The Power Of A Gfail

So I have been trying to post good articles over the past week. To no avail....Suddenly Gmail crashes and I write a post about it. Within one hour I got more hits then I did all week. I went from 4 visits to 12 visits within an hour!

Thank you Gfail! Don't worry Google and of course Gmail, I still love you all and will continue to use your products. Hell you just gave me a boost! Now of course it is bad for you all. Sorry.

here is proof that it jumped up within the past hour.

What Is A Niche

So I sit down today to do some research on niches. If you don't know what a niche is then allow me to tell you. A niche is a specific topic and all of the sub topics that remain to the subtopic. For example Dumb Little Man niche is Tips for life. I didn't know this before today but there is two different kinds of niches. Niches for authority websites, and niches for "niches" websites. What that basically means is. Niches for authority take on a broad range of niches. I lue of getting the most readers possable.  Niche websites are lower in content quantity but have more relavent content, as well as being able to bring in more search engine traffic. These websites contain ads from which if people click on them the owner gets paid.

Niches are not hard to find really, just do some research on certain niches.  Niches can come from passions, hobbies, work, school and even home. Try to pick something that you have a "niche" for to make it easier to come up with a way to have unique and up beat submissions. If your forced to do something it gets dull after a while. If you love it in some way you will always have something to say about it.

A niche can make or break a blog or even an entire website. No matter the way its developed. Find out from yourself what would make the best niche for you. 

Free SEO Tools And Sites For Web Design

I have been making web pages for some time. Some better then others, some with better layouts then others and some being text based games. When I was needing to drive traffic to these sites, the first thing is getting it listed in index's of big search engines.

• Google
• Yahoo
• Msn
• Altavista

Its pretty easy all you have to do is submit them. You can search around on the net and find links of how to do it. They will crawl your site and find pages. Sitemaps help when it comes to letting them know what is on your site. You can find a free sitemap generator over at www.xml-sitemaps.com. They scan your site and make one for you that is compliant with google. They also offer it in many formats.

Another thing that will help get your name out on the web is checking to see where you stand in these search engines. That being said SEO is what you need to use. Some sites offer software to help you, some offer free tools which is what most people starting out use. I use www.webmaster-toolkit.com. From what I can tell they don't have a set limit of how many times you can check it so that is a plus.

Alexa is a web information company. They rank websites by amounts of traffic. Once your in this companies directory and they are tracking your stats its good. They show all the linkbacks too. Monitor how high or low you website has grown over time compared to any other website on the net. How neat is that!

One thing if you think that you want to move on to learning something more in depth then just using a program to make blogs, CMS, Wikis, and E-commerce sites. Try making it on your own to fit your needs perfectly. Go over to www.w3schools.com and start learning some programming.