A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.

Yesterdays picnic on the beach turned into a late night.

It was meant to be one of my sons birthday parties. They started out a paintball and then went down to the wooded picnic area on the beach. The boys played football climbed trees and we all ate flatbreads and salad with chicken and peppers kebabs. They baked potatoes in the coals and there were bowls of every salad imaginable with great fruit platters for after.

These had to be the most organised parents I have seen. They bought along lots of party games including hoopla, pinnata, organised bubble blowing competitions & another game involving blindfolds string and lollys. the games were staggered over the course of several hours while the hostess had us in hysterics with her quick wit and sense of humour.

It was without question the best childs party I have ever attended, helped along by the free flowing wine. It was late when we left and we would have offended had we not agreed to go back to the house for birthday cake, more food and more drink.

Consequently it has taken a little while to be able to get myself together to talk about yet more progress on YapYapOK. Over night I can see that there have been more users joining the website. Again we woke to more ads which I have been busy adding to my automatic tweeting system.

In light of even more activity, i decided to again check our Alexa ranks. YapYapOK free shop hosting and classified web site has jumped another 19000 over night. I know I should not check this often but I cannot help it.

The ads are becoming increasingly diverse. Our most popular catagory is the pet section. The last ad for a puppy up for adoption would have sent me clamoring for the phone had it not been based in Australia. It is one of the cutest I have seen. Click on this link for English Bulldog on YapYapOK and I'm sure you will agree!

Today is Sunday, I have a house to clean, (viewing later). Not too worried as I have a second viewing lined up in 2 weeks time for another possible buyer. The wife has seen it, the husband who works away is flying over to see it. He saw it first on the internet and made his wife book a viewing.

If your curious it is listed on YapYapOK property. So do you need further proof that advertising on this site works? Yes, well what better way than to try it yourself!!

Have a great Sunday.

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Seventy percent of success in life is showing up

YapYapOK is getting some massive hits. Having been involved in several websites before, it has come as a surprise how easily you can market one with social media.

Of course we have spent some money on marketing, but this is comparatively small. Knowing what I know now, I believe that 4 hrs a day of dedicated online marketing can bring massive growth with any seo friendly website. Clearly I have spent a great deal of time learning my way around the various social media applications. Some I have joined and not really utilised. Others have been a constant tool.

I have also spent a disproportionate amount of time, sat in front of the computer 7 days a week trying to push the YapYapOK site. In my case Twitter was by far the most rewarding. It was also the most time consuming. Twitter is just a numbers game. the law of probability definitely plays a key part in click through rate. The more followers you have the better your chances. The more proactive Tweeting is also paramount. Clearly then the aim is to create a massive following and combine it with Tweeting 24 hrs a day, remember when the UK sleeps the huge American market wakes up. They are huge Twitterers.

Managing your Twitter account is now so easy. I use Tweet adder and it has been one of my few indulgences in web marketing. There is a free version but I strongly recommend the professional. It starts at $59 for one website, or you can buy a better version for less than $100 which manages 5 sites. There is no penalty for buying the small one and upgrading later.

The free version is so limiting in that it will only Tweet a few times a day, also it automatically deletes the Tweets after posting. The pro system enables you to rotate your Tweets either in the order or randomly. It also searches for followers, deletes followers and automatically messages and replies.

I had a conversation this morning with my good friend Iain. He is fantastic at marketing and has several very successful businesses which rely on the internet. He was having problems targeting his Twitter traffic. I told him that whilst un-targeted traffic did not bring business, it did drive him up the ranks which in turn gives his site more exposure to his target market.

I too had to come to terms with this. However the ranking continues to climb and I am at last getting more of my target market which is resulting in lots of new adverts.

Since the YapYapOK site hosts classifieds and shops allowing for huge numbers of keywords. We have a huge number of keywords that are created with every advert. The more designer these words are, the more likely that the site comes up with the keywords. Alas also the more competition. However what also happens is that because of the massive range of products, our site comes up more and more with the results. The search engines recognise that the YapYapOK site comes up more than say a more specific site and pushes us up even higher.

Some ads that are coming up in the keywords are Christian Louboutin Shoes, Stone house Cyprus, Old stone house Paphos, Zoppini, John Hine, Mokabista and bizarrely my name.

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Pressure makes diamonds

One of the categories which seems to be filling up nicely is the animal ads, in particular the dogs.

We have breeders and a pet matching service who have recently joined up. Of particular note is the cute little capuchin monkey photographed in a dress. The monkey I love, the dress, I mean white. I struggle with white, my 9 year old is incapable of wearing white for more than am millisecond without staining it.

The ads are coming in thick & fast now. We have adverts for hotels, computers, iphones, cameras, ipods, mp3s, mens gadgets, clothing, jewellry, dvds, music, escort service, taxi, games consoles, a huge range of collectables and property in the UK, Spain, Egypt, Dubai and Cyprus. There is a huge range of business opportunities and even a charity. Please forgive me if I have left your ad out. But they are really becoming too numerous to mention.

All of these ads are added on to our Tweet Adder and Twittered in rotation 24 hrs a day. I strongly recommend this program. I no longer babysit my Twitter account. By spending 20 minutes a day I can maximise my results, but you don't even need to do that! I can now go on holiday and know that my Tweets are being Twittered, my following is growing and my new follower receive a welcome message with a link to the site.

Our Alexa rankings continue to climb. I have been looking at other sites to see how well they rank, & more importantly why. One comparable site I knew to be only a few months old ranks amazingly well in Alexa. I studied the history of the domain and found that whilst the site was new, the domain was not. The company had bought a well ranked domain and re hashed it. This is a great short cut, will save you either loads of money or loads of time. A well ranked site generally gets much more traffic. More traffic equals more sales.

There is a direct correlation of visitor numbers & hours spent in front of a computer working the site. I can measure this daily & consequently I feel that when I am not working, I am not pushing the site, or working hard enough for the partners. In a nutshell "The harder I work, the luckier I get!"

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Social Responsibility

A recent advert on YapYapOK prompted me to write a book review. The advert was for the book The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini. This is completely off topic, but it is Saturday!

The book is a powerful story about life in Afghanistan. The story tells much more about the Afghan people under the Taliban, their culture and their integrity in spite living in extreme poverty or escaping to the west having left everything they ever owned.

It brings me back to one of the things my mother has maintained throughout my life, "people are essentially good". Sometimes it appears as if the reverse is true, but if you take the time to evaluate any situation, as a race we shine. We rally together in the face of disaster to help save lives & bring aid to those in desperate need. I am quite a sensitive soul & I believe that if we are in a position of power, then it is our moral duty to give some of our excess resources.

I hope that I have illustrated this in the way that I conduct myself. It is of vital importance to me that YapYapOK provides socially, the curse is really knowing which direction to channel resources.

I used to be a big animal charity supporter. I no longer agree with the way the RSPCA is run. I hated the way they fought a ruling supporting a family member who contested her fathers will. It was unnecessary and inhumane. I should imagine it was also very bad for PR. The RSPCA is one of the richest charities in the world, clearly the British love their animals, but recent events draw me to conclude that the RSPCA conforms much more to goverment standards then it does in representing animal welfare.

I still love animals and with a never ending pot of money I would still support them. Since I became a mother, my priorities have changed. I am now much more likely to support child welfare charities than any other. The problem is knowing which ones.

So, please support us, just join up and list your ads. Its free!

Our website generates revenue from personal numbers, (limited to UK sellers), By implementing this on your advert, we can support others!

We will be generating a similar number system in the US in the future. It is not mandatory, we hope that business who host shops will utilise it. Perhaps they can offer competitive pricing to compensate the higher call costs.

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