Monthly Archives: July 2012

Noob Guide To SEO

Posted on July 13, 2012 by Nerdr| 12 Comments

The Noob guide to SEO, or beginners guide to SEO is what I wish I knew when making my first website. This noob guide to online marketing covers both on-page and off-page SEO and covers only the things that actually work. Let’s get started.

Note: All SEO methods mentioned here are white hat, which means they’re fine to use and Google likes them. Stay away from black hat SEO Techniques which can get you tackled out of the search engines like Bing.com and Google.com. Gray hat sits lovingly nestled between the two and is risky. Avoid gray hat SEO tricks unless desperate. Buying SEO backlinks for cash would be a gray hat technique.

On-Page SEO part 1

For on-page SEO, pick out a main keyword to target, together with sub baby keywords. The baby keywords are niche keywords related to the main keyword and usually longer and with less traffic potential for SEO.

For example, your main keyword might be gardening furniture with sub keywords of gardening furniture for gnomes and furniture for gnomes in gardens. The main keyword is the topic you’re discussing and the sub keywords contain parts of the main keyword along with other words.

These sub keywords are important because they help you catch the “long tail” of SEO. Thats the people who search for weird stuff online that’s only mentioned on your site. It’s easy to rank highly for long tail keywords because they’re rare and rarely typed into the search engines. Use many long tail keywords for on-page SEO.

When picking a main keyword, focus on what’s most important. If you have a blog and are in the process of writing an article, stick to things your readers want to know about, do or try. How to guides are popular, as are review of Amazon merchandise.

You can use the Google keyword tool for ideas. Tick the box for exact search to see exact matches and use the global searches column to find the best keywords to target. No fear, go big or go home. Then branch out and tick the phrase box to see the general strength of that keyword. Look for high numbers and sort by global searches. Alternatively set the region in The Google keyword tool to United States and sort by local searches. Again, high number of local searches are the best keywords to target.

A minimum for global searches on the Google keyword tool for exact searches would be about 2600. At position 1 in Google that brings you about 30% of traffic per month, which is 900 unique visitors a month. 900 unique visitors a month is approximately 30 visitors a day.

Article continued on Noob guide to SEO part 2.

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Play Solitaire Online Free

Posted on July 13, 2012 by Nerdr| 4 Comments

Solitaire free online, the most addicting game of solitaire you will ever play.  Better than worldofsolitaire could ever dream to be, play it here.

Here is the link to solitaire-free.com.

At Solitaire Free you can play a live game of solitaire to your hearts content. You will receive 10 points for each card placed in the solitaire pile and can refresh the game by pressing the F5 key on the keyboard. Move cards with your mouse genius.

The game of solitaire has a long winding history that you can read all about on the solitaire wiki page. The common version of solitaire everyone enjoys these days is known as Freecell solitaire among professional players. Second on the popularity list is Klondike solitaire, followed from a significant distance by old one leg spider solitaire. There are no professional solitaire players.

Do Solitaire tournaments exist? In a single word, no. Solitaire means single player and since the challenge of a game of Solitaire is mostly random it would be unfair to hold tournaments. Unless every player started with the same deck and the competition was a timed test. With the player who completes 3 predetermined decks to the solitaire end condition fastest being given the trophy. There’s a million dollar idea for you, you’re welcome.

Solitaire is predominantly played by office ladies and bored secretaries looking to spice up their lives between serving “The Man”. It’s also played by bored I.T. Staff who’ve been banned from playing counter Strike on the office network. Solitaire being the safe option, leaving no trace of play except in the minds of the chosen few who complete it and see the “card rush” sequence.

Coming back to the startup of the week, solitaire free is well worth a look and given a well deserved 5/5 stars and an ace to the face.

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Frisbee Forever 2 App Review

Posted on July 7, 2012 by Nerdr| 5 Comments

Frisbee Forever 2 review. It’s a great game, smooth and fun five stars while it lasts.

The core gameplay of frisbee forever 2 is you play as the frisbee, in first person flying mode. You can move either left or right only and fly through rings to catch stars and coins. There is also a mission system with achievements and some in-app purchases. You do not need to buy the in-app purchases to complete frisbee forever 2. There are about 6 worlds with about 10 missions in each world. Plus two bonus worlds, one with super hard challenges and one with unlock-able levels.

Graphics

Frisbee forever 2 comes with full 3D graphics, beautiful colorful courses and is certainly easy on the eyes. It’s gorgeous to look at and runs at a smooth frame rate throughout gameplay. Full marks for graphics.

Sound

Sound in Frisbee forever 2 is great. It has a wonderful relaxing mellow flow, while still capturing the spectacular vistas, just nice music to play the game to. I like the music in the chinese levels best and the music adds a lot of atmosphere to the game. Menu music is also great. Music for two levels and the menu of Frisbee forever 2 was made by Jeppe Karkov.

Gameplay

Frisbee forever 2 took me 6 hours to complete and I needed no in-app purchases to complete the game. It’s addictive and fun throughout and I was never grinding or frustrated at any point. Some levels are difficult, but they remain fun because you know if you keep trying you can eventually pass them easily.

I have not played frisbee forever 1 and still picked up this games controls very quickly.

The key point for me is fun. If the game is fun to play and not grindy then it gets good review scores and frisbee forever is definitely fun while playing. Once the main campaign is completed and you have seen all the levels you can go back and replay for fun and to 100% complete the game, but I deleted once I had completed all the levels.

In summary then, Frisbee Forever 2 by Kiloo games is a great game and well worth picking up! It’s currently free on the App store.

I give it 5/5.

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Spellsword App Review

Posted on July 7, 2012 by Nerdr| 2 Comments

Spellsword app review. Spell sword, developed by FireFruitForge and published by Everplay intersctive Games, on the iPad and iPhone, is a fun and addictive little game. An easy five out of five stars.

Graphics

Could be better. Spellsword has the pixel look we’ve all seen before and it looks nice enough but is lacking in detail and readability. Spellsword almost looks like Everplay took the games detailed photoshop images and ran them through a pixel filter rather than pixellating the graphics from step 1. They do grow on you eventually, but imagine blurry huge pixel graphics and you get the idea. Not pleasant, but acceptable for a platformer like this. For reference I was playing on an iPad 3 with retina graphics. Spellsword might look better visually on a lower end device like the iPhone.

Gameplay

Few games are as amazingly fun as this one. Spellsword has that “one more go” element nailed just right. I couldn’t put it down. Deliciously addictive and just plain fun, with no grinding and a 5 hour start to finish. This is where Spell sword earns those five stars and in the end it’s the gameplay that matters most. Perfect.

There are power ups to pick up, upgrades to your character and money to buy. In-app purchases are not necessary at all, except to support the developers who are small time indies Everplay. The game is based on card power ups you find on each level. Touch the cards and events happen on screen from them and another power up appears in a different location. Things like fireballs, a black hole that sucks enemies in and ice shards blasting out. It’s fun.

Spellswords upgrade system is just right, you never feel the levels are too easy or too hard. You get the feeling the guys at Everplay really took their time with play-testing every level for difficulty and sorting them perfectly.

Spellsword comes with 3 mission packs of 20 levels each, with more “coming soon”. No grinding or in-app purchases required to finish all missions.

Sound

The sound effects in spellsword are simply stunning, perfect and with oomph. I love the music too. Some of the best pixel bit tunes i’ve heard in a game app to date. They never get tiring or repetitive. The sound in Spellsword really is something special and worth the buck just to hear it alone. If I was making a pixel app or game and needed music and fx, i’d hunt Duncan McPherson down and hire him.

Spellsword costs $0.99 on the Apple app store.

Speelswords core missions take about 5 hours or less to complete, and there is an endless mode for those wanting more. Although once you’ve finished the main missions available (about 60) it’s ripe for deletion as the leader boards are owned by guys with 5,000+ points.

Definitely a great price and well worth the cost. I’d buy Spellsword again knowing what I now know.

Review scores:
Graphics 3.5/10.
Sound 10/10.
Gameplay 13/10. Deal.

Overall: Spellsword gets a five out of five stars for just plain blasting that gameplay right out the park.

Recommended.

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