Just want to tell the world that i opened my free game site: Insane Online Games
This is a free online game where you absolutely don’t need to register, you can play games that i judge the best of the internet. I did that site mainly to relax, cause i constantly look for games sites on the web, and besides Excessively.net i don’t know any other good ones that doesn’t open pop-ups and where we don’t need to register, so that’s it!

I’m adding games manually and expect to reach 500 games listed by April 2007, you should expect this game site to become a big known game site. I’m not going to stop adding games there!

Enjoy!

There are a few users on youtube that actually displays what i want to see. Whether it is about Jordan Maxwell, Alex Jones, David Icke and all the others big name.
There are good documentaries about religion, history of religion, theology, conspiracy, conspiracy theory, UFOlogy, on youtube and Google Video.

But Youtube tookdown 2 of the major users, that had that kind of documentaries, something like 50% of all the videos i liked to watch are GONE. And i understand there are copyrighting stuffs, but people have to know about some things no matter what, i want to show deep respects to those users who got their account ‘ banned ‘ and ‘ suspended ‘.

So i want to give you the solution, before your favorite users are banned, you can still save you favorite videos from youtube, google video, live video and more, with KeepVid! You will need a FLV player to play the videos though. So if you feel like your favorite users are keen on doing illegitimates stuff, save their videos, sooner or later they’ll be banned.

And keep those videos!

I was doing the What Makes a Good Site Article, when i stumbled upon the Link Doping article of Wikipedia.

You guys ever visited Wikipedia? Isn’t it just a big farce? I mean they are link doping 10 times more than i do, it’s even worst than Yahoo! Directory.

Read the article and look at the screenshot below, something that you should pay more attentions:

For a while i’ve been seeing wikipedia on top of any other sites for many types of keywords. Don’t you? You’ll see in the red area that ‘ Link doping helps ranking high ‘.
In the article they also call Link Doping, Link Whoring!

There are new webmasters everyday, well i always imagined the webmaster industry like that:

Imagine you’re in a tunnel and people go in and out of the tunnel, well to become a webmaster you gotta make it across the tunnel. Some people can’t make it across, either because it is too dark, or, they’re alone or lazy! That’s the point, and what i mean is a lot of people don’t make it across.

Why? Mainly because the few things that made internet are misinterpreted by most of the general users. That thing is links and authoring content!

Links is the simplest aspect of the internet, links connects web site to each other, they pass the traffic so other sites can benefit from it, and users have different content to rely on within just a few clicks. That’s internet, that’s why there are links and such ‘highways’ on internet like the Google, Yahoo and Microsoft.

I can talk about the philosophy of sites linking to other sites on internet and why it is so for hours; But it’s all about search engine optimization and not being disturbed by the enormous different aspects of the internet.

1. Links

Let’s put it that way, you can be Matt Cutts and not have to build links, or be Mr Smith that nobody knows about and have to build links.

Get insights on how to get links, how to get insights? Visit the webmaster forums on the web, read posts, the longer you’ll stay on the forum the longer you’ll learn stuffs, don’t feel like rejected, it’s the same for all new members, don’t be afraid to ask questions. Rome wasn’t built in a day, most of the webmasters you will see on the forums are noobs that learnt even though they sound professional, i don’t say all of them are but most of them.

Basically from what google is telling us is that: if a site A links to site B (A > B), A Votes to B. The more Votes you get to your site, the higher you will rank on many search engines.

If you are wondering things about Pagerank and how to make your site having a higher pagerank. First of all you might be interested in reading the article about Pagerank on Wikipedia.

Here is an excellent explaination of Pagerank taken from Wikipedia:

PageRank relies on the uniquely democratic nature of the web by using its vast link structure as an indicator of an individual page’s value. In essence, Google interprets a link from page A to page B as a vote, by page A, for page B. But, Google looks at more than the sheer volume of votes, or links a page receives; it also analyzes the page that casts the vote. Votes cast by pages that are themselves “important” weigh more heavily and help to make other pages “important”.

You might would like to understand what PR0 means also.
PR0 is when your site is new, or doesn’t receive links, or violates google webmasters guidelines.

What i mean is try to get a high pagerank to your site, this is the way to rank high on google. Pagerank doesn’t work for Yahoo! and Live Search.

2. Google

Pagerank is important because Google is important. Pagerank isn’t the web at all, Google isn’t the web at all, don’t be fooled by them. But yet, Google is the major search engine in the actual period of the web (2000 > 2007).

I will not spend much time on google, you can look for yourself on the google site. But make sure google loves your site! Don’t be spammy.

3. Design

I wanted to put Content in 3rd, but Design is as important as the content of the site itself. You might have done a great promotion by getting good relevant links to your site, but yet everybody leaves it cause the Design is not User-Friendly.

The design represents the site’s products, informations, content, theme, subject, colors associated to it, symbols, shape and so on so forth…

I had a conversation with a friend, he was telling me, on the web there are ‘ pre-made box sites ‘ with absolutely no graphics or artistic rendering in it! He is seriously disappointed in the normality of the site on the web, he got some serious points on that, i also agree on the web, web sites looks like each other way too much!

Well there are 2 opinions:

– You are a user, you look for content on the web because you want to find it fast like most of the traffic from the USA. Well here design doesn’t matter much, people just want something and are not here to behold that magnificent design of yours!

– You are another kind of user, who looks for originality, general informations, playing games or even just walk around the web with no real purpose (in quest of being not bored!) . It’s more common to find users that look for something fast than that kind of users. Those users will appreciate good site designs!
Those users can be a future employees, students, parents, office workers etc…

I would say you should create a site based on those 2 opinions. It should help users find what they are looking for ‘fast’ (look also 5th HTML Optimization at the bottom), and it also should have a general User-Friendly design, no need to be a Picasso or a Manet!

If you don’t want to bother with design you can hire a/some freelance designers or just contact a web design company, there are plenty of that on the web!

4. Content

Most of you heard that sentence: ‘ Content is King ‘. What should this tell you?

That the content of your website determines its originality and importance on the internet, you might have copied the content of your site from other sites and search engines are smart enough to detect that kind of spamming.

The content of your site should be optimized for search engines and both users. It means that do not over repeat the same keyword imagining you will get the Ranking number 1 for that keyword. Users don’t really appreciate spammy things, remember when you were a user.

It must not be over optimized, remember not all people that owns a site on the web are ‘webmasters’ though they are. Well there are more passive webmasters than active webmasters on internet.
What i mean by active webmaster, is someone that get updated about how not to render a site spammy and how to make it get top ranking.
So not all webmasters have the same information, we all have an idea of how it works based on our imagination or facts, most of the passive webmasters are satisfied before they have to learn the other 95% of Search Engine Optimization and what authoring content means.

So don’t worry, whether you are an (active or passive) webmaster or a simple guy that wants his message on the web, google will not punish you for anything!
Just be sure you don’t fall in the dark side of SEO, do not spam!

5. HTML Optimization

I was previously talking about the fast traffic on the web, of course the design of a site does not matter much for that kind of traffic. But the optimization of HTML does matters a lot here, if your site is too big to load for those users, they’ll leave.

If your site loads slowly, it might be because you’re too cheap regarding your hosting, or also because there are too much huge portions of HTML code that’s completely useless in your site. I can’t tell you how to fix that in details but do not forget to use CSS as much as possible. Use simple logical structures when building your HTML, do not include Table in Table in Table in Table… etc…

HTML is a language, it is the same as english or french, it is even easier!
You don’t need to know all things about HTML when you create a site, i’m not going to talk in depth about HTML, you can look for design tutorial sites on the web that talks about HTML.

How do i optimize my HTML site?

I want to warn people that uses CMS (Content Managment Sites), some of them are definitely not search engine optimization (SEO) friendly at all! Cause well, we optimize the HTML of a site to make it more SEO friendly, that’s the main thing.

As i said i’m not going to argue about it but here is my few advices:

– Do not Use the DIV too much! Instead, uses TABLE. Or Alterns TABLE and DIV together
– Do not capitalize the HTML tags
– Use the World Wide Web Consortium HTML Validation to make your Site a VALIDATED Site. This include you correcting what the result of the validation test gives you! And it can be long, very long!
– Use the H1 and H2 tags for titles, include keywords in it
– Use the Description Meta Tag, forget about the Keyword Meta Tag. Do not bother about meta tags in general, they are old school methods not used anymore.

If you don’t understand the above thing, it means you still have a life. If you never started doing HTML site, don’t forget to come back here and finally know what it means.

I want to point out that this is just not all, there are more HTML factors, that we call that, On-site SEO, ‘On Site’ SEO simply because you optimize your site for search engine directly on your site.

Getting links is called Off-site SEO, cause you have no powers trully over your inbound links.

On-site SEO represents, i think, just 20% of the main job, while Off-site SEO is 80% of the whole Search Engine Optimization process.

Hope that gives you insights,

It’s very new, google is changing a bit their designs, we had the new image thumbs for google image, and now they are changing the background color of their sponsors placement from sky blue to pink!

Check the Screenshot or type Mongolia Travel on Google:

Is pink particular? Why pink?

From About.com
[.. In some cultures, such as the US, pink is the color of little girls. ..]

Some funny stuff from wikipedia
[.. Pink is a color often made by mixing red and white. ..] – That’s the very first sentence, who wrote that article? Can someone tell me how i can get pink without red and white?
[.. The color pink is now associated with womanhood and little girls ..]

And from Color The Secret Influence, there is this question: Can pink weaken your muscles?

Really weird that pink stuff…

http://www.mosnews.com/commentary/2005/07/26/spamassassin.shtml

Read it, that’s inspiring me, i wish i was the guy who smashed his head.

You probably have heard of Portprophecy more than often at DP Forum. He owns a network of directories (13 of them) which are all PR5 and PR6. That is some serious business that’s going arround that guy,

Well he decided to sell 4 of his main directories which are:

– Unadir – PR6 – Alexa: 144k – Makes 500$/month if not more in revenue from link buying.
– Qettle – PR5 – Alexa: 218k
– HexDex – PR5 – Alexa: 318k
– Zeoma – PR5 – Alexa: 332k

Go to SitePoint and check out all the informations, this is a great deal, i’ve been knowing PP for a long time and those are quality directories put on sale, do not miss that opportunity!

BTW, by the time i am talking to you there are 14 days, 20 hours, 24 minutes remaining, before the deal is closed.

Enjoy!
Patrick

I am getting used to check a lot of web sites now, and i have pretty accurate eyes in case of judging sites that uses good design techniques and layout! There are just a few sites that are good looking, i hope you like the designs of PHPLD Your Site for instance! And there is also the great 80ies looking of V7n network sites that you can check.

WindLords.com

The site uses 3 main colors which are Blue Ocean by Night, Green Forest, and Yellow Gold. It does look really good, just take a look at WindLords.com. SEO Speaking the site uses Tables which is the best, it displays content first before assets, it loads fast, the layout in general is awesome.

I give it 9.5/10. The site is about Wind Surfing, glad there are some creative wind surfers out there!

RipCurl.com

The site of RipCurl.com is also very cool and good looking, the background fits totally the main layout, it’s another kind of box looking site (i love that style, it’s better and easier for readers). The main colors are Red Black and Grey. The site also uses Tables which are good SEO techniques, it helps crawling a site in a logical kind of way for googlebot. I would say that the buttons are not really suitable, they could have chosen something instead of text!

I give it 9/10. Another site about Surfing, those surfer dudes are really creative!

Enjoy,

Hello everyone, this is the first real post i do about search engine optimization (huh?!). When i say that i mean it, for the past year i’ve been learning SEO, i’ve been checking SO many sites on the web!! And now i know some stuff about it that will help you:

1. Do you want to know how to get a PR6 directory?

What i’m going to show you, you must not replicate it, it’s just in order to show you things about how to get backlinks and where google is effective and where it isn’t.

Let’s take example of Linkwith.us Directory that is Pr6. From what i know that directory homepage was zeroed by google 3 or 4 months ago (though it’s inner pages had high PR).

How did that directory owner get that much backlinks? (To the real directory owner, i’ve nothing against you at all, it’s just that you’re site is a good example). I invite you to use the SubmitExpress Link Popularity Tool and check LinkWith.us, just type the URL and run the check. Then check it’s MSN Backlinks. I use to check MSN backlinks cause they show what yahoo and google doesn’t show 😀

What is the first site you see? It’s probably a blogspot site! Here is a small lists of blogspot sites that have a backlink to LinkWith.us:

– Babe-fun
– TheBeautyBrains
– Trygojinow
– TelChaination
– Lipstickpowdernpaint
– Myspacetrends
– Autopark
– Bukomir

Many of them are PR5 and PR4, this is a way to get backlinks. I am sure most of us can’t achieve that cause it takes a lot of time to work on it. Just imagine the time you need to create 1000 blogspot site and get them Pagerank.

Here’s my Advices: This is a technique like many others, you can create tons of blogs on blogspot whether they have original content or not, and get backlinks that way. Though it’s not going to work for the long run, if you are a member of the Quick Buck Crew this is perfect for you! If you are a webmaster that wants your sites to live forever forget about it. Well! At least! Don’t expect to keep your PR6 forever.

I have noticed Linkwith.us using legitimate techniques to get links, i believe that blogspot things is not the reason why he got his PR6! But that’s a good one!

2. How to get Free PR7 Links?

You probably think i’m nuts to give aways those techniques but i am not, i believe most of the people that reads this blog are not a lot so i allow myself to tell such ‘secrets’ lol, i wouldn’t consider them secrets! It’s not a secret at all, it justs helps you to figure out some original ways how to get backlinks, some people are hugely creative and get a PR7 within 2 PR updates huh 😉

So you want free PR links right? Now let’s take example of Ask Directory. ASK is a new webmaster on Digital Point Forum, he created a directory like many of us, and like many of us he works on his directory to achieve the SUPREME PR6, the PageRank that the whole directory community will respect (we… all.. want a PR6! That’s why we do directories! PR6 PR6 PR6)

Actually ASK is PR4. So it means the technique i’m going to show you is USELESS, but it will gives you INSIGHTS. Carry on,

Same technique, check the MSN backlinks of ASK.
[ Not Expected ] Er… We can’t see nothing on his MSN backlinks, so i guess he stopped doing this technique, which is a wise choice:

Here’s the technique

Check the Winamp Member Forum Page. It is PR7? Yes it is, now you just have to register a username that starts with the letter ‘ A ‘ or a special character so you appear ahead of all the other members. Then in your profile, just fill down the ‘ homepage link ‘ with your best site, and it will appears on the PR7 page even if you are a member with 0 post.

I know i know it’s a tricky technique and it doesn’t works, what should this teach you: That there are so many ways to get links on internet, that we are not limited to directories nor simple links exchange. Many successful sites applied original link building scheme that you will never know about! Just keep thinking, find ways to get links, never think that you’re in a box and you’re limited. Just get links! If google says it’s unethical, we have no choice but to follow them, but if your technique work whether it is Black Hat or White Hat, it works! So w00t!

Good Luck Search Engine Optimizers!

Check out the screenshot of the new Google Images Layout at Matt Cutts Blog. They hidden the informations of each pictures (size, date of addition, format, weight etc…) when you type a search on Google Images in order to keep it clean as Google always looked like.

Which version you like? That one or the old one?
I prefer that one 😀