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Posted By: Cathy In Response To: Answers for Cathy (Wendy Woudstra)
Monday, 28 March 2005, at 3:52 p.m.
>Thanks Wendy for your candor. A couple more things. I looked at DMOZ.org and I've seen links on your hunting site to other people's sites I presume through this. Is there some financial agreement that you make with other website owners in DMOZ (affiliate kind of thing) or is it a case that you link them and they link you to share traffic. Wasn't sure if there was a financial component to using links to DMOZ.
I want to take a course in html at my local college but I don't want to wait to work on my websites so what I might do is get someone I know who knows html to help me program it initially to get it going.....So when I'm ready to do that I'll order your program because its right up my alley with what i want to do.
By the way ..whats "mirroring" ..I've seen that term bounced around and don't have a clue to what that refers to
Thanks so much
You might be surprised at how small some of the files at Project Gutenberg
> are. Most of the books I download are between 50K and 100K in the Zip
> format. Even large books that run 700+ pages in print are less than a
> megabyte when zipped. If PG seems slow it's probably because their server
> is busy.
> That said, if you wanted to use someone's high speed connection to
> download and burn to disk, you could probably fit nearly a thousand books
> on one disk. :)
> You do need a little familiarity with HTML, but if you've already got a
> website designed, I'm fairly confident that most people would be able to
> place the few tags that are required to use it.
> I've only ever used it for website content, but now that you mention it,
> Conversionary should work wonderfully with all those Windows ebook
> compilers that convert HTML to EXE. That's something I'll have to
> experiment with myself.
> Link Management Assistant is a script that 1) allows you to import a huge
> directory of topical links (from Dmoz.org) and 2) lets you encourage and
> manage reciprocal links to your site without much effort.
> It is a little intimidating the first time you install it, but it gets
> better with practice :)
> I believe Margaret is working on a more detailed tutorial than I offered.
> Having installed it so many times I could do it in my sleep, I think I'm
> probably not the best person to offer a how-to, since I'd miss so many of
> the details and potential pitfalls.
> Going to blogs is kind of like being invited to an acquaintance's house
> for coffee. A number of different things can happen:
> a) you can end up talking about nothing in particular
> b) you might end up listening to them rant about their pet peeves
> c) they might want to show you their new tools, toys or (heaven forbid)
> vacation photos
> ...or the dreaded...
> d) you could find yourself hoodwinked into an Amway prsentation
> I think you can see parallels to most blog types.
> Mine's mostly a 'c'. I find that not only is it more fun to blog that way,
> but if I want to pitch a product, sales come much easier when you blog
> "look at all the cool things I can do with my new toy" rather
> than using hype or a sales pitch.
> My blog is a personal playground, a place to presell products and services
> I use and like, as well as a quick way to get my other sites indexed. I'll
> admit the blog is not a huge money maker, most months making less than
> $250 in adsense and affiliate commissions combined.
> You're probably looking at their mirroring information. Just browse
> through the catalog, find books you're interested in, and scroll down that
> page to the download section to choose the option that says :
> [Plain text iso-8859-1 zip]
> The files are just plain text, so they require no special hardware or
> software at all.
> Usually I just link to it and let the spiders find it themselves. I keep
> an eye on the stats, and if one of the major three (google,yahoo and msn)
> hasn't spidered after about 10 days, I submit to that one manually.
> \
> Cheers,
> Wendy
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