Quick post here - what is “Hilltop”?

It is a bit like PR, but based on communities.

If you have good hilltop rating, it will mean you have lots of links (or “votes”) from related sites.

:)

Just a short post, but did you know that search engines use what is called a “Reverse Index”? Rather than storing the content of all the pages*, it stores all the words and what pages (urls) contain that word

*They do store all the content as well. I was just simplifying it

Just a short little post :)

Techcrunch is ranked at #468 at the time of writing according to Alexa. They have been going for only a year or two, have over 150,000 feed subscribers (according to their Feedburner pic), and make hundreds of thousands of $.

Making a site as popular as Techcrunch is probably the dream of almost all webmasters. I was talking to a friend about this, and we were talking about how they became so popular.

So… how did they do it? And more importantly, how can you copy them to follow in their footsteps?

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There are no real ways to know for sure how many people go to your site from bookmarks, but a couple of ways

• (the usual) take a high %  (or even 100%) of unique WITHOUT any referrer data (that also are not a bot)
• Make a “bookmark this” link, but make the bookmarked url something like “http://example.com/?camefrom=bookmark”. Then just do something like

• if ($_GET[’camefrom’] == “bookmark”)
  {
  // +1 to your stats thing counting bookmarks (database? etc)
  }