I have been really amazed how our little trade lead directory is generating such interest in China. India has always been a good source of activity on Rude66 but now China has taken a commanding lead in the posting of trade leads by the international business community.

In analyzing our trafiic I have noticed that noticed that much of our traffic is coming from the top Chinese search engines such as Baidu.com and Google.com.cn

Surprisingly the UK provides a lot of traffic as well as Spain. The top ten international trade lead posters on Rude66 are as follows;

China, India, United Kingdom, Spain, Germany, France, Indonesia, Netherlands, Italy and Turkey.

So what is driving this extraordinarily diverse activity? The overwhelming response from our members is that Rude66.com is easy to use and free. While there are many free trade portals few offer the as much as Rude66.com. Free members can post up to 50 sell trade leads, 50 product catalogs, 50 buy trade leads and a company profile complete with web link and contact details.  

Another factor  driving our success is that our members can have confidence that their products and services will be found. Rude66 invests in bringing traffic to the trade leads that are posted on our site and our search engine optimization  makes sure that member posts get indexed in all the major engines.

Our little site keeps growing and we are excited to see such diversity. It seems that our slogan is for real. “Bringing the Free World Together for Free” see you at Rude66.com

I have been hoping that one day the world would find Rude66.com. Well I don’t know about the “world” but  we did have quite a few new members coming in this December. 

There was a time when most of our new international members came from India but there has  been a shift towards China.

 Another interesting trend has been the number of trade leads being posted by new members. In the past many new members would sign up but not post any trade leads at all. Now the majority of user are posting trade leads and company profiles to maximum limits of their membership level.

What does all this mean?……………..I don’t know. I did suspect that if we could attract enough members that they would help attract other members from the search engines and back links.

It seems that is what is happening the more members the more members the more members this exponential growth can come fast .

I am excited to see the site grow. I am hoping to one day put an ad on my site that actually helps me with the cost of maintaining it.  I have a few things in mind for the new year. I am thinking about adding a surplus auction section and I also think that a free lance script section like rentacoder.com and scriptlance.com would be a nice fit.

On a personal note I had a Great Christmas I felt so blessed to see my family open up their modest gifts and really be grateful. I kept reminding myself that Christmas is really about the birth of the Savior.

I hope that all three of you reading this blog will have a great new year and that you will be blessed beyond you dreams. I will be here as always creating a place for small import and export companies to get the word out about their good and services for free. Why you ask? I don’t know but it is fun for now so keep watching and let’s see if Rude66 takes a leap forward this year.

Happy New Year

Kelark

All I want for Christmas is for the world to find Rude66.com and to make it the premiere “B2B Trade Lead Portal in the World” (as always insert reverb and imagine James Earl Jones’s voice saying that). Is that too much to ask?  Well maybe, I guess I would settle for a few paid memberships to pay my server bills before my wife finds out I have spent our vacation money keeping hope alive.

Seriously I am having so much fun creating, maintaining and promoting Rude66 that I really haven’t thought about the actual cost to keep it going. The expenses are actually minimal and I consider them to be more educational expenses than standard costs of doing business.

I have learned so much about web design, SEO (that’s search engine optimization for you website promotion virgins) and other stuff that I scare myself with the trivial bits of knowledge that I have rattling around in my head . My dream is to be at a party and someone mentions that they are having  problems with their website and I get to say ” have you made sure your meta tags and site title are relevant to your page content, duh”?

 I get so much joy out of finding my site listed among the giant corporations in the top listings. It is a marvel to me that a guy in his underwear can leverage the Internet in some ways  as much as a large corporation with several fully dressed employees dedicated to nothing else but dominating the little guys like me.

There are many trade lead portals out there, some are huge enterprises some are I think guys like me just trying to get something going but I do truly believe that Rude66 is unique. Our slogan is “Bringing the Free World together for Free” This definitely calls for the James Earl Jones effect. If you get the chance come on over and check out the Heroes page I think that you will agree that is interesting at the least and provocative for a website that has most of it’s visitors coming from China. 

Tell your friends about Rude66 and keep watching we are growing every day and I am always looking to improve the site. Have a Merry Christmas.

“B2b Trade Leads” ” Trade Leads” and other similar search terms are very competitive. It takes a lot of time and patience to come up high in the organic search results especially on Google. Many of the competitor sites for these terms are giant corporations that dominate the market and search engines. Then there is www.rude66.com.

We are an unlikely player in this huge market segment. We didn’t set out to be, we didn’t even know anything about b2b trade leads and such. Here is the story. When I first got on the Internet I never really cared about what was on it rather I only cared about how it worked. So I spent countless hours in front of my computer in my underwear while my wife slept in the glow of my flickering screen learning how to become the 2,376,907th best webmaster in the world.

One day I naively  thought that I would buy the domain name Route66.com and become the “Onramp to the Internet Superhighway” when you read that please insert reverb and James Earl Jones’s voice. You will never guess what happened next…wow you guessed it Route66.com  was already taken and my onramp was closed due to the fact that nobody had a map with my location on it.

Rude66 became my classroom where I learned how to install and manage web sites and web applications that I employed in other projects. I had a client (my brother in-law) that wanted to have a classified ad section on his web site. So I did what I always did I searched the engines, downloaded 800 hundred scripts until I found a few free programs that just might work and then I installed them on Rude66 to test them. I eventually found one that fit the bill and my client was tickled pink.

Well time passed and I never gave my own classified ad script that I installed on my site a second look until I noticed that my bandwidth usage on my shared hosting account was way up. I did a little digging and found out that my little test installation ad script was getting about three thousand ads placed a month and thousands of page view as well. These ads were being placed from all over the world for everything and anything you could imagine. I don’t know how they found it but they sure did.

I thought to myself I wonder if I could find a way to actually make a little money on the Internet. So I did a little research and found out that were web sites offering a service where sellers post their products and services complete with specifications, payment type, availability etcetera. Alibaba.com and Ec21.com  are the foremost examples of this type of business model.

Guess what I did next, that’s right I searched the engines, downloaded 800 hundred scripts until I found a few free programs that just might work and then I installed them on Rude66. I then made the decision to focus my site as a “B2B Trade Portal”. I have invested a lot of time and money to become one of the hundreds if not thousands of unique sites offering the same service to a world in need of duplicated services.

The answer to my thought of making a little money has not really materialized and by not really materialized I mean I haven’t actually made a penny. I don’t want to tell how much I have spent creating, promoting and maintaining Rude66 but let’s just say if i did my wife would be using her maiden name again.

Recently I have included a paid membership for only $20.00 per year where I actually spend $10.00 of the fee to create a Google AdWords campaign to bring traffic to the postings of the member.  I think this helps me as well because any traffic to my site a I see as a good thing.

 So far my site has remained ad free and I am proud of it’s simple interface and usability. My membership is from all over the world primarily China, India, Indonesia and North America and I now have almost 1000 registered members creating new content every day . My site also places well in for some very competitive search terms in  organic search engine results. Which brings me to the reason for this post bringing in new members.

When reviewing my site statistics I have been finding lately the most diverse search terms that lead visitors to Rude66.com such as anarkali suits,  shopp123, dewishop, dk-5mp, 2007-fe2,  y-3 sneakers, prednislone,  ketoralac.

I have never heard of these terms and I did no marketing of them but they account for a good portion of my web traffic. I guess i will continue to try and attract the business seeking exposure and then rely upon their content to bring in the people to use the resources we offer.

My email is full of thanks you and success stories from my members that have made profitable contacts through my site.  I think it is cool that my silly little site site is helping to bring world peace by connecting those seeking Anarakali suits and dewishop together with those selling them. It makes me tear up a little.

Rude66 is living up to our slogan “Bringing the free world together for free”,  we just didn’t know it would be through “dried yellow tail fish”, go figure.

Rude66.com has a new look. “We have been searching for a simplified interface and theme for some time now. We have finally decided to just go with the bare necessities.” said a spokesman for Rude66.

The new look is patterned after the Google index page with the most important links at the top of the page. Trade leads are catagorized and indexed in a clean table right on the front page below the standard search boxes.

Rude66 has been growing at a steady pace and plans to market aggressively in 2009. We are poised to become a “must be there” type of site for serious import and export concerns looking for an easy and affordable venue to post trade leads.

Our strength is our simplicity. The new look plays to that strength come on over and check it out http://www.rude66.com.