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SCALLYWAG / SCALAWAG means scamp, rascal, or rogue; an amusingly mischievous child.

The word “SCALLYWAG” / SCALAWAG - very variably spelled - appeared first in the US. It was applied to undersized or ill-formed cattle, or to some disreputable person. After the Civil War, it became a term of abuse specifically aimed at those white Southerners who were prepared to accept the measures imposed during Reconstruction, often because they would profit from them. “SCALLYWAG” / SCALAWAG shifted a little later to mean any politician who was corrupt or an intriguer. It has softened since, being a term these days of only mild reproach, often combined with gentle admiration.

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I don’t know it’s a cheat or not, or google will notice it or not. But backlinks trading, or exchange links between a blog is a great way to improve your page rank and SERP.

Bloggerplates.com, is a new services that offering a backlinks trading, or exchange links via post on your blog. Why via post not a blogroll ? Well they give that service too. But we know that a link placed in a content have more value than a blogroll links.

If you choose a link exchange, all you get is your links in their blog directory. And for that you will need to give a links in your blog. Well win win solution. If I be you, I’ll do the post exchange links, since they will give 3 links to your blog. Choose it wisely. Domain name is the most important.

Sorry for the lack post, is a busy past days :), but somehow I have fun.

As I said in the bloggerplates too, that I accept exchange links or exchange post for the matter of SERP and pagerank, I’m not ashamed to admit that :). Just leave your comment and lets trade a links.

Good days folks

SEO (Search Engine Optimization) Is the art of making your blogs / website, portal find easily, on the top list, get high traffic through search engine with informative content. Your arrow is the content, your blogs is the bow, your keywords is the arm, search engine is the medium, and the target is the reader.

Warning : The title might be overwhelmed

Okay, so I think somebody else has post it before, but I never found out. Or somebody else is writing a better tips & tricks for this, let me know if yes. This is the basic guide from my experience, and from a lot of tutorial out there, nice, harsh, revision of comment are really appreciated.

Q : I already have a nice domain with high pagerank ? What should I do next ?

A : Set up a space for it, if you don’t have any webhost, or your budget is not enough to afford the hosting, you can try a free one like 000webhost. This one comes without no ads or banner or such. Their new server is quite fast, and the support is pretty quick for a free webhost. I’ll post something about the webhost tips later on.

Q : Ok dude, I already do that,.. I have the webhost ready for my blog

A : Download the latest version of wordpress, you can download the latest version in here, wordpress is the most search engine friendly as far that i know. I’m not their marketer by the way, but as you know the update of wordpress is the most rapid and follow the trend of internet technology, the plugins build by thousand of people around the world, their community and support are awesome, anything related to web 2.0 or social network plugins, a basic function from tagging until the heavy one like combine a blog with a gallery, or making a blog as a portal with a lot of writer. And the best one is, IT’S FREE.

Q : Ahhh phuket, no wonder I see a lot of people use it, kay, I have the wordpress, next please,..

A : Follow the guidance of installing wordpress, if you too lazy to read it, its comes with 5 simple steps for me,

1. upload the file into your webhost (zip it for quick upload, and unzip it in the webhost), if you use cpanel, just upload the latest version of wordpress, after the files uploaded, mark the files and click unzip. Fast and easy.
2. setup the database (mysql database & user password), in the cpanel (control panel for a webhost), you’ll find the mysql icon, just click in there, put the database name, usually it comes (username_databasename), setup the password, use a combination of words and letter, or better if you add some character like @$@!&. Pair the username with the database, and mark all privileges.
3. hit your blog address, they will ask you to setup the configuration files, type all the information above, the database name, the password etc. Done Hit next, Simple and easy.
4. You’ll get a random password. SAVE IT, login to your wp-admin, http://youraddress.com/wp-admin, and then input the user (Admin), and the password given. After login, quick change the password by click the user at the top right, scroll down, input the new password, and done.
5. Congrats, You have your blogs ready to go.

Now we begin the optimization with the help of plugins and templates.

Q : In what way a plugin can help me with optimization of a blogs ?

A : Well, the answer is A LOT OF WAY, a plugins (additional script for your blog and can be installed separated from the wordpress itself), a plugins can help you to add related tag, so you don’t have need to write more, it can help you re-write the a post name, so it make easier for the reader to spot the content (like p=1? to post-title, a plugins can help you maintenance the feed, and drive the traffic more and a lot more.

Q : I get it now, so what kind of plugins I should install ?

A : It depends on your need, but I’ll show you mine. The basic plugins I installed is :

• AddThis Social Bookmarking Widget (drop-down) Help your visitor promote your website or blog. Put the AddThis Social Bookmarking Widget on your site or blog, so any visitor can easily bookmark it. The widget works with all popular bookmarking services. By AddThis.com. A very helpful plugins to keep your visitor coming.
  
• Akismet Akismet checks your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they look like spam or not. You need a WordPress.com API key to use it.
• All in One SEO Pack Out-of-the-box SEO for your Wordpress blog. By uberdose. This one is very useful tools to obtain more SEO blog.
  
• AskApache RewriteRules Viewer Displays the Internal WordPress Rewrite Rules. By AskApache.
• FeedBurner FeedSmith Originally authored by Steve Smith, this plugin detects all ways to access your original WordPress feeds and redirects them to your FeedBurner feed so you can track every possible subscriber. By FeedBurner.
• Google XML Sitemaps This plugin will generate a sitemaps.org compatible sitemap of your WordPress blog which is supported by Ask.com, Google, MSN Search and YAHOO. By Arne Brachhold.
• Related Posts This wordpress plugin provides tagcloud that shows the related posts of a post, and can replace a keyword within a post to a list of related posts. By René Ade.
• Top Commentators Widget Adds a sidebar widget to show the top commentators in your WP site. Adapted from Show Top Commentators plugin. By Lorna Timbah.
• WordPress.com Stats Tracks views, post/page views, referrers, and clicks. Requires a WordPress.com API key. By Andy Skelton.
• WordPress Database Backup On-demand backup of your WordPress database. By Austin Matzko.
• WP-PageNavi Adds a more advanced paging navigation to your WordPress blog. By Lester ‘GaMerZ’ Chan.

There’s a history why I used those plugins, I’ll tell you in the next chapter of tips & tricks to starting a super SEO blog with wordpress part II. Stay tuned. Find this information useful, just bookmark it.

Tips to maximize your revenue with domain parking :

What is domain parking : domain parking is a business models where you can earn revenue with park your domain in domain parking vendor, in short you will asked to forward your DNS to their and they will set up a page full of advertising in it. You will earn revenue from the ads in there.

For example :

I have this domain, http://www.sex-video-gallery.com, but since I don’t have any content for it, and I can’t write something in there, so I put a lot of content related with the website using adbie tools. I hold that web for two or three months, after that I parked it in the sedo.

If sedo approved my website, then what should I do next is just change the DNS name into theirs. Voila I’m finished.

How to search expired domains for domain parking

• Search for expired domains with a lot of back link, you can check the backlink with Iwebtools or type it directly with google. type: site:domainname.com
• Search an old domain, an aged domains is really easy to optimize with SEO
• Put a lot of content before you parking it, put a lot of content with adbie software, or post your own content.
• Use wordpress for the CMS if you don’t want use adbie, it’s really search engine friendly, your website will goes with google cache in a minutes.
• Put a lot of backlink from your own website or create another blog, and make a backlink to the domain.

After that what you need to do is keep the domain traffic with put a lot of information in another website that pointing to your website, for example I put a lot information on adult content and pointing to my website above. That will keep my domain parking on the good form of traffic.

Managing google page rank is never been easy, the one that keep your page rank high is a back link and traffic. What makes you have a back link and high traffic is a great content. Now what makes a great content ? Well, I try to explain from my experience :

• A qualified content is original content you write, google love original content.
• A qualified content write based on trends, don’t write an article based on old stuff that people already know.
• A qualified content gives clear & valid information, a benefit, a tips, a solution or interesting story, a thought on something could be work.
• A qualified content have a valid prof and have a source

You can get a news trend for article by google trends, write something that you know, not something that you think you know, or by social user bookmark. After that try to search related information of your content with google set. With google set, you will know what people search following your keyword. It’s good for SEO, Try to write that too, it will widen your search result.

For example :

I’m writing about this article, how to make your page rank high with good article, after that I’ll go to google set, I put pagerank and article. The result is article, pagerank, seo, business, traffic, meta, ranking, tutorial, tips, search, google.

Based on that, I’ll write this tutorial, and keep mentioning about the result from google sets. :), if you have any other tricks please let me know. If you find a mistake in this article, please let me know too.

Additional tips :

If your article is original, try to submit to digg, del.icio.us, technorati etc. It will drive to your site, not with stumble upon, except your content related with graphic, stumble upon user, is more into graphical user interface than content. Try to submit to social bookmark without no follow tag, like ma.gnolia.com, a link from higher page rank website without no follow tag will share the juice of page rank to yours.

Ps : Don’t forget to check the domain coupon codes, from megh.info, it will save you a lot of money if you really interested to buy high pagerank domain.

Meadowsage.com reborn with a lot more vitalities. Thank you to my friend hexno, thank you for the support to blogging again. Thank you too megh, you always awesome and beautiful. To aweinspiring, for the wordpress installation, for the IT support, the world that I try to undersand.

Well this is for now, catch ya later.

See ya when I see ya

Why these oils? Olive oil has conditioning properties. Coconut oil gives the soap its high foaming lather, while the castor oil gives the lather its creaminess. The synergistic effect of these three oils give these soaps a great lather and amazing cleansing ability even in hard water.

Are these �lye� soaps? Yes, the only way to make a true soap is via the use of lye. Sodium hydroxide for the bars and Potassium hydroxide for the liquids. When the lye is mixed with water and oil, a process called saponification begins. The end result is soap, glycerin and a little bit of excess oil for mildness. In this handmade soap, the glycerin is retained in the soap for is wonderful properties. There is NO lye left in the finished soap.

All our soaps are made entirely from Saponified olive, coconut and castor oils, and pure essential oils. We keep our essential oils very simple because I enjoy the pure scent of each one individually. We are adding new aromas as we find sources and requests. We currently have lavender, lemongrass, patchouli, peppermint, eucalyptus, tangerine and tea tree oil. Please feel free to request new aromas or blends.
Our current prices are $3.50 per 4-4.5 oz. bar and $7.50 per 7.5 oz. foamy bottle and $10 for our 17 oz. refill bottles.
To care for the bar soaps, please place them on a well-drained soap dish.  This way they will last a very long time!  The foamy bottles are re-usable although occasionally soap will enter the air chamber in the foaming mechanism.  To fix this, just turn the bottle upside down and pump a few times.  Good as new!

Welcome to Meadow Sage Soaps.

You can now order soap on the website.  Just click on the order button on the left.  I’ll work on improving it as I get time during Django’s naps.  It uses paypal, but we will also accept personal checks.
New for spring 2006:  We now have 17 ounce refill bottle for our foamer bottles.
Fall 2005: This summer I finished my Ph.D. in Math and our son was born September 20th here at home. If you would like to order soap from us please email me and we’ll ship it right away. If you’re in Stillwater, you can also purchase the soap from us in person or stop by Nature’s Supply or The Hideaway. We also come to the winter farmer’s market at 9th and Main every other Saturday. In Tulsa, our soap is available at The Yoga Room and at The Emerald City, next door to Oz. We also sell our soap through the Oklahoma Food Cooperative. If you would like more information about our soap or would like to order some, please email me and feel free to explore what parts of this website work already.  Thanks, Dana.
Meadow Sage soaps are made in small batches with olive oil, coconut oil and castor oil. We use only pure essential oils for scents and aroma-therapeutic value. Glycerin is naturally created when making soap this way and stays in the soap to make them gentle and moisturizing.

Meadow Sage soaps were developed in 2003, marking another point in our evolution toward creating a more non-toxic and sustainably oriented way of life. In November of 2004, we moved to 21 acres near Stillwater with the intention of applying permaculture principles and creating an environmentally harmonious living space. Ultimately, we aspire to develop a business plan that allows us to live off the land as much as possible, creating a model of sustainability in the process.

We began selling soaps at the farmer’s market in Stillwater in 2004. We also are interested in making special batches for special occasions. In August we supplied 120 bars for a wedding with specially designed labels featuring the bride and groom with colors and graphics to match their wedding.