Just so you can get more fully into the Social media loop, and take advantage of all those now abundant opportunities to put your stuff in front of all kinds of surfers, here’s a great overview of that.

Earlier this week I ran a post on an excellent article I found on successful blog launches. Yet, their comments on seeding your posts to bring in traffic from social book marking sites was so great, I decided to pull it out and run it right here. (You really need to read this launch article if you haven’t – it rocks!)

17 Sources for Content Inspiration

Search Engine Friendly Copywriting - What Does 'Write Naturally' Mean for SEO?

In looking over my eZines for the past few months I noticed I've covered a whole raft of topics related to the *Mindset* of marketing yourself: Paradigms, perspectives, fearlessness, trust, risk, etc. All of these are incredibly important.

But so are marketing tactics.

So for a few issues I'm going to be sharing some of the most effective marketing tactics that I've learned over the years.

As blogs become more important sources of information and competition for users’ time and attention against mainstream media, many marketers and public relations practitioners continue to stumble about the blogosphere like a bull in a china shop.

Online Marketing Blog gets about 5-10 pitches per week on average, which provides more than enough of a sample on how blogs are getting pitched these days. What’s the verdict? It doesn’t look good.

A few of these pitches are right on or just lucky. Many are simply crap. Some come from friends but never make it to a post. Some are from complete strangers, but are very relevant and get in. Some are borderline where I’m interested, yet I never hear from that company again.

Any business, online or offline, that wouldn’t require any initial cash layout, would be a win-win situation.

This is what makes affiliate programs so much enticing. An affiliate program allows the affiliate marketer to act as a middleman between the consumer and the merchant, without having to add anything to the price of the product. The affiliate marketer is given a commission for every successful sale, and these percentages can be a substantial sum.

These ping addresses have been gathered from a number of different places on the web as well as my trawling of the relevant sites. Most have been checked recently but this is an ongoing process and I will update the list as I find new ones or changes.

Last updated: 6th October 2006

You're probably familiar with optical illusions.

There are numerous books and sites showing pictures that can be seen in a variety of ways. One famous image looks like an old woman -- until you stare a little longer and suddenly see the profile of a young woman in the same image.

Something similar can happen with words. After all, words are images, too. They are subject to the blind spots in our brains. For proof, read the following.

If you know nothing about HTML, this is where you start

Eleven Guidelines to Successful URLs





1. Describe Your Content
   An obvious URL is a great URL. If a user can look at the Address bar (or a pasted link) and make an accurate guess about the content of the page before ever reaching it, you've done your job. These URLs get pasted, shared, emailed, written down, and yes, even recognized by the engines.