Fastclick = ValueClick Media
Today the integration of Fastclick (and impression based ad system that some bloggers use – my review of it is here) and ValueClick Media was completed. If you go to the Fastclick site you’ll now be forwarded to VC’s site instead where you can log in using the same login details that you previously did.
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Blog Software: Zoundry – Blog Writing and Publishing for Profits – Part 1
Introducing Zoundry. A recent entry into the blog software tools of blog writing and editing. Yet Zoundry isn’t just another blog software editing and writing tool. Zoundry is also and affiliate service that attempts to bring blog publishing and affiliate marketing together into a cooperative publishing for profits solution that I’ve not quite seen before.
With that said and to repeat…Zoundry is both and blog writing software tool and Zoundry is also a service. By the website copy they are first and foremost a service.
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Uptime Bot
Off-page (popularity) stats. Great for keeping track of your progresses.
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Website Keyword Suggestions
This tool tries to determine the theme of your website and provides keyword suggestions along with keyword traffic estimates. Keyword suggestions are provided using Overtures database.
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SES Chicago Early Bird Discount Deadline Tomorrow & What’s Going On At The Show?
Our last big Search Engine Strategies event of the year comes to Chicago from Dec. 5 to 8. I wanted to summarize some of the many sessions that will be going on, as well as remind everyone that tomorrow is the early bird deadline to save on registration. If you’re considering going, now’s the time to act and save.
You’ll find a full agenda and rundown on what’s happening at the SES Chicago 2005 web site. The show covers a range of search marketing issues, involving both search marketers sharing experiences from the trenches and speakers from the major search engines themselves, including AOL, Ask Jeeves, Google, MSN Search and Yahoo.
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Highlights from the SEW Blog: Mar. 20, 2006
Featured posts from the Search Engine Watch blog, as well as our customary search headlines from around the web.![]()
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The most important search engines for SEO
Which search engines are the most important for search engine optimization (SEO). New research numbers can give you the answer.
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How Not To Blog
So my good friend
Rich Brooks over at
Flyte brings this blog (?) to my attention. Here is a classic example of how not to blog if you are going to blog. I know I’ve talked about this before but I will talk about it again. Automated blog spam tactics.
Internet Success Strategies unkindly uses blog spam technology to grab large chunks of other peoples content to promote junk directory pages.
Apparently the tool this blog uses (I’m not sure which tool exactly) doesn’t generate junk blog posts as I’ve seen a few other tools do. Instead, it grabs content other people write and then adds a link at the end of each post to a specified page to promote. In this case this blog posts links to pages generated by html page generators. This generates a more appealing post for search engine spiders since they post actually content real content.
The objective is to leverage blogs and get clicks on those links to the directory pages. These directory pages have random links scraped from search results and other websites and these directory page also contain plenty of Google Adsense ads. The bottom line is to generate decent Google Adsense revenue but getting…you guessed it – more clicks on Adsense ads.
Let’s take a closer look. Internet Success Strategies has taken
my post here and
republished it here. You will notice a link at the end of the post that leads to a
directory page here. You will also notice that the post does site the source and provides a live link back to me. Proper etiquette right? Not quite.
While this type of automated blogging may seem to be legitimate, I do still consider it uncool. There are some blogs that do a good job at
reblogging but the Internet Success Strategies blog does not.
Rebloggers actively select content for their readers so that their blogs may deliver good content to those readers. They don’t reblog content solely for it’s SEO benefits to get attention to useless directory pages. Rebloggers actively select and filter the best content for their readers. Automated blog spam tools do not. I’ve been reblogged a number of times and I think it is a great way to get your content syndicated an promoted to new readers just as if your content was being subscribed to and received in a news reader using RSS.
Take a lesson from this
blog on how not to blog.
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How to Write for Busy People
Ben at Inside Firefox has written a great little post on how to write for Busy People (and lets face – most of us fit the category). I think the six points they make are great advice for bloggers also. Of course that doesn’t mean you can’t break the ‘rules’ and still have a worthwhile blog [...]
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Datacenter Quick Check
lets you add you URL and check all Google datacenters for BackLinks, PR and Ranking of keyword.
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