Web Trend Map 2007

The Web 2.0 Trend Map (by Information Architects) is a great overview map of the best 200 Web 2.0 Sites. Like on a metropolitan map, there are different lines that connect different services from the best Web 2.0 applications like Google, Technorati, You Tube and so on. If you are interested, there is also a clickable map (go here) that you can use as a sort of start page. A nice work!

Alive Directory

The Alive Directory is a just released Internet directory a little bit different from all the other Web Directories you can find on Internet: it's totally human edited. This is a rare feature today: in this way is in fact possible to take the archive totally spam free, family friendly (no pornographic sites or sites with pornographic ads, no affiliate programs, no under construction sites and so on). The Archive is organized in categories: arts, business, computer, Entertainment, Health, Home, Internet, Kids and Teens, News, Recreation,Reference and Education, Regional, Sports, Shopping Society and Science. Each category is also divided into sub-category to simplify searching. You can find a comprehensive description for each entry, with traffic detail (by Alexa), listed pages and backlinks from major search engine and eventually other sites by the same author. If you are interested, Alive Directory offers different kinds of listing: for rules and price try to submit your site following the link.

Qoo Forum

Today I've received news from a new forum just started, Qoo Forum. It's a general forum divided in five main categories: Lifestyle (food, cars, movies, music), Money (exchange, funds, stock exchange), Digital Life (Cameras, Camcoders, mp3 player), Women's world (beauty, family, dating), sports (all the main sports are treated). The idea seems to be nice...the forum is well designed and it's powered by vBulletin. But why we need to use QooForum instead of other similar online solutions? You can find tons of specialized forum for example.... You must use it because you can gain with it: QooForum permits you (if you have done a minimum of 50 posts) to insert YOUR Google AdSense code into all the threads started by you (a nice ad revenue sharing system because you are paid directly from Google) . A banner for each threads. Normally a forum has a nice quantity of visitors...so potentially you can really gain. But...first you need to write 50 posts (not so simple if you don't want to spam other's threads)...second you need to have readers for your threads (and this is a little more complicated). Personally, I've joined Qoo Forum in order to add something to my Google AdSense account (the same used on this blog) so...don't loose time, take a moment to read my posts! UPDATE: the QOO FORUM IS ACTUALLY SIGNED AS A SCAM SITE. PLEASE AVOID IT

1LinkDirectory.com

You probably know how is fundamental to spread the world about your site. The more your site is visible, more visits you receive. And visitors are potential buyer. Lots of people that start a site or a blog simply register it with major search engines...but this is not sufficient. There are tons of other site like yours (maybe older) with a good position in the search engine results. How to gain visibility then? you can find the answer in 1linkdirectory.com, a very nice Premium web directory with thousand links (up to 300 different categories). 1linkdirectory.com can help you in improve your traffic and increase your rank with just a little effort. Try their services, prices are very cheap (there are two different plan: regular submission - you will receive a permanent entries in their database - or sponsored listing for 1 year - in this case your site will be linked from homepage, a pr5 page - ) and you can really gain benefits (remember to prepare a little review for your site). Payment can be done vie Paypal.