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I thought I should reflect over something tha can be “the next big thing” on the Internet.  I’m not talking about some lame new “get rich quick” opportunity but about something that could be a major player on the Internet for a lot of people in the (near?) future.  The site I refer to is leapfish.com.  I have done some research on that site, and they have some really cool features.  If you are the kind of person that likes to do your home work when you research a topic, you probably search at a few engines out there: Google, Yahoo, MSN, Bing etc.  Then you also know that they all have different algorithms to index your search.  With other words, what’s on googel’s page one isn’t necessary on Yahoos page one and so forth.  So the first thing that I really like about leapfish.com is that they pull out just as fast as any other search engine the results for your search for google, yahoo and bing in one spot, and it’s easy to.  If that not all, they also have a more advance  search search option that not just pull up the sites related with the best pr, quality score etc, but they pull out the most resent stuff related to your search.

They are up to date on world news by Yahoo, Celebrity news from US, Sports news from Yahoo, Mashable for the social media news and action.  And last they have most popular videos related to your search,  you just take your mouse over the video and it start plying right away there and then.  Normally it will take you to you tube or where ever the video source are, and here you will find the most popular video related to your search.

How ever, the thing that really got my attention was the possibility to share everything in any category with the top ten social networks out there today.  When you take your mouse over any news article or what ever you will see a “share” button.  The ten sites are: twitter, Facebook, Digg, Mixx, StumbleUpon, Reddit Technorati, Delicious, Yahoo Buzz, and Kaboodie.  So what ever you search fro you can share it to all your friends, followers, leads etc, you do
the math.  It also looks like a great place for affiliate marketers/Internet marketers to have a look.

Conclusion:  This is a pretty good site, easy to navigate and a lot of good quality content.  But the reason why I started this post with this could be “the next big thing”  is because of what I found when I saw what the have accomplished in less than 18 months.  As you can see on the picture abowe this site is now ranked global around 10 00 for the 3 months, ranks around 7000 yesterday March 4 2010.  And the ranking is the US is around 2000.  As you can see from this stats, this site is moving very fast, and I will keep a close look at this site in the near future.

PS! They have grown about the same in less that 18 months than google did in 4 years?

To your ongoing online success
Andre & Tom

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This will be a short but powerful post.

How would you react if I told you that you can increase your page rank for your site, increase your search engine rank and thereby increase your sales without any incoming links?  You can do this just by manipulating the links within your site.  This works almost every time just by letting the pages within your own sites linking back to your home page and vice-versa.

I order for this to work I assume your site have some sort of pagerank.  The way this works is for example if your site have a pagerank of 2, then you link it to your other sites within your site and back. Say you have three pages addition to your homepage and you link to all three google will divide your page rank in three and give each of your sites a page rank of 0.66.  A site just put out there have a page rank value of 0.12 – 0.15 (these numbers are not accurate but it’s in that area) plus 0.66 they get from the home page they will each have a page rank of minimum 0.78.  If they link pack to the home page you will almost immediately increase your authority with google.  And you know your math so if you have 500 hundred article pages on your site linking back and forth for the same key word phrase using this strategy it becomes extremely powerful.  Page rank are some what exponential and the details are a bit complicated and no one knows exactly what’s behind google’s black box, so you can’t multiply 0.78 x 500 obviously but you will increase your page rank significantly.  You can essentially run your own article directory without any incoming links e.g ezinearticle.com.  This is called the simple pyramid diagram and works best if you have one keyword phrase.  But if you have several keyword phrases on your site, simply create one pyramid for each keyword phrase.

Another way is if you have two sites with a page rank of 2 each.  They both link back to each other, and the second page also links to your three other pages giving them a page rank of 0.12 + 0.66, and they link back to site one.  This is extremely powerful.

If you wanna see a great video about this topic, here is a link to Chad Kimball’s blog where you will find a lot of free and excellent content: chaddo.com.  Or if you are new to the internet marketing world this is a great place to start your journey (besides our blog;-): thirtydaychallenge.com.

To your ongoing online success

Andre & Tom

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Today we’ll cover a very important plugin that you should get immediately if you already haven’t installed it on your WordPress blog.

Ping Optimizer
In fact, if you have been using WordPress for a long time then by now your blog probably has been banned from ping services and you don’t even know it.

Read below to learn how some major flaws in WordPress’s pinging system can get your blog banned and make it lose precious traffic.
Answer these questions:

• Why are blogs more powerful than ordinary websites?
• Why do search engine easily index blogs while other websites struggle to get indexed?
• Why do blogs attract more traffic than ordinary websites?

The answer is the blog’s ability to PING. Its not just a geeky term. Its a lot more powerful tool and process than you have imagined. “Whenever a blog pings, many background processes happen which get your blog quickly indexed by search engines as well as bringing traffic from many other sources.”
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The plugin below is another small but important “must have” plugin in your WordPress plugin arsenal;

Sociable
The Sociable plugin is free, and it enables your readers to share your posts with the rest of the world through sites like Twitter (for Twitter we use the TweetMeMe plugin), Facebook, Delicio, MySpace, Tecnorati, Digg, Reddit etc etc.

The plugin has been downloaded more than 500.000 times, and that should be proof enough that it should be a useful and popular addition to your plugins.  With the growing focus and use of social media throughout the world, make sure to help your readers spread your word via their social media sites.

Features

• The plugin is FREE
• Ability to order the icons with an intuitive drag and drop interface
• Disable/Enable the roll over functionality
• Select which types of pages icons should appear on, such as posts, pages, homepage, etc..
• Switch between icons and text links
• Option to use a pop up (thickbox) to display icons
• Open links in new window option
• Use your own custom icon images

Go here for our full list of recommended WordPress plugins and here to download the Sociable plugin.
Source: WordPress.com

To your success
Tom & André

We have decided to start a series of posts with our recommended WordPress plugins.  Click here for our full list and make sure to check it every now and then as we will update it as we move along.  The first one out is a small but useful plugin;

TweetMeme
The TweetMeme retweet button easily allows your blog to be retweeted. The button also provides a current count of how many times your story has been retweeted throughout twitter.
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