Monday, April 30, 2007

PayPerPost: Does my shopautodotca seocontest site have what it takes?

So I signed up with PayPerPost. I am not sure if they will accept my shopautodotca seocontest site or not. They sent me back this:

We are delighted to welcome you to PayPerPost, the only site that connects bloggers and advertisers in one central location. You've been writing about websites, products, services and companies you love for years and you have yet to benefit from all the sales and traffic you have helped generate. That's all about to change. By joining PayPerPost, you can benefit from those activities. Getting started is easy and getting paid is simple.

So now I wait for their response. It should only take a few days apparently. But I think it would be fun to get paid to review other sites!

I tried singing up another site of this kind and my site was rejected because it was not old enough. Maybe now it will be okay.
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FREE PR2 LINK

I got this great idea from a site I visited today, which hopefully will link back to my site from theirs because of this post! ;-0

So how to get your link for free from WriteAbout.Us?

"Write about [them] on your site or blog or any online appearance. It must be an article, story, blog post, or any content that mentions [them]. A link to [them] is not necessary, however, [they] appreciate if you link to [them]."

So here I am writing about them.

What's my great idea for my shopautodotca seocontest site?

I am offering up 25 links on a PR2 Shopautodotca Seocontest page. Write about my shopautodotca seocontest site on your blog or site and email me the URL where I can find the post about my site with the link.

THE MOST RECENT 10 posts about my site will be featured on this blog... which means a link on my PR3 blog homepage and a link on every one of my 150 posts, and on every day of posts compiled on one page. Don't even try doing the math. LOTS OF LINKS FOR THE MOST RECENT 10 posts about my site.

Please also let me know your site title, keywords, description, images if you like and so on.

SO EMAIL ME TO GET YOUR FREE LINK ON MY SITE.

The post about my site must be at least 100 words. Porn, violence, so on, need not apply. Quality blogs only. It does not matter if your blog is new or if your site does not have high PR. I am not looking for PR link I am looking for good posts about my site (which does not mean positive necessarily but don't be mean I am sensitive).

***I may end up putting your link on another page (just for organizational purposes) but it is guaranteed to be PR2 or more! ***

So thanks WriteAbout.Us for this great idea that I hope will help me over the next month and a half in the shopautodotca seocontest. This way, not only do I promote my site by building links but I might get another kind of PR out of it too!

So now I have to go email WriteAbout.Us to let them know that I have WrittenAbout.Them!
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Can't think of shopautodotca seocontest post title: Post too random

Yay! So when I did the SEO for the flower store... I was not quite as "persistent" as with the shopautodotca seocontest, so I took a long time to build up to PR2 page... and I hate watching that green bar empty when I visit my shopautodotca seocontest site from another site (ie Google). And I know it's not the be all end all but it's one thing to see the glass as half full (when it could also be said to be half empty) but it's hard to see anything at all when the glass is empty you know?... Just thinking. Anywho. I was proud of what I had accomplished in two months I guess. My OLD BLOG has a PR 2? Don't know why. Gave up on that thing a long time ago. This blog has a PR 3, and my shopautodotca seocontest home page has PR 2. That's okay!

Everyone else in the shopautodotca seocontest has built a lot of links too. There are 15,600 results in Google for shopautodotca seocontest. That's a lot... But GlobalWarming Awareness2007... But I guess there must be a lot of other results coming up for that search too?
Doesn't that contest end tomorrow?

I have a bunch of things I need to do for my shopautodotca seocontest, and I don't feel like it because I just want to play with the design on my shopautodotca seocontest which is funny because I usually hate all that.... which is probably why DESIGN MODE in Dreamweaver is only used to check the end result of the page. But even then I don't trust it and bring the page up in my browser. Cause hey, I am not perfect and I only started learning to do this last June and it's not what I do for a living or anything. ;-) But I try. I think my page is cute! Not professional looking or anything but it does not need to be for the shopautodotca seocontest anything goes.
I was thinking of getting a cool car picture or something for my shopautodotca seocontest home page.

Later gators in the shopautodotca seocontest.
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Sunday, April 29, 2007

Another revamp of my shopautodotca seocontest: NEW LOOK

So I just was not happy with the organizational approach of my shopautodotca seocontest site so I redid it again. I have fun doing that anyways and the shopautodotca seocontest site is a perfect canvas because I can do pretty much whatever I want. I like the pink dashed lines with the scrolly boxes because everything is seperate.

I like things being all divided up like that: I love TV dinners and airplane food! And I love plates that have compartments. Before I eat I will split up all the different foods on my plate so they are not touching. I am told this is neurotic, and it most likely is since I always do it.

So anyways... enjoy my new shopautodotca seocontest site!

Visit my shopautodotca seocontest home page to check it out.

So I know that does not help my rank in the shopautodotca seocontest. But who cares!... ???
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Saturday, April 28, 2007

My shopautodotca seocontest travel site

www.banso.info is a Travel and Vacation site I made.

I made it to link to my shopautodotca seocontest site. Still just starting to put it together... but it will do for now! As the shopautodotca seocontest drags on I am finding that I am replacing my methods with new ones each day out of need and out of boredom in some cases. The shopautodotca seocontest has been a great opportunity for me to learn about SEO and I think when they have the big seocontest like globalwarming awareness2007... I will possibly participate... for F-U-N of course because the people doing that are really good. But it would be another seocontest opportunity to learn.

I planning another review of a woman's seocontest site this evening... someone from the ambatchdotcom seocontest. Check in later!

Some other domains I got at the same time:

imarketingsource.com
(I really like this one because it's actually a really good name that I think I can use for something good... don't you agree?)

cpa-hub.info
(a CPA site?)

belnix.info
(this sounds like a site for selling knives)

trickyapparel.com
(d'huh... but actually I want to use this for spy-gear info... like as in that is one tricky international super-spy)

Great info domain sale at GoDaddy... Might go buy 20 more tonight. 99cents can't go wrong. Ooh and there is this promo thing for .com names if you put cjcdeal695 in the promo code region you only pay 6,95$ for your domain. Cheaper!

So back to the shopautodotca seocontest! Good luck to everybody else with their shopautodotca seocontest and have a merry shopautodotca seocontest day.
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Finally April PR Update!

So it has finally happened. Everybody looks like they have done really well. Jeremy site is at PR 3... I think that is the highest. Wow! It's too bad that this happened before Google noticed the links on my new sites (and before my new sites lose their PR). But c'est la vie!

So check out my new sites:

Casper's Spooky Mansion

UMA Productions
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Friday, April 27, 2007

Shopautodotca Seocontest Expansion: Casper the Friendly Ghost!

Another addition in my shopautodotca seocontest empire: Casper's Spooky Mansion

This site gets most of its PR from one link it has had since 2002 - TIME. I did not want to change the original intension of this site because I know that odds are some kids will find it and I want them to be able to enjoy some fun-time with the friendliest ghost I know. I plan on making it a bit better when the shopautodotca seocontest is over, but you see the direction I am going in. It will be your unofficial source for Casper fun on the internet (was not a huge fan of Casper but I guess I will have to start!)

So besides that not much to say right now in the shopautodotca seocontest. I will put up another post later, but I want to go play with my new "toy" which is not really a toy at all... it's a stupid domain name that I had to pay 7$ for... geez.

But the PR might help me I hope?!? in this shopautodotca seocontest that I built this shopautodotca seocontest site for.
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Thursday, April 26, 2007

SHOP MA

What is Shop MA?
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Another Great Day in the shopautodotca seocontest.

Well I had another great day at my new job (Thanks to some Good Luck ;-) no doubt) and now back to the darn shopautodotca seocontest. Sunk... sunk... sucks! 2 thumbs down... ah no prob. See, I am lucky because I never expected to do so well in the shopautodotca seocontest so if I don't no biggie right... Sure a lot of time spent on the shopautodotca seocontest but so many new skills learned, right. And I have made.... drumroll please.... $0.23 cents on Adsense on my shopautodotca seocontest. See each day I am making more and more money... Soon I will be making like a dollar a day on the shopautodotca seocontest site that I have made. Making adsense money is hard... But I have made that another little goal for me to achieve during the shopautodotca seocontest. I want to succesfully build an empire of sites that will make me a few bucks with adsense. Not to quit my job or anything, just a few extra bucks each month that I can buy a new pair of shoes or something.

I have gotten a few more links to my shopautodotca seocontest site in directories. That is why I am really happy that I have maintainted my blog for the shopautodotca seocontest because it has been relatively easy to submit it to most directories.

So still another 49 days left in the shopautodotca seocontest... Only time will tell now in the shopautodotca seocontest! Ciao!
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Wednesday, April 25, 2007

New Job for Seocontest Danielle During the Shopautodotca Seocontest

Started a new job today... really nice place and nice people. Very excited to be working there for a lot of reasons... some that have little to do with working there but more just to be "moving on" I guess from previous engagements.

I have been busy worrying about all that so I have been neglecting my poor shopautodotca seocontest blog! Tonight my goal - get 5 new links on new sites... put up another site that is not related to the shopautodotca seocontest but that will have links to my site. I bought one of those really cheap Chinese domains... I got poutine. It's going to be the biggest best poutine fan-site ever made! I don't eat it near as much as I used to because I don't live so close to downtown anymore... I need the convenience you know. ;-)

Anyways off to achieve my shopautodotca seocontest goals.

Thanks for dropping in to see my shopautodotca seocontest blog!
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Shopautodotca Seocontest EVER AFTER

Once upon a time there was a beautiful Princess Shopautodotca who loved her life at the palace and the people of the kingdom of Shopautodotcaland. She was well known for her skill at archery and needlepoint, and her father, the King Shopautodotca of Shopautodotcaland, was very proud of his only heir. So, when one day, the palace found itself under siege, King Shopautodotca of Shopautodotcaland was quick to send her to far faraway land of Seocontest where the Princess Shopautodotca of Shopautodotcaland could be safe from the turmoil. But Seocontest was a strange land, not like Shopautodotcaland at all. The customs of Seocontest were foreign to her, and she found Seocontest to be a cold hard place. She had been taken in by a distant family member, the Duke Shopautoseo. Princess Shopautodotca of Shopautodotcaland was rescued eventually by Prince Charming of Seocontest and they kissed and lived happily ever after.

Have a great Shopautodotca Seocontest Day!

My shopautodotca seocontest site, by the way, has made $0.20 on Adsense. Pretty cool huh. $0.20. Yeah. I am well on my way to making it big in the shopautodotca seocontest.
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Totally Explained

Kryptonite Found in Canada!

sodium lithium boron silicate hydroxide

What is that you ask? That's the scientific name for kryptonite.

sodium lithium boron silicate hydroxide

What is that? That is the scientific name for a mineral found in Ottawa, the Canadian capital.

No joke! They have found kryptonite in Canada. The scientists are all very amused... read it in this article here KRYPTONITE FOUND IN CANADA
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Tuesday, April 24, 2007

Shopautodotca Seocontest Distractions

Okay new favourite hobby besides the shopautodotca seocontest, finding cool expired domains! I am going to do a lot more of that when I am done the shopautodotca seocontest. My shopautodotca seocontest site has dropped! OH NO! Oh well, what can you do. I will trust that if I continue to work hard in the shopautodotca seocontest it will pay off in the end!

Good luck everybody this week in the shopautodotca seocontest!
From Shopautodotca Seocontest Participant Danielle ;-)
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Monday, April 23, 2007

When they first index a site...

I have noticed since participating in the shopautodotca seocontest that when a search engine initially indexes a new site or when it reindexes the a site, that site will experience a turbo charge in the search engine pank ranking. This is temporary, last like 10 minutes. But I have especially noticed it in the shopautodotca seocontest because I am checking the rank for the same exact search term shopautodotca seocontest, and so I see the ranking on a regular basis. And every time a new site gets indexed it jumps to the top for a slit second (not always right to the top, depends on I think maybe the site that referred it to the spider?). Hey might be wrong, or this might be something that everybody has known for years. Just an observation I have made in the shopautodotca seocontest.

You know, seocontests are probably one of the best ways to learn more about search engine optimization and about search engine behaviour. Because every site is actively seeking to rank high for the exact same search term. Really, how often do sites target only a two keyword search... most sites target at least a few variations and expressions for their content, correct?
And furthermore the fact that it is "active" makes it much more telling. What worked what didn't and so on. Honestly a lot of things have surprised and disappointed me about the search engines.

Another thing... I am really excited for a while from now when they do a PR update because I bet by the end of the contest, this site will have a pretty good PR. I have some pretty bomb ass backlinks. I think I will keep it up as a testament to my participation. I had started paying for hosting a month ago because well, to be honest when I started this whole thing I told myself I would not spend a penny on the shopautodotca seocontest because I did not really think my site would really have a chance, but then my shopautodotca seocontest site did have a chance in hell and I know search engines and people are not fans of pop-ups... and frankly I was hating the stupid pop-ups too. And now I have bought a few unrelated domains too. I can't wait to do something really fun with them! And they only cost me 7$ each! How cool is that?!

Cheerios!
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Sunday, April 22, 2007

Yay! Two new domains for my shopautodotca seocontest "empire"

Yay! I bought two new domains today (unrelated to the shopautodotca seocontest). But I think they were $15 well spent anyways and for now they will serve me well in the shopautodotca seocontest.

The UMA Productions one I am going to turn into something really cool and I already know what it will be but I don't want to say yet because I am still kind of new to all this and I am not sure yet what my (personal) limitations are. And I don't want to jinx myself or say that I am going to do something then not. I had actually been looking for a domain for this site I wanted to build but I did not know what name it would take... So it was decided for me! It used to be a band promotion site in California but I guess they lost interest! Update: So I put up a site so that it would be an actual site that served some purpose. There is a link directory and a sort of Hope it keeps the PR!

The FulfillIt site, well I have no clue? Suggestions?

So that is all I have to report for the shopautodotca seocontest. I pretty much spent the weekend finding these two domains. Sounds like a long time right? Well apparently domains with PR are good and I guess I can see why ;-). I thought it was sound investment. Hope I am right. x (the x is for me crossing my fingers).

So still in number 1 for shopautodotca seocontest in Google and still in #1 for shopautodotca seocontest in MSN. Yahoo... who cares. #20 Yeah. That's right. #20. Geez louise! Oh well 2 out of 3 search engines agree that my shopautodotca seocontest is great. And even if my shopautodotca seocontest stumbles along the way to the end of the shopautodotca seocontest, I have that, right?
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Saturday, April 21, 2007

Phew! Close call in the shopautodotca seocontest

So I had checked to see my rank in MSN and I was #2 for about a minute when the shopautodotca-seocontest.ca site usurped my top position for shopautodotca seocontest. But all is back to normal just a momentary shuffle in the shopautodotca seocontest.

I went out boozing and dancing to forget about the shopautodotca seocontest last night. Had a song dedicated to me too. Not a great song though. Some crap dance song that I did not know but it was still cool. At first I just thought it was for someone with the same name as me, but then the DJ also made reference to something else. Gee whiz I felt special. Did not stick around to find out who had dedicated the song to me... I wanted poutine I was really hungry. But thanks guy who dedicated a song to me! ;-)

So that is all I have to say about the shopautodotca seocontest for now! Good luck everybody else with your shopautodotca seocontest sites! I hope that the shopautodotca seocontest ends soon I am tired of writing shopautodotca seocontest. It will be cool to know how many times my site said shopautodotca seocontest in it (I mean including the blogs that would be a heck of a lot of shopautodotca seocontest).
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Thursday, April 19, 2007

Making money on my shopautodotca seocontest site

Remember when I said I made 0,03$ with my Adsense ads on my shopautodotca seocontest site. Well... I have now made 0,18$ with my shopautodotca seocontest site. I have increased the amounts of ads on my blog and sites, so I think that that is where the big influx of money came from. Way to go shopautodotca seocontest! ;-)
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I went for two walks today!

Two wonderful walks. It was a beautiful day to walk around. The weather was so fine, I was actually hot!

I just got a few more links to my shopautodotca seocontest site! Woohoo. Like I said, as good as a blueberry muffin. Actually I would trade some links to have a blueberry muffin because right now I feel that snacking would be funner that shopautodotca seocontest links.

By the way, I watched that movie about the last hijacked plane on 9/11. Don't watch it. It made me sick to my stomach because of the stress and anxiety. It gave me a funny feeling. The hijackers were praying and everybody on the plane was praying and it made me feel funny and confused about some things. I am going to try to think about it when I don't feel so sad still about how frightening that must have been for the people on that plane.

So back to my shopautodotca seocontest site, and to watching The Devil Wears Prada, while I do it! Go shopautodotca seocontest all the way to the shopautodotca seocontest top!

Brought to you by the Shopautodotca Seocontest Organization for the Advancement of Shopautodotca Seocontest Sites - An International Shopautodotca Seocontest Dream

President - Mrs. Grunhild Shopautodotca Seocontest
Vice-President - Mrs. Tina Shopautodotca
Minister of Transportation - Mrs. Olga Seoshopautodotcacontest
Minister of Seocontest Agriculture - Mrs. Margaret Seocontestshopauto
Minister of Finance - Mrs. Genevieve Seocontest de Shopautodotca
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Wherefore art thou shopautodotca seocontest?

Not Yahoo.

My shopautodotca seocontest site is happily in #1 in Google and #1 in MSN (for the present split-second) but my shopautodotca seocontest site is not doing at all well in Yahoo. So strange. Hmm. Why shopautodotca seocontest site? I don't even care anymore. I've given up on Yahoo. I throw my hands in the air, I am waving the white flag.

So shopautodotca seocontest site, sink all you want in the Yahoo ranks (notice I am not bothering to give them their exclamation point anymore, yes... revenge is sweet). I don't care and you're great and Yahoo is the one with the problem.

And that's all I have to say about my shopautodotca seocontest site for now.
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Shopautodotca Seocontest Good News and Glad Tidings

So while I am not working on my shopautodotca seocontest site, or wasting my time exploring Google Trends and other divertissements, I am actually living life. Here is what is going on outside the shopautodotca seocontest:

So I said I had a job interview a while back, and I did not want to jinx it by thinking about it, but I got it. I am really happy. Working in the flower store was fun and all... hmmm... but I dunno I guess that's not really what I was cut out to do. Now I work a print-to-web publisher. Their office is so nice and open and everybody has big computer screens and some people... well they have two! And you can apparently listen to your iPod while to you work. I am gushing. Sorry. But I am really excited because I have never worked in an environment like this.

See the shopautodotca seocontest, for me, was something I really did not think I was going to have much luck in. I did not think I would do that well, and I mostly wanted to learn. Sure I HOPED I would do well, but there is a big river that runs between hope and reality and there is not always a bridge. But I guess in the case of the shopautodotca seocontest, there was!

As I said, up until last June I had no idea how people put a site on the internet. I could find stuff online, I used the internet a lot. But just mostly searching. Since then I just taught myself a bunch of the basic internet programming languages, got FrontPage at first because I was accustomed to using Windows. Hated it because of the FrontPage extensions and other mixups. Started read forums and blogs and everything I could about internet marketing and search engine optimization. Then got Dreamweaver. Don't really get the design mode. A lot of the time I will do quick text modifications in Design... but I started using code mode (I like saying code mode... I am going to more often) and sometimes it's hard for me to figure it out unless I can just type out the code myself. But search engines don't care if my pages are not Flash-y!

So I am going to go shopping now and buy myself presents. I will work on my shopautodotca seocontest site some more tonight... maybe get a few more backlinks maybe just play around in Google Trends. I am currently trying to find out who is the most sought after philosopher in Google. There are a lot though and I just keep remembering a few at at a time. Fun little game to take my mind off the shopautodotca seocontest.
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Wednesday, April 18, 2007

Sale on .info domains is fun!: by Shopautodotca Seocontest

So this won't at all help my with my shopautodotca seocontest site, but:

There is a sale on .info domains at GoDaddy (99cents). So I bought a few. Just for fun you know. I thought it would be useful to have a couple domains that I can use over the next year... and now I get all the fun of using them! I have been making a little site to use with one of the new domains! Yay! They are just fun domain names that done really contain keywords or anything. As I am sure you have noticed I don't put much stock in the importance of domain name to achieve search engine results. That's why I never cared much that I had a Tripod subdomain for my shopautodotca seocontest.

Things are still looking okay with the shopautodotca seocontest. Frankly I did not expect to do so well so I am happy (for the time being). Let's hope that I can keep up the same rank in the shopautodotca seocontest.
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Tuesday, April 17, 2007

Shopautodotca Seocontest: Slow

So my shopautodotca seocontest site is back at #2 in Google, still in #1 in MSN. Isall good! Have not checked Yahoo but I rarely do because I have never liked Yahoo! even before the shopautodotca seocontest. I find their results too "all over the place" and they change too often. I don't like search engines that change to drastically too fast. How can a site move up or down three pages in minutes? My shopautodotca seocontest site keeps doing that?

Oh well. I will get it right one of these days. Maybe sooner, maybe later in the shopautodotca seocontest. I have been neglectful the past few days with my shopautodotca seocontest. Busy, you know. And doing a lot of nothing nonsense on the internet. C'est la vie shopautodotca seocontest!
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Monday, April 16, 2007

What do reclaimed stone and SEO have in common?

I have had a lot of fun over the past month and a half trying to figure out ways of getting some good link exchanges for my shopautodotca seocontest site. I knew that I would be able to offer some exposure, and a lot of links to people on my site. I did not want to have to too many links, so I have been checking the directories that supposedly would link to me and removing their links if they do not link to my shopautodotca seocontest site or blog. I realize that some directories take time as there are sites in queue, but I don't have a year to wait and I want to retain as much PR for myself because having too many outbounds links can apparently do that.

My favourite favourite way of doing link exchanges is when you deal with an actual person and you say: hey, do you want to do a link exchange? And they say: well, yeah!

My newest link exchange for my shopautodotca seocontest site has been with www.oldstonematch.com

This site is a great resource for finding reclaimed stone in Yorkshire, and being more of a fan of SEO than stone, I checked out how they fared in different keywords that they might wish to come up for, and it's really impressive actually because everything I tried, they came up #1. I guess that is what you get for building a great site full of content. So if you need high quality reclaimed stone, you know who to call, right.

More about Old Stone Match:

One of the UK's major reclaimed suppliers. Their site includes lots of pictures of stones, their work, lots of topical text content, as well as a glossary of masonry terms.
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Random Searching For My Shopautodotca Seocontest Site

Here are some other searches that my site comes up for (this is fun, checking out random other searches that are not important really, it kind of helps relieve some tension and I highly recommend it as a diversion when you are just sick of trying to see your site in #1, anyways back to the random searchings for my shopautodotca seocontest site):

I am just going to look at Google because apparently nobody cares about the other two (this is news to me though):

#9 for seocontest (I thought that was pretty impressive actually, considering all the other seocontests that have also used the word seocontest as a keyword, i dunno, just saying)

#1 for seo danielle & danielle seo (been that way for a while though)

#24 for seo for girls (I have lots of links to my site coming up for the search)

#22 for seo is for girls (made some headway, think I will do it, remember I had decided after I got the seo danielle and danielle seo that I was going to go for the girls thing, but now I also want seocontest too)

Okay that's all I want to think of right now. I can't make the keywords I want to come up for too broad... I mean all that really matters is shopautodotca seocontest. I am just trying to set my site up for an easy transition when the contest is over, you know.
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My Adsense Ads Are Funny

So my shopautodotca seocontest site has free subdomain from Tripod. And Google keeps putting up ads for tripods and binoculars on my site because apparently that is what Tripod sites sell (this is just on pages though where there is a generic page name (article1.html why did I do that... o yeah simplicity because I was tired of trying to rework the shopautodotca seocontest keywords into other things). Funny anyways!
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Sunday, April 15, 2007

Dreamweaver is Strange in Design Mode: From Now on Code Mode

I always use the code part in Dreamweaver and I only look at the design part when I am finished a page of my shopautodotca seocontest site. I used this premade Dreamweaver pre-formatted page with a table already and stuff already decided for me to save time. It's really weird. I don't think I like it. Next time I will make my own table for my shopautodotca seocontest page. I am putting a section in my site where I will shove all those little articles I write. It can get me some links and some content too I guess!? There is no shopautodotca seocontest mumbo jumbo shoved in, so I can give myself that. Just some articles with some help for promoting your site or blog online. I am still kind of starting to compile them. So no big deal for now, just a bitty link:

Shopautodotca Seocontest e-zine articles
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Seocontests and the Reasonable Man

Another important feature of the law of contract is that where there is a dispute as to whether or not a contract exists, the courts will assess the situation not from the perspective of the parties, but from the perspective of a "reasonable man". In other words, the judge will want to decide if, given all the circumstances, a "reasonable man" would believe there to be a contract.

An 1871 English case, Smith v. Hughes, summarized this principle as follows:

"If whatever a man's real intention may be, he so conducts himself that a reasonable man would believe that he was assenting to terms proposed by the other party and that other party, upon that belief, enters into a contract with him, the man thus conducting himself would be equally bound as if he had agreed to the other person's terms."

From: http://www.duhaime.org/contract/ca-con2.aspx

More?

"A reasonable person will generally refrain from giving out unfavourable information about other people if he or she has reason to doubt the truth of the information." (Prud'homme v. Prud'homme, [2002] 4 S.C.R. 663 at para. 36)

I wonder if that has anything do to with the shopautodotca seocontest?
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Two first place positions & One case of defamation

Yay! My shopautodotca seocontest site is #1 in Google and #1 in MSN too! Let's hope things stay that way... because I have worked really hard on my shopautodotca seocontest site and blog and I deserve a good position in the ranks. Clearly having a good rank opens you up to all kinds of criticisms and insults in the shopautodotca seocontest, but that is okay because well, I don't care! Which is good because man oh man are some of you really starting to be jerks, towards other participants and towards the contest sponsors. Really appalling, and I am still trying to wrap my mind around why people would participate in a contest yet go around posting negative comments about the company who is sponsoring the shopautodotca seocontest. If you think it is a scam... just don't partipate.

And the whole lawsuit thing... gimme a break! You can't just go around threatening to sue everybody. This is Canada, remember.

Shop Auto should sue you for calling them a scam and spreading these comments on the internet, and if you keep it up they may just have a case. If I were them I would be so regretting the shopautodotca seocontest now, in light of recent behaviour.

Here is what Wikipedia has to say about slander and libel law in Canada:

As with most Commonwealth jurisdictions, Canada also follows English law on defamation issues (although the law in the province of Quebec has roots in both the English and the French tradition). At common law, defamation covers any communication that tends to lower the esteem of the subject in the minds of ordinary members of the public.[17] The perspective measuring the esteem is highly contextual, and depends on the view of the potential audience of the communication and their degree of background knowledge. Probably true statements are not excluded, nor are political opinions. Intent is always presumed, and it is not necessary to prove that the defendant intended to defame.

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The shopautodotca seocontest is a search engine optimization contest to find the best SEO expert on the internet. The prizes being offered by the Shop Auto company are great and I really hope to win few! Check out my site which is now #1 in MSN and Google, mostly because I actually work on my shopautodotca seocontest regularly instead of crying, complaining and being mean.

Here is what I know about the Shop Auto company:

They are located within walking distance to my house.

They have been involved in promotions with FM 96, a prominent local radio station. You know
Tucker and Taz (for the locals, you should know this).

This is London, Ontario. The birthplace and home of conservative business in Canada.

They are a new company, just starting out. This is meant to help them grow their new business and promote their site. I sent an email to Shop Auto and they responded by the next day.

They are in the phone book, and the number is still in service.

Their website is very transparent about who owns it and who works there. They are not hiding anything. You want a used car scam site: car-auction.com. That is a scam site. See how you can't find any actual information about anything real at all.

They are looking to hire someone to work as their SEO manager. They want to find someone who is good at this to help them grow their new company, someone that has proven their dedication and skill over the course of many months. They are willing to pay all that money to find that person in the longest job interview in the history of the world. I think some of you are misunderstanding the point of the shopautodotca seocontest, and more importantly, the motivation to participate in an online environment at all.

And sorry if my statements offend or upset. This of course does not in any way apply to everybody, but often the actions of a few make us all look bad. And like I said before, if you really think this is a scam, don't participate.

One could argue, if you did go to court, that you knew it was a scam and should not have participated. If you go into a transaction saying "This is a big scam" and professing it publicly, doesn't that just make you stupid and not really a victim because you admitted it was a scam from the get-go. Don't you negate your victim status by admitting a reasonable person would have seen through this? I am going to google it! Or maybe someone who is a lawyer will read this and let me know! Oooh I wish! That would so sweet!

So later party poopers of the shopautodotca seocontest! Off to work on my shopautodotca seocontest and google information on Canadian laws relating to the shopautodotca seocontest.
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Saturday, April 14, 2007

Negative Shopautodotca Seocontest Vibes

For my part, I have been learning a lot in this seocontest, and I have really enjoyed networking with other bloggers. I have even helped a few people with their own SEO along the way. I am extremely proud of my site... and proud of my achievement. I have done a fabulous job with my site and the reason that I am doing well is because I have worked very hard with my linkbuilding and my onsite SEO. This is still just a game, and no one was guaranteed a win in the shopautodotca seocontest. Everybody has the same chance at winning and who knows which way it will go in the end.
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Seocontest Sponsors Shop Auto Forum Hacked?

Okay I don't know enough about hacking to say, but I think that the shopautodotca seocontest forum on the Shop Auto site has been hacked...? It says Hacked at the top of the page. Who would do that? Why? I really hope that one of the shopautodotca seocontest participants is responsible. That's pretty malicious.

Here is the link to the forum: http://www.shopauto.ca/forum/

And it says this:
hackedWarning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/shopauto/public_html/forum/config.php:1) in /home/shopauto/public_html/forum/common.php on line 181

Since I know very little about this, I don't know for sure. I am going do to some searching online to see if I can learn more. But if anybody reads this and cares to respond on whether I am correct and the page has been hacked, please do so.

I have been reading about recent malicious "hacks" recently, and I find this so absolutely tacky. The WWW would be so much cooler if people did not have to go around being childish dinks.

But I am not going to say anything more because it's possible it's not hacked and that there is just a problem with the server or something.
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Dear Prince William, Is it true?

Okay, so maybe I love Prince William for all the wrong reasons... but have you heard? He is single again. Bye Bye Miss Middleton, Hello Danielle!
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Supporting UNIFEM on Shopautodotca Seocontest

So the shopautodotca seocontest has been dragging on... and I started thinking, how could I use my shopautodotca seocontest to promote a charity? I had seen a site where you had to click to see some ads and money would be donated to pay for mammograms for women would could not afford it. So I have added a charity badge on my site (it has a picture of Nicole Kidman) to promote UNIFEM. Anyone can click and donate money to support women on the shopautodotca seocontest site!

I am not sure if my shopautodotca seocontest site will raise any money for UNIFEM, but at the very least they gain some exposure on my site! So support UNIFEM and support my shopautodotca seocontest site.

P.S. Nicole, you are smart and beautiful.
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Thursday, April 12, 2007

Women Don't Click with Internet Videos: D'uh!

IN THE HEADLINES:

Women Don't Click with Internet Videos
By Reuters April 12, 2007
  • "Men are more visual than women, who tend to communicate in writing and or in words," said Debra Aho Williamson, senior analyst with eMarketer and the author of the report.
  • She said at first she was shocked at the disparity between the sexes because women tend to watch more television. But she argues men are generally ahead of the technology trend.
  • "Women are more likely to use the Internet to get things done, to accomplish tasks, to check something off of a checklist that they need to do," Williamson said.
  • "Men are more likely to use the Internet to have fun. And a lot of what you see on youtube.com is silly, time-saving kinds of things that maybe women don't feel they have the time for, or don't want to have the time for."
  • "The gap is going to close pretty quickly as the content becomes available that women are interested in and they become more comfortable with it," Williamson said.
  • Today's generation of teenage girls will also make a difference because they are used to viewing video online as much as their male counterparts, she said.
  • Williamson said that women may eventually prefer online video because it is more flexible for their busy schedules at work and home.

Okay... so let me get this straight: The reason women don't watch videos on the internet is because:

  1. Women like words and are not visual?
  2. Women are practical and don't like using the internet for enjoyment? The internet is not a playground for us, it is more like an appliance?
  3. We are not "comfortable" yet with watching videos online, but teen girls are comfortable because they have had more opportunity to get used to it?
  4. But maybe someday we will find that it will make it much easier to watch videos online because while juggling the chores of work and home (which apparently is a female only domain) internet videos will be the more flexible choice?

Alright, let's just make it very clear right now: Many women are visual, many women use the internet for enjoyment, many women are extremely comfortable online. The reason women don't watch videos online is because a vast majority of the videos that can be found online are porn or near-porn, and it is impossible to search for a video without being subjected to naked online sex romps.

You want to know what is sad? These comments were made by a woman.

P.S. I watch short videos and full-length films online.

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Pink SEO: From Ituloy Angsulong

As promised, I will celebrating other seocontest sites created by women on my shopautodotca seocontest site! So here is the first site I wish to comment on: PinkSEO from Ituloy Angsulong.

So the page starts out with an entry page, and this might be a new addition as I read in the blog that some design updates were made nearing the end of the contest. The page is really cool, has some great visual designs done all in shades of pink. I love it. The entry page reads: Ituloy Angsulong: Because SEM is not only a man's world ; ). The winky smiley face is not my editorial addition.

When you enter the page itself the design is much like the entry page, the design is again gorgeous with a fist-pumping rocker girl at the top. Love it! There's bubbles and arrows and clouds and stripes and its all in shades of pink. A lot of pink, but she pulls it off well.

She started a month late in the contest, but that's okay. Much like me she was mostly motivated out of the desire to learn more about something she is passionate about.

There are some posts about the contest itself and her progress, and about her life as well. There are lots of really cute pictures as well. I particularly like the Care Bear pic and the one of the happy face stress balls. She also includes a few posts with tips about her experiences with seo/sem in the seocontest ituloy angsulong.

At the end of the blog, she posts a signing off blog with lots of pictures of the an awards ceremony held after the seocontest was over.

This blog is fun, cute, and is an honest look into the experiences of a girl in an seocontest. It is a page that I know will continue to receive traffic for quite a while after the contest is over. Visually stunning and definately satisfies more than the search engines.

From an seo perspective, PinkSEO did make use of some social bookmarking sites, and I had initially found this site another blog directory. But I know she did not win a prize for her SEO. On the other hand, her site is receiving to this day 10,000 visitors a day. While she did not meet her mark during the contest, type in "ituloy angsulong" today and she is in third. Not bad, I would say! Her technique may not have been the best then for the short-term results needed for an seocontest... but that is not really what SEO is about most of the time. You not only want your site to make it to the top, you want it to stay there, right?

So my shopautodotca seocontest hat is off today to PinkSEO and her fabulously wonderfully stylish seocontest entry!

P.S. PinkSEO has declared that she will be continuing her Ituloy Angsulong blog. She is getting so much traffic to her site, that she must have figured, hey, why not? Very glad, so I have included her in my blogroll on this page. I will definately been perusing this blog on occasion.
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The Women of SEO

This has been moved to another blog Pink Internet Marketing - WOMEN OF SEO

Wireshark
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Yuri Gagarin: First Man in Space

Google celebrates Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space, as well as the first person to orbit the earth. He was Russian and on April 12, 1961 he became the first man in outer space. Thanks Yuri Gagarin for going to space for us!

Find out about Yuri Gagarin here from Wikipedia.
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Wednesday, April 11, 2007

Google Pages: Way too easy!

I created a Google Page with my gmail account, and it was really easy! I would highly suggest Google Pages for anyone who knows little to nothing about web page creation and who wants to put up a page in under 2 minutes.

Here is my new Google Page:

http://seodanielle.googlepages.com/home

It's kind of cute right? They have lots of different designs of course, from the professional to the unprofessional and you can of course get a little more "fancy" than I did (maybe add some text and pictures?)

Anyways, for anyone looking to create the easiest website on the face of the planet... try Google Pages. You need a gmail account to access this Google feature, however.
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Mood: Disappointed

Mood: Disappointed

Current activity: searched "blog girl blogspot.com"

First 3 results: Blogs belonging to nymphomaniacs and call girls

Update (1 minute later):

Searched "blog smart girl blogspot.com"

Results: Same
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More Shopautodotca Seocontest Blog Tips

So I have made it fairly clear how easy I find it to waste time online (I am a sucker for Google too! Damn Labs!) but sometimes I find something relevant to my shopautodotca seocontest site and well, heck, sometimes it's just plain relevant. So I found this great post that could be put to use by someone in the shopautodotca seocontest, someone in any seocontest, someone who blogs, or someone who might want to blog.

It was on the Google Webmaster Central blog, and it discusses drawing in and keeping your audience, with attention paid to SEO issues and links which is nice.

Official Google Webmaster Central Blog: BlogHer 2007: Building your audience
By Vanessa Fox March 30, 2007 on Google Webmaster Central Blog

The post is based on an interview with Elise Bauer from BlogHer. Here is a paragraph I would like to highlight from the post:

"Link out to sites that would be relevant and useful for your readers. Comment on blogs that you like to continue the conversation and provide a link back to your blog. Write useful content that other bloggers will want to link to. Blogging connects readers and writers and creates real communities where valuable content can be exchanged."

So I am going to keep that in mind in the shopautodotca seocontest and in all my future bloggin endeavours. Thanks again to Vanessa Fox and Elise Bauer for their helpful advice.

I have been trying my best to at least keep some of my posts on track... though I know that some are a little, well to put it nicely, frivolous. But that's okay so long as I rank well for the search term shopautodotca seocontest!
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Writing online articles to promote your site

I have now made $0.04 on Adsense. Wow.. A month and half and I have managed to accumulate $0.04 for my shopautodotca seocontest. And Adsense may make me a few pennies each year, but what does it do to help my site? Not really anything.

Dave is a friend of mine who likes to write articles (for real newspapers however) and so inspired by his journalistic efforts, I decided to start writing some simple how-to artcles about online promotion.

On Helium, however, I submitted 2 articles and made $0.01 overnight. So I think I would likely make a bigger profit on Helium. I submitted a few articles about promoting your website online. Just simple beginner stuff, but that would be useful to people who were new to the online business environment. With Helium it is important that you put in the signature yourself at the bottom of the article. I learnt the hard way that they do not do this for you.

I also submitted a few articles to EZine articles, which allowed me to include my signature at the bottom which was of course http://shopautodotcaseo.tripod.com with anchor text. They promote these articles for you, and it may give me some exposure to my site. You do not make any money from EZine Articles however.

So hopefully by writing these articles (much of which I draw from my own recent experiences) I will get a bit of more attention for my site (and some backlinks).
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Great place to meet other friendly bloggers

So a few of us have been in the Bloggeries forum, and well thanks to our self-promotion, they are in #1 in Yahoo! for shopautodotca seocontest. Kind of funny!

Anyways, I just wanted to write a short word about this forum as they have provided me with some good links to my site. Also, I really think it is a great forum for bloggers to meet other friendly bloggers.

As I am new to blogging, I have joined a few forums, not only to promote my site but also to help myself become a better blogger. Now generally, when joining a forum I have noticed that either I will get no responses from other bloggers or that there is a really negative and competitive mood there. But my experience with Bloggeries has been much different, and it has made me very excited about starting a new blog (or maybe just continuing this blog? which is what I may do) when the contest is done.

So, if you want a really friendly atmosphere to discuss blogging and get feedback or give feedback or whatever a blogger might do in a blogging forum, I would highly suggest Bloggeries blog forum. (They are Canadian too!)

So check out the ranks in Yahoo! and find out how self-promotion on other sites for your shopautodotca seocontest can sometimes ending stealing a bit of your thunder!

Have a great shopautodotca seocontest day!

Update:

I checked Google Analytics, and I get twice as many visits from Bloggeries as I do from Google. So thanks again Bloggeries!

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Yahoo! search engine algorithm: They're Yahoo!

Participating in seocontests, in particular the shopautodotca seocontest, has allowed me to study search engines in a way I cannot normally. The tight competition allows for much more suggestive results in the shopautodotca seocontest as opposed to when you engage in regular SEO I imagine.

So in the shopautodotca seocontest, Yahoo! eludes me... Not to say I am a certified expert in the other two because I only have #2 in Google and who knows how long that will last in the shopautodotca seocontest.

So looking at the pages that are the top in Yahoo for search string "shopautodotca +seocontest", you notice some extremely interesting results. I have found that Yahoo! tends to see pages as seperate entities, as opposed to MSN who seems to look at the whole package and Google that does a bit of both. So that means: in order to optimize my shopautodotca seocontest for Yahoo! I need to look at my pages not as being part of a whole site... but rather as solely individual shopautodotca seocontest entries... each of my pages is competing against all my other pages to reach number one in Yahoo!.

Just a theory, probably totally off mark but hopefully I can