Pownce has finally released its API 2.0. which allows posting to Pownce from your applications. I am currently updating my PHP API Wrapper and should have a downloadable release after I am back from CeBIT.
The Top10 of promoting your new website.
You think this is a bit generic, well it is, but it is the best way to promote your website ;). There are 1000 of websites out there, that tell you that they have the ultimate solution to drive traffic to your website and make you money. None of these are really helping you much, as it will always drill down to the TOP10 above :) So the goal is not to promote your website as it is, but the content that is delivered from it to your visitors.
How do visitors find you?
Not by guessing your domain name! I am sure they start by using a search engine like Google. They use the search engine to look for related websites that fit the keywords they have entered.
So is your content properly listed in search engines?
No! Well you have either no content on your website or your setup just does not confirm with proper search engine requirements. So if you have good content, but it is hard to index, users wont find you. Your main concern is to make sure that your content is presented in the correct way.
The title of this article should say : TOP10 – How to promote your website or even better how to promote your content! :)
Here is my TOP10 of relevant points, when taking care of your search engine presence:
This is hardly a complete list and there are other things you need to consider when dealing with SEO scenarios. I often forget to stick to some of the points myself, at least when it comes to my own websites, but its worth the time to work on each of them. No websites are perfect from the start, all paintings in development ;)
Do not give up so easily. It takes time to promote a website and you will be tweaking things again and again. If you have a fair amount of content, things will be evolving alot faster. Hard to say what the critical mass is, as that depends on your content and the visitors. If you cover a unique topic, little content might drive your webserver nuts, more popular covered content, may take longer to make you website shine :)
The search engine traffic is often only the first wave coming your way, additional traffic will result through others linking to your content, you promoting it and playing an active part on other websites that link to the content / topics you cover.
Key is to enjoy what you do and not feeling forced to do so :)
Cheers
Alexander
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and Internet Explorer 6+), cross-platform, cleanly-coded and
fully-documented media viewer application written entirely in
JavaScript.
It is similar to lightbox, focusing on
displaying different media formats like Flash, QuickTime, and Windows
Media Player.
It’s easy to use Shadowbox
with your JavaScript library of choice.
Shadowbox comes bundled with adapters for Yahoo! UI, Ext, Prototype + Scriptaculous and jQuery. Website authors can display pictures and movies in all major
browsers without navigating away from the linking page.
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CleanCSS is a powerful CSS optimizer and formatter.
Basically, it takes your CSS code and makes it cleaner and more concise. The backend is based on CSS Tidy.
I have a couple of tools that use Ant to deal with the rebuilding process. Here is a good documentation, on how to set it up on OSX.
„Apache Ant is a software tool for automating software build processes. It is similar to make but is written in the Java language, requires the Java platform, and is best suited to building Java projects.“
Re-Animator is a development framework written in C++ using SDL and
various other Open Source libraries. It allows you to write
high-performance 2D sprite-based graphical applications (like games!)
using just XML and JavaScript.
It was originally conceived for the creation of remakes of old games, but can be used to create pretty much any type of 2D game.
When it comes to my development environment I have always been really picky. I need a clean and structured interface, not to cluttered, but still adjustable to my needs. I have tested countless IDE solutions in the past, but always seem to come back to Komodo from ActiveState.
„Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced the immediate
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code named Moviestar. Adobe Flash Player 9 now includes H.264 standard
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definition video players, and High Efficiency AAC (HE-AAC) audio
capabilities.
The latest update also features hardware accelerated,
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viewing across major operating systems and browsers. The combination of
Adobe Flash Player 9 and Adobe Flash Media Server 3 (also announced
today) enables the delivery of HD quality video to the broadest online
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.“
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your own interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art — and
share your creations on the web.
Scratch is designed to
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As they create Scratch projects, young people learn important
mathematical and computational ideas, while also gaining a deeper
understanding of the process of design.“