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    Lyrics Life

    http://www.lyricslife.com/

    Finally I have a lyrics site! (I've been wanting one for years)

    I wanted a simple yet stylish design that would load quick and look good.

    Mike did the Search script and someone from sitepoint did the rest of the scripting. Total cost was just $325 for scripting by both parties.

    The database has about 126,000 lyrics in total in it (yet for some reason hasn't got any Edwyn Collins or Joy Division lyrics - I will have to add them myself when I get some time).

    I plan to add a amazon box and a link to iTunes on it, as well as include the search facility in an IE toolbar I am making.

    My November target is going to be to get by the end of the month LyricsLife getting 5k uniques per day (without cheating by buying popups from Dan Grossman, etc).

    So what do you think? Do you have any suggestions? Do you want to do link exchanges (Music/Entertainment sites only please)?

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    Looks good. As I expected, there are R.E.M. lyrics featured right on the front page!

    Did you purchase the database from somewhere?

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    Well done incka.

    Keep us updated on traffic stats, I'm curiuos.

    I like your clean design, and lack of extreme advertising. Many lyrics sites that rank at the top of google are extremely slow and very annoying to navigate.
    Kyle

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    I'm going to submit it to fastclick soon, however I am expecting the iPod offer to out proform what I could make using fastclick.

    I'll AIM you occasionaly with traffic details Kyle, unless others want to know too.

    Part of the scripting I bought was a spider which was named SlurpLyrics.

    I don't keep up with popular culture (to say the least) so if anyone can tell me any artists (if you can call them that!) that are popular at the moment so I can do links to them at the side please do.
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    Looks nice

    240 lyrics from David Bowie - Wow

    Why not post the trafic details - I would be interested in how quickly they grow

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    Sure, I'll post them then, upon request only though (and don't ask for about a month)

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    SlurpLyrics spider? Does that mean that it spiders other people's pages and takes lyrics from them?

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    Yes. Nothing illegal about that.

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    Yes. Nothing illegal about that.
    I'm not sure how lyrics copyright works, but aren't you supposed to get permission from the lyrics' authors in order to publish them on your site?

    I don't think you can freely publish copyrighted works, but again I might not be right in the lyrics case.

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    Quote Originally Posted by incka
    Yes. Nothing illegal about that.
    Oh. In that case, I'm off to write a spider to copy all the flash games from your games site and add them to mine. While I'm at it, I think I'll grab all the definitions from your dictionary site too!

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    Go on, they aren't copyright, but don't take the descriptions from my games site as they are copyrighted. People take all the definitions from my dictionary site daily.

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    very good lyrics site... perhaps the best ive seen... much better then the top 10 on google.

    i am working on such a site also but it is more towards 'heavy metal' music. This is because it is quite difficult to find lyrics to metal songs on the major sites. I am thinking that targeted lyrics sites will do better in traffic and such.

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    Thanks, that's one of the nicest compliments I've had in months

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    Quote Originally Posted by Westech
    Oh. In that case, I'm off to write a spider to copy all the flash games from your games site and add them to mine. While I'm at it, I think I'll grab all the definitions from your dictionary site too!
    I don't *think* you can copy whole collections on sites, or that's what I was told
    Don't you just love free internet games ?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Westech
    Oh. In that case, I'm off to write a spider to copy all the flash games from your games site and add them to mine. While I'm at it, I think I'll grab all the definitions from your dictionary site too!

    Im not a law student, yet, but that does not sound too legal to me.

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