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Looking for gasoline and Point reward credit cards? Apply for one online now!

Athanasios — Wed, 14 May 2008 16:10:26 +0000

Credit cards are regarded as the easiest and most convenient way to pay (online or nor) and have become actually the most common way for transactions.
In the past months, though, an increase in demand for credit cards with special features, such as bonus points which can be used for other things such as future discounts or even greater!
The question is which cards have those special features and where can you get them. Banks have great procedures which requires many personal information and some times this whole procedure may take a lot of time.

However, there is the easy way..of getting them online! Easy and conveniently! But which website offers such cards and is..reliable?
That’s actually the most important question! We searched and managed to find one website that’s considered as TOP in that category. Free Credit Card Generator is an online service for applying for credit cards online, securely and has a great variety of special credit cards and even international offers!

We will talk more specifically about 2 special credit cards.

Gasoline credit cards

Does the gas station in your neighborhood have the best gas prices? Gasoline credit cards are used in the purchase of gasoline and paying with these special credit cards, you get more priviledges! You can get a rebate of up to 6% for the first 90 days and even free gas purchase from any gas station!

In Free-Credit-Card-Generator.com you can find gasoline cards for any major and minor gas companies including American Express credit card, Discover credit cards and a lot more!

Don’t know if i made it clear above, but these cards support both major and smaller companies. It is very easy to find a gasoline credit card for Shell or BP!

So, don’t miss the chance of having the above advantages with a simple online procedure!
Visit here to apply online: Shell Gas Credit Cards

Point Reward credit cards

This is another “wanted” feature on credit cards! You shop and earn points which can be exchanges for great rewards! Again the there is a big variety of cards and the questions about which one to choose and where to take it from exist too. However, the easy online method exists here too!

Forget the delays and find the best card for you by visiting here: Point Rewards Credit Cards a safe and reliable website where you can apply for a credit card with a point reward system online. They also have additional help there, so you can be sure that you’ll make the right choice and apply for the best credit card that suits you!

Alexa update

Athanasios — Sun, 11 May 2008 09:22:33 +0000

It’s been a long time(about 1 week) since we published another article but here we are now! We had some issues and couldn’t unfortunately write an article for some time.
However, we are here to inform you about the new alexa update which actually took a long time(that was somewhat unexpected) but as analytics say it’s much more precise and realistic!
As you might remember, we had informed you about the update in alexa’s algorythms which gave a hope to have a good google pagerank alternative.
With the recent alexa update we saw some good results, but the best thing is the graph addition.
If you remember alexa in the past(1 month ago actually) there was a traffic graph only for websites that were ranking under 100,000, though now it’s changed!
Even a website of 500,000 rank can check it’s rank in that graph and compare it with other websites!

Perhaps, it’s time to change the bad(?) habit of calculating the value of a website with google’s pagerank only..this year…is alexa’s turn to change the facts!

New Google Update! Pros and cons

Athanasios — Thu, 01 May 2008 09:48:33 +0000

Most of you must have noticed that from April 27th Pagerank started to update in a few website. April 29 is the some sort of an official date of the new pagerank update, which as google is used to do, was sudden.
I heard bothe negative and positive opinions about the new update which among the other seems to have “damaged” most webmaster communities.
I checked that pr5(pr=pagerank) webmaster forum dropped to as low as pr1 and pr2 which is a disaster for them. Some actually, have an uncertain future since their revenue will be limited from now own till the next update..

What is more, a lot of people have reported that some of their links must have not been included for some reason since their pagerank predictions were far higher than the ones they received. God Google have caused suspicions and nerves between webmasters…

I noticed one thing though. Google seems to favor blogs. Again the higher pr updates were at blogs(regardless their niche). That means that either blogs are the most easy to promote websites or that bloggers are the smartest SEOists

Well, for me personally, it’s been a good update. Our blog here got a pr2(hopefully will go better next update) and some of the websites of our group “climbed” as high as pr5!

Good Luck to all webmasters! And..don’t bother to ask when the next PageRank update will be…it shall be sudden as always..

Sponsor free templates and themes to receive future backlinks

Athanasios — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 19:31:53 +0000

An experienced webmaster might have already tried it, a newbie might have just thought of it and a large number of people may have never had that idea.
Open-source, software that is used by everyone! Since a lot of php scripts such as wordpress, Joomla, Drupal and lots more are common nowadays, due to the fact they are open-source and free for use, templates and themes for them are developed everyday.

If you have used wordpress even only once, you’ve probably wanted to customize it a little and wanted a free template. Free templates and quality ones are available in hundred nowadays and after a little search you will find an appropriate that suits your needs.

After installing the template, you may probably notice that there are some links-which you are not allowed to remove- in the footer of every page. These links are known as sponsor links and are either links to the template designer’s website or peple who spent money buying that footer link.

And that’s exactly my point! have you ever thought of buying, or let’s say it better, “sponsoring” free templates and themes? You can spend 40 dollars one time fee and if it’s a professional and good theme, you’ll get hundreds of free backlinks when a lot of people use it.

Actually, you may even get good PR backlinks that way because there are lot of website of a sufficient PageRank(around 4) that use free templates for Joomla, Wordpress and others.

There are even designer that for around 70 dollars sell even the “designed by” link and you can add your URL there

Wondering where you can find such templates/themes to sponsor? Visit the DigitalPoint forums and you’ll see lots of offers there! It certainly a worthy investment, you can try it

Best Regards,
Thanos P.

Vandalism or smart advertising?

Athanasios — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 09:48:30 +0000

We have talked about various methods of advertising, mouth-to-mouth..forum signatures but recently i saw a new one…for which actually i got mixed fillings..

Most of you probably know about graffiti, some consider it art and others vandalism. Well, i used to consider it art until i saw some facts recently which put me in a lot of thought.
Supporters of a local football(soccer) team started their forum. That’s good and OK. I visited it myself and liked it a lot.
Everything was fine, until i saw some graffitis which actually were spamming the forum! I said “what the..“, why did they do it?

They probably wanted to get more visitors to their forum and they thought of that as a free way to advertise. Since they website url was writen on some walls of abandoned buildings i thought it was ok to “spam” it that way.
But, that was only the beggining…after that they started writing the website url and painting graffitis with in all over the town! Even on public buildings and outside museums. For god’s sake!

That has gotten really annoying. At the moment, wherever you go, you’ll probably see the forum URL writen on wall or pavement. I heard even police is lookings for those “talented spammers”.

Yesterday, when i got home from supermarket, i thought of checking the alexa ranks and some traffic stats of that forum. Don’t know why i thought to do it, it just came on my mind. I typed the alexa address on firefox..searched for the website traffic ranks…and what i saw was unbelievable…

It had a huge traffic boost almost 600% in percentage accordin to alexa and forum activity was boosted as well! Not to mention that it is almost #900 in my country’s alexa ranks…

I couldn’t believe it.. I am spending hundreds of dollars monthly for advertising of my websites and a bunch of footballers with sprays did better than me(at least temporarily)..

So, i am wondering..thos “vandals”-that’s the correct term for them- have found a new “neat” way to advertise? Should we just get a spray and start painting our website’s url in bathrooms and walls to get traffic? Is this the future of spamming?

Oh God, i wish not..it’s the most annoying thing i’ve ever seen.

Looking for some comments.

Alexa 2.0

Athanasios — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 09:00:34 +0000

No the article is not about a new 2,0 version of the well-known service alexa but its future. The improvement in their algorithms makes them actually one of the most competitive services at the moment since i believe it will soon “beat” google’s pagerank.
Alexa has been an alternative to google’s pagerank for years now. Their concept was better though, calculating traffic to show which is the TOP site and not backlinks. Unfortunately, all these years their traffic stats were dependent to the alexa toolbar and even though they had a better concept, they never managed to overcome google’s domination in the area.
That was till now. They claim that their new improved algorithms are calculating traffic in a lot more ways apart from alexa toolbar users and that they will calculate a lot more more website visitors to display actual and more accurate traffic results and rankings.
Could this be the end of google’s pagerank? Google unfortunately seems to have abandoned the google pagerank(they update it rarely…) whereas alexa promises even more often updates!
I, honestly, believe that the only way for google pagerank to “fight” the new alexa ranks is to implement alexa’s concept and apart of backlinks calculate traffic too before it gives out a pagerank number.

Yes, i know, time will show us…

New alexa rank system!

Athanasios — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 11:00:21 +0000

Everyone know alexa’s traffic rankings system.
It’s actually used by many people to calculate the value of websites or ad spaces they may sell. However, the traffic ranking was generated by how many people with the alexa toolbar were visiting the website. After the increasing demand to add additional ways to meter the visitors and traffic of a website apart the toolbar alexa managed it!

The new alexa ranking system aggregates now data from multiple sources to give you a better indication of website popularity among the entire population of Internet users.

Though there is and some sort of dissapointment between webmasters since lots of rankings have changed and most times to a worse number..but that’s temporarily i think since with the next rank update and more visitors being calculated you’ll have your ranks boosted again!

It’s a great move to implement the alexa system with new features and we are eagerly anticipating to see how the new ranking will be!

Mouth-to-mouth advertising, a succesful way to reach the top?

Athanasios — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 11:35:36 +0000

Have you ever heard about mouth-to-mouth advertising? It’s when you say your website to someone so that he’ll visit(in real life, in person) and you also ma say to him, if you like it tell your friends about it too.
That’s definitely the most cost-effective way to get some traffic usually from your area and country!

I have been doing some sort of a little experiment over the last months which only recently has shown its very good results.

I was telling my website to some friends and told some of them to promote it if they like it. Well those who were not interested at my articles, unfortunately didn’t ever come back. Though there were some who not only liked my posts but also promoted it too!

So just by referring to some good friends(i thank them all) i managed to get in the top 1000 of websites my country’s internet users visit, according to alexa.

Right now i get around 20 visitors daily that are from my country and my area. Couldn’t hope for something better as that way i didn’t spend any money at all and got a good amount of traffic. Though mouth-to-mouth advertising is not enough itself to get you traffic and visitors. Quality and attractive content is needed to keep the interest on and visitors coming back!

I would also suggest to use the mouth-to-mouth advertising method to targeted traffic(only people that may have some interest in your articles/content) because they’ll be the ones that will share your link and visit again

So what are you waiting for? Give it a try! Start with your best friends and hopefully you;ll get a good result yourself too!