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Escaping Google Hell - Get out of the Sandbox, Now!

2007-06-21T06:16:00.000-07:00

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

Some Really Cool Tools Online

2007-06-20T08:53:00.000-07:00

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

The Pantheon of Blogging Gods - Know The Gurus of Blogging

2007-03-19T07:39:00.000-07:00

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

Using Web 2.0 to Generate Traffic to Blogs and Sites

2007-03-18T10:33:00.000-07:00

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

Blog Content Syndication Tips and Suggestions

2007-03-18T10:24:00.000-07:00

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

Strangest Blog Topics

2007-03-18T10:13:00.000-07:00

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

Writing Great Blog Content

2007-03-18T10:06:00.000-07:00

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

Unique and Successful Blogs

2007-03-18T10:02:00.000-07:00

List of unique and successful blogs in the blogosphere

This blog post @ the Big List Blog provides a comprehensive list of unique and successful blogs of the past and the present. 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).

MyBlogLog – Shoestring Web 2.0 Success Story - in this interesting blog post, Tom Evslin provides his analysis of the MyBlogLog story and its route to success. In a nutshell, Tom feels that a key reason for MyBlogLog's ability to get itself viral marketed was because of their method of providing users with a valuable service (blog statistics), building a loyal base of users that way, and then expanding this user base into a social networking platform. Good read from the Fractals of Change blog

Five Steps to a Truly Unique Blog That Attracts Readers and Revenue - this post at CopyBlogger provides a framework using which you can create a unique and successful blog. Good read

How Many Truly Unique Blogs Can We Find? - ME Strauss - February, 2007 - Liz Strauss embarks on a journey to find truly unique blogs, @ Successful Blog

See a unique blog update from Jeremiah @ Web Strategy by Jeremiah

A long, wonderful list of unique blogs from this Streight Site Systems post

A good list of unique blogs & sites @ Links.com

Effective Viral Marketing Tips for Your Blog and Web Site

2007-03-18T10:00:00.000-07:00

Effective Viral Marketing Tips for Your Blog and Web Site

This post at the Blig List blog provides comprehensive web resources that addresses the topic of viral marketing methods and suggestions for blogs and web sites. This list will grow. 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).

Online Marketing Videos Every Aspiring Super Marketer Needs To Watch - this post at Jim Kukral gives a brief list of videos (just 2, one featuring Seth Godin and the other Jackie Huba) but both the videos are excellent

Irish blog awards - fantastic viral marketing by default, says this February 19, 2007 post by Paul Walsh @ Segala. Paul says that the Irish blog awards is getting unprecedented attention amongst the Irish blogsphere. As he says, perhaps it is only natural for folks to blog about blog awards...one way of viral marketing?

The Only Thing You Need To Know About Internet Marketing - On reading this headline, I'm sure you will say, "Ah, just another harebrained book for which the author will ask for 50 $." You will be pardoned if you had thought so, because so had I ;-) . This blog post is actually little about Internet and everything about marketing 101. OK, I will cut the flab and come straight to the point. What indeed is that only thing, according to the author (Chris)? "Here’s the secret: GIVE. THEM. WHAT. THEY. WANT. AND….. GIVE. THEM. MORE. MORE. MORE. THAN. WHAT. THEY. WANT." It sounds cliched, but well, most commonsense is cliche, isn't it? Read more from this post @ the Buzz Blog

Word-of-Mouth Marketing Ideas. Some Worthy. Some Worthless - a huge list (43 items if I know my numbers correctly) of viral marketing / evangelistic marketing / word of mouth marketing ideas, not specifically for blogs though. The author (Spike Jones) also gives his opinion on what he thinks is a good idea and what is not. A March 15, 2007 post @ Dimano Marketing

Viral Campaigns Need to Put Entertainment First - appears to be the message of this blog post at Social Media Marketing blog. Useful post to read, gives quite a few examples and links for viral campaigns especially of viral videos. Post by Scott Monty

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

7 tricks to Viral Web Marketing - long, detailed, catchy blog post...embeds some of the tricks it puts forth, and as a result finds itself in this list :-)...the seven tricks discussed at this excellent post are: 1: Make people feel something, 2: Do something unexpected, 3: Do not try to make advertisements (that sucks), 4: Make sequels, 5: Allow Sharing, downloading and embedding, 6: Connect with comments, 7: Never restrict access! From the Baekdal blog

Tony Quinlan posts a brief but useful list of viral marketing references at this post at the partum intelligendo blog

Viral Marketing and Growth - a blog post at the Rogelio Choy blog - quite a few examples provided, good post

How Can I Generate Viral Marketing for My Products & Services @ the Billion Dollar Site - lots and lots of links and resources for viral marketing in general (not specifically tuned for blogs, but it is a very useful resource all the same)

Getting More Links to your Blog - Link Baiting

2007-03-18T09:56:00.000-07:00

Getting More Links to your Blog - Link Baiting

This post at Big List Blog provides big list of blog resources that address the topic of getting useful links to your blog posts from other blogs. This list will grow. 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).

Leveraging Linkbait - an excellent and detailed introduction to and analysis of link bait, also has 7 tips for linkbait success. Read this blog post from the Yahoo Publisher Network

Good list of Linkbaiting tips from Jim Westergren

Andy Hagan's Ultimate Guide to Link Baiting and Social Media Marketing - One naturally gets skeptical when one sees the words ultimate guide, but having read through what Andy has to say at this post, I fully agree with a comment found at the bottom of the post, "If you can’t figure things out with Andy’s guide to linkbaiting, then you’re probably not gonna catch on. Notice it is not a guide - it is an ULTIMATE guide." Andy, thank you!

Link Baiting: Great Idea or Passing Fad? asks Jennifer Laycock in this January, 2007 post at Search Engine Guide. She feels that Link Baiting as a concept is here to stay. Read more from her blog post here

How to be Remarkable by Seth Godin - not directly a post on link bait, but as you will easily see, the connection is obvious, Jan 2007 post

The Enormous Link-bait List - from Cornwall SEO - looks like someone got there before BigList! Excellent list of over 100 (did not really count it, but guess should be over a ton) blog resources for link bait info.

Link Building vs. Link Baiting vs. Genuine Buzz - Listen to what Mike Levin says, it is interesting, "My question to you is how hard did Steve Jobs have to work to get everyone to link to Apple on the iPhone? Creating products that are insanely great is a viable alternative to manipulative SEO techniques. Of course, this is manipulation of another sort. But if you can create genuine buzz around a new category of product that fulfills a real need, the urgency to perform SEO goes down. You don't have to ask for a single link. People link to you, naturally." Absolutely! The only problem is, not every one of us has a Steve Jobs or even nearabouts in us. But that is no reason not to read this well-thought-and-written post @ the Hit Tail blog

The Art of Linkbaiting - One of the earliest blog posts I found on Link Baiting (Nov 2005) written by David Krug @ Performancing.com - He says as a preamble to the article, Linkbaiting "is not without potential perils, but the time honored tradition of being contrary, in order to get attention is well proved, and done right, it's a killer way to break into a new area. There are also safer ways of linkbaitng, they're just less fun :)." David goes on to say that you need a hook to bait a link and looks at some ppular "hooks": (a) News hook, (b) Contrary Hook, (c) Attack Hook, (d) Resource Hook, (e) Humour Hook. Excellent post, read the full article here

Relevant Linking is not the Same as Link Baiting, says TonNet @ this Education & Technology blog post

Asking for links - in this well-analysed blog post Kate provides us with a logical approach while asking for links from other blogs / bloggers

How to Make Your Blog Popular - a 10-point approach suggested Anne Zelenka @ her blog Anne 2.1

Online Publicity and Link Building in 2007: An Eric Ward Webcast - an excellent coverage of the web cast by Tamar @ the 10e20 blog

LinkBait alone won’t do it. You need Link Ninjas - from Jim Boykin's blog

You Have Heard of Link Bait - This is Pin Bait

Link Love vs. Link Bait - By S. Housley

Don't take the (link) bait - Actually, I don't have a strong objection to link bait. I do have a strong objection to the term, and its unfortunate connotations. The whole notion of baiting someone is not positive. And if you buy into the term, it becomes tempting to buy into bad ideas, says Eric Enge at this Search Engine Watch blog post

Link Bait: Malicoat Explains the Hooks + Link Tools and Digg PR - Posted by Garrett French @ Search Marketing Standard

2007 Guide To Linkbaiting: The Year Of Widgetbait? - by Nick Wilson from Search Engine Land blog post

The Art of Linkbaiting - by Performancing @ the Performancing blog post - one of the earliest, much quoted, article on Link Baiting - November 8, 2005

Link Bait Tips - Most of you know the importance of links when it comes to respectable search engine rankings. You need one to get the other. However, how do you go about attracting these prospective linkers? - from Web Pro News blog post

More about my Link Bait Content Strategy and Concepting Service - So you think you need some linkbait? Maybe, maybe not. If you are seeking a linkbait service for the sole purpose of quick high search engine rankings, you might want to stop, because that's what everyone is trying. In my opinion that approach isn't very wise. In this new era of personalized search results, links are more important than ever, and linkbait needs to be white-hat and about verticality, not just algorithms, says Eric Ward at this post @ the Eric Ward blog

Link Bait: The Down Side - One of the hot topics in the SEO community over the past couple of years has been link bait. It is often characterized as an obvious good - why wouldn’t anyone try and get links - however, as with any marketing strategy, it has pros and cons, says this blog post at the V7 Network

The Links that can't be Baited - by Eric Ward @ Search Engine Land

10 Sure-Fire Headline Formulas That Work - from CopyBlogger

Leveraging Linkbait - from Yahoo Publisher Network

The Resource Linkbait - Using Lists to Build Authority, Traffic and Links to your Website - from Dosh Dosh blog post

When LinkBait Goes too Far - Posted by Jennifer Laycock @ Search Engine Guide

Is your linkbait not working? try writing instead… February, 2007 post @ Venture Skills

The How-Tos of Linkbait for Affiliates - The author makes a confession to start with: "Let me start this one off by saying that while I am a big proponent of linkbait, I can’t admit to ever having successfully produced any linkbait – so what I am sharing today comes from my research (read: reading blog posts) on the topic, not from hands-on experience. With that in mind, let’s do this…" Read this useful post from Affiliate Blog

Session: Link Baiting & Viral Search Success - Posted by Thomas McMahon; Sitting in on the link baiting session the presenters made it sound so easy. Rand talked about how, on average, a front page Digg post or exposure on Techcrunch can get you 2000 new inbound links. That’s an astronomical amount of links and the good thing is, everyone can can do it. Here are some things to consider - a good list of 20+ points, excellent!

Traffic Without Search Engines - Yes, It Can Be Done - By Jerely @ Nusuni - There comes a time in every blog’s life when it gets little or no traffic from search engines. It has happened to everyone at one point - getting kicked out of the search rankings temporarily. Just like with monetization, it is vitally important to have multiple streams [of traffic] so your blog can survive when Google betrays you, says Jeremy and tells us how to do this

Viral Marketing and SEO, It’s So Easy - says Nathaniel Broughton - seems stupid to me on the surface, but viral marketing is so much about playing on that universal desire of people to feel cool, see their name, get props, etc., says the author and continues with this theme to provide some good ideas to make your content viral - from EnviSEO blog

Link Ninjas vs. Bait Pirates - Posted by great scott! While traditional link ("Link Ninjas") building is a necessary evil, I feel it is my sworn duty to make a case for the awesome power of a scurvy crew of Bait Pirates!, says Great Scott at SEO moz - interesting post

Six Top Linking Strategies - a February, 2007 by John Chow - "In my never-ending quest to get more backlinks I have tried many methods, which I will share with you. These link building techniques have so far generated 7,218 links from 1,952 blogs, according to Technorati. That’s good enough to rank me 413th most popular blog on the Internet. Moreover, this is just the number of blogs linking to me. According to Yahoo, over 58,000 websites link to John Chow dot Com."...These data should be enough to make you want to read this post @ John Chow dot com

Internal Linking Strategy: SEO Self Reflection - SEO articles abound on social media linking strategies. SEO blog posts are legion on the topic of link and widget bait. SEO forums buzz endlessly about reciprocal versus one-way linking. There is no doubt that all of those various types of external, inbound links matter. But how often do we discuss internal linking strategies? Perhaps not often enough feels Mike Valentine in this post @ Reality SEO and tries to remedy this situation at this excellent post

Can You Compete with Industrial Strength Linkbaiting? (or, Why My Site Will Outrank Yours for [mortgage]) - Now here's one confident soul that predicts that with link-baiting he can beat the best of link ninjas...interesting, thought-provoking read @ Tropical SEO blog

Long Tail PR: how to do publicity without a press release (or the press) - "But what about the Long Tail of media--all those new influentials, from the micromedia of Techcrunch and Gizmodo to individual bloggers? And the social news aggregators like Digg and our own Reddit? They're where the most powerful sort of marketing--word of mouth--starts, but most of them don't want to hear from a PR person at all...So now imagine that you're one of those PR professionals. What do you do?" - asks Chris Anderson @ this post @ The Long Tail PR and provides some answers - and even more answers are provided in the comments section!

Using honey pots and sleepers to get higher search engine rankings - A successful search engine marketing strategy requires that you make use of a wide variety of web pages. Welcome to the world of sleepers, rockets and honey pots!, says this interesting article at Pandia Search Engine News. Know more about what these sleepers, rockets and honey pots are all about at this post.

SEO Linkbait v. Online WoM Campaign: The Difference is Positioning? - asks this post at Emergence Media and provides its perspectives on the issue

Link Baiting for the Beginner - Link Bait – A Beginners Guide to Search Engine Marketing - Kelvin Newman - While the post certainly is true to its objective of explaining link-bait to a beginner, it does so in such a clear manner that it could be a useful rehash for experts even. From Online Business News & Reviews Blog

PubCon - Viral and WOMM Marketing Management - Nov 16 2006 | Conferences - Once it goes viral, you can’t control it - or can you? This session will study the targeting criteria of word of mouth marketing and viral marketing management. Moderator: Todd Friesen; lots and lots of inputs and resources at this post

Link Building is Relationship Building - Posted in SEO by smbconsulting - By Jennifer Laycock - January, 2006 - "Most small business owners understand that one of the most important things they need to do in order to help their web sites rank better on the search engines is to build incoming links from quality, relevant web sites. I’ve written in the past about building the right content to serve as link bait, but the reality is that until your site starts to be found on its own, it’s hard to get those links, no matter how great your content is. That means that many small business owners will need to start off their link building campaign by asking for links. That may sound easy enough, but a good link request requires true skill to deliver," says Jennifer in this post

Link Baiting - from the PPC Managers Board - a failr long and detailed list of tools and techniques that can be used for link baiting

101 Ways to Build Link Popularity - Wow, there really are 101 points in this post, some of them known ideas, some of them new and really worth trying - from the Make Money Gurus blog

Review John Chow dot Com and Get Traffic - There is something really interesting about this blog's link-baiting technique. To paraphrase in the author's own words: "John Chow dot Com is a blog that helps you make money online. He is offering to link to your blog if you review his blog." Interesting, isn't it? Read more from here

How difficult is Linkbaiting?- from Google Success SEO SEM Tips blog - So, what could we use to bait people into linking to you? - this post provides some core ideas that can make your process of getting inbound links easier

SES: Link Baiting And Viral Search Success, by: Thomas McMahon - Dec 2006 - Sitting in on the link baiting session the presenters made it sound so easy. Rand talked about how, on average, a front page Digg post or exposure on Techcrunch can get you 2000 new inbound links. Thomas provides a summary of points from the session

The real reason nobody reads your blog - Alister Cameron - "This post is dedicated to anyone who is grieving over the fact that after months of intense blogging...the stats keep telling you that no-one is coming. There’s just nobody out there! And you’re left asking yourself what on earth could the success formula be, that explains the meteoric rise of a (seemingly) lucky lucky few, and the slow realization of the great majority… that they’re going absolutely nowhere....Well fellow try-hard bloggers, there is light at the end of the tunnel," says Alister and ends up writing a detailed and excellent post. A must-must read for any one who has to do with blogging

Rand Fishkin’s 7 tips for Link Bait Success - December, 2006 by Eric Enge - This post provides a summary of Rand Fishkin’s list of 7 steps for Success in Link baiting. In order of link generating power, as determined by SEOmoz’s research, here is the list: (1) Digg, (2) Slashdot, (3) Fark, (4) Del.icio.us, (5) Reddit, (6) Boing Boing, (7) Techmeme, (8) Techcrunch, (9) Netscape, (10) Lifehacker, (11) StumbleUpon, (12) Shoutwire. read more from this post for specific tips on how to succeed in getting links and traffic with the above list and more

10 Steps to a Viral Tutorial That Sells - October, 2006 post @ CopyBlogger - Can a tutorial attract links and traffic, while selling at the same time? We know that a well-written tutorial that stays strongly focused on benefits to the reader can fly under the “sales-alert” radar and lead to great results, says Brian Clark at this CopyBlogger post and provides us more suggestions for us to make this happen

My Simple Guide On How To Get to Digg’s FrontPage - an October, 2006 post at INCREASEO - just three points made, but useful - at least you will know what NOT to do

SES: Link Baiting - Experienced Marketers Only - The Linkbaiting session at SES 2006 in San Jose offered bucket loads of link bait to hopeful link anglers, says Mike Banks Valentine, who provides his summary of the ideas at the event and his perspectives in this long and useful post at Web Pro News (Sep 2006)

Use Headline To Link Bait - from Buzz Badge

The Power of Forum Promotion - January, 2007 - Discussion forums are everywhere. You can find forums for almost any subject you can think of, from train spotting to budgerigars. Certain forums happen to be extremely large with thousands of users logging in every single day, so naturally they have become a target for spam. How can you utilize the power of the discussion forum to drive traffic to your site without being branded a spammer? Read more from this post at My SEO Journey

101 Ways to Build Link Popularity - from Doepay blog

Linking Odds & Ends - In this post, Eric Ward provides a helpful mashup of link building related notes, news, and tips. In his words, "This is my attempt to hide that I couldn't bear to write about link bait again..." - useful post, discussing some less-discussed ideas

Corporate Link Bait Examples - By Jon Henshaw @ Sitening blog

The Essential Guide to Link Building - "Unless you already own a network of hundreds of established sites, which is very unlikely, link building can be by far the most difficult part about promoting a website, but it doesn’t have to be. Below are some tips and examples of some easy ways to get lots of good permanent links," says the author at this post at SEOlogs - an excellent guide to the beginner; has some useful nuggets for folks who know the trade too!

Link Building Wiki - Wow, this is a bible that I couldn't discover from any web search engine or blog search engine! Found this in a comments section of a blog post. Excellent, as I said before, a bible for all those link-builders out there

A Link Is A Reference And What It Is For Us - By: Yuri Filimonov - Nov 2006 - "It looks like everyone is obsessed with getting links, no matter the quality, targeted visitors or any ethical concerns," says the author and reminds us that once we realise that links are a reference, our whole perspective and strategies on link-building could change. A different take on link-building, interesting. From the Search Newz blog

Link Bait: The Path To An Improved Web - by Steven Bradley @ Web Pro News blog

Link Baiting (How Nick Wilson Created SEO Even Seth Godin Could Love) - @ the STUNTDUBL blog

Link Building via Press Releases For SEO Rankings - March, 2006 post by Barry Schwartz, Rusty Brick, Inc. and SERoundtable - Search Enginr Journal blog

I am Not a Link Communist - Todd @ Stuntdubl SEO blog - April 2006 blog post - Todd gives his opinion on trading of links for page popularity

Tips for finding the best pages to get links from - Part 1 & Part 2

The 5 minute Link Value Test - 6 Link Quality Indicators - from Stuntdubl SEO blog

5 Rare & Valuable Link Building Tactics - by randfish @ SEOmoz

21 Link Bait Ideas - by Andy Beal @ Web Pro News

No-one links to the linkers - by Andrew Garrett - Or, more accurately, no-one links to a post that just points them to another post, says the author at this blog post @ Andrew Garrett's Scroll of Emptiness

Link Building Guide - Jim Westergren at this post provides inputs that help you in your link building using 5 steps (1) Study and understand the guidelines for a natural simulation, (2) Study and understand your link profile, (3) Study and understand the effective ways to get links, (4) Work out your own link building program, (5) Get the links!. Read this handy guide here

Top 12 Resources to Discover the Massive Marketing Power of Digg, Stumble and Social Networks - Alex Goad @ Net Frontier Marketing

Why are diggers nuts about Knuttz? - "The folks over at Knuttz.net have cracked the code on Digg. So listen up, I’m here to explain to you exactly how they do it (well, with one critical missing detail!)," says Alister Cameron at this blog post

Building an Audience - DailyBlogTip’s Traffic Generation Tips Project - Daniel at DailyBlogTips ran a group blogging project for tips on how to increase traffic to your site. The author of this note participated, and here are the group results as ordered by the Blogomatron 5000.

Are You Burning Blog Bridges? - by Chris Garrett, February, 2007 post @ Chris Garrett on New Media blog - "Snark, criticism, attack-bait, poking wasps nests, call it what you want, while it might be an effective “link bait” strategy, it’s not one I would recommend. This is the path to the dark side," says Chris in this interesting post, gives us some good ideas on what to avoid while blogging, and as a corollary what could be excellent long-term blogging strategies.

Exclusive: Is Spotplex a Better Digg? - Michael Arrington @ Tech Crunch - "News stories are not submitted by users, as with Digg. Instead, sites that want to participate include some javascript code on their site, which monitors what stories/posts are read. The more times a story is read, the higher it appears in Spotplex. Very popular stories will make it to the Spotplex home page," explains this post about Spotplex and provides an analysis of the pros and cons of Spotplex and what it means to a web site / blog. Interesting read

A Comprehensive Guide to Going Viral on Digg (Part 1)Posted by Daniel Tynski @ SEOmoz blog, Mar 2007

Secrets to Beating the Sandbox 2.0 REVEALED: The Ultimate Guide - By Andy "Organic-Is-My-Middle-Name" Hagans - though this post is arguably not directly about links or link-baiting, it tells us the importance of getting reverse links when our sites are sand-boxed by search engines - read google. Excellent post with detailed steps on what to do to get out of the sandbox - actually most of what-to-do is about getting trusted inbound links to our sad, sandboxed sites! - @ the Link Building Blog, Sep 2006 post

Organic SEO: Blogs cast the link bait - "Organic SEO might be a fashionable phrase in SEO circles, but the concept is as old (if you can call it that) as the internet itself. To use another SEO buzzword, we're talking link bait. In essence, it's all about the web page's content, and how it attracts natural inbound links," says Wayne Hurlbert at this Blog Business World blog, and provides some simple but handy strategies that can make your link-baiting more effective.

21 Ways to Link Bait Success for Realtors - from Famous Agents web page - interesting to see a post on link-bait with special focus on a particular industry / vertical. Though most ideas discussed are discussed in a generic tone, some of the examples provided and perspectives are possibly unique for realtors, and hence an excellent read. One can readily understand how such customisations can be done for other verticals too!

Link Baiting - How Nick Wilson Ccreated SEO Even Seth Godin Would Love - from Stan Dubl, SEO Consult

Viral Marketing with Blogs - from Copy Blogger

Digg is for Dweebs - Free SEO Ideas - from SEO Book

Optimising Your Web Site / Pages for Search Engines

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Optimising Your Web Site / Pages for Search Engines

This post @ The Big List Blog provides comprehensive blog resources for web site / web pages search engine optimization. This list will grow 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).

Five Things to Avoid in Search Engine Optimization - a basic - but useful - list of points for the SEO from the Make Money Online blog

Unless you actually have people viewing your blog it is very difficult to actually earn anything from it, says Darren Rowse. Fair enough. Accepted. But how do I drive traffic to my blog? Darren has some good answers to this question in this post @ ProBlogger on optimising blogs for search engine traffic

Excellent Analytics Tip #10: How Thick is Your Head and How Long is Your Tail? - a detailed and well-thought out blog post on your web analytics (and your head) to do better search engine marketing and drive more traffic to your web site. Post at the Occam's Razor blog by Avinash Kaushik

A good list of do's and dont's of search engine optimization from the Google Blogoscoped blog

When Site Search and Search Engine Optimization Collide - by: Randy - "There’s been a buzz recently in the SEO community about Google’s new position on the indexing of search results pages. In response to a query on Google’s webmaster group, the Google team modified their quality guideline page to include the following:“Use robots.txt to prevent crawling of search results pages or other auto-generated pages that don’t add much value for users coming from search engines”"...Randy dwells on the implications of this statements and related developments at this blog post @ the NLC Internet Marketing blog

Advanced Search Engine Optimization (SEO) for Wordpress - an excellent post by Alister Cameron at this blog

Top 10 Local Search Engine Optimization Blog Posts for 2006 - a Dec 2006 post from Mike the Internet Guy blog

Search engine optimization (SEO) from black to white - In this insightful post written in an easy and amusing style, the author classifies SEOs into various colours based on the methods they use to get their sites under the search engines' noses and the users' fingers. Interesting anfd thought-provoking post.

Search Engine Optimization for your blog - useful post from the Nika's Culinaria blog that lists some useful tools with which you can check out if your blogs are optmized.

Building a Better Blog for 2007: Search Engine Optimization Doesn’t Matter - Written by Trent - The author provides a good list of suggestions for getting useful search engine traffic to your blogs. Though he has said "SEO does not matter" in the title of his post, I think what he implies is that if you take care of the basics, your blog is automatically optimized for the search engines. Useful post @ The Simple Dollar blog

Making Money from Blogs and Web Sites

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Making Money from Blogs and Web Sites - The Big List of Resources

This post from Big List Blog provides comprehensive blog posts and resources to help you in figuring out how to make money online. This list will grow 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 Do I Make Money Online Blog

Bloney - here's a blog dedicated to providing resources for making money with blogs - thus the name BLog mONEY. Found useful resources at the page for blog design, choosing niche topics, AdSense and more...check it out!

Dosh Dosh is another blog I found that provides lots of useful resources for making money online

How Do I Make Money Online blog - tips and tricks, affiliate programs, online surveys, web hosting and other useful suggestions to make money online

John Chow uses his blog to try to help his reader’s make money online. He is also giving out links to those who are willing to review his blog. Besides being an obvious link baiting scheme, I think it is a great way to get a link to my own site, which is always welcome, says J David Macor at this blog post

Make money online with niche markets - The best thing about Affiliate Marketing is the freedom to work at home or wherever you want in a relaxing environment. Your workplace could be your home desk, the kitchen table or a table by the pool with a wireless internet access. Every day is “casual Friday” and all you need is a computer. Thus says this post from the Earn Money blog

Website Monetization - How to make money with a website - Author: Web San Diego Posted in Making Money Online - This blog post is basically an analysis of the various methods to monetize your web site and blog. Nothing flashy about it, but very useful because it tells us commonsensical stuff, and we all know common sense is the least common of out senses.

Blogitive - Here is a post that offers its opinion on Blogitive, a service that pays you for publishing press releases from their clients on your blog. Looks like the service indeed is legit, though there appear to be some minor glitches. Worth a check, definitely.

10 Essential Assessments for your Blog - a February 06, 2007 post from the Blogging to Fame blog

I've made $4,375.75 online! Here's how you can too...by Paula Neal Mooney - This is a brilliant blog post, by Jupiter. I felt like a fool not having known or tried so many things mentioned in this post, Amazon Affiliates, to provide just one example. Those of you wishing to make money from creating content online (and now show me one who does not :-)), this post is a must-must. Thanks Paula!

Make Money Writing Online - Part Two - a simple and useful how-to guide to make money online; a veteran will most likely know most of the things described while for a novice it will be very useful. See links for Parts 1 & 3 of this blog post at this page as well.

One Penny Project - The author of this interesting blog started with a penny late 2006 and now, through various online efforts, increased it to 13.80 $ (at the time of writing this post)...interesting observations and posts at this blog

Scoble, Calacanis, Cuban, Kawasaki & Godin Leaving Half A Million Bucks On The Table - an interesting post @ Blog Kits by Jim Kukral that tries to figure out how much money the above-mentioned celebrities could be losing by not having ads featured on their blog pages...quite an interesting and useful read...don't forget to read the comments section, as usual you find equally good ideas there.

How To Make Money With Google AdSense - by Scott W @ AdSense Fire - a detailed and useful post on the various ways by which you can maximise your dollars from AdSense. Good read

How Darren Rowse Can Convince Internet Marketers to Blog - by Alister Cameron @ his blog - Alister looks at how blogging positively engenders credibility and trust, and in turn influences marketing numbers...interesting post

How to Make Money from your Blog - by Joel @ LifeGoggles

5 Tips For Long-Term Blogging Success - by Jim Kukral @ Blog Kits

Evil Money Maker - John Chow - Let not the title fool you, the author admires what John Chow does - making lots of money from his blog. Read a review of John Chow's success from this blog post @ M3nghua blog

Money Making And Promoting Your Blog With Forums - The fact is that posting on forums for free is one of the fastest ways you can either: (a) attract visitors to your blog, (b) advertise affiliate programs or (c) promote your own products, says this blog post @ Mike's Money Making Mission blog. Useful post.

Text-Link-Ads Review - A Monetization Solution For Small Business Bloggers? - a useful post from the Small Business Branding blog, provides the basics of text links, how to go about getting them on your blogs, and what kind of return could be expected. If you are relying on AdSense alone, this could be a valuable read for you.

How to Make Money Online with Google AdWords? (not AdSense) - explains the basics of using AdWords for affiliate marketing programs. For those who have not tried this route before, this post provide you the basics of this process.

Getting More Traffic to your Site / Blog

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This post @ BigList Blog provides a big list of web & blog resources and inputs for getting more traffic to your web site. This list will grow. 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).

Dave Taylor answers the question “How do I get more traffic to my blog?” @ Ask Dave Taylor

56 Tips from Seth Godin on how to get more traffic to your blog

Getting More Traffic - By Chris A Bloor - Writing 4 New Articles a Day and Submitting Them to Different Article Directories Can Generate an Extra 15-25,000 Unique Visitors a Month to Your Website, says this author. Read more from this article @ eZine Articles

Directory of Article Directories - This article directory list can be used to submit articles to promote your business and website. Or you can use them to find article resources for your own website, blog or ezine. From Arcana Web

Article Submission Directories – from Home Biz Tools

You can’t get more traffic, says Seth Godin in this blog post, you have to earn it.

Top 10 Secret Ways to Increase Your Web Traffic - from About.com - well, not exactly "secret", in my opinion, but good ideas all the same

How To Increase Targeted Web Site Traffic - by Titus Hoskins. The author provides five ideas: 1. RSS EMPOWERED, 2. SEO EMPOWERED, 3. ARTICLE EMPOWERED, 4. EZINE EMPOWERED, 5. VIRAL MARKETING EMPOWERED. A useful read

8 Tips To Get More Traffic From Yahoo - With the new Yahoo! "Pay-For-Review" model it might be relatively easier for sites to get into the directory but getting traffic from your listing is altogether a different story. Here are 8 things to keep in mind while submitting your site to Yahoo! - by Vishal Rao

The Friday Traffic Report is edited by Jack Humphrey and created for blog marketers and online business owners who want more targeted traffic for their sites.

Squidoo Resources for Increasing Web Site Traffic

Help My Hits – web site traffic generation tips

How to Get Traffic to your web site – provides 3 strategic points and 14
tactics to get high traffic to your web site

SEO Blog – Free web site traffic, Free SEO Tips

Get More Blog Traffic from Paula Mooney – Write Highly Sought, Least Covered Topics – easy said than done, but this blog post has some good ideas. Do read it

Tag A Cloud

21 Tactics to Increase Blog TrafficPosted by randfish @ SEOmoz blog – excellent list, a must-read

Taking part in Blog Top Sites - Submitting your blog to Blog Top Sites like topblogsites.net, blogtopsites.com and top100bloggers.com is another way to get more traffic. These networks make your blog easier to find and search for as well. After you sign up for an account on their website, you just need to copy a bit of code and paste it somewhere on your blog. You can also take part in blog traffic exchange communities like BlogExplosion and BlogClicker.

Technorarti Tags - Technorati is one of the best traffic providers for bloggers. People find your blogs easily when people search by technorati tags. After you sign up with Technorati and have setup the main settings, you need to claim your blog. Make good use of Technorati tags by tagging every keyword in each of your posts. Tools such as Ultimate Tag Warrior (UTW) make tagging Technorati a lot easier.

How to Increase Your Blog’s Traffic Part 1 – an excellent and detailed list of suggestions from JohnTP blog. See also links to the rest of the parts at the same page.

8 Tips on Improving Blog Traffic by Improving Content – from JohnTP blog

8 Reasons why Lists are Good for Getting Traffic to your Blog – from ProBlogger

Tips on Writing Content for your Blog @ Piaras Kelly PR blog

Here is a huge list on web resourced for attracting links and increasing web traffic – from Copy Blogger

Using Lists to Build Authority, Resources & Traffic to your Web Site – from the Dosh Dosh blog

Elise Bauer's Top Five Tips for Building Blog Traffic @ Christine.net blog

See an example of a good list at this blog post on Orkut Hacking tools. It provides a list of tools as well as links for more info and download. The more comprehensive your link, the better!

10 Remarkably Effective Strategies for Driving Traffic - Posted by randfish - the list is really good, a must-read again from randfish @ SEOmoz

Blog That Makes $1000 A Day - http://www.stevepavlina.com – A rather lengthy blog post, but will be very useful for those starting on blogging and are keen making a fortune (OK, at least a small fortune) from blogging – read Steve Pavlina’s entire business success story here @ Unusual Business Ideas that Work

Leesa puts down eight points - basic but relevant - for getting useful blog traffic at this blog post at her Leesa's Stories blog

44 Blog Articles to Increase Your Web Site Traffic - from the Agloco Hype blog post

Tips on How To Spice Up Your Blog and Increase your Readership - not exactly a direct method to get more traffic, but who knows, if you spice up your blog enough, folks might visit more times than otherwise. Interesting read from the Sizlopedia 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

How To Market Your Blog in 2007 - by Tony Hung @ ProBlogger - "It breaks my heart to see blogs with great content languish in utter anonymity, devoid of comments, saddled with a seven-figure alexa traffic ranking, and rotting in pagerank purgatory," laments Tony at the beginning of this post. But he has avowed to not let this situation continue. For those bloggers out there who have decided to start their blogs Tony presents you with 41 ways to kickstart your marketing efforts...useful post

Ten Blogging Mistakes to Avoid - from John Chow - as usual, a great post by John. Most of the 10 points you would have come across elsewhere, it still is nice to get those confirmed by a guru!

101 muscular ways to get more targeted traffic to your sites/blogs today! - by Doug Purcell - I did not know any one could come up with more than 50 ways, but it appears I have lots to learn. Excellent list of 101 ways to get more traffic...some great, some just about OK, some perhaps not for the average joe, but it is useful to read all of them

Using Blogs to Turn Your Web Site into a Traffic Powerhouse - from ABC Article Directory blog - another detailed post describing how to get more traffic and money from blogs. Will be most useful to a beginner while a veteran might also find a nugget or two he had missed so far.

Secrets to Beat the Sandbox Revealed - from Link Building Blog

The A-Z of Getting Website Traffic - Shawn Campbell @ Search Engine Guide. Provides 26 tips (A-Z) for making sure you get enugh traffic. Some of the tips are obvious, a few of them new, but all of them very essential.

Easy Website Traffic - Squidoo - a brief but interesting post from someone who knows the online streets...you naturally get some streetsmart advice...

50 Tips on Getting More Traffic to your Website - from The Warrior Forum - some new, some known, and some really cool - listen to the 50th tip: "Buy a pair of sandals; get your website engraved on the bottom and walk on the beach, stomp in the mud or play in the snow."...

Big List Blog Started

2007-03-18T04:18:00.000-07:00

The Big List Blog hopes to provides comprehensive lists of blog post lists / links for specific and useful topics, such as "How do I get more traffic to my web site / blog?"...