So naturally I checked out the associated link and was blown away! DNfame dot com is a F.R.E.E. Tool that almost instantly reports on tons of metrics for any domain name that you type in the search box.

It couldn’t be any easier. Go to the website, type in the url you want to check and as fast as your ISP connection will allow, it returns all of the data listed below:

Rank Data:
Google GPR
Alexa Rank
Famous Rank
Compete
Quantcast
Technorati Rank
Technorati Authority

Listings Data:
DMOZ
Yahoo Directory
Archive dot org

Search Engine Backlinks:
Google
Yahoo
Alltheweb
AltaVista
Alexa Search
Lycos
Cuil

Social Resources:
Delicious
Furl
Reddit
Su.bscri.be
Faves
Clipmark
Blogmarks
Propeller
Jumptags

This is a very humbling experience when you search on your own children. Websites that you have worked extremely hard on for a year or more returning paltry numbers might have a tendency to discourage you after all of the effort that you have put in to it.

I would prefer to take that data and make a plan to sally forth and do battle! Knowing what you know now by using this tool you should be able to go out and kick some ass. Find your weak points and compare them against your competition and you will instantly discover what you have to do to excel.

I must admit I have never heard of some of the sites that are used in this tool, but they probably all bear looking in to. DMOZ is so hard to get in to and Google says they use the information on that site quite a bit so I would like to know what one has to do to get listed in DMOZ.

I have always been of the opinion that I don’t care where my sites rank in the above stats, and that it is more important to work on getting your keywords to rank on the first page of Google. I actually still believe that, but it wouldn’t hurt to work on improving the above stats and in turn that would likely help your keyword ranking. The proof will be in the pudding.

Thanks to DNfame.com for twittering and a VERY BIG THANKS for letting me know about this FABULOUS TOOL !!!

ps: If you want to rank up there with someone that I have written about many times on this blog, whose name shall remain annonymous, but whose initials are GCDC, you need to go out and get 33,300 Google Backlinks.

Let us know how you rank by commenting on this Blog.

SUBSCRIBE NOW ! - (Oh and if you backlink to www.linkmoney.org please let me know personally.)

Thanks for reading and participating.

Rich

Most of the time I am on this damn computer 16 to 18 hours a day, every day, and if I didn’t love it I would never work so hard for anyone else.

So I sit here in my shorts much of the time, and I usually cook my meals on the woodstove because I can keep good track of it. I keep the old standby ready reference tool known as the Yellow Pages phone book, right next to my desk.

When lunch or supper is ready, I usually just eat right out of the cooking pan. That’s where the Yellow Pages comes in handy. The Yellow Pages book is a way over two inches thick and no matter how hot the cooking pan is, I can set the pan on the Yellow Pages in my lap and I NEVER burn my nuts!

My point is, Print Is Dead. The Internet has changed everything, in all fields.

Soon there will be no more printed newspapers, unless some of them hold out for the curiosity value. Magazines, City Directories, Catalogs, and yes Phone Books will all be relegated to museum status. Andy Rooney on 60 Minutes said he felt a little sorry for the newspapers demise. Oh well…

There’s not much call for Mule drivers on the Erie Canal lately either.

Oh, and by the way, grab a handful of those Yellow Pages to use as a fire starter when the coals die out. Don’t worry the idiots will probably send you a new one in a couple of months.

You too can Make Money In Your shorts.

Come on everybody, if you like this Blog, then SUBSCRIBE !

This weekend I have been going through my bookmarks and arranging them in to their appropriate category folders. Though it is rather boring it reminds one to revisit several sites that you intended to check out some time.

This all came about because of the loss of one of the tools that I use every day and that is Linkbun.ch. That website allows you to open several tabbed websites at one time by just saving the group in a Linkbun.ch folder.

So I had folders groups for startup, which would be a Google search page, Gmail and the Google reader and the stats analyzer page for all of my websites that I track constantly.

Then I had another Linkbun.ch folder for domaining which included sites for newly expired domain names, and a nice tool pcnames.com that lets you see if domains are available as you type. I also had some of my webhosting companies and NAME.com for the cheapest place to buy domains.

I had another folder for microblogs, such as Twitter (I’m linkmoneydotorg,) and Plurk (where I am richhill.)

Another Linkbun.ch folder for Social Networking sites, such as StumbleUpon, Digg, Technorati, Sphinn, and a couple of others.

Unfortunately Linkbun.ch has been down for a couple of weeks now, and the message they show indicates they are working on the site, but it does not appear as though they will be back any time soon.

I had become accustomed to relying on that service to open my various groups as needed, so decided to go about it a different way. You might find this handy also.

I set up some folders in my Favorites Manager named; 01startup, 01domaining, 03microblogging, and 04social. Then I put the appropriate sites that I want to use in each group.

Now when I open up my browser I just go to the bookmarks and click on one of the folders mentioned, and select “Open all in tabs.”

That’s all you have to do and your three or four favorite sites immediately open up on your desktop and you are in business.

So when you get some free time I would suggest you arrange your Favorites Manager and speed up your productivity.

I wrote about Linkbun.ch in a previous post on “How To Become A Domainer.”

The massive outpouring of support for MakeUseOf dot com was phenomenal.  The rightful owner of the blog just made a post that GoDaddy did return it after 24 hours and he said that it would not have happened without the help of all the bloggers and tweeters that kept GoGaddys feet to the flames.

We are very happy that it worked out, and again, thanks for all your support.

Rich Hill

ps:  What do you all think, should MakeUseOf initiate legal action?

The domain of the very popular website MakeUseOf.com has been STOLEN! This was reported by Daniel Scocco during the night on his Blog DailyBlogTips.com.

The report says that MakeUseOf was being hosted on GoDaddy and that GD allowed the domain to be transfered away from the owner to somewhere in Dubai. GoDaddy no doubt will cover their ass by saying all security terms were met, but I say Bull Shit! Get better security terms!

How can this happen? MakeUseOf has over 20,000 subscribers, I being one, and we all enjoy the tips and free information given out contiuously be MakeUseOf.

This is a Nightmare, a Horror Story fitting for the Halloween season for sure, but sadly true and how will it be resolved?

What would you do if your baby was stolen and taken to a foreign country?

This industry needs better security methods similar to what the online banking industry uses such as, multiple security codes, a primary image associated with the account, two security questions, a mouse pointer select keyboard, and anything else that someone could come up with.

I did notice that one method being offered by some registrars is to limit activity to a specific IP address. That way transfers could only come from one specific computer. That seem like a good idea to me, what do you think?

For now you should make sure that you use DIFFERENT passwords for all of your domains, your administration panels, your hosting company accounts, and so on. Use multiple email addresses for different accounts.

What do you think? Can anyone come up with ideas on how to make this more secure. Lets talk about it. This HAS to be fixed.

Come on GoDaddy, fix this and return MakeUseOf to the rightful owner.

Rich Hill

UPDATE - UPDATE - UPDATE:

MakeUseOf has a temporary home on blogger until this gets fixed.  go there and give them your support.

http://makeuseof-temporary.blogspot.com/2008/11/make-use-ofs-temporary-home.html

The first twenty five bloggers that set up a PepperJam Store on any website of your choice, wins $10.00 and gets a chance at $100 prize for most creative.

Check it out.

There are many prizes and there looks like a good chance that many of you will get lucky.

On another matter, WordPress 2.6.3 is out and we all have to upgrade, again.  Jeesh, I wish there really was an automatic upgrade plugin that was really automatic, with out having to click here, click here, download this, download that, click here…   blahh blahh  blah.

What the hell is automatic about that?  Now in a few days we will have to do it all over again with 2.7.

I still love WordPress, just frustrated.

Rich

free photos online

This information was found by commenting on a post by Ann Smarty at Search Engine Journal. and one of the readers, Leila Boujnane of ideeinc, commented back about this excellent resource.  What a find.
Here is the link to ideeinc.

free photos online

I have been going nuts and wasting hour upon hour searching for photos and images to use in various website posts, only to find excellent ones and then finding out that they were copyrighted or restricted.

I have had good luck in sending a request to the owner and in each case they all have answered back that it was fine to use the image but they wanted credit, which I gave of course.

free photos online

You’ve done this for sure.  One problem is that usually a couple or more days have passed since you found the image and by then you have worked on a thousand other things and when the email came in giving permission to use the copyrighted image, you can no longer remember exactly where you had found it.

free photos online

That all changes now.  With this fantastic search tool from ideeinc.com they search “only” Creative Commons images and you get to search by color scheme.  There is a color chart on the right and you click on the colors you want  to use and you can select up to ten colors.

As you click on each color the tapestry screen full of images keeps changing to reflect your choice.  You can select a color more than once if you desire to emphasize one certain color.  After you get through choosing the 10 colors you now have choices galore to select from and all of these images are free to use with no restrictions!

free photos online

From the ideeinc home page there is also another method to search by subject matter but I have not tried that yet.

The images you see in this post are just a few from the hundreds available that I selected in just a couple of minutes by using the base color theme of this LinkMoney dot org website.

All I did to use them in this post was to download them all to a folder, then I opened each one in photoshop and resized them all to 300 px wide and re-saved them, then uploaded them to this post.  Easy as 1, 2, 3.

Use your imagination and think about projects that you have been planning for Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas

free photos online

Get The Picture?

ideeinc and flickr, an excellent combination for free photos online.

I’m Rich

[ ps: Make sure you subscribe to this Blog for more great ideas ! ]

Echodemic dot com is in Beta and by the number of Blog posts it must have just started recently. It is sort of a DIGG like experience except that you post your whole article on their site and their readers and members get to read it and give it an “Echo” vote.

The articles that receive the most echoes move to the front page of Echodemic and you will get interested parties coming back to your website to see what else you have to offer.

This could be a great free traffic generator and will bring the type of visitor that is interested in what you have to say.

I just posted my first article and it does not have any echoes yet, but it should be fairly easy to move to the front page because it is so new that the highest echo count for most of the “best of” are only around seven (now 15) echoes or so.

I would really appreciate it if you readers of this Blog would go there and check it out. Click on the tab for “Most recent” posts and find mine that is titled “The Niche Doctor Cures WordPress Code,” and give it an “Echo.” I did alter the text a tiny bit from my Blog post of the same subject, but I don’t know if that is really necessary or not.

If you want to keep track of my posts, my user name is “linkmoneydotorg.”

Thanks much and you will no doubt want to register and become an Echodemic.com member also.

Everything is FREE of course.

I’m Rich !

ps:  This is an addition to this post.  I am asking three things of you readers.

1st - Please subscribe to this Blog with either the RSS or Email buttons.  (For six months I had them set up wrong and am just now rebuilding my subscriber base.)

2nd - Please give this post a thumbs up Stumble.  (I am not a big fan of StumbleUpon but did recieve a ton of new traffic from there today.)

3rd - Please visit Echodemic and give my post an echo (vote)  Only six more echoes needed to be in 1st place!  Thank you all so much.
http://www.echodemic.com/index.php?q=node/1357

I’m Rich !

The Niche Doctor Starter Kit, and The Niche Doctor Park Page Theme:
The two products announced on Garry Conn’s Blog that are being provided by the Niche Doctor are worth their weight in gold!

Garry knows WordPress inside and out.  He teamed up with the master cyber coder, David Cooley to bring you two fantastic tools that will make you money, absolutely!

When I read the announcement two days ago I immediately purchased both the “Niche Doctor Starter Kit” and the “Niche Doctor Park Page Theme” for WordPress.

The reason I bought the Park Page Theme was because I have many dozens of domains that I bought over the past year, some of which were great ideas at the time, but now that I know more, not so good.  You’ve all done the same thing, I’m sure.

NameDrive Free Parking:
I thought about parking some of these unused domains at GD (you know what GD really stands for right?,) GoDaddy, but the bas***ds want 10 bucks a month.  Then I found out about NameDrive and parked a dozen of them there about three months ago because it is free, and if there is any advertising revenue generated you get a share of it.

Well forget that.  Three months and not one cent of advertising revenue.  So with the Niche Doctor Park Page Theme you can have your domain up and running with a keyword pumping minimum blog code html design and then you can put some AdSense on and then see what happens.

Keep Unused Domains, or Not:
When it gets near renewal time you can decide to either let the domain go, or you can sell it if it looks promising, or you can develop it if it looks real good.  This is a GREAT idea!

The Niche Doctor Starter Kit for WordPress:
So that is what the theme will do but other than testing it out on one website I can not put this Niche Doctor Starter Kit book down.  I have learned more in two days than I had in almost a year as far as how to fix my HTML code.  The instructions that Dave and Garry give on how to optimize your Blog for the search engine bots and also for human consumption are just superb!

One client that I do some website management for is blown away.  I brought his five year old broken website up to modern times about four moths ago, and then added a Blog.  Then I have been tweaking things and trying to get him to come to the front of the pack in G-serps. We went from total obsurity four months ago to #215 +/- about two weeks ago, where it has been hovering.

Once I inserted two adjustments that I learned in the Niche Doctor Starter Kit prescription, I brought that client site up to Number 3 in Google for his keyword/money words in less than 24 hours!  Yikes!

The Niche Doctor will cure your Blog Code HTML.

You Should Purchase These:

Now what I want you to do is to
click on these two buttons to make a whole LOT of money!

The Niche Doctor Park Page:

The Niche Doctor Starter Kit:

Yes I will get a little referral commission, but you will start making your next fortune by using these two products.

You will thank me, I know.

Rich

ps: This is an addition to my original post.  If you like this post I would ask three things of you.

1st - If you like this post please subscribe with either the RSS or Email method.  (For the last six months I had them set up wrong and now just gaining new subscribers.)

2nd - If you like this post please give it a thumbs up Stumble. (’m not a huge fan of StumbleUpon but did receive a hell of a lot of traffic today from there.)

3rd - If you like this post, please give it an echo (vote) on Echodemic.  Only six more echoes needed to be in first place.  Thank you all my friends for reading.

I’m Rich !