Just dropped a swicki on ScienceFiction.com  .   Going to focus on sci fi games, downloads, and anything free associated with science fiction.  I’m expecting a lot of traffic for terms like free science fiction wallpaper, and free sci fi games.

Everyone’s always looking for free stuff, especially free games and other downloads.

Most people I interact with are on Facebook, so a Facebook search can work wonders, especially if the person I’m looking for is under 25 years old and has an actual picture of themselves up as their profile pic. But 1/5 internet users aren’t on Facebook right now, and there are plenty of double matches on Facebook that are hard to differentiate between.

But finding profiles on social networks isn’t the only reason that I like the relatively-new people search engine pipl.com . It also brings back web and news results from all kinds of niche sites, forums, and blogs.

Combine this with the ability to add custom geographical fields, and Pipl.com is a must-try. It will then quickly turn into a must-use.

Great use case: After doing a whois lookup for a domain you’re thinking about buying, you can then find out all kinds of information on the person who’s holding that domain.

Its scary how much you can find out about someone in a matter of minutes, especially if they have a relately unusual name.

Paidcontent is saying that Ticketmaster and Live Nation are about to merge, creating Live Nation Entertainment.  Ticketmaster specializes in ticket sales, Live Nation specializes in concert promotion, and they both specialize in charging 50% of the ticket price itself in “convenience” charges.

Let’s hope that their merger will reduce these crazy charges that gives less money back to the bands.  My guess that it won’t, so we’ll have to continue buying tickets at the venues themselves, as well as through some smaller ticket distributors.

For instance, just got tickets to see the Presets at the Mezzanine, via ticketweb, and convenience charges were only $3 per ticket.

Not bad, compared to the $15 ticketmaster charges.

I’ve been using ZoneEdit.com recently, and its extremely simple to use, and best of all its free.  You can get five ‘zones’ for free, and each zone counts as a single domain, and then you can set up unlimited subdomains for each of these.

Good use case?  You can drop a Ning social network on your own domain, and only pay the $7/month ning software fee, plus the domain registration fee (maybe $1/month if that) .

This is much cheaper and easier to handle then buying a hosting account.  Most people don’t realize that DNS tools and hosting are separate.

I used to work for one.  I now generally spend about 90% of my day generating SEO traffic through various tactics, so in retrospect, I wish I did some of the following.  In reality, I tried, but got shot down by folks who wanted to see ROI a day later.

1.  Create a blog and put it on your domain.  Heck, build five.  Its easy, and you don’t even need to touch your hosting account if you don’t want to.  Services like blogger let you point it at your primary domain, meaning visitors and Google crawlers see it as yourblog.yoursite.com  .

What’s the benefit?  Content, links, networking, access to new directories - did I mention links?  Its a lot easier to submit a blog to a directory than it is to submit a business site.

2.  Build 5 Blogspot blogs.  Why not?  They take about 5 minutes to set up and it takes a bout 30 seconds to post something.  Note:  you don’t have to post stuff that actually makes sense.  Just put some words on there, and create a few deep links to your product pages.

3.  Write an article for Hubpages

4.  Write an article for Squidoo

5.  Write an article for EzineArticles

6.  Do a Google search for blog directories in your subject matter.  Chances are, you’ll find at least five that are free.

7.  Create a swicki, and put it on one of your subdomains.  Again, more content.

8.  Build a resource site or information center using Wordpress software, and host it on a new domain.  Tailor this resource site to target specific long-tail strings of words that will convert.   Then direct this traffic to relevant product pages.

I finally decided it was time to move my personal blog to it’s own domain.  What was the tipping point?  Contrary to Malcolm Gladwell’s theories, it was a combination of many little factors, though I finally had a free afternoon to setup a database and install the Wordpress software, all on my GoDaddy deluxe hosting account, so this blog is costing me $0/month.

Well, I still gotta pay a little for the domain itself…

In retrospect, I’ll miss the easy posting at To The Face.  Some of my favorite posts were from when I first launched it (about 8 months ago) , but two of the first posts are still good resources for some social marketing.  Check out How to get 50 Followers on Twitter and Getting Traffic with StumbleUpon.

There are also some funny posts from June.  I gotta remember to keep posting those kinds of things.  That’s why we all use the internet in the first place, right?  Lots of people forget that sometimes.

Hope to cover lots of media, SEO, sports, music stuff in the meantime.  I spend all day every day promoting niche sites.