Cribbed Content for April 4th
Friday
Apr 4, 2008
As usual, here’s my weekly compilation of cool stories I found around the net this week.
- Shawn Collins announced that Gary Vaynerchuk of WineLibrary.tv will be the keynote for Affiliate Summit West 2009. He’s sure to bring the thunder!
- Epic Advertising was not an April Fool’s Joke; AzoogleAds has indeed re-branded themselves along with Bazaar Advertising (their SEM arm) under the Epic Advertising umbrella. All three websites are still up and only the Bazaar site mentions the affiliation with Epic on the homepage, so I’m still sort of confused.
- Google announced that they’re splitting up DoubleClick Performics into two factions: Search Marketing and Affiliate Marketing. Naturally, they’ll be selling off the search portion and keeping the affiliate portion.
- Monster.com is apparently deparate to steal people from Craigslist.org. Wow that’s sad. But, the new Craigslist blog is really shaping up, so check that out.
- For the bloggers out there… Problogger.net put out a really great (especially for me!) post yesterday telling you which stats are important and which you can chill on. Makes me feel MUCH better, so thanks Darren & guest blogger Mark Seall
- Finally, there was a surge the other day of my friends joining up and getting Wordpress.com blogs. Rob Kaas, a talented writer no matter what he thinks, reposted an old blog about, well, blogging. It’s a good read so check it out.
Good stuff this week… although this weekly wrap up makes me glad that I’m not a “news blog” since I’d be late to the party in reporting this stuff!
Commenting is Marketing
Thursday
Jan 24, 2008
I was looking through the nominations for the SEMMY awards and came across this great post by Darren Rowse over at Problogger. He talks about 10 ways to hurt your blogs brand by commenting on other blogs. It’s all pretty informative stuff that seems like common sense to me. This read comes at a particularly pertinent time for me as I was recently asked to compile a list of blogs that we should respond to as a company.
I grabbed a few to check up on and added them to my Google Reader to subscribe. I’m very sensitive to spam and I don’t want to be “that guy” (or girl, as is the case). I learned after reading Darren’s post that I’m not doing anything wrong. I’ve been making relevant comments (of course) and throwing in the PsPrint URL when it adds to the conversation of the bloggers post.
I post Darren’s question to my few readers here:
- What practices would you add to the posted list?
- Which would you remove from it (or modify)?
- What advice would you give bloggers when it comes to commenting on others blogs?
- As a blogger – do you police any of these types of things? Do you have a comment policy of any kind?
BlogOnExpo – The Day is Here!
Tuesday
Jan 15, 2008
Let the games begin! The BlogOnExpo started today, with PsPrint as an exhibitor. There are some great sessions available online FOR FREE! This is the first free online bloggers expo of its kind. Setting precidents is important people! The organizer has done a bang up job of getting some pretty knowledgable people interviewed and contributing to the online sessions. Today’s contributions are:
Sessions
- Social Media – Neil Patel from ACS SEO
- Logo Design Trends
- What to Do When you lose your Biggest Traffic Source – John Chow
- SEOmoz Guides – Rand Fishkin from SEOMoz
Interviews
Having personally attended sessions with Neil Patel and Rand Fishkin on the panels, I can say that those will be great quality and I’m looking forward to checking them out. Darren Rowse is also a great guy (man behind ProBlogger.net) whom I enjoy following on Twitter, so that should be a good interview as well.
The expo will run for a few days, so mosey over and check it out.
