How Online Article Marketing is Significantly Increasing My Income (Part 4 of 5)

Following is Part 4 of my case study on article marketing. Specifically, I m studying the following topic in detail: Article Marketing Does It Work, Or Not? My desire is to create more passive i... [Author: Yuwanda Black - Site Promotion - November 10, 2006]

Taking a Holiday
I'm away on Wednesday, June 21 for a week in the Canadian Rockies. I won't have much access to a computer, so if you send me email I won't be able to answer (or post here) until the very end of June or the beginning of July. Hope your week will be as happy and surprising as mine will be. My wife and I find Jasper National Park an amazing...

A New Model For Getting Rich Online
The Washington Post has an interesting story today: A New Model For Getting Rich Online describes people whose sites run ads and get enough traffic to earn serious income....

Blogging a Nameless War
The Tyee has published my article Blogging a Nameless War, about the Lebanese and Israeli online response to the war in Lebanon....

From Web 1.0 to Web 3.0?
Via the International Herald Tribune, a long and interesting article about where Sir Tim Berners-Lee wants the Web to go: A 'more revolutionary' Web. Excerpt: Just when the ideas behind "Web 2.0" are starting to enter into the mainstream, the mass of brains behind the World Wide Web is introducing pieces of what may end up being called Web 3.0. "Twenty years from now, we'll look back and say this...

Taking a Breather
I haven't posted much here in the last couple of months...in large part because I've been too busy working on the third edition of Writing for the Web. It's been an instructive experience: I hadn't realized how much has changed on the Web since the second edition came out in 2000. Perhaps the most challenging new development is the emergence of the multiple site: people aren't just creating one website...

Lurkers and Posters
Jakob Nielsen has a very interesting comment on his Alertbox page: Participation Inequality: Lurkers vs. Contributors in Internet Communities. Excerpt: There are about 1.1 billion Internet users, yet only 55 million users (5%) have weblogs according to Technorati. Worse, there are only 1.6 million postings per day; because some people post multiple times per day, only 0.1% of users post daily. Blogs have even worse participation inequality than is evident...

If you're in New Zealand...
...you should be attending the Webstock Web Conference. Wish I could be there. Among the speakers will be Rachel McAlpine, author of Web Word Wizardry and Global English for Global Business. I've learned a lot from her....

Off Page SEO: The Importance Of Incoming Links And Search Engine Optimization
Off page SEO: The importance of incoming links and search engine optimization Off page seo an integral part of getting your web site indexed in search engines. All of your on page, or onsite, Search... [Author: Rob Ferrall - Site Promotion - November 07, 2006]

Fighting a Campaign Online
The Tyee has just published my article Fighting a Campaign Online. Using the Internet and the Web as a medium for politics isn't as easy as it looks....

Finding Your Real Competition On Google
Seems to me that doing a simple query on Google and then having a glance at the amount of results returned isn t really the best way to gauge how competitive a keyword or keyphrase is. This figure re... [Author: David Callan - Site Promotion - November 08, 2006]

Becoming a Book Blog
After weeks of work, the third edition of Writing for the Web is nearly completed. It's a far more extensive revision than I'd expected, but I'm pretty happy with the result. Not only is much of the print content changed, expanded, and updated, but the book will contain a CD with scores of links a kind of electronic index, with added links on relevant topics. In addition, this site will become...

European bloggers influencing business and media
Via the Guardian Unlimited: Ignore bloggers at your peril, say researchers. Bloggers and internet pundits are exerting a "disproportionately large influence" on society, according to a report by a technology research company. Its study suggests that although "active" web users make up only a small proportion of Europe's online population, they are increasingly dominating public conversations and creating business trends. More than half of the internet users on the continent...

A Little Light Housekeeping
Writing for the Web 3.0 will be published in a few days, so I've spent some time updating and reorganizing this site. Many of the links had rotted, and the site was overdue for some new resources. So if you explore a little, you'll find several new links in Webwriting Resources and Web Writers and Editors. If you know of good sites, let me know and I'll be glad to...

Online Writing Resources
Matthew Ingram at the Globe and Mail has an interesting column: Google's spot is growing. And it's not just about Google's new online writing and spreadsheet tools. Ingram looks at several other services. I tend not to be an early adopter, and while I've heard of online wiki-style writing resources, I haven't done anything with them. If you have some experiences to share (and resources to recommend), I'd love to...

Sir Tim Warns Us About Online Fraud
Via the Guardian Unlimited: Creator of web warns of fraudsters and cheats. Excerpt: The creator of the world wide web told the Guardian last night that the internet is in danger of being corrupted by fraudsters, liars and cheats. Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the Briton who founded the web in the early 1990s, says that if the internet is left to develop unchecked, "bad phenomena" will erode its usefulness. His creation...

Making Money on the Internet with Good Linking Strategies
Making money on the internet is something millions of people either want to do because it sounds like a dream come true, or want to avoid because it sounds like a big headache trying to figure out al... [Author: Liane Bate - Site Promotion - November 10, 2006]

How Many Links Do I Need to Get High Rankings?
If you are pursuing a search engine optimization campaign, your link popularity will become an issue. So, how many links do you need to get high rankings? How Many Links Do I Need to Get High Rankin... [Author: Halstatt Pires - Site Promotion - November 06, 2006]

Is Reciprocal Linking Better Than One Way Links?
The current trend, put simply, would answer Yes. The search engines are favoring popular links. Meaning the more links to one site, the more popular that site is and therefore should rank higher wit... [Author: Gavin Haughey - Site Promotion - November 06, 2006]

Who Else Wants Massive Traffic Really Fast?
Picture this: you've launched your website for a couple of months now and your traffic has never gone over 100 visits a day, but today, after submitting a link to 5 websites, your server just crashed... [Author: Florin Costache - Site Promotion - November 06, 2006]

A new edition of Writing for the Web
Yesterday I met with my editor at Self-Counsel Books and agreed to do new editions of my books Writing for the Web and Writing Science Fiction and Fantasy. The Web book is going to need the most revision in the six years since the last edition, webwriting has changed beyond recognition. So here's a question for you: What kinds of questions would you like the webwriting book to address especially issues that...