Archive for April, 2007
Tuesday, April 17th, 2007
Reading my usual affiliate blogs, I’ve clicked links from one to the next regarding this whole "no paid links" fiasco, and finally wound up on a January article from SearchEngineJournal, called "A Link is not a Vote, It’s a Pointer". As soon as he mentioned how we link to companies we’re complaining about in order to show people what we’re discussing, I had one of those forehead slapping moments where ...
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Monday, April 16th, 2007
This is practically a step by step way to promote your new sites. I mean, it’s like a recipe it’s so simple. And of course you can vary it using sources you find on your own. But seriously – brilliant.
I’m so definitely going to do this with some of my new sites.
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Monday, April 16th, 2007
They said paid links weren’t a problem as long as they didn’t violate other good linking practices. That makes sense, since Google really has no way of knowing that someone hasn’t paid me (or promised me something) to write this very post.Now they’re saying not only will they be cracking down on those godless link sellers, they also invite webmasters to turn each other in. Google says it’s not fair ...
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Friday, April 13th, 2007
I’m trying out Qumana, a desktop application to let you blog offline, save and publish posts, ping who you want and switch between blogs quickly and easily. The text box is WYSIWYG, so you can copy something with links and formatting and it’ll show up in the box just like it looked at the source.
The setup is crazy-easy – you just plug in the site URL and your name ...
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Thursday, April 12th, 2007
I read a very detailed and thoughtful article about Brian Turner’s experience with ReviewMe – as an advertiser, not a publisher.
If I try to sum up what he said, I’ll probably accidentally misrepresent, so let me just say what impressions I retained from reading it.
If the advertiser puts in some work – i.e., giving people a specific bit of linkbait to review, like a contest or something – it ...
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Wednesday, April 11th, 2007
Here’s a way to get your blogs a little extra notice – maybe even a lot.
Blogger’s Choice Awards
Whether you win or not, it should bring some new traffic.
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Wednesday, April 11th, 2007
I have no idea how to pick the blog niche that’s going to make you rich. It’s been trial and error for me – I’ll pick two topics I think should perform about equally, and one will far outshine the other.
That said, maybe I can point you to something that’ll help you come up with your next niche, or at least get you researching ones you’ve never seen before.
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Tuesday, April 10th, 2007
There’s an awesome WordPress plugin to make the search on your site work better. You can choose to have it include comments, pages, and metadata in the results. You just install it, activate it, select your options in the options panel, and that’s it. No tweaking of templates.
There’s also the Google option, which I went with on this site and a couple of others for web-savvy people. But some of ...
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