03.30.06
Posted in General at 10:42 pm by blog
When I first discovered a web site that sported a free submission to 24 Search Engines, I got quite excited. Reading on I found it had been created entirely as JavaScipt+HTML by Olav Hellesų-Knutsen, a very talented man from Oslo, Norway, as early as 1997! Back in 1998, I was copiously submitting my website to each individual Search Engine manually, so a tool like this was a godsend. Olav’s complete system consisted of about 28 html pages, 24 of which were small javascript files dedicated to each engine.
It took me some time to collect all these pages together so that I could offer the facility from my web site. Olav’s contact details had long become defunct and there was no way I could get any help or advice from him. I had to unscramble his code whenever any of these Search Engines closed down and became a dead link, so that I could introduce an alternative.
It wasn’t until a few years later that a random search on the internet revealed that only months after the first version had been produced, Olav had been at it again - this time offering free submission to 300 Search Engines and FFA pages. In the mean time I discovered that he had moved on to become one of Norway’s most successful Mobile phone web entrepreneurs running the remarkable Esato web site that specialises in products and support for the Sony-Ericsson range.
I emailed him care of Esato but didn’t get an answer. I had to extract the 300-odd pages one by one from one of the sites that had got hold of his script. By this time a number of Search Engines and Directories were out of business and the thing just got stuck after 25 submissions!
I replaced the most offending entries (there are still some duds but they are harmless) and put it up on Arkesini.com. You can find the result of my labours here.
If you don’t want to fire-up SubmitWolf Pro or Webposition and just want a quick and dirty submission to several Search Engines and FFAs, just give it a try. If you are a Sony-Ericsson user, you may decide to stop by Esato and download some cool software or ringtones!
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03.10.06
Posted in Link Exchange at 12:24 am by blog
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03.09.06
Posted in SEO Topics, General at 10:16 pm by blog
Now, here is some free software that is worth its download time! I came across Allscoop RSS Submit Pro while searching the internet for free submission services. This tool is really the business. It’s a free download and installs in seconds.
It allows you to select from nearly fifty rss and blog directories (10 of which you must add your feed to manually) and then goes away and does it for you. It’s very impressive for a piece of freeware and I would recommend www.allscoop.com to anyone with a need for quality php, asp or .net software
To quote from their website:
‘Allscoop RSS Submit Pro instantly and automatically submits your RSS feeds to all of the major RSS feed directories on the Internet.
RSS feeds are the fastest growing way to promote your site. Submit your blog or other rss feed to directories will help to drive traffic to your site and blog. RSS Submit pro can site submit your site to all the major RSS directories in just a few minutes. This freeware RSS software works on all Windows platforms and is a snap to install.’
Try it!
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03.08.06
Posted in Search Engine Woes at 7:42 pm by blog
I suppose I was being clever or naive - one of the two. One of my AdWords campaigns was doing quite well already when I decided to add another ad group to it. Now, what’s wrong with that you may ask?
Thing is, I wanted the new ad group to direct visitors to the same web page as the old one - and to run them both concurrently. I experimented with new text for the ad and set the url to the same one as my other ad. It worked a treat, with both ads working up to a healthy CTR until.. it all went dead, not a single impression let alone a click!
It took a few days of complete inactivity and an email to the nice people of AddWords Support to find out what happened…
I had fallen foul of Google’s cutely-named Double-Serving Policy which I had obviously missed during my various intellectual battles with the guidelines!
I have now deleted the offending group and everything is good as pie 
For a quick refresher on the Google AdWords guidelines, click here
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