How to Create Your Own Stripe Ad For Your Blog Or Website

March 2, 2008

Stripe ads are a neat way to extend screen real estate to create additional advertising room. They are extremely popular with high traffic websites and are extremely visible to the website visitor since they are the first thing the visitor sees on the site. A stripe ad is a strip of highlighted ad adspace right [...]

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Ethical or Unethical–Using Multiple Author Aliases On Your Blog

December 13, 2007

So you have a newsy blog. You want to get into Google News. You post regularly. Google News only accepts quality blogs with multiple authors. Why not create multiple aliases even though you are the only blogger. Is that ethical?

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Why Google Needs To Use Rel=”Paid” Instead Of Rel=”Nofollow”

November 21, 2007

Rel=”nofollow” was first introduced by the three major search engines (Google, Yahoo and MSN) in May 2005 as an answer to blog comment spam and other spamdexing techniques utilizing unauthorized link dropping. Since then, Google has tried to repurpose the rel=”nofollow” as a way to identify and de-influence the effects of paid links. Paid links [...]

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How To Create Viral Content For Your Blog On Demand Using These Two Simple Steps

September 22, 2007

It hasn’t gotten a lot of attention yet for a number of reasons–off-topic for this blog, etc. While the content was off-topic, the process for creating that content was very, very on-topic…. Then, the post becomes very relevant in terms of its content–a comprehensive list of posts in the universe that reveals all the secrets of the people we entrust with our money and secrets.And here comes the good part: You can use the same process that I used to create that list to create a viral content for your blog on demand.The content for the “Would You Still Trust These People” post was discovered in less than one second.

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Would You Still Trust These People If You Knew These Secrets?

September 21, 2007

Can you, my loyal reader, indulge me and see if you think this list is helpful? Whether it is or not, would you let me know? Feel free to leave a comment. Thanks in advance! 1,019 Things You Wished You Knew About Your… Business, Money and Finance: 401(k) Provider Accountant Auto-Insurer Banker Broker CFO (Chief [...]

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