Archive for April, 2008
Marketing: How to Become Popular on YouTube - A Free eBook
Kevin Nalts knows what he is doing. He is one of YouTubeʹs least talented ʺweblebrities,ʺ with some 20 million views of his more than 550 online videos. He is one of the most‐subscribed comedians on YouTube, and his videos routinely rank in the top ʺhighest ratedʺ and ʺmost discussedʺ lists. So it is very nice from him to let us part of his knowledge.
Whats it about?
After languishing in online video for nine months, Kevin Nalts was advised by doctors that his viral‐video career would be dead within weeks. But he persevered, and now reveals some easy‐to‐apply techniques that can help you become popular on YouTube. In 30 fun‐filled pages – packed with real experience, examples and video links – the video creator and marketer shares proven methods to develop a global audience via YouTube.

Restyle and optimise your digg count
A digg count normally comes in badge form - I’m sure you’ve seen it. It shows how many diggs a web page has, and provides a link for you to digg it. Digg have gone out of their way to make showing one easy; displaying a single digg count is as simple as dropping in a single piece of JavaScript on your page:
<script src=”http://digg.com/tools/diggthis.js” type=”text/javascript”></script>
Of course, it makes sense that they would - it’s beneficial to them that you send visitors through to their site, and beneficial to you that those visitors end up digging your article. But what if you want to go one step further and display a digg count for a whole range of articles?
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Automatically boost up the download time of your web pages
PHP Speedy is a script that you can install on your web server to automatically speed up the download time of your web pages. Here’s an example, from a test page:
Before PHP Speedy - 14 requests that took 4.44 seconds

After PHP Speedy - 4 requests that took 1.1 seconds
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Graphics: 15 000 free high quality icons
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SEO: How to check the quality of link exchanges
Text links are an important factor in today’s search engine optimization, and exchanging links with other websites is a good way to get them. However, doing a link exchange with a website that is penalized can have some detrimental results.
The tool will scan the links on your website, and on the pages that your website is linking to, and flag possible problem areas. This can greatly ease your seo efforts.
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SEO: Tools that help you to optimise for search engines
SEO stands for search engine optimization. It is the process of designing the web site in such a way that it would be able to attract search engine spiders and improve a site’s ranking. This article provides links to the best SEO Tools found on the Internet. It will help you to find out how to optimize your website, what you should use to improve the quality of backlinks, what keywords you should use on your web-pages, and how to move up your position in search engines.


