To begin with, I know that in this period, Google Chrome is maybe one of the most searched keywords in the technology niche for the simple fact that it’s a product made by big G. Because the product is a browser, it creates other subniches, as with Firefox, we have for example three or four: themes, add-ons, tweaks and “in general”.

From what I’ve tested so far the most searched keywords are related to addons, which gives me the impression that this is by far the best niche. Why? Because if you are smart you would realize that you can sell addons when the right time comes or release some for free and your traffic will probably increase.

Besides that I can tell you that I am on the main page of Google (not in top 5) for some keywords related to add-ons and I get around 500-600 unique visitors for them. I also believe that the dudes from first and second position get approximately 2000 u/v, which is great. In my case I am now receiving a total of 1400 u/v/day for all the keywords related to this niche and bellow you have a graph from my Google Analytics account which shows the traffic on the Chrome Tweaks blog, which has little content.

Putting all together I think this niche has some future and you can either get in now, or wait for a stable version of Chrome with “full options”, because it is quite impossible to generate new content about this browser.

Gift card messages dot com has an Alexa rank of about 400k, 100 unique visitors/day and Google Pagerank 0. The owner sets the BIN at 80000$. The problem is he really thinks that his website is worth that much and he argues with all the guys who posted an opinion. Now here’s the funny part:

As I said within just 2 months a brand new website from un-rank to 398,677 is a quick grow. After 1 month using Google Adwords I’ve learned that there are a lot of users who were looking for messages to write in their cards. The idea of GiftcardMessages.com is unique and you won’t see many website like it around. If you guys have money, then should invest in it now and do more advertise. I believe GiftcardMessages.com will become more popular in no time.
The price maybe is too high for a new website 2 months old but its future is so bright. This is a high demand website without competitors. You won’t get this price next year when it ranks 50K on Alexa and has PR=5 plus
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Why would I? You will be regretted if next year you hear this site is sold $500K – you could make $450K right now – no kidding.

Isn’t that funny? It is if you have a little knowledge about selling websites…

So what do you get if you buy 40$ worth of credits on sitepoint.com?

• First of all a nice experience and we all have a good laugh!
• A link on sitepoint which is good.
• Bad reputation which might transform into good reputation if your website or blog has great content.
• A bunch of links from websites that write about your listing on sitepoint – like I did, because it’s funny and I think it’s a great method to increase your blogs/website exposure.
• A lot of traffic from sitepoint and the rest of websites that wrote about you!

Also take a look at the following auctions:
John Cow dot Com – an intelligent guy who canceled the auction after getting his piece of exposure.
Engineering web site – Stupidity vs Marketing…
And a lot more here!

You have the results bellow, in a printscreen from my awstats. Compare Yahoo to Google, given the fact that Yahoo is not sending any traffic and Google is sending 70% of my traffic.

• Yahoo : 81069 Hits | 6.37 GB Bandwidth
• Google : 18126 Hits | 239.73 MB Bandwidth

The solution for this problem is simple. Ban Yahoo’s ips on your server using htaccess or by using Ip deny manager from your cpanel/plesk administration center.

I added the following code to my .htaccess file to ban Yahoo’s ips:

 order allow,deny
 deny from 67.195.
 deny from 74.6.
 allow from all

You should take this in consideration if you are hosted on a shared plan, because cpu and memory resources are limited and after all Yahoo isn’t so important.

“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!

Finally – Use tags
At last use technorati tags. There are a lot of plugins out there that display tags for technorati, here is just an example on wordpress.org. Also you should do a simple research for tags. Go on the front page of technorati and in the sidebar you have a section called “Tags from what’s rising”. Write about those topics and you will see some results (it’s like on google trends).

First of all because all the three letter domain names were discovered and bought in 2005-2006 and nowadays they are so expensive that you can buy a new car or house with that amount of money and as we all know money influences everything, especially our pour minds and all the guys who are in search of making money online very easy with a small investment are a lot, so in 2007 all the four letter domain names were sold and now we see the results.

Secondly, they are a bit stupid. Why? Because a person who buys domains like ykqx.com for example with 100-150$ and after builds web directories or parks them on sedo is damn stupid. Domains like the one above are useless, no keyword, unpronounceable and hard to keep in mind. Instead of buying such domains you should search for names that are pronounceable, brandable and are much cheaper.

I don’t see any practical reason to buy such domains, only if you want to dream that one they you would be able to sell it at a doubled price (only dreams). Don’t be stupid and waste your money on such domain names only because people say so.

Also from my experience I know that a great domain name creates a good impression online and makes you influence people and eventually they will buy your products if you are selling something (this is the main reason why bloggers should buy their own domain). Here are a few advices you should take in consideration before buying a domain name:

Domains should represent something
Search for something that makes sense, if not search for something that is easy to pronounce, memorize and of course, is brandable.

Google loves your domains
Search engines love keywords so you should try to add a keyword or two keywords from your niche in the domain name.
A big mistake is to copy, avoid duplicating domain names with different tld extensions. You risk getting sued if we are talking about the name of a big company or it can rise against you.

Everyone hates copycats. Don’t become one!
A big mistake is to copy, avoid duplicating domain names with different tld extensions. You risk getting sued if we are talking about the name of a big company or it can rise against you.

Domains with premium letters are expensive
If you want a domain name which has four, five or six letters you should take in consideration premium letters.

A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, L, M, N, O, P, R, S, T premium letters.
J, K, U, V, W less quality
Q, X, Y, Z are lower quality

This will add value to your domain and it will make it easier to pronounce and remember.

That’s all! I hope this article is useful!

As you can see yesterday I had about 1000 unique visitors from google only for this keyword and the traffic is growing day by day. This is a good way to make money online as well, because you can drive targeted traffic to your websites for certain keywords. Here are a few tips before starting to use this system with wordpress themes:

1. The making off
Well many of you don’t have a clue how to design or code wordpress themes. The only solution for you guys is to hire someone to do the job for you. Let’s say you have 200$ to pay the guy, well for that amount of money you’ll get a nice wp theme. This theme will bring 300-400 backlinks in a month or two and in time it will bring you more. This means a higher pagerank at the next update, more traffic and better SERPs. As we all know higher and targeted traffic results in making more money from your blog/website so you can recover the initial amount of money (200$) in the first month. The only thing is you should research well for keywords before adding the links in the footer/siderbar. For this you can use the free tool from wordtraker and for hiring a designer/coder, the only website I know is rentacoder.com.

2. Promoting your wordpress theme
Let’s say you have the wp theme. Now it’s time to promote it and for this you have unlimited options. My favorite method is submitting it to wordpress themes directories, this brings the best results. Here is a little list of directories:

• Wpthemesfree is one of the best ones. This dir sends you traffic and a lot “clients” in the same time. All my submitted wp themes, have here around 2000 views and 500 downloads, this means about 200-300 backlinks from each theme.
• Freewordpressthemes.com another great directory the only thing is they only accept quality wordpress themes.
• The official themes directory from wordpress. Well here you need an account to upload them and it takes a lot of time to get accepted.
• For a larger list just search on google

You can promote it on forums, on digitalpoint.com you can ask for a review in the html and website design section or on sitepoint.com; they have a dedicated section for this: Reviews and Critiques.

Another way is to contact other bloggers to post an article or include your wp theme in a post. An example is to contact smashingmagazine or performancing, because they often post articles about top 100, top 10 wordpress themes and this is a good way to get to be known.

3. Make money with the backlinks you gain
Once you gain a lot of backlinks your serps will grow and your traffic as well. In the footer of the wordpress theme you should add your links to your products or blog, a single tip I have here: don’t add more than two links because you risk getting them deleted. As well you should optimize your website depending on the keywords you added in the links and work with PPC campaigns for better results and monetization. That is all!

I hope this article was useful and of course I hope you succeed in what you’re doing!

A few months ago I hired someone to code me an article directory script and at the moment it is 80% done. The fact is that it’s not an ordinary article directory script, it has some futures that I specially requested and the most important one is grabbing articles from other free articles directories. So it’s kinda automated, when something new appears in the other directories, it announces me to go and press the special button. Here is a sneak preview from the admin section:

This article directory script can be seen at www.articleseen.com. It’s true it is a beta version now because I want to add some things to it like rss feed for every category, registered users, a new design (I am working at this right now) etc and I am planning on selling it or give it for free in a few months, depending on some problems.

By the way, you can use some of the articles articleseen to write fresh content for your blogs! That’s all for now

As you all know the new pagerank update is coming soon, maybe in a month or so, because the last time when PR had an update was October 2007 and for this particular reason webmasters worldwide  start to search for methods to gain as many quality backlinks as they can for their websites or blogs.

For those who don’t know backlinks are the incoming links or the links you receive from other websites/blogs and beside the fact that they are used for Google’s PageRank algorithm they are also good for your SERPs. So if you want to gain traffic from searchengines (especially google) you should consider working a lot to provide quality content and most important improve your IBLs.

Now for those who don’t really know how to receive some links from other websites, I made a little list of three methods that you can use and of course, you’ll see some great results:

1. My personal favorite is social bookmarking, because it has a lot of benefits, from backlinks, traffic, more rss readers to faster indexing from search engines! Using digg.com, stumbleupon.com or reddit.com will make the difference but the only problem is that you must have original and interesting content to get votes, because in this way you’ll drive traffic to your posts and some of the readers will link to your articles.

Here are two social bookmarking tools to make your job easy:

• SocialPoster.com maybe the first social bookmarking tool with over 59 websites to submit to.
• SocialMarker.com is a reaction to socialposter but much more improved; because it reduces reduce the time and effort of posting your content to at least 15 minutes. A little disadvantage is that it has only 31 social bookmarking sites to submit to. I suggest you use this one, they also have a wordpress plugin that blends well with in your theme!

2. Article directories are a good source of backlinks and traffic because when you submit an article you can add in its content a few links to your website/blog or posts. In this way you will benefit of quality links and pagerank but be aware that some article directories use the nofollow attribute in your links. Here is a list of article directories that use the follow attribute and are also known in this business:

• EzineArticles.com is one of the oldest and best article directory out there. If you get your article in here you can say that you are on the right way!
• ArticlesBase.com is great as well from what I know; I’ve used it a few times because it approves articles faster.
• You can get a few more articles directories by searching on Google. It is simple!

3. Link exchanges – I really don’t like this part because filling up a part of a website/blog with links looks bad and it gives your readers the impression that you are desperate for something, pagerank. You can use this method because it’s efficient and gives results sometimes; it all depends on the quality of the link and on what you can offer for it. Just don’t buy/sell links because you can get penalized!

For link exchanges you can get registered on digitalpoints forum and after go to the bussines > buy, sell or trade > link exchange section.

Also you can use widgets to exchange traffic, banners and links, some good examples are blogrush and entrecard!

I hope the next PageRank update ( January 2008 in my opinion) will make you happy and good luck at finding quality backlinks