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Other => Beginners & Help => Topic started by: victorlin on April 04, 2013, 04:30:01 AM



Title: Where to promote my service?
Post by: victorlin on April 04, 2013, 04:30:01 AM
Hi,

I'm new here, I am wondering where can I promote my website? We accepts bitcoins, but I can only find little place to promote it. For the wiki page https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Trade (https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Trade), I have no idea how to put my link on it. Does anyone could help?

Is there any other place to promote my service?

My website is http://ezcomet.com (http://ezcomet.com), it's a realtime message pushing service. When the bitcoin price is floating, this could be very helpful for developers to display messages on website in realtime.

Thanks.
Victor Lin.


Title: Re: Where to promote my service?
Post by: victorlin on April 04, 2013, 04:35:27 AM
By the way, it's very easy to use, this is why I named it "EZ".

To read bitcoin price and push to my service, here you can write Python script like this

Code:
import time
import urllib
 
import ezcomet
 
 
def read_price():
    f = urllib.urlopen('http://data.mtgox.com/api/1/BTCUSD/ticker')
    content = f.read()
    return content
 
 
def main():
    api = ezcomet.EZCometAPI(
        api_key='<your API goes here>',
        user_name='demo',
    )
    while True:
        time.sleep(30)
        price_data = read_price()
        api.write('bitcoi[Suspicious link removed]ice', price_data)
 
if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()

The javascript to receive messages is also simple

Code:
<script src="http://cdn.ezcomet.com/ezcomet.min.js"></script>
<script>
    window.onload = function() {
        function callback(msg) {
            var result = msg['return'].last_local;
 
            var date = new Date( parseInt(msg['return'].now) / 1000 );
            // hours part from the timestamp
            var hours = date.getHours();
            // minutes part from the timestamp
            var minutes = date.getMinutes();
            // seconds part from the timestamp
            var seconds = date.getSeconds();
            // will display time in 10:30:23 format
            var formattedTime = hours + ':' + minutes + ':' + seconds;
 
            document.getElementById('price').innerHTML = result.display + ' USD';
            document.getElementById('now').innerHTML = formattedTime;
        }
        ezcomet.subscribe({
            user_name: 'demo',
            channel: 'bitcoi[Suspicious link removed]ice',
            msg_type: 'json',
            callback: callback,
            auto_tick: false
        });
    };
</script>

You can see the live demo here

http://ezcomet.com/demo/bitcoin_price (http://ezcomet.com/demo/bitcoin_price)

If you have question about my service, you can ask me here. :D


Title: Re: Where to promote my service?
Post by: Stephen Gornick on April 04, 2013, 09:05:35 AM
For the wiki page https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Trade (https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Trade), I have no idea how to put my link on it. Does anyone could help?

The Bitcoin.it wiki uses a bitcoin validation method (send bitcoin to the address for your username) to protect against spammers:

If you didn't want to sign up there, I've added your service:

 -  http://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Trade#Cloud_Providers_and_Services


Title: Re: Where to promote my service?
Post by: btcfrog on April 04, 2013, 09:14:29 AM
By the way, you should change the title tag on your firstpage to something else than "Home".

- First off its not that usefull for users when the "Firefox" tab reads home, hard to know which one is EZcomet.
- Secondly the title tag is used by the search engines for both indexing and sometimes showing the results on the page.

Suggestion on new title tag (just a fast not thought through example) "EZCOMET Bitcoin realtime web message pushing"

And while you are at it add a good meta description tag, if it is good that is what google will show.


Good luck on your venture
//btcfrog


Title: Re: Where to promote my service?
Post by: kokjo on April 04, 2013, 09:18:53 AM
in my sig, for 0.25 btc.


Title: Re: Where to promote my service?
Post by: John (John K.) on April 04, 2013, 10:06:39 AM
Whitelisted. Feel free to post elsewhere (probably in Marketplace -> Services or Marketplace -> Service announcements) about this.


Title: Re: Where to promote my service?
Post by: victorlin on April 04, 2013, 01:02:00 PM
By the way, you should change the title tag on your firstpage to something else than "Home".

- First off its not that usefull for users when the "Firefox" tab reads home, hard to know which one is EZcomet.
- Secondly the title tag is used by the search engines for both indexing and sometimes showing the results on the page.

Suggestion on new title tag (just a fast not thought through example) "EZCOMET Bitcoin realtime web message pushing"

And while you are at it add a good meta description tag, if it is good that is what google will show.


Good luck on your venture
//btcfrog

Done, thanks. I didn't notice that :S

Will try to do some more SEO later.


Title: Re: Where to promote my service?
Post by: btcfrog on April 08, 2013, 12:45:09 PM
No problem, always nice to do something useful.

//btcfrog

By the way, you should change the title tag on your firstpage to something else than "Home".

- First off its not that usefull for users when the "Firefox" tab reads home, hard to know which one is EZcomet.
- Secondly the title tag is used by the search engines for both indexing and sometimes showing the results on the page.

Suggestion on new title tag (just a fast not thought through example) "EZCOMET Bitcoin realtime web message pushing"

And while you are at it add a good meta description tag, if it is good that is what google will show.


Good luck on your venture
//btcfrog

Done, thanks. I didn't notice that :S

Will try to do some more SEO later.