Sep

29

Since Madeleine disappeared the media has kicked up such a hyper that this poor little girl has been on every newspaper and TV around the world.

If you have any information on Madeleine please inform your local authorities or police. She’s still missing

What’s happened is that everyone is talking about Maddy and her tragic circumstances. Such is the interest that an image that I posted was getting hyperlinked from everywhere around the world.

This is the image, people are using it on the myspace sites, forums, and blogs. Most are not looking at the page, just dragging in the image that I’m hosting here at screamingstones. co.uk. It’s played a bit of havoc with hosting because the bandwidth is fairly big, something like 20gigs a month - so much that this website was blipping on and off line because of high bandwidth. I’ve sorted it out with my hosting company - so link away - anything to get this girl back.

It’s great if I can help out the effort in a very small way, and is something I like a lot.

Help find Madeleine McCann - 4 year old girl abducted in Portugal

I’m relaunching this image by my blog to keep fresh interest in Madeleine in the hope that she WILL be found.

Link this to your MySpace, Facebook, forum, blog, anything you want. Please do ..

admin at screamingstones.co.uk

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Sep

23

It’s a new internet phenomenon - Web Directories.

Web Directories

What are web directories?
Imagine a yellow pages but every site that’s listed has got a hyper link.

They are at their peak, and there must be more than 10,000 of them at the moment. The current blooming of directories was instigated by the availability of cheap but well-built scripts to run them. They are an interesting tool as many SEO people will mention : BACKLINKS ARE GREAT for SEO. By giving you a backlink from the directory they should help your site a little to budge it up the rankings.

Many people start them because they can have a payment structure built-in which gives the site a few dollars for reviewing your site and making sure it’s in the correct category and contributes towards the hosting costs.

On the other hand there are many directories that run for free - yup NO PAYMENT. GREAT! Where are the free ones? Vilesilencer has the best list and you can find it here Free Web Directories

WOW - this is good - how can I setup one?

Well, first I recommend reading this article by someone who already has gone through everything with his directory. A fine read and is worth casting your glance over to see what’s involved … running a web directory. Here’s snippet :

Stage 1 - You dream of ownership and possible fame from owning the next BIG directory. The desire to help your fellow forum members and maybe earn some cash along the way is the driving force behind your decision to build a directory.

Stage 9 - Deciding that a paid directory would solve most of your problems, with a little embarassement you announce your directory is going paid but you will keep the prices low $1 a submission to keep out the shady submitters, auto submitters and spam. Maybe this higher class of submitters will even be literate enough to read the terms and conditions thereby making approvals a lot quicker. Now you can start to make some money too.

Read all of the article running a web directory.

Resources
Well established scripts are available from PHP Link Directory and Site Sift

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Sep

21

There’s an interesting thread over at PRO SEO Forums about the effects of StumbleUpon and what the author calls a Stumble SWARM. The swarm congregates on a site suddenly, pounds the site for a day, and then clears off. Within 24 hours the site was swamped with traffic and then it breaks off and nothing is seen again for days after.

Here at Words and Pictures blog we are sure that Stumblers bring some great traffic and visibility to websites but the author doesn’t rate it at all - the author writes:

Checking the referrer showed it was ALL from stumbleupon.com so the URL had been shared on Stumbleupon and within about 8 hours the site had got 844 unique vists.
[snip]
Personally I think it’s pants, at least on this occasion.

You can read more of this interesting article at :

StumbleUpon gives loads of naff traffic

Might be worth you guys dropping a post or two on there about your view on Stumbleupon traffic.

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Sep

11

Your choice of credit cards has never been greater than today with a variety of cards, rates, and promotions available and choosing the corrrect one for your needs can be a long process, and very boring!

There’s a new website for you to choose the card that best suites you, it’s called Help My Money.

Not only does it provide you with credit card comparisons it is also fully loaded with comparisons of current accounts, savings accounts, and loans … from all the leading providers.

It’s really worth checking out this site to save you time and save you money and to get the package that most suits you. Give it a whirl !

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Help My Money. Our site helps you compare financial products and select the one that best fits your needs. All sections of Help My Money accept online applications. We currently only cover the UK markets.

Visit Help My Money to Compare Credit Cards .

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Sep

7

Looking to start your own forum? - Look no further. There is a great article over at Digital Point Forums giving a great introduction to running a successful forum.

Here is just a snippett:

So you have an idea. Now what? Well first you need to decide whether or not your idea is unique enough to draw in members, if not then you need to brainstorm ways to make it more unique. Look at other forums within the same area as your potential forum, use these as a guide to what has already been done and what ever you do please DO NOT steal any ideas, it’s just not fair! Once you’re sure your idea will stand up as a forum you can move on to choosing a forum software.

Very little technical knowledge is needed to learn how to use Invisionfree and Proboards (the most popular remotely hosted forum softwares, you don’t have to worry about handling important forum files as they are hosted and looked after by the service provider. These can be an excellent base to learn how to run a forum in general and quite a few people have actually built very large and successful communities on these. If you’re unsure as to what you’re actually doing and whether running a forum is what you’d like to be doing then this is a great place to start; totally free, quite simple to setup and run. ……

For more information see the original, and well-written article, about setting up a forum.

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Sep

7

BAL Motobond is a high performance, high quality product specifically developed for use in conjunction with ceramic tiling within the motor industry and in particular car workshops, forecourts and showrooms.

BAL Motobond Car Showroom Adhesive

BAL Motobond is a rapid setting, highly polymer modified, water, frost and sulphate resistant floor tile adhesive, with exceptional compressive and adhesion strengths, specifically designed to withstand heavy loading and trafficking. Suitable for use on concrete, cement:sand screeds, anhydrite screed, BAL levelling compounds, epoxy resin-based coatings, terrazzo, unglazed ceramic tiles, mastic asphalt.

* rapid-setting
* water/frost resistant
* high bond strength
* interior / exterior

Units available :25Kg bag

buy online at the UK’s leading supplier of internet tile adhesives and grouts, Trades-Direct : buy BAL Motobond

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Sep

7

Choosing a new bathroom suite has never been easier than with the new website Bathroom Designs 4u . Flip through the online catalogue of bathroom items and accessories and call them to arrange installation. Simple!

With a large selection of bathroom furniture, showers, baths, steam rooms, bath taps and basin taps, shower cubicles and much much more this is the perfect website to choose your bathroom accessories from.

Some of their products include : Trojan Bermuda Corner Bath, Athena Chrome Deck Bath Shower Mixer, Laser Bath taps:

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Installation can be arranged easily with a team of installers with many years experience in the plumbing and tiling industry - they know how to look after your bathroom!

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Sep

3

Going to France can be costly by Eurotunnel, especially if you’re going on a long trip and book a return journey. France is such a great place to pick up some great wine and cheap beer that it should be cheaper than £150 return. That’s right .. book a return journey, say 6 days, and it could cost upward from £150 for a return.

If you want to book two single journeys, which you might be interested in if you are doing a road trip and are not entirely sure of your return date then it can cost over £198 in total, £99 each way. During peak times it can be more even up to £160 for a single way journey.

Tell me the secret! How do I save money on eurotunnel?

The secret is booking a sameday return for your outbound journey, which will cost £49. And then DON’T USE the return ticket.

When you need to return, find an internet cafe in France and book the reverse direction, again a sameday return : cost £44 and DON’T USE the return ticket.

There you’ve made a return journey on Eurotunnel for just £99, with your car. And you’ve saved at least £50!

What’s the catch? We know of many frequent travellers who use this to save themselves money but it is stated on the Eurotunnel ticket that unused return ticket will be charged at the correct price. WE KNOW OF NO ONE THAT HAS HAD EUROTUNNEL CHARGE THEM FOR AN UNUSED DAY RETURN TICKET. Use at your discretion and chance.

Let us know your experiences and leave us a comment.

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