Archive for January, 2008

Link theory, bad WordPress themes, aff mktg alive and well

Sunday, January 27th, 2008 How we’d link if there was no Google. How to recognize a WordPress theme with malicious code. Affiliate Marketing is not on the decline

Recommending your competitors, internal linking, and fighting scrapers

Sunday, January 27th, 2008 A real life “Macy’s recommends Gimball’s” – I find this rather brilliant Quick ‘n’ easy way to set up internal links on your site Ways to combat scrapers

Natural language, the truth about overnight success and WordPress theming

Saturday, January 26th, 2008 Use natural language to attract searchers who… use natural language to search Professional blogging takes crazy amounts of time and effort, says Darren Rowse. You’d think this is a no-brainer, but yeah. CK moves from modifying WordPress themes to creating WordPress themes in the latest tutorial.

Why the big boys say much, signifying nothing

Friday, January 25th, 2008 This complaint about Shoemaker being a hypocrite is interesting regardless of your take on it, but this particular quote I vound via Stu really grabbed me: “Let me define the “Make Money Online” niche for you. It’s largely a bunch of guys talking about how wealthy they are, leading inexperienced newbies on, pretending like someday they’ll reveal their “big money” secrets, and you’ll be wealthy too. In reality, they just ... READ MORE

Gnomes and letting other people waste our time

Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008 The Underpants Gnomes business plan. If you don’t remember the episode, watch the clip. It’s so sad and so true. Why I just don’t post about Google anymore. You know, I’m going to toss all the emails I get with “X steps/tips to whatever” that I put aside, intending to read someday. My time would be much better spend on books.

Styling, copyrighting and blogging – oh my!

Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008 Nice series with lots of info about styling WordPress themes: Part 4 Great article on the right way to use personas in developing your marketing strategy The basics on good blogging. Yeah, basic, but it never hurts to refresh yourself on tried and true rules.

Free ebook, embiggen your feed stats, link hate bait

Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008 Free ebook on making niche websites with WordPress Get some ideas on increasing your feed stats Is criticizing other companies good linkbait? It’s definitely not the classiest thing you could do today. Some people figure it’s good for both parties, as you’re making buzz for the person/company you’re complaining about. But do your readers know that?

Spacetime, toll-free commission stealing and responding to commenters

Sunday, January 20th, 2008 SpaceTime. Like Dogile, but really fancy and cool-lookin’. Call Centers and Live Chat: all your commissions are belong to us. Is responding to your readers in comments really all that? Sometimes I think your voice has such “authority” on your own blog that it can seem not friendly but more like the boss walking in on mailroom chatter.

GoDaddy crap, crappy sites and you, crappy

Saturday, January 19th, 2008 GoDaddy never learns. I normally don’t link to my other site, Affiliate Marketing Journal, but relevance begs it. My library of GoDaddy complaints (see comments). Crap sites need not settle for crap inbounds. Good point. When not to blog.

Aweber, linking out and blog writing

Friday, January 18th, 2008 Aweber to start reporting numbers to Feedburner. Sometime. Eventually. The importance of linking out. Also: traffic as sooner or later, somebody links back to you. 5 Tips to Write a Really Quick Blog Article serves as example of own Tip #1.

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