So often when someone lists one of their sites for sale, they mention the number of backlinks it has. The number of backlinks a site has does impact its ranking in the search engines and would appear to be a important factor in valuing a website.
After a little research, I will continue to seek out backlinks for my websites but I will no longer waste a single moment on counting them.
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Twas the night before Christmas and all through the house,
Everyone was scurrying about like a mouse.
Amid shouts of “Keep Out!”, “Don’t Look!”, and “Go Away!”
Came the distinctive sounds of paper ripping, tape stretching, and the cry
of oh for the love of Pete, will the glue please dry!
Cries of Where’s the scissors? Where’s the ruler? Where’s the aspirin?
and Where did I put that box? add to the din.
I swore it would not be so this year,
Never again try to make clever gifts the day before for those so dear,
Yet, again here we both are crafting away when the deadline is so near.
At least this year there won’t be a gift of raw supplies
With the promise that most applies,
I meant to make it for you, I really mean it true,
But Christmas came upon me out of the blue.
So, while children are asleep in their beds,
It will be getting glue to dry the thought foremost in my head
And the hope that next Christmas I will plan ahead.
Yes, this is a bit outside what I usually talk about; but these sorts of folks need to be stopped.
I was checking the visitor and referral logs for several of my websites. When I kept seeing the same site appearing in sites with a wide variety of topics, I thought I should see what it was.
So, I cut and pasted the link (don’t ever click on it directly if you want to protect the location of where your site’s stats are located; one free service was not properly protecting it’s users and I was able to get into the account without doing anything more than using the link of the referrer) and before I had lifted my finger off the Enter Key my Spyware software went nuts. It appears this site is a well-known site for infecting people’s computers with spyware. So well known in fact that it is included in my spyware software as a site to look out for. Nice.
Clever of them.
The reason they caught my eye in my stats is that they had sent me 4-5 hits so far this month. (I usually don’t bother with the single hits as so very many of them are just spammers.)
So, please be careful.
The site?
ismymovies dot com
I haven’t talked about Crafty Tips in a while and thought it was time to share some of what’s been happening.
I continue to be honored by the numerous talented craftspeople and artisans who ask to be part of my site. We’ve finally broken through the 300 mark for listings and now have 200 categories.
On a webmaster forum that I frequent, a service provider brought to the forum a question regarding his SEO services and his client’s unwillingness to pay after the services were completed. Apparently, the client believes that he paid for the process and the provider believes the payment was only for the results; in this case getting higher up in the search engine results. From this outsider’s view, it’s hard to tell if the process as defined was or was not completed; but there does seem to be no disagreement as to the results achieved – even if those results may not be long-lasting.
When hiring someone to do web work for you, you have to be vigilant that you receive what you actually paid for. Let me give you three examples of what I mean.
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