Blog Entries - February 2008

From Stinky Pig to PR3 Tiger in Four Months

admin — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 21:00:00 +0100

On November 1, 2007 we launched Promote My Site and on November 8th we figured out that Google Hated Us and on February 29th 2008 we woke up to find our site was now a PR3. How did we do that?

Tiger?

Well, ok, maybe a bear cub. But it feels very tigerish to go from the sandbox to having almost every page on your site in google's primary index. &nbs [...]

Downloadable List of 2,162 Social Bookmarking and Networking Sites

admin — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 22:00:00 +0100

[Ok, read this post, it's a doozy, but before you go download this list, you should check out our new Social Heartbeat Monitor . Look left. Yep, there it is. You might also want to read this article on why we built it to replace the file discussed here.]

About six months ago we started looking at social networks. Not just the top tier sites like Digg, StumbleUpon, Del.icio.us, etc, but the second and third tiers as well. There are a truly huge number of social network sites [...]

Yahoo Store SEO Tool

admin — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 21:00:00 +0100

Yahoo Store SEO Analyzer

What if there was a free tool for your Yahoo Store that:

Suggests better keywords you could be using in each page in your store?
Shows your PageRank for every product in your store?
Shows your backlink counts for every product in your store?
Shows how well you're using meta tags for every product in your store?

Wouldn't you jump all over that?

Yahoo Stores are a powerful and relatively simple to use ecommerce solution but they [...]

Digg Friend Finder Bookmarklet

Don — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 21:00:00 +0100

You asked for it. And now it's here! The
Digg
Friend Finder bookmarklet is now available.

Just drag that link to your toolbar. Whenever you're on a page that has some interesting text and you'd like to see
which Digg users have submitted similar content, just select the text then click the bookmark in your toolbar.

The Digg Friend Finder page will load, with your selected text already populated in the search field. Just click
search and watch the magic.

SEO Tools or SEO Content

admin — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 21:00:00 +0100

This is a really interesting question. The two primary places I go to learn tips and tricks in the SEO world are the guys over at SEOMoz (disclaimer: we subscribe) and Aaron Wall of SEOBook fame. Ok, I have a bit of a crush on John Chow's business model and I think ShoeMoney, Dosh Dosh and a buncha others are awesome too.

Tools with Content the Key

But Rand and Aaron are also tool providers. But they're pretty clearly tool providers who are monetizing ot [...]

Free SEO Tools are the Traffic Gift that Keeps On Giving

admin — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 21:00:00 +0100

When we launched Promote My Site we had a pretty narrowly defined target market in mind - people interested in SEO tools that produce actionable reports or measurable ROI. And we knew that we wanted to spend some time blogging about business and SEO and VC -w e wanted to introduce ourselves first, as it were. And we knew we wanted to review some non-competitive SEO tools so that fu [...]

Promote My Site With a Hamster or a Gerbil

admin — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 21:00:00 +0100

Ok, not really, but a few days ago I noted that we'd learned a lot of things the first few days after we launched Digg Friend Finder, and that one of them was that there were a lot more mentions of hamsters than gerbils in digg.

So several hundred people have run the exact same experiment.

I have only one thing to say... Our paypal address is

paypal-payments@promote-my-site.com

I'm just saying.

The Obvious Way

Well, it’s u [...]