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Another Way Track Googlebot Visits To Your Blog March 23, 2006

I’ve written a couple of times about how to track GoogleBot visits to your websites/ weblogs. Here’s another way, which also tracks your participation at other websites, provided you are using your full name.

What I do is use Google Alerts to track several topics. Each day, I get an email report for each topic. Each report has one or more website/ weblog article excerpts, complete with links. (It’d be nice if this service was available in RSS form, but it isn’t.)

Now, yesterday, for fun, I decided to track my own name using Google Alerts. I’m fortunate in the …

Sharing the Ad Revenue Wealth - Part 1 - General Algorithm March 22, 2006

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With professional blogging being a hot endeavour for both serious people and ne’er-do-wells, many bloggers have found that there’s synergy in blogging together, whether on a single blog or a network. Most such collaborative blogs are running some form of contextual advertising, including Google AdSense, YPN (Yahoo! Publisher’s Network), or Chitika eMinimalls (which can be either contextual or non-contextual).

Since these blogs are collaborative, everyone has to be compensated, according to the payout schedule. In a post at BlogSpinner, I gave a general guideline to revenue sharing, and the rules of (some) ad networks. Here, I’ll provide a very general …

Sharing Information and Gaining Web Traffic - Two Birds With One Stone March 21, 2006

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One of the obviously great things about the Internet is that there are unlimited, innovative ways for people to interact with each other. Right now, one of the popular ways is social bookmarking. Social bookmarking sites like Del.icio.us, and Digg are wildly popular, and could be what a blogger needs to increase their profile and web traffic. Related sites like Newsvine go one step further and include both reader-submitted stories and original newswire content.

While there are several purposes for social bookmarking sites, sharing stories and gaining traffic are some of the reasons bloggers should look into them. …

Adding Audio Comments and Feeds To Your Blog March 1, 2006

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Nine years ago, I set a goal for myself to communicate with 2 million people in my lifetime. As part of that goal, I had planned on literally walking (when possible) around the world for 10 years, learning languages and community history. For reasons I won’t get into, I couldn’t yet go through with my plans, but I’ve kept my language and communicating goals intact, and keep moving forward.

This is the primary reason I love the blogosphere so much: the potential to communicate directly with many people, and to be part of one or more communities. Building communities is a …

Build Your Own Pinger and Increase Blog Traffic

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Pinging an update service is essentially a way of letting a blog directory or blog search engine know that you’ve just updated your blog. There are several websites out there that make it easy for you to ping lots of update services all in one go. Some of them are Pingomatic, Pingoat, and PingQueue. I’ve used the first two and only recently learned of the latter.

While Pingoat has tons of services that it pings for you, it has a lot of splogs (spam blogs) listed as well, despite the site owner’s best intentions. As a result, there …