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WordTracker is Offering a Free 7-Days Trial

If you always wanted to know what those professional keyword research tools have to to offer, now is the time. The guys from WordTracker emailed me today to let me know that they are offering a 7-days free trial to the complete version of their service. Do I think that everyone should be doing keyword research? Absolutely. Here is an example of why it is useful. Suppose your blog is about golf (the sport). After a while you will be looking for ideas to write about. What if you could start that brainstorming process by actually taking a look at what people are searching for inside your niche? With a keyword research tool, you would get a pretty long list of highly search keywords for whatever topic or niche you want. Below you will find an example when I researched for “golf.” Now there are also good and free keyword research tools out there that would give you this information, so you need to evaluate by yourself if you need a professional solution or not. Read more

May 2008 Most Popular Articles

Below you will find the most popular posts on this blog during the past month. Check them out if you missed any.

• Why You Must be the First, in Google’s Search Results at Least!: People always say that you need to be in the first page of results in Google if you want to receive clicks, right? Well, this will hurt, but the reality is that merely being in the first page is not enough.
• Are You Familiar with HTML and CSS? Six Reasons Why You Should Invest the Time to Learn: I had been involved with web design for a few years before I ever started blogging. In my opinion, being able to work with the code of a blog is a huge advantage that many bloggers choose not to pursue.
• Video Blog Review 1 - FavBrowser.com: On this first blog review I will cover the design and layout aspects of FavBrowser.com, a blog coming from one of our readers (I asked his permission to review it).
• Google Indexing Scrapers First?: This made me curious and went to check for myself. The first thing I wanted to know was if my post was indexed already by Google or not. I copied one sentence from the post and search it in Google, with quotation marks to find only exact matches.
• Poll: What is Your Favorite Browser?: Anyway all this browser thinking got me curious about what browser you guys use. I know that many of you will need to use more than for work purposes (cross browser testing, Internet Explorer applications, etc), but what is your favorite browser for surfing the web, blogging and similar?
• Website Traffic Series Part 6: Using Forum Signatures: Time to analyze another traffic generation strategy: using forum signatures. At the bottom of this post you will find links to all the previous parts on the series, and stay tuned for future ones, we are going to cover literally all of them!
• Star Trek Blogging: The Klingon Way: In the world of Star Trek, Klingons are known as a warrior people, formidable in battle, fierce in their passions, and concerned with honor above all. But the life of a Klingon has lessons for humans, even for that sedentary class known as bloggers. Here are three proverbs that can help you learn to blog the Klingon way.
• DarkZen WordPress Theme Released: Most of our previous WordPress themes used light or vivid colors, so I thought that a darker design was needed on the portfolio. DarkZen comes with a dark header and a gray background, packed on a clean and minimalist design.

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Google AdSense: Coming To A Feedburner Feed Near Your Soon

Finally Google will start rolling AdSense into Feedburner feeds. I guess the integration process was not that easy, given the time it took them after the acquisition. Regardless, this is good news for all webmasters and bloggers alike. Here is what they said on their blog:

We’ve been hinting at this for awhile, but it’s finally time to spill the beans: Starting next week, we’ll be rolling out AdSense for feeds to a small group of publishers, in anticipation of a full launch to all FeedBurner and AdSense publishers “coming soon”. If you start seeing “Ads by Google” on an ad in a feed somewhere, that’d be us.

Publishers that are already part of the FAN (Feedburner Advertising Network) will keep serving CPM ads, while having AdSense ads to fill the remaining inventory. Definitely another source of income to be considered by most bloggers out there. What do you think? Read more

Funny and Smart Uses of Google AdWords

The Royal Pingdom blog create a nice compilation with funny and smart uses of Google AdSense. I had seen some of those in the past, but not all of them. The ASCI art ads are particularly interesting, and the car rental company that came up with the idea claimed that the click-through rate increased by 47%… Last year we had also seen John Chow sending text messages to specific bloggers using AdWords (read How To Use Site-Targeted Google AdWords for more info on that). Do you remember any other clever use of this advertising tool? Read more

Google Sites Is Live

Google has finally launched their web application that allows you to build websites using an easy to use interface. Now you can blog, create sites, share platforms, documents and more all from the convenient location of Google Sites. Check out the short video below and go grab your very own Google URL while they are still available. If you are already a Google member, then creating your first Google Site will be quick and easy. Here is what you can do: Read more

Google on IR

Thoughts on Google's treatment of CSS Image Replacement techniques. Links to some Google FAQ's.

Link Tips: May 18 2008

Some interesting links for this Sunday. I am aware that the Blogging Boost one is not working at the moment. It should be just a quick downtime on that blog, so check it out within a couple of hours.

• Google’s Take on Web Spam: What does Google consider web spam? Check out this video from Matt Cutts to find it out.
• Blogging Boost: If you have no money or experience to start a blog, Alan Johnson is willing to help it out. He will cover all the initial expenses to get you rolling, you just need to write the content.
• Comment Info Plugin: Kevin discovered a nice WordPress plugin that gives you a bunch of information for all your commenters.
• 100 Web Accessibility Resources: If you are trying to make your website or blog more accessible, look no further than this compilation with 100 tools, tips and tutorials.
• How Will Web 3.0 Work?: We have not surpassed the Web 2.0 hype yet and people are already talking about Web 3.0… anyway if you want to know what the buzz is all about, this is a good start.

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Your Favorite Website Has No RSS Feed? Not a Problem!

This week a came cross an interesting tool called Page2RSS. Basically they will create an RSS feed for static websites, checking it every day for new content, and sending the updates to you whenever they occur. Not too excited? Well, there are several things you could monitor with this tool. Check out the RSS feed for Google.com for instance, it will show you whenever they have a new message displayed on the homepage, or whenever they have a new logo to celebrate a holiday or event. Pretty cool huh? Sponsor: Monetize your traffic! Join Neverblue Ads and access 1000's of high quality, high converting offers. Read more

Increase Your Google Juice

If you are at all interested in strengthening your position with Google, then you can do many things that will help you to do so. The first port of call is always on page SEO, where you optimize your WordPress theme with some SEO tips to get noticed better by the search engines. The next step is to use keywords in your posts if you target a good ranking with Google. While it is easy to rank in top spots within hours/days of your post going live, most of the time your ranking will drop after a short while making way to newer posts that target the same keyword. The only way you can hold your rankings is when either:

• there isn’t much competition targeting the same keyword/market
• or your blog has become an authority in your niche

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Meet Your Commenters WordPress Plugin

As bloggers we all love to get as many comments as we can. After all, having an active community of commenters gives us a sense of achievement. With the Meet Your Commenters Plugin you can now connect even more with the people who comment on your blog by showing you some “insider” information within your dashboard about them. The Plugin works with the help of the Google Social Graph API. When visitors leave a comment on your site they leave more info than you think and with the help of this Plugin you can connect through social networks where information is provided all through your dashboard. Read more

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