Well im giving it a try right now someone commented on my last post on techcrunch getting like a million+ subscribers.
Just a note, my current subscriber count is 16 (eh)
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Aw man..this is a bummer ya know…i play nice too..
I would like to think its a bug becuase if they would get 500k uniques in just one day that would be quite a load for their servers to handle, okay lets say their conversion on feeds is only 40% that means they’ll have to have around 1.3 million unique visitors in one day of which only 40%-45% convert into subscribers..now thats something i’d like to see in terms of load handling..
But eitherway i won’t be surprised even if they got that many subscribers, i mean c’mon..its techcrunch..
Well enough people hogged me over msn to inquire if digitalpoint was really down or not, its obvious that everyones addicted to it, so i thought why not blog about it.
Yes, IT IS DOWN.
…and life goes on..
I’m all up for this one!
The site is called CrowdChess and it launched a day ago.
Okay so the idea is, the whole game is made up of two teams which you can sign up for and join anyone of the teams, and it can consist of hundreds even thousands of players and every gets to suggest what to move and when to move and then everyone votes on what move to go along with and the one that gets the most votes gets the move on the game.
Even if you aren’t much of a fan of playing chess, it still is kinda fun to watch what will happen next, i used to play chess when i was 14ish, was fun then but then it got boring (i whored out the only good strategy i had and coming up with new ones was just kind of a drag).
Gotta say this really is a unique idea, but i can tell you now, they will find a way to monetize this one too.
Well a major addition to the blog here, i added some really useful seo articles, the list is below, go ahead pick at em..
As it has been repeated ad-nauseum: the key to good Internet ranking is SEO or search engine optimization. If your website is well organized and designed to bring in those web crawlers, you’ve got it made. Here’s the way it operates: the better optimized the website, the higher the ranking in the search engine and the more traffic that your website has and therefore the more profit your website generates. It’s a very simple logical process and the thing to do is to make it happen.
Is it really necessary to have a good ranking? Users, it has been found very rarely go beyond the second page when they search. So unless you are there with your web site, you get totally lost and stay undiscovered. In fact, there is a great difference between the first and second pages and after that, the traffic falls off drastically. So you can see why it is so important to be ranked high in search engines.
SEO seems like a frightening huge world initially before you really come to grips with it. It is a world full of jargon like web crawlers, Meta tags, PageRanks and algorithms. It’s language that is outside of what one normally hears. But all you need to do is relax, take a deep breath and plunge in. Once you’re in, you’ll find that it is much simpler than you imagined it would be, like everything else in life. Soon you’ll be spouting these terms in your everyday conversation as you get used to them.
Let’s take a quick look at what they are. Algorithms are a finite and complex set of carefully defined instructions. Most computer programs are designed with strict algorithms. PageRank basically operates on a link analysis algorithm. It is Google’s program which searches, indexes and ranks its registered web pages. It probably is why Google is so successful. Meta tags are HTML tags that give you information about a web page. They are written directly into the title tag and they are only visible to the search engine. And of course, web crawlers are the tools search engines use to browse the web methodically. What they look for in websites are the algorithms.
The great thing about SEO is that you can optimize your website without really knowing how all these complex mechanisms work. What you need most of all is a relevant, content-rich site. So put in as much information as you can and you can’t go wrong. And remember to put in those keywords. Once you’ve done that, submit it to the search engines and you’re on the road to success.
They go by a variety of names - bots, worms, web spiders, automatic indexers, web robots and web crawlers. What they are really are programs or automated scripts that browse the web in a methodical and automated manner. They are known best as web crawlers because that is what they do – ‘crawl’ a website in order to know what it contains. They are the tool used for SEO or search engine optimization.
Web crawlers provide search engines with up to date data as well as information. They provide the required information by creating copies of the web pages and the search engine later processes these and indexes them so a user can access them easily. This is the key factor in SEO and a lot of people refer to it as ’spidering’.
Web crawlers are also a search engine’s maintenance managers. They harvest email addresses too for the search engine. There’s so much out there on the Internet, any search engine needs its ‘worker bees’ to go out there and then come back laden with information to report back to headquarters. However, just to give you an idea of how large the web is, just 16% of the web had been indexed in 2000 according to a study. But for the amount that is out there, these web crawlers do a marvelous job of fetching and carrying besides maintaining and reporting. The data is collected at lightning-fast speeds. Some search engines use parallel web crawlers so that when a URL is typed in, the page downloads much faster. These URLs can be assigned statically or dynamically. The web crawlers are designed to operate to a very high degree of efficiency.
This is why web designers constantly redo their sites in the hope that the web crawlers come and visit more often and rank them better. The keywords, the links, they are all an important part of making the website’s rankings high.
Are you designing a website? Then try and avoid frames as some web crawlers can’t get past them. Some can’t read pages that go through via CGI or database-delivery. Make your web pages static and use the database for updates. Look at your symbols in the URL too – some crawlers just can’t read symbols.
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