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Does your linking strategy helps?

[ March 31st, 2008 ] Posted in » SEO & Link Building
Written by: Derek

This is a common question. Does building links to your website really helps? Yes! Its helps alot. This month, i had been spending a couple of hours to build links for my blog and now i am starting to see the results.

Link building Strategy 1 - Submitting to link directories:

Building links to link directories is a MUST for every new websites, because google like one-way links and theres ton of free directrories available in the internet that does not required reciprocal links. So if you ask me, which type of link should i build? One way link? two way link? or three way link? I would definitely suggest one way links. Building links through directories is not an immediate effect, you may be submitting your links for hundreds or even thousands of directories, but did not see any results. Don’t be despair, you will definitely see the fruits for your labor, thats what the research and case studies said. For me, i had been submiting to around 200 link directories per month, averaging 7 links per day. Reason that i choose NOT to submit to large number of link directories per month is because its looks “weird” to google. Google may penalised your site due to suspicious avtivities? who knows? Another reason is because i am lazy. LOL. Currently, i do not see much results for this strategy but i am 100% sure this strategy works!. For a list of directories that i had been submitting my blog to, check out here.

Link building Strategy 2 - Using wordpress themes to build links:

For those of you who follow my blog, you will know that another link strategy that i had come out for my blog is to distribute wordpress themes. Currently till now, Blackwire Premium wordpress theme had been downloaded couple of hundreds times(around 300+) and its still increasing. I had predicted 10% of the users will infact use it. I think this is a pretty good result for my first wordpress theme and i am planning for another release soon. I am having emails telling me, i am not a web designer, can i still use this method to build links? how long does it take for me to learn how to design a wordpress theme. Well, the world is full of alternatives.

1) You can sponsor a wordpress theme. Just for around $20(current market price?) you can get a link from themes by wp designers.

2) You can buy the full theme with all rights. ( check out webmaster forums for prices, i am sure you can get a pretty decent one for $80+)

3) You can start learning how to design wordpress themes. Coding looks pretty simple, mainly all html and some syntax of php( which is explained fully in detailed at wordpress.org).

Current Status For Derek-ang.com

  • I am getting around 100 to 200+ uniques according to cpanel awstats.
  • Alexa ratings of 728,315 ( The lower the better). I am sure it will be decreased soon.
  • Google pr of 0 ( guess it will be around pr 3 in the next google update, lets see)
  • Technorati blog ranking of 58,325 with 111 authority. My aim is to bring this blog to the top 10k.

 

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March 31st, 2008 | 4 Comments

Have you upgraded to Wordpress 2.5?

[ March 30th, 2008 ] Posted in » Blogging
Written by: Derek

Hi folks, wordpress 2.5 is available for download now!. If you had not upgrade to 2.5 yet, do so now! Here’s a list of features in version 2.5x

New User Features

  • Admin redesign (see WordPress Interface Guidelines)
  • Widget-based dashboard
  • You should be able to have any number of any widget
  • Undo for comment editing
  • Search for both posts and pages 1435
    • What do people want from this?
    • How do the best plugins implement it?

Developer

  • Use $wpdb->prepare everywhere
  • Switch to expect unescaped data for internal functions
  • XML-RPC refactor
  • Plugabble media buttons

The admin panel in version 2.5 looks really great! See below for a preview of the admin panel

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March 30th, 2008 | 1 Comment

Why woman live longer than man?

[ March 30th, 2008 ] Posted in » Daily Ramblings
Written by: Derek

Have you ever wonder why woman tends to live longer than man? Read the below abstract:

Studying people who live 100 years and more leads Harvard researchers to conclude that menopause is a major determinant of the life spans of both women and men.

Women’s life span depends on the balance of two forces, according to Thomas Perls, a geriatrician at Harvard Medical School. One is the evolutionary drive to pass on her genes, the other is the need to stay healthy enough to rear as many children as possible. “Menopause draws the line between the two,” Perls says. It protects older women from the risks of bearing children late in life, and lets them live long enough to take care of their children and grandchildren.

As for men, Perls believes “their purpose is simply to carry genes that ensure longevity and pass them on to their daughters. Thus, female longevity becomes the force that determines the natural life span of both men and women.”

In my own opinion, woman tends to live longer because they are not easily agitated. (Is that true?) Man, on nature are the other way round. Surveys had found out that majority of the man in the world rides motorbikes and thus most man are involved in deadly accidents. Also, the percentage of man in the millitary forces are more then that of woman, so, its more possible for man to died in war than woman?

 

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Blackwire Wordpress Theme

[ March 23rd, 2008 ] Posted in » Wordpress Themes
Written by: Derek

Theme Name: Blackwire Theme

Description: Blackwire is a web 2.0 professionally designed premium wordpress theme that is available to the public for free. It is xhtml and css validated. Comes with psd files.

Theme Screenshot:

Theme File Size: 920Kb

Theme License: GPL

Theme Demo: http://www.themes.derek-ang.com

Theme Download: http://www.derek-ang.com/themes/blackwire.zip

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March 23rd, 2008 | 12 Comments
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