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Competitors Lack Many Important Features
Currently the domain industry has three sources which aggregate and deliver domain news.
- DNHour – A website powered by the Pligg script which is plagued by spam links and has virtually no organization or social features. Voting can easily be duped by deleting cookies or voting on different computers.
- Domaining.com – An excellent resource for top domain blogs, but lacks versatility, customization, voting and commentary.
- Discussion Forums – Rarely updated and often only displaying the biggest news items.
The Domainer’s Community is fulfilling the need for a one-stop stable and easy to use domain industry news source. Please join us and contribute your favorite domaining resources, news, photos and videos.
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Domainer’s News & Media Sharing Community Goes Live!
Visit: The Definitive Guide to High Rankings for Your Blog
While I must admit I have not read completely through the article due to it’s comprehensive nature. Virtually everything you could possibly imagine related to optimizing your WordPress based website is included.
The guide is broken down into 7 main optimization points:
- Basic Technical Optimization
- Template Optimization
- Advanced Technical Optimization
- Altering Your Blog’s Structure for High Rankings
- Conversion Optimization
- Comment Optimization
- Off Site Blog SEO
This is a must read for anyone serious about the success of their blog!
If you like Joost’s WordPress SEO guide then you will love his professional and extremely useful WordPress Plugins. I especially recommend the RSS Footer plugin for anyone who’s blog content is being syndicated elsewhere.
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Yoast’s Deffinitive Guide to WordPress SEO
Visit: The Definitive Guide to High Rankings for Your Blog
While I must admit I have not read completely through the article due to it’s comprehensive nature. Virtually everything you could possibly imagine related to optimizing your WordPress based website is included.
The guide is broken down into 7 main optimization points:
- Basic Technical Optimization
- Template Optimization
- Advanced Technical Optimization
- Altering Your Blog’s Structure for High Rankings
- Conversion Optimization
- Comment Optimization
- Off Site Blog SEO
This is a must read for anyone serious about the success of their blog!
If you like Joost’s WordPress SEO guide then you will love his professional and extremely useful WordPress Plugins. I especially recommend the RSS Footer plugin for anyone who’s blog content is being syndicated elsewhere.
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Yoast’s Definitive Guide to WordPress SEO
Business Development Opportunity
Released under the terms of the GNU/GPL license, Smeego can be used to develop commercial web properties at no cost. You can in-turn sell these web properties without any restrictions or licensing troubles. This is a major bonus for web developers of all kinds especially those who are currently developing blogs and businesses on platforms like WordPress. Smeego provides an alternate and promising avenue for developing websites.
User Generated Content & Social Actions
The out-dated concept of the “web portal” is now beginning to merge with social networking features, focusing on users sharing content and contributing to a community of like minded individuals. Smeego champions user powered content with friendly features that allow submissions of blogs, downloads, links, articles and news from your website visitors.
Features and Functionality
- Fully integrated File Downloads manager
- Open submission Links Directory
- Email to Friend and Printer Friendly Pages
- Automatically generated Mobile friendly version
- Theme/template system
- FAQ Manager
- Website Statistics
- Polls and Surveys manager
- Reviews manager (Books, games, etc.)
- Banner Advertising manager
As you can see from the list above, Smeego has some seriously cool features. This comprehensive CMS also has module management. New modules and features will be released by developers in the coming weeks.
Smeego Case Study: XboxMVP.com
Immediately after hearing about the release of Smeego a few days ago I downloaded a copy and choose to give it a go as a development option for my domain, XboxMVP.com which has great community potential.
This project starts off as one of the default templates called “Orange” which comes bundled with Smeego. I did some simple modifications to the CSS style options, then created a graphical logo and header design to replace the default white box and orange slice.
“Blocks” were customized to make their titles more relevant to the Xbox niche. Several blocks (Statistics, Advertising. etc.) were not needed during initial development and were deactivated from public view.
Now all that is left to do is promote and create content which is easily managed through the Reviews, News, Polls, and Stories modules!
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Smeego CMS Goes Live: Is this a Dream Web Development Opportunity?
Register.com, one of the oldest and most respected domain name registrars, conducted a survey of 800 small businesses. The results speak volumes for the ability of the internet industry to thrive in economic down times.
“Despite the slumping economy, most small businesses do not anticipate a decline in revenue over the next year, and many expect to make additional investments in Web site design, SEO and e-mail marketing, according to Register.com’s newly released “Small Business Survey.” Register.com conducted the online survey over a three-week period from April 28 to May 16, polling 800 small businesses.
When asked which areas of technology they are mostly likely to invest in, the top three answers were: Web site design (53%), SEO (43%) and e-mail marketing (41%).
Seventy percent of those polled said they do not expect Web revenue to decline this year despite the struggling economy.”
—Carol Krol of BtoB Magazine
If you haven’t considered offering your professional services as a means of income, now may be a good time to consider getting to know some of your local businesses and working with them to create a web presence.
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Small Businesses Expect to Invest in Internet Services this Year
Here are some tips for reducing bounce rate on your websites and improving the experience for your visitors.
Watch a Friend Browse Your Site
Ask a friend or family member to browse your website casually while you look over their shoulder. This can be extremely beneficial as it helps you see things you may have overlooked. Don’t give them any direction other than to explore the site as they want. You may be surprised how they choose to navigate and what areas they completely ignore.
Analyzing Visitor Statistics
I highly recommend using an advanced statistics logging software such as Google Analytics. This can provide you with an easy to read view of your most popular pages, where people are coming from and what they are clicking on. By getting into the mindset of your visitors you can optimize your navigation and content to be user friendly.
Study Common Exit Pages
Google Analytics provides data on “Top Exit Pages.” These are the pages where the majority of your visitors are leaving your website from. Sometimes this is normal, such as when you are referring a popular product or service elsewhere on the web. Other times you may want to question why that page is causing people to leave your website.
Optimize Your Home Link
A link to your home page should be prominently displayed in your navigation bar. Make it very easy to find, highly visible and keep it in the same location on every page. This link is essentially your visitors way of finding more of your content after landing on one of your sub-pages or individual articles.
Optimize Your About Page
This is probably the most important page you can have on your website. A reliable statistic that I have now lost but remember quite well informed me that an “About” link is the most visited page after a first-time visitor lands on your website. Tell a little bit about who you are and what content can be found on your website, highlight some of your best content areas and articles, and provide contact information. Here are some more tips from ProBlogger about creating an about page.
User Friendly Navigation
Provide your visitors with a clean and prominent navigation system. It has been found that a horizontal bar at the top of your page works best. If you have to use a list style format in you sidebar that is alright, but make it simple, short and sweet. If you have alot of content to navigate it is important to use category labels for your navigation, this prevents the user from having to scan an entire list of page names and improves usability.
Heat Mapping Software
Heat Mapping is essentially a way to visually view what links and areas your visitors are clicking on. CrazyEgg software provides a free heat mapping account which allows you to track up to 5000 visits per month. This is a simple way to observe what areas of your site need improvement.
Hope these tips and tricks helped you out with your websites!
Got something to add?
Your comments and suggestions are greatly appreciated.
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Reducing Bounce Rate and Increasing Website Usability
Please welcome the newest member of the DotSauce Network and give the web developer toolbar a try today!
Great SEO Tools and Domain Tools found in Web Developer Toolbar:
- Backlink Checker
- Google Banned Checker
- Google Datacenter Search
- Google PageRank Prediction
- Page Index Checker
- Keyword Density Checker
- Keyword Suggestion
- Link Popularity
- Multi-Rank Checker
- PageRank Checker
- Rank Checker
- Search Engine Position
- Search Listings Preview
- Spider View
- URL Redirect Checker
- Visual PageRank
- Link Cloaking Checker
- Alexa Traffic Rank
- Broken Link Checker
- Domain Availability
- Domain Look-up
- Domain Whois
- Instant Domain Checker
- IP Location
- Link Price Calculator
- Ping Test
- Reciprocal Link Checker
- Reverse IP/Look-up
- Server Status
- Website Speed Test
On top of that, Web Developer Toolbar has features to browse the latest industry news and forum discussions from NamePros, Web Hosting Talk, DigitalPoint and SitePoint.
Try it out and let us know what you think! Any feedback and suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
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Free Web Developer Toolbar Loaded with SEO and Domain Tools
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What is OIOpublisher?
- The most comprehensive Wordpress ad management tool around
- Cut out the middle-man, keep 100% of your sales revenue
- Put sales on auto-pilot, spend more time actually growing your blog
- Sell text links, banner ads, video ads, and digital products easily
This plugin will save you countless hours of data management and communication with advertisers by automatically notifying you and your advertisers about their ads and reminding them when to renew.
Since installing OIOpublisher on my blog to sell banner and text links, I have received a huge response from interested advertisers. Buying OIO is the best investment I have ever made as a blogger.
Limited Time Offer
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Bloggers: Sell Advertising Direct With OIOpublisher
One such article is targeted at domain owners who either do not park their domain names or are looking for an alternative. Pay-Per-Click revenue shares can often times be very low, especially if your targeted keywords are not in high demand.
Put Your Dormant Domains to Use with WordPress
In his article, “Put Your Dormant Domains to Use with WordPress” Leland explains the process of creating a RSS feed powered website which will syndicate RSS feeds, keeping your content fresh and of course giving credit to the feed source.
Leland says… “This isn’t a guide on making content scraping/rewriting splogs. I’m merely going over a much more efficient way to monetize unused domains, or possibly to augment your current blog with regularly updated news from relevant feeds. Aggregating RSS feeds legally is a perfectly legitimate way to add content to your WordPress blog.”
Benefits of WordPress Powered “Parking”
- Much more SEO friendly than conventional parked landing pages
- Content is fresh and regularly updated
- Ability to sell direct advertising
- Earn 100% revenue share, cut out the middle man
- Include other revenue streams such as affiliate programs
- Insert unique content and articles
- Gain repeat visitors or “subscribers”
The process is quite simple. Install WordPress along with a special plugin (FeedWordPress) and make a few changes to your template files. The benefits seem to make RSS feed powered websites a much better alternative to domain parking. Read the article for complete instructions and to get started!
“Now is the time to dump those stagnant parked pages and start developing your unused domains into dynamic and content-rich websites.”
What are your thoughts? Do you currently use RSS feed powered websites to “park” and develop your domain portfolio? I would love to hear what you have to say, please leave a comment.
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RSS Feed Powered Websites: An Alternative to Domain Parking
What does TNX do? How does it work?
The process of buying and selling textual links is based upon the TNX points market, the dollar value of 1000 TNX points increases every week. Website publishers can install the TNX code within their pages and earn thousands of points for selling text links within individual pages. Advertisers can purchase TNX points and spend them on backlink building campaigns to effectively and efficiently increase search engine rankings.
SEO Link Building Tips: How to Rank #1 in Google
The TNX team has composed an excellent list of tips you can use to rank high for Google keyword search results. Their forum post on DigitalPoint really is a must read for any web developer or domainer. The post does an excellent job of explaining the dynamics and inner-workings of the TNX system.
5000 Free TNX Points
Sign up at TNX.net now and you can get 5000 free points to spend on building backlinks to your websites. The offer simply requires a DigitalPoint forums membership.
Inside the TNX Members Area
Here is a screen capture of my account at TNX, as you can see there are simple options for both Advertisers and Publishers.
I would suggest you do a bit of poking around the campaign creation tools before spending your TNX points. While it is quite user friendly, there are some powerful “advanced options” that should not be overlooked. If you want to get the maximum return on your dollar investment be sure to choose your keywords wisely and alternate them.
What are your thoughts on the TNX backlink building system?
Please leave a comment below.
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Revealed: Amazing SEO Tips from TNX