“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 .

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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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

There are so many article directories on the internet that you can use thought almost all of them have the same content, but there are a few that make a difference. So you can use the entire article because it is free, but I don’t recommend this because your readers will consider you a copycat. If you don’t want to have this type of problem you should only take the main idea or some paragraphs and modify them so that the googlebot doesn’t consider your content duplicate and penalize you.Another great thing about article directories is that they have rss feeds by category, keywords or by author so you can subscribe to them.

Here is a little list of article directories:

• Ezinearticles – here you can find the best articles out there for free
• Articlesbase– my personal favorite because it has a lot of options
• Articleseen is my personal article directory, in beta version for now. You can find more info about the script here
• Articledashboard – another great article directory that also provides the script that is used for this website.
• Goarticles – also has some original articles

Forums related to your niche – best source for new topics

I am really addicted to forums because I can find interesting opinions about the topics I am interested in and I can find very easy ideas for my articles. For example I like digitalpoint and sitepoint’s forums because I can learn new things and it really helps in internet marketing to find out what people are searching for. Who knows maybe the person who started the topic will come via google on your blog because you wrote an article with your own opinion about that particularly topic. The idea is you should search for as many forums related to your niche and make new friends, I assure you that this helps you a lot and will also grow your traffic.

In conclusion I think you should test all the websites that provide content and information for your niche and most important, don’t despair!

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.

Because Google is the best virus, people have spread the word about it (infecting other persons) and so it has monopole in this industry for now. But wait, there are some persons out there that are immune to this virus; those persons are all the other search engines like Yahoo, MSN etc, the only problem is that they aren’t good enough to defeat it and save the world. Now comes Robert Neville in action! Who is he? Well he represents all the other projects started with the main goal > destroy Google. I don’t know if you remember, but a few months ago, Germany (Theseus) has started a project that can be described in a few words: “the world’s most advanced multimedia search engine for the next-generation Internet”. Now this can be our salvation, a cure for Google’s domination.

In conclusion I would like a cure like this, because I like new stuff, but until then we remain infected and I think that one day Google will own us. Let’s hope not and go see the movie because it already owns me!

• What trends are occuring and will occur in their businesses or lives ?
• What do they secretly, ardently desire the most ?
• Who else is selling something similar to them, and how? That’s why you should research because you need to know well your competition!

So what I want to say is that you need to analyze thorougly, understand your future customers and of course very important is to know their ages, incomes, gender. For example if you want to create a niche website about games, your income wont be big, in some cases it will be zero, because you are targeted to children in general and they of course don’t have credit cards or other methods of paying.
From what I know about 60% of the persons that make money online, a lot of money I want to say, are targeted to customers over 25-30 years, that are interested in buying so before you launch yourself in this business spend a lot more time in researching, there are a lot of free tools online that can help you do this.