Search Engine Marketing Scholarship Is Live Again

The guys from Marketing Pilgrim organize this Search Engine Marketing Scholarship contest every year, and they always have close to $10,000 in prizes, so it is worth taking a look.

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Poll: What is Your Favorite Browser?

Today I was reading the Mozilla Developer News blog and I saw that they are done with the Firefox 3 Release Candidate 1 source code. They should put the RC1 version available for public download later this month, so hopefully the final version will come up in June.

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We Should Have Known Better: Exchanging Credibility for a Few Bucks

Looking back I feel kind ashamed that I promoted AGLOCO and BlogRush. The first revealed itself to be a complete flop and never saw the light of the day. The second is operative, but most established bloggers that were using the widget dropped it after realizing there was very little value coming out of it.

Both worked with a pyramid scheme, and both had a particular smell coming out, if you know what I mean. I knew it, but I went on and promoted them anyway. Why?

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Keys to an Effective Idea Journal

Probably my most valuable possession as a blogger is my idea notebook/journal. Because I maintain two blogs of my own and I write on a regular basis for a few other blogs, post ideas are priceless. Without a constant flow of ideas the results of my writing would suffer and my income would drop. I know just about every blogger out there faces the same issue of constantly pumping out ideas for new posts.

For me, the idea notebook is the cure to blogger’s block, and I know many other bloggers use the same approach, or at least a similar one. If you don’t already use a notebook or a journal to keep track of your ideas, I highly suggest that you start one as soon as you finish reading this post. If you do already keep a notebook, here are some keys that I have found for maximizing its effectiveness.

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Web Usability: As Few Clicks As Possible

This video thing is addicting!

Here comes the second one. It is a much shorter video talking about a simple rule of web usability: let your users perform what they are trying to in as few clicks as possible.

If you would like to subscribe to my channel on YouTube, here is the link.


Here is a rough transcript:

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Google Indexing Scrapers First?

Yesterday I published a guest post from Abhijeet Mukherjee titled Do You Know Your Visitors? 5 Points to Consider. A couple of hours later Abhijeet messaged me on Gtalk to let me know that Google was not indexing my backlinks to his blog, but rather the link from a scraper site that had copied part of the post.

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Want Your Blog Reviewed? Drop a Comment

The first video blog review went pretty well, and the feedback was positive, so there will be more to come. I will release them weekly, covering the different aspects of a blog (e.g., layout & design, search engine optimization, monetization, content).

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Do You Know Your Visitors? 5 Points to Consider

This is a guest post by Abhijeet Mukherjee.

Yes this is the question of the day for you. Do you know your visitors? Do you know what exactly they are looking for in your blog? Do you know if you are writing articles for an advanced user or for a beginner?

Daniel once said that for a blogger, his reader is his customer. Hence having a clear perception about your visitor and what exactly he wants is one of the most important recipes for success as a blogger. If you are a niche blogger, then this becomes easier, but even then you should be aware if you are writing for an expert user or a beginner.

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