77 Ways to Get Traffic - Free pdf

Allan Gardyne, CEO of AssociatePrograms.com, offers a free pdf detailing 77 ways to get traffic to your sites:

http://www.associateprograms.com/free-downloads/77ways.pdf

Certainly useful food for thought.

APIs for Mashups

If you are keen on building that super new Ajax powered Web 2.0 site, you'll want to visit programmableweb.com, which keeps tracks on all the various web APIs available for you to do your thing with. The site focuses on mashups and the web as a platform.

Windows Vista Customer Preview Available

Register in the Windows Vista Customer Preview Program and you can try out the very latest Windows Vista RC1 release, as being used by the Microsoft build testers. Neowin.net has the details:

http://www.neowin.net/index.php?act=view&id=34946

Top 10 Ways to Make Money Online

A podcast in which ShoeMoney discusses the Top 10 Ways to Make Money Online. Shoemoney dissects an article from a UK web design magazine and gives his feelings on their suggestions. There are plenty of useful comments for novices and experts alike:

http://www.shoemoney.com/2006/09/06/
net-income-season-1-episode-12-podcast-posted/

Technorati Tag: Make Money Online

del.icio.us is Tasty

We recently got around to using del.icio.us, the social bookmarking site, and have to say we think it's pretty cool. We still haven't discovered all its cool features, but now we can just read David Brunelle's blog post because he gives a great summary of them.

Spookily enough, just as we were doing this, up popped a message telling us our Google toolbar had been updated with a Google Bookmarks button ... so del.icio.us obviously has obviously been on the Googlers' minds too.

Is SEO for affiliate sites dead?

Super Aff asks the question:

http://superaff.com/archives/2006/09/05/
is-seo-for-affiliate-product-sites-dead/

The article has a useful overview of what types of affiliate sites are still managing to rank in the search engines.

Understand Google Crawl Dates

Matt Cutts has a video explaining the meaning of the crawl dates shown in the Google cache:

http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/
video-crawl-dates-in-the-google-cache/

Marketing Morality Discussed by Seth Godin

Seth Godin says that marketers must take responsibility for the effects of their marketing efforts:

http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/
2006/08/marketing_moral.html

Technorati Tag: marketing

Local Video Ads from Everyone?

US start up turnhere.com hopes that in future everyone will have their own video ad. It's slogan is "Short Films, Cool Places", and it's busy making them, with the hope that it can syndicate them out. In our view, video is the way the web will eventually go, where everyone can have their own "TV station". The Mercury news has an article on the company:

http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/15441702.htm

Article Writing Works

Says Matt DeAngelis of affiliateblog.com, who gives a good overview of the techniques at:

http://www.affiliateblog.com/2006/04/
how-i-quadrupled-my-daily-visitor-count-
in-one-month-total-cost-twenty-bucks/

Will Big Retailers Squeeze Out PPC Affiliates

Matt DeAngelis discusses it at affiliateblog.com:

http://www.affiliateblog.com/2006/05/
are-the-big-retailers-using-search-marketing-
to-squeeze-out-affiliates/

Site for Web Entrepreneurs

thinkvitamin.com should be of interest to any web entrepreneurs out there.

We found it through social bookmarking site del.icio.us, which we've just started using and have to say are finding very useful for finding cool stuff.

What is Link Bait?

Link bait is the term used to describe web content that will make people link to you and Search Engine Watch has a nice overview. If you are a site owner, think about the link bait content you can create in your area - link bait will be a good friend. Simple lists of high quality information work particularly well, an example of this being our search engine optimisation page at WebRef.eu.

Technorati Tag: Link Bait

Sources of Free Reusable Media for Your Sites

Lifehacker has a round up of sources of free stock photos, music and video etc made available through the Creative Commons licence:

http://www.lifehacker.com/software/creative-commons/
geek-to-live-6-ways-to-find-reusable-media-197538.php

Thoughts on YouTube

SEO specialist Bruce Clay airs his thoughts on YouTube, and whether it could transform itself into a social networking site and knock Myspace off the top:

http://www.bruceclay.com/blog/
archives/2006/08/will_youtube_cr.html

Should TV Execs Be Worried About Google

When it comes to the migration of TV to the web, Google is set fair as a content connector rather than a content provider. Should TV execs regard Google as a threat, or should they be more worried about the democratization of content creation as evidenced by YouTube? Out Of My Gord airs his views on this.

Keywords in File Names and urls Do Help

Matt Cutts has advised on his blog that having keywords in file names and urls does help Google judge the quality of a page. The Search Engine Roundtable blog has the quotes:

http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/006049.html

We always use keywords in our file names, currently using dash separation as follows:

keyword1-keyword2-keyword3.htm

With domain names, we usually think about buying the non-dash-separated domain name first, and then think about the dash separated version as a "nice to have" afterwards.

Blogging Jobs

Blogging jobs are now becoming increasingly common, and the blog at performancing.com regularly covers blogging job opportunities and gives advice on blogging as a career.

Watch Live TV on the Net

There are now a number of sites where you can watch live TV on the net. Jeff Pulver has a round up:

http://pulverblog.pulver.com/archives/005121.html

Get Paid to Podcast

Create a show for talkshoe.com and upload it and get $5. Frank Barnako has more details:

http://blogs.marketwatch.com/barnako/
2006/08/pay_the_podcast.html

Myspace Driving More Retail Traffic than MSN Search

As revealed by Techcrunch:

http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/08/31/
myspace-driving-more-online-retail-than-msn-search-2/