I’ve been promoting Directory Maximizer for directory submission for some time now. I use it myself, and count at least a portion of the blog’s PR4 to the links from directories I’ve gotten from them. And while PR itself isn’t particularly valuable to a blog that doesn’t sell advertising, it does represent a [...]

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I’ve written before about the benefits of ad tracking and link cloaking.
Using ad tracking you get to see how many times links are being clicked on, which can help you fine tune your writing and give you insight into the psychology of your readers. And since ad tracking links are basically cloaked links, [...]

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I figured I’d plug Enkay Blog’s latest project (better late than never!)
The Wall of Blogs is a way to get a permanent link back to your blog, and to get some advertising at the same time. You can see the original announcement here.
This is similar to the pixel purchase sites that pop [...]

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A funny observation on ranking for unexpected keywords.
Thanks to my post recently about keywords used to find this blog, I now rank #1 for many of those keywords just on the strength of a single occurrence of each in that post.
The chances are good nobody will ever search using those keywords again, but [...]

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As you add more and more content to a blog, you’re going to find yourself more and more surprised by the keywords people use in search engines to find you.
Here’s a selection of keywords used to find Online Opportunity over the past couple of months.
a hungry crowd: I was actually on page [...]

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