Friday Links – 2/19/2010
February 19th, 2010
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Helping Your Niche Site Swim in the Mainstream
Just because you have a niche site does not mean it has to remain in obscurity. There are plenty of ways to make even the most boring site appeal to a wider range of people.
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How to engineer a successful viral campaign. They don’t just happen. A very in depth post with specific steps.
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No One Knows What the F*** They’re Doing (or “The 3 Types of Knowledge”)
A great post about what we know and what we don’t and how not to be dangerous.
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An Extremely Nifty Guide to Reviews and Local Search
A guide to local search and reviews. Reviews help you rank in various places. One is Google Product Search and another is Google Maps.
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Bloggers: This Is How Long Your Posts Should Be
A study of post length. Pretty interesting results, but in the end, it really doesn’t matter.
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Top 10 Ways to Drive Traffic to Your Blog Using LinkedIn
I know linkedin helped me a bit when I was freelancing. But even now that I am taking a break, I guess there are a lot of uses for Linkedin. I started using it more because I use Digsy at work and it connects with Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn. But I barely even tapped the surface. I know that a few posts about Magento and WordPress got me a few jobs.
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WordWeb: Free English thesaurus dictionary download
Great little tool. I downloaded an old version back in the day before it was more user friendly. It has come a long way. I have another icon on my taskbar now. A great tool for finding just the right word that just won’t pop into your head
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9 Quick Tips for Catalog Quick Order | Get Elastic
While your average online customer may not want to manually type skus and quantities. But if some of your customers buy in bulk, they may find forms like these convenient. Buyers and purchasing agents are used to using tab and enter to fill out spreadsheets. They can blaze through a form like this 10 times faster than pecking around on your site, adding products one by one to their shopping cart.
Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
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Stephan,
I have only been following your blog for a few days. I can say with all honesty that I am impressed with the quality of the information you link out to. I read a couple of those articles you linked to. One in particular was the Nifty Guide To Reviews and Local Search. That article has top notch, up to date info that anyone running a small business could benefit from.
I will be popping in from time to time to see what other juicy nuggets of info your little hub has to offer.
And trust me, I am not just saying this hoping you will approve my comment. Good stuff man.
Very true about the “local search and review” ideas. I reviewed a couple of products and I ended up gaining two clients for my work.
I really didn’t expect to get anything back in return, but I guess people do like to read reviews…and often will visit your website if they like what you wrote.
that’s true! i love linked in, thanks for the post!
Great Blog I am Certified to your blog Because I have Searched and visited blog contents are Unique. if your blog were not post unique so I would not post my comment.
Thanks for this. I didn’t expect anything less. I think your post about “Bloggers: This Is How Long Your Posts Should Be” should be taken seriously and I have seen blogs benefit from that over the years.
Cheers
Jez
Link on “Top 10 Ways to Drive Traffic to Your Blog Using LinkedIn” helped me a lot, thx.
I really like how you twist the mood in your site and make the bland moment into funny ones and enjoyable. No wonder we are coming back again and again and again…
Stephen, Another great post. thanks for the valuable information. It has helped out a lot. All the best
Great post, Stephen! You never fail to amuse your readers.
Im using linked in for my profetional purposes. but never thought of geting frafic fro it. thank you for this inovative idea.
nice post Stephen. “You never fail to amuse your readers.” agre with this comment.
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This idea is very helpful to those starting up their blogs. I hope you get to post often these kinds of topics, it will be great to read something from you again.