A few days ago I wrote about the Technorati Favourites Exchange over at DoshDosh.

I’d decided to participate and am pleased to report the number of people who have favorited this blog has risen from 1 [ me :-) ] to 90 274. Add to that a nice bump in traffic and a number of very welcome backlinks. The results have been much better than expected.

The aim is to get it to about 150 300. I’m picking that’s what it’s going to take to get into the 40 top favorited blogs at Technorati. So we are almost there.

After following numerous threads and lists of people to favorite, I found a couple of blogs who have taken the original concept and added a twist of their own: Read the rest of this entry

After a while everyone, has a list of favourite blogs they read on a regular basis. Once the list gets past a very small number, the time taken to check each one then move to the next just becomes too much.

There is an easy way to see when a blog has updated – its called an Feed Reader.

Here’s roughly how it works: Read the rest of this entry

Want to participate in a Technorati favorites exchange ? Then read on…..

I have been a member of Technorati for some time. I often use it to track who is linking to this blog, to find other blogs in a similar niche, to get a view of what searches are popular at any given time and just for general research. This is one of those sites I’ve grown to like a lot. I guess Google would call it an authority site.

Among other things, Technorati “ranks” each blog by incoming links and by how many times the blog has been “favorited”. Favoriting is very similar to using an RSS reader to track latest posts on a blog. When you favorite a blog you can automatically see the latest posts. Read the rest of this entry

Working out how to buy a domain name can be confusing if you are starting out.

Here are a few pointers to help simplify the process:

We will assume you are buying a domain for a blog or website which will be developed over time. Further you want to rank as high as possible in search engines.

Theme and Keywords – The first step is to decide the theme of your website then build a list of keywords that people might search for your site with. The Digitalpoint keyword suggestion tool can help build your list.
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Buying an established website can be a quick way of adding to your online home business.

Established sites usually already have back-links, page-rank and traffic. It can take up to a year to get out of the Google “sandbox”, and this is a good way to fast-track site development.

Conducted properly, the buying process can yield a satisfying result for all parties. How-ever there is a real risk that either the buyer or the seller will not get what they were expecting.

Here are a few “how to buy a website” tips to help with the first purchase: Read the rest of this entry