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I’ve had the experience of having my blog posts indexed in Google within an hour or two but 10 minutes is really amazing!

After submitting my previous blog post, I wanted to search and see if there is any other person, complaining with the same title and I couldn’t believe finding my own post, standing second in the list with a mark saying “10 minutes ago.”!

Checked other major search engines and still no sign of my recent post. So it completely changes my idea about search engines’ indexing speed which used to be Msn, Yahoo and then Google for me and now Google comes first.

But don’t get me wrong, still the Sandbox or Age factor should not be forgotten which keeps new websites from being indexed or gain higher ranks till they gain the required trust from Google.

Interesting, isn’t it?

Cheers,

Soroush

EDIT: LOL, I’ve beaten my own record. The post you’re currently reading got indexed within 5 minutes. Here is the screenshot ! I have nothing else to say other than Google Rocks at least in this particular case

Before I’ve had such a decision to remove it from all my websites ’cause it just drive me crazy sometimes and nothing else! Well, I removed it from my personal blog but still it is on some of my websites which will be removed shortly.

I hate the lack of transparency Google  provides for Adsense publishers. They charge advertisers whatever amount they bid and pay publishers who knows-percentage of the amount which sometimes is less than a cent/click which makes no sense.

From what I’ve experienced, optimizing ad spot and increasing CTR, reduces eCPM and CPC (Cost per click) which results in more valid clicks but same or even less amount earned for the ad publisher. Isn’t it funny ? They just earn more money while paying the same old amount to publishers.

Here is what I’ve tried several times and got the same result:

Put just one Adsense  ad on a mid-traffic website of mine in a not-very-good spot, getting 400-500 visits a day and ~6-10 clicks as an average, resulting in $0.60-$1 a day as average which is $0.10 a click. Added one more Ad spot in better position, getting 15-20 clicks a day resulting in $0.60-$1 a day ! Isn’t it funny or what ?

It has been years I have Adsense on a lot of my websites but in the recent 2 years they introduced a new term called “smartprice” which is pretty much same as I described above and is nothing more than cheating publishers without letting them know anything about what’s going on behind the scene.

I’m so glad that I don’t rely on them for a living and it’s just an experience for me, but for those who do, it’s a sad story.

Any similar or related experience ? Please share with us…

Cheers,

Soroush

So as I promised before, I’m gonna disclose the domain name that I won in Namejet’s auction mentioned here and here.

It might not be interesting to many of you but I’ve always had big hopes for a kind of website and this domain is just great for the purpose in my head, specially because it sits beside its sister in my domain collection

The domain name is PhpLance.com which is pretty much clear what it is for but in case you haven’t realized yet, it is going to be a freelance marketplace specialized for php developers which is a huge market.

And the sister’s name is DesignLance.com which is going to be a parallel freelance marketplace mostly for graphic design.

It might seems weird but I’ve done most of the programming work and customization based on wordpress API and hope to release it sometime soon but before that I have some higher priorities such as Allied Network Inc. phase 2 which should be done within next 10 days.

I will keep here updated how the process is going because I know it’s going to be beneficial for a lot of people out there.

Keep in touch,

Soroush

If you’re new, here is the Beginning of the story

And yes! It looks like my assumption was correct!

5 O’clock in the evening and I received an email from Snapnames:

Registration attempts for back-ordered domain names were unsuccessful

Logged in to my account and checked my back-ordered domain list and the domain was still there with out-dated data.

14 minutes later got an email from NameJet with the following subject line:

NameJet Notice – Auction Start

Still haven’t received Pool’s failure email and it is still showing the old data but I will probably receive it soon.

I’m so glad I didn’t rely on Snapnames and Pool.com like most people do and I’m hoping to win the current auction at the end ’cause I’ve been watching this domain for months.

I’ll disclose the name once it’s done

Cheers,

Soroush

While it wasn’t expected, there seem to be a toolbar Pagerank update in progress which seems a bit different than the others.

It’s still too early to say if that’s stable or not but I can confirm a change in 2 of my domains, 3 to 2 and the other 4 to 5.

The strange thing about it, is that all datacenters seem to be changed together while it usually takes days for them to get synchronized.

Other noticeable effects: My internal pages and blog posts got Pr0 from NA but I’m sure it should be much higher than that so I can’t believe it as a real update.

I’ll keep here updated if I notice another major change in my sites.

From what I’ve heard and what I experienced so far, the best place to back-order on an expiring domain name, depends on the registrar but this time I’m experiencing it closer than ever.

I’ve back-ordered on a domain name, releasing tomorrow, in all 3, Pool.com, Snapnames.com and NameJet.com websites.

The domain is registered at eNom so I think NameJet should have a better chance since eNom Auctions has been moved to NameJet.com but let’s judge after seeing the result.

So here the actual battle starts Pool vs. Snapnames vs. NameJet.

P.S. I’ve never had any success back-ordering on fairly good domains using Godaddy back-order service so I decided not to even mention it, let’s hope they won’t change the history by winning this competition tomorrow.

I will update this post after seeing the result. ( crossed my fingers )

Check the comments and trackbacks…

Finally I’ve created the Ongoing Projects page!

The page, which should have been created months ago, if not years ago!

Even looking at that page and seeing how long is the list, freaks me out, not to mention the work involved in each of them and not to mention the domains I haven’t added.

I think I have the worst trio in my mind !  In love with programming, Addicted to registering domain names and skilled in Search Engine Optimization which all together cause non-stop sparks in my head even in the fields totally unrelated to mine.

May be if I had one more element added to them everything would be resolved ! Eager to earn money! It could prevent me from a lot of things I do and keep me in track but unfortunately or maybe fortunately I don’t have it

Earning money online is more like a hobby for me and I enjoy earning it while I can’t recall the last time I withdrew from my Paypal account because I usually spend 2 or 3 times more than that on my other online projects.

In the other hand, I’m so confident that one or more of these projects will take me somewhere else, in whole another level of life anytime soon.

Let’s see how it goes,

Soroush

I’ve decided to make a separate page and put my projects and their progress in it and keep it updated.

Currently open projects:

• CouponCodes.ws (Needs regular updates and SEO)
• ArticleSale.com (Enable writers to post their articles for sale, directly)
• AlliedNetworkInc.com (2008 new service)
• TalkDevelopers.com (Make a forum using Vanilla)
• w3Faq.com
• TorontoMates.com (Script is installe, need design and promotion)
• Soccer9.com (1st Step is to install analytics as it’s getting traffic and I don’t know from where, then change it to wordpress and hire someone to keep it up-to-date.)
• RebateSave.com (Add new offers and remove the expired ones)
• ActionScript.ws (Start an actionscript tutorial website)
• BulgariaHitech.com (needs someone to update it regularly)
• Html.sc (Write/buy unique html tutorials)
• Css.gd (Start a CSS Guide website)
• DesignLance.com (Start a freelance marketplace specifically for design.)
• DPWriters.com (A rating system for article writers in DP)
• Find-A-Condo.com (Start an automated search engine optimized condo-listing website)
• Freewebhosting.cc (Add free webhosting providers)
• httpforum.com (Change the script to VB and start promoting it)
• ForumBulge.com (A forum posting freelance website)
• phpfreelancers.net (A freelance website around php)
• Pokerlingo.info (need links)
• SoccerBB.com (start a soccer forum using Vanilla, phpbb)
• W3Television.com (Start an online tv website)
• OnlineAds.ws (Post on monthly basis)
• Technology.sc (Post on monthly basis)
• eBusiness.sc (Post on monthly basis)
• AcneCure.ws (Post a page so that it gets indexed and passes the Sandbox period more quickly.)
• GiftXmas.com (Start SEO for Christmas 2008)
• DayEmail.com (Forgot to renew the domain and I’ve lost it!!!)
• DnAve.com (Put all unwanted domains for sale at DnAve.com)
• Find-A-Business.com (Business list)
• Travel-Package.org (Put a page to bypass the sandbox period.)
• Restaurant-and-bar.com (A complete list of Restaurants and Bars)
• LiveProxies.com (Start phase 2 the beta version)
• OnlineFreebies.org (Make a freebie website)
• PHPLance.com (Freelance marketplace for PHP projects)

Ideas needed for:

• BuildFree.com
• EurBlog.com
• Truegle.com
• SeoServer.com
• e-Learning.ws
• Money-Conversion.com
• EasyMp4.com
• httpAward.com
• AuctionAds.org

Finished:

• SmsBest.com
• LiveProxies.com (Phase 1)
• AlliedNetworkInc.com (and its network in 2007)

OMG, Now that I have a list I realize why I run out of time everyday!

There are lots of other domains that I don’t know if I want to keep or sell so I haven’t listed them here.

I’ll keep the list updated.

Cheers,

Soroush

I wish I could post such a title on a forum and buy some time as 24 hours a day and 7 days a week doesn’t seem enough for me.

After some successful experiences, I had with some of my domain names and websites, again I’m passing the borders and adding hopeful ideas and domain names to my inventory.

While I’m still busy with my 2-3 years old websites, adding new ones is a some sort of craziness and waste of money but I just don’t want to regret not having them and again, there is an idea behind each one of them which is interesting enough not to get avoided.

Everyday I’m getting renewal reminders for my close to expiring domain names which I haven’t got any time to spend on them, even for putting an “under construction” page on them.

I was thinking of hiring some freelancers but that doesn’t work either because I need some time to manage the project and honestly I can’t trust anyone enough to leave the whole project fully unattended.

Anyway I have to recap all my projects, update my project list and their progress here to be able to set the priorities and follow them based on that, otherwise they will never be completed while I keep adding to them .

I also have to remember to keep this blog in my priority list

Please keep in touch, I desperately need some ideas and feedbacks

Cheers,
Soroush

For sure it’s not something I want to do at least sometime soon but I see people searching it so I thought why not give them a walk-through guide on using “nofollow” on the links.

As most people know, Links or Hyperlinks are no longer only the way to transfer PEOPLE (VISITORS) from a webpage to another, but it has been used also to show a trust factor from your site or page to another (usually external) site/page in the eyes of search engine crawlers.

In the other word, linking from your site to another, shows a relation and kind of truest between yours and the other site and in some cases adds a value to the destination. BUT beside their constructive usages, links can also have negative effect on your site if you link to an inappropriate, totally non-related, not-acceptable, illegal or spammy website. The same negative effect will happen if you place so many external links on a page with not enough content and the page loses its rank and trust and might even be considered as a linkfarm and get penalized to the end of search results.

The concept of nofollow first was introduced when spammers turned their attention and SEO strategies on well ranked weblogs by leaving spammy comments containing their links with hopes to gain better ranks in search engines, while they actually could destroy all the hard work the blog owner have done to make a trusted highly ranked weblog because of the negative effect we’ve mentioned before.

To deal with this problem there was a new value/attribute added to traditional “<a href ” way of linking.

In this method links containing ‘rel=”nofollow”‘ would not carry any (or at least much) weight and not being considered as a relation between the site and the destination in the eyes of most search engines while it still does the same thing for your visitors.

so:

<a href=”http://www.Articlesale.com”>Article Sale</a>

can carry some weight while the following link doesn’t or even if it does it’s minimum ;

<a rel=”nofollow” href=”http://www.Articlesale.com”>Article Sale</a>

How to make it automated in WordPress blogs to put nofollow on the links ?

Regarding the links within the comments, it’s already built-in in the new versions of WordPress to put nofollow on them BUT if your concern is about the commenter link, it should be taken care of by the template you use.

Most of the template use nofollow on the commenter link but some of them don’t! like the one I am using on Scriptbloggers

To add nofollow, you need to have some knowledge about WordPress templates since not all of them are the same but USUALLY the code you need to change is in comments.php:

Somewhere in that file you’ll find something similar to:

…

<a href=”<?php comment_author_url() ?>”><?php comment_author() ?> <?php comment_author_url() ?></a>

…

Well, all you need to do is to add rel=”nofollow” between “<a” and “href” . (DON’T COPY PASTE FROM HERE, IT MIGHT NOT WORK SO TYPE IT BY YOUR OWN PLEASE.)

I hope you’ve found it useful

As usual, please don’t hesitate to leave me a comment.

Cheers,

Soroush