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This article is written for my friend “honey” (site). I have been bidding against honey on web site auctions for almost 2 years now. I have won maybe 60 auctions and I have now over 100 web sites. Honey owns over 300 …
So here comes my checklist that I want to show honey as I think she will need one. I guess others perhaps also could find some use for this so I decided to post it here as well.

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Have you also heard of those horror stories of Google banning Adsense accounts for the smallest mistakes?
You have read the Terms and Conditions and you know the basics but what do you do when you show your friend your site on your computer and the first thing he does is to click the Adsense ad on your site? (actual example). Well you email Google Adsense and explain what happened, it will usually be no problem.
I recently made a WordPress CMS with Adsense and I have […]

This article is written more for myself so I remember how I do it the next time but probably a few people will also benefit from this for different uses and purposes.
Today I updated all the PR values for the directories listed on my directory list. I had to update each listing in the MySQL database but I found a fast way to do it. The previous time was a pain in the ***.

1. Log into PHPMyAdmin and get the URLs:

2. Export the query into […]

Ok a new export on the April 28th 2007 with data taken from April 2nd 2007.
New count:
PR6 sites: 2
PR5 sites: 13
PR4 sites: 29
PR3 or less: 66
Conclusion: On average I lost a lot and think that generally most web sites on the internet went down in PR.

There has been a new PageRank export recently and I just counted for the records:
PR6 sites: 2
PR5 sites: 20
PR4 sites: 46
PR3 or less (not updated): 17
Conclusion: I lost a few PR6 but got many more PR4’s. jimwestergren.com has several internal […]

How come a rational guy like me believe in spirits (souls)? Actually I believe more in the fact that the human spirit exist than the sun rises tomorrow. I believe that you are your own spirit and you control your body like a tool and that you reincarnate when you need a new body.
Why?
Before I start I want to tell you that you don’t need to agree with me or change your believes in any way. What I am going to write in this essay […]

My Swedish friends Westberg and Jalmerot over at Eastpoint has started their own SEO Contest with the keywords GlobalWarming Awareness2007.
You can read all data about the contest on seoworldchampionship.com. It seems like they are going big with this one but I wonder if it will reach the magnitude of the V7N contest …
Will I participate?
I don’t think so, I don’t really have time but I will at least help with link exchanges and in case I later regret myself I have a domain registered: […]

This was supposed to be published on the 5th of December but the work in my company has been overwhelming, so I give it to you now instead.
This is the second annual report on how a young person in Sweden with absolutely no money, knowledge or connections could sit down and learn, observe and start an online company by will power alone and not only make a living for himself but for half of his family as well.
On the 5th of December 2004 I changed […]

Official site of a children’s hospital in Japan

Hey, your “logo” is not blinking!
MSY Technology Pty. Ltd.

Are you sure product X is HOT?
Personal site of Franz Magnus

Incredible that you got several awards for that site.
Angren.net, electronic shop

Can’t you squeeze in something more on the home page?
Official site of Northbridge Police Department

Still being updated in 2006. Perhaps change your web designer?
RogerART

Still being updated in 2006. Almost at the bottom of the very long site you have “Click here to ENTER” …
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Can you imagine a world in which you have to establish systems in order to detect if an intelligence is machine created or comes from a real human?
Scientists and programmers has already been developing such systems. No, I am not talking about a far future here, I am talking about 2002. The first system to prevent machine intelligence from using web sites was developed in 2002 and is known as the CAPTCHA project. What is today known as Captcha is a method of using a […]

Maybe it’s just the crazy pills I take every morning, but lately it seems that eBizMBA.com appears on Delicious/Popular or another big social media site at least twice a week. I hadn’t even heard of them a month ago, and now they’ve thoroughly branded themselves in my mind (and they’ve gotten a crapload of traffic and links recently too). Now today I’m seeing 20 Most Popular Sites for Bargain Hunters referenced everywhere, and that’s the last straw, I have to post about their genius now. Here are four lessons you can take from the recent success of eBizMBA:

1. Make your content pretty. Check out any page there: the content is generally in a bulleted list format, with clean thumbnail images next to each bullet point. People like pretty pictures. People like to scan. People vote for, and link to, what they like.

2. People love rankings. The eBizMBA posts I see reaching Delicious/Popular are usually of the Top 30 Social Bookmarking Sites or 25 Largest Web 2.0 Sites variety. The beautiful part about stats and rankings is that you can take a stale-as-hell niche and come out with a baity, useful, and successful hook simply be remixing existing public stats and ranking the recognizable players. (The players that rank at the top will probably even help you spread the meme. )

3. If you’re an industrial strength link baiter, make sure you have a good Web host. Right now the site is loading slowly, and I think I had this problem last time I visited. (Granted, I usually visit them when I see them via the frontpage of a social media site.) Likely the spike of traffic from social media, combined with the fact that they use a lot of image files, contributes to this problem. But it’s pretty self-defeating to be slow or down when the spike happens. If you’re link baiting regularly, spend a little bit more money to get a better hosting solution. (Sorry, guys, I didn’t say all the lessons would be positive!)

4. Once you find a hook, milk it for all it’s worth. When you realize the Top-25-Ranking-with-thumbnails format is a winner, you can a) pat yourself on the back, and try to find some other hooks, or b) take the successful hook and apply it to every other niche–or even sub-niche, if your site is narrow–that you can think of. I believe it was DaveN who said, “SEO is knowing what the search engines want and giving it to them… so hard they f*cking bleed.” Well, you can quote me: successful blogging is figuring out what your readers want, and giving it to them so often they *izz their pants!