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A good friend of mine named Max has recently started his new online startup company. The name of the site is called SiteHoppin, and it is much like Stumbleupon.com except instead of using a toolbar to vote on sites, you stumble sites inside the browser. The site dubs itself as “a browser in a browser.”
It has been awhile since my last Adtoll Update, but I thought I would write this post for the people who are very interested in trying it, but are still waiting for that last clincher. Well, as of today Adtoll is giving every new customer a free $20 in advertising credit.
Just what can $20 get you? A lot more than you would actually think… Sign up to Adtoll today and you can spend your $20 to advertise on my blog completely free. You can get your 125×125 advertisement for THREE MONTHS completely free, and an entire month of my premium banner spot at the top! If you were considering trying out different ways to monetize your blog, now would be the time.
A lot of people had heard about the news when Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia announced that he was going to use the same methods that created a people powered encyclopedia over to creating a people powered search engine. Sadly enough, the project was over-hyped and a terrible alpha site was released. While I hope after some bug testing that Jimmy’s search engine does well, right now things are looking troubling.
Grazr is a web2.0 service that allows you to create widgets to “monitor online sources and share the results.” What the heck does that mean?!? Other than sounding a lot like an RSS clone, I have no idea. If you really want to figure out what the heck they do, go visit it, but being the vigorous internet marketer and link building deviant that I am, I only see the great link building capabilities. Grazr is a pagerank 6 authority site in the eyes of the search engines, and you can easily get a few pages on the site that link to every new post you make. In a nutshell, it is like an untapped RSS syndication that links to your blog posts the moment you write them. It is this site, along with the other popular ones in my RSS feed directory list that allow my blog posts to be cached by Google in under three hours.
I have been running websites for over a year, but have only recently been blogging. The search engines look at blogs a lot differently than they do for static websites, so I have listed a few simple SEO tweaks that will help your blog rank higher in the search engines and have your blog be more visible to the readers.
Install All in One SEO
All in One SEO is a plugin for Wordpress that does all of the hard work of building correct titles and search engine optimized descriptions for you. After you install this plugin and set it up properly, you only need to focus on link building and writing great content. What a timesaver!
4/21/2008 Update: Right now, the site is redirecting to lifehack.org. Either the site has closed down, or the website was temporarily hacked. Try visiting listible.com and if it redirects you, then you can save your time by skipping this post, as it would be no longer valid.
For those of you who love building thousands of links from my different methods, you are in for another treat. While normally I blog about secret techniques that nobody else is talking about, this one has been a bit popular on Digitalpoint. I cannot take credit for this one (21/22 is a pretty good record I would say), I still want to tell you about it. Every single link counts and so I wanted to let those who haven’t heard about Listible join the fun.
Many bloggers have been joining what is dubbed the “dofollow” or the “u comment, I follow” movement. where they install a Wordpress plugin that gets rid of the standard “nofollow” attribute attached to blog comments. This means that the search engines will follow all of the commentators links and share the blog post’s pagerank. At first, this may seem like a great idea and a way to get more comments on your blog as well as get more community involvement, but it also has some very damaging flaws. Here are my nine reasons why joining the dofollow movement can hurt your blog.
