What goes around comes around

I am a big believer of karma.

My husband thinks I am a martyr, but I have always beleived that  most people are basically good.  That changed today when a friend sent me some news reports with some pictures of some of the barbaric crimes occurring all the time in South Africa.   I am not talking about murder, it is far worse than that.  I am unsure if the situation can be resolved when there is so much venom.

The problem with hate is that it never brings resolution.  It takes strength and courage to say sorry and it takes intelligence to see rational and perspective.  Having said that I don"t believe that i would be capable of these attributes faced with similar circumstances.

The problem with being human is that we are so flawed.  Expectations of each other can sometimes exceed either capability or circumstance.  Judgements are made too readily without fully understanding any situation.

I don't pretend to have a full handle on what is occurring in SA.  I  do however see depravity in the extreme when these animals are capable of inflicting so much pain upon others.  I have no comprehension of how one human being can inflict such gross and inhumane treatment to another.   I have never seen myself capable of hatred but it would not take this much suffering to change this.

Having said that I am so over protective of my son.  I would willingly fight all his battles if I thought that would help him.  Obviously I know that by involving myself unnecessarily in his battles I am not equipping him with some of the tools he will need to get on as an adult.  Clearly as a parent it is my job to protect him from unnecessary and dangerous persuits.  Thats is why I made him promise a very solemn promise, (when he was 7) that he will never do skydiving, bungie, rock climbing, smoke, ride a motorbike or any other activity which I deem detrimental to his wellbeing.

I remind him of this promise often enough for him to know I did not make it up when he was too young to remember.

Anyway, soooo off topic, the Alexa trick is working.  YapYapOK is currently ranked at 766,389 with a UK rank of 102,504.  That is a tremendous jump of practically 34k over night.  My target for this week is to be under 700,000 by Sunday.  If we can jump 100,000 each week then we should be under 100,000 within 7 weeks.  That is a tall order since it gets harder and harder to climb the further up you go.

High rankings brings increased visits.  This is perpetual motion as increased visits bring higher rankings.  Clearly this will have an effect on YapYapOK site earnings.  Our ethos at YapYapOK is to support and help others, fortunately as a private entity we do not have a duty to shareholders.  We hope to inextricably link the brand YapYapOK to compassionate causes.  Our long term plans may seem a little far fetched to publish at this stage of the business.  However we do hope to implement regular giftings as part of the company policy.   

Now what did I say about karma??!!!

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A brief look at rank.

YapYapOK update

Alexa global ranking is 800,158  UK ranking is 140,000.  We are 750,000 from our goal.   YapYapOK now has 3800 Twitter followers.  I could get more but fear that I will suffer permanent suspension if I do.  Since all ads go tp Tweet and often end up in relevant  feeds on relevant websites that would be a real blow.

The YapYapOK riddles forum is proving to be very popular and we are getting some great hits on that now.  We put a lot out to Twitter and the click through rate is gratifying.  Granted its a bit of a cheat to get the hit rate up but we did not want to suffer on hits over the bank holiday when fewer people would be uploading products. 

Currently we are cheating our way up through the rankings.  Our hit rate is helped along very nicely through Twitter but we do not have enough traffic to warrant such a great jump.  There are variuos other tricks I am using which also seem to be working, I have yet to reveal these as they are a little out of my control and I am a little low on participation particularly since I cant very well reveal it on Facebook.

The advantage to having a good ranking is that our site now comes up organically through the search engines.  Usually when someone enters a search term for one of our ads.  Clearly the more ads we get - the more search terms and the more traffic.

I am off for a YapYapOK meeting to discuss further improvements to the site.  I played a little tennis yesterday so meetings is probably all I am good for.

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You gotta be in it to win it!

Easter Monday 2010!

Fortunately I dont have a very sweet tooth, in fact I'd rather have a sandwich, unfortunately I quite like chips in that sandwich but hey.  Not to say I don't love chocolate.  I like to keep a bar of Green and Blacks or Lindt dark mint or ginger or bitter orange in the fridge.  Maybe once or twice a week I indulge in just one square.  Problem is I rarely get my one square when it gets spotted by my son.  My husband also eats it when he sleep walks and I find the empty wrapper in the fridge normally when I am most looking forward to it.

Henry really wanted some new trainers as an Easter present.  He is only 9 years old but since he is a size 4 we had to buy adults size.  The price was quite literally double.  Unfortunately he asked for these a couple of days before Easter so my chance of buying online were shafted.  Having had a shop I understand that it is difficult to make ends meet, particularly during economically challenging times.  This is precisely the reason we set up a free website.  Internet shopping will never replace high street stores.  Consumer confidence is lower on the net when you are unsure of after service.  If the prices are competitive then it may become a calculated risk for buyers.  The more success we have on internet sales, the more we "risk" on future purchases.

It makes sense to have an online shop and an internet presence.  Having traveled this path, i know how expensive and time consuming this can be.  YapYapOK provides  an opportunity to enable retailers to create their own online shop completely free of charge.   Owners of online websites know only too well, that you can have the best all singing all dancing site at the most competitive prices, but if your rankings are low, or your budgets are limited then you will not get any "footfall".  The nuts and bolts of operating an e-commerce site don't vary much from the high street.  The more money you have in securing your position or marketing yourself to the masses, the better your chances of getting traffic.  Remember your footfall is potentially massive, but so is your competition.  You are no longer competing with one or two other book shops in the town, there will be millions of them.  All selling the same books at vastly discounted prices.  Some will have been established for years.

This is the benefit of selling on popular listing sites such as Amazon and Ebay.  They do all that marketing for you, thus increasing customers to your store.   This is an expensive way to sell and if your prepared to lower your marjins to attract more customers then it will probably work well.  The down side of this of course is that you will need to work harder or to bring in the same amount of money. 

YapYapOK is the gap in the internet market.  Our rankings are growing every day and we work 7 days a week marketing our site on your behalf.  Ours is a use it without learning it, site.  There are full picture galleries and embed video options.  Individual products have  a dedicated page, check out this ad for The Identity Project, the more products you have the more exposure you get, simple!

YapYapOK offers free shop hosting which we hope will enable competitive pricing, but thats your choice.  With no internet costs, marjins can be realistically lower and still allow you the business owner to make a good profit.  After all you are doing all the work, why shouldn't you?

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If you’re too open-minded, your brains will fall out.

Easter Sunday

Last night was very late as we watched all the Easter celebrations in the village.  They don't start until 12.00 and they last for about an hour after the bonfire and the fireworks.

Its really better to stay awake and watch them, than sleep through them.  Its always very magical with the church service, the candlelit procession, oh and the firecracker fights which can be quite extreme.

Since its Easter I thought I would share something with you.  The other night whilst I was tossing and turning a very odd thing happened to me, it was very (too) fast and unnerving but I was looking at myself and my husband from above.  

Now I am not sure where my beliefs lie with this.  Astral projection seems too far fetched, particularly having researched the subject since.  Another explanation given to me was that I was looking to myself for answers and it is the mind that plays tricks on you when you are in deep thought.  This seems much more logical and perhaps one I choose to go with.  I'm very open minded in what may exist beyond what we can see.  However, personally, this was way out of my comfort zone.

YapYapOK has not moved in rankings since yesterday.  We have had some more great adverts placed including this one for line dancing qualifying event featuring world famous dancers. Also another for swingers, sorry jive and swing social evenings.   So the site is continuing to draw more traffic and more importantly more ads, day and night.

I am off to pack a picnic as we are going off for another marathon walk,  Actually its only about 5 miles but it is very difficult terrain climbing mountains and fording rivers.

Happy egg hunting!

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Easter Saturday!

My son Henry has a tennis tournament coming up at the end of the month.   My husband has done something top his knee, and although he tends to not let these things get in his way it has become a problem doing exercise.  Hmm, so not to let the team down I have stepped up to the mark.

I have never been particularly sporty.  I was always the one at school who would spend more energy avoiding sport than if I had actually taken part.   Last year I started tennis for fear of becoming a tennis widow.  I would not have seen my husband or my son if I hadn't joined in.

It came as a great surprise to actually enjoy it, helped of course by the athletic young tennis coaches at the local academy.  Unfortunately YapYapOK has taken so much of my time during the past 12 months that I had stopped playing.  It has become easier to work than make time for tennis.  Consequently several tennis sessions this week has left me barely able to move and shattered.

I have surprised myself by containing the skills  I had picked up during Henrys coaching.  Henry is an excellent player.  He has great coordination, listens and implemeents his skills and is fast and strong on the court.  He won his first ever tournament never losing more than 3 sets in a game of 9.

This time the age limit is different.  He is only 9 and will be playing against 12 year olds.  All of them are professionally coached every week and Henry only attends once a month.  ±He is not expected to win but is expected to learn.  As a mother I am concerned that he will become demoralised.  This happened in his first golf tournament, he fully expected to take a trophy against older more experienced players.  He had only been in an academy for a few weeks, with no prior experience.  We saw it as an opportunity to play a course.

This put him off golf as he could not see himself winning.  He has only played one tournament since and failed to place in that one too.  He continues to play at the academy and has now moved up to the advanced group, often driving a ball 200 yards  with reasonable accuracy.

Today I am sitting catching up with my blog whilst they are at the academy.  We had many free adverts placed on YapYapOK during yesterday and last nignt. YapYapOK rankings are now at 844,994.  I had hoped that they would be below 800,000 before tomorrow but this is unlikely as we have only jumped 150,00 in 6 days.  Last weeks jump was an excess of 300,000 points so we have jumped less than half of that.

The further up you climb the harder it becomes, we are really relying on some great traffic now.  So if you have anything to sell, register.  It takes seconds.  Activate your email by clicking on the link.  If your email is not in your inbox, check your spam or junk file.  Thats it, your ready to post!

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Good Friday 2010

Good Friday = another mufty/poker day!

There seems to be alot of days off in April and I'm unsure how this will impact on my rankings.  So I have decided to continue building inlinks to the UK best classified site.

We should have had our new ads appearing but we are having some hiccups with the code.  I hope that they will be cleared up by today.  Having said that not everyone works over Easter weekend, it may be that we require the help of the company so maybe my optimism is a little stretched.

YapYapOK has been climbing in the ranks but it is now getting harder as our other established sites have the advantage over us.  Help us, register and place an ad.  Alternatively you can promote and link to your blog on our Yap Your Blog Forum.

To register on YapYapOK, simply click on the register button on the top left.  Fill in required spaces.  Check your inbox, or in some cases your spam or junk file and activate your email.

Thats it, your ready to post.
1  Post an ad on the top bar
2  Select category
3  Fill in Title, keywords ( eg if its a book, then title and author, maybe fiction, bestseller) Price and optional description and opt embed video and save
4  A catagory  and images tab will come up and you can click on the category tab, select further categories and sub categories and click, and save.  Images are optional and you can upload and save.

Ads take less than a few minutes to upload and will intitially appear on the front page of YapYapOK.

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Never put off untill tomorrow what you can avoid altogether

This is a quickie for in links to the best UK classified site. 

I once remember a good friend of mine asking what drives me, I remember answering that its because I am lazy.  She replied that I was the least lazy person I know.

Not true I am lazy, but with a plan.  I work hard so that I don't have to later.  I am 20 years on still waiting for later but I anticipate it coming soon.

Dont get me wrong, doing nothing is not all its cracked up to be either.  I know, I once went through a stage in my life where I had a few months not working. The bliss in the beginning was  great, but lets face it.  There is only so much Jeremy Kyle anyone can stomach.  I watched Jeremy Kyle out of curiosity, then because it gave me a superiority complex.  I mean any one who goes on the show must know that they will look like morons and we all feel so much cleverer (is that a word) than them!

I would at this point like to acknowledge my brother Shane for his input on the riddle forum.  A few have driven me nuts, and some were very easy.  Some I don't get even with the answers.  He also just put his Pentax camera on the site,  Shane if your looking I Twittered it to my thousands.

We continue to draw global traffic and with this comes the adverts.  By my next blog there will be adverts all over YapYapOK.  I spent some of yesterday choosing the format in keeping with YapYapOK.  My developer and I will be uploading either today or tomorrow.

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