Track and Improve Blog Post Quality with Delicious WordPress Plugin
How can you really tell if the quality of your blog posts are improving over time? Unfortunately, while Delicious is a great social bookmarking tool, its interface does not make it easy to extract the information necessary to help track the quality of posts over time…
If you’re blogging to:
- generate affiliate and content network revenues, the answer is obvious.
- to drive the bottom line ultimately by positioning yourself as an authority in your industry, you’ll need to routinely publish Resource type posts.
Perhaps the single best metric for tracking Resource post quality is the number of Delicious saves. Something saved a few hundred times is obviously more of a resource than something with no saves. Its not perfect since not everyone uses Delicious, but it is a great relative measure, and the single best metric to track progress over time.
So, What is DeliciousCount and why do you really care?
DeliciousCount is a great tool to help…
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Arizona Spammers Ordered To Pay $236M to IOWA ISP
A federal judge ordered yesterday that Henry Perez and his wife, Suzanne Bartok, both of Arizona, must pay $236 million in restitution for sending millions of spam messages to a small Iowa ISP.
This ruling is the result of a four-year court case in which it was determined that in 2003,Perez and Bartok sent millions of unsolicited emails to CIS servers, using a program called Bulk Mailing 4 Dummies. The volume of email forced the company to undergo costly server upgrades to process, on average, 500 million spam messages each day, according to company owner Robert Kramer III.
“There were millions of e-mails being delivered to us for each spam campaign to users that didn’t exist on our servers,” Kramer said in an interview. “It was do or die: It wasn’t just a nuisance for us.”
Perez and Bartok maintained throughout the trial that they were not spammers and that the email messages had, in fact, been legitimately generated, but the judge dismissed their explanations as “non-credible.”
Kramer said that overall spam volumes have seen a significant drop in the past five years at CIS, which he believes may be due in part to his company’s litigation efforts.
(1 votes, average: 5 out of 5)Blog Tips: 8 Tactics to Make Readers Engage!
Source: Andertoons
Blogs are all about information. We write to entertain, to educate, to share news and get the conversation started. This could purely be for distribution of useful, unique information, or something more direct, a sales related and affiliate marketing centric blog.
The truth is - not many blogs make it to the top 100 - as seen in Seth Godin’s Top 1,000 things you should know 
There is so much information floating around. What are the tactics to make folks read your blog?
Here are some great tips to get you started — starting with your planning:
Source: Purdue
1.) Plan Ahead
So, if you don’t know where you’re going with your writing, then your readers don’t stand a chance. Before you sit down and … read more …
(No Ratings Yet)Top Firms Expected To Spend More On Internet Marketing in 2009
A new study finds that Internet marketing in the business world is becoming more prevalent.
CMO’s (Chief Marketing Officers) of large corporations are beginning to recognize the importance of Internet marketing and are adjusting their budgets accordingly, reports UK-based Epiphany Solutions.
More than half of the largest corporations in the US and the UK are planning on making online medium spending the biggest part of their ad spend budget in 2009. According to a recent survey conducted by TNS Media Intelligence, while traditional US ad spending may be declining, online advertising spending is steadily increasing—8% more than last year.
Dean DeBlase of TNS told Epiphany that “it appears marketers are placing an emphasis upon enhanced efficiencies for their brands and the ability to engage with well-defined audiences to ensure even greater return on investment.”
(No Ratings Yet)If Google Recommends Using Sitemaps - Should You?
Before we begin - What is a Sitemap?
Google first introduced Sitemaps in June 2005 so web publishers could publish lists of links from their sites. Shortly afterward, MSN and Yahoo announced joint support for the Sitemaps protocol along with Google. Sitemaps are now everywhere on the net, not just on the corporate business site.
So, a Sitemap is an XML file that lists all the URLs of your website with additional metadata about each URL. It is useful for every site (or blog) to have a sitemap because it is an easy way to keep the search engines informed on when a page was last updated, how often it is updated, and how important it is in relation to the other URLs of your site.
What are the Benefits of a Sitemap?
1. Sitemaps make your site more search engine friendly.
The more friendly your site is to the search engines, the more visible your site becomes. When you create new content, the search engine crawlers (also known as “spiders”) can discover that content more rapidly through the use of a sitemap.
2. Sitemaps help make your bandwidth usage more efficient.
When new content is created, search engines can find it more rapidly with a Sitemap and avoid having to crawl unchanged pages. This is especially useful for large sites with dynamic content. Search engine spiders will be able to quickly discover what is new and what hasn’t changed without scanning thousands of pages.
3. Help index large sites.
For sites that have a large archive or a database of resources, it is sometimes very difficult to return quality search results for deep pages. If your pages are not well linked to one another, or your site uses AJAX or Flash that is not visible to the search engines, a Sitemap will help the search engines find the content.
4. Find new sites sooner.
If your site is new and has few links to it, submitting a Sitemap will help the search engines discover it faster.
Please note that submitting and/or using a Sitemap does not guarantee inclusion in any search engine, it is just a way to help the web crawlers find all your site pages.
But - this is only the beginning. What types of tools, process can you use - if you decide to utilize these options?
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