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Squidoo New Look

Squidoo seems to have a new edit and publish interface. I've always found it a bit clunky in the past, but now it seems quite a bit easier to add modules. The process makes more sense to me.

I just created a lense about Car Repair for a client.

What Makes A Good Blog?

Since I'm writing a series on "Creating A Successful Blog" I've been looking (not very diligently) for other opinions on what makes for a successful blog.

One thing I've discovered is that there is no magic answer to this question. First of all, every blog speaks to a different audience in a different tone of voice. So what one group likes another group will find boring or maybe even overtly aggravating.

I stumbled on an instance of this today when I followed a link from Lisa Barone's post called "Six Kickass Writing Resources for Bloggers".

First on her list was "What Makes a Good Blog?" by Merlin Mann.

Now I must admit there are several things in Merlin's list which I agree with, but I find the overall tone fairly aggravating. For instance, he says, "People start real blogs because they think about something a lot...They make and consume smart forebrain porn. So: where do this person's obsessions take them."

Frankly I don't see why "obsession" is a necessary part of blogging. Is it because in order to do real blogging we must express our personality; and expressing our personality necessarily involves creativity; and because creativity is so relatively scarce and difficult that it will not happen without an obsessive focus on something?

Or is this just the way an obsessive person looks at it?

Of course it takes all types. But there is a certain arrogance and air of superiority about talk of obsession and creativity that I can do without.

SmartyPig Social Saving

Here's an interesting idea. SmartyPig.com is like an online piggy bank with a social twist.

You create an account where you set a specific savings goal. Say you want to save for a new computer. You need $1,000. You create an account and then let your friends and family know what you're saving for. They can make contributions (or not).

You can contribute to their accounts too.

SmartyPig also has partnered with "top retailers" to offer you deals and cash incentives.

It's free and you can even earn interest on your deposits.

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How to Get Your Website Indexed Fast
May 9, 2006 - Linknet Internet News

How to Get Your Website Indexed FastMay 9, 2006 - Linknet Internet - Internet News, Internet Articles

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How to Get Your Website Indexed Fastby Rick Hendershot

Most people who are new to website building have very little idea how or why it is important to get their website indexed by the major search engines. What we mean by "indexing" is simply the process by which the major search engines find a website, analyse its content, and enter a summary into their database so the site becomes eligible to be listed when people search for that kind of information.

One of the most pervasive bits of misinformation concerning the indexing process is that you should "submit" your site to the search engines on a regular basis. According to people who sell this bogus service, the search engines spend their day waiting for website "submissions", which, once received, they obligingly go look at and then index, presumably with no concern for the quality of the site in question.

But the fact is, search engines are very busy little beavers. They are not sitting around waiting for submissions. On the contrary, they are constantly out there scouring the web so they can keep the most up to date database possible.

In many cases new information gets recognized by the major search engines within hours of being posted. Take news sites, for instance. In order to keep abreast of breaking news, and to make their news services relevant, the search engines have to be crawling these sites several times every day and be constantly updating what they find. Otherwise their "news" results would be of very little value.

On the flip side, given their preoccupation with sites that are regularly changing and being updated, if a site is rarely changing or being updated, it is not likely to get regular visits from the spiders. Why would they waste their time?

So if you are a webmaster wanting to get traffic from the search engines, this should tell you something quite important: keep your most important pages fresh and updated. Give the search engines a reason to come back and look at them again. Regularly add content, and keep fine-tuning the "relevance" of your content.

Another important fact about search engine behavior has to do with the importance of links. Normally search engines index pages because they have followed a link from an already indexed page.

So it stands to reason that the more links you have pointing to a given page, and the more significant those links, the faster that page will get indexed, the higher it will get ranked for your most important keywords, and the more often it will get visited by the search engine spiders.

Once you are indexed, regular submission of the kind offered by bogus "site submissions services" is not going to help you. What will help you is regular updating of your pages and getting more links. The search engine spiders will follow the new links and have even more reason to visit your pages more frequently.

If you give the spiders something new to chew on when they get there, so much the better. As they learn that your pages are worth spidering (because your pages regularly change and contain useful content), they will get crawled more often.

What this means is that the best way to get a new site, or a new page indexed is to create a link from an already indexed page. But bear in mind that if the page that contains the link rarely gets crawled, it may take quite a while before that link is of much help to you.

When people speak of "quality links" they often fixate on the page's Google Page Rank. But while Page Rank is important, it does not tell the whole story. Often a link on a page with no PR at all will still send the spiders your way. It just depends how often that page gets crawled. For instance, getting your link on a blog page -- even a brand new one with no PR -- is usually a very effective way to get search engine attention. The reason is that the search engines often visit active blogs on a very regular basis.

Among other things this should tell you that exchanging links with other sites and having your link end up on a relatively useless "link page" is a very inefficient way to make an impression on the search engines.

An easier and much faster, more efficient way is to buy quality links from a service like Linknet Promotions. For example, buying a listing in a unique service like the Linknet "Business Webs" blog will get you in a blog that gets crawled on a regular basis (every day). This blog is also syndicated on more than 35 high quality, already indexed pages that also get crawled regularly. So one link gets multiplied into more than 35.


Rick Hendershot is president of Linknet Promotions Inc.

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