Archive for 'Articles'

Apr200819

GeekHall Admin

35

How To quickly add Your site to many free directories

Every website owner experienced it at least once. Adding Your site to many directories to get higher page rank and maybe some additional traffic is boring and time consuming. I’ve found an easier way to such things, for what I see, it is as good as manual adding, but it is less time consuming.
The whole secret is one, powerfull ( and free in addition :) ) tool called digiXMAS Submitter. It is a application which lets You to quickly add a predefined page information to many web directories at once. If the CAPTCHA is required, then this program will show You the CAPTCHA and You’ll need to manually enter the code, the only thing, that You need to do Yourself.

The safest way to not get Your site banned from google index is to add it to average 40-50 directories a day. With that program, adding it to this amount of directories requires about 10-15 minutes :) . So let’s get started:

  • Getting digiXMAS Submitter
    Well, to use the program we need to have it right? :) digiXMAS Submitter is free to download from their home site which can be found here.
  • Add Your site information to digiXMAS Submitter
    After downloading, creating an account and login in to program it is time to set our sitem, which we will be adding to directories.
    Go to My Sites -> Add a Site and fill the required fields.

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    Okay, we have now a full description about site we gonna add to many directories. Half of work completed :)

  • Download a List of directories
    There are 2 free directories lists avaible. First can be download from digiXMAS site by File -> Open direcory list -> digiXAMS Directory list.
    It looks like this:
    Directory download
    This option is quite good, because they have a long list of sites with even 9 Page Rank

    Second option is to download a list of free directories from the net. The example, from where You can download such a list is DirectoryRecap.com.

  • Adding the site to directories
    Final step. Go to Submit -> Customized Submit and set up, to how much directories You want to add Your site:
    Submission
    Begin the adding process. As You can see, adding to around 60 directories requires less than 15 minutes. Also this program reports which submission was succesfull, which was not, and therefore You can add Your site manually later to failed directories.

    • I hope I helped You showing You this method. As I can see on DigiXMAS – they even offer a program, that lets You add Your articles to many directories in similar way like adding sites. If You have any questions or problems feel free to ask me – I’ll try to help the best I can :) .

Apr200813

GeekHall Admin

9

10 days of My blog Life – Google Analitycs vs Hosting provider Stats.

Geekhall.net has 10 days now, to know, if people even come to this site I’ve put 2 statistics applications. One is from my hosting provider, the second one is Google Analitycs. Well, here’s the trouble begin. They show totally different things, and it is hard to judge, which os more accurate, and this article will be exactly about that.

Lest begin with my hosting provider statisitcs.

From what can be seen, in past 10 days I had 2506 unique visitors, with 227 uniques average per day. Well, that’s good for a blog having only 10 days right? :). Going deeper into the statistics shows me that almost 45% of my traffic comes from USA and Canada. Very Good :).
Seeing those statistics make me happy. It makes me feel, that I’m writing some useful stuff for people who need this knowledge.

But then, I go to Google Analitycs and this is what I see:

What the hell? 548 visits and 374 visitors? That’s nearly 7 times less, than from my hosting provider statistics!
The only thing which was common for both stats is that most of the traffic is from USA and Canada, at least that good right? :)

So I was getting little worried and started searching why it is happening like that. And come with some conclusions:

  • I’ve placed Google Analitycs code at the very end of my site (in end.php file – the last loading possible), that means it only counts, when everything loaded properly. But testing in all major browser, using proxies and without proxies, indicates that my site has NO PROBLEM with loading to the end, and furthermore it is going pretty fast (good hosting provider, hehe :) )
  • Statistics application provided by my hosting service are more accurate, because they “start the site”. If someone is entering my site (even if this means the whole site for some reasons won’t load in all) he is already counted to the statistics.
  • Google analytics for some reasons has problems with identifying European sources of traffic. From what I’ve read almost 20% of my traffic comes from Spain, France, Germany and Switzerland.
  • Statistics provided by my host also counts me (even if I go in Admin area), but, I log 1-2 daily so the difference should not be so much right (fo sure NOT 7 times more traffic from Admin aera :) )

Well, my conclusion – both statistics gives me quite much information about peoples visitng my sites, but my host provider stats are more accurate to that, what actually is going on with my site. Google analytics are good to know how much time they spend on my site and from where exactly does the traffic comes.

In my opiniopn Google Analitycs is not the best stat application, but if they improve, it will be really powerful tool for webmasters.

I should propably have a 3rd party stats application – I’ll have better comparison and know more, about users. I recommend You to do the same :

Apr200811

GeekHall Admin

304

List of CPM affiliates

Everyone wants to have some profit from theirs websites. For some, Adsense and contextual ads just won’t work. For them, there are many other programs, and most popular is CPM.

But first, some theory. CPM( Cost Per Mille ) means cost per thousand impressions. That means, that after 1000 views of ad, You will be given some revenue, no clicks required, You’re getting revenue just for showing it on Your Site. Every traffic is counted differently and it is based on where do You get the traffic, most valuable are United Kingdom and U.S.A traffic (because most of companies are from these countries), but other countries have also decent CPM rate.

After short briefing what CPM means, we can start to list the affiliates, some companies offer more ways to create revenue, but I’ll stick to thos, I think are the best for target company:

  1. YesAdvertising.com
    • Types of CPM avaible: Pop-Under, In Page Banner, Pop-In Banner
    • Ways of getting paid: Check, Paypal, Wire Transfer
    • How often they pay: Twice a month ( 1st and 15th )
    • Minimum: 100$
    • Proof of Payment: [ 1 ]
  2. BlueAdvertise
    • Types of CPM avaible: In Page Banner, Pop-Under,Pop-In Banner, Context Links, Treasures
    • Ways of getting paid: Paypal, Wire
    • How often they pay: Monthly ( on 15th )
    • Minimum: no minimum for Paypal, 1000$ for Wire Transfer
  3. SkyCPM
    • Types of CPM avaible: iframes with banners ( 728×90 , 320×250 )
    • Ways of getting paid: Paypal
    • How often they pay: at request
    • Minimum: 1$
  4. Axill.com
    • Types of CPM avaible: In Page Banner
    • Ways of getting paid: MoneyBookers, Check
    • How often they pay: every 15 days
    • Minimum: 25$(MB), 100$(Check)
  5. Popuptraffic.com
    • Types of CPM avaible: Pop-Under
    • Ways of getting paid: Check, Paypal
    • How often they pay:twice a month
    • Minimum: 25$
  6. Clicksor.com
    • Types of CPM avaible: Inline text Links, Text Banners, Graphical banners, Popunder, XML feeds, Layer Ads, Inter-ads
    • Ways of getting paid: Check, Paypal
    • How often they pay: Twice a month ( 1st and 15th )
    • Minimum: 50$
  7. Freedomofads.com
    • Types of CPM avaible: Pop-Under, In Page Banner
    • Ways of getting paid: Paypal, MoneyBookers, Check, Wire Transfer
    • How often they pay: Monthly
    • Minimum: 10$(MB, Paypal), 50$(Check), 500$(Wire)
  8. AdsDaq
    • Types of CPM avaible: In Page Banner, text links
    • Ways of getting paid: Check
    • How often they pay: Monthly
    • Minimum: 50$
  9. Interclick.com
    • Types of CPM avaible: In Page Banner
    • Ways of getting paid: Paypal
    • How often they pay: NET-45
    • Minimum: 100$
  10. tribalfusion.com
    • Types of CPM avaible: Popups, In Page Banner
    • Ways of getting paid: Check
    • How often they pay: NET-45
    • Minimum: 50$
  11. burstmedia.com
    • Types of CPM avaible: Popups, In Page Banner
    • Ways of getting paid: Check, Paypal, electronic transfer
    • How often they pay: NET-15
    • Minimum: 50$
  12. realtechnetwork.com
    • Types of CPM avaible: Popups, In Page Banner
    • Ways of getting paid: Check, Paypal, ACH Direct Deposit, Bank Wire
    • How often they pay: NET-20
    • Minimum: 20$

Well, some of the most popular companies with CPM. If You know any good companies feel free to contact me and I’ll surely add them up here! :).

Apr200810

GeekHall Admin

0

Freelancers – respect Yourself.

I would like to open up discussion about freelancing. Do You, as a freelancer or similiar value properly Your work? writing about this, because some people were discussing ob Digital Points forums about “crappy quality of work”.

I would like to rethink it myself. Well, for the most part, if I do some designs/coding or any other type of work, I try to do it as best I can. I also know, that most of things require a lot of time to do properly (for example make the design, which will be major browsers compatible,for Internet Explorer 7, Opera and Firefox it can be done pretty quick, but the real pain begins when You want to do it compatible also to Safari, Internet Explorer 6 and some minor browsers) and in the end, when You calcullate Your time spent on project, You see that it took You at least 3-4 more hours than You estimated. But hey, You’re happy knowing that Your deisgn has pretty good coding, and it won’t gonna “go crazy” in some browsers.

So, when the all is done, You want to sell Your hard work right? You post an auction on some forums, with price, that You think You deserve for Your time and then it hits You… someone will do something similiar to Your design (sometimes so similiar, that You think someone stole Your idea) for a half of price, That You want, because he “needs quick money!”. Or You enter the forum and see, that most of designs are selling for 30-40$, which in my opinion is a laughable money for 8-10 hours of good coding/designing ( this means that you worked for 5$/hour, sorry but people working in Mcdonalds makes more – no offense). You studied, and learned many things, spending a lot of time to be good and You get that kind of money for Your effort? Well, in my opinion this is wrong, and the fault for this is only OURS. We make it like that, because, competiton is so big, that some people will sell their designs for penny, “only to sell and get over with it”. This is my plea for all of You, good and reliable designers – do not lower Your prices to compete with yourself so badly.

Remember, that there are a lot of people that are willing to pay for Your work some good money. And remember, than doing something GOOD, is better, than doing it CHEAP.

In conclusion. People, who thinks, that they can buy a portal/well designed Wordpress Theme/ Web 2.0 Homesite for 50$ should be taught a lesson. If they want to buy cheap, then go ahead. Let them buy from peoples offering “Proffesional, Unique and Well coded Design for just 15$!”. Maybe they’ll understand, that You have to pay for a well done project a little more, when they notice, that project they bought for occasional price of 15$ is bugged, looks bad on older web browsers and most elements of the site looks worse after editing it with content. Some elements are missing, some are showed incorrectly and so. All in all, they will have only 2 choices: Turn to good web designer/devlopers for help or live with the fact, that something is not working as it should be.

I believe, that I’m not the best designer in the world, but at least I’m not the worst. I love to do my work good, and I’m happy when the client is satisfied with the product. But to do that i spent much time improving myself, learning different styles/ways to code etc. And I believe I should be paid a decent/good money for my work. Only then both sides (me and a customer) are really satisfied.

What Do You think? Which is more important to You? Do something good, or do something quickly and cheap?

Apr200808

GeekHall Admin

3

List Of Free Popular Scripts

Surely You’ve seen many image hosting sites, proxy sites, url shorteners etc. most of them is running by free scripts downloadable from the net. If You think about starting a site offering such services You should read this list of free scripts which can bring You money if properly used.

If You know any good, free script that should be in this list contact me, i’ll put it here with pleasure.

  1. PHProxy
  2. Glype Proxy
  3. Zelune
  4. Surrogafier
  5. CGI Proxy
  6. URLshkink
  7. Short URL by Harley Quine
  8. URL Redirector by RB2
    • Kind Of script: URL redirect
    • Download from: Rb2.nl
  9. Phurl
    • Kind Of script: URL redirect
    • Download from: hido.net
  10. Mihalism Multi Host
  11. DXL Image Hosting
  12. PHP Motion
  13. PhpYtSite