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UPDATED IN 31st JULY

After the last page rank update, im sure many of you started to search and bookmark blogs that can give yours some link juice to help increase your status. Some bloggers made an interesting point regarding page ranks updates or created a list of some blogs that have tools to help you get some link juice.

Everyone loves lists of some kind, so i decided to make a dynamic top 100 list. for dofollow blogs  or give some kind of link juice to its visitors. I say dynamic because this list will get updated weekly.

If you have been following me for some time now, then you should have noticed that i am a guy that likes to experiment and commit mistakes.

It is how we learn right? At least that’s what i hope. lol

Well, i have a forum with over 1000 members and a very decent traffic count each day.

I am using Simple Machines to power the forum and i was using the version 1.1.4 with a great looking template with ads very well placed, specially the adsense link units.

Well, i was giving away 3000 entrecard credits, but for some reason, i only got one application! The deadline has passed, i even extended the the deadline but no more applications were made. I blame my self. I haven’t advertised the contest like i should, but, there is another thing. The prize. Maybe 3000 Entrecard credits don’t make a good prize to give. I agree with this. Maybe if i put a cash prize i would have the success has the first contest i ran here.

Often when we create a new site , mini-site or blog we want to get a name for it. And the best name to choose is a name that will have the keywords in it. Why? Because this will help with your SEO and search engine rankings. But how will you use the domain (or sub domain)? Will you use a alltogetherdomain.com or a all-together-domain.com?

Search engines can have trouble reading the domain keywords, however, Google says that it can split your words very well, but we can’t be so sure. So a little trick that i read about is to use google to find if your domain name will need to use dashes or not.

Hello! As mentioned yesterday, im going to start a series of “how to create a mini site”. I have covered this subject a few times, and showed you how to create them using some scripts or software like Commonsense CMS, Rssmini 1.3, HyperVRE (which promised to be a great tool but in fact sucked).

I have 2 new tools to try out. But for now let’s stick with one. I really hope this new tool is way better than the previous ones. This tool takes in consideration that it helps you creating a mini site easy and fast, but it does not help you create the content. It’s up to you to create the content. Don’t fall in temptation to copy other site content and don’t use rss feed to fill you pages. Use your own created content, your own words.

I decided to let you know what wordpress plugins im using in this blog.

1 – All in one SEO and Headspace 2 : these two plug ins allow you to turn your blog a little bit more friendly. Both help you creating tags for your post so that you can have your post easily spidered by search engines. Google indexes my post in a matter of an hour!

YOu can download them here:

All in one SEO

Headspace 2

I prefer Headspace2 but, the two complement wach other. I did a review of headspace here.

Today, i was looking for new wordpress plugins that could be useful for my blogs and i came across to Headspace2. It is an advanced meta-data manager, great for SEO tasks. It’s very similirar to “all in one seo pack”, but i think it is even better. The strong point of Headspace2 is that it can generate meta tags for you. The plug in reads your post and then suggests the tags for it, and you can choose some if not all. I really liked this option making tag adding much more quicker.

About 1 month ago i initiated the first phase of Hypervre evaluation and today i decided to show what traffic i had with these minisites:

so for the site: www.procurarcasa.info

in october i had a total of 311 hits, and none came from search engines, the traffic was basically from bots, or my own visits. Google shows the site is indexed, but there’s no traffic coming from it, maybe, because the site has no tags!!! This means, Hypervre failed to create tags! or was my own fault? Visitors came from US, france, portugal (this means me!), and even seychelles Conclusion: i will terminate this site and create a new one with a different program, or i will create myself.

This weekend in Portugal we had an hour change. At 2h AM the clock went backwards one hour. It’s thewinter time…. i don’t like these changes, although i had another extra hour of sleep today! But my point is: i need more time! there’s so many projects i want to do and so little time. Next tuesday i will have my last college exam if all goes well, i have to study, and i really don’t want to! lool anyway, the project: Home Shopping Network is in stand by until i do the exam, and after i party a little bit

After all the buzz created around the widgetbucks tos they have decided to change it to only permit english sites. Now you don’t even have the chance to ask for permission for a non english site. Too bad for many of us, you either create an english site or stick with a worse paying program like shoppingads.