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Court Tuttle has another update on Keyword Sniping. It’s a concept he’s working on that has a lot of promise. Check out his current post and catch up with his previous posts if you want to try it:

http://courtneytuttle.com/2008/03/28/keyword-sniping-case-study-update/

Freebie of the Day

WordPress 2.5

Performancing outlines the new goodies in WordPress 2.5.

http://performancing.com/wor…ights

Other Posts

• Darren at ProBlogger.net has the results of an interesting poll he conducted on why people blog:

  

  http://www.problogger.net/ar…ults/
  

• Shawn Collins has a nice article if you are recruiting affiliates on how he does it:

  http://blog.affiliatetip.com/arc…re/
  

• Patrick points out a great series of marketing articles from Microsoft to use in determining

  http://www.blogstorm.co.uk/exce…crosoft/
  

  Here’s the link to Microsoft:

  http://www.microsoft.com/smallbusi…ding
  

• Alvin at Gather Success posts his stats and earnings from February and March:

  Previous Traffic & Stats For Feb 2008

  • Unique Visits: 9,732
  • Page Views: 15,517
  • Opt-ins in Feb: 186
  • RSS Count As At Feb 2008: 511

  Earning Stats For Feb 2008:

  • Ad Sales And Affiliate Programs - US$783.53
  • Affiliate Profits - US$4,624.28
  • Adsense - US$30.17

  Total :US $5437.98 (SG$7885.07)

  Traffic & Stats For Mar 2008

  • Unique Visits: 11,922
  • Page Views: 19,985
  • Opt-ins in Mar: 168
  • RSS Count As At Feb 2008: 637

  Earning Stats For Mar 2008:

  • Ad Sales And Private Programs - US$1,499.62
  • Affiliate Profits - US$7,189.67
  • Adsense - US$17.89

  Total :US $8707.18 (SG$12,102.98)

  http://www.gathersuccess.com/hi…port
  

• Darren Rowse on whether you should change your website into a blog:

  http://www.problogger.net/archives/2…log/
  

  Reasons TO Switch
  

  1. Blogs give Individuals, Companies and Brands ‘Voice’
  2. Blogs are Conversational
  3. Blogs build Trust
  4. Blogs build Profile
  5. Blogs are Immediate
  6. Blogs are a doorway to Search Engines and Social Media

  Reasons NOT to Switch

  1. Blogs Take Time to Mature
  2. Blogs Take Daily Work
  3. Blogs Take More than Writing
  4. Bloggers Can be Anti-Trust/Profile Building
  5. Blogs Rely Upon YOU as a Conversation Starter
• Etienne has an interesting basic article on maximizing your internet marketing:
  • Have a plan.
  • Track your results.
  • Take the time to learn and read about what others have done that is successful.
  • Experiment with new ideas.

  http://www.etienneteo.com/20…g.html
  

• Extra for Every Publisher is looking for weekly column writers:

  http://xfep.com/site-news/looking-for-weekly-columnists/

• Garry Conn has a good, basic SEO check list for bloggers to consider:

  1. Are you creating content that your readers are interested in?
  2. Does your content contain focused keyword phrases?
  3. Are you optimizing your pages with three to five keyword phrases?
  4. Do most of your important keywords appear above the top fold?
  5. Are your keywords hyperlinked?
  6. Do your graphics on your post contain focused and relevant keywords?
  7. Does your post title contain focused keywords?
  8. Does your post URL contain focused keywords?
  9. Can search engines and people easily find your content from the home page?
  10. Do people link back to your home page and post pages?
  11. Are you using basic HTML coding (e.g. H1, h2, h3, Bold, Alt text, etc.)

  http://www.garryconn.com/a-simple-search-engine-checklist-for-bloggers.php

• Andy has a great review of a tool for Firefox called Zemanta that automatically does cool things as you create new posts (good for WordPress.org, WordPress.com, Blogger, and Typepad)

  It does things like automatically inserts links, provides possible pictures, etc. Check out the review here—it’s a mixed bag:

  http://andybeard.eu/2008/03/zemanta.html