Blog Marco - Webmaster information

Increase Blog Traffic With Reciprocal Review Carousel

Wed, 03 Oct 2007 18:25:46 -0700

Here is yet another way to increase your blog traffic: this time its called the Reciprocal Review Carousel; first started on this page. by Alex Sysoef. I got introduced into the concept by Carlo Selorio. The goal of this linking strategy is to combine Web 2.0 technologies and share some resources to ours and your readers (if you choose to participate - just follow the instructions below...).

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Reciprocal Review Carousel idea is based on few simple and yet effective link-building and bloggin techniques I have learned:

Build value of the blog by creating a link from within content.
Provide a value to community by doing a review on blog you personally like.
Link to YOUR blog has exact anchor text you want and helps you boost Google Rankings.
No more then 30 outbound links from any page to prevent penalties for link farming.
Viral effect of the link – as more bloggers participate, link to your blog with YOUR anchor text, coming from quality content post will spread.

Here is How to participate:

Copy the entire text between the specified lines.
Create a post on your site and put at least one paragraph explaining how you joined the Reciprocal Review Carousel.
Paste the text you copied into your post.
Remove the Bottom Review and At the Top add your own review with a link to a site reviewed, at least 2 sentences about the site and a note – Reviewed by: Your Anchor Text. Link your anchor text to your site. Here is an example:

WordPress Web 2.0 Guide is a blog providing very useful information on building your very own Web 2.0 portal based on WordPress. Detailed instructions and howto guides make it possible for anyone to create a sparkling and engaging blog and join the community of like-minded individuals. Reviewed by: WordPress Web 2.0 Spot-er

Sites Reviewed:

Share Trading is a blog about trading Australian stocks as well as investing and news about the Aussie sharemarket. Reviewed by Marco.

Pinay Pix is a photoblog about international Filipina celebrities. Reviewed by Marco.

Forex Trading HQ is a forex trading blog the latest news in the worldwide foreign exchange markets. Reviewed by Marco.

My Forex Cashback blog reviews forex trading strategies. Reviewed by Marco.

Carlo Selorio's Internet Entrepreneur's Journey is a blog about growing an internet income stream online, growing traffic and Internet marketing. Reviewed by Marco.

Blog Marco Blog is about Celebrity Photos, Videos and interesting insights of a University students travel journey. Reviewed by Carlo Selorio

John Cow dot Com blog is about parody of John Chow dot com. Talking about making money online with all things blogging related. Reviewed by Carlo Selorio

ChrisG.com is a blog about thoughts and advice on the business of new media, blogging and online marketing. Chris aims to teach you ways you can create compelling resources, provide your audience more value, build trust and loyalty, and generate more rewards for yourself. Reviewed by Carlo Selorio

Andy-Coates.com is an original creator of Viralink concept and a blog publishing information on Magic, Personal development and blog development. I have found a wealth of information on getting your blog noticed and generating the traffic for free. Reviewed by: WordPress Web 2.0 Guide

FitForFreedom is well-established blog where you can find multitude of information on achieving financial freedom. Blog is run by Marco Righter and his writing style greatly adds to the value of information he provides. Reviewed by: Alex

Friday Traffic Report run by Jack Humphrey is all about most effective Web 2.0 promotion of your site, link building and proper monetization. One blog I read on daily bases and highly recommend. Reviewed by: Alex

Secure Your PC For Internet blog run by Colin and provides essential information everyone accessing internet should know. Identity theft is becoming more and more of an issue and by visiting his blog you can minimize the risk of being compromised. Reviewed by: Alex

VI-SU blog is all about WordPress, AdSense, SEO and Internet Marketing. Although mostly written in German I have found that using Google translate is worth the effort for his posts. Reviewed by: Alex

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Free Fonts for the Webmaster

Mon, 26 Jun 2006 01:58:30 -0700

I'm in the market for some free fonts. So from a little digging here are the best of the best (probably useful to the webmasters and the odd designer or two): 9800 free fonts, Make your own Font and pixel fonts. Enjoy your free fonts!

Create and Make a Favicon.ico for your website

Sat, 24 Jun 2006 16:02:07 -0700

You can either make a favicon.ico using a program or create the icon from a website using a photo on this website. Enjoy!

Error Pages and Blog.Photos2View.com

Thu, 13 Apr 2006 17:54:00 -0700

I got a little carried away when I created this website with my website categories. I treated it like a windows file system, just having folders and folder of topics and subjects to file away the 500+ pages that this blog currently has. So I ended up with URL's that were VERY VERY LONG.

So addresses like:
http://blog.photos2view.com/marco/travel/locations/asia/china/shanghai/top-speed-on-the-maglev-in-shanghai ... ARE LONG GONE!

Anyway, You may see some error pages coming up because of this change but in the longer term, the search engines will start indexing the pages and you will be able to search for those pages you are after.

Link Websites - Stuff to Surf Through when you're Bored

Mon, 19 Dec 2005 01:47:24 -0800

When you're bored, got nothing else to do and on the internet - you may want to browse through these websites:

http://www.digg.com/
http://www.fark.com/
http://www.aworldofhelp.com/
http://www.i-am-bored.com/
http://www.isnare.com/
http://slashdot.org/
http://www.boingboing.net/
http://del.icio.us/
http://www.hypersuper.net/
http://www.shoutwire.com/
http://www.monkeyfilter.com/
http://www.popdex.com/
http://www.reddit.com/

And here's some advice for webmasters who think getting a link on these websites above = $$$ - Digg Effect: The Top 10 Things Webmasters Should Know.

Google Useful Search Operators for noobs

Mon, 12 Dec 2005 01:42:31 -0800

1. link:www.yoursite.com - Show's you some/most of the links google counts to your page. Handy to find out who is linking to you, or whos linking to the competition
2. related:www.yoursite.com - find sites google deems related to any given site
3. site:www.yoursite.com - search the pages of a specific site
4. allinurl: shows only pages with all terms in the url
5. inurl: like allinurl, but only for the next query word.
6. allintitle: shows only results with terms in title.
7. intitle: kind of like allintitle, but only for the next word. "intitle:webmasterworld google" finds only pages with webmasterworld in the title, and google anywhere on the page.
8. cache:url gives you googles cashed (what google has on record) of a site
9. info:url will give you some info about a given site
10. spell: - does a spellcheck (you don't have to do this, google will spellcheck any words searched)
11. stocks: does a search for stocks
12. filetype: does a search for a specific file type, or, if you put a - in front of it, it won't list any results with that filetype
13. daterange: is supported in Julian date format only. 2452384 is an example of a Julian date.

Configuring my Drupal installation for MediaTemple Hosting

Thu, 01 Dec 2005 17:52:06 -0800

My previous host lost a week's worth of data - Thank God I had a regular back up regime to fall back on - otherwise i really would be starting my blog from square one. I recently converted to MediaTemple hosting - a reputable host among internet users according to many forum postings (If you decide to signup with them - tell them that "photos2view.com" sent you in the signup form). The one time it did go down was from a power outage in Los Angeles. Other webhosting services I've subscribed to in the past all died because of their own fault.

Anyway, a new host means a whole new set of small customisations to make my backed up website files and my backup database work with the new website server constraints.

maximum number of internal redirects reached

So I uploaded the files, created a database, uploaded my database there and had the frontpage of my website running. the problem was when I clicked on any internal link I would get a page that came up when I tried to access the page was "Internal Server error." I only found out what was actually happening when I accessed the server error logs. Ask your host or in MediaTemple (mt) you can find it in the error folder.

The first error from the server logs I got was:
"mod_rewrite: maximum number of internal redirects reached. Assuming configuration error. Use 'RewriteOptions MaxRedirects' to increase the limit if neccessary."

Killer byte hosting (KillerbyteHosting)

Thu, 01 Dec 2005 17:40:22 -0800

Kevin, a friend of mine has an webhosting business called Killerbyte (KillerbyteHosting) . From what I hear his reseller based service is going well.
KillerByte Hosting - Exceptional Quality. Affordable Prices.
Killerbyte Hosting uptime:
SiteUptime - Free Website Monitoring Service

But his plans sure don't beat MediaTemple's offer... (Remember to tell them photos2view.com sent you in the order form)

Much More Adsense Information and links

Thu, 01 Dec 2005 16:53:08 -0800

This website implements the images over the banner technique. The theory is that the images guide the eye behaviour so the eye would notice the advertisement while browsing the website.
DietDiscussions

Content Attack! (Insider News, Software and Tools) has no adsense - but all referral links! Interesting way of attracting traffic and making money.
Content Attack!

Next, I did a Google Search - "maximize adsense income with blog" which offered the following results:
Google Search - maximize adsense income with blog

Make Money OK-Everything For Webmaster - Directory of Affiliates + a small forum
"Webmaster Directory is a searchable directory of Webmaster resources and Webmaster tools. Webmaster Directory includes links to resources for tutorials and programming, promotion, advertising, Internet marketing, search engines and many other useful resources for webmasters."

Press Release Marketing Technique Case Study

Thu, 01 Dec 2005 16:52:26 -0800

Reading Digital Point Forums and I found a case study there about promoting your online business through press releases.
This was the website being promoted:
Press Releases

SEO Optimisation - Jagger, Google Analytics, and the Future of Search

Thu, 01 Dec 2005 16:52:02 -0800

An Article about the Future of search after the Jagger Google dance in the past month:
Jagger, Google Analytics, and the Future of Search

"Made for Adsense" Content based Websites

Thu, 01 Dec 2005 16:51:38 -0800

It is against the Terms Of Service (TOS) for Google Adsense to be placed in websites "Made for Adsense". I have seen a few, but google simply removed their access rights to the Adsense program when they abused this clause. These websites below are definitely NOT simply made for Adsense.

These websites hold content, which is useful to any visitor - and even with Adsense turned off, remain as functional websites.

This website below uses Adsense sparingly - which makes me wonder if it effective. It probably is as it "fits" well into the website design.
Holiday accommodation Scotland, Holiday Homes Scotland, accommodation Scotland

Now here is a network of websites which I believe exist with the sole purpose of monetizing their visitors through the Adsense program. The network consists of PageWise.com and essortment.com - Thousands of free online articles on everything

An example of a few of their websites follows:
Photography tips, hints, ideas, and articles

Javascript Bust out of frames from Google Image search

Thu, 01 Dec 2005 16:46:57 -0800

Javascript Bust out of frames from Google Image search...

It's simple: Just paste these lines in your code:

if (parent.frames.length
> 0) top.location.replace(document.location);

The main concern it that Google images can suck bandwidth from your website - and this technique eliminates any frame - especially for Google Images - So you can potentially monetize your visitor.

The Sources: (They both seem to have the same content?)
SEO Black Hat Black Hat SEO BlogFrame-Buster Best. Javascript. Ever.
Frame busting Google Images