free link building tool comment kahuna

Monday, February 25, 2008

Today I found and tested a new free link building tool - an alternative to Comment Kahuna. I found that Real Link Finder is as fast, and at least as accurate. It asks you to set a minimum number of blog comments on each blog, which means that it's more likely to find blogs that haven't implemented 'nofollow' - and less likely to find false positives. An initial negative point is that you can't filter by pagerank, but to keep to a natural looking link campaign, you will need to get backlinks from pages of all PR values, so it's not as important as some webmasters will have you believe.

Labels: resources

What's happened to LittleFish Web Design

Although I'm still a computer coding geek at heart, other commitments have taken over and I'm reducing the amount of time I am spending on web design projects.

I'm going to spend more time updating the blog than I have done in the past few months but am not taking on any new design projects.

Apologies if you've heard of the fantastic reputation and pricing of LittleFish Web Design, but you're going to have to find someone else.

There are plenty of tips in this blog about what to look for in a web designer, or for websites in general, so you shouldn't be caught unawares.

Labels: misc, webdesign

How linkable is your blog?

Monday, February 11, 2008

Philipp Lenssen, who is well known for his 'Google Blogoscoped' site, has developed a nifty little tool at howlinkable.com. Developed as a result of many hours reading blogs and working out what turned him on or off, this 30-second quiz can definitely help you decide how to improve your blog. Once you have answered the questions, you'll receive hints and tips on how to improve the linkability, and therefore likely traffic to your blog.

Labels: blogging

Stop Yahoo! tracking your every move

Wednesday, November 14, 2007

If you have a Yahoo! account, whether to be a member of a Yahoo! group or to use their webmail, you may be surprised to hear that you are now being tracked via 'web beacons'.

If you go to the Yahoo! privacy page and scroll down to the 'cookies' section, you'll see 'web beacons' mentioned.

Now, when you are logged in to Google accounts, you know that Google is tracking your search history, and you can safely assume the same with Yahoo! However outside of Yahoo! services;

"Yahoo! uses web beacons to conduct research on behalf of certain partners on their web sites and also for auditing purposes."

Hmmm...sounds like they're logging more than search history...

"Information recorded through these web beacons is used to report anonymous individual and/or aggregate information about Yahoo! users to our partners."

Ahh...so patterns of our web use can be sold to enable advertisers to use ever increasing ways to get our attention...They do say no personally identifiable information isn't used. What's to stop them saying 'a female aged 23* living in Leeds is most likely to use these sites at this time of day'? It's anonymised data, but still quite frightening when you think about it.

There is an opt-out available - just click the opt-out option on the web beacons page and it's done. Don't press the big 'cancel opt-out' button that appears on the next page - it's not a confirmation button!

* it's just an example!

Labels: searchengines, security

Grab your free copy of Lucid SEO

Thursday, November 01, 2007

I got an e-mail this morning from David Congreave (he's not a friend, I'm on his mailing list) and in it he talked about a new product launch - Lucid SEO. Now, if you subscribe to a lot of Internet Marketing e-mails, you'll be able to recognise the hype from far far away. I've never had this from David's e-mails - he sends a couple out a month, and comes across as very genuine - you know he's actually tried and tested products he recommends.

LucidSEO doesn't launch until 20th November, but there is a free report that you can grab. I did, and it isn't full of fluff or affiliate links - just a few pages of common sense that puts SEO (search engine optimisation) in a whole new light for the average webmaster.

Grab it while it's still available.

Labels: seo

Wordtracker coupon code - 15% discount

WordTracker currently have an offer running for a whopping 15% discount off their annual subscription price.

Follow this link here, then enter codeus-annual-15.

If you don't know what WordTracker is and you want to build a successful money making website, I suggest you have a look. By using keywords and keyphrases that people are searching for, you are guaranteeing that your website is more likely to be found - WordTracker does all the hard work for you when you tell it what you want to research.

You can optimise your website content, utilise the keywords for your PPC (pay per click) campaign or research new niche ideas and know before you start whether you'll be successful or not.

Labels: resources, seo

Free Wordpress theme generator

Thursday, October 25, 2007

As a web designer, I know how to code in XHTML, CSS and dabble from time to time in PHP and MySQL. That's great for standalone sites, but when it comes to blog and CMS platforms, I haven't got a clue.

Wordpress is currently my platform of choice for a personal project (more on that to come later) but I was struggling with how to learn 'the loop' and coding bits in the timeframe I've got. Roll on the Wordpress Theme Generator...

You can choose the number of columns, menu layout, colour schemes, choose from a wide range of backgrounds or go for a plain colour, insert a tag cloud, choose how to display archives etc...you're spoilt for choice really.

If you're looking at Wordpress and don't have the time/energy/budget, this is certainly worth a look.

Labels: blogging, webdesign

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