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The French Love It

Blue Backlinks is live for 15 days now. We got a lot of backlinks from France. Some big technology sites linked to it and after that smaller ones picked it up. We are working on SEO now to get the rankings on the first page for certain keywords. We need a lot of backlinks for that, as the sites that are ranking in the top 5 have a lot of backlinks and are already online for a long time. We have goals in mind for the rest of the year. We probably are going to monetize it in early 2011.

If you didn’t try it yet, go try our Backlink Checker to generate a detailed report of your backlinks.

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By Nomar – October 1, 2010

How to use SSH File Transfer

SSH File Transfer

SSH or Secure Shell is a network protocol that allows data to be exchanged using a secure channel between two networked devices.

To work with SSH File Transfer you need the program called PuTTY. You can download it here. After downloading PuTTY, run it.

Connect

Write the IP of your server in the ‘Host Name (or IP address)’ section and click ‘Open’

After opening SSH you need to login as ‘root’ and press enter. Now type in your password (you will not see anything while typing your password, thats normal) and press enter.

Now you are connected to your server with SSH

Commands

Using SSH to transfer a website is easy and fast.

First you need to make a full cPanel backup from the site that has to be transferred and put it online. For example http://www.yourdomain.com/backup.tar.gz

After doing that, connect with SSH like I explained above and type this command:

wget http://www.yourdomain.com/backup.tar.gz

Press enter and your download to the root will begin. Once it is completed login to your WHM (Web Host Manager) and click ‘Restore a Full Backup’. Fill in the username you want to restore (this should be the same username as it was on the other server) and click ‘Restore’. Now your website will be restored fully at your server.

You just transferred a website using SSH File Transfer.

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By Nomar – September 28, 2010

How valuable is Alexa?

The value of Alexa

Alexa is popular in the webmaster niche. Almost everyone knows what it is but nobody knows exactly how valuable it is. Some webmasters do anything to get up their Alexa rank (there are blackhat tricks available), others neglect it completely. Personally I like Alexa and would love to see all of my sites having a good Alexa rank.

What does Alexa rank mean to you?

Last week I was making an offer on a website in the mobile niche. I saw the traffic statistics, checked the backlinks and did all other things I do before making an offer on a site. I thought it was a decent offer, maybe even a generous one. This guy came back to me that it was too low and he referred only to the Alexa rank, which was a little bit below 150,000. I messaged him back and said it was my final offer. After that he didn’t contact me anymore… well, too bad. Apparently the Alexa rank means a lot for this webmaster, but 150,000 isn’t that great. It was normal for the amount of traffic it got.

I have to say I give credit to websites with a very good Alexa rank (below 20,000). They must be doing something right and get a good amount of traffic right?

What do you think of Alexa and how valuable is it to you?

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By Nomar – September 24, 2010

Develop for Keywords

Failure

A mistake I made a lot when I started creating websites was that all these sites were general sites. I didn’t create sites for 1, 2 or 3 keywords. There was a time I almost gave up on online business because of this. After I got more familiair with online business I started to create sites for certain keywords and made some nice money from it. At this point I still have some of these old sites that rank for a few keywords and bring in monthly money without any work.

Keyword research

When you start a new website, you need to pick your keywords. Do your research and work up towards the keywords that have a decent search volume. If you reach these keywords you get stable traffic every day, day after day. When you get the desired ranking for your first keyword, you go after the second one. This way you keep motivated because you see more and more traffic coming in. If you create websites for everything, not a certain keyword, you need to be really REALLY good if you want to see some action.

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By Nomar – September 23, 2010

1 week after launch

Blue Backlinks is live for 1 week after a 2 month beta period. Things are looking good. Traffic is picking up and a few valuable sites linked to us with positive reviews. Alexa spiked in the first days after launch which is always good to see.

Marketing is a very important aspect of our startup at this point. We need backlinks to our service to outrank competition and gain visitors. We got a lot of good feedback from visitors with ideas for new features. v1.1 will probably come out at the end of this year. But for now the focus is completely on marketing our backlink checker in the best ways possible.

We made goals for traffic and trying to work up to these. Some people asked me why we didn’t monetize the website. Well, that is because we don’t want to scare visitors away with ads. Our first goal is to establish and gain popularity inside this niche.

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By Nomar – September 22, 2010

Blue Backlinks v1.0 Launched

We are Live

It was close. We did a lot of work yesterday and this morning, but we made it. Blue Backlinks v1.0 is live and kicking! Thanks to the support of our beta testers we came up with quite some new and cool features. A list of the features available in v1.0:

  • Total Backlinks
  • Pagerank
  • Alexa Rank
  • DMOZ Listing
  • Top 3 Anchor Text
  • Option to Export to Excel
  • Option to update your report after 7 days

The backlinks that we show in detail contain:

  • Anchor Text
  • OBL (Outbound Links)
  • Flag (follow or nofollow)

After blue backlinks is finished generating backlinks it will refresh automatically and order the detailed links by OBL count.

I want to invite you to try this backlink checker out and tell me what you think of it!

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By Nomar – September 15, 2010