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Social bookmarking sites you may have missed

Posted 398 days ago by tpiddy

Here are some social bookmarking sites you may have missed, but you should be aware of their existence. No they are not part of the top 10 social bookmarking sites, but they also aren’t your average Pligg site, although Pligg development seems to be moving forward.

101out.com – This site made it on the front page of reddit with the title A Reddit-like website I made in 20 days.

Ballhype – A sports bookmarking site that has been featured on TechCrunch that “tracks more than 1,600 sports blogs to find great content so you don’t have to.” If you are sports fan it may also be worth checking out RUWT.

Picli – A new social photo site where you can link to or upload your photos and have them be voted on.

Spotplex – Insert Spotplex code into your blog and whenever your articles are read, they will show up on Spotplex.

ThinkFa.st – A site with a similar feel to reddit that focuses on business, economics and financial related news. (Full Disclosure: I have a stake in this site. As if you couldn’t tell by all of my submissions).

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Direct Links from Social Bookmarks

Posted 509 days ago by tpiddy

I know I don’t post enough, but I try to have unique posts. I was holding off on this to better take advantage of it myself, but since SEOmoz is posting about Pligg sites, I better post this now before my content is less than unique.

Everyone knows the use of the social bookmarking sites to drive traffic, but I also think they are good because many of them give out direct links that are indexed by the search engines. Some of the smaller bookmarking sites only give out redirect links, but it looks like almost none of them are using link condoms, and many give out direct links.

In the spirit of the holidays here is my list English-language social bookmarking sites that give out direct links. I omitted the bigger known sites and ones with primarily adult related content.

I grouped them by my quick notes about their niche, but they are basically in random order.

http://www.apbnews.com/ Crime
http://crimene.ws/ Crime and Law Enforcement

http://www.digstock.com/ Stocks, Investing
http://www.business-planet.net/ Business news
http://news.fatpitchfinancials.com/ Investing and Finance
http://www.commercebucket.com/ Economics, Retail, Commerce
http://www.valueinvestingnews.com/ Investing, Markets, Stocks
http://www.2centsnews.com/ Markets, Economics
http://www.marketpicks.net/ Stock and Market News
http://www.bizzbites.com/ Business, Management

http://www.braindigg.com/ Psychology, Neurology, Cognitive Science
http://www.hitsmit.com/ Health care, technology
http://www.medical-articles.net/ Medical
http://paramedic.org.uk/ Paramedics, EMS, Health Care, UK

http://www.podolicious.com/ Podcasts
http://pixelgroovy.com/ Tutorials, Graphics, Development
http://www.thelitlist.com/ Online Fiction
http://bad.webpagesthatsuck.com/ Badly Designed Webpages

http://www.barksbookmarks.com/engine/ Culture, Music, Art (Videos and photos)
http://shakk.us/ General Videos
http://mootion.com/ Videos
http://www.thatschillin.com/ Videos, Entertainment Gen Interest
http://www.coolfunnycandy.com/ Cool, Funny or (eye)Candy
http://www.meme-stream.com/ General, Videos

http://riggd.com/ Politics
http://politipop.com/ Political News
http://www.indianaseesee.com/ Local Indiana News, U.S. Politics

http://www.motorpulse.com/ Cars
http://www.autospies.com/ Auto Shows, Cars

http://www.ravemyspace.com/ MySpace, Profile Pages, Music
http://wink.com/ Profile Pages, Myspace
http://www.nooz.com/ General, Myspace?

http://www.binarylaw.com/ Technology Law
http://dotnetkicks.com/ .NET, ASP, MS
http://www.betamarker.com/ Software releases
http://wetogether.info/ Gadgets, Tech
http://www.bitchabouttech.com/bitchabouttech/ Technology
http://forumfads.com/ Web Forums, Tech
http://www.techtagg.com/ Tech
http://sharepointkicks.com/ Microsoft Sharepoint
http://www.appslist.com/ Linux, Mac, Windows, Software
http://www.mobilitybeat.com/ Phones, PDA, Mobile, Gadget

http://hahahollywood.com/ Celebrities, Gossip
http://hollywoodlowdown.com/ Celebrities, Gossip
http://www.hypediss.com/ Trends, Fashion, General
http://www.bestweekever.tv/ble/ Celebrity, Gossip
http://www.culturepopp.com/ Celebrity Gossip
http://www.scoopity.com/ Hollywood, Fashion
http://thelosthub.com/ The TV Show Lost

http://mp3rama.com/ Digital Music, mp3s
http://news.thetrc.net/ Music, Bands
http://www.theplugg.com/ Entertainment, Music
http://www.soundtrakk.com/ Music
http://undistortion.com/ Music stories and reviews
http://britney.starfrosch.ch/ Music

http://cruisinaltitude.com/news/ Aviation
http://www.hugg.com/ Green, Environmental
http://www.hrsalad.com/ Human Resources, Workplace
http://www.newvoyagenews.com/ Space Tourism
http://www.theadreview.com/ TV / Video Ads
http://www.voteanime.com/ Anime
http://www.winelifetoday.com/ Wine Snobs

http://www.gamelemons.com/squeeze/ Video Games
http://www.pixelmo.com/ Video Games
http://www.leetdaily.com/ Video Games
http://www.gamerbytes.com/ Video Games
http://www.strobe.org/ MMORPGs
http://devbump.com/ Video Game Development, Mods

http://www.sustaind.org/ LDS Religion
http://www.inbreaking.com/ Christianity, Missionaries, Church

http://battellemedia.com/searchmob/ Search
http://www.plugim.com/ SEO, SEM, Web
http://searchenginepress.com/ SEO, SEM, Search
http://www.wrigg.net/ Web Content, Articles
http://www.marktd.com/ Marketing, Advertising
http://adveracio.us/ Advertising
http://www.kablogs.com/ Blogging, Blogosphere
http://www.ordinarii.com/ Advertising, Search Marketing

http://sportsflip.com/ Sports
http://www.wedigsports.com/ Sports
http://www.thumbsupfootball.co.uk/ Football / Soccer
http://run.trihound.com/ Triathlons

Now I am not suggesting you spam these sites (some already have been in my cursory glance), but rather adopt a site if they are in your niche and start building their community… with your posts of course.

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I am still kicking

Posted 613 days ago by tpiddy

I just realized it has been over a year since I started this blog and a few others. I need to write more about search for this blog to be successful, but overall my other blogging efforts have been a success.

Since I have been blogging for over a year here, I figure it is time to introduce myself. My name is Tom, and I’m 24. I graduated with a computer science degree from an average university, and work as a web developer and search marketer for a couple of local small businesses here in Virginia. I also have a few of my own websites that are beginning to generate income, and they are suprisingly white-hat.

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Deep Link Percentages

Posted 746 days ago by tpiddy

Deep links are links to internal pages on a site rather than the index page for a site. The index pages for websites generally acts as hubs and receive most of the inbound links from sites especially directories.

Smaller businesses often only have backlinks to their domain root, and have no deep links to internal pages. Blogs, news and content sites often have many deep links referencing interesting content from other blogs and websites.

We will use Yahoo and MSN Search to compute the deep link percentage in this example, because Google does not support the correct queries.

In this example I compute slashdot.org’s deep link percentage. We ignore internal links.

[link:http://slashdot.org -site:slashdot.org] Yahoo
“about 1,910,000” results.

[linkdomain:slashdot.org -site:slashdot.org] Yahoo
“about 3,980,000” results

Deep Link Percentage using Yahoo: 52.01%

[link:http://slashdot.org -site:slashdot.org] MSN
1,741,451 results

[linkdomain:slashdot.org -site:slashdot.org] MSN
2,571,492 results

Percentage of Deep Links using MSN: 32.28%

Now we will use a smaller site, Threadwatch.org.

[linkdomain:threadwatch.org -site:threadwatch.org] Yahoo
about 124,000

[link:http://www.threadwatch.org -site:threadwatch.org] Yahoo
about 90,900

Yahoo Deep Link Percentage 26.69%

[linkdomain:threadwatch.org -site:threadwatch.org] MSN
120,891

[link:http://www.threadwatch.org -site:threadwatch.org] MSN
94,387

MSN Deep Link Percentage 21.92%

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Save the internet with Net Neutrality

Posted 751 days ago by tpiddy

The internet and the web have empowered the vast majority of its users around the world and has become a democratizing force in most places. Many people have written passionately about the influence of the internet and the censorship of the web in China. Last week China’s President Hu Jintao visited the United States and before he met with President Bush, Mr. Jintao dined with Microsoft founder Bill Gates.

But today I am not writing to discuss China’s attacks on freedom, I am here to discuss an attack on our freedoms in my own backyard. Congress is pushing a law that allow companies like AT&T, Verizon and Comcast to decide which websites work best for you and me.

I fear that once again Congress will cave to a multi-million dollar lobbying campaign, this time by telephone and cable companies that want to decide what you do, where you go, and what you watch online. Letting companies control internet access through the incompetence and deception of our politicians would be against the ideas that have made the internet the driving force for economic innovation, civic participation and free speech.

While I am often critical of the search and web service companies like Google, I am very pleased to see Google’s Vint Cerf support the recent campaign to Save The Internet. Charter members of the SavetheInternet.com Coalition include: Professors Larry Lessig of Stanford University and Tim Wu of Columbia University, Free Press, Gun Owners of America, right-of-center Instapundit blogger Glenn Reynolds, left-of-center MoveOn.org Civic Action, Consumers Union, Consumer Federation of America, Public Knowledge, Common Cause, the American Library Association and U.S. PIRG.

Net neutrality is especially important topic for search marketers and webloggers.

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Expired Domain Backlink Case Study Part 1

Posted 761 days ago by tpiddy

I have been buying domains for a short while now, mostly shorter english language .com domains, but also some vanity ones of course.

Because most of the domains that were my proper full name are taken, I decided to give SnapNames a try and backorder some of those domains, just in case any of the other people with my name forget to renew, or croak.

As I played around with SnapNames I decided to buy a couple domains that were pending delete. The domains I attempted to purchase had backlinks from many different websites. My goal is to see how the search engines treat the 2 expired domains and the backlinks that currently exist to these domains, now that the domains have expired and are under new ownership.

I attempted to capture a few domains and ended up in an auction for 2 different domains, which I will call Domain-A and Domain-B, because I do not want to expose them.

If you use the link:example.com tool on Google, Yahoo and MSN for expired domains, you will end up with 0 results. But if you use the linkdomain:example.com then you will still see the backlinks for pending delete and expired domains in both Yahoo and MSN.

Domain-A
I ended up purchasing Domain A for just over $100 US at auction.

Yahoo linkdomain:Domain-A 86
MSN linkdomain:Domain-A 96
Yahoo Directory Listing
DMoz Listing

Days after the domain expired and was purchased, the Dmoz listing was removed. The Yahoo listing still remains about a week after.

Domain-B
I paid the base auction price of $60 for this domain, but was still in an auction, the other bidder just did not bid.

Yahoo linkdomain:Domain-B 123
MSN linkdomain:Domain-B 395
Yahoo Directory Listing
DMoz Listing

Days after purchasing this domain both the Yahoo listing and Dmoz listing were removed.

I am going to throw up a page on each domain with a few related keywords. I will point 1 link from 3rd party site to Domain-A and I will not touch Domain-B for a few months and I will see if the backlink results change in any of the search engines, and how many results are in the link:domain queries.

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Refine your Google Base

Posted 762 days ago by tpiddy

Not quite sure how long this has been happening but today is the first time I have ever seen it. As I was searching today I noticed quite a bit of Google Base results sneaking into search results. Have a look yourself.

[house for sale] Google Search
[apartment for rent] Google Search
[villa rental] Google Search

I will definitely have to take a look closely at Google Base now and start marketing there for some clients.

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Link Building with InFormEnter

Posted 763 days ago by tpiddy

When building links for various sites, I often find myself hand-typing and submitting the same contact information to many different directories and comment forms. When you are serious about getting links, this repetitive action gets tiresome.

Now you can get rid of your typing with the InFormEnter Firefox extension. The extension adds a small clickable icon next to every input field in a web form. When the icon is clicked, you can select pre-configured text to be inserted. You can configure it to display the most frequently used information such as your name, email, address, keywords, url, etc.

I generally store a varations of link anchor text and site descriptions, and sometimes edit them a little so each directory entry I submit is unique.

InFormEnter is not a true password manager such as RoboForm, but it is a free Mozilla Firefox extension, and I use it.

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