Saturday, August 09, 2008
Google sours on $1 billion AOL investment
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Google acknowledged late Thursday that it may have made a bad bet on AOL.
The search giant said in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission that its $1 billion investment for a 5 percent stake in Time Warner's Web unit "may be impaired" and that it may have to take a charge in the future:
Based on our review, we believe our investment in AOL may be impaired...We will continue to review this investment for impairment in the future. There can be no assurance that impairment charges will not be required in the future, and any such amounts may be material to our Consolidated Statements of Income.
The December 2005 investment secured a renewal of Google's search advertising deal with AOL, preventing its largest ad partner from defecting to Microsoft. The deal gave AOL a valuation of $20 billion at the time.
Google didn't estimate in its filing what AOL might be worth today, but observers have suggested a figure closer to $10 billion.
Google's deal allows it to demand that Time Warner spin off AOL in an initial public offering of stock or buy back its stake, which would result in a $500 million loss for Google.
Time Warner, perhaps signaling its intention to dispose of AOL to focus on its media business, announced Wednesday that it will split AOL's dial-up unit from its advertising business by early 2009. Labels: Adult Outsourcing Solution, Social Bookmarking websites, software development, web, XBIZ Hollywood website
Thursday, July 17, 2008
Ashley Dupre
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NEWARK, N.J. — A New Jersey woman is suing Ashley Dupre, Joe Francis and “Girls Gone Wild” parent company Mantra Entertainment, claiming that Dupre used her lost driver’s license to appear in a “Girls Gone Wild” video. The federal lawsuit filed last week by Amber Arpaio seeks unspecified monetary compensation for defamation and invasion of privacy. Arpaio’s suit said that because of Dupre’s website video, she received numerous calls from friends, family and third parties. Further she claims that her name has traveled through countless websites. Dupre gained notoriety in March when it came out that she was the high-priced call girl named “Kristen” named in court documents who allegedly was hired by N.Y. Gov. Elliot Spitzer for at least one tryst at a posh Washington hotel. Spitzer, known as “Client 9” in the documents, resigned as governor a few days after the scandal broke. Dupre had previously filed a $10 million lawsuit against Francis and “Girls Gone Wild” over the video, which was dropped last month. “She clearly filed her lawsuit just for publicity,” Francis said at the time. “Now that the distraction of this frivolous lawsuit is behind us and I have been vindicated, yet again, we’ve been given the green light to provide her with all the public exposure she could ask for.” Dupre’s suit had alleged that “Girls Gone Wild” and Joe Francis had ruined Dupre’s reputation by publicizing the video. Francis countered by posting the footage indicating that Dupre had willingly volunteered to perform for the “Girls Gone Wild” cameras, providing both a verbal and written release. The footage shows Dupre covered by a terry cloth towel and giving her name as Amber Arpaio. An unseen questioner asks if she is 18 and if the footage can be used on “Girls Gone Wild.” She said yes to both questions before her ID was photographed. Because Dupre had offered false identification and lied about her age on camera, the West Los Angeles-based company initially declined to publish the material. Lawyers for Francis and Dupre had no immediate comment on the lawsuit Thursday. In related news, Dupre has is reportedly in talks to be considered for a slot on MTV. One of the concepts being considered is a dating format. “They’re talking to MTV about Ashley being the next Tila Tequila,” a source said. Labels: Adult, Adult Outsourcing Solution, blogger, google, Social Bookmarking websites, xbiz, xbiz award, XBIZ Hollywood website
Tuesday, July 01, 2008
Suit Opposes Ohio Obscenity Law
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CINCINNATI — The manager of Cincinnati's Hustler Hollywood store is suing Ohio's attorney general in an attempt to overturn part of a new state law that would require persons convicted of selling obscene material to register as sex offenders. "She's not been convicted or charged with anything. She's frightened," attorney Lou Sirkin said Monday. The woman, identified only as G.B. in the suit, is afraid, Sirkin said, because under the current law, if she sells something at the store that is decided to be obscene — even years later — the law requires her to register as a sex offender for 15 years. If she were convicted of selling obscene material and required to report in as a sex offender, Sirkin said, that likely would result in her two children being kicked out of their Catholic school because it requires background checks, and would end her volunteering as a school volleyball coach. A spokesman for the attorney general told reporters that his office is aware of the suit and is prepared to defend Ohio laws. The suit, which was filed in U.S. District Court, seeks to overturn as unconstitutional part of Ohio's version of the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act, which became effective Jan. 1.That law increased the reporting aspects, resulting in sex offenders — or those convicted of certain related crimes, including pandering obscenity — being required to register as sex offenders for longer periods of time. A person convicted of pandering obscenity in Ohio could be sent to prison for 12 months and would have to register as a sex offender for 15 years. The registration information also is publicly available and posted on government and law-enforcement websites and would embarrass G.B., the suit notes. The suit also said the current law violates G.B.'s rights of free speech and privacy. Sirkin, a longtime lawyer for Hustler publisher Larry Flynt, has battled over obscenity and other First Amendment issues often in Hamilton County, including the 1990 prosecution of the Contemporary Arts Center for a Robert Mapplethorpe exhibit some called obscene. "G.B. fears facing obscenity charges due to the history of censorship and strict enforcement of obscenity laws in Hamilton County, which includes multiple criminal obscenity charges arising out of Hustler business ventures in Cincinnati," the suit notes. Because of the woman's fear of being convicted of pandering obscenity and having to register as a sex offender, she has put off an expansion of the Hustler store downtown, something the store's strong sales suggest should be done, according to the suit. The suit also seeks an injunction seeking to stop the enforcement of that portion of the Ohio law, for the woman to not be identified further than her initials for the sake of the suit and for the state to pay her attorney fees. Labels: CINCINNATI, Obscenity, Social Bookmarking websites, software development, XBIZ Hollywood website
Friday, January 25, 2008
2008 XBIZ Awards Official Nominees
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Nominee Submissions The nomination period for the 2008 XBIZ Awards has ended. For VIP tickets to the 2008 XBIZ Awards click here. For Free general admission tickets included with XBIZ Hollywood '08 Conference registration click here. 2008 XBIZ Awards Official Nominees Web/Online Categories - Affiliate Program of the Year
12clicksCash.com, Braincash, CECash, EuroRevenue, Fetish Hits, Gammae, NichePartners, NS Cash, OC Cash, PimpRoll, Platinum Bucks, PussyCash, QuickBuck, SilverCash, TopBucks, TwistysCash
- Emerging Affiliate Program of the Year
CherryPimps, Elite Dollars, High Def Riches, Hush Money, HustlerCash, Incredible Dollars, Juggcash, Latin Teen Cash, Monster Mazuma, PornoPushers, PremiumCash, Red Light Revenue, RhinoPays, Starlight Bucks, SwankDollars
- VOD Company of the Year
Adult DVD Empire, Adult Rental, AEBN/NakedSword, Clips4Sale, GameLink, Hot Movies, SugarVOD, XonDemand, XVN, Yappo
- Content Broker/Licensor of the Year
5starHD, Adult Labs, AdultSexContent, Amazing Content, Cool-Content.com, HDV Adult, Matrix Content, The Content Store, WorldWideContent, XXXContentDirect
- Content Feed Provider of the Year
Almighty Content, Content Pushers, Extreme Feeds, Glamour Girls, ItsYourPorn, M Squared Feeds, Platinum Feeds, PlugInFeeds, Porn2Go, Sexentertain, Webmaster Central, WorldWideFeeds
- Live Video Chat of the Year
AdultWebmasterEmpire, Cams.com, CamSense, CamZ.com, CupidoCam, ImLive.com, Interclimax, ItchLive, LiveBucks, LiveCamNetwork, Video Secrets, WebCamCash
- Web Host of the Year
MojoHost, NationalNet, OC3 Networks, RackSpace, Webair, Webazilla
- Design Studio of the Year
Adult Design Evolution, AdultDesign.com, Adultmix.biz, Blue Design Studios, BlueFly Adult, Cardinal Vices, Dickmans Design, Insane Adult Creations, Lions Territory, Mansion Productions, MarketingAdult.com, Nasty Graphix, PornBuilders, S2O Designs, Wolume Studios, Wyldesites, YoniDesign
- Dating Program of the Year
Adult Friend Finder, DatingGold, Eroticy, Fling.com, IwantU, Lion Dollars, Loadedcash, Lover Cash, SexDateCash, SexSearch
- Web Retailer of the Year
AdamAndEve.com, Adult DVD Empire, Effex Media, eXtremeRestraints, Gamelink, SEXTOY.com, Shop.Private.com, Stockroom.com, Sugar DVD, WantedList.com, XRentDVD.com
- Web Community of the Year
Adult Insider, AdultDVDTalk, AdultWhosWho, AskDamageX, GFY, JBM, PimpBoard, SponsorChat, WebOverdrive, XXX Porn Talk
- Billing Company of the Year (IPSP)
CCBill, CommerceGate, DHD Media, Epoch, Verotel
- Billing Company of the Year (Merch Acc)
DHD Media, Netbilling, Verotel, Zombaio
- Billing Company of the Year (Alternative)
2000Charge, Adult Mobile Solutions, Global-Acces, GXBill, Net Cash, Password-By-Phone, Verotel, Webbilling, WTS
- Mobile Company of the Year
Adult Mobile Solutions, CC Media Network, MobiMetrix, Mobival, SexGoesMobile, Waat Media
- Emerging Web Company of the Year
AWM Open Magazine, Encoding.TV, Manolay.com, Protect-X, Traffic Dude, Yappo
- Software Company of the Year
2Much.net, aWIZ Scripts, Chameleon Submitter, Dream Submitter, Hedonic Software, Mansion Productions, Media Conductor, ObjectCube, Smart Thumbs, The Sponsor Feeds, Too Much Media
- GLBT Web Company of the Year
BangBangBoys.com, Big Muscle.com, COLTcash, Cybersocket, DaddyHunt.com, LavenderLounge.com, MenMachine.com, Pistol Media, PornTeam.com, PrideBucks.com, ZbuckZ.com
- Web Babe/Starlet of the Year
Allison Angel, Andi Pink, Ariel Rebel, Brooke Skye, Casey Parker, Joanna Angel, Lia 19, Melissa Midwest, Naughty Allie, Nicole Graves, Raven Riley, Sunny Leone, Taylor Little, Trisha Uptown, Sexylette, Vanilla DeVille
Movie Production Categories - Studio of the Year
Adam & Eve, Digital Playground, Elegant Angel, Evil Angel, Hush Hush Entertainment, Hustler Video, Naughty America, New Sensations, Pink Visual, Pleasure Productions, Private Media Group, Red Light District, SexZ Pictures, Shane’s World, Smash Pictures, Teravision, Vivid Entertainment, Wicked Pictures
- Emerging Studio of the Year
6969 Entertainment, Bone Digital, Filthy Films, Handheld Pictures, Harmony Films, HellHouse Media, Hot Zone Entertainment, LeMayzing, Matt Zane Productions, Pulpo Inc., Tom Byron Pictures
- GLBT Studio of the Year
Channel 1 Releasing, Collin O’Neal’s World of Men, COLT Studio Group, FPG Entertainment, Hyde Park Productions, Jet Set Entertainment, Lucas Entertainment, Pitbull Productions, Private Man, PZP Productions, Raging Stallion Studios, Studio 2000, Titan Media
- Feature Movie of the Year
Black Worm – Pulpo Inc., Broken – Teravision, Burnt Fury – Vivid Entertainment, Eden – Adam & Eve Pictures, Fashionistas Safado: Berlin – John StaglianoEvil Angel, Insertz – Roy Karch Productions/Sinsation, Not The Brady’s XXX – X-Play/Hustler Video, Operation: Desert Stormy – Wicked Pictures, Spunk’d The Movie – 6969 Entertainment, Upload – SexZ Pictures
- Gonzo Series of the Year
Angels of Debauchery – Jonni Darkko/Evil Angel, Ass Worship – Jules Jordan Video, Barely Legal – Hustler Video, Big Wet Asses – Elegant Angel, Blow Me Sandwich - Zero Tolerance, Cheating Housewives – Smash Pictures, Chemistry – Vivid Entertainment, College Invasion – Shane’s World, Fresh Out the Box – Mercenary Pictures, Homegrown Video – Homegrown Video, Jack’s Playground – Digital Playground, Just Over 18 – Red Light District, My Daughter’s Fucking Blackzilla – Hush Hush Entertainment, Naughty College Schoolgirls – New Sensations, Virtual Sex With… - Digital Playground
- GLBT Feature Movie of the Year
Amazonia: Capture and Release - AMG Brasil, A Rising Star - Ridgeline Films, Bottom of the 9th: Little Big League 3 - All Worlds Video/Channel 1 Releasing, Buckback Mountain - Buck Angel Entertainment, El Rancho - Sarava Productions, FEAR - Titan Media, Grunts - Raging Stallion Studios, Hawai’I - COLT Studio Group, Link V: The Evolution - All Worlds Video/Channel 1 Releasing, Marine Crucible 2: Cocked & Loaded - Centaur Films, Michael Lucas’ Gigolo - Lucas Entertainment, Oliver Twink, PZP Productions, Rich Kid - Private Man, Santo Domingo - Collin O’Neal’s World of Men, Tiger Tyson’s Eiffel Tower - Pitbull Productions, Top Dawgs - FPG Entertainment
- Feature Director of the Year
Andres Tabago, DCypher, Eli Cross, Eon McKai, John Stagliano, Paul Thomas, Pierre Woodman, Roy Karch, Stormy Daniels, Will Ryder
- Gonzo Director of the Year
Erik Everhard, Gazzman, Jim Powers, Jonni Darko, Jules Jordan, Manuel Ferrara, Mike Quasar, Robby D., Tina Tyler, Van Styles, William H.
- GLBT Director of the Year
Brian Mills, Chi Chi LaRue, Chris Steele, Chris Ward, Collin O’Neal, Dennis Bell, Jalin Fuentes, John Rutherford, Kristen Bjorn, Michael Lucas & Tony Dimarco
Additional Categories - Female Performer of the Year
Belladonna, Brianna Love, Carmen Hart, Carmen Luvana, Courtney Cummz, Eva Angelina, Gianna Michaels, Jesse Jane, Jessica Drake, Joanna Angel, Memphis Monroe, Penny Flame, Stormy Daniels, Sunny Lane, Tera Patrick
- Male Performer of the Year
Evan Stone, Erik Everhard, Lexington Steele, Manuel Ferrara, Marco Banderas, Mark Ashley, Mr. Pete, Shane Diesel, Tom Byron, Tommy Gunn
- GLBT Performer of the Year
Buck Angel, Carlo Masi, Collin O’Neal, Dean Flynn, Jake Deckard, Michael Lucas, Ricky Sinz, Tiger Tyson, Trevor Knight, Zack Randall
- New Starlet of the Year
Ashlynn Brooke, Audrey Bitoni, Bree Olson, Casey Parker, Jenny Hendrix, Lela Star, Paulina James, Shay Jordan, Tera Wray, Tessa West
- Novelty Company of the Year
Beamonstar, Big Teaze Toys, California Exotic Novelties, Doc Johnson, Extreme Restraints, Fleshlight, Fun Factory, Jollies Pleasure Toys, Monkey Rocker, Nexus, PHS International, Sliquid, Spartacus Leathers, Sportsheets, Stockroom.com, System Jo, Tantus, Topco Sales
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Thursday, January 17, 2008
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 reporter's notebook The Compex Sport inflicts intense, deep pain. That's its chief selling point. A day after riding an exercise bike while wired to the Sport--an $899 device that electrically stimulates and revives muscle tissue that ordinarily wouldn't get activated during exercise--my legs were still sore. To put on pants, I had to crouch down and sort of hop into them, and that was after several stretches. My left bicep, which temporarily got hooked up to the Sport, felt like it would had I entered a one-armed chin-up contest. And those were the aftereffects. Being hooked up to the machine just for a few minutes made my legs feel as if they had become trapped in a vise. In short, it was scary, but oddly compelling at the same time. The Sport is the latest piece of athletic gear to migrate from the professional locker rooms to weekend warriors. Skier Alberto Tomba employed electronic stimulation, according to the company, on his way to three gold medals at the 1988 and 1992 Winter Olympics. It's a fixture in the training rooms for soccer teams like Juventus and Ajax too. Compex refashioned its professional device for the consumer market in Europe a few years ago and has just brought it to the States. It's aimed at hobby athletes who don't have time to train as much as they'd like, but still want to outdo their friends or competitors. Slap on the electrodes and that quick training session becomes a full-body experience. Despite the pain, the device actually reduces the potential injuries, explained Heiko Van Vliet, a European marketing manager for Compex and a coach and trainer who works with the CSC bicycling team and the Norwegian national skating team. Because you don't have to lift large amounts of weights or run an extraordinary large number of miles to get an intense workout, the wear and tear on joints, bones, and cartilage gets reduced. Regular use over time additionally builds up muscle tissue, which takes more pressure off joints and bones. "With this, we are able to do in 25 seconds what you have never felt in your life," said Van Vliet. "For professional athletes, it is a must." And seconds is all it takes. I only did three sets of exercises with my legs during a demo at San Francisco's City Cycle. I did the "resistance" setting for seven 7-second intervals. In this mode, the device sent electric charges through two electrodes every 7 seconds to my quadriceps while I pedaled an exercise bike. The jolt activated the slow-twitch muscle fibers in my thigh. A 30-second (or longer) rest period followed each 7-second jolt. I followed this with seven 4-second intervals on the "explosive strength" mode, which targets fast-twitch muscle fibers. I then followed with 1.5 minutes on the much mellower "endurance" setting. The day before the test, I had ridden my own bike approximately 50 miles over several hills, so I'm not that out of shape. Even so, after doing what amounted to less than 3 minutes of actual exercise on the Compex Sport, I was sweating, panting, and howling. Customers coming into the store stared, and then asked the sales attendant what was going on. (Weirdly, after a burst of electricity, you feel fine and can even hold conversations.) Electrical stimulation essentially works by tricking the body. To get muscles to contract in an ordinary situation, the brain sends an electrical signal to the appropriate nerves, which then stimulate the muscle fiber. As people age, however, certain neural pathways become predominant. When the brain sends a signal, the same fibers get tickled; the muscles that get ignored begin to atrophy. "Your body is very efficient. Why should it conserve something that it isn't using?" Van Vliet explained. An ordinary person who doesn't work out much uses around 35 percent of their muscle mass, while someone who works out somewhat frequently can boost that number to closer to 50 percent, he said. Body builders might use 80 percent to 85 percent. To excite those dormant fibers, the Sport sends a signal directly to the nerves via electrodes attached to your leg, bypassing the brain all together. It stimulates as many fibers as possible, not just the ones the nerve customarily excites. When the current begins to flow, your muscles immediately jump into a hard mound. "We can recruit up to 99 percent of your muscle fiber," Van Vliet said. That stimulated muscle tissue is then more receptive to signals from your brain the next time you run or bike in the real world. The pain first-time users feel after using the Sport comes from delayed onset muscle soreness that comes from doing new activities. (Think of the pain you'd have if, out of the blue, you decided to run every stair in a football stadium.) The more you use the device and exercise those ignored muscles, the more the pain decreases. Kip Potter, who is helping import the Sport to the U.S., hooks himself up to the device three times a week. He can still walk upright. The amount of current flowing through the device is quite low--in the 20 to 40 milliamp range--said Van Vliet. Anecdotally, it seems correct. For an article in 2004, I volunteered for a hit from a Taser, which emits much higher amperage. It knocked me flat and my hands felt numb for nearly an hour after a 1-second tase. Even during the longer, 7-second charges inflicted in "resistance" mode on the Sport, I could still talk and move, and hadn't even come close to losing consciousness--a big difference. The level of power is also controlled by the user. (In the video, Van Vliet has it set two-thirds of the way up, relatively high for a maiden voyage.) To shut it off, you can just pull the electrodes off. But the company recommends working out with a trainer initially. Labels: blogger, Social Bookmarking websites, web
Friday, December 14, 2007
Search engine traffic is by far my favorite type of traffic; it’s free, the users convert well to sales and advertisement clicks, and you can work towards goals like ranking for specific keywords. In this case study I will explain every step I have taken to bring www.NarutoWallpaper.biz from 0 to 400 search engine visitors per day in just over one month.
Google Analytics Keywords Report
Keyword Research
If you are hoping to receive traffic from search engines, you need to be targeting keywords which people actually search for - the tool I prefer to use for keyword research is Keyword Discovery. Before deciding to the buy the domain www.NarutoWallpaper.biz I only knew that I wanted to develop a website providing wallpapers so I searched for the term ‘wallpapers’ in KeywordDiscovery. The most searched for ‘wallpapers’ phrases are ‘wallpapers’, ‘anime wallpapers’, ‘psp wallpapers’, ‘free wallpapers’ and ‘naruto wallpapers’.
Keyword Discovery Keywords
Targeting the keyword ‘wallpapers’ might seem appealing with 500,000 searches per month but it will be highly competitive, I like to choose topics with moderately high searches but reasonably low competition. To find out the competition of each key phrase I search for the phrase in Google and look at the ‘Results 1 - 10 of about 2,230,000 for naruto wallpapers’ section. For the top 5 key phrases listed above, ‘wallpapers’ has 88 million competitors - far too many, ‘free wallpapers’ has 8 million - a bit much, and ‘anime wallpapers’ ‘psp wallpapers and ‘naruto wallpapers’ have 3 million - decent. Anime, PSP and Naruto have nice searches per month with achievable search engine rankings since the phases aren’t enormously competitive. Of the three I chose ‘Naruto Wallpapers’ since it seems interesting.
Based on the niche I decided on above I bought the domain www.NarutoWallpaper.biz. Having the target keywords in the domain is nice and has some SEO benefit.
More Keyword Research
Each of the sub-pages must target other key phrases within the niche so I return to KeywordDiscovery and this time rather than search for ‘wallpapers’ I search for ‘naruto wallpapers’. The results this time give you ideas for what pages you should create. Naruto is a cartoon series so I created sub-pages for each character in the series, once again searching in KeywordDiscovery for ‘(character name) wallpapers’. Each time I want to create a new sub-page I find the optimal keywords to target through KeywordDiscovery.
Optimizing the Pages
After you’ve decided on the target key phrases for your pages you should make sure then each page includes its respective key phrase in the page title, the URL and the page content. The website I developed for www.NarutoWallpaper.biz is database driven so each wallpaper has a separate sub-page with an auto-generated page title, ‘(character name) wallpaper’.
Getting Indexed
Once the website is up and running you will want to have the pages included in the search engines, to make things simple I will refer to just Google. Google doesn’t index your website unless it finds other websites linking to it, I will discuss building backlinks in the next section. Google does have a submission page but I see no good reason to use it; if you have backlinks you will be added to the index automatically.
Having backlinks pointing towards your website will get your homepage indexed along with some sub-pages but to get all of your sub-pages indexed you should create a sitemap, a sitemap is a file listing all of your pages. There are two main types of sitemap, the HTML Sitemap and the XML Sitemap, both will help to get all of your sub-pages indexed but I prefer the XML Sitemap. After you’ve created your sitemap you should submit it to Google Webmaster Tools to help them find your sitemap.
Building Backlinks
As I said above, building backlinks will help to get your pages indexed but the main benefit of backlinks is that they improve your search engine rankings. The benefit of a backlink depends mainly on two things, the quality of the website linking to you and the anchor text of the link. As an example, in the link Naruto Wallpapers ‘Naruto Wallpapers’ is the anchor text so this backlink will help the website I am linking to rank for the key phrase ‘Naruto Wallpapers’.
To build backlinks to a new website I start by contacting similar websites asking if they would like to link to your website or if they would like to exchange links with you. To find potential websites to contact I search Google for something like naruto inurl:contact.php. Each related website that links to you helps to boost your search engine rankings.
Another method of backlink building is blog commenting or forum posting, if your website is relevant to the discussion you can give your link. Make sure you only display your link if it useful though, otherwise it is spam.
Social bookmarking websites like Digg and StumbleUpon can also provide backlinks. Social bookmarking can also be a good traffic source if your website is very useful or interesting.
Wait, Wait, Wait
As you saw in the first image it took 1 week for www.NarutoWallpaper.biz 1 week to start receiving traffic from search engines and 3 weeks to see any substantial traffic. This is nothing to worry about, it’s because the search engine spiders take a while to find all of the backlinks pointing towards your website although some people may blame this delay to the sandbox effect, I don’t believe in the sandbox effect, I think it’s simply a delay while the spiders find the backlinks. While you’re waiting you might like to create some more keyword targeted content.
Statistics and Traffic Tracking
To find out which keywords are bringing you visitors a tracking program is necessary, my two favorite programs are AwStats and Google Analytics both of which are free. The first image was part of the Google Analytics package.
As you can see in the first image, the main key phrases bringing me traffic are ‘naruto wallpaper’, ‘naruto wallpapers’, ‘akatsuki wallpapers’ and so on. Once you know which key phrases are bring in the traffic you will want to find out what you rank for each phrase, to do this I use the Digital Point Keyword Tool which lets you track your rankings on a daily basis. If you find a keyword ranking in the top 11-20 you should work to improve your rankings for this term, you will receive far more traffic for a top 10 ranking than a rank 11-20 and there’s not a huge amount of work involved with improving from rank 11-20 to top 10. At the moment I am ranking 11-20 for ‘Naruto Wallpapers’ so once I reach top 10 the search engine traffic will increase a lot.
Repeat
Once the above steps are complete the only thing left to do is repeat them until you reach your desired rankings and traffic. Do further keyword research and create new sub-pages based on this research, keep optimizing your pages and keep building backlinks to the homepage and sub-pages. If your website is of high enough quality your backlinks will grow naturally, you won’t need to do much more backlink building. Labels: ads, Social Bookmarking websites, web
Tuesday, December 04, 2007
MADISON, Wisconsin (AP) -- Bloggers and free speech advocates are calling on prosecutors not to file charges against a teacher arrested for allegedly posting an anonymous comment online praising the Columbine shooters.  In 1999, two Columbine High School students killed 12 fellow students, a teacher, and themselves. Some were disturbed by the post that police say James Buss left on a conservative blog, but other observers said it was a sarcastic attempt to discredit critics of education spending. The suburban Milwaukee high school chemistry teacher was arrested last week for the November 16 comment left on www.bootsandsabers.com, a blog on Wisconsin politics. The comment, left under the name "Observer," came during a discussion over teacher salaries, after some writers complained teachers were underworked and overpaid. Buss, a former president of the teacher's union, allegedly wrote that teacher salaries made him sick because they are lazy and work only five hours a day. He praised the teen gunmen who killed 12 students and a teacher before committing suicide in the April 1999 attack at Columbine High School. "They knew how to deal with the overpaid teacher union thugs. One shot at a time!" he wrote, adding they should be remembered as heroes. The comment disturbed at least one teacher, who called police in West Bend, 40 miles north of Milwaukee and home of the blog's administrator. Police traveled to arrest Buss at his home in Cudahy, south of Milwaukee, last week after the blogger gave them the anonymous poster's IP address. After his arrest, Buss spent an hour in the Washington County jail before he was released on $350 bail. He did not return phone messages and e-mails seeking comment, and it was unclear whether he had a lawyer. Washington County District Attorney Todd Martens is considering whether to charge Buss with disorderly conduct and unlawful use of computerized communication systems. "If you look at all the factors in this case, it's pretty clear it would be a mistake to charge," said Larry Dupuis, legal director of The American Civil Liberties Union of Wisconsin. "At worst, it was somebody expressing admiration for somebody who did something reprehensible. But the more reasonable explanation is this is somebody who is trying to mock the conservative view of teacher salaries." Police Capt. Toby Netko defended the arrest. He said the teacher who complained was disturbed by the reference to "one shot at a time" and other educators agreed it was a threat. "What happens when you say 'bomb' in an airport? That's free speech, isn't it?" he said. "And people are taken into custody for that all the time." Donald Downs, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor and expert in free speech, said that "all sorts of unsavory, controversial speech" are protected by the First Amendment. "It has to be intended to incite violence" to be illegal, Downs said. "If it's tongue-in-cheek, there's virtually no way they can claim that." Downs added, however, that the school district might have legal grounds to discipline Buss. The teacher has been placed on paid administrative leave while his school district considers what action to take. Sara Larsen, superintendent of the Oak Creek school district where Buss has worked since 1994, said she was "dismayed, disappointed and discouraged" by the posting. She had worked closely with Buss when he was president of the teacher's union for three years ending in 2006. "It's not something that I would have expected any teacher to do. As much as teachers understand the whole situation in Columbine, to reference that is certainly inappropriate," she said. Labels: blogger, creative ads, Social Bookmarking websites
Wednesday, October 10, 2007
The book was written by John K. VanDyk and Matt Westgate, both of whom are experienced computer programmers, who years earlier had created their own CMS. In their book's Introduction, they confess to discovering Drupal and its many advantages, switching over to it, and presumably abandoning further development of their own CMS. This speaks volumes about their regard for Drupal, because an individual programmer or programming team can give no greater vote of confidence for a technological product than to voluntarily end primary allegiance to a competing product that they themselves birthed and nurtured.
Pro Drupal Development was published by Apress, on 16 April 2007, under the ISBNs 1590597559 and 978-1590597552. The publisher offers a Web page on their site dedicated to the book, where the visitor will find all of the book's source code, as well as the table of contents and a sample chapter (Chapter 8 — The Theme System), in PDF format. In addition, there is a link for errata, which leads to the authors' own book site. At the time of this writing, there are three dozen entries, contributed by the authors and their readers. The authors' site also has links for downloading the source code by individual chapter, and a blog that focuses on the book.
The book's material, spanning 428 pages, is organized into 23 chapters and two appendices. Unlike the majority of technical books nowadays, this one does not have the chapters organized into labeled parts. Nonetheless, the chapters and appendices roughly fall into three categories: how Drupal works (Chapters 1, 19, and 23, and Appendix A), how to customize it (Chapters 2-18 and 22), and how to optimize your Drupal development efforts (Chapters 20-21, and Appendix B). The customization chapters cover a wide range of topics: modules, menus, databases, users, nodes, themes, blocks, forms, filtering, searching, indexing, files, taxonomy, caching, sessions, jQuery, localization, and optimization.
Each one of these topics is explored in laudable detail, with plenty of sample code and figures to illustrate the key concepts. The greatest strength of this book is the depth of its coverage, and the methodical way that the authors go about presenting the material. They are clearly quite serious about Drupal itself, and about conveying to the reader all of the knowledge that they believe is important for the reader to master. In fact, anyone attempting to read the book cover to cover might find the presentation quite dry, with no evidence of humor or even a sense of fun, unlike so many other recent programming books. On the other hand, one can argue that the value of this information alone to the reader who is equally serious about mastering Drupal, should be sufficient. Regardless, be warned that this is definitely not a book that one can read through at a fast pace, absorbing the bulk of the information. The innards of Drupal alone make it a challenging subject for dissection; learning how to modify Drupal's behavior, is even more so.
Yet if anyone is interested in mastering the inner workings of Drupal, and how to customize them, this is the book of choice. It may be a bit dry, but it is quite meaty, and the material is clearly presented. Moreover, the publisher, Apress, has done an admirable job with this title. The layout is clear; the index is substantial; and, as with their other titles, they offer two different versions of the table of contents — high-level, listing the chapter titles only, and detailed, listing the sections and subsections within those chapters.
Another aspect of this book that I applaud is the efficient use of page space, through the use of top and bottom margins that are noticeably smaller than those found in the typical computer programming book. This is especially true of the bottom margins. For instance, on page 117, the text comes within one centimeter of the bottom edges the page — something I've never seen before in a professionally printed book. At first it might strike one as sloppy, but actually should be appreciated by anyone who is tired of technical books using excessive margins for padding out a much more limited amount of information into an even greater number of pages. This is a practice that I would recommend to all other publishers, technical or otherwise.
However, the book does have some weaknesses, which is probably to be expected in any first edition. The sample source code in many cases could benefit from more use of whitespace — particularly for the PHP code. But with any code found in a book, there is always the possibility that such instances of compressed code result from a conscious decision given the limited width of the printed page. But in most such cases in this book, that reason would not be applicable.
The authors do not warn the reader that a solid understanding of PHP is needed for using the book's ideas and sample code. Near the end of the Introduction, they suggest that if the reader is new to Drupal, then he or she should read the chapters in sequence. The authors should also note that if the reader is new to PHP, then it would be better to first get up to speed on PHP before trying to digest and make use of this book. Such points might be obvious to most readers, but they should be clarified up front, perhaps in the Introduction, for the benefit of anyone browsing this title in a bookstore, and wondering if they already possess the technical know-how required by the book.
Similarly, the authors also do not mention that the book is, for the most part, only applicable to Drupal version 5, and not version 4 or earlier versions, since there have been some dramatic changes with the release of version 5. In fact, given the extent of the changes and how that would impact the utility of the book depending upon what version of Drupal the reader is using, it should be noted on the book's cover, as an increasing number of publishers are doing.
A couple of minor problems were in evidence in the first dozen pages. On page 3, the authors refer to "user 1," which is likely to confuse most readers, because it looks like a username, and would be unfamiliar to someone who has installed Drupal and created a Web site, without extensive reading of the Drupal documentation. On page 11, the authors discuss core modules, and where they can be seen listed in the administration area of Drupal. But the path that they provide, "sites/all/modules," is incorrect, because that is where user-added modules are placed, of which there are none in a default installation. (The second mention of that path, in the fourth paragraph, is correct.)
Lastly, when the book is opened up to any of the pages not near the center, the book immediately flops closed. The use of lay-flat binding is strongly urged, for future editions of this book and all others that Apress offers. Labels: Drupal Development, Photoshop tutorial, Social Bookmarking websites
Thursday, July 19, 2007
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