Social Wall Of Fame – PeepWall.com

An interesting new website has popped up online this week called PeepWall.com “The Social Wall Of Fame”. The website allows individuals to purchase 1 or more of 625 total blocks on the homepage where you can upload an image and link it to your social profile site (Like Twitter), blog, or website. Each spot is only $10.00 and will become a permanent fixture on the website and archived in internet history. The website itself has no other purpose other than featuring those that are listed on the home page.

The site gives “advertisers” an affordable opportunity to gain some internet fame by being 1 of only 625 people allowed on the website. The site has the feel of the famous MillionDollarHomePage that was created and launched in 2005 by Alex Tew a student that wanted to earn money to pay his way through school. The MillionDollarHomePage received worldwide attention and actually sold $1,000,000.00 worth of ad space over a short period of time.

The MillionDollarHomePage was geared toward businesses to promote their company. PeepWall is geared toward individuals to promote themselves and their social presence. Businesses can still buy a block but must upload an image of an individual if possible.

PeepWall.com does not stand to make 1 Million Dollars, but hopes that the project will offer a little fun and PR for social media addicts and a small profit at the same time. The sites revenue is limited to $6,250.00 which is a far cry from 1 million. The creators of PeepWall, 2 Roanoke VA based web promoters and entrepreneurs say that all they want to take home from this project is the fun and sense of accomplishment.

A portion of the money earned will be donated to a local charity to be announced later. They are thinking of donating some of the funds to a local homeless shelter or support agency for the homeless. “We see our fair share of homeless and less fortunate people since our office is downtown” says Nick one of the creators. He wanted to make it clear that only a portion of the revenue will go a charity and the rest will be saved to cover costs associated with building, hosting, maintaining, and promoting the website. Advertising on the site is not tax deductible and the site is not a non-profit agency.

Purchasing a “block” on the website is easy. Simply click on the space (block) you wish to purchase and follow the payment process. After your image and link attached are approved your “Block” will go live for the world to see!

For more information on PeepWall.com visit them online.

Increasing your websites conversion ratio and trust factor is very important in today’s competitive online market. There is a company called trust guard that we just started using for our online businesses. There are several reasons why you need trust guard for your website. I think that the biggest benefit of using trust guard is the fact that you will gain more consumer/client trust. The service will tell users that your are safe to deal with and that your business is verified. The company does have a verification process that will allow them to identify you and your business. 

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Here are 3 of the seals that you can obtain from trust guard to display on your website. The business verified seal is great for reputation management and gaining trust from online buyers. The security seal and privacy seal would be for sites that possible offer downloads or collect private information.

Below is a video spot the company made to help promote their service.  I really believe that trust guard will help your conversions and or sales. Give their service a try. I normally do not endorse products on my blog but this one is one that I know is valuable and well worth looking in to.

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For those of you who like to see what Google thnks about your website popularity, the Google PageRank update has started! Today at about 7 AM EST I noticed many of our domains were getting an increase in Pagerank. So far it looks like the update will put a smile on a few peoples faces.

We recently posted a Google PageRank predictive schedule and we suspected an update before April 10th. It is not the end of the world if your site does not increase in PR or decreases in PR, these updates (Good or Bad) will most likely not change your web traffic stats.

Happy PageRank Day!

We have a lot of webmasters ask the big PR questions very frequently: When is the next Google PageRank Update?

The truth is no one knows exactly when the next PageRank update by Google will actually take place. Based off of their past updates I created the unofficial Google PageRank Update Schedule. The “schedual” is my estimate on when the next PageRank update will take place.

PageRank Update Schedual:

Google PageRank Update  -   December 31, 2009 – January 10, 2010
First PageRank Update      -    March 31, – April 10, 2010
Second PageRank Update  -  June 31, 2010 – July 10, 2010
Third PageRank Update    -    December 31, 2010 – January 10, 2011

What is pagerank? PageRank is a numeric value that represents how important a page is on the web (Per Google). Google calculates that when one page links to another page, it is effectively casting a vote for the other page. The more votes (Links) that are cast for a page, the more important the page must be. Also, the importance of the page that is casting the vote (Linking To You) determines how important the vote (Link) itself is. Google calculates a page’s importance from hw many pages and what pages link to it.

PageRank is a scale of 0-10

Post a comment and let us know when you think the next updat will be or tell us when your site was last updated!

RipOffReport.com Website Is Having Troubles

The extremely popular and mostly loathed rip off report website has been having some type of technical issues over the past week or so. The website RipOffReport.com is an online complaint site that allows ANYONE to file online complaints against businesses and as of lately a lot of individuals. The website has been under fire over the past few years because of their “business” model. The major beef most people and businesses have with rip off report is they allow people to post ANYTHING on the site without verification of identity, and legitimacy.

There has been a little web chatter about the website being down for the past 10 days. The website is not actually down for everyone, but is running extremely slow. One can only speculate what the issue is. It could be an attempt by an enemy of rip off reports to put a hurting on their ad revenue and complaint flow, or it could be that rip off report is under going some sort of maintenance.

Rip off report has been featured on all sorts of blogs, news stations, newspapers, and websites because of the controversy that surrounds the website and its owner Ed Magedson. The website even has an entire industry that partially revolves around it called “Online Reputation Management”. One company called Reputation Armor offers to “remove rip off reports” although the website claims to never remove rip off reports even if the original author requests it. Reputation Armor took a moment to explain that removing a rip off report refers to removing the rip off report links from the top of search results, not actually from the internet completely.

Some people are saying they hope the website goes down for good, and others say they like the power and visibility that ripoffreport.com gives them. Apparently the owner of rip off report is smarter than some think he is. He continues to operate one of the most hated and popular websites on the internet, even when all odds are stacked against him.

What do you think about RipOffReport.com? Is it a fair system?

Here are some interesting Twitter Statistics I found online today:

■ 21% of Twitter users are actually using the service-meaning that have at least 10 followers, follow at least 10 people, and have tweeted at least 10 times.
■ 74% of Twitter users have less than 10 followers! However, that number is improving with a 30% increase in the number of users with 10+ followers (since June 2009)
■ 60% of Twitter users follow less than 10 people
■ 34% of Twitter users have more followers than others they are following, showing an 70% increase from 20% in June 2009
■ 73% of users have less than 10 tweets, as compared to 79% in June 2009.
■ 49% of Twitter users joined between November 2008 and April 2009-the period when many celebrities jumped on the Twitter bandwagon
■ Twitter’s growth spiked at 21% in April 2009\

Recently Google announced the unleashing of Google’s “Real-time search” in the search engine results. Matt Cutts covered it in his blog. This is a new feature that will facilitate Google to provide up-to-the-minute updates (“freshness” and “relevance”) on any search inquiry/subject a user researches.

According to Amit Singhal of Google (responsible for Google search algorithms), “Light can travel around the world in 1/10th of a second, and we won’t rest until the speed of light is the only barrier to getting good search results to you.”

How to use the Google Real-Time Search Feature:

Matt Cutts said in his blog that Google processes billions of documents per day for their real time search. Google has really enhanced considerably in speeding up the crawling and indexing procedure, which is exceptional even with the already-enormous and mounting size of the web.

Step 1: Go to www.google.com

Step 2: Type your query and press “search.”

Step 3: When the results load completely, find “Show options” under the search box. Click it.

Step 4: Under “Any time,” click “Latest.” This will let Google give the latest results (real-time search results).

It is very extraordinary that Google is still able to grant updates as early as “1 minute ago.” This is very fast, and is really “real-time.” You can even observe that Google regularly adds updates even when the browser is not refreshed as indicated: “New results will appear below as they become available.”

One feature I noticed that was neat was the Twitter updates included in the Real-Time Search Results as seen below:

To stop receiving frequent updates, you can click “pause.”

Reputation Management Firms

I came across a new website that lists almost all Reputation Management Firms and allows users to post a review about the companies listed. The website features about 50 or so Reputation Management Companies and the list is surely to grow as the industry grows. It appears the site was just created over the holidays, most likely by a reputation management company. Either Way it is a good idea to have a review site for this industry, there is a lack of reviews online about Reputation Management Companies.

If you are in the reputation management industry or want to review a reputation management company, check out the site here: http://www.iReputationReviews.com

Yahoo! Inc might be pulling the plug on the “blogger” social networking service MyBlogLog.

ReadWriteWeb reports MyBlogLog will be closed down by Yahoo! in January 2010 (Next Month)
MyBlogLog is a social-network service for the bloggers that enables them to connect with other blog writers and readers visiting their sites. The website lists the profiles information of the writers as well as the blogs for the same.

MyBlogLog was a wildly innovative service that grew fast after launching in 2005. It was originally developed by Cloudspace, a Florida-based web applications development organization and was acquired in January 2007 by Yahoo! for around $10 million. There were over 45,000 blogs subscribed at the time.

Chris Yeh, Head of Yahoo! Developer Network (YDN) says, “Frankly, it’s no secret within Yahoo! that we’re actively discussing the future of MyBlogLog. However, it’s also true that we have not made any final decisions at this point. Is a shutdown on the table? Sure, that’s an option. But there are other options as well. We know this creates some uncertainty for current MyBlogLog users. While we aren’t quite ready to share more details, we promise to keep you posted.”

Yahoo! has shut it’s a variety of products in the past year, with the objective to cut-costs and be more focused on its “core” services. If MyBlogLog shuts down, I see a lot of MyBlogLog users being very upset. There are a lot of paid users and avid users of MyBlogLog.

Our blog (SEOFRIENDLY.COM) is on MyBlogLog and we get a fair amount of traffic from our listing with them. In my opinion, Yahoo! Inc. should stick with this project or at least transfer ownership to another company that could keep the site alive.

Here is a list of my favorite Press Release Distribution Sites with their PageRank details. All of these press release distribution sites have served me well this year and should continue to do so. Enjoy!

1. PRLog.org – PageRank 6 

2. PR-Inside.com – PageRank 4

3. PR.com – PageRank 5

4. Merinews.com – PageRank 5

5. 24-7pressrelease.com – PageRank 4

6. BigNews.biz – PageRank 5

7. ClickPress.com – PageRank 5

8. NewsWireToday.com – PageRank 5

9. OpenPR.com – PageRank 5

10. PR-USA.net – PageRank 5

11. free-press-release-center.info – PageRank 5

12. PowerHomeBiz.com – PageRank 5

13. TheOpenPress.com – PageRank 4

14. USPRWire.com – PageRank 4