MyAds: Promote Your Blog, Product or Service on MySpace
At the bottom of this post is a coupon code to give you a $50 credit at MyAds - this is not an affiliate promotion, just a take it or leave it offer from MyAds. Over the last week or so I've had the opportunity to see inside the MyAds from MySpace. MyAds have been an advertiser here on ProBlogger for a month or two now ( consider that a disclaimer ) so I wanted to see for myself how it worked. What I found was a very easy to use and pretty affordable way to advertise a product, service or even your blog. In s..
Blog Tips at ProBlogger (12 hours ago)
Friendfeed's Real-time Search
Now that ex-Google employees start-up Friendfeed has real-time search, you can feed their engine with a keyword like google and embed it elsewhere, like below (I could refine this search by restricting it to results which have X comments only, or have Likes, or which are only from my contacts at Friendfeed, and so on): PS: If you want to subscribe to my links at Friendfeed, it's there . [Hat tip to Websonic !] [By Philipp Lenssen | Origin: Friendfeed's Real-time Search | Comments ] [Advertisement] Find the ri..
Google Blogoscoped (17 hours ago)
Whiteboard Friday - Crawling & Indexing
Posted by great scott! Crawling and Indexing. Without them you can't rank. If you can't rank, you can't get search traffic. If you can't get search traffic, your online marketing efforts are going to suffer; and in our industry that is a colossal FAIL. This seems like simple stuff we all take for granted, but it's critically important to understand what you must do--and avoid--to make sure your site is regularly crawled and then maintained in the primary index of each of the major engines. Even if you think y..
SEOmoz Daily SEO Blog (20 hours ago)
Free Report with 500 Internet Marketing Strategies
My friend Gyutae Park emailed me to let me know that he just released an ebook titled The Winning Way . The ebook is free, and you will just need to subscribe to his email newsletter to be able to download it. It has 118 pages and it covers 500 different Internet marketing strategies and tips. Those are obviously short tips, but there are many interesting ideas among them, ranging from ecommerce to blogging and linkbuilding. In fact here is what Gyutae wrote on the ebook page: I’m so confident that this resou..
Daily Blog Tips (1 day ago)
Feedburner Add Customizable Subject Lines to Email Subscriptions
One month ago I wrote an open letter to Google/Feedburner suggesting that it might be time to add some more features to Feedburner - particularly the ability to customize subject lines of those subscribing to a feed via RSS. It seems that they've been hard at work on that very feature. Today I logged into my Feedburner account and noticed this in the ‘Email Branding' area. Yep - it's the feature we've been waiting for! All you need to do now is add the tag ${latestItemTitle} into the subject line and it..
Blog Tips at ProBlogger (1 day ago)
Gmail With Drag & Drop
Drag and drop has come to Gmail : you can now drag a message by its left-hand grid, and move it into a label/ folder to the left side. Also, you can now re-arrange labels via drag & drop. [Thanks Cookie Lee and Niranjan!] [By Philipp Lenssen | Origin: Gmail With Drag & Drop | Comments ] [Advertisement] Google books at eBay : background info on Google, AdWords, AdSense, Blogger and more...
Google Blogoscoped (2 days ago)
A Dozen Don'ts for SEOs
Posted by randfish I'm not always a fan of Guy Kawasaki's work, but really enjoyed his post on the OPEN Forum - A Dozen Don'ts for Entrepreneurs . I thought I'd take a stab at replicating it with some of my biggest warnings for those in our field. For the list below, the word "clients" is interchangeable with "marketing manager" or "executive team" for in-house SEOs. Don't Create False Expectations Clients are just like everyone else - when you exceed their expectations, they love you. When you disappoint, th..
SEOmoz Daily SEO Blog (2 days ago)
Official WordPress Commercial Theme Directory is live
The Official WordPress Commercial Theme Directory is now open. It is linked off the WordPress Extend and is part of the parent theme directory set of links. It is not as much a directory as it is a listing of sites that offer commercial GPL themes. It lists the philosophies, a few words about the Post from: Weblog Tools Collection Official WordPress Commercial Theme Directory is live
Weblog Tools Collection (2 days ago)
Win an Omni Bean Bag Worth $149 in the Next 48 Hours at @ProBloggerDeals
Today's ProBlogger Deal is simply - follow @ProBloggerDeals on Twitter and you'll automatically go into the running to win the ultimate blogger's chair - the Omni Bean Bag Chair from SumoLounge . You've got 48 hours to enter! Valued at $149 USD the Omni Bean Bag Chair comes in a range of 10 great colors, measures 4.5’ X 5.5, is made from rip-proof and easy to clean nylon and is filled with high quality beads which will stay fluffy for ages! Can't you just picture yourself lazing around with your laptop on you..
Blog Tips at ProBlogger (2 days ago)
8 First Step SEO Tips for Bloggers
“What are the first steps to optimizing my blog for searches?” - question submitted by @monedays using the #pbquestions hashtag on Twitter. Much has been written on the topic of search engine optimization for bloggers - but let me give you a few basic first steps: 1. Content is King The quality of the posts you write is the single most important factor when it comes to Search Optimization on a Blog. I suspect others will argue differently but as I look at my own blogs success in the search engines..
Blog Tips at ProBlogger (2 days ago)
eBay templates make your listing stand out!
If you're going to sell a lot on eBay and have a thriving business you need a Really Good eBay Template. I work with my designer who builds them for me and I'm always happy with them so I thought I'd share the service with you. If you want Templates like these below you can purchase a bespoke design from us for as little as £425. An eBay template and an eBay Storefront is the ultimate in seller status symbol. Ebay Listing Template Design £425 Standard listing template re-imaged with a unique design which will..
Net Business Blog (3 days ago)
Using small website to create a bigger impact
Posted by RobOusbey We all like links from big sites right? Whether it's in an editorial article, a guest post, etc, it's great for sending some strength and trust to your site. However, the drawback of links from big sites, is that you might find it's on a small page. The newly published page will take some time to get indexed, much of it's strength (certainly initially) is likely to come from internal links, and it's unlikely to have a great crawl rate. The front pages of sites, on the other hand, tend to h..
SEOmoz Daily SEO Blog (3 days ago)
A Checklist to Choose Which Internet Marketing Channel is Right for Your Business
Posted by randfish My good friend, Aaron Kahlow , posed an interesting question during the Online Marketing Summit yesterday afternoon in Portland, OR. Aaron asked: If a client came to you with $1 million to invest in a single Internet marketing channel, which one would you choose? Obviously, the question is a bit ridiculous (given that there's no additional detail provided), but it's designed to elicit an "off-the-cuff" response to a challenging scenario. The answer, of course, is "it depends"..
SEOmoz Daily SEO Blog (3 days ago)
6 Things Bloggers Should Bring to Conferences
This past weekend I was at WordCamp Dallas , where I was given the opportunity to both speak to and interact with a group of over 300 fellow WordPress users, bloggers and soon-to-be bloggers. It was a great event that was a unique combination of wonderful sponsors, great planning, spectacular speakers and great attendees. But if you are a blogger that is new to conferences, whether they are blogger-specific, technical or otherwise, there is a lot to remember. Blogging, for the most part, is a solo activity an..
Blogging Tips (3 days ago)
Poll: Do You Auto-Follow Everyone Back on Twitter?
When it comes to auto-following people on Twitter (either manually or with third party applications), there are basically two camps: those who claim it is a bad idea, and those who claim it is a good idea. People who say auto-following Twitter users back is a bad idea use the following arguments: When you auto-follow everyone back, in a matter of weeks you will be following thousands of people, and it is impossible to keep track of what they will tweet. If you auto-follow you will end up following spammers, s..
Daily Blog Tips (3 days ago)
Review: Winners Circle Membership Program
We would like to thank our Performancing sponsor, Winners Circle . With numerous educational websites offering mentoring programs and promising to help business oriented people make money on the internet today, it can be quite a challenge choosing which one is right for your needs. First time entrepreneurs in the internet business can be overwhelmed with the wealth of information available to them. The vast resources are helpful all right but not all can ensure success in terms of driving traffic and profits...
Performancing.com - Helping Bloggers Succeed (3 days ago)
Creative Penn Blog Critique
Joanna Penn describes The Creative Penn as a site … aimed at people who are interested in writing, self-publishing/print-on-demand and internet marketing for their books (in print/ebook or audio format). That is a great niche, there are thousands of people struggling to get their book written, published and sold. I know the pull of books very well myself. Joanna has self-published her print book using print on demand, and also e-books, along with marketing via clickbank, so she has practical hands on kn..
Chris Garrett on New Media (3 days ago)
Should I Quit Blogging?
Image by -nathan “Should I quit my blog and start Lifestreaming, Videocasting, Social Messaging/Networking etc?” There's been another round of ‘blogging is dead' posts doing the rounds of late and as a result I've had a number of emails hitting my inbox over the last week from bloggers asking if they should stop blogging. Here's some of the advice I've been sharing: Blogging is not dead - it's evolving. You should be evolving too (read Blogs are Out of Beta, But Bloggers Should always be in ..
Blog Tips at ProBlogger (3 days ago)
Making money with Amazon even if you miss the direct sale
Until recently, I'd almost given up on being an Amazon affiliate. It wasn't necessarily hard to get people to click on links but they rarely seemed to buy what I was offering them. However, times have changed. I can't think of any of my family, friends or acquaintances that isn't aware of the Amazon brand and hasn't bought at least one item from them. What I'm discovering more with Amazon is that, while the basic rules of affiliate success remain the same — including traffic, deep-linking, compelling and rele..
Performancing.com - Helping Bloggers Succeed (4 days ago)
A Changed Google Results Layout, Perhaps Experimental
I'm currently seeing a slightly changed layout for Google results. The Google logo has gotten smaller, and there's more padding to the left. In Firefox, the file holding the logo for the new layout is called nav_logo6.png (when I open the old layout in Chrome, it's nav_logo4.png ). This redesign could well be just an experimental prototype, and nothing that's rolled out for everyone, I don't know... who else is seeing the changed layout? (Recently, the Google homepage also presented itself with less padding b..
Google Blogoscoped (4 days ago)
How to Manage a School/Blog Balance
This post was written by Aditya Mahesh, founder of AMBeat.com , a complete resource for entrepreneurs complete with advice articles, start-up profiles, interviews, news analysis, and more. Common wisdom suggests that academics are always chief in importance. Students, at least those here in the United States, are told time and time again that extra-curricular activities, whether it is a sports team or clubs, always come after academics. Student entrepreneurs and bloggers have a tendency not to follow this rul..
Blog Tips at ProBlogger (4 days ago)
7 Ways To Develop A Unique Brand For Your Blog
With the blogosphere churning out nearly 1 million posts every 24 hours, an unstoppable river of content flows over the web daily. It's daunting, especially if you're new to online publishing. The good news is it's still very possible to succeed, even if you're just starting out today. Developing affinity with a group of readers who will actually take the time to link, comment and share your material requires a commitment of both resources and creativity - this is common knowledge. But all other things being..
Online Marketing Blog (4 days ago)
Would You Withhold Information If It Meant Saving a Life?
A lot of bloggers tend to be trigger happy with publishing information. There's always the desire to be the first to post about breaking news, especially if it's fresh and yet unpublished by the more mainstream news sources. Bloggers and editors of new media publications take pride in this. But how far will we go with the desire to be first? What if it meant possibly endangering the life of a person--a fellow writer or journalist at that? Back in November of 2008, Pulitzer-prize winning journalist David Rohde..
Performancing.com - Helping Bloggers Succeed (4 days ago)
Become a Blogger Reopens for 5 Days Only - Now Cheaper Than Ever
One of the most popular resources for new bloggers - Become a Blogger - is reopening its doors to new participants - for 5 days only . It's cheaper than ever before If you're a new blogger wondering how to get your blog started and moving towards reaching it's potential - it can be a daunting prospect. Become a Blogger is a step-by-step video based guide to walk you through the process in plain and easy to understand language. The Guys Behind Become a Blogger The two guys behind Become a Blogger are two peopl..
Blog Tips at ProBlogger (5 days ago)
Tips from a recovering journalist: How to write effective press releases that help SEO
Posted by MikeK@DanconiaMedia This post was originally in YOUmoz , and was promoted to the main blog because it provides great value and interest to our community. The author's views are entirely his or her own and may not reflect the views of SEOmoz, Inc. It's been said here before: Press releases are much less powerful than they used to be for SEO purposes. While churning out news releases and submitting them to free sites may not do much, the medium can actually be more powerful than ever if used right. Co..
SEOmoz Daily SEO Blog (5 days ago)
Make Money doing Nothing – Really You Can!
You can make money doing nothing and this is how in a few easy steps. Did I mention you need some money to start though? You need about $30 but you will get all this back and carry on making money every month from this. Lets build a scenario… You want a new PC or MAC and it costs $500 new and you have no cash right? Ok lets make some cash to pay for your new laptop. The quickest way to do this is to Flip Domain Names. This is truly the closest thing you are going to get to Making Money Doing Nothing. St..
Net Business Blog (5 days ago)
Backlinks Move A Blog Forward
Anyone who has ever gone to the trouble of setting up a blog knows that without some kind of internet advertising there’s little chance that the creation will get much exposure other than through the word of mouth that family and friends can supply. And let’s face the facts. Whether your new blog is about the all the great uses you know of for sunflower seeds or the latest software that you’re selling as an affiliate, a push is what’s needed to get people to notice you . Remember that if you…
Blogging Tips (5 days ago)
Better Questions Than “Do I Need a Mentor?” and “How do I get one?”
A Guest post by Josh Hanagarne – World’s Strongest Librarian In my Problogger post about how to land big interviews when your blog is small , I mentioned that I had a mentor. A lot of commenters asked me about that process and if I could write more about it. Send your thanks to Darren if you enjoy the post. How to find a mentor is the easy part. First we need to talk about why. Ask yourself this question: Do I need a mentor? The answer is yes—ta da! Sorry, wrong question. If you didn’t think you needed a ment..
Blog Tips at ProBlogger (5 days ago)
My Startup Experience: VC, Entrepreneurship, Self-Analysis & The Road Ahead
Posted by randfish (Intro: This post continues a series of personal growth focused entries. It doesn't have much direct, applicable SEO value, so feel free to skip if that's what you're seeking) I've learned more in the last 9 months than at any previous time in my life - about myself, about this company and about the worlds of venture capital, entrepreneurship and startups. And, in the spirit of transparency (one of our guiding principles and an ideal I haven't been maintaining as well as I could of lat..
SEOmoz Daily SEO Blog (6 days ago)
How to Use r4 – Guide to Using the R4 Card
1. The R4 card is simple to use, the R4 DS Adapter is the latest development in flash cartridge technology for the Nintendo DS and Nintendo DS Lite allowing you to watch movies, play music and more! 2. Slide the micro SD card into your USB adapter that comes with the R4 then insert the USB adapter into your USB port on your computer. Go to “My Computer” and click on “Removable Disc” then locate the drive that corresponds to your USB adapter. 3. Get the disc that comes included with you..
Net Business Blog (6 days ago)
Get 30% off the Ninja Affiliate Plugin for WordPress - Limited Time Offer
The following is a ProBloggerDeal - exclusively for readers of this blog. For notification on Twitter of other deals, discounts and competitions for bloggers follow @ProBloggerDeals . A few mont Ninja Affiliate Plugin for WordPress . The promotion was so popular and I've had so much positive feedback from readers about the plugin that I asked MaxBlogPress if we could run it again. This time they've set it up so ProBloger readers can get the $30 discount (around 30% off) until 3rd July. The best way to learn a..
Blog Tips at ProBlogger (6 days ago)
Perseverance Will Save Your Blog
Robby G is a blogger from ShiteILike.com and explains the benefits of pushing your blog through good and through bad. I was doing some research recently, wondering if my blog would ever take off and what it really depended on. I was a little bit discouraged about writing lots of content for two months on my blog, but having a significant amount of less traffic than on my friend's blog which is only two months older than mine. To see if my blog would ever receive any readers that would get interested, and hope..
Blog Tips at ProBlogger (6 days ago)
Intersection of Search and Social Media
Earlier this week I gave a presentation on the intersection of SEO, online PR and social media to a great mix of people (mostly agencies) at a SEMPO Arizona event. The SEO/PR/Social topic is an interesting mix due to the convergence that's been happening over the past 2-3 years and of course, because it's the essence of what we've been doing at TopRank . Forward thinking companies are investing in social media for a variety of reasons, including gaining a competitive advantage through building relationships, ..
Online Marketing Blog (7 days ago)
Amazon Ends Affiliates Program for North Carolina
[Breaking news from Lara - Pardon the interruption!] Just read over at FOX Business that Amazon has decided to close out their affiliates program to residents of North Carolina (USA) due to a proposed change in sales tax for affiliate sales. “In an email, Amazon reportedly told marketing affiliates in the state that the move was a direct result of North Carolina's push to levy a tax on purchases made through Amazon affiliates.” FOX Business I remember there was a similar situation with New York , ..
Blog Tips at ProBlogger (7 days ago)
Summer Traffic Blog Project
Every year I get questions from people asking how they can fight the “summer slump” where traffic droops over the summer months. Also, who does not want more traffic any time of year, right? So this year I came up with a plan. Starting 1st July until the end of Summer, I will be posting tips, tutorials and exercises over at the Authority Blogger Forum. For your part I will want you to share your traffic generation questions, experiences, results and thoughts so we can all make the techniques and t..
Chris Garrett on New Media (7 days ago)
Watch How I Spend My First 20 Minutes Online Every Morning
This morning I tweeted this question - ‘ what are the first 3 things you do when you get online in the morning? ‘ You can see many of the answers to the question on this twitoaster thread . A number of people asked me to answer the question for myself - so I thought I'd do so as a blog post as it is pretty relevant to how I run my business. Of course I couldn't just stop at three - here's some of my morning routine: Firstly: I liken most of what I do in the mornings to a Triage in the emergency ro..
Blog Tips at ProBlogger (7 days ago)
YouTube Changes Channel Layout, Gets 48,000+ Comments
A YouTube blog entry by a YouTube manager announcing the roll-out of a new channel design has so far received 48,668 comments, and growing. Looks like not everyone is happy. Included in the most recent comments right now are things like: “i think u should ask the viewers before u make your choice. please do that ... =]” “support this video against the mandatory changes - http://www.youtube.com/wat...” “Please allow the choice of both old and new channel designs.” ... as wel..
Google Blogoscoped (8 days ago)
A Bad Day for Search Engines: How News of Michael Jackson's Death Traveled Across the Web
Posted by Danny Dover First and foremost, let me extend my best wishes to the family and friends of Michael Jackson. I can only imagine the pain of losing a close friend and then having to watch it play out on a global stage. He made an extraordinary impact on the world and although not perfect, he is a teacher even in death (as evidenced by this post). The following is a timeline of how the news of the Prince of Pop's death traveled across the internet. Not all the times are exact (they might be off by..
SEOmoz Daily SEO Blog (8 days ago)
Whiteboard Friday - Correlation, Causation & SEO
Posted by great scott! This week, Rand is joined by one of our in-house data geniuses, Ben Hendrickson , to talk more about some of our recently released correlation data to support guidelines for SEO best practices. While correlation doesn't always equal causation, it's still very interesting to look at the attributes and features high ranking sites tend to have in common. Comparing this data to known and accepted SEO practices can help to reinforce widely held notions or give us some insight into how ..
SEOmoz Daily SEO Blog (8 days ago)
6 Steps to Get Your Company to Pay You to Blog
Today Alexandra Levit shares some tips for getting your company/employee to pay you to blog. I recently read that for every person who starts tweeting, another blog dies. But here’s the thing. Back in 2004, blogs were dismissed as a fad, and today there are billions of them. Blogging is not going away anytime soon. You might be interested in blogging yourself, but don’t have the time or inclination to write one independent of your day job. What if you could be like the hundreds of people at Microsoft who coun..
Blog Tips at ProBlogger (8 days ago)
5 Ways to Improve your SEO Landing Pages
Posted by Sam Niccolls A lot a marketers focus optimization efforts at the bottom of their conversion funnels. One effective way to examine conversion rates at the bottom of the funnel is to create a custom segment that excludes visitors who bounce. As this segment gives you a view of your engagement data that only shows interested visitors, this is a great way to inform site changes. After all, these visitors are the ones who are most likely to convert into paying customers. But what about the top of the fun..
SEOmoz Daily SEO Blog (9 days ago)
Desperate Buyers Only – Really so AM I…
I am a Desperate Buyer but not today… People are searching right now as you read this wanting to BUY from you, but you just haven't created the product yet to sell to them. You DON'T have to be really talented to make thousands of dollars a month selling products online. The process is actually pretty simple, read on… You can be as lazy as you want, as long as you know how to sell to the right audience at the right time. Here are Super Fast Steps to Creating a Desperate Buyer Product: 1. find the ..
Net Business Blog (9 days ago)
HTC Hero, an Android-Based Phone (Video)
[Via Reddit .] [By Philipp Lenssen | Origin: HTC Hero, an Android-Based Phone (Video) | Comments ] [Advertisement] Find the right keywords for your campaigns at KeywordDiscovery.com
Google Blogoscoped (9 days ago)
Want to See My Two New Blogging Projects?
Over the last 24 hours I've launched two new projects - both are blogging related. I'm not sure why they've both come at once - I wasn't planning on doing either at all even 36 hours ago - but sometimes ideas hit me in groups. Here they are - I hope one or both interest you: 1. @ProBloggerDeals ProBlogger Deals is a new Twitter account where I'll be tweeting out deals for bloggers. I've written more about the ‘what' and ‘why' of it here - but in short it's a place where I'll be sharing promotions,..
Blog Tips at ProBlogger (9 days ago)
6 Steps To An Effective Guest Post
This is a guest post by Amey Shivapurkar. If you want to guest post on this blog, check out the guidelines here. There is no denying the power of a sound guest post execution. Benefits can include a flood of traffic to your site, increased reputation, high ranked links pointing back to your site, and improved relations with the site you are guest posting on. With so much on the line, it makes sense to do a little bit of work before creating and submitting your guest post. 1. Prepare Your Site/Landing Page Obv..
Daily Blog Tips (10 days ago)
Philips Soundbar DVD home theater with Ambisound
Had to show off my new Home Cinema System not sure what you guys have? Mine is the philips soundbar DVD home theater with Ambisound. Just got it from these guys What a system and to be honest I love Philips stuff as they always over deliver. Look at the Specs: Philips AmbiSound Home Theater Sound Bar with Integrated 1080p-Upscaling DVD/MP3 Player, HTS8100/37 Integrated DVD Player can also play audio CD including CDR and CDRW with MP3 files FM Radio Tuner Has iPod / Philips GoGear docking capability Component ..
Net Business Blog (10 days ago)
Aweber Introduces More Sophisticated Timing Options to Autoresponder Messages
One of the tools that has become central in my own blogging is Aweber . I won't rehash all of the reasons that I use Aweber but essentially it's a tool that enables you to allow readers of your blog subscribe to it via email. I use it mainly as a tool to deliver weekly newsletters on my photography blog (I outline some of the benefits of newsletters for blogs here ). Aweber allows you to deliver three kinds of email updates to readers: 1. Broadcasts - this is the tool I use to deliver my newsletters. They req..
Blog Tips at ProBlogger (10 days ago)
A Bigger AdSense Default Font
It's only a small change to AdSense, but if you're using Google's ads on a lot of sites even small changes may make a difference: Google on Monday announced they've increased the default font size for AdSense units. However, since last week you can now also change the font size for AdSense ad units yourself. The font size dialog allows default, small, medium, and large. (The old default size equaled “small”, and the new one equals “medium”, Google says). [By Philipp Lenssen | Origin: A..
Google Blogoscoped (10 days ago)
Google China Removes Auto-Suggest Following Gov't Anti-Porn Initiative
Fingerpointing towards Google in a report by state-controlled CCTV; the user shows how he enters [xing], later stumbling upon scantily clad people in Google Images. The search auto-completion feature on Google China's homepage was recently removed. Why? Apparently, the Chinese government is on a mission to fight porn, and auto-suggestions might help people find adult sites. (A Chinese research mob – a “human flesh search engine” – found some problems with the govt's tales, though.) Or ..
Google Blogoscoped (10 days ago)
How to Prevent and Monitor Invalid Clicks, and keep an AdSense Account in Good Standing [a Statement from AdSense]
Over the last week or two there's been an increase amount of chatter on forums and blogs about invalid clicks and AdSense. Some of the talk has contained information that has been a little confusing and perhaps even ill-informed (and some ‘influenced' by companies with their own agendas) - so I got in touch with AdSense and asked if they had any information to help their publishers protect themselves against invalid clicks. The following is what they replied with - in their words it is ‘a concise ..
Blog Tips at ProBlogger (10 days ago)
