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Yicrosoft Directory? What the heck? Alright folks. I know I know, it’s been a while since I’ve posted on here. I’m going to be real brief on what’s going on over here with me. I’m working on a few projects that I PROMISE I’ll keep you guys informed on that you’re NOT gonna wanna miss out out.
But I just found out about a REALLY cool SEO Contest that Ryan over at SEONoobs.com is putting on for 30 days. You see the contest involves the Key Phrase “Yicrosoft Directory.” The object of this contest is to rank highest after the 30 days for Yicrosoft Directory.
I’m assuming that because of Microsoft is bidding on Yahoo they came up with this crazy keyphrase. Maybe Ryan has some insider information about this merger? He does offer some great SEO Help though so you wanna definitely check him out! We’ll have to wait and see.
Stay Tuned Folks and I’ll see you at the the TOP!
Alejandro
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Bring Previous Visitors Back to Your Blog: Don’t Ignore your Blog RSS Feeds
One of the least understood aspects of blogging is RSS feeds. RSS stands for Real Simple Syndication (amongst others) and is a way for others to receive your content without having to visit your blog. There are a number of ways people use RSS feeds, and the two most common ones are:
i. As a source of content for their own website and blogs. If they find your content useful they can take your RSS feed and turn it into content on their on website or blog. This is known as syndication.
ii. Instead of visiting your blog each time you make a post, they can plug your RSS feed into a feed reader. They will be alerted to your new posts and can then read your posts on the feed reader, for example the email client Mozilla Thunderbird allows users to subscribe to RSS feeds.
In either case you have to decide whether to provide a full feed (i.e. the whole post appears in the RSS feed) or a partial feed (i.e. only excerpts of the post are included in the RSS feed) in which case people who use your feeds will have to visit your blog to read the whole post. By default, WordPress automatically creates two RSS feeds - one for new posts and one for new comments.
The default WordPress RSS feeds are very basic. An effective way to enhance and manage your RSS feeds is to join FeedBurner, which has these main advantages:
i. Feedburner will automatically translate your feed into a format (RSS or Atom) that is compatible with your visitors’ feed reader application.
ii. Feedburner gives you the option to add the rel=”noindex” element to your feeds so the search engines will not index your feed. This is important because duplicate content filters are indiscriminate and they could filter out your main blog content in favor of your RSS feed. By adding the “noindex” element, you ensure that only your blog content is indexed.
iii. Feedburner has a “chicklet creator” which is simply a system for creating custom icons and the relevant html code from the popular web aggregators to help your readers easily subscribe to your feed.
To get the full benefits of joining Feedburner does mean the html code in your blog theme needs to be modified. The Feedburner Feed Replacement plugin from Steve Smith will do it for you. It works by forwarding all your feed traffic to FeedBurner.
Allowing others to subscribe to your RSS feeds is not the whole story… You can also monetize your feeds. Considering most RSS subscribers won’t visit your blog, and one of the main reasons behind blogging is to make money, it makes sense to monetize your feeds.
Feedburner has such a system, but it is only available to RSS feeds which receive a lot of subscribers. On the other hand, the Feedvertising plugin is free and allows you to run text link ads in your RSS feeds. The ads can come from the plugin supplier (Text-Link_ads.com), your own products, or your affiliate links.
If you decide to go with advertising in your RSS feeds, keep your ads relevant to the content in the feed, and be aware that you will lose some feed subscribers. There are people in this world who simply hate the idea that you are making money out of the free content you are providing…
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Here’s a quick blurb I wanted to share with you really quick.
My friend Laura Martin who is currently a finalist on Joel Comm’s “Next Internet Millionaire” has been getting some publicity all over the net but I don’t think there’s been a much more exiting article then the one I just read, see for youself:
It’s an interesting article because Britney and Laura have done have something in common. Britney embarrased herself at the MTV VMA’s last week which could potentially end her career and Laura has embarrassed herself on the Next Internet Millionaire and her career is about to explode!!
As Britney would say it…”It’s Laura Bleep.”
Your Success - My Passion,
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Hello all, exciting news to share.
Sarah and I are extremely excited to announce that we’re expecting our first child come April of 08. We are super stoked and I can’t wait to be a daddy.
The title of this post is “What’s your WHY?” I titled it that because I think it’s imperative that you know YOUR why? Your why is your goal or your purpose, your end in mind. I’m a firm believer in knowing what you want out of life first, then work backwards. Most people live day to day and have no direction or vision of what they truly want out of life. I don’t know what I would be doing if I didn’t have such a passion for why I do what I do.
A lot of my friends and family have always asked me, why don’t you get a “real” job or why do you work from home. I’ve heard this for the past 10 years and I think this past week some have actually realized why I’ve decided to take the path of an Entrepreneur.
One of my goals over the last 10 years was to be in a position financially with my businesses to be able to bring my wife home to raise my kids (keep in mind I have only been married 2 years), unless she absolutely wanted to go back to work after having a baby.
You see, I was consciously thinking about this years ago. I had a vision and I was passionate about that vision. Is this for everyone; maybe, maybe not. I just know that I wanted to be in a position to give my wife that option when it came around. I wanted her to have the choice to work, not the other way around and have “no choice” but to work.
That’s what entrepreneurship does, it gives you choices in life. Choices to have what you really want out of life, what you’re passionate about.
So my reason WHY has a totally new dynamic to it. Over the next 9 months I need to take both my businesses to the next level. My goal over the next 9 months is to help 15 NEW people get into a FREE 2008 Black BMW with one of the companies that I’m a part of. If you’re interested let me know.
How about YOU? What’s your WHY? Are you doing what you truly are passionate about? Are you working for yourself and making YOUR dreams come true or do you go to work just to make someone else’s dreams come true?
These are questions you have to be asking yourself on a frequent basis. You owe it to yourself to at least think about it.
This blog was created for YOU. It was created to give you ideas on how to become an Entrepreneur. If you ever have any questions about entrepreneurship or business ideas, don’t hesitate to ask me.
My WHY just got a lot bigger - I’m excited, nervous, passionate, anxious, and focused.
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