Essential Categories
Author: XEN
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Did you notice you can never find a satisfying list of categories for a general blog ? I’ve searched the internet for about 2 weeks now searching for a good list of categories.
The best choice in blog categories should be based on what your website focuses on. If you have a web design… the global [...]
DigitalPoint Marketplace
Author: XEN
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The digitalpoint is one of the most powerful and more frequented marketplace for web designers and developers.
In average the digitalpoint has more than 400 members logged in at any time. Almost 10.000 visitors browsing the website at the same time were recorded on May 11th 2008.
With almost 3.6 million replies, the “Buy, Sell, Trade” [...]
Pirate Bay Website
Author: XEN
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Pirate bay is a free file sharing host “tracker”, it works as a network hub connecting users that share software, movies, games, ebooks and a vast variety of other files.
The Pirate Bay is the only website in the world that has received & ignored hundreds of complaints and legal threats against sharing copyrighted content. A famous response to SEGA’s email: [...]
Htaccess - Error Documents
Author: XEN
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I never regarded the ErrorDocument “feature” of htaccess as being useful, only because I hate confusion… and seeing different error pages for each website is very confusing, it gives you a headache.
However ErrorDocuments can be used wise in a busy article website, a good example would be redirecting users on a 404 page to pages [...]
Selling on the internet
Author: XEN
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I can’t help not to notice how hard you can sell anything on the internet, it’s like nobody trusts anyone. I read a post on a topic yesterday, gave me a good laugh about selling online.
You have to kiss buyers “arse” if you want to sell anything online they said, that’s quite agreeable. Remember… the [...]
Banner Scam
Author: XEN
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Careful on banner advertisements, allot are scams ! They use adwords to fool new internet users that are not experienced into giving their credit card details.
Stay away from banners similar to this: “You are the 999.999 visitor, congratulations you have won! Click to claim”. What that actually means for an experienced internet user is: “You [...]
PirateBay - Marketing Research
Author: XEN
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I took a few days to check the link potential in torrent tracker comments. I posted 5 links, 1 popular (about 50 unique visitors in a day), and 5 not so popular with about 5-10 visitors each.
I was amazed, I didn’t even check the files to see if they’re one of the 100 most popular [...]
Torrent Tracker Marketing
Author: XEN
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I was navigating the piratebay earlier and couldn’t help but notice the great marketing potential of related comments in torrent pages.
Inbound links are a must if you want anyone to ever take a look on your website. The fact is, piratebay and other torrent trackers get pagerank on some torrents just because allot of the [...]
Marketing Campaign
Author: XEN
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Today I started working on the first marketing campaign for the Smarty Blog.
As you’ve seen, I didn’t have time to post anything today. It was a very busy day, but all in good cause. Now I have allot of subjects to comment, and little time left for other activities.
Blogs - What are they ?
Author: XEN
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A blog (weblog) is a special type of website that functions like a journal. In a blog, the latest posts are displayed at the top. The posts themselves consist of text, images, links to other websites or other blogs, videos related to the post subject. Blogs generally function as a website of personal opinions and [...]
