Wall Street Journal discusses Paid Posting.

Posted on August 27, 2007 - Filed Under Blogging, Monetize | Leave a Comment

Today’s Wall Street Journal includes an article discussing Apogee’s positive experience with Pay Per Post and similar programs like Sponsored Reviews.
Paid Posts Bring Traffic
In January, Apogee, an online marketing firm, began paying 20 bloggers a month around $10 each to write a review about Apogee’s blog. Traffic to their blog increased, and […]

Don’t Get Hacked:
Google Bot Trick!

Posted on August 25, 2007 - Filed Under Blogging, Blog Hacks, Plugins, WordPress | 4 Comments

Justin’s blog was hacked and he didn’t notice for a while. Why not? The hack made blog look normal to everyone except Google. This caused Justin’s blog for dropping out of Google’s index– which results in a major loss of traffic.
If this happened to Justin, you can bet it could happen to you! […]

Dear Jason, About “News” Scraper Sites. . .

Posted on August 24, 2007 - Filed Under Mahalo, Sphinn, Search Engines, Spam, Marketing, SEO | 3 Comments

Dear Jason Calacanis,
I was thrilled to see referrers from Google Mail’s Mahalo email area indicating that people were visiting my post “Dear Jason, You Have a Problem with Link Rot NOW.” I was even more thrilled to check the revision history for climate change and discove, soon after those hits to my article, […]