Last night I ended up on an interesting website. I will not be linking to it because quite frankly the content itself was on the verge of illegal, nevertheless what I did find interesting was their layout. The page was divided into two halves by a big rectangle Adsense unit. So in order to get from the header to the main body you would have to scroll past this big rectangle. This would not be a problem if you were using a regular PC however when using an iPhone the only way to get to the main content is to actually click on the Adsense block and push it up. Anyone with poor coordination or shaky hands is very likely to slip and give the website owner a click. See it in action here where the Adsense unit is being represented by an image.
Talking about iPhone layouts I have just installed a plugin for this blog which detects iPhone users and displays a friendlier theme instead. Just fire up your iPhone and check it out for yourself. The post images might be screwing things up a little bit but I will be fixing that shortly.
Finally a lot of you have been wondering why I had a curious.txt rapidshare link in my footer. Rapidshare limits the number of downloads to 10 on regular accounts and I was surprised that the download limit has been reached within the first few hours of me adding that like, even though the link was very small and hidden in my footer. How did you even notice it? To your disappointment the actual text file did not mean anything. What I discovered is that all these new emerging Rapidshare search engines would normally go around and index any page containing a Rapidshare link. It took a while for my pages to get indexed by Google and then for all those search sites to scrap Google for content but eventually I started to receive hits from these search engines. Every time somebody searched for “marketing” or “seo” they were sent here even though they were only looking to download something marketing related.
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Do you get many visitors on the translated pages? Are they effective. Good luck for the future
Yea, they work quite well. The only problem is communicating to these people whenever they leave a comment. Thank you! Good luck to you too.
Hi, I just had a question about your .txt file as the download link seems to be taken down. So do I just upload a .txt file with keywords for my site to Rapidshare, put a link to the download on my website, and wait for it to be indexed?
Liza, the file itself does not get indexed. It does not matter what the file even is. You just need to post a Rapidshare link. Then your page will provide all the keywords.
Thanks for clarifying, I’ll definitely have to give this a go. Your ideas are just amazing (I just read your post about scaring people into buying a product).