Link & relationship building: Blogging about other blogs

on August 13th, 2008

I surprised myself the other day writing a post about another blog. Somehow I felt vaguely embarassed about it. I did it because I genuinely thought they had great content that I just had to share, but it wasn’t honest work. It was too easy. Easy to write the post – I didn’t have to [...]

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35 Follow me on Twitter badges / buttons

on August 4th, 2008

Right click and save. Use as badges for your Twitter links. They have the same width as my IFollow badges, so that you can use them one under the other. PLEASE SAVE THE IMAGES ON YOUR DESKTOP AND UPLOAD THEM TO YOUR SERVER. DO NOT LINK TO THEM FROM HERE. They will not display – [...]

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U Comment, I Follow badges – DoFollow blogs unite!

on August 3rd, 2008

Right click and save. Also see the “Follow me on Twitter” badges. And as usual, comments are welcome, and sphinns very much appreciated. If you are after any particular colour comment below and I’ll try to upload it.

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YOU are running for president!

on July 15th, 2008

Speaking of reputation management, a viral phenomenon is taking the internet by storm – a campaign customised with the victim’s name.

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Online Reputation Management experiment – muscling in on page one

on July 14th, 2008

This is an ongoing experiment with free PR distribution engines and bookmarking/sharing websites in an attempt to take over page 1 of Google Australia for a given keyword – i.e. my brand. Ongoing results to be posted daily.

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Google’s new AdWords Keyword Tool: top 10 applications

on July 13th, 2008

So far, it seems the new AdWords Keyword Tool shapes up to be the most exciting event of my month. I can already hear people say I must have a sad life, but hear me out. In a spectacular move that will be a second blow to Hitwise’s business model, Google has finally taken pity [...]

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Google Trends for Websites exposes your ranking and traffic data

on July 6th, 2008

On June 2008 Google cheerfully announced a new feature of Google Trends: “Today, we add a new layer to Trends with Google Trends for Websites, a fun tool that gives you a view of how popular your favorite websites are, including your own! It also compares and ranks site visitation across geographies, and related websites [...]

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Advanced Web Ranking

on July 4th, 2008

I rather have to write about this one, since: a) I have used it for a long time and seen it evolve and improve; b) it actually runs on Macs and c) it seems to have been developed by a Romanian company and any Romanian achievement still makes me proud. What it is: Advanced Web [...]