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Infektia: something a little different
May 12th, 2007 | 
Author: One of the advantages of the various link exchange schemes that I’ve been getting involved in lately is that I come across quite a different range of blogs than I would have done otherwise and have been pinching good ideas all over the place as you’ve seen from the changes in the site.
Anyway, the latest one of these is Infektia.net which runs through quite a range of things in a stream of mostly short posts. She’s also running a mutual blog review project which should bring a few more blogs to my notice over the coming weeks.
Interestingly, for me, is that she’s actively searching out for places running sponsored post schemes which is something of an interest for me at the moment. Don’t panic about there being a glut of sponsored posts here though as I’m very picky about such things.
Anyway, worth a look if you want to see what a more “girly” blog can look like.
Copyright © 2004-2014 by Foreign Perspectives. All rights reserved.The BlogCatalog My Neighbourhood Train
Assorted link trains seem to be the flavour of the season from the original Technorati Favourites Exchange (still plugging a way a month down the line), to the MyBlogLog train (on a slower line) and now we have the BlogCatalog My Neighbourhood train which I came across at SYAF the Geek just yesterday.
***Start Copying Here:***
Here are the rules:
1) Write a short introduction about how you found this list and include a link back to that blog.
2) COPY the rules and ENTIRE list below and post it on your blog.
3) Take My New Neighborhoods Members’ and move them into the The Original Neighborhoods Members’ list.
4) Find 3 new blogs, join their Blogcatalog Neighborhoods and add them to the My New Neighborhoods Members’ section. Remember to also add the Join this Neighborhood’ link next to your new blogs. ( Example: http://www.blogcatalog.com/blogs/syaf-the-geek.html )
5) Join as a member to each Neighborhoods listed here by clicking on Join this Neighborhood’. The goal is that all of the new Members listed will join your neighborhood, and you should do the same!
My New Neighborhoods Members
The originals
- Foreign Perspectives Join This Neighborhood
- MdRafi2k Join This Neighborhood
- ByDesign Join This Neighborhood
- Blog To Profit Join This Neighborhood
- Another Maria Join This Neighborhood
- Webee Join This Neighborhood
- Zakman Join This Neighborhood
- One Eyed View Join This Neighborhood
- Syaf The Geek Join this Neighborhood
- Esplanade Join This Neighborhood
- Wampago Join This Neighborhood
- WonderWoman Join This Neighborhood
- Kucau Join This Neighborhood
- Cymru66 Join This Neighborhood
***End Copying Here***
Copyright © 2004-2014 by Foreign Perspectives. All rights reserved.Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) for dummies; Techie blog reviews
As ‘yall know, I’ve been one of the participants of the Technorati Favourites Exchange (TFX) over the last few weeks which had the aim of getting a whole bunch of people into the top 100 favourited blogs list on Technorati. It’s been very successful too with the composition of that top 100 changing entirely.
So far, I’ve not yet made it as the barrier seems to move up every time I think I’m about to get in at number 100 but I’m not really that bothered as I’ve learnt far more over the last couple of weeks about promoting FP than I would otherwise have done in months if not years. Anyway, I thought I’d share some of that with you here.
First off, it’s very clear that the way to go with the adsense ads is the big square block that you see on FP these days. That’s the one that all the big money making blogs use and when we talk big money, one clocked up $8500 in March.
Getting the traffic up is key to that $8500 of course and with that in mind I’m pleased to see that the link exchanges that are part and parcel of the TFX have moved me into the top 40k of blogs with well over 100 incoming links to date. If you get the chance, it’s definitely worthwhile participating in one of the many link trains around.
What’s also quite useful in increasing the income from the blog/website is to improve the ranking of Alexa and Google. Now, google is staffed with some smart cookies so it’s not too easy to outsmart them and, by and large, what you need to do is to bump up the number of incoming links over a period of time. Naturally that means that your Google ranking isn’t going to go from zero to seven in a couple of months and indeed it’s taken me about eight months to get to PR4 with FP and, all being well, it’ll be at PR5 or perhaps PR6 at the next review (due around July).
However, Alexa is a completely different story. What’s clear is that being in the top 100k sites in Alexa brings in significant cash benefits in that people are prepared to pay more for links from such a site, for you to write articles about them, etc. if you’re in that top 100k. The Alexa people seem to be a completely dumber bunch than those at Google (sorry guys, but it looks like that from here) though and it seems to sufficient merely to download the Alexa toolbar and just look at your own site. Doing that has knocked off 100k from my ranking in a matter of days and I’m not even milking it by just sitting and hitting refresh either. Will it be possible to get into the top 100k doing that though? I think it will as friends of ours with a broadly similar “real” readership are bouncing along at around 100k yet with the location of the readership obviously completely squewed by them accessing their own pages.
What’s also clear is that there’s a whole lot of people out there who think that throwing together a blog is a doddle as everything is totally automated. Well, not quite everything is automated and I’ve picked up loads of great ideas from looking at the various blogs participating in the TFX which I’m gradually incorporating into FP.
If anyone’s interested, I can do a little technical review of their site and point out the various things that they could usefully do to get the traffic up. All I’m asking for the moment is that you do a little article mentioning Foreign Perspectives on your own blog. I’ll consider reviewing non-blog sites too but that would be a chargeable thing.
Copyright © 2004-2014 by Foreign Perspectives. All rights reserved.The RSS Link Train
Thanks to Nia for putting me on to Bob’s new Feed My Feed game, this will help increase the estimated RSS feed on ReviewMe.com.
So here is how the game is played:
The Feed Link Chain is a blog Link game that is gaining in popularity within the blogosphere. Unlike other blog games which focused on getting backlinks, this one is going to help you increase your Feed Readers.
All you have to do is
(1) Add your name and the feed link to the chain along with the names and feeds of three blogs that you would like to include.
(2) Simply publish the new list to your blog and allow your readers to participate in the game by continuing the chain!
(3) Link back to me in your post and make a comment HERE with the three sites you’ve added; I’ll add them to the list on my site so that others, when copying the list from my site will be propagating your three as well!
All the blogs mentioned in the chain are worth reading so do add them to your feeds and spread the word around.
Visit Feedburner for a URL feed for each site if you don’t already have that.
The List:
A new variant on the Technorati favourites scheme: MyBlogLog
Just when you were thinking that the work is all over, here comes another variant of the favourites scheme.
This one seems a little simpler at first sight, if that’s any relief!
OK, the steps:
- Signup at MyBlogLog, if you haven’t done so already. Recommended anyway as that lets you add things like the “recent readers” widget that you see on this site.
- Join my community by clicking here, then “join community”.
- Write a comment here to let me know you’ve done it.
I will in turn join your community ASAP. If I’ve not done that within two days, post a reminder as a comment to this post.
New entrants:
- AnitokidJoin the Community
- Tech Lock-RahulJoin the Community
- Technix UpdateJoin the Community
- Techno Diary
- Foreign PerspectivesJoin the Community
- Julies Journal – Join the Community
- Nathan Drach – Join the Community
- the.[ED]ition – Join the Community
- Wireless LAN Security – Join the Community
- Make Money with a 13 year old – Join the Community
- Allaedin´s Blog – Join the Community
- Bob Buskirk.com – Join the Community
- Jon Lee – Join the Community
- Everyday Weekender – Join the Community
- Bryan’s Rants – Join the Community
- Shawn Knight – Join the Community
- Kelly Cho – Join the Community
- Reformat This – Join the Community
- Ms. Danielle – Join the Community
- The Man of Silver – Join the Community
- Nate Whitehill – Join the Community
- Leo Chiang – Join the Community
- Garry Conn – Join the Community
- Samanathon – Join the Community
- Mr. Gary Lee – Join the Community
- Feats of a Chilean Dot Com Entrepreneur – Join the Community
The originals:
