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Weekend Talk – Thoughtful Posts I came across this week

March 1st, 2008 • Althaf • 0 comments • Related • Filed Under

I came across 5 good posts this week that I thought, will share with you. I recommend, you read each one of them. They have some very good lessons for entrepreneurs who are serious about making a living online.

  1. The Benefits of Keeping a Private Journal – A post by Dosh Dosh about developing habit of a private journal as an aid to build your personal life and your online empire.

  2. Caroline has released a revision of her Wordpress Niche ebook.

  3. Do You Have What It Takes To Be A Professional Blogger? - By Yaro Starak

  4. Gyutae Park from Winning the Web has explored 5 types of bloggers.

  5. Using a WordPress Page as your home page by Blogging Experiment

As I said, do not miss anyone of them. They are all good.

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Link Building Tips from My Experience

February 23rd, 2008 • Althaf • 0 comments • Related • Filed Under

This is a guest blog post by Scott Hughes, administrator of the Philosophy Forums

I have read a lot of lists of ways to build links. Most of the ways have not worked well for me or just did not apply to my websites. However, I have tried a lot of different methods, and I will tell you some methods that have worked well for me.

Article Marketing – Basically, article marketing means you write articles and submit them to article directories. With the articles, you include an “about the author” section with a link or two back to your website. This can also be a good way to get traffic directly, especially if your articles get picked up and republished on a popular website or ezine. The disadvantage is that search engines will not value the links that much if the content is not unique. In other words, it does not help much to publish the same article to multiple directories.

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Weekend Talk – An Update on WP SEO Sniper

February 16th, 2008 • Althaf • 0 comments • Related • Filed Under

I had contacted Dewald, the author of WP SEO Sniper few days back regarding a possible discount on his product. I received feedbacks saying that the software, even though good, is expensive. I had to agree partially, because not all can afford a high price tag, no matter how good the price is.

Nevertheless, Dewald got back to me 2 days back. He has a setup a coupon code system where you have to enter the code BLOGREPRENEUR or blogrepreneur and you will be entitled to a 20% discount. I guess this should encourage you to go ahead and buy the product.

Here is the link to buy WP SEO Sniper again. Just so you know, when you go through the discount route, I lose my affiliate commission. Dewald explained to me the complications involved while giving a discount and retaining affiliate commissions. I decided to skip the affiliate commission. I am more happy to get you the discount rather than the affiliate commission.

Don’t miss, the coupon code box is on the bottom of the sales page.

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Weekend Talk – Wordpress Blog and Ping

February 9th, 2008 • Althaf • 0 comments • Related • Filed Under

The other day, I was reading a blog post whose link I received in my email. It was about the Pinging technology within Wordpress and the serious flaw it contains. The author writes that while Wordpress has a great feature to ping all major services including Google, it also has a serious flaw that can get your blog banned from any or all service.

What happens is this – When you write a post and click the PUBLISH button, Wordpress pings all the service you have listed in the Admin panel and informs them of your new post and each of these services in turn crawl your blog and index your latest content. While this is good, there is also a serious problem. If say, 10 minutes later, you go ahead and edit the post and then click PUBLISH again, Wordpress goes ahead and pings all the service again, as if you have published a new post.

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Weekend Talk – Google Adsense and 3rd Party Ads

February 2nd, 2008 • Althaf • 4 comments • Related • Filed Under

It was a dilemma I faced when I was setting up the Micro Niche experiment blog last week. I wanted to place ads from Bidvertiser with Google Ads, to give better options to the visitor and, in a way enhance their experience. Bidvertiser was clear; We have no problems having our ads run side by side another agency. I wasn’t honestly concerned about Bidvertiser. It was Google that was bothering me. What if Google did not like 3rd party ads run next to it? What if, without warning, they cut me off?

I decided it was time for some action. I fired up a mail to them hoping for a clear cut reply. 2 days later, the reply was at my inbox. I read it. I was happy. They were pretty clear. They did not have a problem, but had certain conditions. They always have. Here is the question and answer session, straight from the horse’s mouth.

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