Link Collectors Community Weblog Archive

Source: Updated Pagerank Checker .

I liked this one because it was fast and seemed to be accurate.

I guess it's a community only to discuss Google. I just now found it for the first time but it looks like it's been around for awhile.

Source: Google Community

Happened upon "Evri" last night. It is an innovative search engine / content / connectivity interface that combines items related to the search topic all on one page, like relevant Wikipedia item, connections to related topics, business stats info, popularity graph, Amazon.com items, articles, and images. Searches for something only if the word or phrase already exists in the database. Pretty slow to use but interesting enough to be worth it.

Source: Search less, understand more - Evri

Tips for search engine optimization, by Google itself, new as of November:

Source: Official Google Webmaster Central Blog: Googles SEO Starter Guide

Enter a website URL in the Search form on the front page and find a list of 10 sites that appear to have the same content as that of the page in question. Shows more than 10 with a premium membership.

Source: Copyscape - Search for Website Plagiarism and Duplicate Content Online

Source: url shortener at is.this.it

"Shorten that looooooooong URL into a short URL"

Cute domain name.

For use when you have some HTML code that you want to post (as code) on a web page. Handy and fast little tool.

Source: Convert HTML code to Entities

Myriad Search . This is Aaron Wall's search engine. It's pretty neat, nice and simple, works good. Nice easy to read sets of results. You can select which major search engines of Google, Yahoo!, MSN, or Ask Jeeves to include in the results and even give them a bias setting. This is a different sort of a search engine, a refreshing change from all the complexity that sites these days seem to be having.

WebWorkshop has a page rank calculator that helps work out site architecture and interpage relationships as how they affect Google Page Rank. This calculator accompanies an article that explains the relationships between pages' links in detail, PageRank Explained. Tool can be used free at WebWorkshop's site ->  Google's PageRank - Calculator

Not only analyzes the meta tags but does a breakdown of almost everything on a page. Works well, is fast, and seems like it would be a lot of help in optimizing a page.

http://www.seocentro.com/tools/search-engines/metatag-analyzer.html

Sorry about the sluggishness and other strange behaviors you may have encountered when visiting this site in recent weeks and especially in the past few days. There were some problems with the servers to which we were moved by our former host. Since they seemed to be unable to fix it, I found a new hosting arrangement and moved the site. The new host seems great.

Seems to pick up words from the site in about the same context as Adsense.

Keyword Tool

People everywhere are looking for ways to make money at home. Some may want a constant work at home job so that they never have to "go to the office" again, or others just want to supplement their current income. There are a variety of ways that you can make extra cash at home just using the Internet. One easy way to add dollars to your current budget at home is by joining GPT (Get Paid To) websites.

It's a very easy process how a GPT website works. Most GPT websites need to create a company database of those that would pay them to bring in new customers to their websites. The kind of companies that may pay GPT websites would be ones like cosmetics or any other type of shopping venue, credit card companies, telephone services, magazines, survey websites, and any other type of service websites. Companies are always looking for new customers to bring in extra money and to keep their supplies in demand. What better way to do this, than to pay another company to bring in their customers for them?

Once a GPT website has companies available, they then form their website and pay people like YOU to try their products and services or to do surveys. Most companies may only make you pay shipping and handling to try their products. Most shipping and handling fees are very low in these kinds of cases-most of them are never above four or five dollars at the most. An easy way to pay for such small amounts is to have a disposable credit card that you would just use online. While you might pay around $2 for shipping, you might make an extra $5-$20 profit just for trying these products and services. It's easy money for just doing a simple task.

If you have joined a GPT website and have decided that you would not like to use credit cards online, there are other ways to earn cash as well. You can take company surveys, play games online, shopping at websites, or refer friends. There's a world of possibilities when it comes to a GPT website. The cash that you will earn depends on how much effort and time that you put into it.

When you have decided that joining a GPT website is for you and you would like to try to earn extra money, there are some steps that you need to follow in order to protect yourself, and of course, keep all of your venues organized that you have taken surveys for or joined up for on trial offers.

Some of these steps that you need to take are as follows:

*Get a separate free email account from the one you already have. You will probably get a lot of advertisements from these companies. When you are finished with the trial offers, you can delete these emails. Email accounts to try are ones like gmail, yahoo, hotmail, etc.

*Whatever you do--NEVER give out your personal home phone number. Go online where you can sign up with a free local phone number that has voice mail where you could check your messages online. This way you won't receive unwanted calls into your home, and you can safely use voicemail without the intrusion.

* To pay for shipping costs, get a debit or credit card. Virtual credit cards work well too. If you have a paypal account, you can easily sign up for your very own free virtual credit card. Or if you would rather not use your own credit card, disposable prepaid cards are available for purchase as well.

*Stay organized by keeping track of your offers. Write down the offer name, the date you signed up, your profit after shipping, and the date that you can decide if you want to cancel the item or keep it.

*Download C Cleaner. It is a freeware system and optimization tool. This way you can get rid of unused files on your computer system, and free it up for more memory so that your computer runs fast and more smoothly. It also will erase your history and activities that you have done on the Internet.

Once you have simplified these tasks and put them to use, it's time to research and pick, which GPT websites you would like to join. If you want an easy place to start with, try http://mealticketonus.com/getpaid . This is a simple and easy website to join, and it's also free so you have nothing to lose. You join this website, and decide which companies that you would like to complete your trial offers or free offers with, and there's also surveys to take, and websites to visit, etc.

For every offer you complete you earn money. It's also very easy to cash out at Meal Ticket On Us as well. Once a member reaches $5, they get to cash out by choosing a paypal payment . This website is updated very often, and is sure to keep you busy.

I have guru disgust syndrome. More often than not, there are people who claim to be internet marketing experts, but have no real credibility behind it. They play to the emotions of unsuspecting people who part with their money but never get what they expect.

This is the world of the internet marketing experts we know today. It is a world filled with skepticism, and an instant gratification world that does not allow real people to show themselves because of the fear that "normal results" are not good enough.

So, you want to be an internet marketing expert? Be my guest! I don't suppose you are going to want to have to hold the responsibility of being accused of being "one of the scammers" in the world.

Of course, there are pre-requisites. If you want to know good internet marketing experts, they are usually not easy to find. They have results that are so key, they will rather hide it than to give it to you. Some experts are already right there in front of you, but they don't consider themselves experts. These are the ones you should be learning from. They have some knowledge, but that knowledge could mean a difference of 4 or 5 figures to you!

What I'm saying is this: if you are actively seeking out mentors, anyone, even a newbie, could be a mentor to you. You can develop your internet marketing skills through observing more people. In the short run, you will need to know who are good at what they do. This is why I recommend that you go to the place where you get third party input about who is an internet marketing expert.

All you need to do is to simply ask about your "guru" in question on the forums I've provided, and there will be people who will breathe new life into your evaluation. Of course, this also means there are some experts on the forums who can already answer your questions.

http://www.internetmarketingsingapore.com/blog/

Now I have never been a avid weblog reader.  Honestly most of them drive me nuts, I like quality and unfortunately most blogs out there are old & outdated, poorly designed, and the writer usually says a whole lot of nothing (don't blog just to blog people! lol).

Now that being said a while back I discovered It's Like I'm...mmmagic...this lady is hilarious and quite well spoken (even when she writed about nothing lol).

She usually doesn't post every single day but it is usually kept quite up to date (most times it's within a day or 2 of her last post).

So if you want a good laugh check it out!

 "Make $25 for just 5 minutes of work Completing Simple Surveys in your spare-time!" These are the words we come across while searching for surveys in search engines. Yes, indeed paid surveys online is a great work from home opportunity to make some extra money in your spare time. You can make a good amount of money; there are quite a few companies on the net that pay you to answer surveys.
They make their money by selling market research information to large corporations. There are over 7 million companies that actively survey consumers to find the best way to promote their products to get a high standard of business. Most of the reputed paid survey sites are online divisions of market research companies. Market Research companies are concerned in knowing your opinion on various matters on behalf of their clients. Your opinion allows them to get in touch with consumers and their views, personal interests, habits, and desires of potential or future customers. This useful data from the surveys helps them optimize their products to the market demand and target their customers more effectively. These companies are willing to pay you for your time you spend for them! In fact all of them free to join. But its time consuming to gather the data of the companies which give the paid surveys. So some membership sites act as a middle-man, charge a token of amount to give you a list of reputable companies. I don't think they are charging a large amount. Its only as a fee to register and sign-up. Getting paid online surveys is guaranteed by these survey companies with joining fee from their members. Be cautious in knowing their legitimacy. Some of the legitimate survey sites are well known among seasoned survey takers. New survey companies are launched every week, trying to capture the growing demand for survey takers. So a close monitoring of the legitimacy of the paid survey sites is essential, otherwise you could loose your hard earned money and valuable time. The highest paid survey jobs are a combination of financial payments, prizes and incentive rewards. Some paid surveys online offer unique rewards like "Get paid to try new products, Get paid to preview movie trailers, Get paid to travel, Get paid to drive your car, Get Paid To Shop and Eat!" Some offer cash discounts on merchandise. You don't need anything to do all this. There is nothing to download. You do not need any special computer or operating system. You simply log in and find surveys. This can be done from any computer, at any time with internet connected PC or a laptop. Most paid survey opportunities require that you are at least 18 years of age, but other than that there are no specific requirements. Sign-up with a maximum number of survey companies. If you don't sign up with all the available survey makers, you will miss surveys you could have taken and lose income that you otherwise could have made. There is no fixed number of survey makers. Plan to sign up for 150 to 300 survey makers and get paid surveys. Do create a separate email id for the paid surveys online and check your inbox at least once a day. After you complete the surveys, some companies will allow you to be paid by Paypal online. You can even get company check by postal mail. Most paychecks are sent twice monthly, some will pay once a month. It's your choice that you can specify your payment mode. The amount of surveys taken, and income earned will depend on how much time and effort you put into the surveys. Income is solely dependent on an individual's effort and attention to survey offers. So if you are serious to make money online and want to get paid for your opinion, you should make a serious effort initially. Later on you could spare a few hours and enjoy the benefits of paid surveys. As time is money, even the search engine like Yahoo! is sending YPN surveys to the survey takers for general information and opinion. They are paying a good amount of money for the time spent on the survey. So its your turn to cash the benefits that are offered by the Fortune 500 corporations and other MNC's in the form of paid surveys online. Make the companies get paid for your opinions.

http://mealticketonus.com/index.php/Latest/Get-Paid-to-take-Surveys.html

If there is one thing that we enjoy it is getting something for free. I've seen people get excited about getting useless junk without having to pay for it. Yes in the land of the free we surely love getting stuff for free. Game shows are built around these premises. Win cars, home or cash without having to pay for it. We aspire to be apart of such action. If we can't we spend time in front of the television watching other people getting free stuff.  

There are several factors though that has made free things available to the masses. First is the fact that free is so powerful. When it comes to marketing the most important word is free. It drives people to its source. Because of this companies look to capitalize on the opportunity. If they give a product of their own away for free they attract attention.

Other companies use free stuff to their advantage. Take for instance the vacation industry. You can take free vacations, get free park attraction tickets or even get paid to vacation. The reason is so that they can give you their 2-4 hour sales pitch. Be assured it will come. They use this tactic every day. Why? It works for them.

So when it comes to free stuff the fact of the matter is everyone comes out a winner. As the consumer we end up with something that we didn't have to pay for. Companies benefit because by craftily giving something away for free they end up benefiting their bottom line.

http://mealticketonus.com

Makes a nice report with graphs of traffic analyses by many of the most popular search and web directory services.

Source: UrlTrends :: Website Optimization Reports, Search Engine Ranking Trends and Online Competitive Research

Index by TLD Code - a handy list of all Top Level Domains: http://www.iana.org/root-whois/index.html

An article by Formulate Information Design covering some interesting details on use of personal names in collecting and displaying information from web forms as related to customs in different countries' use of names.

The Name Riddle

Does your company's website really need to be listed in both the organic or "natural" search results as well as the paid "sponsored" results? The answer is a most definite "yes". After talking to a lot of other search engine marketing experts, we all tend to agree that a combined approach--one that relies on both organic search engine rankings and paid listings works best.

Higher click-thru ratios
According to recent research, (I will quote and talk about the research in the presentation), websites that are listed at the top of the organic search results and the paid listings will triple their click-thru ratio. Three times more people will visit your website if it is listed in both places because there is a "second opinion effect". Searchers see both listings and are encouraged by the fact that a website is listed in both the organic listings and the paid listings.

Greater penetration of search results
By optimizing your website's content to rank well in the organic search results, your website can be found for many keyword phrases and combinations of keywords. Good organic search engine rankings typically take months to achieve, and are fairly easy to maintain on an ongoing basis. Pay per click (PPC) can be implemented quickly--it can also be turned on and off as needed, depending on your company's budget and current promotions.

More keyword research
Keyword research tells you how many people per day search for what keyword terms. There are many tools available that allow you to perform keyword research even before you achieve organic search engine rankings or start a PPC campaign. Once organic search engine rankings are achieved, keyword research using existing website statistic data allows you to enhance your listing of keywords--you can combine your organic keyword list with your PPC keyword list to focus on the keyword phrases that bring you the best ROI. If you start a PPC program before your organic rankings are achieved, then you can use the PPC data to enhance your organic ranking efforts--focus on keywords that are giving you a better conversion rate and more qualified traffic to your site.

Build credibility
Organic search engine rankings provide very high levels of credibility and broad coverage on potentially every search engine worldwide. When a website is listed well in the organic search results, the website usually is found for not only their chosen keywords but many combinations of keyword phrases related to those chosen keywords. It's those other combinations of related keywords that bring a website a lot of more visibility in the search results, frequently causing a website appear to be found "for everything" related to a certain industry. The results can be staggering--a properly optimized website can appear in the search results more often and for more related keywords than a company who has not done any organic search optimization.

Appearing the paid results also helps to build credibility--just because a searcher doesn't click on a paid ad and visits the website doesn't mean they haven't seen the company's sponsored listing. Paid listings also can provide some visibility and credibility for certain keywords that aren't usually obtainable through organic search engine optimization.

Bill Hartzer is a search engine marketing expert and writes regularly on his blog about the latest social bookmarking and social networking news.

Yesterday the site here was upgraded to the latest version of WebAPP . There have been a lot of security measures applied to versions since our last upgrade here. I noticed today that some of those have caused conflicts with the system we were using here, highly modified as it was from the original WebAPP system used as a base for this portal system engine. There was a problem with posting and pages redirecting after making postings to various features. There are now in place some workarounds or fixes for all issues that have surfaced. Any more found issues will be promptly addressed.

Thanks for your patience with this upgrade, and our apologizies for any problems you have encountered with the new security features conflicting with the system here.