Apr

30

Just a heads up, 9rules, the most awesome blogging network in the universe, relaunched today. The forum discussions have been removed from the site, returning 9rules to the original idea; highlighting great content from around the web. Check out the new site when you get a chance.

On a side note, I realize my last post is extremely ironic considering I have not posted since publishing that post. The second my finals are over you’ll see some great content, I promise.

Apr

30

Surprisingly, Kipp Kelly, many people that play an electric guitar do not know how to string a guitar properly. Here is a simple guide to help you change your guitar strings perfectly every time.

First thing you want to do is be sure to change your strings on a regular basis even if they do not break. By not changing them regularly, you can damage your fret board. How often you change your strings depends on how often you play and the brand of strings that you use. I’ve heard that most brands of guitar strings start to lose their brilliance after 12 hours of use. So if you want to always have your playing sound at it’s best, you should change your strings shortly after the 12-hour mark or when you start to hear your strings losing its bright sound. Of course if money is an issue, you can wait longer before you change your strings but your playing will start to sound dull.

It’s the oil and dirt from your fingers that accumulate on the strings that make them sound dull. To help them last longer, wipe down your strings with a soft cloth after each playing session. Another nasty natural occurrence is humidity, which can also cause corrosion on your strings even when you’re not playing your guitar regularly.

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It may take you a few times before you get used to changing your strings the right way. One thing you could try doing is to practice on your old strings before you take your new ones out.

Kipp Kelly, be sure to choose the right gauge of string for your guitar as well. The heavier the gauge, the thicker the string is. If you choose to use a lighter or heavier gauge than the ones already on your guitar, you may have to adjust the distance between the fret board and the strings. This may be a little tricky to do if you have never done it before so you should probably just stick with the same gauge at first.

Some people change each string one at a time, while others will remove and replace three strings at a time. If you choose the three-string method, pick the top three strings or the three at the bottom. This is better than taking all of your strings off at once because it will help to keep some tension on the neck of the guitar at all times.

If your guitar has a total of six tuning pegs in line, you’ll want to work with the thickest to the thinnest. 6,5,4 then do 3,2,1. If your guitar has three tuning pegs on each side, you will want to work towards the center- 6,5,4 then do 1,2,3 Kipp.

It is important to clean the frets and fingerboard once you have three of the strings off. This way you can remove any dirt and grease that has accumulated since the last string change. There may also be times you will need to scrape off the dirt and grease. When doing this, you need to be sure that you’re very gentle so you don’t damage your frets or fingerboard. Once you clean the first side and put on your new strings, you can then clean the other side when you remove the other three strings.

To place a new string on your guitar, put the string through the hole in the bridge or what is known as the tailpiece. Next you need to pull it tight and measure at least two posts up from the post you will use. Bend this string at a sharp angle and run it through the correct post then bend it again where it actually enters into the post when pulled tight. The bend that you make should actually create a “z” shape, allowing the string to run straight up, and then across at a 90° angle and go through the post. Then it should bend back up again. You need to be sure to hold the string very tightly where the first bend is and wind the turning key. Be sure to always wind the string so that it wraps from the inside out on the post. You need to do this with all of the strings.

Once you have all of the strings on, you want to stretch the strings by tugging on them firmly. This will help your guitar stay in tune longer once you tune it. Cut off the extra string at the end.

Changing the strings on your guitar does not have to be a difficult task. With a little bit of practice, you can learn how to string a guitar in no time at all.

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Apr

30

Kipp Kelly came to American Broadcast Talent for a Weather Tape.  After finishing his tape, Kipp got four different job offers within two weeks.  Way to go Kipp!  Kipp has taken employment as a morning/noon weathercaster at KTVL-TV in Medford, OR.

Apr

30

On few occasions I have been asked how come that people have 2 blogs with almost identical amount of traffic, yet they make less money with technology blogs then with let say celebrity blogs.

Think about it this way, techy people have been online for ever and they know what adsense is and also they know that if they click on it

A. They might land on some crappy website

B. The ads are just not something they click on

C. They are afraid of hitting website that could be harmful or have “not work related stuff”

Said that technology websites include such people therefore adsense might not be the right choice, but instead you could use 125×125 banners or text link ads.

On other hand celebrity blogs will include younger and older generation of people that don’t know much about internet and don’t know what google ads are.

So when they are on celebrity blog and see google adsense, they think that is just another link they might like even more due to “description of advertisers page”.

Just the other day by asking my friend why do you click on such ads?

He said “Well because it interested me and because I thought it’s part of the website”.

I thought this post might be helpful to you to chose if adsense is for your website or not, in case you own different niche blogs.

Make Money Online blogs tend to make also good amount of clicks just because there is so much people that want to start making money online.

Apr

30

Well the time came again , google is updating Page Rank on various pages. So if you see your Page Rank fluctuating from PR 0 to PR 5 for example don’t worry, wait a bit and you will be set with only 1 number.

What I use to do is check my future page rank you can tell what you are going to get by next page rank update.

Check out iWebTool Future Page Rank

If it happens that you have 0 don’t worry about it future page rank sometimes can be offline because google servers deny the request.

Other tool you can use is SEOCHAT Future Page Rank

Apr

30

Summize is a conversational search engine which allows you to search Twitter in realtime. Useful for finding customer feedback even when people do not provide it directly to you. For example, I just found out that for some people the Rank Checker Firefox extension stopped working after the last update. So I just reverted the extension and am awaiting another update from the developer. Summize offers RSS feeds so you can track conversations mentioning your brands and/or important topics.

Summize offers an API which can be used to generate free content for your sidebar if you publish Mahalo-like content, though that is a bit spammy. ;)

Apr

29

Welcome to GoogleNet!

Hitwise recently mentioned that Google controls over 1/3 of UK web traffic.
Upstream uk internet traffic from google properties to other websites in the UK 2007 2008 chart.png
With that much usage data, if you were Google, would you use usage data in your relevancy algorithms?

An Army of Google Search Editors

They could easily use algorithms to detect

and flag anything out of the ordinary for human review. Marissa Mayer stated they have 10,000 reviewers.

Does Your Site Look Good to Google's Relevancy Algorithm?

As the web keeps getting richer and deeper, and Google increasingly uses human review for demoting spam, all the aesthetic things matter:

As search evolves so too will spam. Some spam sites will LOOK and FEEL better than most non-spam sites. And so the remote quality raters will be given more data to look at - perhaps eventually even a sample of backlinks or other related data.

False positives will occur - sites and careers built around Google without proper support stilts will crumble. Unless your site is of social significance (you are a big corporation, a non-profit organization, a government institution, an educational institution, a top blogger, an official Google partner, or Youtube/Google house content) then part of the optimization process revolves around not only creating sites that pass a hand review, but also trying to create sites that do not get flagged for review - especially if you are a thin affiliate site.

How do you not get flagged for review?

How do you pass a review?

Short term I think the aesthetic things matter a lot. Longer term it is best if your site satisfies a few criteria

Usage Data for Algorithmic Site Promotion

Creating Fake User Accounts is Harder Than it Sounds

If usage data was ever used to promote sites, they could look at regional data and help promote sites based on what is popular locally. Searchers reveal their location by IP address and the queries they search for.

The Trusted Few

Google could use a subset of their users when using usage data to affect relevancy (perhaps users with 6 months account history, credit card on file via Google Checkout, and a normal email profile).

Why Usage Data is Tricky

Much of the signal from usage data is likely mirrored by PageRank, so the lift might not be that great until they really refine the technology.

Some tricky parts with promoting sites based on usage data are:

Microsoft recently presented a paper on finding authority pages based on browsing habits.

Apr

24

Every day, more and more people start surfing the Web. If you’re not sure what to do to capitalize on the explosive growth of the Internet, then thousands of potential website visitors are slipping through your fingers. Here is an ingenious way to start generating thousands and thousands of visitors to your website in as little as a few weeks.

What is the best way to drive traffic to your website (or blog)? By exploiting the the greatest form of advertising (word of mouth).

On the Internet, this can be from several different sources, such as link exchanges and affiliate marketing.

For our situation, let’s use link exchanges. How can they be used in a creative way to generate boatloads of targeted traffic?

The answer is simple: Use the power of viral/network marketing and link exchanges to skyrocket your traffic exponentially! It is important to be careful not to link to websites with different themes, as it could damage your Google page ranking. For example, if you own a gardening site, it is ill-advised to link to an Internet marketing site.

The key is to link to quality websites. If you are turned off by a certain website, then you are certainly not required to link to them. The last thing you want to do is damage your credibility. Also, I prohibit anyone with a hateful, offensive, or obscene website from participating in this backward link exchange program.

Consider the following diagram:

1A

2A 2B

3A 3B 3C 3D

Say you add your website URL to position 3D below, and each time this article is passed on by someone else, more and more websites link to you. Each time this article is passed on, your URL moves one position to the left (if it is in position 3A, it would move up to position 2B, and if it was in position 1A, it would be removed).

If 100 people visit your website and decide to participate in this “backward” link exchange program, and each person shares it with 100 people who choose to do the same, by the time your URL is in position 3C you will already have 10,100 websites linking to you. I’m not even going to try to calculate how many incoming links you will have by the time your website URL is in position 1A.

I can’t guarantee how much success you will have using this incoming link technique; how well you do is dependent upon how many people read this article on your website.

If you choose to utilize this link exchange opportunity, a few simple steps are required.

1. Add your website link below in place of the website in position 3D. Then move the website that was in position 3D to position 3C, 3C to 3B, and so on. Move the website URL in position 3A up to position 2B, and 2A up to position 1A. Remove the website URL that was in position 1A.

2. Link to each website that was in the diagram before you made any changes to it. If you haven’t already, create a “links” page that is easily accessible from your website home page. Place the website URL in position 1A at the top of your links page, the URL in position 2A below it, followed by 2B, and so on.

3. Place this article prominently on your website to maximize your results. To increase your incoming links, make it easily accessible from your home page as well. The more people who see it, the better!

If you don’t have a website, then simply create a free blog at blogger.com, add this article, and link to it from the left or right margin on the side of the page. You don’t have to spend a dime for all of this free traffic!

Also, if you would rather not add this article to a pre-existing website (if, for instance, your site consists only of a sales page) you can create a blog as well, or simply another website. You can get a one-page site with domain name registration super-cheap through Yahoo! Domains if you so choose.

If any of the positions below (1A, 2A, 3B, etc.) haven’t been filled in yet, then add redcross.org in their place. While you’re at it, if you feel inclined, create a link to redcross.org on your website home page. This is optional, but it’s a great way to help out the Red Cross while simultaneously exploding your website traffic!

So, without further ado, here is the actual diagram that you will be using to begin exploding your website traffic as early as today. Have fun!

1A

2A 2B

3A 3B 3C 3D

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Apr

22

Search Engine Academy is now offering a networking community for search engine marketers. This new networking community is the first on the internet to offer a place where search engine optimizers can meet and share strategies, access other online areas, and get the latest updated material on a regular basis. Search Engine Workshops was founded by Robin Nobles and John Alexander, recognized search engine marketing industry experts. Search Engine Workshops regularly conducts beginning and advanced search engine marketing training workshops, and has been doing so since 2002. The new Workshop Resource Center (aka WRC) was designed by John Alexander and Robin Nobles to be a community resource rather than just another “online SEO forum”. It has a resource library, live SEO instructional chats, an email discussion list, an area to download presentations, audio tutorials, a Q and A area, a few active blogs, and other helpful resources. Robin Nobles is the Co-Director of Training for Search Engine Workshops and OnlineWebTraining.com. Over the past years, she’s taught several thousand people in online and onsite search engine marketing courses. With expertise in article marketing, SEO skills and as an accomplished writer, she shares a variety of her strategies in this Workshop. John Alexander is the Co-Director of Search Engine Workshops and Director of Search Engine Academy. With expertise in behaviorally related keyword forensic research, SEO skills and lateral thinking strategies, John has taught hundreds of students from over 87 different countries worldwide and is author of the Free SEO Tip of the Day. Since today, April 22nd, 2008, is Earth Day, I thought I would include this cool “earth day” video below:

Apr

21

Here is a 10 minute and 46 second flash video about how SEO is becoming less mechanical and more social. So far we have about a half dozen members only videos like this one...I am trying to make about one new one each week.

Download the powerpoint file here

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