Dawn of the Geeks

I signed up with the DigitalPoint Ad Network and it seems to be sort of working. If nothing else I’ve gotten some tips from the person I was referred by on how to improve my ranking on Google in order to improve my weight on the ad network. It’s totally free and non-obtrusive. It’s basically an experiement by the owner to create a Google AdSense like program except nobody gets paid and it’s actually more of a web-ring with only a “random” setting. It’s also impossible to block on the client side since it’s just HTML links that get rendered. No javascript and no fixed URL that everything goes through. The downside is that it’s only possible to tell how many ad impressions you’ve gotten on any given day but not possible to get a click thru rate.

Your weight, the amount of clout you have which in turn decides how many ad impressions you get, is based on how many of the pages of your site are linked by Google. So this is why it’s important to turn your site into a Google Slut(tm).

Previously I was using a dynamic URL to browse around various sections of my site like Indie-Mobile and the DevCenter. Now, instead, mod_rewrite is being used and it looks to the user that you’re browsing a directory structure.

Google loves directories. Google does not like www.localhost.com/index.php?page=blah, it wants http://www.localhost.com/blah

Hopefully the magic will work and Google will come to love my massive web-sites and many more visitors will come. Typically Google will rate any given page of mine quite highly within a week or two. It’s constantly making rounds through all of my sites. My goal is that by the end of the year every major section of this site is getting at least 500 unique visitors a day.