I keep finding a ton of cool articles about linkbait and social media optimization. I thought I would list the best ones here to save you the trouble of finding them. Are you Linkbaiting the right audience? by Eric Ward on Searchengineland.com Forget ABCs – The Social Media Alphabet Is DNRS Neil Patel on Searchengineland.com [...]

With reluctance I have taken down the Mybloglog widget due to it taking an enormous time to load and slowing down the whole site. Hopefully they will nip down to Bestbuy and buy a few more servers. I will put the widget back as soon as the treacle problem has been sorted out. I have [...]

I read a ton of SEO blogs each day, you learn that there are some blogs simply blogging about what other blogs have wrote, and there are other blogs which produce unique, intelligent, useful information. One of them is Toprankblog.com by Lee Odden. I’m breaking my golding rule which is not to blog about what [...]

I am old enough to remember vinyl LPs. We would stack 45′s on the top of the cradle and it would automatically drop the single onto the turntable after each one finished. At the time we were in awe of the technology. At the time word was travelling around the playground – I realise now [...]

Rob over at yackyack has been busy putting some interesting tools together for Mybloglog users. Although in his words it’s “pretty basic”, he is going to be upgrading the stat system over time. I like what he is doing with it and his system is one to watch out for. Yackyack stats I see more [...]

David Ogilvy, the writer of Confessions of an Advertising Man. Wrote about a bet between George Dyer and Max Hart. Dyer bet Hart he could write a newspaper page of solid type and Hart would read every word of it. The bet stemmed from an arguement over long copy vs short copy. The bet was [...]

My mantra is think like the Economist but write like the National Enquirer. A headline must stop people in their tracks. In the world of multi tasking, multi media, multiple ways for people to be distracted, a title must absolutely grab peoples attention, stop them cold, dead in their tracks to bring 100% focus to [...]