Knol's Nofollowing Of Links
Knol is a publishing tool but unlike some other such tools by Google, this time all your article's outgoing links will be “nofollowed.” The nofollow attribute is a mechanism to disable the juice a link is sending to another site. So while you can link to Knol pages to give them more authority in the eyes of Googlebot and others, Knol pages do not pass this authority measure back to other sites. In a Knol article, at first glance, you won't see the nofollow attribute if you look for it in links. Th..
Google Blogoscoped (2 hours ago)
TeachingSells to Close Doors 31 July
One of the best courses that I've personally participated in on the topic of teaching people how to make money online is TeachingSells - and it's about to close it's doors to new members ( in just 7 days). Every time I come to write about TeachingSells it's creators have added new courses/modules to it. They've now completed adding this content and it stands as 10 courses with a series of bonus modules added (you can read about them in the closing doors announcement ). There is so much rich content in this re..
Blog Tips at ProBlogger (3 hours ago)
Finding Cartoons to Use in Google Knol
Google's new publishing platform Knol has an interesting feature to offer: authors are allowed to use one cartoon from The New Yorker magazine per article*. The New Yorker started in the mid-1920s and collectively there's lots of cartoon content. I'm not sure where Google's partnership with the magazine puts republications of articles using the Creative Commons license (as the republication would include the cartoon) or Google's blanket permission to use screenshots of their sites (as screenshots may include ..
Google Blogoscoped (4 hours ago)
WordPress Infiltrating Business
WordCamp UK 2008 was an interesting mixture of blogging (as you would expect) and developer conference. It was like two familiar worlds had collided. WordPress as CMS One of the development issues raised was the growing use of WordPress as a platform rather than as a blog. Many people are now looking to WordPress as a CMS or as a framework. Notably, one of the big announcements from the weekend was that our Prime Ministers home, Number 10 Downing Street, new website is going to be 100% WordPress . If that doe..
Chris Garrett on New Media (5 hours ago)
Google Account Phishing Attempt Using Orkut
Earlier this week, I received a greetings card from someone called Shelia who was using “Orkut Greetings” (supposedly a service offered by Orkut , Google's social network). Or at least that's what the sender of this email wanted me to believe: Those extra details are usually hidden by default, but I expanded them to verify that the email genuinely came from Google. It appears to have been sent from an Orkut email address and was even signed by the google.com domain. Seems genuine so far? Take a lo..
Google Blogoscoped (5 hours ago)
Marketing with Google Knol
Google just released Knol - and the pundits are touting it as a wikipedia killer already. So what is Knol and should you pay attention to it? What is Knol? Knol is a Google project where users write authoritative articles on specific subjects and publish them at knol.google.com Its not like wikipedia.com because: 1. Its not completely open source. Others can't edit the articles you publish without your consent. So in that way, its more like squidoo.com than wikipedia.com 2. ?? The article URLs are in the form..
Blog Clout Blog (8 hours ago)
Google’s Knol - A Wikipedia Killer or a Blog Killer?
So today Google finally opened up and launched Launched Knol (it's been coming for a while) a place where people can publish ‘authoritative articles about specific topics'. It's like Wikipedia in that articles can be edited by others - but changes need to be approved by the authors of the articles. Articles can be monetized in a revenue share arrangement where Google and the authors share income derived from articles. My Three initial reactions to Knol Google Competing with it's Partners My mind goes ba..
Blog Tips at ProBlogger (13 hours ago)
Optimizing for Multiple Word Order Search Phrases
Posted by randfish SEOmoz member, Michael Janik wrote to me last week and asked about how to optimize for multiple word order search phrases. I think it's an excellent topic, and one that we haven't covered well in the past. The issue arises from keyword phrases that receive search queries in different formats, for example: Restaurant Reviews Seattle Reviews Seattle Restaurants Seattle Restaurant Reviews Looking at the search results, each of these queries produces different ordering in the results. When this..
SEOmoz Daily SEO Blog (16 hours ago)
Skribit - Letting Readers Tell You What To Write
Ever have one of those days where you just don't know what to write about? Thanks to a service called Skribit , that should no longer be an issue. Skribit allows for two way interaction between the blogger and the reader, allowing both to play a role in terms of which topics are written about. Signing Up: Signing up to the service is simple as well as free. In fact, Skribit is one of those services which allows you to sign up via your OpenID account. Once you signup, you'll be taken to a page where you can ad..
Performancing.com - Helping Bloggers Succeed (17 hours ago)
Tiers of Transparency: The Ethical Brand Ambassador
Posted by aimClear UPDATE from Rand: I've already gotten a large number of emails upset with the content of this post. I'm usually very against editing or removing content from the blog, but we are considering what to do internally. Thanks for all the feedback. Intro from Rebecca: Marty Weintraub from aimClear wrote a guest post for us. Here it is, in typical Marty fashion: After my very slightly infamous SMX Advanced "Give It Up" presentation included the "Soy Candle" approach to extending powerful social me..
SEOmoz Daily SEO Blog (19 hours ago)
Google Knol Is Live
Google went live with Knol , a platform to read and write articles on all kinds of subject. Knol was being tested privately since some time and had been pre-announced back in 2007. The address is knol.google.com, but notably not knol.com or knol.org or even googleknol.com. This project is somewhat reminiscent of Wikipedia, though there are many differences as well. You may also think of this as an alternative to creating a small info website if your aim is to cover only a single subject. When you log-in withi..
Google Blogoscoped (19 hours ago)
Follow These Twitter Users - They’re Just Like You
ProBlogger reader - I'd like to introduce you to some new friends - around 700 of them (and counting). Over the weekend, on a whim, I started the ProBlogger Social Media Love-In as a way of linking you as readers of this blog together via social media. In that post I invited you to submit your social media profiles in comments and then to start be-friending one another. The response was swift and overwhelming with around 700 people participating. Reports started tricking in of people getting a lot of new frie..
Blog Tips at ProBlogger (20 hours ago)
What is Next for Google
Now, there is yet another expansion move from Google. Perhaps Digg will change hands very soon to Google for $200 Million . While Microsoft had been busy with Yahoo, Google is capturing another crowd base. Can you guess what would be Google's next acquisition move? Before coming to this point, let's take a look at what does this deal have for us? I don't think - we would see some major changes in Digg, just like You Tube. Google would get involved in the development process of this website and in coming month..
Net Business Blog (21 hours ago)
Google App Engine Perl Project Started
The Google App Engine currently supports Python, but now Google employee and creator of blogging community LiveJournal Brad Fitzpatrick posts this bit: > Why is Google making this open? Turns out, according to Google, that they don't have enough Perl hackers internally, as this is not one of the core supported languages within the company. An inside view of Google once noted their focus is on C++, Java, and Python. “[T]he handful of Perl enthusiasts here who want to see this happen are also spread prett..
Google Blogoscoped (21 hours ago)
Does Your Marketing Workflow Contain High ROI Activities?
Yesterday I wrote about the ROI of some content creation activities . Make sure to check out the comment section on that post for a discussion on how to measure blogging ROI. Today I'll go over some marketing activities. Blog commenting (medium ROI) Blog commenting is the bread and butter marketing method for many bloggers. Your ROI goes up if you're one of the first commenters and you comment on a popular blog. Also, blogs without the nofollow tag increase your ROI. It works well because you get traffic to y..
Performancing.com - Helping Bloggers Succeed (1 day ago)
A Secret to Sustain Yourself as a Blogger
Today I want to talk about an issue may seem more suited to a 'self help' blog than a blog about blogging - but it's something that I think is pretty important you want to be a successful blogger. It's something that is so important that it can make or break you. Image by *nathan However - while it's crucial to sustaining successful blogs for the long haul - it's got very little to do with blogging itself. It's got nothing to do with writing good content, nothing to do with building readers to your blog, noth..
Blog Tips at ProBlogger (1 day ago)
Teaching Sells Closing Doors
Teaching Sells is closing its doors ! If you have been thinking about joining, now is the time to do it. Brian has announced the course is going to evolve, and the price is going up. You have until the end of this month to get in at $97 a month, after that the doors shut to new members and will not open again in the current form or price. Click here for full details . In my talk on making a living from blogging over the weekend I told the attendees that one of the best ways of making money was to create a mem..
Chris Garrett on New Media (1 day ago)
Traffic Generating Tips I’ve Learned from Working with SEO Firms
Traffic Generating Tips I’ve Learned from Working with SEO Firms If you’re a regular reader of my posts on this blog , then you’ve probably read at one time or another that I’m an SEO writer. Most of my clients are SEO firms, aka Internet Marketing Firms and Search Engine Marketing (SEM) Firms. I’ve learned some great traffic-generating tips from working with them. Following are three: 1. Double-duty Blog Posts: Blog posts can do double-duty. What do I mean? One client of mine contracts with me to d..
Blogging Tips (1 day ago)
Comments: The Window To A Website's Soul
Posted by Jane Copland SEOmoz is pretty lucky when it comes to blog comments in that we receive a lot of them. By most blog's standards, our regular count of between twenty and sixty comments is quite enviable, trounced by the likes of Techcrunch but highly competitive in this industry. We also keep a relatively good record of the comments our members make and how well received those comments are via Mozpoints and the record of recent comments we keep on everyone's profile. Two things we often fail to address..
SEOmoz Daily SEO Blog (1 day ago)
Splicd - A WebApp That Cuts Through The (Video) Fluff
Splicd is a cool new WebApp developed by a member of Performancing Hive that allows you to isolate the interesting parts from a YouTube video and provides you with a link to share it with your family, friends, and colleagues. Instead of making readers sit through the boring parts, bloggers can directly link to the section of a video they are talking about. Here I'm highlighting the funniest clip from a funny cat montage. Or consider how golden-shellback.com recently had a product reviewed on tekzilla . At fir..
Performancing.com - Helping Bloggers Succeed (2 days ago)
Learning To Take The High Road
Lorelle Van Fossen at the BlogHerald has published a post discussing how to prepare yourself for the blog bullies . Her article strikes close to home with me because at one point, I had to deal with a blog bully myself. Here's what happened. My Experience Back when I was producing my weekly podcast called WordPress Weekly, I performed a live one hour interview with an individual known as Small Potato. Small Potato was an individual who had made quite an impact within the WordPress community, specifically to t..
Performancing.com - Helping Bloggers Succeed (2 days ago)
Blogging on the Go With the WordPress iPhone Application
WordPress , creators of one of the most popular publishing platforms, has released an iPhone application that allows users to post content onto WordPress blogs by way of the iPhone. It is available on the 3G iPhone, first-generation iPhone, and iPod Touch. It is also free, and we all like free stuff. This really marks another forward step in mobile blogging technology. WordPress.com and self-installed WordPress 2.5.1 or higher can take advantage of the WordPress iPhone application. You can embed pictures and ..
Performancing.com - Helping Bloggers Succeed (2 days ago)
Search Engine Optimization in Haiku
Posted by randfish It's been a long day and I'd love a little break Let's try some Haiku Describe SEO With your finest 5-7-5 syllable poem SEOmoz shirt to the winner in comments Vote below with thumbs I'll start things off with my own stab at the topic and then it's your turn Our battleground's set 25 billion URLs and a hidden link graph Some very quick rules One entry per member; we end at noon, Thursday Do you like this post? Yes No
SEOmoz Daily SEO Blog (2 days ago)
Conversion Blogging Video
Yaro Starak from the popular Blog Mastermind mentoring program has today released a video that looks at a processing of making money from blogs that he calls Conversion Blogging. Yaro's been using it to make over $10,000 a month from his blog. Yaro is an expert at building an audience and using email newsletters to market to them. The video gives a lot of food for thought (it's 32 minutes) and is worth setting some time aside to watch. It's free for you to watch without having to opt into anything. There is a..
Blog Tips at ProBlogger (2 days ago)
Google Maps Walking Directions Live
Google Maps walking directions had been spotted by some users before, and now they're being rolled out for everyone, as Search Engine Roundtable reports. Try this directions search in New York , for instance, and you'll see the “Walking” link on top activated (though this isn't just restricted to US locations, as a test search in Germany showed). Google has the following disclaimer following their “beta” notice: “Use caution when walking in unfamiliar areas.” Uhm, OK. [Hat ..
Google Blogoscoped (2 days ago)
Blogger of the Month - Interview a Fellow Blogger
In my last post “ The best and lasting network for Bloggers “, I was talking about the power of guest posting to promote your blog. But, I forgot to mention one very important point out there. What if you are just a new blogger or if you want to promote your new blog that has neither PR nor good reader base! Ok, it is very tough to find bloggers who would be interested to write in your blog in such a situation. If you think you would develop your blog on other's expense from day one - it won't wor..
Net Business Blog (2 days ago)
Is the Blog You're Focusing on the Most in the Internet Marketing Niche?
Performancing.com - Helping Bloggers Succeed (2 days ago)
Does Your Content Creation Workflow Contain High ROI Activities?
The term ROI (return on investment) is from the finance world. Basically, it calculates how much return you get on your monetary investment. Other niches like business management took the term and applied it to time. I've applied the term to blogging activities. How well are you using the time invested for your blog? Is your blogging workflow conducive to bringing you a high return or a low return? I've separated blogging activities in two categories: content creation and marketing. Monetization is another vi..
Performancing.com - Helping Bloggers Succeed (2 days ago)
The Power of Making Readers Famous
The last 24 hours on ProBlogger have seen a lot of action around our social media love-in project that is currently running. Not only has there been a lot of action in the comments on that post but it's driven up traffic and increased the numbers of emails that readers are sending. Just now I scanned through today's emails and here's some of the comments (I'll keep them anonymous as I've not asked permission to attribute them): “Thanks for the Love-In - I've been approving new friends all day.' ‘I..
Blog Tips at ProBlogger (2 days ago)
Graphics in Select Boxes
You can emulate selection boxes using HTML layers, but you may also want to provide a traditional HTML form selection box using the element. If you do so, how can you spice up that form element anyway? There's a couple of things you can do. The element groups together and labels as set of items. A style applied to an can add colors. And then there's some nice Unicode symbols, like stars (★) or checkmarks (✓), which can bring a more graphical look to your selection box, too: ★ (worst) ★..
Google Blogoscoped (2 days ago)
WordCamp UK 2008
I got back from WordCamp UK last night, tired but happy. If you missed the event you don't need to miss out as I took quite a few Qik clips of various sessions and there will be video provided by Benjamin and Sam . Unfortunately I could not film the whole thing in real time as the conference wifi while perfectly fine on my laptop didn't like my phone very much. As I look around the various comments and write-ups that are appearing I am remembering different bits of the weekend, one of the great advantages o..
Chris Garrett on New Media (2 days ago)
Screencast: ScribeFire FireFox Extension Reviewed
Long time readers of Performancing will certainly remember a FireFox extension which went by the same name as the site. The extension underwent a name change in 2007. Instead of being called Performancing, it is now called ScribeFire and serves as an external blog management tool. This is the editor I've been using for quite some time now to create posts, as well as manage my own blog when I'm on the road. This video is my second screencast and goes over the abundant amount of features and possibilities this ..
Performancing.com - Helping Bloggers Succeed (2 days ago)
PHP Made Amazingly Easy, Efficient, and Fun With CodeIgniter
EllisLab Inc. , the same group that has created ExpressionEngine , is at it again by providing people with a free and open source PHP framework called CodeIgniter. This open source PHP framework allows users to create PHP-based applications without many of the complaints I already have with PHP. The best part is that you don't really have to sacrifice anything to utilize this framework, and it has an amazing community behind it. Overview For the longest time, one of my main complaints with PHP has been that i..
Performancing.com - Helping Bloggers Succeed (2 days ago)
Does the quality of writing directly correlate to a bloggers success?
Performancing.com - Helping Bloggers Succeed (2 days ago)
Social Media Love-In: Phase 2 Coming Soon
Wow - when I posted an invitation this morning for ProBlogger readers to promote their social media profiles on this post I didn't know what would happen - but I suspected it would be fun. It's been almost 9 hours since the post went live and over 280 readers have participated and I'm getting emails and tweets from people saying that they have had more people follow/befriend them today than they've ever had before (update: Lara just told me that she started getting friend requests minutes after adding hers). ..
Blog Tips at ProBlogger (2 days ago)
AdSense Announce Changes to Ad Ecosystem.
Today AdSense publishers (or at least some of them) received the following email outlining some recent ‘changes and improvements' to the Google ad system. These changes largely revolve around new features that they've added to AdWords to let advertisers target websites differently (more control). One of the big changes is the introduction of ‘Ad Planner' (currently in an invite only beta test) which allows advertisers to search for sites with certain demographics and interests. Advertisers can now..
Blog Tips at ProBlogger (3 days ago)
Headsmacking Tip #3: Run Your Blog Post Titles Through Keyword Research Before You Hit Publish
Posted by randfish I'm getting to like this series :-) (see #1 and #2 ). This week, I thought I'd talk about a tip that might cause mild concussions if you haven't been doing it. That's right, it's the ultra-simple, "research before you post" technique for bloggers. The basic tenet goes something like this - if your blog has any reasonable quantity of link equity and ranking ability, chances are that every blog post has the opportunity to earn you ongoing search traffic. This search traffic is, oftentimes, ev..
SEOmoz Daily SEO Blog (3 days ago)
MEDIAWHIZ ENHANCES LEADROI™ LEAD MANAGEMENT SYSTEM WITH JETDIAL®
The Integration of Leading Web-Based Dialing Technology Increases Sales Productivity We are happy to announce that we have strengthened our Lead Management System, LeadROI™, by implementing JetDial®, a powerful web-based dialing technology that greatly enhances advertisers’ sales force efficiencies, lead throughput time, and conversion rates. LeadROI’s JetDial is an innovative on-demand call center software that dramatically improves sales force efficiency. The technology automatically manages answerin..
Link Building Blog (3 days ago)
MEDIAWHIZ ACQUIRES LEADROI LEAD MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
Deal Boosts MediaWhiz's Lead Management Technical Capabilities We recently acquired LeadROI's Lead Management System, which enables advertisers to better manage, optimize, and monetize their lead generation campaigns. “The LeadROI technology acquisition provides MediaWhiz with a powerful new platform that makes aggregating, distributing, and converting leads from multiple sources more efficient and profitable. This is a huge value add to our clients who are looking for ways to truly understand and impro..
Link Building Blog (3 days ago)
MEDIAWHIZ HIRES NEW CHIEF INFORMATION OFFICER
MediaWhiz to Take World-Class Online Advertising Platform to Next Level We welcome our new Chief Information Officer, Sal Guido, to our senior management team. As CIO, Guido will run the IT infrastructure of MediaWhiz. His role includes implementing strategies to evolve MediaWhiz platforms and infrastructure to align with the Company’s strategic growth plans. He is also responsible for overseeing application development across all MediaWhiz technology groups. Guido’s technology career spans over twenty ye..
Link Building Blog (3 days ago)
Welcome to the ProBlogger Social Media Love-In
Image by Mandala Today I want to try something a little different and want to invite you to share your social media profiles with us. Are you active on social media sites? Do you want to find more friends and followers? Do you want to find other bloggers to follow and network with? If so - you're not alone and I want to give you an opportunity to do just that. Today I want to do something that could get messy (I reserve the right to close this down if it does) - but could also be a lot of fun. In comments bel..
Blog Tips at ProBlogger (3 days ago)
Fusion search: How you can find the right mix of data
Adam Riff, the Director of Search at MediaWhiz was published in DMNews on June 30, 2008. Read his article below. With increasing costs and competition in search, marketers must continue to be creative to achieve a high return on advertising spend. One answer may be fusion search, which is a method of “fusing” data to execute multiple search techniques simultaneously. These methods include pay-per-click (PPC), search engine optimization (SEO) and, more recently, social media optimization (SMO) and video SE..
Link Building Blog (3 days ago)
MEDIAWHIZ ACQUIRES SCRIBEFIRE™ & LAUNCHES SCRIBEFIRE QUICKADS™
We are excited to announce that we recently acquired ScribeFire (www.scribefire.com) , the Web’s #1 Firefox® blog-editing technology. In addition we released the beta version of ScribeFire QuickAds, online advertising’s first ‘point and click’ ad optimization technology. ScribeFire enables users to easily drag and drop formatted text from the web into their blog(s), as well as post entries and take notes, directly through the Firefox browser. ScribeFire currently has over 150,000 active users, and is..
Link Building Blog (3 days ago)
Online SEO Tools - The Ultimate Collection
Ann Smarty from Search Engine Journal , recently wrote a great article reviewing all of the SEO tools out there. If you are an SEO or want to be one, I highly recommend checking it out.
Pronet Advertising (3 days ago)
The best and lasting network for Bloggers
We move in different networks to create our own network. But, why do we want to create networks? There may be a lot of reasons to create a network. But if you think closely and eliminate all those unnecessary points; you will end up with three bullets. Bullet 1: To let others know about my blog. Bullet 2: To eventually get a link from their blogs so that you get better ranking and PR love along with some love from more visitors. Bullet 3: Other reasons that you are yet to discover. And now look at your own bl..
Net Business Blog (3 days ago)
Dates on Blog Posts - Should You Have Them?
Last week in my post exploring how to make blogs sticky I suggested (in point 14) that one technique to consider is to remove the dates from your blog posts. My theory is that dates can either add to or take away from a post. Let me explore this a little further: When you put a date on a post you signal to your reader when the post was written. This is useful to readers wanting to make a judgment on how relevant the post is for them at any point of time. It signals to them that a post is current or recent whe..
Blog Tips at ProBlogger (3 days ago)
BIGLIST SEO Blogs Update 072108
The BIGLIST update of SEO blogs comes to you this week on a Monday because, hey, that's the way we like to change things up here at Online Marketing Blog. This edition of the BIGLIST Update is chock full of blogs that offer SEO how to's and practical insights as well as a good showing of social media topics. Enjoy! Tim Nash - Very nice UK SEO blog from Information Architect Tim Nash on topics ranging from advanced SEO to programming with several good articles on SEO basics, snake oil SEO tricks to watch for a..
Online Marketing Blog (3 days ago)
Google Rooms, the Early Lively
Before Google's 3D chat world Lively was released , the product was called Google Rooms. Here are some left-over screenshots that we discovered on Google's servers shortly after Lively was launched: The Google Rooms logo used in the rooms directory, showing a palm tree from the island room Selecting an avatar from the directory, which included URL references to Google's 3D Warehouse The login dialog for the Goth Room; this looks more like traditional minimalist Google style than the current Lively login dialo..
Google Blogoscoped (3 days ago)
Blogger Gives Up Medicine to Go Full Time as a Blogger
I always love hearing stories of bloggers who are able to go full time with their blogging so earlier today when I read in the NYT about the author of one of my favorite blogs ( Mac Rumors ) has traded in a career in Medicine for blogging it got my attention. “Dr. Kim's Web site now attracts more than 4.4 million people and 40 million page views a month, according to Quantcast, making it one of the most popular technology Web sites. It is enough to make Dr. Kim hang up his stethoscope. This month he sto..
Blog Tips at ProBlogger (3 days ago)
Manage Client Expectations And Reduce Your Risk By Including A Warranty In Your Client Contracts
Posted by Sarah Bird, Esquire May It Please the Mozzers, Today's Legal Monday is brief (for a change!), but very important for anyone doing SEO consulting. When selling their products, consultants tend to use overstate their abilities and over promise on deliverables. It is important to resist this temptation and communicate as effectively and honestly with clients as possible. A certain amount of over-selling is expected and there is even a legal word for it, "puffery." A little light puffery ("We're the bes..
SEOmoz Daily SEO Blog (3 days ago)
