Wow, this is simply something I’ve never done, make a website and then make it get over 10,000 UNIQUE VISITORS within 11 days.

Check this out:

Wow, we haven’t really hit 10K yet, but we got 9,991 and it’s still 10:01PM baby.

We are excited as hell like couple days ago when we reached 6,953! But, the day right after my birthday, my new site, SiteHoppin’ took off crazier than any sites I’ve ever made AND one of my best college buddies Billy Hendrix’s girlfriend, just had a boy baby this mornin’! Well, I am not gonna lie to you, my kid’s comin’ up next month, but THIS is really cool.

I wanna shout out to all the supporters out there expecially Studio Equipment, who has been always on top of what we do here at Zedomax.com.  Umm…it’s really hard finding great friends on the internet you can really trust but Studio Equipment is just the guy there to communicate with you on a personal level and you just “feel” that sorta thing.

Thanks again Studio Equipment, you’ve been helluva help to Zedomax and you added so much positive input, I can’t thank you more. :p

He’s always been helpin’ us to be more positive and keep workin’ hard to reach our goals, it’s a “feel” thing. Thanks dude, that means a lot whether that’s comin’ out from my heart, or I am just insanely crazy.

Without readers like Studio Equipment, Zedomax would be dead. Thanks a LOT!

How is SiteHoppin’ takin’ off help Zedomax? Well, first of all, you “control” the traffic on SiteHoppin’. That means, you can direct traffic to any website you want to including you own. Well, we’ve seen results so let’s just see how well it does for the next couple weeks.

P.S. Our target is to become as big as Google or even bigger. I know, they have a founder who graduated from Stanford and everythin’, but we have a core developer who can catch a golf ball 21 times. Lol…okay, if we can just reach 1% of Google, we’d probably be happy.

Still using the big old Google algorithm? Dump it and start using our own search engine based on “Beer” rankings. That’s right, you get to rate the sites with beers and also get fu()ked up during that time. Get your SiteHoppin’ goin’ here…

P.S.2. We are expecting to reach above our maximum ranking on Alexa tomorrow so watch out! At least I can tell you I told you so if I am right about this…

UPDATE:

While I was writing this post, we reached 10,091 UNIQUE VISITORS!!! HOLY CRAP!

Alright thanks y’all for supporin’ SiteHooppin’. We are in a “drunkey” mood tonight and here to celebrate my birthday too, which was lasterday.

Let’s just hope our hacking continues and we keep risin’

This is a little traffic overview so we know where the heck Zedomax will be next year… Well, it looks pretty good doesn’t it? Since last July or so, our traffic has been growing steadily and we have no idea how we did it. Well, one thing that might have helped is that we started blocking all trackbacks from splogs. Before July last year, I didn’t even know what a “splog” is but now I do… Anyways, we will actually be starting to do some real work instead of messing around all the time.

Here’s another tip for any bloggers that might help:

Try to post 30+ posts per day. The more posts you post, the more search terms you will get back from Google couple months down the road. Of course, you could do 1 post per day with details but I simply prefer to do “speed-blogging“, which is basically trying to find the best new tech stuff as fast as possible as post them as quickly as you can.

You see, what I’ve realized with Google is that they rank you higher if you are one of the first to talk about it. People talk about the algorithm but I think algorithm serves as foundation for Google but they have “hidden algorithms” you can predict only by experience.

Here’s the proof. When Google announced their Knol Project, I quickly made bunch of posts about it and Zedomax is still on the first page on Google for the term “Knol Project” AND “Knols Project‘. (Heck, I am even trying to sell knolproject.net back to Google for $100K! Not that they’d buy it but I figure I’d make some funny blog soon on it…)

I am not a SEO expert by any means other than I try to hack anything more than anyone else. Proof?

I tried to hack Digg couple years ago, the only way Digg could deal with me is to bann me but THAT was a lot of fun. But I did get to be the fastest Digger in the world which is awesome!

I did hack StumbleUpon couple years ago too, they didn’t ban me but my account is really really slow and it’s weird so I don’t use it anymore. The weird thing is, I don’t even use it anymore and I am ranked #4 for most pages stumbled out of those millions of people using it! (The true reason StumbleUpon didn’t ban me was because my hacks were actually boosting their web traffic! StumbleUpon has lots of loopholes for hackers but that’s why they grow because hackers promote their website!)

Now I got tired of hacking sites so I made a my own social networking site, SiteHoppin.com. I think I’ve learned enough from hacking other major sites so I am going to try to implement security measures used during those periods.

The greatest part about hacking another website is that you realize how to protect your own website. FBI probably hires more hackers to protect their data than kids out of college.

Technology can be so fragile these days. I remember fighting so many hackers that tried to do a group DoS (Denial of Service) attack from Poland and Korea. Those hackers are real good but too bad, they are not coming back anymore. (I enjoy fighting hackers, it’s really fun…)

There’s been a lot of questions regarding our new site, SiteHoppin’, especially from some Entrecard users, so I will show you briefly how it will virally increase Entrecard’s traffic.

Instead of typing URL or using a bookmarking system like Del.icio.us, Entrecard users will start using SiteHoppin’ to tag their favorite sites and go “site hoppin’” daily.

How will increase traffic for your blog? Well, simply, if you submit your blog to SiteHoppin with the tag, “Entrecard”, all Entrecard users who “site hop” will bring you 1 hit per visit. (If every Entrecard user “site hopped” everyday, every Entrecard user’s blog would get that many hits!)

The greatest part is that it doesn’t end there. Since SiteHoppin’ also has “random” hopping feature for non-bloggers or people who want to simply hop new sites, your blog will randomly show up at various different times.

As user base grows on SiteHoppin’, Entrecard blogs who are in the system will automatically benefit from users randomly “hopping” onto their blogs.

The more Entrecard blogs that exist on SiteHoppin’, the more Entrecard will be advertised and the more traffic it will bring to Entrecard blogs.

This effect will probably go virally crazy and we just hope Entrecard blog don’t take over the whole SiteHoppin’.

When we first started making this, we weren’t thinking of Entrecard but it just hit me the other day that you could browse much faster on Entrecard too.

If all the above explanation is too hard to understand then just imagine this:

1. Entrecard users start site hoppin’ on SiteHoppin.com

2. Other site hoppers who are bloggers find out about Entrecard and Entrecard blogs.

3. They sign up for Entrecard and start site hoppin’ their favorite tags. (Right now, we only have “Entrecard” as tags but you are free to make your own tag lists such as “Entrecard-Zedomax” so you only hop the sites you want to, not necessarily all the Entrecard blogs…)

Everytime a person “site hops”, the referring site is opened in an “iframe”. This gives you one hit to your blog or any other website.

If your site gets enough beers on the wall, you will show up at the top of the Most Popular site list on SiteHoppin’, further bringing you extra hits.

Now, every time a user “site hops”, some website in the SiteHoppin’ database is getting a free hit. Some people refer this as “scraping” but I think not.

SiteHoppin’ is a social networking site that brings you extra traffic just like Digg, StumbleUpon, Reddit, or whatever. The only difference is that you get a hit along with a hit to SiteHoppin’.

In other words, it’s a “browser” within your browser. Great thing is that you don’t have to install any Browser extensions like StumbleUpon.com. You can be anywhere in the world, even on your iPhone, and you only have to remember one site, SiteHoppin.com. It’s simply a great way to browse the internet and bring traffic to your sites.

BTW, I kinda did take the “g” off Hopping, following Bloggin-Ads.com’s cool name. Yes, Mike, I did kinda take it from your name…LOL…I will have to add that info to the About page so you get extra hits if this site blows up.

If you have noticed our post about how to be a moron and learn to not be rich, that WAS a big joke so go check out Can’t Get Rich and learn how to double your traffic by collaborating on a “set” blog-fight and talking trash all day long to bring more traffic.

BTW, Geoff, that was a lot of fun. Let’s do another one soon. We will have to stage it better or pick a more popular topic I guess…

Lately, I’ve been keeping a keen eye on my friend Graham Langdon, creator of Million Dollar Wiki. He has created a new site called EntreCard that allows bloggers to advertise for free on other blogger’s blogs. Basically, bloggers can trade 125×125 pixel ad spots.

Today, I got up and looked up on Alexa and found that EntreCard has finally beaten BlogRush in the numbers of Reach, Rankings, AND TRAFFIC!

As an evangelist user of EntreCard, I was really happy like I just snorted a line of cok* of something. (not that i do drugs….)

Here’s the wrap up:

As you can see, what EntreCard is doing is taking over BlogRush and its customers. It’s going to be a horrible slow death for BlogRush but who knows? Maybe they will get enough bad publicity out it and come back alive by copying EntreCard’s ideas.

Here we look at the Daily traffic Rank Trend for BlogRush vs. EntreCard. EntreCard clearly beats BlogRush and they are STILL on their way up whereas BlogRush is again, dying slowly.

The last graph shows Page Views for EntreCard vs. BlogRush. As you can see here, the problem with BlogRush is that once you put their widget, there is no other community groups or actions you can do whereas EntreCard is a vibrant blogger community where bloggers are actively trading invisible business cards.

Our prediction from last time is becoming more true and true.

This is the letter from John Reese that really pissed me off and I stopped using BlogRush:

We’ll be applying some quality guidelines and criteria to our
decision-making process. (We’ll be publishing these guidelines very
soon.) If a blog does not meet our guidelines and criteria, THEY
WILL BE REJECTED from the network and not allowed to join — i.e.
they won’t be able to serve our widget, refer other users, or have
their blog posts distributed across our network. They will have no
access to any BlogRush services.

Our members, like YOU, made it LOUD AND CLEAR to us… BlogRush needs
to only have members that have quality blog content — not blogs
filled primarily with ads and other spammy looking JUNK.

The only accurate way we’re going to keep these junk blogs out of our
network is to REVIEW EVERY SINGLE ONE BY HAND. And we’re willing to
do it to protect the integrity of our network. I don’t care what it
costs us to hire more people (if we need them) to review 100% of any
blog trying to join our network. We will be reviewing ALL OF THEM
from here on out.

Here’s what I say, “Take your stupid hype and your hype traffic and put it up your as*!”.

I don’t need the founder of a website telling me their technology sucks so much that they have to review every blog by hand (Is that like Web 0.5?). With a stupid founder like that, BlogRush will never succeed.

What BlogRush should have done:

BlogRush should have hired 3 PHP developers and tell them to develop a spider hack that checks for the language of the site and validity by checking values like Alexa rankings, Technorati rankings, etc…etc… Heck, I can even do this but I don’t have to send out a freaking 10 page email wasting everyone’s time.

Why are we so bitter? Don’t take it too seriously. (Remember our motto? Satiric opinions on Gadgets and Tech…Lol…)

Do you have a business? Whether you have a Mattress Store or other goods and services to sell, you can list yourself on Google Maps. What does this do for you?

Basically, everytime someone searches for a Business on GoogleMaps, you are likely to pop up first if you are near by that location. This could be very good for free advertising since a lot of people have been using Google Maps on their phones to navigate through today’s traffic and find places fast.

Personally, I use a Blackberry 8830 that comes with GPS so I can use Google Maps and press 0, which takes me to my current location. A lot of times, I search for banks or restaurants nearby while I am driving. I’ve saved so much time with this nifty phone and GoogleMaps. But you CAN get your business listed. It’s very simple.

Think about how many people use Google Maps everyday on their GPS enabled phones to find businesses or restaurants. If you are not listed, you are probably missing out on at least 1,000 impressions a day for free advertising through GoogleMaps.

Here’s the directions on how to get yourself listed: (Follow the link and then follow the directions)

Add your business as a Local Business on GoogleMaps

Yes, it’s as simple as entering your business information and verifying it with an automated phone call from Google. If this post helped you, make sure to check out the new Quarter Wiki and the EntreWiki.

Here’s our business listed on Google Maps if you type, “Zedomax” on Google Maps: (Now I tell my friends to type “zedomax” on their phone to find my apartment)

We are going to go full-on advertising with John Chow’s new TTZ Media. We’ve had the TTZ Media ads on our single posts below the comments for about a month but that didn’t seem to do anything. We earned about 4 bucks last month.

So, to fully test out his new money making affiliate program and to promote John Chow’s new venture, we have put TTZ Media ads everywhere. Well, we will be sticking them everywhere, literally.

If you want to try it out, make sure to check out TTZ Media, you gotta have at least 5,000 views a month which should be piece of cake. (If you need help with traffic, let me know and I can probably bring in another 5000 visitors for ya for the month.)

You can check out the details of the program on John Chow’s post on TTZ Media.

Here’s HOW TO fight/stop DoS(Denial of Service) Attacks using open source code (D)DoS-Deflate!

Recently, Zedomax.com has been receiving DoS(DenialOfService) attacks from various different sources.

We first thought it was too much traffic but it turns out it was some type of DoS attack. How did we find that out?

Well, after we installed a free open-source (D)DoS-Deflate, a free script that installs easily on your linux server.

This thing basically tracks which IPs are sending DoS pings and block them out automatically.

Well, after we thought it was just too much traffic and uninstall it, the hackers came back.

I am some of you hackers are reading this.

Maybe if you can crack this DoS script, you might be able to DoS us again.

P.S. When I used to work at Comfile Technology in Korea, I accidently developed this Lantronix X-Port that could be hooked up to ANY DHCP network and permanently bring down the network. Well…it just happened by accident. Maybe I can sell it as a internet security test tool for web servers…

Here’s simple instructions to (D)DoS-Deflate and prevent AND stop DoS attacks!
(You need shell access, most likely you will only have this on a dedicated server and I know Dreamhost and some hosts let you access shell)

“My server went from 44.0 Load to less than 1.0 Load instantly in about 5 minutes since installation.” I know a lot of you probably fighting the same thing and manually controlling the firewall but this thing makes that automatic.

Installation

# wget http://www.inetbase.com/scripts/ddos/install.sh
# sh install.sh

Uninstalling

# wget http://www.inetbase.com/scripts/ddos/uninstall.ddos
# sh uninstall.ddos

Here’s the latest creation from Zedomax.Net, The Five Dollar Wiki! (Well, it’s really a idea that’s developed on a nice idea.)

Basically, you get to own a page on the wiki for life(or at least 15 years). If the site does well in the future then your page gets boosted by Google rankings and get lots of traffic. That’s the idea but we are still workin’ on some tweeks…

If you like the logo, please say so~ (I copied it off Business 2.0 Magazine buttons…)

Also do check out my $100 investment at the MillionDollarWiki for keyword, “hacks“. I don’t know why I bought it but I think maybe it’s because I just got a $100 rebate from Sprint.

Get your major keywords before they run out and help support the growth of Zedomax.com!

Own a page and enjoy the benefits:

* Share traffic generated by the entire community, and by our advertising dollars.
* Secure all the long-term SEO benefits of a keyword on an increasingly popular and well-indexed site.
* Raise awareness of your website, product, or service.
* Make a unique investment for 33 cents per year:

$5 divided by 15 years min. site life = $0.33 per year.

* Join a resourceful community of motivated entrepreneurs.
* Receive storage space on our server for your page’s content.
* Earn a profit from owning a page by selling products, services, or advertisements
* Re-sell your page later down the road
* Great customer support

P.S. I just quit my job and this was the only thing I could think of using my last five dollars. Hopefully, it will take off. (unlike the other sites we’ve made before…)