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Here are today’s links:
- Case study on how Empire Today has customers help with viral marketing - Pronet
- 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
- 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
- This week Google announced that advertisers now have the ability to track the online impact of Google TV Ads with Google Analytics. - WebProNews
- 4 words that insure your story is buried - BlogStorm
- When it comes to blogging, there are 13 different types of posts that bloggers have in their arsenals. That’s right, 13. - WinningtheWeb
- If you want to rocket CTRs, that’s “Click Through Rates”, on your ads you’re going to need to read this post - CowleyOn
- 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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Around the Web in Blogging
Here are today’s links:
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Darren Rowse provides five more tips on offline blog promotion -ScribeFire
- “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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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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Around the Web in Blogging
Here are today’s links:
- Here is a great list of seven things you should avoid when leaving comments on other blogs -DailyBlogTips
- Don’t bother going through all the work of building a reputable account. The following will almost guarantee you’ll never see the front page of digg.com - MarketingPilgrim
- Darren Rowse discusses whether or not bloggers should post articles from Free Article directories on their blogs - ProBlogger
- Blog hero Jason Calacanis has announced on Calacanis.com that his human-powered search engine Mahalo will embrace the Wikipedia idea of letting anyone edit any page at any time. - TheNextWeb
- I’ve read a lot of posts lately tearing down the public relations industry for what a poor job they do when pitching bloggers. While there’s no doubt companies and PR firms have a long way to go, a blast from my past reminded me that bloggers need to share some responsibility in all this. - SearchEngineGuide
- One of the side effects of having so much stuff to help us get work done is dealing with the clutter it creates in our workspace. But just like you can defragment a hard drive—organize the bits and bytes so that related ones are closest to one another for faster access—you can also defrag your office to make it more efficient. - LifeHacker
- Marissa Mayer, vice president of search products and user experience at Google, has been giving some interesting insight into how the Google search page was developed. - BlogStorm
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Around the Web in Blogging
Here are today’s links
- Twitter is great for driving traffic to your website but if you’re going to tweet your own site in the hope of getting people to come to it then you need to surround it with text that’s going to make people want to click on it. - MassMediaDesign
- Dying corporate blogs (hat tip mykl) are completely avoidable, especially if you understand why they often fail and plan accordingly. Here are 5 of the top reasons why business blogs never make it. - TopRankBlog
- Tom Duterme, who is in the New Business Development group at Google in Mountain View, was here talking about innovation. Tom’s job is to travel around the world looking for acquisitions for Google, so it was interesting to hear what things he looks for in startups. - RWW
- We’ve been hinting at this for awhile, but it’s finally time to spill the beans: Starting next week, we’ll be rolling out AdSense for feeds to a small group of publishers, in anticipation of a full launch to all FeedBurner and AdSense publishers “coming soon”. If you start seeing “Ads by Google” on an ad in a feed somewhere, that’d be us. - Feedburner
- Google Inc showed strong growth in its ability to convert Web searches into ads viewed, according to a closely watched industry report quoted by analysts on Thursday, and its shares rose 2.5 percent. - Reuters
- There is obviously lots of discussion about copyright around things like music and video on the Internet, but another area that is going to be very important that is only recently getting attention is the ownership of comments. - AlleyInsider
- The local search marketplace continues to grow rapidly. Local is growing at a faster percentage rate than general search. Additionally, changes in search patterns show that consumers are becoming better and smarter searchers, moving from simple one- and two-keyword searches to more specific four- and five-keyword searches. - SearchEngineWatch
- To celebrate the launch of their new PPC Tools the guys at Distilled are launching a fun PPC competition. - BlogStorm
- Google Maps is showing a redesign here, though I don’t know in what occasions it shows and whether it’s experimental or meant to go live for everyone. - GoogleBlogoscoped
- This week we’ve got a quick and dirty Whiteboard Friday about how to make use of all of those social media profiles you’ve been building. - SEOMoz
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Around the Web in Blogging
Here are today’s links:
- SearchEngineLand asks if your websites are social media friendly - SearchEngineLand
- I realized at this point that to promote a new blog it could also be useful to go offline. I didn’t completely give up on online promotion (in fact it still is the most effective place to do promotion) but found that the offline promotion could be very effective - ScribeFire
- Today I want to move on to look at some general principles of building relationships with bloggers that I think are important - ProBlogger
- Whether you’re promoting a product, a program or just an idea, exuberance sells. One of the reason blogs can be so effective is that their writers tend to show more enthusiasm than polish. - CopyBlogger
- Akamai is out today with their first “State of the Internet” report. The report is well worth a read as it covers a variety of topics including: security, connection speeds, geography, network access, and Internet penetration. - CenterNetworks
- Mozilla are organizing a “Download Day” to promote Firefox 3.0 and set a Guinness World Record for the most downloaded software in 24 hours. Are you in or out? - Hardware 2.0
- Moneymaking clicks on Google ads in April increased 19.6 percent over the same month last year. - ValleyWag
- In one of the most brilliant marketing moves of all time from a social media perspective, alternative rock band Weezer created an awesome video for their new single, “Pork and Beans,” using internet superstars from a handful of successful YouTube videos. - Techipedia
- Blog posts are great for getting quick ideas out to the marketplace, but when you create something in depth it is usually better if you place it on another part of your site rather than making it a blog post. - SEOBook
- This entry is about how to have the articles you submit to a social news site actually rank in the search engines. There is such a thing as a “power profile” that has nothing to do with frontpaging. - SlightlyShadySEO
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- A $1 billion copyright infringement lawsuit challenging YouTube’s ability to keep copyrighted material off its popular video-sharing site threatens how hundreds of millions of people exchange all kinds of information on the Internet, YouTube owner Google Inc. said. - AssociatedPress
- Borders Group is jumping back into online retailing with a Web site designed to evoke the feeling of browsing at a neighborhood bookstore, down to the popular shelves of staff picks that are familiar to its customers nationwide. - Yahoo!
- Many members of the Web 2.0 generation of internet companies have so far produced little in the way of revenue, despite bringing about some significant changes in online behaviour, according to some of the entrepreneurs and financiers behind the movement. - FinancialTimes
- In this post ProBlogger explores the age old challenge of bloggers - finding readers for your blog. - ProBlogger
- Historically, most search engines do not place a special logo up on their home page for Memorial Day. I am not sure why, I know it is just a U.S. holiday - but typically, the lack of a special logo, confuses many Americans. - SERoundtable
- How news coverage can make or break your start-up - ReadWriteWeb
- Here are 140 more tools for Twitter - Mashable
- Matt Cutts explains what Google does when it discovers a hacked site: temporary removal from the index with a “hacked site” flag, contact the site owner, and then potential reinclusion within 48 hours when everything’s fixed. - MattCutts
- So power goes a long way in affiliate marketing, and in any industry for that matter. But for the sake of this blog, we’re going to stick with affiliate marketing. Why does power go such a long way?How do we attain such power? - UberAffiliate
- One of the reasons I came to China was to demonstrate that you can make money online from anywhere in the world. After spending two weeks in China I have came to the conclusion that while it is indeed possible to make money online in China, it’s probably better to make money online from someplace else. - JohnChow
May 21, 2008: Around the Web in Blogging
Here are today’s links. Included is a new program from Microsoft that pays users who buy from advertisers, 101 uses of Twitter, a site that looks at all videos taken down from YouTube, and more.
- Here are 101 examples of how Twitter members regularly use the service. Note that the content below has been taken directly from Twitter users’ posts, with all grammar, syntax and spelling left fully intact. - InsideCRM
- A new Microsoft program will return money to online users who find and buy selected products through its Live Search engine - Todd Bishop
- edlasso, a TV clip service favored by bloggers everywhere, is being threatened with legal action by three of the major media conglomerates: Fox (NWS), CBS (CBS) and NBC (GE).- AlleyInsider
- According to an AppleInsider Story, Mac sales are soaring. It posted a 50% year on year growth for the month of April. A staggering figure compared to 17% for the PC market. - TheAfterMac
- YouTomb is an interesting project by MIT Free Culture that collects YouTube videos taken down because of copyright infringements. - GoogleSystem
- The latest stats from Nielsen Online show a significant decline in month-over-month unique visitors to Facebook in the US. In April, traffic fell to 22.4M uniques, down from the 24.9M reported in March. - Mashable
- Now that FeedBurner is owned by Google, it makes sense to integrate with other Google services. One of the most requested features, a FeedFlare that shows the number of comments for each post from a Blogger blog, has been recently added - GoogleSystem
- I thought this was kinda funny. Someone thought that Google was taking stronger action on excessive reciprocal links. So did they ramp down their reciprocal linking? Nope. Instead, they put their offer into an image thinking that Google wouldn’t notice - MattCutts
7.6 Billion Videos Streamed in US during April 2008
Still wondering whether adding a video component to your site is a smart idea? From April to March, the number of video streams in the US jumped 9% from 6.9 billion streams to 7.6 billions streams. These 7.6 billion video streams were watched by over 119 million people who watched over 60 videos a month, which equates to just over 142 minutes.
Below, we have a list of where the majority of these videos were viewed. As you can imagine, YouTube was number one with over 4 Billion streams, while Fox was significantly behind at second with just over 328 Million streams. Hulu rounded out the top ten with over 60 Million streams.
