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Saturday, March 19, 2005

A Test I'm About To Make

Have any of you heard of Traffic Hurricane? It is supposed to make keyword rich pages for your website. It sounds like it just makes spammy pages to me, so I have decided to do an experiment.

I am going to install it on a throw-away domain, build a few thousand pages, then trak the results, plus see if the site gets banned. I am voting for banned. It doesn't seem to be a very nice way to build pages but testing is everything right.

I will give it a few months (site is already indexed and has some pagerank) so it shouldn't take long to give a thumbs up or down.

My guess is thumbs down.

Thursday, March 17, 2005

New Directory is Finished

Well, I finished building my new Online Marketing Directory. I have the emails all done, the directory categories all set up, database built, and templates customized.

The template customization was a little tougher on this site than on my last one because of how I originally designed the site but all is well now. Only thing left to do is put a link to the directory on the rest of my pages and let the robots do their thing.

Great little script.

If you would like to see it go here:

Now I have to start transferring all the links over, maybe tommorrow.

Wednesday, March 16, 2005

A New Online Marketing Directory in the Works

Everyone and their dog have created links pages. They are good for you to get reciprocal link partners, but they don't really enhance your own site, and aren't a help to your visitors. Well I got tired of that and decided to do something about it.

I downloaded a free script with which you can design a nice, structured directory on your site. You can customize the templates to fit your sites theme, plus it has a search feature built in so your visitors can actually look for what they need right on your pages. Now that may seem counter productive to you, but just remember, if you offer a good service to people who visit your webpage, they are very likely to return, and you WANT return visitors.

Plus you can do further customization to add relevant contect to your directory, so the search engines will like you as well. Happy search engines equals more visitors equals more sales.

I am in the midst of implementing the script on this site, but I have already got one up and running on my telecom website.

Telecommunications And Phone Service Directory

Now I just have to finish transfering all my link partners over to the new directory. It also takes care of emailing your partners, automatically checks for reciprocal links, and more. And because it's free, the price is right.

If you would like a copy go here:

See you later

Monday, March 14, 2005

Conigen Drops PNG and Changes to Talk America

Well I've had a busy evening. If you are a Conigen agent, you should check the changes which have taken place.

Because the agreements the competitive LEC's had with the Baby Bells has expired, they need to renegotiate. Power Net Global may be going right out of the local business, and Talk America is only offering service in Michigan for now.

What a hassle for me. I was having good success with PNG, and I have spent the whole afternoon adjusting my website. Oh well, I'm still making good money with the affiliate program, and I will just promote the heck out of Z-tel and the VOIP products.

If you have ever considered a telecom home business I can still highly recommend the Conigen affiliate program. It is free to join and has products people actually use at a good price.

If you're interested click here: