SEO & WEBSITE TOOLS

How to develop “money making niche sites” with Wordpress (Caroline Middlebrook) - Download Here

“Search Engine Optimisation” for Bloggers. - Download Here

SEO… Some of my notes from Webstock 2008
Use Key words in: - Anchor text (own internal links help ranking)
- Clickable images alt attributes
- Headlines (in or out of H tags)
- Body text
- Title tags
- Meta description tag (may be in search result- depends on engine)

Measure success:
- not on numbers, but on value of targeted traffic (use analytics)
- on more conversions

Future of SEO:
- always free to list
- crawler friendly sites
- off page criteria (links- alway important)
- good content
- create a buzz, market, be creative

SEO Tools- Read Here

CNN Employee fired for blogging Read: “Not with a whimper but a bang” here

A comprehensive guide to “online Keyword research” - Read Here

Feed Journal - This is cool, although not aligned with my goal of a carbon zero, environmentally sustainable existence! Feed Journal, Make your own Newspaper from your RSS Feeds, reversing the trend of a move to an all electronic way of working. They claim here we read on paper 25% faster, aggregate all your RSS Feeds and then print it like a newspaper in a PDF format! Quite a cool tool I think for now and then when a day at the beach or a long trip (with no wireless) is on the cards… Have a look here

A Tech definition to learn, “AJAX” - Is used for developing interactive web applications e.g. Clear explanation here in WIkipedia.

MEDIA INDUSTRY STATISTICS
 Internet Outsider - The Advertising Share Shift - US advertising revenue at 4 big online media companies–Google (GOOG), Yahoo (YHOO), AOL (TWX), and MSN (MSFT)–grew by $1.3 billion in Q2, or 42%. US advertising revenue at 15 big television, newspaper, magazine, radio, and outdoor companies (Time Warner, Viacom, CBS, etc.) shrank by $280 million in Q2, or 3%.

* Television (cable and broadcast) shrank 1%, or $50 million
* Print (magazines and newspapers) shrank 5%, or $170 million
* Radio (terrestrial) shrank 7%, or $105 million

AND BECAUSE IT IS ALL ABOUT THE CONTENT

The Lonely Writer, An E-book which discusses the challenges of writing and creativity. If offers suggestions for staying focused and productive, no matter which area of writing you are in . - Download E Book Here