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Posted by GeekGirl in Contests!, Internet Geek on February 10th, 2010
There are tons of opportunities for girls on the web to have fun. The web has so many websites today (probably billions of billions) that you can find a website for pretty much any game. That’s pretty cool!
Let’s take the example of online gambling. You can play and at the same time you can make some money… Not bad! However, you wan’t be careful not to spend too much money on it… You want to play safe! Another aspect that is important when you want to play online gambling is to understand the rules. It might not be that simple to understand how BlackJack Online works or what are the tricks in the Online Roulette… Then when you understand the rules you have to learn to become a better player and refine your gaming skills. This must take you hours but it’s usually quite fun! Online gaming is fun but patience is virtue in this case and you want to make sure that you will become a great player one day. You want to beat your friends (at least some of them…) at some point!
There are some sites out there that can very helpful for you to learn how to play. For example, Online Casino Spotlight can be one of them. It’s quite simplistic and you understand the basics of any online game. That will be helpful when you will be competing with your friends in some form of championship! You want to be the best of course but you might be patient and learn from the others first! It’s not that simple…
After a lot of efforts, I am sure you will become a great player and on top of that you will find the experience enjoyable and relaxing. There is stress involved but overall you can be entertained and make some money!
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Posted by GeekGirl in Blogging Geek, Internet Geek on June 26th, 2009
Every time I change the blog’s theme or make some tiny behind the scenes adjustments Google yanks away my pagerank. It usually comes back in the next update or two, but it irks me that they are so fast to strip it away. I don’t pay much attention to the little green pixels, and I certainly don’t consider them a valuable measurement by any means….
I am much more interested in people than pixels. If you’re here reading my blog, than that’s awesome and all that counts in my mind. Unfortunately it is sometimes difficult to bring in sponsorship and review cool products without the little green pixels up there. *Curse you green pixels!*
Posted by GeekGirl in Internet Geek, Twittering Tweets on May 22nd, 2009
This is the first video in a series for the new site I just launched last week Twitter Signature Styles.
In this video we just take a quick walk through of how to generate your very own twitter signature style to use on blogs, forums, message boards, and just about anywhere on the web.
Everyone seems to be on Twitter these days, using a twitter signature style helps you connect and update from other places, your forum signature, your blog posts etc… I have mine displayed on the single post pages of my blogs right now, and made it clickable through to my profile as shown in the video. I’m happy to report that I’ve seen a noticeable increase in Twitter followers this week since doing that.
Happy twittering 
Posted by GeekGirl in Career Girl, Internet Geek on October 15th, 2008
Have you ever visited a site and thought you might like to come back to it, so in order to find it again, you saved it to your browser’s “favorites” or “bookmarks” category? “Social bookmarking” is a term that describes a method in which Internet users can store, classify and share their Internet bookmarks.
There are many sites that allow users to share the sites they feel are useful and want others to know about. Other users can view these sites by category, topic or randomly, if they choose.
While this concept actually began in 1996, it started to get very popular in 2005 and 2006 when sites such as http://del.icio.us, http://simpy.com and http://furl.net started to take off.
As more and more of these websites pop up, new features such as allowing users to rate and comment upon the bookmarks, add notes, receive RSS feeds and even create social networks have popped up. The RSS feeds in particular allow users to receive up to the minute information on certain tags that they “subscribe” to. They are able to receive up to the minute information and resources on any given topic.
Since the information is being ranked by humans who are reading the information, the web pages with the most helpful content are receiving higher rankings. This is in comparison to a search engine’s spider that crawls the Internet and has its own way of measuring what pops up in the search engine results.
If you were searching for information on planting soil in a social bookmarking site, you may have very different results than which would come up in a general search engine search.
What does all of this have to do with your business? Basically, social bookmarking is the new “word of mouth” advertising. The more people that bookmark content on your site increases the chance of new users finding your site as they search through various users’ bookmarks.
If a site provides quality content that users find helpful and a little time is spent networking within these social bookmarking sites’, a site could have a much higher ranking within the social bookmarking site than it does in general search engine traffic.
Social bookmarking is another avenue of receiving web traffic. With many people taking hits from the search engines, this is another way to receive traffic. This doesn’t mean to ignore search engines or discontinue any search engine optimization efforts. This is simply another method that can increase traffic flow.
Posted by GeekGirl in Blogging Geek, Internet Geek on September 30th, 2008
Deep linking is the process of linking to a specific page on a website, rather than just the homepage. For instance, a regular link would point to mysite.com, but a deep link would point to a specific page on that site, such as mysite.com/page1.
Some corporations try to discourage deep linking, as it allows users to visit a specific page, while bypassing advertising on the front page of the site. For most people deep linking is very helpful and actually sought after. The following are a few reasons why deep linking can help a business.
Deep linking greatly increases a user’s ability to find exactly what they are looking for on the web. If you were on a website researching chicken recipes and saw a link for chicken pot pie, when you clicked on it, you would expect to be on a page that had a recipe for chicken pot pie.
You would be disappointed if you ended up at a main page of another recipe website and had to search through all their recipes in order to find the recipe you thought you were linked to. When a website owner deep links to a specific page that contains the specific content their readers are looking for then the reader is much more satisfied.
Not only does deep linking help the website visitor but it also helps the website owner with keeping tabs on their tracking. They are able to see exactly which pages of their website are getting the most links. This can help them decide what the most popular content on their site is and what their visitors are looking for.
This can also help in the search engine rankings. If there was a site about tropical birds that had links coming in to various pages on different types of birds, when someone searched for “parrot” then the parrot page would come up. The person would be able to visit the page that allowed them to learn exactly what they wanted.
If you participate in any pay per click advertising, use deep linking to point to exactly what your ad is talking about, which will help your conversion rates. For example, if you have a site about gardening and place an ad for shovels, using deep linking in the ad to point directly to the shovel page rather than pointing to the home page.
If the ad pointed to the home page, there may be some visitors who would navigate towards the shovels they were originally looking for but some would leave the site altogether. If the ad points directly to the shovel page more people would buy the shovels and that would increase the conversion rates.
Start creating deep links in a blog and link to specific content on the site. Include deep links in articles submitted to reprint directories. Experiment with this idea and see if traffic increases.
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