I hope everyone had a wonderful week last week, it was certainly one of the more quiet weeks online since many of the U.S. blog writers were on vacation or just taking a little bit of a break.
I took a little bit of a break, on the computer anyway, and did a whole lot of outside “work” over the week, along with watching the multitude of football games that were played over the later half of the week.
Week In Review
There were several Thanksgiving day posts on various topics and I also tried to post something with a little meat to it about thinking globally, Thanksgiving is a U.S. Holiday, Think Global, which I think all of us, especially here in the U.S., should keep in mind when operating on the Internet where articles don’t see political borders.
There was still the musings on the Google PageRank, I guess that is here to stay, but there were also several news stories that came out of eBay, Overstock, and many of the online retailers in preparation for black Friday. I don’t normally star these items since they are very visible by all, but I have put some of them on the share list (see bottom left of the footer). There was still a great list of high quality articles I have listed below.
Top 15 Post and Feed Information
My feed reader is now up to about 370 subscriptions, not to many added last week since I tried to take a little time off myself. Something I have found feeds to be very useful for is searching and creating its own feed. I have posted about this before, but displaying a feed from these feeds can be quite useful (see footer), especially for niche sites where you can target information directly to your visitor.
If you are not familiar with this post, it is a weekly recap of the Internet happenings (as seen by me) from the prior week. As always, if you have other good articles to suggest I would love to hear about them. Even though it was a vacation week of sorts, there were still many high quality posts over the week and I have listed them below for you.
Top 15 Stars of the week of Nov 19th-26th
Del.icio.us: An Underrated Link Building Tool
via Vandelay Website Design by Vandelay Design on 11/19/07
On the subject of social media, Digg and StumbleUpon seem to get almost all of the attention right now. While the traffic potential for these two is considerably higher than other social media sites, Del.icio.us can be one of the most powerful resources for your link building efforts.
5 Powerful Techniques to Help Your Posts Stand Out
via ProBlogger Blog Tips by Skellie on 11/19/07
In this post regular contributer Skellie from Skelliewag.org helps you differentiate your content.
Blogs are now so popular that it’s very hard to find a niche that isn’t already saturated. There are probably dozens or hundreds of other bloggers writing on the topics you cover.
The Flagship Blog Project: Creating Multiple Blogs for Profit in 30 Day Cycles
via Dosh Dosh – Making Money Online by Maki on 11/19/07
Popular blogs are often read daily by a large audience. Reaching thousands of people, popular blogs can widely influence opinions and are terrific personal branding platforms as well
How to Create a Blog That People Really Digg
via Copyblogger by Jonathan Morrow on 11/19/07
Have you ever noticed that some blogs seem to rise to the top of Digg over and over again?
You might think that they’ve discovered some magic formula for getting attention, built a “Digg culture†on their blog, or they just get all of their friends to Digg their posts.
And they might.
40 Resources for WordPress Theme Designers
via Vandelay Website Design by Vandelay Design on 11/20/07
One of the reasons WordPress is the most popular blogging platform is its theme system. WordPress allows its users with almost unlimited design options when modifying or designing themes. This is a collection of 40 resources that every theme designer can
Why TLA (and others) has to follow Google
via AdesBlog.com by Ades on 11/20/07
There are couple of reasons why TLA and its counterparts LinkWorth, ReviewMe, and P-P-P… etc should be considering “nofollow†tags.
Are You Sabotaging Your Social Stories?
via Blogging Experiment by Ben Cook on 11/20/07
I’ve been a participant in the social media scene, both as a reader and content producer, for a quite a while now. I’ve had several stories I’ve written become popular and I’ve had even more submissions
International Copyright on the Web: What Rules Apply to Me and What Court Will Apply Them?
via SEOmoz Daily SEO Blog by Sarah Bird, Esquire on 11/21/07
Posted by Sarah Bird, Esquire
May it Please the Mozzers,
I present myself to you as your legal resource for all things SEO/M related.
A graduate of the University of Washington School of Law, I have spent the last three years litigating complex and diverse legal issues. With much gratitude and enthusiasm, I recently accepted SEOmoz’s invitation to bring my expertise to the SEO/M community.
The SEO Book Blog is Now Creative Commons Licensed
via SEO Book.com - by Aaron Wall on 11/22/07
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States License.
When I published the SEO glossary I made it creative commons licensed. I wanted to do that with all the blog posts on SEO Book too, but just got around to doing so. If you like any of the blog posts here feel free to do what you like with them.
Readers vs Visitors – Whose Needs are You Meeting?
via ProBlogger Blog Tips by Darren Rowse on 11/23/07
The following post on meeting the needs of Readers and Visitors is a guest post by Lorelle VanFossen of Lorelle on WordPress.
Smashing Magazine asks Who Is Your Visitor?, using some new research into the preferences and characteristics of the average visitor to your blog and website.
10 Things To Do With Your Old Computer
via The Computer Zone by Adam McKerlie on 11/23/07
One of the constants in this world is the fact that technology will change, and it will change quickly. The average lifespan of a computer these days is between 2 to 5 years. Since technology is changing so quickly this equates to a lot of garbage from your old
Bonnie Brown On Her Years at Google
via Google Blogoscoped by Philipp Lenssen on 11/23/07
Bonnie Brown was working as massage therapist at Google from 1999 to 2004. Before that, she ran a private school for 10 years. Now, Bonnie is traveling and also wrote a book called Giigle: How I Got Lucky Massaging Google. I met up with her on Google Talk (the transcript below has spellchecking and punctuation added).
Does Commenting on Blog Posts Really Increase Your Visitor Traffic – An Experiment
via mytropicalescape.com by Mark on 11/21/07
One of my new goals here at MyTropicalEscape will be to experiment (I am a trained scientist after all) with helpful techniques and tips (whether it’s attracting more traffic or making money) that other bloggers are suggesting and then report back on my success, or lack thereof.
30 Beautiful Blog Designs
via Daily Blog Tips by Daniel on 11/23/07
The folks from Smashing Magazine are always looking for beautiful designs around the Internet, and this time they published a list with 30 blogs that feature an appealing and unique look.
Post Frequency, Case Study on 5 Blogs
via AdesBlog.com by Ades on 11/24/07
This is a follow up case study on the 3 parts series that I had previously blogged – “Guide on blog posting frequencyâ€
Lately, it seemed to me that, post frequency for the blogs that I read regularly, started decreasing i.e they started posting less. In order to to prove if my assumption was correct, I selected five blogs and recorded their number of daily posts, for each day starting from October 1 through November 22 (about two months).
Be Brave – Break Your Blog
via ProBlogger Blog Tips by Darren Rowse on 11/24/07
The following post on ‘breaking your blog’ and setting up test blogs was submitted by Michael Martin from Pro Blog Design.
One of the best kept secrets in design is that we don’t always know what we’re doing. Understanding design theory and color and all the
Conclusion
That wraps up a good list of blogs and articles from last week. There are always so many great feeds from the week it is hard to decide on 15 or 20 to wrap up an entire week, which is why I go over many times. What were your favorites for the week? I have going on 400 feeds in my reader but there is always room for one more, let me know what you suggest below.
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I love the different statistics that Google hands out, and the Google Reader has several, so I decided to use a different screen shot this week and post the graph for time read. If you haven’t looked at them yet, there are several different graphs available in the “trends” section of Google Reader.
This week has been a little more quiet than the past few weeks. In part it might be the upcoming holiday here in the U.S. that had several of the frequent article writers looking for a little relaxation. There were so many posts to choose from this week, but these below are all good reading.
This Week in Review
There is still a lot of chatter about the PageRank system of course, and a new twist was with the release of a new TLA code, see my article TLA Changes Code, Says Refrain From Paid Links Text where it looks like the battle rages on between TLA and Google.
Another added component this week was a few articles that were written that talked about PayPerPost now being on the hit list for Google. I haven’t read to much about the issue quite yet, but the article, Use PayPerPost? Watch your blog PR drop to ZERO explains it pretty well.
Upcoming Holiday Week
I myself and going to try and use this week to catch up on some other projects and take some time off for Thanksgiving. I am working to implement a CMS blog of sorts in a niche craft market using a great WordPress Theme by Brian Gardner called Revolution (using the Magazine version), which I hope will be ready early next year. It looks like a great theme to work with and hopefully I will have some time over the holiday to dig into the code a little bit.
So, lets get on to the top 15 stars of the week.
Top 15 18 Stars of the week of Nov 12th-19th
5 Tips for Show Top Commentator Plugin Usage
via Wayne Liew Dot Com by Wayne Liew on 11/12/07
Today I am going to write about a popular plugin which most of us might be using, the Show Top Commentator plugin by Nate Sanden. I will not be reviewing about it since it is a known fact that the plugin is
The Problem with Waffly Headlines
via Copyblogger by Sean D’Souza on 11/12/07
Headline writing is an art, right?
No it’s not. But you can’t have waffle.
So how would you define waffly-headlines? Waffly headlines have terms like this:
Does your office have workplace-stress?
What Topic Would You NEVER Blog About?
via Everybody Go To by Hyder on 11/12/07
We all have our favorite blogging topics be it Technology, Web Startups, Making Money Online, stuff about Blogging itself, among many others. But there are always a few topics that every blogger
Wanted: Bloggers for Hire
via Blogging Tips by Elaine Ramos on 11/12/07
Blogging is more than just a hobby, it is now considered as an income generator.
Aside from having blogs which has high traffic, one could be a “blogger for hireâ€. It means that you could be hired as bloggers for different topics provided that you would meet the requirement needed
17 Creative Link Building Ideas : Please Add Your Own
via Search Engine Journal by Miles Price on 11/12/07
For a follow-up to the post on link-building techniques, I’ve decided to take some articles off of my compilations for creative link-building ideas on the Search Marketing Wiki. I hope you enjoy these ideas for more and more are coming — Feel free to add any ideas you feel
Would you buy adverts on eBay?
via TameBay by Chris Dawson on 11/12/07
An interesting twist has come to light regarding the adverts eBay are testing on the site in search results.
eBay are consulting website owners to gauge their interest in paying for the adverts and gathering information on the likely take up rate and the amount users may spend per month.
A Basic Guide to WordPress Template Tags
via Randa Clay Design by Randa on 11/12/07
Recently a reader asked how to add the time of a post to a theme, so I thought I would give a basic overview of WordPress template tags. This is one of those things that seems like it must be really complicated, but actually isn’t.
How to Transform Readers Into Raving Fans
via ProBlogger Blog Tips by Skellie on 11/13/07
In this post regular contributer Skellie from Skelliewag.org explains how you can turn readers into fans.
The notion of ‘raving fans’ brings to mind a screaming crowd at a Beatles concert. For bloggers, a more accurate version of a ‘raving
WWLD? No. 2: Keeping Connected
via 43 Folders - by glassdog on 11/14/07
Our great friend, Leslie Harpold, passed away in December of last year. In addition to being a swell pal and an old-school web mandarin, Leslie was an endless source of advice and opinion on practically everything.
How to Attract Comments on Your Blog
via bluejar.com – the webmasters guide to the galaxy by Sarah on 10/17/07
Photo by greggoconnell.
My blog is a little over 3 months old and right now I have a total of 107 posts with 1,091 comments. I have tried a lot of things to attract comments on my blog, many which have worked out well and
A No-nonsense Guide To Clearer, Sharper, And Better Writing
via Blogging Bits by Mohsin on 11/12/07
A great idea wrapped in flimsy writing is a waste of words.
On the other hand, an average but clearly expressed thought enjoys more attention.
Why bother about good writing practices, you ask? You are a blogger, not a would-be author of the next best-seller.
Do You Thank Your Stumblers?
via Caroline Middlebrook by Caroline Middlebrook on 11/14/07
I’m sure many of you enjoy the benefits of large volumes of traffic from StumbleUpon, but do you take the time to find out who gave you those thumbs up and stop to thank them? If not, then read on to discover why you should.
[on a side note: you have to go read her follow-up to this post and see the emails she received by doing this post. They were not nice!]
How I Make Money Blogging
via ProBlogger Blog Tips by Darren Rowse on 11/14/07
Every now and again I give readers an update on how I’ve been making money through blogging over the last few months.
It’s been a over six months since I last did it and a number of things have changed since that time – so I thought
My Blogging Advice To Connect With Your Readers
via Shoemoney – Skills To Pay The Bills by ShoeMoney on 11/13/07
First of all if you are reading this site for blogging advice you are at the wrong place. problogger is hands down THE blogger and has the best advice and reads.
Improve Your Productivity with the 80-20 Rule
via Winning the Web by Gyutae Park on 11/14/07
Have you heard of the Pareto principle? If you haven’t, you’re missing out on a key business idea and may be working inefficiently for little gain. This is a principle mentioned in Timothy Ferris’ popular book, 4-Hour Work Week
Using Google Webmaster Tools with Go Daddy
via Google Blogoscoped by Tony Ruscoe on 11/14/07
The Google Webmaster Central Blog recently announced that Google and Go Daddy were working on a pilot together so that Go Daddy customers could more easily access Google Webmaster Tools.
Here’s how it works:
Who is Blogging and Why? Is the Blogosphere in a Digestion Phase?
via Read/WriteWeb by Alex Iskold on 11/15/07
Last week Marshall and I attended the Blog World Expo conference. The gathering, held in Las Vegas, drew over 1,500 bloggers from different parts of the country and overseas. The conference
Savings is Sexy
via W Revenue dot Com by Scott on 11/18/07
Everyone reading this blog wants to make more money, but once you get it, do you know what to do with it? Let’s face it, most people don’t have any savings and if they do, it’s maybe a few thousand dollars. That’s not necessarily because they can’t save, or because
Conclusion
I think that about wraps it up for a week of starred items. If you are not familiar with this post, each week on Monday’s I post an article called Top 15 Stars of the Week. In this article I review the web happenings from the week before and post some of the articles that I starred in my Google Reader from the week before.
I hope you enjoy reading these articles, or at least marking them for later reading. Happy Thanksgiving everyone.
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This has been another interesting week online, especially with the latest posts flying around about selling RSS subscribers and what not.
If you are new to this blog and this weekly post, each Monday I post a top 15 list of my starred items from the previous 7 days, as starred in my feed reader, Google Reader. This week it happens to be a top 20 list. This post also serves as a week in review recap of sorts as well, so keep reading and you will find the top 20 stars of the week at the bottom. My subscriber feeds that I read (not that are subscribed to my blog) are up to 339 now, I think I added about 15 this week. I can get through just about all of them each day in one way or another, but with this many, I may have to start a top 15 dud (not dude) list as well.
New Free Footer Link Love Added
I just finished a new footer of sorts that will be an extension to my post, Add Value to Your Blog, Offer an RSS Feed in Reverse, where I use the feeds in my Google Reader to create a blog roll from my public reader feeds. I added this to just show what I think are some of the better articles posted for the week.
At the moment, it will show the three feeds, my shared items, my starred items, and blogs of interest. The last one is a list of blogs I find interesting and wanted to offer some free link love. What is different about that page over a normal blog roll is that it offers a combined feed for all the blogs on the blog roll and a link to each individual blog. Now, if Google will just get it together and make these “pages” where we can customize them and add Adsense feeds to them you will probably see everyone using them. It generates some cool content and is a need way to keep an updated list of the movers and shakers in your particular interest field.
I haven’t figured out what the problem with viewing these feeds in Safari is (all other browsers look fine), just can’t get them to show up, so if anyone has a quick suggestion that would be great. What I really wanted was the Hemingway footer blocks in plugin form but I don’t think one exists, so this will have to do for now.
This Past Week in Review
This past week saw the first annual BlogWorld Expo in Las Vegas and from all the posts about the events, it looked like it was a great conference and I will have a post about it later in the week. There is still talk about another PageRank (PR) update over the weekend from Google from a few different blog, although we didn’t see any change ourselves.
Something else that just came up is a new money making scheme exposed by an article, This Months Stupid Cow Award, and Being A Fake Is Harmful For Millions of People Who Want To Learn How To Make Money Online, about selling RSS readers. Some seem to have no problem with, but for the most part I think legitimate bloggers have voiced their opinion in opposition to this practice. I think it is going to bring the wrath of Google in the form of PR penalties down the road, and perhaps even Feedburner for trying to sell RSS subscribers (real or fake, couldn’t tell), besides deceiving the readers of the participating blogs.
Top 15 20 Stars of the week of Nov 5th-11th
Attack of the 20%’ers
via Official Google Reader Blog by dolapo on 11/6/07
At Google, 20% time is core to our culture and today’s Reader release incorporates features developed by two engineers in their 20% time. Those two engineers would be us!
Answers to Questions for Rand: Round 2
via SEOmoz Daily SEO Blog by randfish on 11/6/07
Posted by randfish
Sorry it’s taken me so long to get to all of these. The past few days trying to get grounded after a week in Stockholm have been even
So who’s doing all this searching anyway?
via Compete Blog by Jeremy Crane on 11/7/07
For the past few weeks I’ve been peeling back the layers on the search onion to understand a few questions. How effective are each of the engines? How do people use search? Who is using search?
SitePoint Afffiliate Program pays $98.00
via AdesBlog.com by Ades on 11/7/07
We all have tried Amazon’s affiliate program with no or little success, didn’t we? But if your visitors are mainly web programmers, you might want to give Sitepoint Affiliate Program a try (www.sitepoint.com/affiliate/). Because the earnings for every book
Court talks scents in trademark case
via TameBay by Sue Bailey on 11/7/07
eBay have won their suit for trademark dilution against perfumebay.com. Three judges from the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously upheld a lower court’s ruling from September 2005 that the similarity of the two domain names could encourage users to
Thriving as a B-list Blogger
via Bruce Clay, Inc. Blog by Lisa Barone on 11/8/07
Leading this one are Jeremy Wright and Allen Stern to talk about attitudes regarding B-list bloggers.
Jeremy says there’s not a lot of value being added by A-listers. There are better sites than TechCrunch and Read/WriteWeb out there. Blogging is about creating your personal A-list and reaching your own
Are You a Link Whore?
via Randa Clay Design by Randa on 11/8/07
Since the whole I Follow Movement thing last spring, there have been lists of blogs published with titles like “10 High PR I Follow Blogs†encouraging readers to visit and comment, and “be sure it doesn’t look too spammy or it might get deleted.†Now that page rank has
10 Reasons I Delete Your Email
via Shoemoney – Skills To Pay The Bills by ShoeMoney on 11/8/07
1) Start it with “Dear Sirs,â€
Seriously…
2) Spell my name wrong.
You want to make misspellings? Thats
10 Reasons You Are Not Getting Comments
via Wayne Liew Dot Com by Wayne Liew on 11/7/07
I am sure that every blogger loves to see comments on their blogs. I am somehow lucky to get comments in each and every one of my posts on Wayne Liew Dot Com but some bloggers is facing problems
StumbleUpon Get Their Own (Unofficial) Top 100 List
via Average Joe Blogger by Nate (Average Joe Blogger) on 11/6/07
Top100 lists have always been an intriguing look into what makes a super user. Whether they be the top money makers, top digg users or top whatever, they’re always fascinating.
5 Reasons Why Blogging Sucks
via Blogging Bits by Mohsin on 11/7/07
You thought blogging is all fun and money? Well, that’s not quite true.
Instigator blog published an excellent list of not-so-fancy aspects of freelancing, so I thought since blogging, and especially problogging, is a freelance activity, I’ll list the cons of problogging.
Blogger’s Guide to Creating Better Content
via Vandelay Website Design by Vandelay Design on 11/8/07
Yesterday I wrote about the effects of creative blog content. Now that you know about all the benefits that come with creative content you may be wondering what you can do to improve your posts.
Use Feedburner Statistics to Interpret Reader Habits
via ProBlogger Blog Tips by Darren Rowse on 11/9/07
Can your Feedburner stats reveal habits of your readers that could help you make your blogging more effective at reaching them? Guest poster Max Pool finds out.
As we know FeedBurner counts can naturally fluctuate.
The 7 deadly sins of instant messaging
via 43 Folders by Chanpory on 11/9/07
I heart instant messaging, but I heart it too much. If you’re a chat addict like me, you understand the lure. It’s convenient, connecting you to faraway buddies with little cost. It’s safe, releasing you from
Blog World 2007: Paid Text Links, Google, and You
via W Revenue dot Com by Scott on 11/9/07
I’m at Blog World Expo today in Las Vegas. It’s a new and fairly small conference, but it is packed full of sessions and a lot of big time Internet business folks are here: Leo Laporte (of TechTV and TWiT Podcast fame) gave the
BloggingZoom Sucks More Than BlogRush
via Web 2.0 How-To Spot-er by TheSpot-er on 11/9/07
BloggingZoom is a hot new comer to social networking scene that allows bloggers exchange traffic by presenting their content in relevant location. While it doesn’t perform same function like
12 habits of a successful blogger
via bLuefRogX by bLuefRoGX on 11/7/07
I’ve always wondered – “How did they make it to the top?†If someone could tell me the 10 ways to make me a popular blogger and make everyone link to me. I read and I read but
12 Link Building Tactics For 2008
via Performancing.com – Helping Bloggers Succeed by Ahmed Bilal on 11/10/07
As 2007 turns into 2008 (yes, its more than a month away but you can’t fault me for preparing right now, can you?), it’s worth taking a hard look at our blogging and promotion strategies and how those will evolve in the future.
5 ‘Less Used’ Ways To Get New Subscribers
via Blogging Tips by Ramkarthik on 11/10/07
It is always a blogger’s dream to get many subscribers. They set goals every month. Say, I want to reach 500 subscribers this month and I’m at 100 right now, then I, not only have to write extremely
Everything You Could Possibly Want to Know About Social Media
via Vandelay Website Design by Vandelay Design on 11/11/07
Thank you to everyone who submitted post(s) to this group writing project! There are over 50 articles here that I’m sure anyone can learn from. Some focus on a particular social networking site while others
That is about it for this weeks top 15 (or 20 this week). There are some very interesting articles on the list if you haven’t had a chance to read them yet.
What was on your link list this week that really stood out? As always I would love to hear your comments below.
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Ok, so normally this is the top 15, but it has been an interesting week, and ended with just about everyone loosing around 50% of their subscribers (but not really) through a reporting error, so I thought I would just make this weeks post a top 25 instead.
It seems the Google Feedfetcher and Feedburner had some reporting issues where the Google Feedfetcher dropped its reporting, and in doing so, dropped the subscriber numbers for many of the a-list bloggers. It dropped for the rest of us as well, but for those of us with such a small subscriber list compared to the larger traffic blogs, it doesn’t “look” like it hurts as much as loosing 4,993 readers overnight. Of course the subscribers were not lost, it was only a reporting issues.
The buzz around the Page Rank Update is still sticking around, as it probably will for a long time, but the articles have become a little more broad, and interesting, over just the same my page rank got squashed type post. The BlogWorld Expo starts on Thursday in Las Vegas and looks to be a great weekend. I hope it is still in Vegas next year when I might be able to attend, but if you can make it this year it should be a great learning opportunity. So, on the last weeks starred items. If you are not familiar with this weekly post, each Monday I provide a list of the top 15 starred items from my Google Reader feeds. I do this as a light type of post for Monday’s because, to me, everyone is still trying to recover from the weekend and get up to speed with missed work.
You can subscribe to my “starred” items or my “shared” items from the two smaller rss feed icons in the upper right corner.
Top 15 Stars of the week of Oct 29-Nov 5th
Sell Links That Google Will Like With ScratchBack
from Everybody Go To by Hyder
I’m testing out this new widget that lets me sell links that Google might actually like, it’s called ScratchBack. I discovered it while prowling the backdoor of the Internet.
The Next Version of Gmail Will Be Faster
from Google Operating System by Ionut Alex Chitu
At the Analyst Day event from October 24, Google didn’t announce a lot of things, but it revealed what we can expect from a new version of Gmail that will launch soon:
7 Painful Reasons Your Customers Break Up With You
from Freelance Folder by Dave Navarro
You’ve heard it before: “It’s not you: It’s me.†Or perhaps you heard nothing at all, and the regular stream of customers who were once hot for you has slowed to a trickle.
Unofficial poll on Google Reader features
from Matt Cutts: Gadgets, Google, and SEO by Matt Cutts
Earlier this year, I was reading about 100 feeds in Google Reader. When I went on vacation for a few weeks, I cut back to about 30 feeds. But I thought I’d be smart about the 70 feeds that I stopped
7 Reasons People Subscribe to Your Blog
from BlogStorm
Are you struggling to build a large subscriber base for your blog? Do you have a severe case of subscriber envy when you see larger blogs attracting new readers as if by magic?
You Know You’re In Touch With Your Inner Nerd When…
from Google Blogoscoped by Philipp Lenssen
1. You find yourself giggling at coincidental words appearing in captchas
2. When someone asks “how are you†you contemplate a precise answer
Treat Your Blog like a Business
from Blogging Experiment by Ben Cook
I can see the comments already. “My blog is just that, MY blog. It’s not a business!†or “If you treat a blog like a business you take all the fun out of it!â€
6 Fatal Errors Of Money Making Blogs
from Wayne Liew Dot Com by Wayne Liew
“How To Make Money†is a very saturated niche in the world of blogging. Wayne Liew Dot Com is not a “How To Make Money†blog as I don’t specifically
“Eye-Fi” Wifi-Enabled SD Card Hits the Shelves
from Amazon Blog by Amazon Daily
Although their site seems to be down for some redesign and maintenance, the long-awaited Eye-Fi SD Card is finally shipping to retail
Weekend traffic is worthless to many bloggers?
from AdesBlog.com by Ades
Many bloggers had employed so called “speedlinking†during the weekends. Speedlinking is a process of posting many links, asking your blog readers to read them during the weekend,
Plan for the Holidays Nice and Early By Analyzing Search Trends
from SEOmoz Daily SEO Blog by rebecca
Posted by rebecca
Happy Halloween, everyone! We here at SEOmoz are all dressed as internet marketers! Wheee! Did you adequately prepare for the holiday?
Research: Long Tail of Google’s Search Results Dominated by Doorway Pages & Other Spam
from Aaron Wall’s SEO by Aaron Wall
The people from SEO Digger recently put together some research on search spam. Some of the terminology they use (like using the word illicit) is inaccurate, but the trends they discovered align
Selling Commodity Services: Controlling Cost vs Adding Value
from Aaron Wall’s SEO by Aaron Wall
One theory of web marketing starts off with controlling cost. Where you try to find what works right now, and do exactly what is needed to get to the level of success you want to reach. The theory
I Got Kicked Out Of A Casino
from Day Job Nuker.Com by DayJobNuker
If you have read any of this blog before, you might know that I play poker from time to time. Poker has been one of my “income streams†for the last 20 years. I used to play
Why “Do Not Track” is Stupid
from Andy Beal’s Marketing Pilgrim by Andy Beal
Reuters reports that a group of privacy and consumer organizations have asked the FTC to create a “do not track” list for internet users who want to opt-out of any ad-behavior tracking.
[Closed] 6 Month Old Established Blog For Sale
from SitePoint Marketplace – Established Sites For Sale
$150-$400 monthly revenue, 2k monthly uniques, 100 RSS readers — Ryan Shamus dot Com is a blog based on offering tips, tricks, and insights to making money online,
BlogWorld & New Media Expo Session Schedule
from Bruce Clay, Inc. Blog by Lisa Barone
‘Tis the time to tell you where I’m going to be and when for next week’s BlogWorld. Are you excited? I am. It will be my first-ever BlogWorld conference and my first time in Vegas. Trouble Lots of hard
John Chow dot Com October 2007 Income Report
from John Chow dot Com by John Chow
It’s the start of a new month and that means it’s time once again for the highly anticipated blog income report. I have tell you know, sometimes I need to pinch myself to make sure all this isn’t
Sometimes You Should Look Past Nofollow
from Blogging Tips by dazzlindonna
Ask any SEO if they want a nofollowed link to their site and what do you think their answer will be? Do you think they’ll refuse the link?
Story Behind The Sale Of Blogging Fingers
from Blogging Fingers by Matt Jones
I’m sure some of you will be sick of hearing about the sale of Blogging Fingers (somehow I am!) while others still want to be drip-fed more details. I’m going to put the latter out of your misery by
Rare Interview With Darren Rowse Of Problogger
from Ryan Shamus dot Com by Ryan Shamus
Continuing the interviews I’ve lined up for this week on Ryan Shamus dot Com, I just couldn’t wait any longer to post this one with Darren Rowse of Problogger.net.
How I Lost 4,993 RSS Subscribers Overnight
from John Chow dot Com by John Chow
Many have noticed that my RSS counter took a nose dive to 8,701 from 13,694 the night before. How did that happen? Did I really lose 4,993 subscribers in one day? The answer is no. I’m justing
20 Tips For A Personal Blog Success [Part 1]
from Wayne Liew Dot Com by Wayne Liew
When we talk about personal blog, we don’t talk about search engine optimization, we don’t talk about niche and we don’t talk about search engine traffic. Most of the blogging guides will somehow
The Adsense Check for $132,994.97
from Shoemoney – Skills To Pay The Bills by ShoeMoney
About once every other day I get a question about the AdSense Check in my Gallery. I originally posted the check in this thread. Its most visited page on shoemoney.com (behind the main page course) with 1-2k unique visits per day.
35 Guaranteed Ways To Increase Your RSS Subscribers
from Newest on the Net by Fred
I know you want to increase the number of people who subscriber to your blog. In this article I provide 35 guaranteed ways to increase your
Well, that is about it for the week of starred items. If you want to see more just subscribe to my Google starred items feed in the upper right corner of this blog.
What did you star this week? Were any of these on your list?
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Looking back over this past week, it was overwhelmingly dominated by posts on the Page Rank update.
It seems everyone found some way to be touched by this in one way or the other, even if it was just to read the rantings and ravings about Google’s Page Rank update. Especially over the weekend when page rank updates seemed to be just flying in every direction.
I did try to read as many of these posts as I could, and I even contributed to the mayhem myself in, What Happened to My Page Rank, Another Goal Reached?, when my Page Rank actually went up to my surprise. Being at a PR0 I didn’t have any place to go but up, so a PR2 was a welcome thing to me. One of the funniest posts I have seen so far was posted over the weekend, Google PageRank algorithm leaked, it is certainly worth a quick read, and was quite funny.
Because there were so many starred items on that particular subject, I am just going to leave out all posts having to do with the page rank update. If you want more information about that issue just do a quick blog search for page rank update and you can find more than enough to read. A quick housekeeping note. The winner of the favicon for one month is The Computer Zone, so send me a quick email with your preference for a large or small icon and the url you want linked to and I will update it asap. If you want or need me to create a 16x16px or 26x26px icon just let me know. Contact me through “chipseo [at] gmail dot com” and if I don’t hear from the winner by the end of the day I will get in touch with you.
If you didn’t catch the top 15 of last week just click on the stars tag, and if you are unfamiliar with this post, each week I collect a top 15 of my Google Reader Starred items from the previous week and post them here. You can also subscribe to the starred feed if you like.
Top 15 Stars of the week of October 22-29th
30 Things I want to do now I’m 30
via Dan Wilson by Dan Wilson on 10/21/07
I cannot pretend that I face and regard my 30th birthday today with unfettered glee, but as a man wiser than…
10 Tips to Improve Your Writing Mood
via News Notion by Casey on 10/23/07
In addition to experiencing a writers block, bloggers just can’t seem to get into that writing mood!…
Top 10 US Social Sites and Blog Sites Rankings Issued
via Search Engine Journal by Pablo Palatnik on 10/23/07
Nielson/NetRatings has put out a report on the top 10 social sites and blog sites…
Using Google Analytics to Boost Traffic
via Blogging Tips by kelbycarr on 10/23/07
Google Analytics is a great free statistics tool that provides comprehensive statistics on your site…
20+ Free (and Useful) SEO Tools
via The Cheap Revolution by Team and a Dream team on 10/26/07
The Web is full of free SEO tools that you can do yourself. We’ve been bookmarking these tools as we come across them…
CPC Ads Earn 50x More Than CPA
via W Revenue dot Com by Scott on 10/22/07
Which model is better for publishers? Should you use an affiliate link to send traffic to a retailer, hoping that the person buys and earns you 5% of the sale price…
The Curse of the Daily Post
via Pronet Advertising by David Chen on 10/23/07
When faced with the myriad Content options that users have when they surf the web, many bloggers feel enormous pressure…
How I Made My First $2,000 In Affiliate Marketing – A Step By Step Guide
via Day Job Nuker.Com by DayJobNuker on 10/24/07
I hate ebooks about how to make money online. You see them everywhere and they range in price from single digits all the way…
20 Must-Do’s When Selling a Dot Com Business
via W Revenue dot Com by Scott on 10/24/07
I could probably write a book about this but I’m going to touch on the finer points of what to do when someone says “hey, I want to buy your site 
BlogRush bans 10,000 blogs from its system
via AdesBlog.com by Ades on 10/24/07
BlogRush had removed over 10,000 blogs from its system. This is one of the many measures that has been taken by Reese…
3P the New Ecommerce Buzz Word!
via My Blog Utopia Feed by Randy Smythe on 10/24/07
3P stands for third party sellers. They used to be called “eBay sellers†but oh how times have changed. 3P sellers are…
13 typefaces every graphic designer needs
via David Airey :: Graphic Designer by David Airey :: Graphic Designer on 10/24/07
With thousands of different typefaces on offer, it’s vital to have a select few that act as pillars in your collection…
5 Essential Time Saving Tips For Bloggers
via Blogging Tips by Mohsin on 10/24/07
We bloggers have funny lives. Blogging means so much to us yet people think we waste time on blogging…
Kijiji Growth Accelerates
via Only EBAY by ONLYEBAY on 10/23/07
If Kijiji US was already on fire two weeks ago, then somebody must have added a bunch more wood. I now estimate over 175,000 concurrent live ads…
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Are you a list junkie like me? I love top 10 lists, top 25 lists, whatever, I love the readability and the resources they provide. I try not to do to many top lists but decided to start a weekly one here for my stared items of the previous week.
Each Monday I put together a list of the top 15 starred items from the previous week that have caught my attention or I want to go back and read again. These articles are all published throughout the previous week that I am pulling feeds from into my feed reader. This is a little bit different list than my shared items list which is mostly seo and marketing type posts, my stared items come from a growing list of 300+ feeds that are updated each week. You can always subscribe to my stared feed (or just view the stared page) but each Monday I will publish a list of the top 25 starred items from the previous week (if there are that many). If you don’t utilize the stared or shared items feature (if you are using Google reader) it is a very handy way to mark something of interest that you may not have time to read right away.
Stared items by default are not public, you have to change the private settings, but your shared items are always a public feed. I really enjoy reading other peoples stared and shared items because we all have such different interests that they are bound to be items on someone else’s list that we don’t have on ours, and for one reason or another, can’t find.
I have to give credit for the idea of the stared items list to Randy Smythe who provides his stared items in a feed also. While a feed from a reader is nothing new, the stared items list was new to me, thanks. Below is the link to the post, a link to the actual site, and a snipit about each post.
Next Monday I will not have all the commentary listed above, just the top 15 of the previous week.
Top 15 Stars of the week of October 14-24nd
[$520] SEOCrunch.com – Original Design, Content. 400 Uniques per Day.
via SitePoint Marketplace – Established Sites For Sale on 10/15/07
Custom WP Design, Custom WP Admin, Unique Articles, Generated Profits — ** Uniques Visitors & Pageviews above are estimated for the month based on the sites existence (5 days) Up for sale is SE
[$30] ShortSermons.net – Original content, 5,000+ visitors in the past 30 days
via SitePoint Marketplace – Established Sites For Sale on 10/15/07
Religious site with sermons, original content, not monetized — Up for sale is www.shortsermons.net, the domain and website. The site was established in January 2006 and the domain is good
The DayJobNuker Interview on Jobacle.com
via Day Job Nuker.Com by DayJobNuker on 10/15/07
I was interviewed by Andrew at Jobacle.com! Check out my interview right here. It is podcast #71 and my interview begins at the 4:50 mark of the podcast.
