You must have seen my face tonight when I opened LoreleiWebDesign.com just to update the low pricing offer which had expired at the end of the month, and… what do I see on the Google tool bar? PageRank 6.

Dang. Hey, Google, are you serious?

But sure, as usual every PageRank update brings some victories and causalities. My 2 new websites, which I just lunched 1-2 months ago - pswish.com and onweekends.net went straight up to PR4. But there is also a handful of PR loses, for example - digitalfreephoto.com went down from PR4 to PR3, and same story with loreleiweb.com and smileyskit.com, so basically you may sell links or you may not, if big G doesn’t want you to rank higher, you won’t.

I am more amazed though, that toptut.com is STILL PR3. Any calculation shows that it should be at least PR5, with over 80,000 backlinks, most of which are quality. And Google should know that we are stingy here and don’t buy any links. Oh well, one PR6 is a little better than three PR2’s, don’t you agree?

Yes, many of you come here to download my  wordpress themes, but I am not the only one who makes them and as a designer I ceaselessly look for a new place where I can promote my designs. Most wordpress related blogs allow users to register and upload their own themes but in my opinion, it totally destroys the blog’s quality as expected going downhills. This is exactly the mistake that WordpressTheme.com avoids and as a result offers their readers only high quality content. In fact, most wordpress themes that I had seen on that website are not available anywhere else, at least I never seen them before.

If you are a designer looking to submit your designs, you have to read through the submission criteria and email the site’s admin. It’s  PR5 well indexed website so submitting your themes will guarantee they will get indexed and boost your downloads count. Moreover, theme author’s website is posted on each post, which means a nice traffic boost, so no matter how you look at — you benefit if your submission gets approved.

If you are a blogger looking for a classy wordpress theme, then wordpresstheme.com the ultimate place for you. Why? Because the guys behind this blog visit dozens of sites daily looking for the most exclusive and interesting themes, and you get the essence of all the wordpress designs, gathered under one roof. If you know the theme you are looking for by name, you can view the complete themes list, where you can download directly.

As I said in the beginning, when I came across this website today and started browsing a little, I found tons of themes I never seen before, so for anyone who does not want his blog to look like the 100th clone of another, WordpressTheme.com is a must to drop by!

You will thank me later

Great SEO Tools take advantage of your normal working methods to give you an added edge. They’re non-intrusive but great in terms of improving your search engine rankings. One such tool is the blog.

You can look at a blog from several perspectives. For most people, it is just a simple self-expression method, others see it as a discussion forum. However, if you look at a blog not only as all of the above but also as a SEO tool, your handling of the blog will change. How you write your posts will change. How you think about your blog will change. You’ll then be able to derive great business value from your blog.

The Many Methods of SEO

Search engine optimization, in a nutshell, involves anything that improves your ratings in the popular search engines, like Google, MSN & Yahoo. The higher your ranking, the greater the chance that a new customer will see your site in the first page of search engine outputs. While you can improve the structure and linking of your site by practicing techniques of on-line and off-line optimization, such as adding meta-tags and sitemaps, you need other methods to increase the popularity of your site.

Blogging is one such method. Blogs traditionally have a large number of posts on them that relate to a specific subject. Readers who are interested will come to the blog, read what is on offer, agree / disagree and leave feedback and comments. If you promote your blog actively, you will also visit the blogs of your readers, and leave comments on their sites along with a link back to your blog. Can you see how the blog is beginning to behave like a SEO tool?

Two things happen if you handle this well - your blog gets lots of keyword rich content and it gets a lot of links to itself from other sites. Either way, your business gains.

Search Engines Love Blogs

Search engines love keyword rich content and inbound links. While traditional SEO tools do this by making you manage links to other sites and increase or optimize keyword usage, your blog is doing this in the most natural way and gives you a great big, ready-made user base! Of course, before your blog does become your SEO tool of choice, there is a lot of work to be done.
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You may wonder what could possibly happen if you advertise yourself and your life online? Well, here are just some of the possible threats and dangerous outcome of not being too careful.

You’d attract a sex offender - If you post sexy photographs of yourself in your facebook account and you keep your profile public, you might get the attention of a sex offender. And, considering that you are very much happy in advertising yourself, most likely you have also included some important details in your profile that would make it a lot easier for the sex offender to track you down.

You attracted a criminal- If you show the world how wealthy and popular you are, you may end up luring those unwanted criminals and they may track you down and God knows what they could do to you.

You attracted a pedophile- If you are underage and you started joining social networking sites such as facebook, your innocence may get the best out of you. These pedophiles know how to manipulate young minds and you may end up losing more than your dignity once hooked.

Photo stealing - You have no one else to blame but yourself if you’d suddenly find your photograph circulating on the internet that had been photoshopped and added a naked body to match your beautiful head. If wanna read more controversial articles click to following site:
www.e-controversy.com.

Probably you have already heard the term “free articles submission” but never knew where and how to get started. With HowTo.fm, you can submit your articles and tutorials to their directory, absolutely free, providing the article you submit consists from unique-content and was not published anywhere else on the Internet before. You can submit articles, tutorials any other other informative content of educational nature to HowTo.fm

What are the benefits of article submission?

Once your article meets the guidelines of quality, your article will be added to howto’s directory, where articles are divided into categories for users convenience, and one you choose the article you like, you will see a link generated for the article, if you wish to add it to your website. Very easy and free for both users and writers, making the web a more informative place.

Okay, everyone can, with a little effort, make a site design, right? However, how many of us can create a truly memorable and stylish web design that will impress every single visitor who enters our domain? Remember, style is everything, and if your online identity is important to you, getting a custom design nowadays is a must. One of the best places to start with would be StylishWebDesign.us, because they don’t only have an impressive portfolio and will give you a free quote, but also you can make use of their Design directory. With Stylish Web Design dot us you get a full package of service and can get anything from logo design, banner ads, SE Optimization and programming, to web hosting service. The guys from Stylishwebdesign.us serve clients worldwide and offer design services that match various budgets.

When you will enter their website, just like me you will first and foremost get positively impressed from their own site design, but guess what… they have created it in mere 3 days! Yes, that it’s not joke. I guess we can only buy wonder how did they manage to put such an elegant and well laid out site together so quickly; evidently there are both talented and fast working designers out there today. On average they strive to complete all the design jobs within 1 week but of course it would depend on your individual request’s needs and size of the website.

Want to give it a try? Get your free quote within a few hours and see how you can turn your website into a stylish design masterpiece.

In 2007 I made a post about Digg, who unjustly (at least in my opinion) banned my account and removed TopTut.com from the dugg pages. The funny fact is, I never made it to the front page, or actually had any impressive (or notable) amount of Diggs to be spotted for violation, or for content worth-seeing.

Already back then I noticed that getting banned from Digg puts me in a rather prestigious group; joining Digital Point, v7n, John Chow, and others. It seems like being banned from Digg is better than being a part of it, and CopyBlogger.com is only one of examples.

Digg.com’s aim is not to bring valued and interesting content to the masses. It’s not even free way to draw traffic to your blog, because:

A. StumbleUpon does a better job here, even Darren Rowse prove it.
B. Getting banned for self promotion (or just like that) from Digg is annoyingly easy.

Conclusion?

Digg is only good if you wanna read day after day (after day, after day, after day) on their front page about Ron Paul, Rudi Guiliani, or the latest, most exciting and juiciest news about the irresistible Digg Button itself or its’ almighty creator… Wow.

Most of who have got pages of their website stumbled, knows that traffic from Stumble upon has some downsides — it results in very low CTR and comes in a tide that won’t last more than 2 days. Still and all, having your website stumbled allows you to generate very quick exposure and drive thousands of visitors to your website without any promotion before hand. So, let’s see how we can squeeze the maximum out of our SU traffic.

01. Mind Blowing Design.

Average visitor from Stumble upon spends LESS than 10 seconds on the website. They mostly just take a look go further. Unless, something catches their attention. We would assume that unless website’s title really aroused their curiosity, they won’t read but just take a look and leave. We are not trying to be nasty here, but just for the purpose of learning, lets compare these two websites (this and this). If you were to visit for only 5 seconds, which will catch you attention more? Internet is all about the visual entertainment and visual satisfaction. To an average human mind, digesting 1000 words article that is illustrated and laid out against a pleasant color composition, even the illustration is very neutral, is easier than if the article was just same 1000 words in black letters against white naked background. Conclusion: Grab the visitors by the throat with a splendid design.

02. Stumble Only Inner Pages

One of the mistakes many people do is stumbling the front page of your website. When a visitor is stumbling on such pages, he mostly moves on. Stumbling a certain page would mean directly upon arrival the visitor will be introduced to a particular topic, be it a certain game or blog post. When we land on a front page of arcade gaming site we say “oh, another gaming website” and move on. When we land on a page with certain game, we tell ourselves “ok, some people stumbled exactly this game, it must be good, let’s try it!” Conclusion: When stumbling, be specific in both tags and topics.

03. English, please!

Although there are stumblers all over the world, it is estimated that between 45% and 40% of the entire StumbleUpon traffic comes from USA and Canada.
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