Whooah.biz

The following chart represents current statistics for many of the worlds most popular domains.  Updated July 2008. Not sure why I like statistics but I do, A bit of a schocker Germany at number two.  

I have just been speaking to Owen at http://www.mba-geek.com/ about traffic to ones blog, He made an interesting comment about the more he blogs the more visitors he gets. He mentioned you can see that it is directly proportionate to the number of posts. So what about us bloggers who only manage to post every couple of days?

Just this morning I subscribed to comments from a couple of blogs. One in closed club called triiibes the other was a blog post from Dosh Dosh. Yesterday I commented on Sherrlynnes blog. Over the last couple of years some of us may feel the need to use the internet with caution. While there is some truth in this in relation to certain sites and money transfers. Most of the inter net is very safe.

For example if you subscribe to diffent blog/topics that you find interesting you can always with in 2 clicks unsubscribe. Rss is even safer where no personal information is being exchanged.

Considering that the Internet provides a wealth of largely free information it is a great pity not to benefit from this by using safe and standard tools. Follow your heart and see where it leads.

Owen a colleague of mine , has posted a rather interesting blog post about Page Rank. Where he discusses the latest changes in page rank. His idea is that a large part of the page rank is for Googles own use. I am not convinced myself. I think that is does represent the true importance of websites or at least is Googles attempt to do that. Anyway it is an interesting discussion. Which prompted me to share how I raised my page rank.

So How do you increase page rank?

When I started this site in April of this year under the whooah.biz domain. I had a page rank of 0 it then when to 4 in a couple of weeks, and now it has gone down again. How did I do it so quickly?

Comment, commenting, and comments.

I read and visited lots of other peoples blogs and commented and joined the discussion. Now there is something important to keep in mind here. Commenting on well known sites like Tech Crunch, Marketing Pilgrim is not going to help your page rank. Why? Becuase these sites run a No follow policy. Which basically tells the google search engine not to index your comment or link. If your comments is not indexed than you have no link back to your site hence no gain in page rank.

With that I will say happy commenting. Any queastions ask away.

What does it mean having a presence on the internet, can you buy a office and move your staff in. Well the answer to the question is yes. For internetholics it has been well known that you can buy virtual love to real estate on line. This can take several forms, Second life for example allows you to interact with an array of potential customers, build a virtual office, hire staff. You might well be thinking now this is great, this is just what I need, low overheads, no sloppy staff, work from wherever I choose. But there is a problem. While there are virtual millionaires on second life. Their virtual business supports a real life business and vice-a-versa.

So what does this mean, well there will be any number of businesses out there who have dipped there toe in the internet water to see what is on offer. If you really want to make that website pay for itself along with your internet connection and computers there are a number of things you will have to do.

First it is about getting as many links as possible pointing to your website. This is done by interacting and commenting in communities. Web 2.0 now offers users the chance to do traditional business but with new technology. The problem with this is that is not very well understood in general by people over 35. So the boss of your local taxi company, accountant etc does not really know what a blog is, or a virtual business etc. Now if they do not know, how can anyone expect it to be taken seriously in the company ranks. Of course you will have your office junior who will have a virtual girlfriend, do virtual sports, already spend a large percentage of his money on the internet and related hardware etc. While the rest of the your staff will struggle with an email attachment that the virus scanner has disallowed because it was told that it is possible for a photo to have a virus in it. Yes it is possible but in the whole of my 12 year IT career I have never come across it. Given that almost 50+ percent of photos on the internet are JPEGS. It is a threat but a low threat and one that we can live with. One cannot really compare it to the risk of not getting your work done for the client and the time it would involve to check every photo.

So a balanced sensible approached is needed for work and business security so it can work at an optimum. No longer can staff say “Oh I do not understand” when a web page fails to load and the message on the screen reads your internet connection is on available at this time due to maintenance work. Involving your company on the internet is fundamentally about involving your employees. We do seminars about web 2.0 but it has to come from the top down. I suggest that smaller companies get the youngest employees to tell them what they know about the internet. This will serve two purposes one you see just what the internet can do, and two you will have a starting point to building an online presence for your company.

There is a great  new competition over at Wcx where bloggers can win a hundred dollars and a month of free advertising. All they have to do is to post there best blog on www.workconnexions.com to enter. Work connexions focuses on business development and has become a resource community center of information to grow your business. With high page rank and quality information just posting on the website will increase your Internet presence. Success!

Links make the internet, without a doubt the Internet consist of millions and millions of links. These links form the backbone of the internet and also provide a way for the major search engines to monitor which sites are more important than other ones.

How does this work?

If the main objective of your website/blog is to insure a steady stream of visitors then you are going to have to do some linking.

What are links?

Links are URLs or web addresses like this one www.workconnexions.com That can link a word to a website or the reverse.

How do you get them?

1. A visitor to your website may like what she is reading if they like it enough they may decide to put a link on their website or in a blog post to your website.

2. If you have friends that blog you can ask them to link to your website if they blog in the same topic sphere or consider it to be interesting enough?

3. Another way to generate links it to link to other peoples content they will then be able to see that you have linked and may decide to link back.

What are the best links to have?

The best links to have our from high ranking websites. Google ranks all websites from 1 to 10 with Ten being the highest. The higher the page the more valuable the link is.

Is Commenting on a blog/website Linking?

Yes if you leave a comment on a blog or on a news/web site. What you may have not be aware of is that some sites while allowing commenting, do not allow Google to follow the links. So your comment/link may well have no effect on your site. This is known as no follow. There are a number of applications that can monitor this in your browser.

After a couple months of you will be able to monitor how successful you have been by using this tool. http://www.analyzebacklinks.com/ Happy linking…. check some of my links in the link love section.