Archive - Jun 11, 2007

BacteriaLinks--larger, colonized, informative and better looking than ViraLink

I discovered ViraLink a yesterday on Andy Coates's blog. Like it's name, it replicates fast and soon there will be a huge amount of links. Please read the ViraLink post before you read on.

Amazing idea.

Pros and cons for ViraLink
Pros:
It's proven by huge amount of people that ViraLink works, at least on technorati.
You can get some friends.

Cons:
Google can treat ViraLink like a link farm.
Google don't like people manipulate their Page Rank.
Google might found some of the links have nothing to do with other
There is no text inside <a> tag, it does not help with keywords1
So Google might sent ViraLink users to Google Hell.
and google might...
it's all about Google...

Ok, these cons are all possibilities. Google have already pwned almost all other people's ideas. Do you think ViraLink would last?

I made some modifications to ViraLink and name it as BacteriaLink.

Just like ViraLink, but this have some special qualities ViraLink don't have. Compare to ViraLink, BacteriaLink is:
Larger and better looking
A matrix of 16*16 or 32*32 icons, which is visually appealing to the user. This also means it cost some amount of space. from my calculation, 25 space is more than enough. Google won't think 25 links as a link farm.

Colonized
BacteriaLinks should have related links to the site. Bacterias usually are in colonies, introduce another colony could cause conflict. What would Google think if a page or the entire site is 100% about PHP and a link about dancing Pokémon is inside a bunch of very close positioned links?

Informative
Compare to ViraLink(or even ViralTag), there is only 1 element to work on, the anchor and it's text. but with BacteriaLinks, there are 2 elements, <img> and <a>. Each element have some attributes search engine would pick up. alt and title.

WebDevLogs
Andy Coates
Antonio Bologna
Chao Xu's Personal Blog
Coolest Asian in the world

Design Community

NEAT!
If anyone want to join, here is the code for you, this site can't take pingbacks so please put a comment here, I will add you as soon as possible.
It's ok to mess around with the code, as long as the idea is similar.

Copy Everything below this and add your own link to it and put on your website.
Your link must be related to [SUBJECT NAME].
Create a 16*16 png version of your favicon and host on YOUR site.
Then contact me though comment, pingback or email with your site's address, and I will add your site to my BacteriaLinks.
 
<style>
.bacteriabox{
width:90px;
height:90px;
background-color:#FFFFFF;
}
 
.bacteriabox div{
width:16px;
height:16px;
margin:0px;
border-style:solid;
border-width:1px;
border-color:#F7F7FF;
float: left;
}
 
.bacteriabox img{
border:none;
}
</style>
<div class="bacteriabox" style="margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto;">
 
<div>
	<a href="http://mgccl.com" title="WebDevLogs" class="linkthumb">
		<img src="/webdevlogsfavpng.png" alt="WebDevLogs" title="WebDevlogs"/>
	</a>
</div>
<div>
	<a href="http://www.andy-coates.com" title="Andy Coates" class="linkthumb">
<img src="/misc/nofavicon.png" alt="Andy Coates" title="Andy Coates"/>
	</a>
</div>
<div>
<a href="http://www.antoniobologna.net" title="Antonio Bologna" class="linkthumb">
<img src="http://www.antoniobologna.net/abfavicon.jpg" alt="Antonio Bologna" title="Antonio Bologna"/></a>
</div>
<div>
<a href="/ploglist" title="Chao Xu's Personal Blog" class="linkthumb">
<img src="/misc/personal.png" alt="Chao Xu's Personal Blog" title="Chao Xu's Personal Blog"/></a>
</div>
<div>
<a href="/coolest-asian-in-the-world" title="Coolest Asian in the world" class="linkthumb">
<img src="/misc/asian.png" alt="Coolest Asian in the world" title="Coolest Asian in the world"/></a>
</div>
 
<div>
<a href="http://designcommunity.co.uk/" title="Design Community" class="linkthumb">
<img src="http://forums.designcommunity.co.uk/fav16.png" alt="Design Community" title="Design Community"/></a>
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  1. 1. the variation ViralTag improved on this

Overall change after the blog reboot

After the blog reboot, my site experienced some amount of change. This post delicates as a feed back of the this amazing transformation[Transformers is coming out! Can't wait]

List of changes:

  • RSS Chicklets combined into one HUGE feed button
  • Move the Feeds block from right to left
  • Change the overall arrangements of the blocks around the blog
  • Feeds changes it's color to attract attention
  • Add a small slider to hide 2ndary links on top of the site
  • More images associated with posts
  • Ads on top of the content[rotating]
  • Ads on the top right of the content
  • Ads at the bottom of the content[rotating]
  • Richer JavaScript interface
  • Articles written to reflect other site's articles
  • Articles attract viewers

List of improvements after the changes:

  • comments increased
  • I found my site is easier to access
  • More link ins, which increase authority in technorati
  • Site earning is around 4 times more than before

Thx to Ahmed Bilal's effort on teaching me what I should do to boost my blog.

Notes for June 11

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I totally owned someone in a IRC:

admin_: you need to talk to girls
Mgccl: I do talk to girl!
Mgccl: *s
admin_: ok
admin_: mum doesn't count
Mgccl: does your mum count?
Mgccl: Pwn'd!
kuzew-thin: 0wnds
admin_: ....

Funniest thing I heard today:
"I'm calling to let you know my phone number."

Ad idea:
People in Iraq riots, looting and cursing.
Dirty mouth? Orbit!

Every time there is a phone call, everyone in my family have the same response. $h!+...
Here is the trick: Sign up at National Do Not Call Registry
The organization was founded to prevent the next civil war cause the politicians are not doing much about it.

Honey Pot that kill bots