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I have been using this week, a software called Comment Sniper. It is one of the best software that i have downloaded lately.

What is Comment Sniper?

Comment Sniper is a free software that allows it’s user to keep track of new posts of your favourite blogs. You just add the desired blogs to the tracking list (i have around 10 so far), choose the scanning interval (i use 5 minutes), and the software will alert you with a small popup on your lower right screen corner, every time it detects a new post on any of the blogs you added to the list.

Why i say this? well, i know im not updating this blog as much as i wanted, first because of the exams, but now for a different reason. I have passed all my exams and this week i have time to have fun. It is the “academic week” here in Viseu. I don’t know how it is in your country but i guess it is almost the same thing. It is a week with concerts and house sessions where all college students celebrate. Im going out every night to attend the concerts and the house sessions, with a sufficient amount of alcohol to make me “Happy”! lol

Today’s post is a double post. First of all, i would like to say that my life is chaotic right now.

I have already told you that im on the final year of college. Recently, my college entered the Bologna Process. For those who don’t know what it is you can read about it on wikipedia.

This semester, i have a tight schedule. 8 weeks of intensive classes, mostly from 8am to 8pm. And off course, since it’s the bologna era, my teachers give us essays to elaborate. Right now, im with 7 works to complete, one being a seminar organized by us, and the other a presentation to a congress. And i can’t forget the final graduation essay, it is an investigation work and it will take almost a year to complete.

A few weeks ago i found an interesting post about “Anti marketing design“.

Anti marketing design are sites that use ugly designs, but manage to be very successful.

The example used was Plentyoffish.com, a site that makes more than $10000 each day with google adsense. According to the founder, Markus Frind , one of the main reasons of this success is exactly the ugly site design.

He evens gives examples of other ugly sites that are very successful such as myspace, craiglist, google.

Markus Frind says that sites with an ugly design tend to generate more revenue, build better brands, and are more fun to participate.

One of the most profitable ways to make money blogging is selling links. But some times it may be hard to find someone that want to by a link from you. The best choice is to have a “middle man”. TNX.net acts as the “middle man”, and with surprisingly efficiency.

You may sell links not only to the main page, but for all pages of your blog/site that are indexed by TNX.

How does it work?

You just need to register, add your website (sadly, they don’t accept Portuguese websites), place the code where you want the links to appear and wait for your website to be accepted.

Finally, Alexa decided to finish with redirections.

Some bloggers speculated that by making every link from their blog to be redirect through alexa site would help lower the alexa rank. There was no proof that this really worked, but many bloggers insisted in using it.

But, in the past days, alexa made every redirect to give a 404 error code.

I tottaly agree with this. I dindn’t like when i visited a blog and noticed that it was using the alexa redirect. Put your self on the eyes of a potential advertiser. You visit a blog, and see that it as a good alexa rank, but then you find it is using the famous redirect! What would you think? How fake is the rank?

In this post you can read how payperpost faced the google penalization on blogs doing paid reviews. Until recently there were no  way to see a real rank for a blog on their database. But recently. Izea made the real rank public by creating the site http://izearanks.com

The site shows the top 100 real Rank sites, but you can search for a specific blog. After searching you can choose to display unique visitors,  page views, and off course the real rank for the blog.

nice too to spy on your rivals huh?

On my previous post, i showed you what were the keyword rankings for my new mini sites.

But how do i know the rankings?

After a few questions i decided that it would be good to mention what tool i used to check keyword rankings.

The tool i use is: Keyword Position check from SEOCentro.

It delivers fast results for the keywords research from google, yahoo and msn, and it even tells you how related the keyword is with your domain, Url and page title.