Concept phones are good examples of design inspiration. I found some information of creative cell phones which have attractive and beautiful design and i’d like to share it with you. I plan to publish such design inspiration articles on a regular basis in addition to my traditional Design Showcases.
Nokia Morph - probably one of the coolest concept phones. Looks awesome.
Here is my list of 176 free directories for submitting your site. This list is just updated. I have added a bunch of free directories with high PR and cleaned up a lot of inappropriate sites. I think most of you are familiar with some of these free directories, but hopefully someone can find this list useful.
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Press release submission is one of the most effective ways of getting free quality backlinks and promoting your website. By submitting your press releases to press release directories you can increase your site’s search rankings, Google PR and get some targeted traffic. A lot of resources can publish your press release from press release directories with links to your site, so it can increase effect even more.
Most of press release directories have high Google PR and good Alexa Rank. Most of these directories place direct links to your site without “nofollow” attribute, so they will pass Page Rank to your site.
Today’s interview is with Steven Snell. Steven runs vandelaydesign.com and traffikd.com. He writes about web design, marketing, blogging, social media, and SEO. His websites are very useful, make sure you check them out.
Steven, can you give a quick introduction of who you are and what you do?
Well, I’m a web designer and a blogger (I live in the U.S.). In the last
year I have been writing the blog at Vandelay Website Design and just last
month I launched Traffikd as sort of a side project. I’ve also been doing a
good bit of freelance blogging for various blogs.
What got you into blogging?
Initially I started blogging in attempt to get some search traffic to the
Vandelay Website Design site. I didn’t know much about blogging at the
time, but I knew the SEO benefits of having a good bit of keyword-rich
content on the site. That was my initial goal, but once the traffic started
coming from some other sources (like social media) I got excited and
dedicated. Things kind of took off unexpectedly from there.
What does your average day look like? How do you budget your time?
Well, I have a full-time job, so I work until 5:00 there. When I get home I spend about 5 hours working on my blogs and articles for other blogs, as well as whatever design projects I have going at the time. I spend most of my weekend working on that stuff as well. Each day really is different depending on what I have going on, but I’ve been spending more time recently on writing than designing. Managing my blogs is taking an increasing amount of time, just doing stuff like handling email and responding to comments. I think at sometime it will become a full-time career, but until then it takes a lot of evenings and weekends.
