’ll get an idea for a new website and just remember this: you are a web developer, not a killer. 
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There is an old saying in internet marketing that “Content is king” but bloggers nowadays have a big problem with getting information, so some of them give up writing articles for this particular reason (I am talking about niche blogs). I had the same problem a year ago, but today I can say that there are so many ways to stay informed and you can blog about anything, because you only need a main idea and a few more resources to write a great article for your niche blog. So from my experience here are a few methods to keep up to date with the new information from your niche.
Google news or blogsearch – great tools in combination with any feed reader
Yes, google news because it provides fresh information every hour, day and in combination with a rss feed reader you are ready anytime to write on your blog about anything. All you need is a keyword in which you are interested in (from your niche) and the fresh news will be brought into your reader. I made a little video tutorial so you can see the exact steps for this method though it’s really simple:
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This method with only one keyword rss feed can be used also with all the social bookmarking websites like digg, propeller, technorati etc and the good part about it is that you can keep in touch with blogs from your niche.
Article directories provide relevant content for your niche
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admin
- Date:
Jan 10,2008
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Marketing
Two months ago I thought that I can increase my technorati rank and authority by creating a wordpress theme and giving it away for free. I was right and I still believe that it’s a great way to do so. In approximately one month and a few days I’ve increased my authority with 65 units and my rank from 200k to 80k because I released three wp themes, two specially designed for my blog and another one for Christmas.
My first wordpress theme is acosmin v1.0 which brought me a few backlinks and from what I see, the blogs that are using this theme have a huge possibility to gain high pagerank. This is good for me because my SERPs are growing and of course I can expect to increase my PR with one or two units.
The second wp theme is tmz winter, specially designed for a Romanian gossip blog and based on the Christmas topic. I had some nice feedback for this theme, some important blogs posted some reviews about it and some included it in a top 10 wp themes for holydays; ex performancing.com.
My recent theme is acosmin v2.0 which has real success. Almost 100 blogs are using this theme for now and it’s the main reason my technorati rank has increased.
Now I don’t want to say that my rankings are high but for a blog that is almost two months old my rank is good and I wanted to share this tip with you guys because it’s a simple way to increase your stats.
You can do the same too, the only thing is you should know a few things about wordpress, xhtml and css! Another method is pay a designer to create a theme for you and after give it for free to the blogosphere. They’ll thank you for sure!
Hope this tip will help you in your blogging journey !
I hope you’ve seen the movie “I am legend” starring Will Smith (Robert Neville), otherwise go to a cinema and see it, because in my opinion it’s a great movie. To get an idea about the movie, read the summary from imdb link here. Now let’s compare the story from “I am legend” with Google. I can only imagine that Google is the virus because it has behaved like one since the beginning and so, over the years it has “infected” us by spreading very fast on the internet (in the world) with the help of the monsters (spider bots) that are working full-time to provide the best cache for this search engine.
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