[Video] Why Does Google Trust Old Websites So Much? : SEO Book.com
Something to consider before dumping an under-performing domain: the value of domain age.

How to Pitch to Bloggers - 21 Tips
…without being obnoxious and coming across like all you care about is what they can do for you.

• [Video] Why Does Google Trust Old Websites So Much? : SEO Book.com
  Something to consider before dumping an under-performing domain: the value of domain age.
• How to Pitch to Bloggers - 21 Tips
  …without being obnoxious and coming across like all you care about is what they can do for you.

How to Unschedule your work and enjoy guilt-free play at LifeClever Tips for Design and Life
Even if you can’t schedule playtime into your work day, this article may give you some ideas on how breaks from work can actually make you more productive.

Rolling with the Punches and Looking for Positives in the Negatives
ProBlogger isn’t [...]

• How to Unschedule your work and enjoy guilt-free play at LifeClever Tips for Design and Life
  Even if you can’t schedule playtime into your work day, this article may give you some ideas on how breaks from work can actually make you more productive.
• Rolling with the Punches and Looking for Positives in the Negatives
  ProBlogger isn’t finding Google’s page rank slap on the ass to be a problem. Nor should anyone else.
• Social Media Marketing: The New SEO?
  Nicely balanced article on what you can and can’t expect social sites to do for your sites’ SEO.
• Google’s PageRank Update Goes After Paid Links?
  If your pagerank has taken a hit, well now you have something in common to chat about over lunch with WashingtonPost.com, StatCounter.com and Forbes.com
• Click Yourself Right Off Of Those Annoying Mailing Lists « Web Worker Daily
  WebWorkerDaily gives initial thoughts on ProQuo, which is supposed to get you off email lists and spam.

D’oh! I never before noticed there’s a way to auto-hide your taskbar in Windows so that it only appears when you hover your mouse over where it would be. This lets you reclaim some screen real estate and avoid distractions from other programs’ windows.

Right-click the taskbar, choose Properties.
Under the Taskbar tab, click “Auto-hide the Task [...]

D’oh! I never before noticed there’s a way to auto-hide your taskbar in Windows so that it only appears when you hover your mouse over where it would be. This lets you reclaim some screen real estate and avoid distractions from other programs’ windows.

• Right-click the taskbar, choose Properties.
• Under the Taskbar tab, click “Auto-hide the Task Bar”

You can also do something about icons you don’t really need showing down there, too.

Stephen King´s Top 7 Tips for Becoming a Better Writer
…which can benefit bloggers and copywriters just as much as novelists. Some very good tips in there.

Web Worker 101: Working With Others « Web Worker Daily
Here’s the basic quandry: as a lone wolf, you’re limited in the size and scope of contracts that you can undertake. [...]

• Stephen King´s Top 7 Tips for Becoming a Better Writer
  …which can benefit bloggers and copywriters just as much as novelists. Some very good tips in there.
• Web Worker 101: Working With Others « Web Worker Daily
  Here’s the basic quandry: as a lone wolf, you’re limited in the size and scope of contracts that you can undertake. Eventually, a potential client is going to approach you with a job that can’t be completed by one person in the time allotted.
• Google’s International Headache: Orkut
  The article covers how Google had to pull the ads on Orkut back in August due to them showing up next to “pictures of naked children and abused animals.”
• SEO Theory - SEO Theory and Analysis Blog » 20 Hard Core SEO Tips
  20 tips for SEO - you may not agree with all of them, but they will get you thinking

I’ve never liked using Gmail and Google feedreader because I just don’t trust Google. Plus, Gmail for me was clunky and slow, and the feedreader didn’t always look like it should have in my browser.
Gmail’s ability to let you email with a different reply-to address turned out to be irreplaceable (update: Inbox.com has this feature, [...]

I’ve never liked using Gmail and Google feedreader because I just don’t trust Google. Plus, Gmail for me was clunky and slow, and the feedreader didn’t always look like it should have in my browser.

Gmail’s ability to let you email with a different reply-to address turned out to be irreplaceable (update: Inbox.com has this feature, too). But by the time I’d spent a while hunting, I also asked myself whether it was such a great idea to be sending emails like that through a third-party service - not to mention the confusion of having them come both to an online mailbox and offline to my email client. In the end, I went with Inbox.com, which has a pretty decent privacy policy compared to Google and works very similarly, except it has the ability for me to set up different folders as well as labels. Can’t tell you how much I still miss folders, even after working with labels in Gmail. It was just never the same for me.

For feedreading, I like a service that lets me read a bunch of feeds at once instead of going feed by feed. I also want to be able to clip or pin articles for future reference. I thought Rojo was going to do the trick, but I had trouble signing up with them, got no response to my email asking for help, and then voila - today the domain is on sale. Not sure what the deal is there, but in the end I found News Alloy. It has the features I mentioned and it works quickly. I think it’s got some more features I might start using, once I work out what they do.

Blog Jobs - Get them Here While They’re Hot
The ProBlogger Blog Job Board has seen some interesting new jobs for bloggers go up over the last week. If you’re a blogger looking for a blogging job - here are a few you might like to check out:

• Blog Jobs - Get them Here While They’re Hot
  The ProBlogger Blog Job Board has seen some interesting new jobs for bloggers go up over the last week. If you’re a blogger looking for a blogging job - here are a few you might like to check out: