How to get your stolen domain back? Get it on the news

Posted by multippt

David Airey is a classic example of an unfortunate person who got hit by unscruptous hackers crackers hoping to profiteer from his hard-earned site. David blames his stolen domain on a GMail security flaw (now patched of course), but that’s only half the problem. It has shown that there is not enough done to curb domains being stolen.

Lost your domain? Go public

That’s what David did. He posted it on his alternate blog address. Fortunately his blog is popular enough that that story ended up on Digg and Sphinn. That’s not all folks. These articles were so popular that it ended up on numerous places (talk about link bait). Things have a way of coming around. Want to know where did his famous post ended up on?
-New York Times
-Digg
-Reddit
-Lifehacker
-StumbleUpon
-Tons of others

So, what happens to the domain? David gets back his rightfully owned domain. While Godaddy (where the domain was transfered to) was unwilling to return the domain at first, some loyal visitors had a talk with the founder and co., getting them into returning the domain. So, who wins? The people, and some pretty awesome linkbait.

You may be wondering what happens to that cracker. After having him “exposed” to the public about his deeds, he may not attempt to steal another domain anytime soon.

The added bonus

If you managed to pull all of that off, you get… thousands of links and visitors. Kind of a nice “compensation” for your time and worry of your precious domain being stolen ain’t it?

Gexes hits 200+ unique a month!

Posted by signup

 A site developed by me on October 28th, with a specific target visitors, gained popularity less than two days. I’ve about to write this as some tips for some sites ;) . Looks like yesterday Gexes recieves more than 200+ unique visitors a day! With deriving 5Gb bandwidth a month.
Gexes.com has a traffic rank of:  2,102,478 , with a SEO score of 88% (use to be 97%, but i removed some things)
I’m amazed to see a site developed 10 days, and already has gain popularity.

Here are some tips you should do to improve your site:
- Make your site special, and something you would go visit for, pretend you are a visitor (example: I made a rapidshere dowloader site, because i needed to download off rapidshare easier, since i used rapidshare a lot, and I know a forum full of visitors needing this)
- Take a minute to look at your site, think about it, if you were a visitor, what would you want, and what did you hate (As I took a look at my site, I wrote down some changes i needed to do)
- Have a nice design by anyone, or you, something you like!
- Create an account at Google, and submit your link (be sure to verify your site!)
- Add a meta description, and a meta tag! (Search engines some of them still use it! It boosts your SEO Score)
- Title Relevancy, is a key for site search engines. be sure to make a good title, and add the same title onto your site somewhere! And do the same for description relevancy the same as you di with your META description!
- Make most of the links towards your site, such as redirecting to another site, go to your cpanel, and setup a rediction if your going o add links to other sites (I did tevine.com, so i made a redirection url www.gexes.com/www.tevine.com and it points to my domain and goes to tevine!)
- As posted as news in Tevine, use a Alexa url method, to raise your ranking! Such as http://redirect.alexa.com/redirect?http://YOURDOMAIN.COM/
- Advertise your site to forums specifically on the topic of your site, and somewhere most users will need your site.

Thats all I did for now, and thats how i seemed to accomplish this. Thanks!

DigitalPoint hits 100k members

Posted by multippt

Here’s a new feat achieved by one of the internet’s most largest forums. It has now over 100k members, which is quite incredible considering that most members are active.

DigitalPoint forums, a.k.a. DP, receives thousands of pageviews a day. It’s success could be attributed to something that they started - ad revenue sharing. Yes, it’s great to earn a little bit of cash by posting in the forum. After all, wouldn’t it be something to hope that at least one of these 100000 members click on your ads?

Via DigitalPoint, Blogstorm