AlexaDex - trade website shares by traffic

I've been thinking of Ofer's Traffic based investment post and did some searching online for similar posts, and was I surprised to find AlexaDex which is a game site in which virtual shares of websites are bought and sold according to their traffic reports. You'd be amazed to see how many users play there, buying and selling shares of websites such as CNN, Yahoo as well as smaller and less known sites.

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ClickDragType - game with no instructions

Here's a quick game for all of us by the name of ClickDragType2 .
Got a few minutes? Try figuring out how to complete levels in this game that prides itself that it has no instructions. I just got past level 1 and quit for the time being. Probably will come back to it later.

I cannot belief how many people get frustrated by this game and seek help.
Here is a link to some game hints (even though the comments are for ClickDragType1, this comment is for ClickDragType2).


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SEO tips - avoid spellchecking

SEO is one of the longest paths to bringing traffic to your site is something most site owners will agree about. It takes a while for the search engines to index your site and for your site to reach a significant position that users will see in the first page of their search results. Marketing managers who use PPC programs such as adwords and overture know that it usually pays not only to buy the keywords they are looking for but also common spelling mistakes of those words.
While reviewing my web analytics reports I found that several spelling mistakes I have made in a few posts have actually brought a lot of traffic to my site from Google as well as MSN.
The first one I caught was spelling calndar instead of calendar and the second was spelling technoraty instead of technorati. So, using intentional spelling mistakes can be a nice way to bring traffic to your site, but only if you're not ashamed for those mistakes to be pointed out by your readers.

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TalkDigger - track your blog links

While reviewing the refering sources of my blog in google analytics, I came across an unknown link named TalkDigger. As claimed on their website, TalkDigger is a new way to find, follow and join discussions evolving on the Internet. It allows you to search for your blog's URL and get search results that link to it from: Technorati, Google, MSN, Yahoo, Bloglines and digg. the resutls get ranked and ordered by importance of the link leading to your blog.

I am thinking of adding this to my toolbox of useful blogging application. How about you?


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Evolutionary posts

I have decided to try a new concept which I named "Evolutionary posts".
Evolutionary post is a post which is released to the world as a title and a few lines of text and gets expanded (not modified but expanded) along time. This allows a fast post of an interesting subject as well as the ability to turn it into a full fledged article over time.

How does one start publishing evolutionary posts?

1. Take an idea
2. Turn it into a descriptive title
3. write a first paragraph
4. write some more paragrpah titles
5. post it
6. pay attention to incoming comments and update your post according to them
7. give credits to commentors who influenced your post (Thanks cat)
8. republish the post.
9. redo from step 6

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How Much Is My Blog Worth?

Dana Carlson of Business Opportunities Weblog has written a very cool widget named How Much Is My Blog Worth? which calculates the value of a blog by it's links according to Technorati. I tried it for Ohad's Internet News and got a better result then I expected to get.

My blog is worth $2,258.16.
How much is your blog worth?

Can it be so? Is anyone willing to put some money here? Just kidding.
As more links are added to my blog, I will update the value in this post.


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Getting paid to play games

You cannot possibly imagine how excited I was yesterday to receive an email from Moola.com about participating in their closed beta. Moola (which I am still not sure where their name came from) is a new company that has developed an online gaming platform in which players get to compete against each other for real money.
where does the money come from? It comes from commercials shown to you before each game (and to keep us honest, they ask a question about the commercial shown). Each time you play against another player, one of you gets the total amount of both your wagers.

The games
Moola currently features only 2 games.
The first game is called "Gold Rush" which is played in 6 rounds. In each round the player has to choose one of his 6 gold nuggets (numbered from 1 to 6) and place them on a scale against the pther player's choice. the winner of the round gets the value of both nuggets as well as a random nugget which is placed in the middle of the scales.
The second is named "Ro-Sham-Bo-Fu" and is a take on the classic rock,paper and scissers with a twist where in each round (6 rounds per game) one of the available choices (e.g. rock) is randomly chosen and players get bonus points for not using it wether they win or lose that round.


And now for the fun part:
I have 1 invitation left that I can share with one of you. All you have to do is to convince me that you are the one who should get it. Once I receive enough reasons, I will choose someone to get this invitation to play Moola's cool games and participate in the beta. Should that be You?


Last updated; May 31 2006


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