Old Stuff, New Stuff, Internet Stuff

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Gary R. Hess

I am trying something new for this weeks link love Thursday, blockquotes. Instead of me saying something witty, or more precisely, stupid, you can get a glimpse of what the article is like before clicking through. So without further ado, here is this weeks link love Thursday:

Break All The Rules (and Still Be Successful)

With great design and implementation you can break all the rules and still be successful. This, by any other means, shouldn’t have worked. It shouldn’t have reached the ridiculous number of 3,338 diggs after being posted just 4 days ago. It was Flash animation.

Why you should submit your own content to Social Networks and why you shouldn’t:

Responsability: if what you submitted to the social network doesn’t succeed, you would be completely responsible for it and you wouldn’t be able to say it was because of another person. If someone else submits your content and it doesn’t succeed, you could blame that person for that and you wouldn’t ever know what would have happened if it was you who submitted that content.

del.icio.us Bans Search Engine Spiders

This evidence seems to be indicating that del.icio.us has recently started blocking the major search engine spiders from crawling their site, by way of the requesting User-Agent. Given the recent crawl dates and cache dates, it looks like this started happening within the past 2-3 days. This raises some questions as to the intentions of del.icio.us, and perhaps Yahoo! With Yahoo! recently integrating del.icio.us bookmarks into its search results this could an attempt to enhance the effectiveness of that new feature by preventing competing search engines from indexing content from del.icio.us. While Yahoo!’s Slurp bot is also blocked, it’s unlikely that Yahoo! would need to crawl the content of one of its own sites, as Yahoo! actually owns del.icio.us.

Make the Most of SEO Competitive Research : Evaluating the Competition

You can either do it ‘at home’ using Google search and Excel or try paid tools returning complete competitor’s report. I usually perform all possible ways of analysis because I (1) cannot fully rely on reports compiled by someone else (be it an automatic tool or another person); (2) do not feel I have the full understanding of a niche unless I spend long hours on searching Google and compiling data into tables…

How not to write that SEO sales page

This is a genuine site seoconsulting.com a nice domain name the owners also have seoexpert again a very nice domain name and if you watching I will happily take the first off your hands for a reasonable fee…

50 Networking Thoughts Everyone Should Read

Below are fifty thoughts to help you on your way. Before you read on, remember: if you think you’re poor at networking, don’t worry, you’re not alone. It’s not a skill we are born with but one we have to learn.

13 Sure Signs Your Landing Page is a Turn-Off

If you’re trying to sell a product or service through your website (or if you’re open to the possibility in future), here’s an opportunity to get inside the mind of your average prospect and learn the thirteen things that make good landing pages go bad.

The 120 Day Wonder: How to Evangelize a Blog

I know a fair amount about evangelism and a little bit about blogging, so I’ve combined the two in order to provide some insights into the evangelism of a blog. Granted, I’ve only been at blogging for 120 days or so, but marketing is marketing, right?

The Ultimate Blog Post

As a handy guide for crafting your horrible lies, here’s a list of some of the already popular blogs out there. (I’m omitting the blogs at Wired, because, hey, I have to work with these people.) Along with each blog’s name, I’ve provided what would be the ultimate perfect blog entry for that particular blog. I’m tired of the word “blog” now.

9 Ways to think about linking in a blog post

I think all the time about why I am linking, and where I should link, and what should be underneath the link. Here are the types of links that I think about:

How To Make Your Previously Written Content Valuable Once Again

Do you have hundreds or even thousands of articles hiding behind those “previous” buttons on the bottom of your page? I bet that many of you do. They, unfortunately, offer little or no value to your readers. Valuable page views are being lost if you fail to make an honest attempt to promote past content.