June 3rd, 2008 — craigslist
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As you can see in the above graph, Craigslist gets about 50-100 times more web traffic.
Even in my own experience hiring people in my previous business ventures, I always do get more job resumes within the 24 hours period than I want.
May 18th, 2008 — Launched, web2.0
WiTur is a travel social bookmarking/networking site where users can share their travel experiences via GoogleMaps API. It’s sorta similar to GoogleMaps itself (where you can mark your trails) but more focused towards actual travel experiences.
I looked up a San Francisco travel experience by a member and found it quite informational although they do need lots more users. Looks great and should be picking up some web traffic rapidly.
Witur is actually a space for people to share their travel itineraries, read detailed trip suggestions on a Google-powered geolocalized map, ask questions to the trip plan writers and locals and share trip plans with others. The site is pretty easy to navigate and there are a variety of different ways that you can search including a search bar where you can plug in your destination and another that allows you to enter your interests as well. You can also search by clicking directly on the map and seeing what trips people have taken and what they recommend. Lastly, search by trip type which include amongst other categories: nature, history, relax, coast, adventure, gastronomy and shopping.
April 16th, 2008 — Blogging, Web Traffic, Webmaster's Tool, Zedomax Network News, Zedomax Network Sites, Zedomax Network Traffic
Hey folks, if you don’t know what Alexa is, it’s a statistics web-app that “estimates” web traffic to a website.
As of today, Amazon, the company behind the Alexa.com, has announced they are implementing “The New Alexa Rankings”.
For the most part, most of blogs in our network has increased in rank. For some, the stats have “tanked” to the bottom.
Although I am sure Alexa still needs some more beta testing and work to do, it seems like it is very unstable at this point.
We will need some more time for the dust to settle sorta similar to Entrecard’s new credit system.
Alexa will never be as accurate as “real” stats but at the same time, I believe they should provide the most accurate statistics as possible.
Let’s see what happens over the next couple days.
If your Alexa ranking has “shot up” or “tanked”, please feel free to leave a comment with you website and your inputs on the new system.
Check out the new features this new ranking system will bring:
In recent months we’ve heard from our Alexa users that understanding Internet usage beyond Alexa Toolbar users was increasingly of interest. Ask and you shall receive!
We listened to your suggestions, and we believe that our new rankings system is much closer to what you asked for. We now aggregate data from multiple sources to give you a better indication of website popularity among the entire population of Internet users.
You gave us many other suggestions as well, and we are working hard to implement them. We won’t tell any secrets just yet, but you can expect to see new features rolled out over the coming weeks and months.
Below are a few common questions we anticipate from the Alexa community, along with our answers.
My site’s ranking has changed. Was it wrong before?
Your ranking wasn’t wrong before, but it was different. Alexa toolbar users’ interests and surfing habits could differ from those of the general population in a number of ways, and we described some of those possible differences on our website. While the vast majority of sites’ rankings were unaffected by such differences, we’ve worked hard on our new ranking system to adjust for situations in which they could matter.
The new rankings should better reflect the interests and surfing habits of the broader population of Web users.
Why are the long range graphs gone? I can only get 9 months of historical data.
We are recalculating historic traffic data and will continue to add it over the coming weeks. We apologize for the inconvenience, but should have several years of data back on line shortly.
Will you change the rankings again?
We are constantly working to ensure that we provide the most useful data that we can. We will continue to fine tune our algorithms but don’t foresee any additional big changes. If you think something is amiss please let us know.
I liked the old rankings better. Are they still available somewhere?
We liked the old rankings as well. However, we developed the new system in response to the huge number of requests we got from users like you, and now that it’s done we like it even better. We hope you will too.
We think that having more than one ranking system at a time would be confusing, so we have removed the old rankings.
Do you want to know what I think about this?
Definitely. We’ve been collecting suggestions and ideas for months now, and would love to hear more. If you have thoughts on what we’ve done so far, or ideas on what we should do next, please share them with us.
April 16th, 2008 — Blogging, Social Networking, Web Traffic, Webmaster's Tool, Zedomax Network News, Zedomax Network Sites, Zedomax Network Traffic
Well, I was over at AdTech 2008 today, an exhibit which shows off America’s best advertising/publishing companies. Today, I found many new ways to monetize our blogs and social networks through various different affiliate and publishing programs.
I did get a chance to run into John Chow and also ask my own questions about how to make money online and the secrets behind his success.
I figured to take a video and share it with the world so maybe it will help you make more money too:
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March 5th, 2008 — SEO, Web Traffic, Webmaster's Tool, Zedomax Network News
A lot of SEO companies, especially those that have been around for while, will sell you SEO services with promise to get you on the first page of Google.
What those SEO companies really do is buy links for you and re-sell them to you at higher price. Now, if those are lifetime links, it might be okay but if they are not, you are screwed.
Although I am not a total expert as I am not a solely SEO guy, I can tell you from my experiences blogging that PageRank is something you can’t buy.
Of course, you can go out there and buy some text links from such companies as TLA or other text link brokers, but this is like putting cocaine in your body.
Why?
Think of it this way. Everytime you snort those drugs, it will get you high for a short period of time, as soon as you your high is gone, you are worse off than you were before.
SEO is the same thing. Google doesn’t rank you because you have so many links coming in, their algorithm constantly changes to give users “the best content” when a user types in some keywords. You can buy links but how long is that going to last? Even if you did have millions of dollars, you are basically throwing all of that into the toilet the minute you start hyping up your blog or website with “text link” steroids.
So how do you go about it?
Here’s some guidelines that can help you get higher PageRank and also get #1 on Google for your target keywords:
1.Don’t buy text-links. Network with bloggers in the same topic as yours and “trade” blogrolls.
That’s right. Blogrolls are probably the most often overlooked free links you can get. Blogrolls are great because you are usually dealing with your blogger friends, who are trying to achieve the same goals as you are. And, they won’t spam their own site for those reasons.
Every time you communicate with another blogger, whether that IM, Entrecard, or whatever, see if you can get him to trade blogrolls with you.
This is probably the most important step for you to take right now, especially if your blog is brand new and your PageRank is zero.
Even if you trade blogrolls with PR0 blogs, you might find yourself lucky one day if your blogger friend gets PR6.
Everytime you write a post on your blog, you send out “pings” to Technorati and other blog ping services. (These are great for backlinks by the way.)
Now, if you had blogrolls made of 30 “blogroll trades”, everytime your blogger friend writes a post, you get “pinged”! (That’s 30 backlinks if every one of your blogger friends posted 1 article per day.)
2. Content is King. Write great articles that will interest people to read your blog or website.
From what I’ve seen, no matter how poor your PR is, if your content is good, people will read and your PageRank will go up. (because people will link to you)
Another thing, great articles are good but you need to post daily to get more PageRank.
Quality is probably more important than quantity if you want more readers.
Quantity, on the other hand, can get you more traffic faster.
Quality is great but if you only post 1 article per day, each with 10 tags, that’s the density of your keywords and tags read by Google and other search engines.
But let’s say you write 10 articles per day, each again with 10 tags. That’s about 10 times more tags. Tags are probably more important than anything else these days.
I find that Google indexes your content and later discards most of it when your post gets older and older but Google keeps the tags.
Anyways, the most important part is that you write great content, and the more posts, the merrier.
If you have a long article, try to break them down into 2-3 posts. That way, you will get more traffic in the long run AND your article is still quality first.
3. Link a lot to active bloggers who respond back to you
That right, you want to link to active bloggers who are likely link back to you.
For example, you find a blog post that you find interesting on the web, you link to it and write a blog post.
The blog you linked to blogs back in return.
Pretty simple but if you do this more and more daily, you will get lots of more links and more blogger friends who will help you in the long run.
Next time, we will go into more depth on how you can get your blog or website to be #1 on Google for your target keyword.
February 8th, 2008 — Web Traffic, Zedomax Network News, Zedomax Network Sites, Zedomax Network Traffic
Hi everyone. We’d like to announce the fact that Zedomax Network has just broke through 1 million hits per month!
Compared to couple months ago when we were getting about 450K hits, we are now officially part of the Million Hits Network!
Number of unique visitors has also jumped to a whopping 445K visitors, up from 250K visitors in November.
Wow, things are looking up and most of this success has spawned due to the fact that all of blogs have great content and does not rely on any one social network to boost traffic.
With the recent addition of our latest Wiki project, SiteHoppin, we are able to bring more visitors to our sites and also bring up the overall stats.
We will be working hard around the clock to keep bringing you great content on the Zedomax Network.
Thanks to everyone especially our core bloggers Missy, Colbert, Brian, David, Lilian, and Tanya.
Without our core bloggers, this would never happen. We’d like to thank also our readers for getting us to this point.
Although we are really not making any money at this point, we will be bringing you more great content and new Web 2.5 websites like SiteHoppin and more…
January 18th, 2008 — SEO, Social Bookmarking, Social Networking, Web Traffic, Web3.0, Webmaster's Tool, Zedomax Network News, Zedomax Network Sites, Zedomax Network Traffic
Wow, it’s been a fun ride with our new site, SiteHoppin.com. Although we haven’t really made that much money off traffic, the good news is that we’ve “doubled” our network traffic as whole in just 2 weeks since SiteHoppin’s public beta launch!
It’s great that our traffic is going up, but how can this help you? Go submit your blog posts at SiteHoppin‘. (The more you bookmark, the more it will get distributed to the SiteHoppers)
January 12th, 2008 — Press Release, SEO, Social Networking, Web Traffic, Web3.0, Webmaster's Tool, Zedomax Network News, Zedomax Network Sites, Zedomax Network Traffic
Zedomax Network, a Web2.0 Web 2.5 company based out of San Francisco, breaks through 16K unique visitors for the day on January 11th, 2008, one day right after the founder Max’s birthday.
Thanks to their new site, SiteHoppin’, which brought more than 10K unique visitors for the day, contributing to the Zedomax Network.
January 1st, 2008 — RSS, SEO, Social Bookmarking, Social Networking, Web Traffic, Web3.0, Webmaster's Tool, Zedomax Network News, Zedomax Network Sites, Zedomax Network Traffic
Well, here’s year 2008 and Zedomax Network is going strong with over 450K views per month!
If you have been wondering why we have been quiet, it’s because we are short-handed with developers due to profit losses this year.
Basically, we have one developer this year and everything else is being outsourced. (Well, when we have money that is…)
On the bright side, we are developing a new Web 2.5 social bookmarking/networking site called SiteHoppin.com.
It’s still only about 50% complete but the site is open to public for beta testing.
Basically, you get free traffic to your websites. All you have to do it submit your URLs.
On top of it, we will have a new feature called, “Tag Browsing”, that allows you to “hop” your favorite sites at a click of your mouse button.
It’s similar to StumbleUpon.com and Del.icio.us but very different in that you can “tag browse” sites.
Check it out if you want to see our site being revamped live.
On another great note for year 2008 and 4am in the morning, we got a new knol project called http://knolproject.net. Right now, we don’t have anything on there but we are planning to “open-source” the paid wiki concept to let everyone get in the new “paid wiki” wave. Basically, we will teach you how to make a wiki site like the One Buck Wiki or the new Google Knol Project. We are currently accepting any freelance developers to contribute and share ideas for the site so if you are interested in community development, shoot us an email at zedomax [at] gmail.com and you will be included in our exclusive list of developers for the new open source project.
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