tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145393162008-01-07T07:31:46.049-08:00Simon GlueBlogger37125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14539316.post-73537159308237695502008-01-04T02:22:00.000-08:002008-01-04T14:32:55.415-08:00

For a while, I have been thinking of using flickr, facebook and other web 2.0 sites in the marketing of my own websites. Inspired by this article I figured it was time to get started and try to get some traffic from flickr. As suggested by yourwealth.org I started uploading some photos not related to my site's subject. I guess the point by doing this, is to make your flickr profile look more

Simon Gluetag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14539316.post-1150358444123521122006-06-15T00:51:00.000-07:002006-06-15T01:00:44.133-07:00

In coorporation with two other highly qualified partners I've started a new Danish site where users can manage their online gift list. The site is still under development but is already functional (and seems very promising). Yesterday we launched a new section with ideas for presents (or "gaveideer" as it is called in Danish) for the users to submit to their gift lists. I'm very excited about

Simon Gluetag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14539316.post-1145981803774764682006-04-25T09:10:00.000-07:002006-04-25T09:16:43.790-07:00

Long time no see! I'm very busy these days and that's why I haven't updated this blog lately. This is a very important phase for my company, HEPHEY. Right now I'm considering the future structure, so we will continue to grow. I'm also working on improving rankings and the dayli number of visitors of my greatest website. In my opinion there is still room for growth.

Simon Gluetag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14539316.post-1133965565604825332005-12-07T06:19:00.000-08:002005-12-07T06:26:05.616-08:00

I almost forgot to tell you that I've closed the deal with the first advertiser on my new link building site, Link Finder. The customer bought a single link even though the site wasn't officially launched yet. The site is now in beta and there is a few minor bugs to be fixed, but hopefully I will soon be ready to start searching for partners and advertisers.

Simon Gluetag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14539316.post-1133276896446406442005-11-29T06:59:00.000-08:002005-11-29T07:08:16.446-08:00

Shortly after my last report about Alle-Festsange.dk the site dropped to no. 22 on Google for the keyword festsange but now the site is back in top 20. Actually it's ranking better than ever as no. 16 for the keyword mentioned above and still no. one at MSN. I've startet to submit the site to my list of Danish directories. Hopefully this will improve rankings even more. I'll keep you posted on

Simon Gluetag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14539316.post-1133275718184166442005-11-29T06:37:00.000-08:002005-11-29T06:51:02.380-08:00

Advertisements in newsletters is an important source of income in my company (and in many other doc coms). Until last week I sent out all my newsletters through my own home made newsletter script on my ordinary webserver. But last week I moved my largest newsletter (recipes of the week from WebOpskrifter.dk) to a dedicated newsletter solution at one of the leading Danish webhosting companies,

Simon Gluetag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14539316.post-1132776280478298112005-11-23T11:46:00.000-08:002005-11-23T12:04:40.506-08:00

Tonight my favorite soccer team played UEFA Cup match in Moscow against Lokomotiv. As Lokomotiv won the tournament a few years ago they were expected to win tonight to but after an incredible first half Brondby had scored twice and Lokomotiv zero. Quite a while since I've seen my team play this good and of course this affected my mood in a very positive way:-) But after an awfull second half

Simon Gluetag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14539316.post-1132339665957037022005-11-18T10:30:00.000-08:002005-11-18T10:47:45.970-08:00

My new niche website about occasional songs is allready no. 1 on the MSN search engine for the keyword "festsange". Furthermore the site is no. 19 on Google for the same keyword (best ranking so far). It's very satisfying to achieve these good results this fast. These rankings have resulted in a couple of hundred visitors every day. I continue my work with this site and hopefully the site will

Simon Gluetag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14539316.post-1132338548227084452005-11-18T10:07:00.000-08:002005-11-18T10:29:08.236-08:00

Well, in Denmark people play sudoku more than ever before. All major Danish newspapers have a daily sudoku and people buy special sudoku magazines. I don't really understand this sudoku mania but ofcourse I had to act on the popularity of the little Japanese game. Therefore I've made a new little site, where people can play the game online and for free. The site is called: Gratis Sudoku Opgaver.

Simon Gluetag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14539316.post-1132042825159793092005-11-15T00:12:00.000-08:002005-11-15T00:20:38.120-08:00

My new niche website about occasional songs (or festsange as we call it in Danish) seems very promising. After ranking as no. 21-23 on Google for the keyword "festsange", the site has now moved up into top 20. This has been achieved with only a very few links. Today I've placed a couple of new links on some of my other websites. These sites don't have much PageRank but I'm still excited to if

Simon Gluetag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14539316.post-1131286492040034072005-11-06T05:48:00.000-08:002007-11-21T01:14:16.663-08:00

Loyal readers of my blog might remember that I several times have talked about a new niche project. A project with great potential but small competition. Untill now this project has been a secret but now it's finally ready to be launched and I can reveal the details about the project. The site is called Alle-Festsange.dk and it's about occasional songs (or "festsange" as it is called in Danish).

Simon Gluetag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14539316.post-1130605036440267842005-10-29T09:47:00.000-07:002005-10-29T10:45:14.136-07:00

This week I bought a new virtual calender. It's a php script called Tasks Pro and I've now uploaded it to one of my domains. The script was a bit expensive but I don't doubt it will be worth the money. I allready feel that I'm able to structure my work on different tasks much better. I've also finished a new Danish auction site at Alletiders-Internet.dk where people can buy and sell domains. A

Simon Gluetag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14539316.post-1129816494644380542005-10-20T06:43:00.000-07:002005-10-20T06:54:54.650-07:00

I've spent the last couple of days switching e-mail software from Eudora to Thunderbird. Apparently this takes quite some time. Though Thunderbird has an import function, I couldn't import all my e-mails from Eudora (Thunderbird had trouble reading more than 1000 of my e-mails). Furthermore it wasn't possible to import the exact folder structure, so I had to rebuild this manually. Allmost done

Simon Gluetag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14539316.post-1129130665856557982005-10-12T08:17:00.000-07:002005-10-12T08:24:25.856-07:00

Do you have problems with your blog archives using blogger.com on your own domain. Well I found out that I did! Apparently the archive files were not uploadet to my webserver because I did not had specified the "archive path" in my blogger.com control panel. This causes problems if you FTP path is everything else than "/". My FTP path is "public_html/" and therefore I also had to set "Archive

Simon Gluetag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14539316.post-1128709851025395982005-10-07T11:24:00.000-07:002005-10-08T03:33:11.670-07:00

I'm very satisfied with my work today. Besides the dayly rutines I've reached pretty far with my new linkbuilding site. Hopefully it will be ready for beta testing in a couple of weeks. Furthermore I've almost finished implementing a bulk link popularity checker. It's a great and time saving tool! For instance this tool makes it possible to check the link popularity of all your competitors at

Simon Gluetag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14539316.post-1128599999209751762005-10-06T04:59:00.000-07:002005-10-06T04:59:59.216-07:00

As you can read in my previous posts I’m working on way to many projects (I just can’t help it). Clearly it’s impossible for me to give all these projects the attention they deserve. Therefore I’ve thought about hiring some staff. I don’t doubt that I have the funds to do so. The one thing that keeps me from doing it is my fear of time consuming administration and paperwork. Therefore I’ve now

Simon Gluetag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14539316.post-1127931658210590072005-09-28T11:06:00.000-07:002005-09-28T11:20:58.216-07:00

Today I got a little further with my new linkbuilding site. This site takes a bit more time to finish than I thought. But the more I work on this site, the greater opportunities I see. This could be big. I mainly started the project to fill in content at the domain, but now the potential seems very big. Though it looks very promissing, I still have some concerns about the site. The concept is to

Simon Gluetag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14539316.post-1127754871494351012005-09-26T10:06:00.000-07:002005-09-26T10:14:31.523-07:00

Today I completed another step with my new SEO site where it will be possible to buy relevant backlinks on Danish websites. The order form is now done. This is the most work intensive part of the site, so I'm pretty far now. The next step is to write some articles, so I can fill the site with some good and informative content.

Simon Gluetag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14539316.post-1127411478392365942005-09-22T10:46:00.000-07:002005-09-22T10:51:18.396-07:00

It seems Google are performing an update these days. Apparently to of my most important sites have improved they rankings. This seems very promising, but it might as well be a temporary improvement. Nevertheless it will be exciting to follow the SERPs the next few days.

Simon Gluetag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14539316.post-1126796008411839722005-09-15T07:46:00.000-07:002005-09-15T07:53:28.420-07:00

I'm building a new site with a forum. Therefore I've searched for a SEO friendly forum solution today. Untill now I found these possible solutions: http://www.minibb.net/ http://drupal.org phpbb (http://www.able2know.com/forums/about15132.html) I think I'll start out with the phpBB solution.

Simon Gluetag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14539316.post-1126530028315908832005-09-12T05:22:00.000-07:002005-09-12T06:00:28.743-07:00

As I've told you before I lost a lot of my traffic because of the Google update at the 22nd of July 2005. Afterwards I had my SEO consultant to find out why I experienced such a huge decrease in rankings and traffic. None of my websites are scraper sites but one of the possible reasons he came up with was that my sites are being punished as if they were scraper sites. Confused? Our theory is

Simon Gluetag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14539316.post-1125768314444797602005-09-03T10:19:00.000-07:002005-09-12T05:21:35.433-07:00

Today I got pretty far with my new SEO site, where it will be possible to buy quality backlinks on Danish websites. There is still a long way to go but I've reached a long way. I'll get back to you. Simon Glue

Simon Gluetag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14539316.post-1125582680025659012005-09-01T06:36:00.000-07:002005-09-01T06:53:06.886-07:00

The 15th of august I told you about a new niche project. The backend of my new site is ready, but I still need to fill in the content (or have some of my content writers to do it). Then I can start a link building campaign for this new site and finally I will tell you the name and concept of this new idea. In the meantime I've worked a bit on some new smaller sites (about travelling and one

Simon Gluetag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14539316.post-1124649376471681652005-08-21T11:25:00.000-07:002005-08-22T00:22:49.753-07:00

As a direct consequence of the huge decrease in traffic that I've suffered after the Google "roll back" the 22th of July, I've reconsidered guidelines for content on my websites. One of the most important factors is the length of the content. Untill now I've considered 200 words per article to be enough, but now I believe it should be a bit longer. About 300 - 350 words. Another important thing

Simon Gluetag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14539316.post-1124131064247174302005-08-15T11:15:00.000-07:002005-08-15T11:37:44.253-07:00

Some years ago (before I started working with SEO) I discovered a very small but also very interesting niche. I heard about a website in this niche and was surprised how popular the site was. The site got tons of traffic (and it still does). When I told my friends and family about the site, they were just as surprised as I was. How could a website in such a small niche get so much traffic? I

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