Entries from September 2007

Blogging is Dumb, Stupid and Successful

Most blogs are dumb, even the successful ones. The ones about blogging. This isn’t because the writers of those blogs are dumb, they are very intelligent. It’s the readers, the ones who want to scan not to read, not to study, not to ingest. The ones who want another quick fix trick, before they [...]

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What ten months of blogging looks like

One minute you’re a failed blackhat, fat bloke with an addiction to Chile Doritos and Dr Pepper, the next you are a seo blog maniac, linkbaiting writing machine with an addiction to chile Doritos and Dr Pepper.
To be honest, I feel like I make it up as I go along. Thanks for spending the time [...]

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29 reasons you need to stop blogging right now

You need to stop blogging right now if you think:
1. Blogging is easy
2. All I need to do is scrape content
3. Your best way of getting backlinks is to trawl the dofollow lists
4. You don’t need to study blogging or learn much about the technique
5. Starting a blog in the “How to make money” niche [...]

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How to become a success in online networking part one

My previous post, How to make a blogger notice you had some really good comments that I learned from. And it sparked off a few thoughts.
Success is about attitude, not about technique.
Which is why reading a bunch of business books will not make you a great business man, but adopting the correct attitude might.
This applies [...]

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Blog Rush or just Blog Mush?

Blogrush Testing and Tracking (Updated - John Reese Quote) This is a must read, as is all of Andy Beard’s blog
So there is a lot of yack about Blog Rush. I personally have not had what I would describe as a blog rush. Hype of the next big thing. I come down on the hype [...]

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How to make a blogger notice you

So you want to make a bit of a splash in your space and want one of the authority blogs within your space to notice you. You may want this for a number of reasons.

A joint venture
Requesting a link
Advice
Request for mentoring
Asking for a review

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Stumbleupon list of articles

Stumbleupon is one of my favourite social media sites at the moment, both for discovering new stuff and submitting my own blog posts. Here are a bunch of Stumbleupon articles I have collected on the way.
muhammadsaleem.com
5,000 stumbles and counting
10e20
Google Ads Now On Stumbleupon
Google says Stumble This!
StumbleUpon Gets Sold to eBay - Initial Community Reactions Aren?t [...]

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The two secrets of social media sweetness

I want to do a real quick post because it’s on my mind, I have no time and I want to see if I can.
I will tell you the two secrets soon, and I know you will think, “duh”. But that’s the point, success on social media is “duh” easy. You simply have to have [...]

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How many digg votes does it take to get to the front page?

For muhammad saleem it seems harder and harder to break a story on to the front page. It’s like not all diggers are created equal. His crime? People like what he submits. It seems people like the stuff he submits so much he is given a handicap.
But why?

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Absolutely not safe for work, small children and Republicans

It’s been about 28 years since I remember being huddled around a Medium Wave radio with my Brother and Sister, listening to how the Sex Pistols had been goaded into saying naughty words live on TV by some drunk bloke in a suit and syrup.
And thus was vomited into the national consciousness the often [...]

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