andrew wee

why dont you read evie's first post? i think it's a little rude not to read the thread properly and go through it thoroughly. it's clear that evie's spent some time looking for the resources and taking the trouble to post them here...

rather than explain, let me show you? would that be better? check out: http://www.problogger.net/archives/2006/09...-blog/#comments i put a 'content rich' comment on darren rowse's blog. he's one of the biggies in the blogging world. in case you're wondering his alexa ranking is 3,106 (in the entire universe of websites, he's ranked 3,106. yahoo is #1, and my blog www.whoisandrewwee.com is ranked 162,000 or so). anything ranked 100,000 or lower will be getting crazy amounts of traffic. His google page rank (PR) is 7/10. anything that is PR5 or higher will get spidered (site indexed) by google on a daily basis. PR 7 means the spiders come multiple times a day. Again this is huge. let's assume conservatively that Darren gets 20,000 visitors/day (i dont know but it's be a conservative UNDERestimation in my books). let's say 0.1% of his visitors read his blog, see my blog comment and think, 'gee, this andrew wee chap sounds interesting. i wonder if his blog is any good. they click through and land on my blog' so let's see 0.1% of 20,000 (definitely possible) so i could be getting 200 extra visitors a day? now just imagine what you could do with an extra 200 visitors a day. additional google adsense? pitch design services their way.... the possibilities are endless... there's a design blog at: http://coffeebanana.blogspot.com/ i dont think it's particularly good (i could do better), but it'd give you an idea of the potential of creating more buzz for your business. Evie, i feel your slightly offbeat personality could really come through in a blog and pull lotsa traffic in. but i think a large part of my success has to do with having a concrete strategy in place. and at the risk of sounding like i'm excessively harping about it, secretblogweapon.com is key to that. i'm also working with an australia-based designer to launch some strategys to bring his online endeavours to the next level.

Hi Evie, good that you're discovered social bookmarks. i use them to generate a lot of organic traffic to my blogs. besides spurl, the most famous and prominent is del.icio.us there is also furl, blinkbits, digg (also a biggie), there's about 36 different social networks. besides online bookmarking, you can expect thousands of visits per hour if you're ranked in the top 50 or top 100 of the bookmarks.

wow, Ben, you certainly have varied experience. i really like your body of work. i'm surprised you aren't fully occupied all the time with projects... or perhaps this is your 30mins a day to administer your forum... heh.

Hi Evie, if you head to http://www.iwebtool.com/ and use some of the tools, you might find the Google PR predictor to be use and the backlink checker. a two way link is where i include a hyperlink to your site and you include one back to me. hence it's 'two way' a backlink is where the link is in a single direction. hence it's a backlink. backlinks rank higher in terms of Google PageRank (on the assumption that you would normally link to high authority sites, who might not necessarily link back). the higher the Google PR, the higher you will rank on the SERPs (search engine results pages). the top 3 results for any category will get the lion's share of the results. hence you'd want to dominate the SERPs as much as possible. for the search terms 'secretblogweapon' and 'andrew wee' i'd dominate the serp. just imagine if you'd be among the top 3 results for graphic design, web design, etc... you'd likely be getting tens of thousands of results per hour. just a 1% conversion rate into clients would keep you pretty busy....

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i use 3 browsers in the course of my work, and they all serve different functions. mozilla firefox is my general workhorse. i like the fact that it's fast and supports plug-ins like greasemonkey. i have a browsing acceleratr (fasterfox), a blogging plugin (performancing for firefox), google notebook (for taking notes), search status (which displays alexa rank and google PR). i also use colorzilla which is a color picker (useful for grabbing CMYK, RGB codes off web pages). you can google for these plug-ins easily. Internet explorer: i use it for alexa and some websites which are obstinate and refuse to play with firefox... Flock: my newest browser (available from flock.com), it's geared towards bloggers and has photo upload and other features. i guess i'm used to my ftp client, so i'm still uploading images the old way. but i think for newbies this'll be a cool blogging tool. so like the charmed ones say, use the power of 3.

looks like it'd appeal to people on myspace. have you tried advertising there?

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all my web traffic is organic or orginates from search engines. i regularly get about 250-300 visitors a day and on good days it can go up to 400. i use: blog commenting forum posting directory submissions i think so far my blog has been the best traffic generator though. i widely distribute my RSS feeds and consciously do social bookmarking at del.icio.us, furl, my yahoo, my google, etc.

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