Fun link tags

Rule #1: Copy all the links below and replace a single link under the appropriate letter of the alphabet. If your domain name, or even the title of your blog, starts with an “A,” you’d replace the link under that letter “A” and put the replaced link at the bottom. Also, don’t forget to credit the tagger, or where you got the list from, at the end of the list with a full URL of the post so that a pingback gets generated.

A acowboyswife.com

B bloggingcents.com

C Chikapappi.com

D delusionsofgrandeur.org

E everythingandanythingblog.com

F forumfinder.net

G GeekMomMashup.com

H happykeg.com

I ipentimento.com

J juliesjournal.com

K kabalyero.com

L ladylike4.com

M michaelpark.net

N nicoleb.org

O originalmx5.net

P peapodsquadstuff.com

Q qweddings.com

R rowdigrl.com

S shirleysdelight.com

T theworldaccordingtoxavier.blogspot.com

U utada-online.net

V valmg.com

W wickedbabylon.com

X xaviermedia.com

Y yimto.com

Z zbudapest.com

Replaced link: TenaciousCreations.com

Previous tagger: Chickapappi

Rule #2: You now have to “tag” at least five people and encourage them to participate. Remember, though, that not everyone’s into these kinds of things, so don’t be upset if they don’t participate. Just simply replace your tag. Remember to tag blogs only and no pornographic ones as we do want to keep the integrity as a blogging community.

- Abdullah

- Perfecty

- Meeemo

- Grey

- Fonzy

What's your title?

The title on your business cards may say a lot of what kind of person you are, how big your company is and also in some cases what you actually do for a living . Most people owning a small company or working for themselves print business cards with Cheif Executive Officer (CEO) as their title because they think it sounds cool and may impress the people they give their business cards to. If you're company is a big one with a famous name like Coca-Cola, Verisign or Name Intelligence then it works, people will get impressed by the CEO title on your business cards, but what if your company is a smaller company or if you're self-employed?

If you're self-employed or working for your own small company with just a few employees, then any other creative title may be more impressive then CEO because the user may actually think you're a piece in a much bigger puzzle . I for example got Business Development Director on my business cards because that's more correct if you look at the kind of work I do here at Xavier Media. I develop the company and it's services . I also got that title because the CEO of Xavier Media gave me that job

So instead of choosing CEO or Managing Director, go for a title that describe the work you do. That's much cooler and may be even more impressive then just something that everyone got printed on the business cards.

/Andreas

Create your own directory with Linkmachine

If you would like to start your own directory like XavierMedia.ws then you should have a look at Linkmachine. Linkmachine is actually a reciprocal link exchange management software that makes it easy to find and contact quality link partners, generate custom link pages that match your site, and keep track of reciprocal links. But it works perfect is you want to create your own directory too.

LinkMachine is a PHP application that runs on your web server, so it can automatically update your link pages the moment a change is made - no need to upload files each time a new link is added. Linkmachine will also check for reciprocal and broken links automatically so you don't have to worry at all about that. If a link is missing or broken Linkmachine send the owner an email. If the link is still broken or missing after a few days a reminder is sent out and after a few days the link is deactivated. All link pages are automatically updated!



Linkmachine is really easy to use and no programming or HTML knowledge is needed to have the software up and running on your site. If you want to can easily create your own template so the directory looks exactly like the rest of your site (like we've done at XavierMedia.ws), or you can use a ready-made template.

The key to success for a website or online business is good search engine ranking. All of the major search engines use link popularity to determine how well a site will rank - so
the more high quality, relevant links that lead to your site, the higher it will rank. LinkMachine makes it easy to get the links you need.

Get Linkmachine you too!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year everyone! We at Xavier Media hope to see you all soon again after the holidays and we're planning some new cool services for you all during 2008 so keep visiting our sites.

You have still time to join our contest in our blog where you can win free advertising credits from EntreCards. Check out the Xavier Media Blog for more information on that.

You also got a few days to get your own domain names at discounted prices from eXavier.com. So if you got the time and want to save a few bucks, check it out.

/Andreas

With or without www?

With or without www is simply one of the biggest questions you need to ask yourself when starting a new site, but unfortunately most people simply forget to decide.

First of all we need to talk about why it's important to decide on with or without. One of the reasons is the search engines. Links to sampleaddress.com and www.sampleaddress.com are counted as links to two different sites by search engines which will impact negatively on your SERP. Instead of finding 20 links to www.sampleaddress.com search engiens may find 10 links to www.sampleaddress.com and 10 links to sampleaddress.com.

One other reason is branding. How would you like your visitors to remember your site? At XavierMedia.com we're using www, but at our new site adv.erti.se we're not (you can still type www.adv.erti.se and it will work).

If you're using www you should remember that sometimes visitors type a few w too much or too little. So if you're using you should make sure that w.sampleaddress.com, ww.sampleaddress.com and wwww.sampleaddress.com will work too as a service to your visitors.

If you have a really popular site you may even consider to register wwwsampleaddress.com just to be on the safe side (www.sampleaddress.com without the dot).

Are you using www for your sites?

/Andreas

.RS to lauch in January

The Serbian top level domain (TLD) will launch on the 10 of January 2008. The cool thing with this domain is that it's so easy to create domain hacks.

[b]What actually is a domain hack?[/b]
It's a domain name where both the domain and the top level domain spell out a word together. Some examples are
* del.icio.us - delicious
* mon.itor.us - monitor us
* adv.erti.se - advertise
* bjornb.org - Björn Borg
* cr.yp.to - crypto
* blo.gs - blogs
More examples can be found here.

What's so cool with .RS?
A lot of words are ending with the letters RS like advertisers, adventurers, webmasters, domainers, bloggers (the list can be as long as you like ).
A list of 4000 words ending with RS can be found here.

To find out more about the .RS TLD, please have a look at nic.rs.

LearningPHP.com

Finally we've done something good with our domain name LearningPHP.com. For a long time this domain has been parked with just a basic article about PHP on the main page, but know we've integrated that domain name into the rest of our forum at XavierForum.com.

Because of the integration with our forum, not only Xavier Media staff can post articles, but anyone with PHP knowledge can! The visitors can also post questions and comments to the articles.

Check out the new and improved LearningPHP.com.

/Andreas