1. Mike Henry explores Facebook pages (as opposed to profiles) and how they can be use to promote their blog, business, product or profile. - ProBlogger
2. Darren Rowse shares how he used content on another blog to drive traffic to his bog - ProBlogger
3. However, Max Banner Ads allows you to easily add and rotate banners in your Wordpress blog anywhere you like without editing any themes or touching any codes. - JohnChow
4. The real “problem” is that there is rarely a quick fix for the kinds of issues that result in a dramatic change downward in search visibility - TopRankBlog
5. After I have previously referred to 5 of the most important blogging traps which need to be avoided, it’s only natural to follow up with a post identifying the goals which are actually worth it. - DailyBlogTips
6. But the most powerful additional thing about blogging is an aspect of human nature that doesn’t require a psychology degree to understand. - CopyBlogger
7. The question of whether or not bloggers should use paid sponsorship posts is discussed - Performancing
8. The top 100 advertisers in the U.S., who represent 41 percent of total advertising spending, shifted about $1 billion last year from TV and newspapers to the Web. - TechCrunch

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1. Darren Rowse shares what a coffee shop taught him about building a community - Scribefire
   
2. Instead of trying to come up with a definitive answer, or a fixed number of months that you should wait for before bringing up some ads, let’s just evaluate the Pros and Cons of monetizing a blog early in the game as opposed to waiting a longer period. - ProBlogger
3. I noticed today in Google trends you can get website data. The Google toolbar is installed by more users then any other toolbar and no doubt has the most accurate data. - Shoemoney
4. One of the common issues I find with my blog critiques is people not utilizing internal links to boost their search rankings as much as they could. - ChrisG
5. A great glossary for bloggers - DailyBlogTips
6. Here’s our outcome, 40+ most wanted Wordpress tips and hacks, including those you don’t even knew the keywords to search for. - HongKait
7. A few tips on how to sell advertising without upsetting readers - AdvertiseSpace
8. A great way to create easy to remember passwords that are impossible to guess - BlogsBlogsBlogs
9. The following FireFox Extensions will help you to adapt Google’s interface and results to what you need, in the most efficient manner possible, making Google even better. - SearchEngineJournal
10. 3 Simple Steps for Driving Your Audience to Action - CopyBlogger

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1. Blog-focused advertising networks are all the rage right now, with both Federated Media and Glam pulling down big valuation financing rounds in the last few months based on very early growth metrics. Other startups, like Six Apart, have launched their own blog advertising networks as well. - TechCrunch
   
2. Firefox 3 will be up for grabs at 10 AM Los Angeles time. — If you are in a different part of the world, refer to this world time map and know the exact time when Firefox 3 will become available in your region. Happy Firefox 3 Download Day. - DigitalInspiration
3. The Associated Press, having already announced its intention to harass bloggers who publish snippets as short as 39 words from AP stories, has now published a web form through which intimidated parties can give the AP money in return for “permission” to publish as few as five words. - MakingLight
4. One of the most useful features that is missing in Google Reader is a way to search the items you’ve read in the past. This is useful, since Google Reader’s search results are sorted by date and it may be difficult to find an article published two years ago. - GoogleOperatingSystems
5. Today Chris Garrett (my co-author from the ProBlogger Book) shares 5 influential books that bloggers will find useful - all of which heavily influenced me (Darren) in my blogging). - ProBlogger
6. Yes, I was literally “blogging on the road” and it seems other people would like to do the same, so here is how I do it. My setup is comprised: Macbook, Nokia n953G, mobile internet tariff - ChrisG
7. Here are three quick wys to reduce stress while blogging - DailyBlogTips
8. honor of Friday the 13th, I thought I’d give you 13 actual examples of emotional benefits you can use to persuade your readers. - CopyBlogger
9. A list of 20 firefox shortscuts that save time - BlogWell
10. Today I decided to share some of these no nonsense tips which have helped me and which can help you too to make your blogging more productive. - DumbLittleMan

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It is no question that video is the fastest growing medium on the web with the popularity of YouTube and the number of other video start-ups launching on a weekly basis. But still, that doesn’t mean anyone knows how to monetize it, despite its rapidly rising popularity.

In a recent interview, Eric Schmidt, Google’s CEO, said that the company should be able to make money from YouTube and the millions of video watchers it attracts, but stated that the company has yet to figure out the most effective way to monetize this audience.

Running pre-roll and post-roll ads would be useless, since who wants to see a 15 second ad for a one minute video? Google has been experimenting with ads that pop up over the bottom third of the video box, which is probably the best way to place an advertisement in these short boxes. Other than that, Google can still look to monetize the service through traditional display advertisements and sponsorships outside the video players. Google could also opt to offer a subscription service offering more video production related services to dedicated users willing to pay.

Regardless, YouTube has a large audience and as Mr. Schmidt said, the company has the luxury of time when considering what it should do with YouTube and video advertising in general.

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1.  Yahoo and Google have confirmed that they are indeed entering into a partnership around search advertising, a story we broke earlier today. - TechCrunch
2. Comcast announced it is increasing upstream speeds nationally for its Performance and Performance Plus residential high-speed Internet customers at no additional cost. - Comcast
3. Darren Rowse shares his thoughts about being a blogger with a print book - ProBlogger
4. What’s the best way to come up with a post on your business blog that works for marketing purposes, that actually leads to getting sales, registrations, and new business? Write with the end in mind - BuildaBetterBlog
5. Google can do more than just help you search websites. So if you can use it to save time, why not? Here are six shortcuts (aka Advanced Operators) to start you off: - Blog Well
6. Firefox 3 is shipping out finally on this Tuesday, June 17th as Firefox fans rejoice and welcome the new power packed version of the web browser. - QuickOnlineTips
7. How to spend an hour blogging - BuzzMyBlog
8. John McCain recently launched a new blog called the The McCain Report. The tagline of the blog is a “blog you can believe in.” - BloggersBlog
9. In today’s issue of The Golden Thread newsletter from the good folks at AWAI comes this handy tip sheet of 52 ways to kick start your own brilliant headline. Read then, love them, learn from them and make ‘em your own! - CopyWritingMaven

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1.  We’re very pleased today to announce that WidgetBucks has secured $10 million in Series B funding. - WidgetBucks
2. Instead of doing every small ‘job’ as it arrived jobs were ‘queued’ or collected until the computer was ready to process them all at once. This meant that the computer could do these ‘batches’ of jobs all at once when it would otherwise be idle. - ProBlogger
3. aluing a blog, or any Internet property, is not an easy thing to do. There are so many factors to take into consideration that a simple number times earning cannot reflect. However, I’ve found a new site that will give you the value of your blog down to the dollar. - JohnChow
4. Given we have talked about StumbleUpon, Delicious, and Twitter on Tech Talk Radio over the past couple of months, I thought I’d talk a little about Digg, another social media site, mainly because I’ve been watching people try to use it, fail miserably, and then complain about how sucky it is. - Blog Well
5. “My strongest pieces - the ones that got the most positive responses from ETR readers - were those that focused on one good and helpful thought….Because one good idea, clearly and convincingly presented, is better than a dozen so-so ideas strung together.” - WritetoDone
6. However, this post will contain seven examples of poorly designed favicons that you should avoid creating yourself. -Performancing
7. Most of my clients are internet marketing firms. Once I do a few gigs for them, I kind of get a feel for the type of material they want. Instead of being a reactive blog writer, I’m learning to become more proactive. And, this is how you sell blog posts before you write them. - BloggingTips
8. If a survey of developers attending Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference this week is of any indication, the average cost of a third-party iPhone application will fall well below $3.00, with the vast majority being made available at no cost at all. - AppleInsider

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1. It only makes sense that if you want to appeal to social media users that you take their interests and voting habits into consideration when creating your content. On the other hand, some bloggers and readers hate content that targets a social media audience. So what should you do? - Traffikd
2. Making a blog more sticky requires you to do two things: getting your readers to stay on the site longer and getting them to come back more often. Here is how to do it - JohnChow
3. Naming your blog is an important aspect of blog branding, or blog success for that matter. It seems very important to my visitors too. - ChrisG
4. Since one of the most common complaints among our clients is “I don’t have enough time to blog!” I’m experimenting with speed blogging this week. Everything I post will be done in under 30 minutes, to prove it can be done. - BuildaBetterBlog
5. In the spirit of oversimplifying things so that you can smugly shove human endeavors into pre-labeled slots, I’d like to present my own, contemporary take on this premise: the Seven Basic Blog Posts. - Wired
6. How do you increase your blog’s subscription rate? Don’t use the word subscribe - CopyBlogger
7. What can we learn from how old-world media research and write obituaries that we can apply to our blog postings? If it isn’t obvious, it is that we, as bloggers, can pre-write many of our posts in anticipation of things that will likely happen sooner or later. - IHelpYouBlog
8. 10 Bloggers share their best blog posts ever - Skelliewag
9. How you can build a better content model for your site by understanding news consumption patterns - DoshDosh
10. The sort of links we build are not only links that Google loves but links that Google loves to love. They are links that Matt Cutts would place a big red tick next to if he was our teacher. - BlogStorm

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Its no secret that Apple stores are among the most popular technology retail stores in the world. The stores are clean, organized, and all the technology is on display and can be tested.

Apple has been known to create giant stores in major cities (see New York and Boston) and Las Vegas is apparently no exception. The company has announced that it will be a crucial part of the $8 billion CityCenter resort that will open next Fall on the strip and feature over 500,000 sq. feet of retail space.

The uniquely designed “crystal” Apple Store in the resort will be over 20,000 feet spread over two floors.

I cannot wait until this opens.

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1. Case study on how Empire Today has customers help with viral marketing - Pronet
   
2. I’ve written numerous posts over the last year about how I think that submitting guest posts to other blogs is a great way to promote yourself and to grow the readership of your own blog - however I’ve also noticed a trend in guest posts that could actually hurt you as a guest poster (and as a blogger publishing guest posts on your blog). - ProBlogger
3. Starting at 6PM Pacific Time tonight, Google will start rolling out Gmail Labs, an experimental area of new Gmail features that will be familiar and very welcome to users of the Better Gmail Firefox extension. - LifeHacker
4. This week Google announced that advertisers now have the ability to track the online impact of Google TV Ads with Google Analytics. - WebProNews
5. 4 words that insure your story is buried - BlogStorm
6. When it comes to blogging, there are 13 different types of posts that bloggers have in their arsenals. That’s right, 13. - WinningtheWeb
7. If you want to rocket CTRs, that’s “Click Through Rates”, on your ads you’re going to need to read this post - CowleyOn
8. If you know what your competitors are doing when it comes to link building, you may be able to do something similar — or maybe even do the exact same thing. The Web gives you the opportunity to easily examine what your competitors are up to. - SearchEngineWatch

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1.  Have a link you want to share? Just send it to us with a description/overview of the article and we will take a look at it. All good internet marketing/SEO/blogging/etc. stories get linked - MarketingPilgrim
2. If Google were the United States government, the data that streams onto Nicholas Fox’s laptop every day would be classified as top secret. Mr. Fox is among a small group of Google employees who keep a watchful eye on the vital signs of one of the most successful and profitable businesses on the Internet. - NYTimes
3. If you decide to upgrade from Firefox 2 to the first release candidate of Firefox 3, you’ll notice an improved performance, less memory leaks, a revamped interface and some very interesting new features: - Google Operating System
4. Darren Rowse provides five more tips on offline blog promotion -ScribeFire
5. “Are blog comments a “conversation” with the author, or just answering and responding to the author? Do you expect the author to respond to your comment?” - LouisGray
6. Since I’ve started to blog on serious level, I’ve come to find out that the most important page on my blog was the About page. I’ve spent quite a bit of time browsing the web and I’ve noticed myself looking for the About page quite often as the sites purpose was not immediately defined. - Performancing
7. Sometimes you can’t do everything yourself. You don’t have the budget to launch a big marketing campaign. Or you don’t even know where to start. One of the best ways to promote your website or business is to work together with others to achieve mutually beneficial outcomes. - DoshDosh
8. Although blogging for money has the potential to become a full time career most people use it as a stepping stone to bigger and better things. In some cases popular blogs have been acquired by the mainstream media leaving the owner with a tidy lump sum. In other cases companies are so impressed by the abilities of a certain writer they offer them a job doing what they love. - SEOptomise
9. Mixx is a social site which is growing rapidly at the recent times. In my previous post, I wrote on 3 reasons why you should join mixx. If you have joined after reading the post, thank you for taking my words. Before you start using mixx regularly, create a plan and know the etiquette of using mixx. - BloggingTips

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