The MrDaz Blog is now available to order. If you want a blog site just like this, get onto the Transformers Forum and you can request one yourself. Duh Prez’ Blog is now live and he’s busy working on it to bring it up to scratch. No doubt it’ll become the spam capital of the Internet before the month is out.
Almost there, we’re into the final stretch
Well – the gallery on this blog is now in place, and finished so photographs can be added, and comments can be posted on each one. I’ve only to finish the system that allows Blog users to edit the variables and images on the site and I can start cloning this site for others.
The first recipient of the Blog will be Duh_Prez from the Transformers forums, who will no doubt turn it into a spam fest of epic proportions. Other members of the forum have already made their interest known, and have formed an orderly queue for a site of their own.
Eventually this blog will form part of the bigger plan, which is a website called www.TheWebKit.com – that is currently being branded by Not Jones. More on that one soon.
Mr Daz now available on Google Co-op
Mr Daz is now available through Google’s new Co-op system, oddly enough called Google Co-op. You can subscribe to Mr Daz via this link. This means that whenever you’re logged into Google, and you search for something that has been covered here, you’ll see a Subscribed Link to this site, and the info in question.
What could be better than that?
Build the Blog, and they will come
An interesting idea has arisen (courtesy of Duh_Prez from TheTF.Net forum). As this Blog site has been built already, I could very easily offer it to the community within my network. There are many people in there who would relish the carte blanch that a blog such as this would give them.
So… with that in mind, I aim to construct a blog syndication for TheTransformers.Net shortly so that the users of that site can have their very own blog, just like this one. They’ll be able to run their own blog site as they see fit, under their own sub-domain, and even skin the site however they choose.
Is there a point in me doing this I hear you ask? Of course there is, but as ever with me, the point is hard for the uninitiated to see.
It’s there though, trust me!
Page Rank 6 for Transformers!
Page Rank may not be the most important thing in the world, but it’s nice when you get one above a 5 – and TheTransformers.Net has just received a PR6 in the latest Google update. I imagine much of this is due to the recent SEO contest run by v7n.com where TheTransformers.Net finished 7th out of several million results. You can see the top ten results here. This was achieved in part due to the online TF community all supporting the website with backlinks, hence the PR increase.
All makes sense now don’t it?
Google and MTV Video
Google recently completed a trial of new video content in their Adsense program, and one of my sites: www.thetransformers.net was selected by Google to trial the ads. Flattered, and slightly intrigued I ran the ads as they requested, expecting some content relevant to my site to be filtered through.
Unfortunately I only received one video link, that never updated, for Sponge Bob???
Suffice to say it wasn’t a flying success, and the video seemed to slow the site down radically as it loaded.
However, last week I received a parcel from Google! Some branded tat perhaps, like the stuff they send to their top publishers? No, it was strangely a lava lamp. Not quite sure of the relevance of that one, but then the video ads themselves were a little wide of the mark for my content, so I’m not really surprised. Nice thought though, thanks Google!
News of the MTV / Google deal can be read on the BBC site here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/5254642.stm
Google Bomb for a larff
We can all be a bit naughty sometimes, and I’m no exception. There’s this guy, a web designer (so he claims) who I’ve had to follow on from on a number of projects in recent years. Let’s make no bones about it, he’s pretty crap. It’s become a bore having to explain to clients why their sites don’t work, don’t rank in SE’s and basically don’t make them any money.
He even used a dodgy black hat SEO company called Business First, who everyone should avoid like the plague by the way. They filled the websites with hidden text and hidden links to other sites they were paid to perform their own brand of SEO on.
So I was fed up, do you blame me? I decided to show him what SEO was about, and did this little gem:
http://www.google.com/search?q=darren+joslin
This has annoyed, and perplexed him so much, you’ll notice he’s actually had his new company PAY for Google Adwords on the phrase. What a complete tosser.
Morality of Websites
For the first time ever, I’m actually starting to question a website I’ve built. I create these sites so that they can slot into my affiliate network, and all contribute towards the earnings – so they need to be successful both in terms of traffic and CTR.
Now, I recently created a site that I thought would become quite big, quite fast, and sure enough it’s well on its way as it performs very well in Google for its targeted phrases. However, it’s a site that is going to court controversy, and indeed start one or two problems. You see, the site is called ‘My Ex Is A Bitch’, and allows guys to post photographs and tales of their ex’s exploits for others to vote on how much of a bitch they think they are.
Could get messy huh?
I won’t post a link to it, as it’s already started to get somewhat racy. I’m just a little concerned that it’s already gone too far, and can only get worse. Have I made a mistake with this one?