What Google Knows About Spam

We all want to get exceptional rankings in google and other search engines therefore many of us resort to low level tactis such as spam. We should not spam simply because google knows it exists!! Watch the video below to see Matt Cutts on what google knows about spam:

So SEO is good and recommended…now to find me cheap a whitehat SEO activist .

Via Matt Cutts Blog.

300 Free Templates….Anyone?

dreamtemplate.com offer upto 300 free web templates for you all to enjoy as we all know that when designing a website, looks count for a lot. You want to reduce bounce rate and have that “sticky-ness” with your website so that traffic stays and visitors hang around hopefully buying your products, signing up with your affiliate links or clicking your adsense ads :twisted:.

Unlimited Access to the World’s #1 Premium Web Templates Subscription Store for $59.95. Normally $149!

The folks over at dreamtemplate.com gladly wanted us to review their extensive range of templates to bring you, our reader, the best for free. When designing a website, I am sure many if you think about how to attract traffic, how to make money online and how to get a kick ass theme. Being a webmaster myself I can not stress the importance of design as it strongly dictates the “first impression” factor.

First Impression; Why It Counts:-

Researchers have found that the brain makes decisions in just a 20th of a second of viewing a webpage. They were surprised as they believed it would take at least 10 times longer to form an opinion. However, it is found - and most importantly -that first impressions have a lasting impact.

The researchers also believe that these quickly formed first impressions last because of what is known to psychologists as the “halo effect”. If people believe a website looks good, then this positive quality will spread to other areas, such as the website’s content.

Since people like to be right, they will continue to use the website that made a good first impression, as this will further confirm that their initial decision was a good one. Dreamtemplate.com intends to help you with all of this as you can find themes and web templates that will match your type of niche so that you can be on your way to a success such as our website :twisted:.

So, a website giving away 300 free templates and selling unlimited access to all of their templates for $59.95? Come on folks head on over to dreamtemplate.com to create your lasting impact. Perhaps in a year or so, you can be a PR5 (or more) authority website in your niche with your free (or cheap) web templates.

Hurry, Limited Time Offer Expires: May 14, 2008 @ 11 -04:00M CST!

We Are Upgrading Our Server!

With our continued success and growth we are happy to say we are undergoing yet another server upgrade! The traffic we have been getting recently has been overwhelming our VPS and its got to a point we cant even access our basic needs such as webmail or cpanel.

But do not worry, after special arrangements with our super hosts micfo, we have come to an agreement on a brand new spanking server (specs to be announced soon) where we will pay a very cheap yet competitive price…i’ll let you figure out the sum involved yourself.

It is very important that you choose a good web host - NOTE: Good doesn’t mean expensive - Good means reliable with great support. If the host you choose doesn’t have those two qualities, it’s going to make your life miserable.

You are going to be really frustrated because your site is never up and your emails are never answered (again a very annoying thing to experience especially if you run a service).

If you need a good host we highly recommend Micfo as hosts, they have never let us down and are sure better than our previous hosts who we refuse to name or even link to as someone might sign up under them and suffer the same fate as us lot did.

What To Look For In a Host:

Support - Your site will go down at times even though your most likely promised 99% uptime so you need support, preferrably via phone or live chat online.

Got What You Need - By this I mean the host offers a package that suits you. Not everyone needs a dedicated server straigh away. People new to the web are more than satisfied with a cheap shared package.

No database limits - Chances are once you create one website you will create another, then another and so on, having a limit on amount of database’s will be very annoying so choose a package that offers unlimited amount or alot (i.e 5x more than necessary)

Do Your Research! - Never and I repeat NEVER buy from a web host without doing a heck of a lot of what we like to call “googling”! Chances are you find people will have had problems with a host or find that they are scammers in which case you do not want to fork over your cash. Check out forums such as digital point and other webmaster forums/sites for people recommendations or reviews. From personal experience, trust me on this one!

Now there are lots and lots of more advice around the net on how to find the right host and we cant cover them all so make sure to search around. Remember, Google is your best friend (ok yahoo, we love you too!).

If you want to cut the chase short, we highly recommend micfo for their very competitive packages starting from simple web hosting to dedicated servers. They had our backs for the past 5 months and we love them!

Implemented a New Feature

Hello folks,

Do you all see the new text ads at the top? It follows you when you scroll down but you always have the chance to exit. This cool new recently added feature is brought to us by MaxBlogPress and is available to all wordpress blog users like ourselves for instance.

Be the next engadget with your own exclusive ads right at the top of your page. The best thing is you control what you put there and how many times it should show by changing the ration aspects.

?Stripe Ads?, a new non-obtrusive way of displaying a single line of advertising message, a special note or other information right at the top of your blog.

You can see the ad live on our weblog whenever you visit and download the plugin by visiting the plugin download page which requires free registration. Its a great tool for promoting ad spots or your favorite posts, a must for all wordpress users.

December Stats + Ad Positions Available

Now that SweetHacks is finally off the ground and standing firmly on its two feet I feel its time to request advertisers to come and help us with our bills! We are now getting just over 1000 unique daily visitors and have a large RSS subscriber base currently standing at 128 strong, but as you all may know maintaining a website like this one costs and therefore it is to you, our dedicated fan base, that we look upto for support!

December Stats:

For those interested in the month of December’s traffic stats, please find a screenshot courtesy of webalizer below:





We had an average of 1069 unique visitors per day and 20K+ pageviews daily - This is explained by the large amount of traffic we get from stumble upon 500+ daily. Our next aim? 2000 daily visitors!

What I am particularly surprised with is that we get more traffic via referrals than the search engines even though we rank great for keywords such as unbrick psp and many more, I guess thats Google for ya!

We also just recently got over 100 RSS Subscribers. Rock on, you (subscribers) are the best! Next aim? 1000

With our continued success and presence on the internet we now hope to bring in sponsors for our premium ad positions. We have very cheap prices and flexible terms, check our our advertise page and do not hesitate to contact us with your offer.

We would also like to thank our current onboard advertisers for their continued support.

If you would like to be part of our continued success and be part of an extraordinary 2008, then stick around…subscribe to our Full Feed RSS or even advertise with us. Have a great 2008 folks!

Free Backlinks PR5, maybe even a PR8?

The internet is a rather funny place. I mean, when you go out surfing the world wide web, you come across so many unique websites such as SweetHacks which frankly dominates them all but when you see a website that virtually invites you to leave a link and get pagerank for free? Thats quite unique, bizarre even!

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