Webmaster Journey

SEOish wrote an article with 7 experts sharing their views on how to market a website with only $100 limited budget.

Worth a read.

Google Trends launched its new product - Google Hot Trends. According to Aaron Wall, it shows the top 100 fastest growing keywords by date. Certainly an interesting tool for bloggers who strive for the latest buzz and news.

Jeremy (Shoemoney) made a video on Adsense Arbitrage…

Read a short story from Darren about How much does fresh content matter in SEO… reminded me of a domain which I have just renewed 2 days ago.

The domain is used for a soccer blog which went hiatus for more than half a year. Funny thing is despite not being updated all this while… the visits keep rising and the only source of traffic is from various search engines. So I guess frequent update doesn’t matter too much in SEO.

The worth thinking part for me is what to do with that website as it is showing more and more potential to be a decent money earner. I don’t really have the time to maintain another blog at the moment… perhaps I should sell it to some interesting party instead.

Top 20 Largest Social Bookmarking Sites May 2007 from ebizmba.com.

John Scott (V7N) on link building, with some innovative ideas that should fit the current search engine algorithm. Simply make some comparisons with his idea and the dominance of Wikipedia on search engine results these days, you can find that Scott has some good points here…

1. Buy links from websites which exercise editorial integrity.
2. Vary Your Anchor Text
3. Buy Non-Keyword Links
4. Avoid Site-wide Links
5. PageRank Zero Can Pass Link Weight
6. Avoid Automated Link Spamming
7. Image Links And ALT Text
8. A Link On A Page Is Not The Same As A Link On A Page
9. Do NOT Rent Links
10. Google Tells You Where To Get Links

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Inside Adsenes made a clarification on accidental clicks.

It’s still ok to integrate ad units and link units with page content or navigation, in order to offer readers relevant ads in addition to the content they normally see.

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Paula Neal Mooney has compiled a list of blogging salary. It’s not a good list really, untrustable facts and lots of misses here and there… but hey, what a great linkbaiting effort, Paula even got a mention from Problogger.