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This series is based on Robert Scoble’s presentation at the Blog Business Summit.
On with the show:
Have a Voice
Having a voice personalizes your blog. The top blogs are read not so much for their factual content, but often the ‘spin’, interpretation or analysis of the facts.
You can choose to be informative, instructional, funny, maybe even Continue reading
US-based gaming peripheral developer Razer is at it again.
They’ve just launched a giveaway for a “lifetime” of Razer products.
I’m using a Razer Copperhead laser mouse and a Razer eXactmat X control mouse mat and it makes my work much easier.
I’d kill for a Razer Tarantula keyboard (note to Razer if you’re reading this…).
Here’s some points you might want to note regarding the promo: Continue reading
Fresh off the press, I got news that Darren Rowse, AKA ProBlogger (or Gold Blogger as Yanik Silver likes to call him) is about to launch the next Writing Project, and it could be as early as next week.
I’d been asking him about the Writing Project when we were talking in October (as he was msging from a beach cafe while on vacation) (see: Talking with Darren Rowse – ProBlogger.net).
The project is finally here and participating in the last project brought a massive traffic spike to this blog, plus a number of the visitors have gone on to be regular readers too.
Besides the traffic, Darren’s also doing a random drawing of winners Continue reading
I saw a post in my WordPress dashboard from Matt (one of the WordPress development team).
His intriguing title “Is Your Plugin Naughty or Nice?” features a guest article by Aaron Brazell informing developers to ensure plugin compliance with WordPress 2.1 which is ‘almost here’.
It’s hard to realize that it’s almost been a year since WordPress 2.0 “Duke” was released on December 26, 2005.
I was looking for more info on WordPress 2.1 but there’s scant info available now.
You should be using some variant of WP 2.0 and if you haven’t patched it to 2.0.5 already, this is a good time to do so. There were a number of security-related patches in the last update.
I really like WordPress and a quote on the WordPress site captures my feelings:
“WordPress: free, yet priceless”
If you aren’t already optimizing your WordPress blog, you won’t be able to traffic generate and monetize as effectively as you could, you might want to check out Secret Blog Weapon.
I really love hearing from those who’ve started using Secret Blog Weapon and are getting great results!
Talk about a compelling offer.
I was checking out Shoemoney’s post “Elite Retreat Ticket For One Lucky Winner” .
Blogging Guru Dave Taylor, SEO Specialist Aaron Wall, Forum and Communities Specialist Lee Dodd, Jeremy “Shoemoney” Schoemaker, Dave Taylor again!
Forum Guru Lee Dodd has posted at his ForumTrends blog that the 4 gurus: Shoemoney, Dave Taylor, Aaron Wall and Lee have decided to put up one ticket for the event (valued at $4,850 by the way).
Just head over to Lee’s blog, read the instructions and best of luck!
The deadline’s Dec 11th, noon CST. There’s a couple of hours to go.
I’d have loved to try for the contest, though the event clashes with a family holiday.
Ah, well, maybe next time.
If you do enter the contest, and win, post a comment!
If you’re an affiliate marketer, take note, Spybot Search And Destroy, a spyware detection software has now identified several affiliate network tracker cookies as ‘spyware’.
If a user to your landing page runs spybot and deletes your cookie, it means you will not get credit for the affiliate sale.
Spybot already identifies Alexa as spyware, although Alexa tracks the sites you visit and depending on your perspective, it could be viewed as either a web metrics tool, or ‘spyware’.