Indiana School Closings

There's been some serious snow storms in Indiana these last couple of days. Here are some results for Indiana School Closings.

Everyone Loves Free Games

Not only is there a ton of traffic coming to the free game download center, but there are tons of new searches being generated, giving us an idea of what games are newly popular. So which games are these exactly?

Well, I'd say its a tie between need for speed, the sims, and grand theft auto.

If you're looking for game torrents - check out this download full game search engine. It favors a bunch of the major torrent sites - torrentz.com , mininova.org , thepiratebay.org , and nowtorrents.com . Those sites are my faves.

Browse Free iPhone Games

Just built a swicki for free iphone games. There are thousands, so this should help people find the best games for all styles.

Google SearchWiki Makes Bookmarking Less Important

Yesterday's release of SearchWiki is being highly discussed in the SEO world, and in good reason, as thousands if not tens of thousands of people make a living gaming the SEO system to make their articles and products show up in the top spot for certain search results.

I think its important to note that for right now, individual's votes don't affect anyone else's searches. Sure, Google will be storing this information, and chances are, they may ATTEMPT to include this voting behavior on general web results eventually, but we're a ways off from that point.

For the time being, if you search for a website regularly, you can make sure that that website will always show up as the top result for that query. You no longer need to bookmark a page. You can just vote it up specific to a certain query.

This gives users one more reason to go to Google in the first place. Win Win.

Twitter Blog: OMG, That Was A Big Day

Whelp, big Twitter usage as reported by their blog

Twitter Blog: OMG, That Was A Big Day

And zero down time, or 'whales' as they call it. Now that's something to celebrate...

These are My Friends

The following is a gchat conversation I had recently.

William: knock knock
me: who's there?
William: smell mop
me: smell mop who?
William: hahaha


This is awesome.

Tell the World that You Voted via Twitter

Just add the text #votereport in your tweet, and you'll show up on this site that is aggregating votes and user comments.

Pretty cool. The '#...' text is new to me. Interested to try it out more soon.

5 swickis I Use Regularly

Free Discount Coupons - Ranks the best places to find discount coupons for online retailers such as Amazon.com, Shoes.com, BestBuy.com and much more.

Web Design Resources - Helps me find the best code hacks for my wordpress blog

Belize Travel Information - Helps me plan my trip to Belize.

Repairing and Maintaining Your Home - Identifies small apartment upkeep projects.

Free Online Sports Games - Ranked online sports games for football, basketball, etc.

A Simple Wine Pairing Chart

Leave it up to my bro to come up with this simple wine pairing chart for varietals and cheese. Its the beginners guide to creating the perfect ensemble at any dinner or cocktail party.

I'd recommend the Reisling and Gouda or the Cab and strong cheddar. Delish.

I'm Never Linking to Tag Pages Again

I just went from 20-30 SEO visits/day to 0-10 visits/day. I think its because I links on some older posts going to tag pages that no longer exist.

I continue to refine the browsability of yocheckthisjam, I will probably be adding/removing a number of tags. Linking to these tag pages could then create links to non-existent pages. Also, as I am showing a tag cloud in my right column, all tag pages are linked to from all content pages anyways.

I wonder if adding additional links via RSS in the middle column affected my SEO traffic as well. I'm thinking that it didn't help.

I Wish I Had a Dog

Then, I could dress him up like this:



Here are some more places to find dog hotdog halloween costumes. Relish not included..

Funny Barack Obama Widget

I've been having way too much fun with the Sprout widget builder tools lately. Here's a widget I made for Barack Obama, that can show your support for the candidate without coming across as too serious.



It also clicks through to the Barack Obama swicki, which should help it get some traffic.

Show Your Love for Cut Copy

In anticipation of the Cut Copy and Presets show tomorrow, I made a Cut Copy badge that anyone can add to their social network profiles or iGoogle.



I built it with SproutBuilder, which uses the Gigya distribution technology. Looks like you don't need much coding skills to make a widget after all.

I've also set it to link to a post I made a while ago that has the Cut Copy video for Saturdays, so maybe I'll get some traffic from this thing too.

One Wicked Scary Fish

Alien? Nope, this is the Humpback Anglerfish. And while we're on the topic of bizarre looking sea animals, check out the totally revamped Ocean Animals swicki. You'll find pictures and factoids for all kinds of weird underwater creatures...and some common ones too. But who really cares about those?

Will Ferrell Answers Questions on the Internet

See more Will Ferrell videos at Funny or Die

This is funnier than the landlord sketch I think.

Find the Best Free Streaming Music on the Web

Tons of bands are letting bloggers post Mp3 files on their websites. Then, sites like Seeqpod make it easy for users to find and listen to those files.

I just built a swicki that lets a community dig up the best free streaming music. the swicki favors content from music aggregators such elbo.ws or hypem.com as well as a couple niche music blogs.

Turn Your Blog's RSS Feed into a Newsletter

Just set up feedblitz with my streaming music site, (check it out in the right column). In about 5 minutes, you can turn your blog's RSS feed into an email alert.

I was mostly impressed with how many options I had. I had complete control over design, subscribers, subscribe messages, delivery schedule, and best of all it was all free. Sure, they're going to put a few ads in there, but I think my readers will be able to avoid the ads. For the most part, they don't interfere with the content.

This should be another way to get regular users on my blog.

Make Money with Google Knol

Well, Google Knol is finally here, serving up a new way for infopreneurs to make money online and for Google to take even more of their ad revenue.

I wonder how well this will perform as an independent destination. Sure, it should have no problem generating search traffic from, you guessed it, Google, but how many people will go directly to this site to find information. My guess is not many, so it will only get in the way of all of us SEO people, trying to promote our own content within the natural listings.

Still, I'll definitely be writing a few knols, in hopes of linking back to a couple of my sites and swickis. The next question is how soon will I do this. Squidoo's been on my list of article platforms for 6 months now, and I still haven't gotten around to writing anything for them. I've only been active on Hubpages.

For now, I think I'll see a higher ROI with writing for Squidoo and Hubpages, and the launch of Google Knol is only getting in the way of my SEO efforts...for now at least.

For more informatio on making money online, check out some community favorites for making money with hubpages and making money with squidoo.

Snakes on a Search Engine

If Samuel L worked at a custom search company, he would have none of this. Good thing he doesn't, so I went ahead and made a search portal for information, videos, and photos of snakes.

I think the Anaconda pictures are the craziest, but there are some nice feeding videos as well. Another reason not to let these snakes on a plane.

Dark Knight Deleted Scene - Funny

Hilarious mashup video from a deleted scene from the Dark Knight. The Joker touches all of us. Good thing Batman is here to save us.

See more funny videos at Funny or Die