Getting Traffic

I always struggle to get people to visit my site, i am sure a lot of people do as well. My number one problem is obviously the fact that my site content is a bit sucky at this stage, which wont be the case forever though.

But what must one do to get people to actually visit your little home on the web?

This is far from a complete list - just a few thoughts.

1) Publish
a Great way to drive traffic i found, is publishing free scripts on a site like hotscripts, that alone helped me to get about 26000 hits so far this month, which isnt bad, but i'd like to see that figure times ten, once my site is worth the time and not simply a place to get a free download or two.

2) Link it up
Obviously the more you get your links on other sites, the better - getting top 10 listings in google/yahoo etc.

3) Webrings
Didnt join a webring yet, but i am sure it will work, the concept makes sense.

4) Paid ads
Another thing I didnt do yet, but sure it will work, too broke to bother though...

Then you get sites that promise you 1 Million visitors if you only pay them like $10

Sounds very scamy to me, usually you visit their site through a link you found on google or something (something about free traffic, but once you get there its not).

Then a lot of the free traffic sites, you must visit sites (you dont want to visit) to generate credits, to get visitors (visitors being the same poor idiots doing what you're doing) - the end of the day we visit places we dont want to visit, simply to get other people to visit places they dont want to visit.

Incidentally clicking on that hotscripts link in my blog will earn me referral points, which will give my hotscripts downloads a bigger chance of being found - so click as much as you can as fast as you can as often as you can :D... Dont be shy now, you know you want to.

Php .NET Passport

Ever tried to create a client area in PHP using .NET passport as your authentication method?

Personally I don't believe in .NET passports, a script like this can easily be used to capture passwords.

Here's a little example of how to get it running, it uses the CURL library to send requests.

 
function setRequest($url,$headers)
{
	if (function_exists('curl_init'))
	{
		$curl = curl_init();
		curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
		curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_FAILONERROR, TRUE);
		curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, TRUE);
		curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_VERBOSE, FALSE);
		curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HEADER,TRUE);
		curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers);
		curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, FALSE);
		$data = curl_exec($curl);
		curl_close($curl);
		return $data;
	}
	else die('Error: <a href="http://curl.haxx.se/">CURL Library</a> Not found!');
}
 
function Authentication($username, $password)
{
	$arr[] = "GET /rdr/pprdr.asp HTTP/1.0\\r\\n\\r\\n";
	$data = setRequest ("https://nexus.passport.com:443/rdr/pprdr.asp",$arr);
 
	if ($data)
	{
		preg_match("/DALogin=(.+?),/",$data,$matches);
		$split = explode("/",$matches[1]);
 
		$headers = array("GET /$split[1] HTTP/1.1\\r\\n", 
							"Authorization: Passport1.4 OrgVerb=GET,OrgURL=http://messenger.msn.com,sign-in=$username,pwd=$password");
 
		$data = setRequest("https://" . $split[0] . ":443/". $split[1], $headers);
 
		return ($data) ? TRUE : FALSE;
	}
	else
	{
		return FALSE;
	}	
}
 

 
	if (Authentication("username@hotmail.com","password"))
	{
		print "Authentication Success";
	}
	else
	{
		print "Authentication Failed";
	}