Thursday, June 21, 2007
Escaping Google Hell - Get out of the Sandbox, Now!
How to Escape Google Supplemental Index - Five useful steps for getting out of the Google Supplemental Index (a euphemism) / Sandbox (a nice term for a ghastly situation) / Google Hell (described it aptly)...some of the tips are interesting..."Get some links to internal pages. This is all about convincing Google your site doesn’t have “hollow shell syndrome”–when a site has, say, 20 pages, and a few dozen backlinks, but 100% of those backlinks are pointing to the homepage..." for instance...
Secrets to Beating the Sandbox 2.0 REVEALED: The Ultimate Guide - By Andy "Organic-Is-My-Middle-Name" Hagans - from the Link Building Blog, this is one of the most detailed, and well-thought out post on strategies to get out of Google Hell
Secrets to Beating the Sandbox 2.0 REVEALED: The Ultimate Guide - By Andy "Organic-Is-My-Middle-Name" Hagans - from the Link Building Blog, this is one of the most detailed, and well-thought out post on strategies to get out of Google Hell
Labels: google, google-sandbox
Wednesday, June 20, 2007
Some Really Cool Tools Online
Headline Analyser - This free tool will analyze your headline to determine the Emotional Marketing Value (EMV) score. Reaching your customers in an deep and emotional way is a key to successful copywriting, and your headline is unquestionably the most important piece of copy you use to reach prospects. Your headline will be analyzed and scored based on the total number of EMV words it has in relation to the total number of words it contains. This will determine the EMV score of your headline. From the Advanced Marketing Institute
Geo Visitors - This tool that will automatically detect where in the world visitors are coming from when they visit your site
Geo Visitors - This tool that will automatically detect where in the world visitors are coming from when they visit your site
Labels: cool
Monday, March 19, 2007
The Pantheon of Blogging Gods - Know The Gurus of Blogging
The Pantheon of Blogging Gods - Know The Gurus of Blogging
This post @ the Big List blog tries to become a pantheon of all blogging gods :-). We keep hearing about these gods so much hither and thither that I thought these gurus deserved a pantheon where the rest of us mere mortals can worship them. This is a growing list folks, and please send me ( [narsi]@[esource].[in] - remove the [] for the mail ID) any other god you can think of.
I'm just putting down the list and hopefully with time, this will grow and grow and grow...so please let me know of other blog gurus who should be present at this pantheon by either sending me a note to the email noted above or by leaving a comment. Thank you!
The Pantheon
Arranged alphabetically, first letter of last name being the criterion.
John Batelle - John's runs the blog John Battelle's Searchblog, and is considered a very influential blogger. Just in case you want his expertise (for a fee of course), he also consults in areas focused on the intersection of media and technology.
Jason Calacanis - Jason McCabe Calacanis is CEO and co-founder of Weblogs Inc., a network of widely read blogs. Founded in January of 2004, Weblogs, Inc. became a wholly owned subsidiary of AOL in November of 2005. Prior to forming Weblogs Inc., Calacanis was CEO and founder of Rising Tide Studios, a media company that published print and online publications. He also served as a script consultant on Wayne Wang’s film “Center of the World” about the life of a “cyber-surfer” and appears in a supporting role.Calacanis is a 5th Degree in Tae Kwon Do and has run in eleven consecutive New York City Marathons. The last point was noted just to let you know that if you wish to differ with Jason, you might want to differ in a polite way. His blog title: The Jason Calacanis Weblog
John Chow - JohnChow.com - John Chow, who gies by the nick name “Moto” (named after the old video game Moto Racer), lives in Vancouver, Canada. Before internet happened to him, he was a partner in a local printing company. In April 1999, he started a little technology site called The TechZone, which has grown and grown and grown to become a, well, well-grown site on hardware tech site. Besides taking care of the day to day business at The Tech Zone, John claims he could be seen riding his bike around Vancouver, working out at Fitness World or climbing Grouse Mountain. He, according to himself, is best known for his famous quote “My World! My Rules!” and “Oh well.” By now you would have realised that one of the things you will least expect from John is an understatement. Blog title: Make Money Online with John Chow dot Com (would you have expected anything else?)
Brian Clark - CopyBlogger - Brian Clark is an Internet marketing strategist, content developer, entrepreneur, and recovering attorney (no, he is not an attorney recovering from illness, he is an attorney who helps you recover your things from others, at least that is what I think he meant at this page). In addition to building three successful offline businesses using online marketing techniques, he has sold scores of products and services online via joint venture and affiliate arrangements. Blog title: Copywriting Tips for Online Marketing Success from CopyBlogger
Mark Cuban - Mark Cuban is an American billionaire entrepreneur. He is owner of the Dallas Mavericks, an NBA franchise; and Chairman of HDNet, an HDTV cable network. (source: Wikipedia article). While arguably he is not best known for blogging, his blog Blog Maverick has a good following all the same. His latest rant (actually on-going rant) is about GooTube.
Matt Cutts of Google - Matt joined Google as a software engineer in January 2000. He's currently the head of the Google's Webspam team. His blog is titled Gadgets, Google & SEO
Rand Fishkin - SEO moz - Rand's formative years were spent writing batch files in MS-DOS and creating my own startup systems for Windows. He lated pursued a web development startup firm, which later on led him to the SEO field. He regularly wears his yellow Puma shoes to conferences and events - in case you thought he was making a rather unusual fashion statement, he claims it is actually part of a well-developed corporate strategy, "It's a good way to identify me if you're not good with faces (a common issue in the tech field)". He already owns two pairs of such remarkable shoes, but keen to extend on this ingenuous strategy, he is always on the lookout for more. His blog title: Read SEOmoz, Rank Better. Internet Marketing & SEO
Seth Godin - Well, he is god of all things marketing, so he ought to find a place here too! Blog title: Seth's Blog (how ironically unoriginal a title for someone who is so original otherwise!)
Neville Hobson - Neville Hobson, ABC, is a communicator, blogger, podcaster and Second Life explorer, one of the leading European early adopters and influencers in social media communication for business. He blogs at NevilleHobson.com with commentary and opinion on business, communication and technology, and co-presents “For Immediate Release: The Hobson & Holtz Report” (www.forimmediaterelease.biz), a twice-weekly business podcast at the intersection of online communication, business and technology. His blog title: Neville Hobson
Tony Hung of Deep Jive Interests - I'll leave it to Tony to provide his own introduction - "I am not a web designer, nor a code developer, nor digerati, technorati or any other sort of new media guru. But I am blogger who has an interest on topics ranging from the evolution of all media, the social web, web2.0, marketing, and a trailmix of everything in between. I am also the editor of the BlogHerald, one of the oldest blogging institutions in the blogosphere...". Well, Tony is a doctor, and is one of the few blogger celebrities who is a doctor. Of course, we have lots of well-known bloggers who doctor things, but not too many who are doctors themselves...
Jeff Jarvis - Jeff Jarvis blogs about media and news at Buzzmachine.com. He is associate professor and director of the interactive journalism program the City University of New York’s new Graduate School of Journalism. He is consulting editor of Daylife, a news startup. He writes a new media column for The Guardian. He consults for media companies. Blog title: Buzz Machine.
Guy Kawasaki - Guy Kawasaki is a managing director of Garage Technology Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm and a columnist for Entrepreneur Magazine. Previously, he was an Apple Fellow at Apple Computer, Inc. Guy is the author of eight books including The Art of the Start, Rules for Revolutionaries, How to Drive Your Competition Crazy, Selling the Dream, and The Macintosh Way. He graduated from Stanford University where in 1976 - his major was psychology, the easiest major he could find. After Stanford, he attended the law school at UC Davis but lasted one week because he couldn’t deal with the law school teachers diabolical plans to remake him. This however appears to have left an indelible impression upon him, so much that he is now trying to remake the world with his blog: How to Change the World
Jim Kukral - Jim knows a thing or two about the business of online marketing. He has been acquainted with the Internet for over a decade. If there is one thing - amongst many others actually - you can learn for sure from Jim, it is about how to write your sales brochure. The proof of the previous statement can be found at his introduction page, and from his blog title: Jim Kukral Online Marketing Consultant 1-888-BLOG-BIZ...Hmmm
Matt Mullenweg - Google - the self-appointed god of the Internet - might consider him the most important Matt on the web, but he thinks he is but just a kid born and raised in Houston, Texas, who can write code, prose, and music. Matt is actually an important person, his protestations not-withstanding. He is the founding developer of WordPress, the blogging software that runs thousands of sites around the world. He earlier worked at CNET Networks, before founding in 2005 a new startup Automattic, which is the company behind WordPress.com, Akismet, and more to come...His blog title: Photo Matt, Unlucky in Cards
Lee Odden - Top Rank - Lee is publisher of MarketingBlog.com and has been quoted by U.S. News and World Report, The Economist and DMNews. He has also contributed web site marketing content for Yahoo!. Lee is active in the industry as a board member for the DMA Search Engine Marketing Council, a member of SEMPO and a past board member for the Minnesota Interactive Marketing Association. His main blog title: MarketingBlog ?? Top Rank?? - got to figure this...
Jeremiah Owyang - Jeremiah Owyang is currently employed full time at PodTech.net in Palo Alto, primarily serving as a Social Media Resource for their clients. The purpose of his blog is to be a resource to those who deploy Social Media at corporations. He is a fifth generation Chinese-American. In addition to his own being, his last name appears to have attracted a lot of attention so he gives some resources for that - see here and here. Blog title: Web Strategy by Jeremiah.
Steve Pavlina - I'll leave it to Steve to introduce himself in a simple manner: "Steve Pavlina is a blue-eyed, colorblind, left-handed, well educated, vegan, lucid dreaming, purpose driven, happily jobless, reality manipulating, meditation practicing, Reiki healing, risk taking, goal seeking, problem solving, early rising, passive income generating, highly motivated, energetic, disciplined, persistent, optimistic, fearless, and proactive... writer, speaker, blogger, podcaster, computer programmer, game designer, entrepreneur, husband, father, and archetypal Aries. He's an extroverted introvert, a logical intuitive, and an insatiably curious seeker of truth. Simply put, Steve is one of life's runaway experiments who challenges people incessantly until they ascend to a higher level of consciousness... or flee naked into the desert screaming, "The horror, the horror!"". There are only a few words left in the dictionary, but that trivial fact apart, you will see from his introduction that Steve is someone who can say very long stories in a very brief way. Of course, a less concise person, if he were asked to give an introduction to Steve's work would have said, "He does work in personality development." Steve's blog is titled Steve Pavlina's Personal Development Blog
Darren Rowse - ProBlogger - An Australian living in Melbourne, Darren is a full time blogger making a living from the medium; he has been blogging since November 2002 on a number of sites. He is also one of the founders of b5media - a blog network. His main blog title: Make Money Online with ProBlogger
Steve Rubel - Steve Rubel is a senior marketing strategist with 15 years experience. He currently serves as senior vice president in Edelman's me2revolution practice, the largest independent global PR firm, where he is charged with helping Edelman identify, test, incubate and champion new forms of communications that get people talking across new platforms and channels. Widely viewed as an expert on conversational marketing, Rubel is often sought out as a speaker and appears frequently in the press.
Jeremy Schoemaker - ShoeMoney - In the 1980’s, Jeremy Shoemaker’s mom purchased an Apple IIc. Schoemaker found it amazing! He began to write simple programs on the Apple, mostly consisting of repeating test messages that said, “My mom is cool.” The "cool" factor appears to have continued with many other things he did later, ending up with his founding the ShoeMoney Media Group. From the company’s inception, Schoemaker has embraced the mantra, “prioritize potentially profitable projects.”, which of course is the oddest corporate philosophy one could have thought Internet companies (even post dot com era) could think of, but there you have it. His blog title: Shoe Money
Robert Scoble. Robert Scoble, earlier with Microsoft, currently works at PodTech.net (title: Vice President of Media Development). Blog title: Tech Geek Blogger
Jennifer Slegg - Jen writes stuff; she accepts payment in lattes; she's the contextual advertising correspondent on the Search Engine Watch Blog. To know more about this intriguing she-blogger, here's Jen making a lot of sense @ JenSense
Yaro Starak - Yaro Starak is a young entrepreneur from Australia who currently operates several Internet businesses that he operates from a home office or a laptop while traveling. He draws on his experience and passion for web business to teach others how to build and manage successful Internet enterprises. See a picture of Yaro here. If you mistake Yaro for a rock star, Hollywood actor or a fashion model - I'm not sure if Yaro will be pleased - but at least you will not be alone. Blog title: Entrepreneur's Journey
Aaron Wall - Main blog - SEO Book - Aaron runs SEO Book, a leading SEO blog covering the search space, offering marketing tips, search analysis, and more...Aaron's life is anything but easy, and is spent balancing answering emails, blogging, reading blogs and forums, buying and developing sites, working for a couple customers, and running Threadwatch...which is why, if you wish to buy consulting time from him, which is available on a limited basis, it will drag you down by $500 per hour. It appears that his life is a great balancing act, and guess it includes a great bank balance too...
Eric Ward - Eric is the guru of links...considered one of the masters of classic link-building strategies, Eric has a lot and more to offer us at his interesting blog Eric Ward
Debbie Weil - known as the MonaLisaOfBlogging, is a corporate and CEO blogging consultant and author of The Corporate Blogging Book. She also writes BlogWriteForCEOs, considered one of the most influential blogs about business blogging. As a consultant, she shows the big dogs how to use blogs as a next-generation marketing and communications strategy.
You might want to keep yourself updated on her posts at her blog having an eponymous title Debbie Weil - it is not everywhere you find a Mona Lisa telling dogs what to do. (The bigger question of course is whether the dogs have the enough brains to understand.)
Jeremy Zawodny - is currently working with Yahoo! in the platform engineering group. He has been described as "Yahoo!'s MySQL guru". Zawodny's blog, some of whose articles have beed the focus of hot debates - focuses on Yahoo! initiatives and has been praised as a "bridge blog", one that has helped build relationships for Yahoo! and attract potential employees to the company. His blog title: Jeremy Zawodny's Blog
This post @ the Big List blog tries to become a pantheon of all blogging gods :-). We keep hearing about these gods so much hither and thither that I thought these gurus deserved a pantheon where the rest of us mere mortals can worship them. This is a growing list folks, and please send me ( [narsi]@[esource].[in] - remove the [] for the mail ID) any other god you can think of.
I'm just putting down the list and hopefully with time, this will grow and grow and grow...so please let me know of other blog gurus who should be present at this pantheon by either sending me a note to the email noted above or by leaving a comment. Thank you!
The Pantheon
Arranged alphabetically, first letter of last name being the criterion.
John Batelle - John's runs the blog John Battelle's Searchblog, and is considered a very influential blogger. Just in case you want his expertise (for a fee of course), he also consults in areas focused on the intersection of media and technology.
Jason Calacanis - Jason McCabe Calacanis is CEO and co-founder of Weblogs Inc., a network of widely read blogs. Founded in January of 2004, Weblogs, Inc. became a wholly owned subsidiary of AOL in November of 2005. Prior to forming Weblogs Inc., Calacanis was CEO and founder of Rising Tide Studios, a media company that published print and online publications. He also served as a script consultant on Wayne Wang’s film “Center of the World” about the life of a “cyber-surfer” and appears in a supporting role.Calacanis is a 5th Degree in Tae Kwon Do and has run in eleven consecutive New York City Marathons. The last point was noted just to let you know that if you wish to differ with Jason, you might want to differ in a polite way. His blog title: The Jason Calacanis Weblog
John Chow - JohnChow.com - John Chow, who gies by the nick name “Moto” (named after the old video game Moto Racer), lives in Vancouver, Canada. Before internet happened to him, he was a partner in a local printing company. In April 1999, he started a little technology site called The TechZone, which has grown and grown and grown to become a, well, well-grown site on hardware tech site. Besides taking care of the day to day business at The Tech Zone, John claims he could be seen riding his bike around Vancouver, working out at Fitness World or climbing Grouse Mountain. He, according to himself, is best known for his famous quote “My World! My Rules!” and “Oh well.” By now you would have realised that one of the things you will least expect from John is an understatement. Blog title: Make Money Online with John Chow dot Com (would you have expected anything else?)
Brian Clark - CopyBlogger - Brian Clark is an Internet marketing strategist, content developer, entrepreneur, and recovering attorney (no, he is not an attorney recovering from illness, he is an attorney who helps you recover your things from others, at least that is what I think he meant at this page). In addition to building three successful offline businesses using online marketing techniques, he has sold scores of products and services online via joint venture and affiliate arrangements. Blog title: Copywriting Tips for Online Marketing Success from CopyBlogger
Mark Cuban - Mark Cuban is an American billionaire entrepreneur. He is owner of the Dallas Mavericks, an NBA franchise; and Chairman of HDNet, an HDTV cable network. (source: Wikipedia article). While arguably he is not best known for blogging, his blog Blog Maverick has a good following all the same. His latest rant (actually on-going rant) is about GooTube.
Matt Cutts of Google - Matt joined Google as a software engineer in January 2000. He's currently the head of the Google's Webspam team. His blog is titled Gadgets, Google & SEO
Rand Fishkin - SEO moz - Rand's formative years were spent writing batch files in MS-DOS and creating my own startup systems for Windows. He lated pursued a web development startup firm, which later on led him to the SEO field. He regularly wears his yellow Puma shoes to conferences and events - in case you thought he was making a rather unusual fashion statement, he claims it is actually part of a well-developed corporate strategy, "It's a good way to identify me if you're not good with faces (a common issue in the tech field)". He already owns two pairs of such remarkable shoes, but keen to extend on this ingenuous strategy, he is always on the lookout for more. His blog title: Read SEOmoz, Rank Better. Internet Marketing & SEO
Seth Godin - Well, he is god of all things marketing, so he ought to find a place here too! Blog title: Seth's Blog (how ironically unoriginal a title for someone who is so original otherwise!)
Neville Hobson - Neville Hobson, ABC, is a communicator, blogger, podcaster and Second Life explorer, one of the leading European early adopters and influencers in social media communication for business. He blogs at NevilleHobson.com with commentary and opinion on business, communication and technology, and co-presents “For Immediate Release: The Hobson & Holtz Report” (www.forimmediaterelease.biz), a twice-weekly business podcast at the intersection of online communication, business and technology. His blog title: Neville Hobson
Tony Hung of Deep Jive Interests - I'll leave it to Tony to provide his own introduction - "I am not a web designer, nor a code developer, nor digerati, technorati or any other sort of new media guru. But I am blogger who has an interest on topics ranging from the evolution of all media, the social web, web2.0, marketing, and a trailmix of everything in between. I am also the editor of the BlogHerald, one of the oldest blogging institutions in the blogosphere...". Well, Tony is a doctor, and is one of the few blogger celebrities who is a doctor. Of course, we have lots of well-known bloggers who doctor things, but not too many who are doctors themselves...
Jeff Jarvis - Jeff Jarvis blogs about media and news at Buzzmachine.com. He is associate professor and director of the interactive journalism program the City University of New York’s new Graduate School of Journalism. He is consulting editor of Daylife, a news startup. He writes a new media column for The Guardian. He consults for media companies. Blog title: Buzz Machine.
Guy Kawasaki - Guy Kawasaki is a managing director of Garage Technology Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm and a columnist for Entrepreneur Magazine. Previously, he was an Apple Fellow at Apple Computer, Inc. Guy is the author of eight books including The Art of the Start, Rules for Revolutionaries, How to Drive Your Competition Crazy, Selling the Dream, and The Macintosh Way. He graduated from Stanford University where in 1976 - his major was psychology, the easiest major he could find. After Stanford, he attended the law school at UC Davis but lasted one week because he couldn’t deal with the law school teachers diabolical plans to remake him. This however appears to have left an indelible impression upon him, so much that he is now trying to remake the world with his blog: How to Change the World
Jim Kukral - Jim knows a thing or two about the business of online marketing. He has been acquainted with the Internet for over a decade. If there is one thing - amongst many others actually - you can learn for sure from Jim, it is about how to write your sales brochure. The proof of the previous statement can be found at his introduction page, and from his blog title: Jim Kukral Online Marketing Consultant 1-888-BLOG-BIZ...Hmmm
Matt Mullenweg - Google - the self-appointed god of the Internet - might consider him the most important Matt on the web, but he thinks he is but just a kid born and raised in Houston, Texas, who can write code, prose, and music. Matt is actually an important person, his protestations not-withstanding. He is the founding developer of WordPress, the blogging software that runs thousands of sites around the world. He earlier worked at CNET Networks, before founding in 2005 a new startup Automattic, which is the company behind WordPress.com, Akismet, and more to come...His blog title: Photo Matt, Unlucky in Cards
Lee Odden - Top Rank - Lee is publisher of MarketingBlog.com and has been quoted by U.S. News and World Report, The Economist and DMNews. He has also contributed web site marketing content for Yahoo!. Lee is active in the industry as a board member for the DMA Search Engine Marketing Council, a member of SEMPO and a past board member for the Minnesota Interactive Marketing Association. His main blog title: MarketingBlog ?? Top Rank?? - got to figure this...
Jeremiah Owyang - Jeremiah Owyang is currently employed full time at PodTech.net in Palo Alto, primarily serving as a Social Media Resource for their clients. The purpose of his blog is to be a resource to those who deploy Social Media at corporations. He is a fifth generation Chinese-American. In addition to his own being, his last name appears to have attracted a lot of attention so he gives some resources for that - see here and here. Blog title: Web Strategy by Jeremiah.
Steve Pavlina - I'll leave it to Steve to introduce himself in a simple manner: "Steve Pavlina is a blue-eyed, colorblind, left-handed, well educated, vegan, lucid dreaming, purpose driven, happily jobless, reality manipulating, meditation practicing, Reiki healing, risk taking, goal seeking, problem solving, early rising, passive income generating, highly motivated, energetic, disciplined, persistent, optimistic, fearless, and proactive... writer, speaker, blogger, podcaster, computer programmer, game designer, entrepreneur, husband, father, and archetypal Aries. He's an extroverted introvert, a logical intuitive, and an insatiably curious seeker of truth. Simply put, Steve is one of life's runaway experiments who challenges people incessantly until they ascend to a higher level of consciousness... or flee naked into the desert screaming, "The horror, the horror!"". There are only a few words left in the dictionary, but that trivial fact apart, you will see from his introduction that Steve is someone who can say very long stories in a very brief way. Of course, a less concise person, if he were asked to give an introduction to Steve's work would have said, "He does work in personality development." Steve's blog is titled Steve Pavlina's Personal Development Blog
Darren Rowse - ProBlogger - An Australian living in Melbourne, Darren is a full time blogger making a living from the medium; he has been blogging since November 2002 on a number of sites. He is also one of the founders of b5media - a blog network. His main blog title: Make Money Online with ProBlogger
Steve Rubel - Steve Rubel is a senior marketing strategist with 15 years experience. He currently serves as senior vice president in Edelman's me2revolution practice, the largest independent global PR firm, where he is charged with helping Edelman identify, test, incubate and champion new forms of communications that get people talking across new platforms and channels. Widely viewed as an expert on conversational marketing, Rubel is often sought out as a speaker and appears frequently in the press.
Jeremy Schoemaker - ShoeMoney - In the 1980’s, Jeremy Shoemaker’s mom purchased an Apple IIc. Schoemaker found it amazing! He began to write simple programs on the Apple, mostly consisting of repeating test messages that said, “My mom is cool.” The "cool" factor appears to have continued with many other things he did later, ending up with his founding the ShoeMoney Media Group. From the company’s inception, Schoemaker has embraced the mantra, “prioritize potentially profitable projects.”, which of course is the oddest corporate philosophy one could have thought Internet companies (even post dot com era) could think of, but there you have it. His blog title: Shoe Money
Robert Scoble. Robert Scoble, earlier with Microsoft, currently works at PodTech.net (title: Vice President of Media Development). Blog title: Tech Geek Blogger
Jennifer Slegg - Jen writes stuff; she accepts payment in lattes; she's the contextual advertising correspondent on the Search Engine Watch Blog. To know more about this intriguing she-blogger, here's Jen making a lot of sense @ JenSense
Yaro Starak - Yaro Starak is a young entrepreneur from Australia who currently operates several Internet businesses that he operates from a home office or a laptop while traveling. He draws on his experience and passion for web business to teach others how to build and manage successful Internet enterprises. See a picture of Yaro here. If you mistake Yaro for a rock star, Hollywood actor or a fashion model - I'm not sure if Yaro will be pleased - but at least you will not be alone. Blog title: Entrepreneur's Journey
Aaron Wall - Main blog - SEO Book - Aaron runs SEO Book, a leading SEO blog covering the search space, offering marketing tips, search analysis, and more...Aaron's life is anything but easy, and is spent balancing answering emails, blogging, reading blogs and forums, buying and developing sites, working for a couple customers, and running Threadwatch...which is why, if you wish to buy consulting time from him, which is available on a limited basis, it will drag you down by $500 per hour. It appears that his life is a great balancing act, and guess it includes a great bank balance too...
Eric Ward - Eric is the guru of links...considered one of the masters of classic link-building strategies, Eric has a lot and more to offer us at his interesting blog Eric Ward
Debbie Weil - known as the MonaLisaOfBlogging, is a corporate and CEO blogging consultant and author of The Corporate Blogging Book. She also writes BlogWriteForCEOs, considered one of the most influential blogs about business blogging. As a consultant, she shows the big dogs how to use blogs as a next-generation marketing and communications strategy.
You might want to keep yourself updated on her posts at her blog having an eponymous title Debbie Weil - it is not everywhere you find a Mona Lisa telling dogs what to do. (The bigger question of course is whether the dogs have the enough brains to understand.)
Jeremy Zawodny - is currently working with Yahoo! in the platform engineering group. He has been described as "Yahoo!'s MySQL guru". Zawodny's blog, some of whose articles have beed the focus of hot debates - focuses on Yahoo! initiatives and has been praised as a "bridge blog", one that has helped build relationships for Yahoo! and attract potential employees to the company. His blog title: Jeremy Zawodny's Blog
Labels: blogging-gurus
Sunday, March 18, 2007
Using Web 2.0 to Generate Traffic to Blogs and Sites
Using Web 2.0 to Generate Traffic to Blogs and Web Sites
This blog post @ the Big List blog provides comprehensive blog resources that address the topic of utilising web 2.0 concepts to generate traffic to blogs and web sites. If you know of a useful resource that could be added to this list, please send it to me at [narsi]@[esource].[in] (pl remove the [] for my mail address).
Here's a pretty good blog post on the topic of using Web 2.0 ideas and tools to generate traffic to your blogs and sites. Quite a long list of web resources provided here. From the blog Engineering a New World
Go2Web20.net - A large directory of web 2.0 sites, quite comprehensive
A Comprehensive Guide to StumbleUpon: How to Build Massive Traffic to Your Website and Monetize it - The author, having experimented with StumbleUpon for the past few months and having had a good experience, has written this mini guide on StumbleUpon because he felt StumbleUpon had enormous potential in maximizing brand exposure while fitting nicely with a long term site building or monetization strategy. Read more from this blog post @ DoshDosh
Seth Godin's Web 2.0 Traffic Hotlist @ Alexaholic - excellent and comprehensive list
In a well thought out analysis of Web 2.0 sites, the traffic they generate and the usefulness of such traffic, this blog post @ Living Digitally says it is important to know what kinds of Web 2.0 sites and blogs are the real influencers for the domains you are / your blog or site is operating in. Interesting read.
An excellent analysis by Paul O'Flaherty on whether social sites such as Digg would end the domination of search engines in sending traffic to your site. Paul feels it is unlikely, what is more likely in his opinion is that a strategy that factors in the strengths of both search engines and Web 2.0 sites would be far more useful in the near future.
Web 2.0 - What’s the Next Wave? - Posted by Drew Meyers @ Drew Meyer's Insights blog - in the author's own words, "instead of hypothesizing about Web 3.0, I thought I’d focus on the next wave of Web 2.0 technology. This has been a work in progress for awhile, but I think I finally finished my thoughts." Drew talks about the trends in the following: (a) Merging of Blogging and Social Networking, (b) API’s become Vital, (c)Continued Rise of Wiki’s (user-generated content), (d) Mobile Web Applications Take Off, (e) RSS as a search tool
How to Get Traffic from Web 2.0 Sites like Digg, Reddit & StumbleUpon - a nice blog post from the Mind Valley Labs, provides a good introduction to the top web 2.0 sites and provides a few hints on how to write articles that can get you good viewership from these social / web 2.0 sites
Mobile Meme Trackers - A meme according to Wikipedia, is a "unit of cultural information" such as "...tunes, catch-phrases, beliefs, clothes fashions, ways of making pots or of building arches." As used in the Web 2.0 world it seems to have come to mean "hot topic" or "the next big thing". A lot of people have a need to track the day's newest memes and a number of Web sites attempt to do just that - hence the meme trackers. The meme concept tracker is spreading to the mobile web, says this blog post @ WAP Review, and this post provides a roundup of current mobile meme trackers.
How Can Squidoo Increase Website Traffic? - from the Can I Make Big Money Online blog post
This blog post @ the Big List blog provides comprehensive blog resources that address the topic of utilising web 2.0 concepts to generate traffic to blogs and web sites. If you know of a useful resource that could be added to this list, please send it to me at [narsi]@[esource].[in] (pl remove the [] for my mail address).
Here's a pretty good blog post on the topic of using Web 2.0 ideas and tools to generate traffic to your blogs and sites. Quite a long list of web resources provided here. From the blog Engineering a New World
Go2Web20.net - A large directory of web 2.0 sites, quite comprehensive
A Comprehensive Guide to StumbleUpon: How to Build Massive Traffic to Your Website and Monetize it - The author, having experimented with StumbleUpon for the past few months and having had a good experience, has written this mini guide on StumbleUpon because he felt StumbleUpon had enormous potential in maximizing brand exposure while fitting nicely with a long term site building or monetization strategy. Read more from this blog post @ DoshDosh
Seth Godin's Web 2.0 Traffic Hotlist @ Alexaholic - excellent and comprehensive list
In a well thought out analysis of Web 2.0 sites, the traffic they generate and the usefulness of such traffic, this blog post @ Living Digitally says it is important to know what kinds of Web 2.0 sites and blogs are the real influencers for the domains you are / your blog or site is operating in. Interesting read.
An excellent analysis by Paul O'Flaherty on whether social sites such as Digg would end the domination of search engines in sending traffic to your site. Paul feels it is unlikely, what is more likely in his opinion is that a strategy that factors in the strengths of both search engines and Web 2.0 sites would be far more useful in the near future.
Web 2.0 - What’s the Next Wave? - Posted by Drew Meyers @ Drew Meyer's Insights blog - in the author's own words, "instead of hypothesizing about Web 3.0, I thought I’d focus on the next wave of Web 2.0 technology. This has been a work in progress for awhile, but I think I finally finished my thoughts." Drew talks about the trends in the following: (a) Merging of Blogging and Social Networking, (b) API’s become Vital, (c)Continued Rise of Wiki’s (user-generated content), (d) Mobile Web Applications Take Off, (e) RSS as a search tool
How to Get Traffic from Web 2.0 Sites like Digg, Reddit & StumbleUpon - a nice blog post from the Mind Valley Labs, provides a good introduction to the top web 2.0 sites and provides a few hints on how to write articles that can get you good viewership from these social / web 2.0 sites
Mobile Meme Trackers - A meme according to Wikipedia, is a "unit of cultural information" such as "...tunes, catch-phrases, beliefs, clothes fashions, ways of making pots or of building arches." As used in the Web 2.0 world it seems to have come to mean "hot topic" or "the next big thing". A lot of people have a need to track the day's newest memes and a number of Web sites attempt to do just that - hence the meme trackers. The meme concept tracker is spreading to the mobile web, says this blog post @ WAP Review, and this post provides a roundup of current mobile meme trackers.
How Can Squidoo Increase Website Traffic? - from the Can I Make Big Money Online blog post
Labels: blogging, marketing, web-2.0
Blog Content Syndication Tips and Suggestions
Blog Content Syndication Tips and Suggestions
This post at the Big List blog provides comprehensive blog post resources that address the topic of blog content syndication and the resulting increase in your blog traffic. If you know of a useful resource that could be added to this list, please send it to me at [narsi]@[esource].[in] (pl remove the [] for my mail address).
Content Matters...But Distribution Rules In Media - Distributers are the ultimate media gatekeeper, says this blog post at Joint Communications blog
BlogBurst, ScooptWords, and Newstex; A Guide to Blog Syndication Services - from this blog post at Well Timed Period
Monetize Your Blog Feed - 8 Easy Ways to Monetize your RSS Feed - from the DoshDosh blog
How To Optimize Your Blog For Syndication | Meme Trackers - An excellent tutorial from Andy Beard
How Timing of Link Attribution Affects Syndication and Search Results - also by Andy Beard, and also another useful read (Feb 2007 post)
Blogging SEO and Syndication - Posted by Mark Eamer @ Zillow Blog (Feb 2007)
Making Money from your Blog Using Print Syndication - useful blog post from the Brazen Careerist blog
Re-syndicate your blog feed with widgets - this blog post provides info on services that allow you to re-syndicate the contents of an RSS feed...useful, from the Library Clips blog
13 Tips to Maintaining and Growing a Feed Subscriber Base - by Sharon Housley @ TiggrSuccess Blog
How to get RSS right — Stuart Brown @ The Modern Life blog - 5 tips to help get subscribers, keep subscribers - simple but useful tips
This post at the Big List blog provides comprehensive blog post resources that address the topic of blog content syndication and the resulting increase in your blog traffic. If you know of a useful resource that could be added to this list, please send it to me at [narsi]@[esource].[in] (pl remove the [] for my mail address).
Content Matters...But Distribution Rules In Media - Distributers are the ultimate media gatekeeper, says this blog post at Joint Communications blog
BlogBurst, ScooptWords, and Newstex; A Guide to Blog Syndication Services - from this blog post at Well Timed Period
Monetize Your Blog Feed - 8 Easy Ways to Monetize your RSS Feed - from the DoshDosh blog
How To Optimize Your Blog For Syndication | Meme Trackers - An excellent tutorial from Andy Beard
How Timing of Link Attribution Affects Syndication and Search Results - also by Andy Beard, and also another useful read (Feb 2007 post)
Blogging SEO and Syndication - Posted by Mark Eamer @ Zillow Blog (Feb 2007)
Making Money from your Blog Using Print Syndication - useful blog post from the Brazen Careerist blog
Re-syndicate your blog feed with widgets - this blog post provides info on services that allow you to re-syndicate the contents of an RSS feed...useful, from the Library Clips blog
13 Tips to Maintaining and Growing a Feed Subscriber Base - by Sharon Housley @ TiggrSuccess Blog
How to get RSS right — Stuart Brown @ The Modern Life blog - 5 tips to help get subscribers, keep subscribers - simple but useful tips
Labels: blogging, distribution
Strangest Blog Topics
Strangest Blog Topics
This post @ the Big List blog provides a list of strange, stranger and strangest blog topics that we have come across in our browsings. This list will continue growing. If you know of a useful resource that could be added to this list, please send it to me at [narsi]@[esource].[in] (pl remove the [] for my mail address).
Ten Weird Things You Probably Didn’t (or Shouldn’t) Know About Me - OK, this is not a strange blog, but a strange blog post (and a game)...posted at Verocity...I'll leave the author to describe the game...“Each player of this game starts off with ten weird things or habits or little known facts about yourself. People who get tagged must write in a blog of their own ten weird things or habits or little known facts as well as state this rule clearly. At the end you must choose six people to be tagged and list their names. No tagbacks!” Read more on the author's 10 weird habits and see how this game progresses...
10 Most Bizarre People on the Planet - Posted by dysalot - this interesting blog post provides a list of ten very strange people on this planet. Click on their names to read a longer biography of each person. From the Fish Basketball blog
Unusual Hotels of the World - A traditional web site, not a blog, but very interesting
Octopus Diver's Blogden
The House of Nonsense
This post @ the Big List blog provides a list of strange, stranger and strangest blog topics that we have come across in our browsings. This list will continue growing. If you know of a useful resource that could be added to this list, please send it to me at [narsi]@[esource].[in] (pl remove the [] for my mail address).
Ten Weird Things You Probably Didn’t (or Shouldn’t) Know About Me - OK, this is not a strange blog, but a strange blog post (and a game)...posted at Verocity...I'll leave the author to describe the game...“Each player of this game starts off with ten weird things or habits or little known facts about yourself. People who get tagged must write in a blog of their own ten weird things or habits or little known facts as well as state this rule clearly. At the end you must choose six people to be tagged and list their names. No tagbacks!” Read more on the author's 10 weird habits and see how this game progresses...
10 Most Bizarre People on the Planet - Posted by dysalot - this interesting blog post provides a list of ten very strange people on this planet. Click on their names to read a longer biography of each person. From the Fish Basketball blog
Unusual Hotels of the World - A traditional web site, not a blog, but very interesting
Octopus Diver's Blogden
The House of Nonsense
Writing Great Blog Content
Writing Great Blog Content
This post @ the Big List blog provides a big list of blog resources that address the topic of writing great and useful blog content which can in turn attract good traffic If you know of a useful resource that could be added to this list, please send it to me at [narsi]@[esource].[in] (pl remove the [] for my mail address).
How To Grow A Great Blog Without Writing It Yourself - a detailed March, 2007 blog post by Yaro Stark. Many useful ideas and links
The Only Blogs I Always Read - this post from the Cre8tive Flow blog provides a list of blogs - in various domains - that author reads regularly amidst the avalanche of blogs and blog posts flooding the RSS readers. Sifting through the blogs mentioned provides us a good idea of the type of (and the form) content provided by these blogs that have made them stand out. Excellent read.
How to Create Great Blog Content by Writing "Evergreen" Posts - Well-written blog posts can be very valuable sources of search engine traffic that can help raise your profile and that of your blog. The trick is to come up with content that has "evergreen" value - in other words it doesn't become immediately dated shortly after posting, says Chip Griffin in this useful Pardon the Description blog post
Is Content Still King, Or Have Titles and Summaries Taken Over?, asks Brian Carr in this blog post and does an excellent analysis. His conclusion? If content truly is the number one way to get people to your site, then having the ability to write catchy titles and interesting summaries has to be an extremely close second. Excellent post @ The New Business Blog
Do These Headlines Work For You? - a relatively short, but excellent post at CopyBlogger. A good list of examples provided in this post to give us a peek of what kinds of Headlines could make great headlines. Most of us normally think of headline as a necessary evil, and just do enough to make it search engine friendly, but boy, aren't we missing much better ways of doing a headline! As an aside, not sure if Brian intended it, but this sort of a post has a viral quality (actually that is a euphemism, I mean link-bait quality) as well...see the comments section to see the folks who have responded...
Screencasts Add Great Content, New Revenue Streams - a post at ProBlogger
How to write a successful blog - The author Chris Bunting provides a (small) list of what not to do and (a pretty long and useful list of) what to do. Excellent post at the BUYO blog
A Comprehensive Guide to Going Viral on Digg (Part 1) - by Daniel Tynski @ SEOmoz - this detailed and thorough article lives up to its title. Don't miss this post
When your blog posts are shit! - This Jan 2007 post by Steven Aitchison dwells on writing high quality blog posts and provides 10 steps / points for the same. Useful post from the Change Your Thoughts blog
Don’t believe the Hype: Unique Content is not Enough - Well, this post is not about writing great content, but it about the fact that writing great content is not enough. Thought I'd add the post link to this list as well because at the end of the day we all want great content to be read by the most number of relevant people as well, don't we! Posted by Ahmed at the Tech SoapBox blog
Ernest Hemingway’s Top 5 Tips for Writing Well - cool blog post, succint and useful - from CopyBlogger
Why I Blog - this post from the Evolving Times blog gives a good idea of the mindset of a good blogger; extending this thought, such a "positive" mindset is likely to produce "positive" content, OK that is just my hypothesis...all the same, read this post, interesting...
Copywriting 101 - from CopyBlogger - excellent guide, a must-read
This post @ the Big List blog provides a big list of blog resources that address the topic of writing great and useful blog content which can in turn attract good traffic If you know of a useful resource that could be added to this list, please send it to me at [narsi]@[esource].[in] (pl remove the [] for my mail address).
How To Grow A Great Blog Without Writing It Yourself - a detailed March, 2007 blog post by Yaro Stark. Many useful ideas and links
The Only Blogs I Always Read - this post from the Cre8tive Flow blog provides a list of blogs - in various domains - that author reads regularly amidst the avalanche of blogs and blog posts flooding the RSS readers. Sifting through the blogs mentioned provides us a good idea of the type of (and the form) content provided by these blogs that have made them stand out. Excellent read.
How to Create Great Blog Content by Writing "Evergreen" Posts - Well-written blog posts can be very valuable sources of search engine traffic that can help raise your profile and that of your blog. The trick is to come up with content that has "evergreen" value - in other words it doesn't become immediately dated shortly after posting, says Chip Griffin in this useful Pardon the Description blog post
Is Content Still King, Or Have Titles and Summaries Taken Over?, asks Brian Carr in this blog post and does an excellent analysis. His conclusion? If content truly is the number one way to get people to your site, then having the ability to write catchy titles and interesting summaries has to be an extremely close second. Excellent post @ The New Business Blog
Do These Headlines Work For You? - a relatively short, but excellent post at CopyBlogger. A good list of examples provided in this post to give us a peek of what kinds of Headlines could make great headlines. Most of us normally think of headline as a necessary evil, and just do enough to make it search engine friendly, but boy, aren't we missing much better ways of doing a headline! As an aside, not sure if Brian intended it, but this sort of a post has a viral quality (actually that is a euphemism, I mean link-bait quality) as well...see the comments section to see the folks who have responded...
Screencasts Add Great Content, New Revenue Streams - a post at ProBlogger
How to write a successful blog - The author Chris Bunting provides a (small) list of what not to do and (a pretty long and useful list of) what to do. Excellent post at the BUYO blog
A Comprehensive Guide to Going Viral on Digg (Part 1) - by Daniel Tynski @ SEOmoz - this detailed and thorough article lives up to its title. Don't miss this post
When your blog posts are shit! - This Jan 2007 post by Steven Aitchison dwells on writing high quality blog posts and provides 10 steps / points for the same. Useful post from the Change Your Thoughts blog
Don’t believe the Hype: Unique Content is not Enough - Well, this post is not about writing great content, but it about the fact that writing great content is not enough. Thought I'd add the post link to this list as well because at the end of the day we all want great content to be read by the most number of relevant people as well, don't we! Posted by Ahmed at the Tech SoapBox blog
Ernest Hemingway’s Top 5 Tips for Writing Well - cool blog post, succint and useful - from CopyBlogger
Why I Blog - this post from the Evolving Times blog gives a good idea of the mindset of a good blogger; extending this thought, such a "positive" mindset is likely to produce "positive" content, OK that is just my hypothesis...all the same, read this post, interesting...
Copywriting 101 - from CopyBlogger - excellent guide, a must-read
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