<a href="http://twitter.com/home/?status=<?php bloginfo('name'); ?> : <?php bloginfo('siteurl'); ?>" target="_blank">Tweet</a>

However the above code will no longer work and will not transfer the tweet details (text, url etc) to the text box. Instead you will need to use the following code:

<a href="http://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=<?php bloginfo('name'); ?> : &url=<?php bloginfo('siteurl'); ?>" target="_blank">Tweet</a>

As you can see, quite an easy fix! Notice the /intent/tweet?text= part of the code. I hope this helps because I struggled to find anything on the Internet about this. Alternatively, you could use the twitter API: http://dev.twitter.com/pages/tweet_button

The API seems like the way to go but getting it to do exactly what you want can be tricky unless you have some experience with APIs.

With a really exciting year ahead in Formula 1 (another British World Champion and the return of Michael Schumacher) the season should be action packed – I am certainly looking forward to it!

Silverstone is also hosting the MotoGP and Superbikes this year so if you’re a bike fan you are well looked after. Getting to Silverstone is really easy to get to because it’s right next to the M40 and M1 motorways. There is also an airport on site so if fancy splashing some cash you can arrive in a helicopter!

2010 will be an exciting year for motor racing fans!

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Every month the amount of visitors to the half empty website doubles in number with no work from myself. It is also earning from Adsense which is nice. I really think with a small effort I can start making a fair bit more from it but sadly I don’t have the time.

The site has had very little SEO done on it and already ranks amazingly well in Google and I believe that with a few days work I could make it into a valuable resource (as well as making a few quid)!

So you are probably all wondering what the site is? Well I am not going to say until it’s finished… which may be a while as I am very busy at the moment!

I will be announcing it the second it’s finished so if you subscribe to my RSS feed you will get notification

JamesMunday.net Website Statistics

January was actually a very busy month but I changed web hosts half way through the month so the visitors for January should be a lot more.

Some of you may know that I run some other websites, one of which is the Official Kris Moyse Site. That has been doing very well lately thanks to Kris’ popularity on YouTube. Here are the statistics for that site:

KrisMoyse.com Website Statistics

As you can April was the busiest month so far with 1449 unique visitors racking up 16341 page views! I expect the next few months to get even busier thanks to Kris’ new videos!

Leave a comment on this post with your name, correct email address and a brief message why you think you should get it free.

The domain (which I am not going to broadcast on here) is undeveloped and is in my opinion a quality domain name. Similar names have been sold on auction sites so you could easily make something from it. Please remember, you can only leave one comment.

The winner will be chosen at random 24 hours from now. The domain can only be transferred to a 123-reg.co.uk domain account (it is free to sign up anyway).

Also, feel free to subscribe to my RSS Feed for notification of other giveaways.

Good Luck!

It’s a Crop Circle of the Mozilla Firefox logo! You may think its fake but it is 100% real! I am going to post some more finds on Google Earth here over the coming year so stay posted

I can remember back in 1999 when I first started to use the Internet regularly that if you wanted to find something it was fairly straight forward and most sites actually gave you the information you were looking for. Now, most websites are just trying to sell you something or make you download software which is full of spyware.

I hate to say it but due to cheap hosting and broadband everyone seems to have the Internet now and has at least 100 websites all with the same rubbish content.

It’s the same with those stupid E-Books. The information in most of them is available on the Internet anyway so you must be stupid to buy them. I would say more on this whole matter but I don’t want to annoy people!

Rant over!

So is a forum on a site like this worth it? In my opinion, no. Thanks to blogging software like WordPress people can leave messages and with sites like Facebook the need for a forum has dwindled. Every day over on the Digital Point forums people are complaining that their forums are not getting any new members but the reason for this is simple. A forum will only attract members if it offers something interesting and is unique. For example a car club, musician, webmaster related could prove quite popular if its unique.
If you have a few members regularly posting then more and more will join as a lot of the time it will spread via word of mouth (thats how my old forum got quite popular).

I have recently created a new forum on a site I run which has been getting a few members join up. For privacy reasons I am not going to give the link out but thanks to some clever marketing and SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) it is ranking very well in Google. Luckily I found a niche not yet covered by those millions of forums out there already so I could be onto a winner in a few months times.

For those of you wanting to create forums on your personal website – don’t waste your time. Forums unless they are already established and have lots of active members are being overshadowed by MySpace, Facebook and MSN. A lot of forums on personal sites (Shoemoney.com for example) have been closed due to lack of interest.

Please feel free to comment

1). Visit the website www.dnsaleprice.com and type in the keywords which are included in your domain. For example, if you own the website www.moneysaving.com type in ‘money saving’. Then select what extension your site has (eg. 2 in our case), then select the amount of words, which is 2. Once you have filled out all the details, hit ‘Go’.
This will return a list of results of previously sold domains names which are similar to the one you want to value. This is only a rough guide but it works rather well. The site will display the name, how much it was sold for and when. Example below:

This of course is only a rough guide but it will give you some indication of what it may be worth using similar keywords. I currently have a money related domain which has some very good keywords but I am going to build it up before I sell it.

2). Take a look at www.dnscoop.com – this will tell you a lot of statistical information about any domain name including, Alexa Rank, valid page rank, number of one way back links, traffic indicators and a rough estimation of value. Takes a few seconds to load after inputting the domain name and values can be way off. For example, the site thinks this website (www.jamesmunday.net) is worth:

Personally I don’t think this website is worth anything, ok it may get a fair bit of traffic but it doesn’t sell anything. Oh yeah, that little image above with the value in is created on the dnscoop site

3). Another tool worth trying is www.estibot.com. This is a domain appraisal site which also gives you information similar to www.dnscoop.com. Personally I don’t find it very accurate because I used it on one of the domains which I have had appraised by someone else and Estibot think its only worth the reg fee I paid for it!

4). Last but not least, try asking on forums like Digital Point etc. People on there can give you free appraisals and are generally quite helpful. You can also sell domains on there too but as mentioned above, in a few days I will write a guide on selling domains.

I hope this has been of some use and as always, please feel free to leave a comment