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Most Recent Projects:

Since the Ambatchdotcom Seocontest is drawing to a close I'm going to be practicing the skills learned from participating in the seocontest to mylatest projects

1. Email Hoaxes & Urban legends is focused on email virus hoaxes and urban legends

2. I also started SEO Tools List which will be a site listing the best online SEO tools available on the web.

3. I also am offering SEO Services from my main company website however I don't intend to make SEO Services a full time business. I much prefer to develop my own sites and do Search engine optimization on them but I will take on a few clients occasionally.

4. My newest concept is a site based on the word cloud theme but instead of the words linking directly to a site, they link to an internal page which contains an article of relevant text containing the link giving relevant backlinks and a link bidding directory site both containing pages for sale.

5. I've also started a blog. The name of the blog is Magic words and phrases. This magicwordsandphrases.com was a domain that at one time belonged to my sister and was her webmaster site. She gave up the domain long ago but I always loved the name so I purchased it about a week ago and have dedicated it to being a blog about random thoughts, philosophy, and life is a site that will cover a variety of topics including some site reviews eventually. It will focus on making life interesting on the web by forfeiting dull and dry text in favour of the use of language and style that makes sites interesting and a pleasure to read.

6. SEO Tools List is another site that I've had little time to work on but is in development now.

So, hopefully, after the ambatchdotcom seocontest is over I will be able to invest more time into the development of these websites.

When I first started doing SEO, I learned that one of the first things to do is to submit to directories.

There are a couple of reasons for this. One is that it's often free, or free with a link exchange, or, if not free, inexpensive. For a relatively small budget you can get linked from a multitude of directories fairly quickly.

Backlinks are on every webmaster's wish list but the problem for me was locating the good directories, and knowing what I was getting into. Sometimes I'd get all the way through the submission process and find that there was a fee I wasn't willing or prepared to pay. What I wanted, what I needed, was a directory of directories.

So, I'm pleased to share my new discovery with everyone. A Directory of directories!

http://www.best-web-directories.com/ not only gives you listings of directories but they rate them as well and give you a listing of free directories and the best paid directories (with fees) and niche directories as well as great information like how long it takes to get listed, the page rank of the directory, a comment or two about the directory.

I've bookmarked this site (wish I'd found this long ago) and suggest that you take a look and see what a great resource this directory of directories is.

As anyone who is interested in SEO (Search Engine Optimization) knows, there is a lot of information needed to establish a game plan for optimizing a web site for search engines.

Fortunately, there are a plethora of online SEO tools available to check everything from back links, domain age, page rank, keyword density and everything in between.

Check the list of SEO tools at http://www.seotoolslist.com

Dude, You're Getting a Zune

This morning I ran into some interesting stuff at Zune
Scene. Apparently Microsoft has prepared an iPod killer just in time
for the holidays. One of the things that got my attention was the large
variety of zune accessories available at launch, and the cool looking zune case
options. Zunescene has also posted 2 interesting graphs. One shows the
percentage of iPod owners who indicated they will buy a Zune, the other
shows year over year iPod sales in a slump.

iPod Owners Who Say They Will Buy Zune

Currently Apple dominates the MP3 player market, but after the apparent success of the XBOX I'm starting to think the Zune MP3 player
may have a chance.

An interesting new site has popped up.  The site is whos4you.com and it's a mini article site.

What you find at whos4you is a list of articles on a variety of topics and within the article, you'll find a link to a page that is related to the topic.

If I were the type to bet, I'd imagine this kind of site will become very popular to webmasters and SEO specialists.

If the subject you're looking for is not on the page, the webmaster offers a request page  you can request that an article be written and offer a link to a site that is relevant.

This is good SEO for the person "who is" because they end up with a relevent link.

I have a feeling there will be more and more of these types of sites.  The articles are short and factual and also make good research material.

As a bonus, the articles can be used in other sites on the condition that the links are kept intact.

Man oh man!  I decided to search for some information on a weight loss product called "Lipo 6" and a google search gave me 293000 results.

All I wanted was a simple, no nonsense, objective lipo 6 review to give me an idea of what the product does, how it works, what are the side effects and mostly, does it work!  And I wanted to find out from a person who actually uses the product or has used the product - not someone trying to sell the stuff!

Luckily I found a great lipo 6 review at http://www.viruz.com/my-second-lipo-6-review/

Thanks samskpun (blog owner) for providing exactly what I was looking for.

The Ambatchdotcom Seocontest Ship is Sinking so it's time to BAIL...

I was expecting to jump UP a position or two not DOWN!  Sorry guys, when the ship starts sinking it's time to toss over the dead weight and in this case, the dead weight are those recip links.  Gone  History  No more.

With only 11 days left in the contest I've been working my ambatchdotcom seocontest behind off only to be rewarded with loosing a position instead of gaining so now, my behind being in great danger of dissapearing alltogether, I'm going to double my efforts and see if I can't pull back up into the top 3.

Thats all for now,

Ambatchdotcom Seocontest 11 more days!

Ambatchdotcom Seocontest Entry #last

This will probably be my last ambatchdotcom seocontest entry. With 2 weeks to go in the seocontest I am concentrating more on optomizing the main page than working on the blog.

I've included a lot of my strategy for this seocontest on the ambatchdotcom seocontest main page - it might actually make for some interesting reading for someone.  I will be adding to that page some other details about what I've done for SEO on this seo contest site.

The front page also points out some differences between SEO for ambatchdotcom seocontest and general SEO for real world web sites as I believe the strategy needs to be somewhat different.

Anyway, it's been fun, and challenging and yes, a learning experience.  At the moment, ambatchdotcom seocontest is somewhat like the moments after giving birth.  Yes, I am glad I did it, I am happy with the outcome but for now, I never want to do it again.  But, that may change over time, as the memory works it's magic and eventually, you are left with only the nice memories and the stress and challenges are washed away.

Good luck to all the contestants.

Ambatchdotcom Seocontest Page Rank Update in Google Today.

What will this do to the competition???? so far my checks have indicated that the top 4 for ambatchdotcom seocontest with PR5, several of the top 10 with PR0 and 1 with PR3, 1 with PR4.

So, with regards to my hopes of pulling ahead of number 1 and 2, It looks like page rank isn't going to do it for me as we all are being given the same ranking.

It's early in the update, it could take days for it to completely roll out but I suspect that the next few days will show some changes in the top 10 ranking in ambatchdotcom seocontest land.

Stay tuned, the final checkpoint is just over 24 hours to go - this could get exciting!