The Secret Life Of Advertising:
by: Karl Long. Why not make commercials that people want to watch, ads that people seek out, send to friends, discuss. A nice article on the New York Times talks about this in a piece called Commercials Find New Life on Web:

Technorati Tags: paris, paris hilton, advertising, marketing, new york, times, nytimes, commercials, ads

Blog Ads for Women via Blogher:
Blogher, a well know blog network has started their own advertising network aimed directly at women bloggers. Originally designed just for sites in the network, the new BlogherAds.com goes wider than that. …

Technorati Tags: blogging, marketing, monetization, advertising, mommybloggers, blogher

SEO ethics and practices: A guide - from Blog Business World

Search engine optimization (SEO) ethics are often discussed, but rarely defined in any meaningful ways. Website owners often hear about the so-called “white hat” and “black hat” SEO professionals. A few webmasters are even aware of some undefined “grey hat” SEO techniques, and their practitioners as well.

Found this while looking through links back to the directory. Wayne Hulbert describes the questions one must ask when working on optimization for a site.

Technorati Tags: seo, ethics, optimization, white hat, grey hat, black hat, marketing

5 ways to building a better blog:

“Although the blogosphere is a new space on the web, it is starting to become a crowded. Millions of bloggers are writing on a daily basis and many of them are writing on similar topics. Because of the sheer number of blogs fighting for the same eyeballs, it is becoming harder to become popular, so the question is how do you make your blog stand out from the rest”

Neil Patel at Pronet Advertising does a great job with this post and is a good read on bettering your blog.

Technorati Tags: blog marketing, better blogging, content, advertising, design, usability

“Yahoo! is a terrific ally of CC and has amazing tools that publishers can use to find Creative Commons-licensed content to add to your site:

Yahoo! Search: Creative Commons Search

Add Creative Commons photos from Flickr to your site

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This morning, I like many others, am trying to follow the Apple announcements which are being covered by some of the bigger blog networks. As of 10:31am, I am unable to get reliable connections to:

Engadget — “Connection timed out”

Gizmodo — “Http/1.1 Service Unavailable”

The Unofficial Apple Weblog — Alternates between slow connection and timing out

Even Valleywag is down at this point.

I think live-blogging is a good thing but is the software being used to run these sites designed for this type of abuse. Would it make sense to setup a low-res blog on a subdomain for just this purpose, maybe using a static html output?

Hopefully someone else follows this and gets it right for the Christmas shopping season. Im sure more announcements will come then.

Technorati Tags: apple, ipod, apple event, blogging software, load-balancing, liveblogging, engadget, gizmodo, tuaw

Here are some of the stories being covered in the Nonmedia Network:

Over at Pubcrawlin, coverage of the upcoming Stella Artois Draught Master event in New York City. Pubcrawlin editor Kimmie Smith will cover the event. And, “How to Plan and Throw a House Party” - some tips on getting your party off on the right foot.

On ecofakto, a Florida county plans to get rid of a lot of their trash by superheating it. Sustainability attained?

Technorati Tags: nonmedia, pubcrawlin, ecofakto, beer, stella artois, house party, recycling

Good money made dirt cheap:
Blogging over here at Casta Greg has become very successful thanks in part to PayPerPost blog advertising that will see me happily making healthy tripple figures. And the nice thing is I’m not having to anything special to make the …

Technorati Tags: payperpost, blog marketing, advertising, linking

Brad over at Brad’s Blog is feeling the pain of dealing with tons of submissions. If you get behind by a couple of days it can feel overwhelming.

“When I went into the admin area of my Blog Directory, I about fell over. 257 links waiting for approval! JEEZ!”

But he learned pretty quick what matters:

“Featured and reciprocol links get approved fast. Then I go to the links that have good titles and descriptions, that make them look like real blogs and not splogs, or ad sites.”

I don’t need another hobby - Brads Blog

Technorati Tags: blog directory, directories, blog marketing, blog traffic, linking, links, adsense

How to advertise your blog - The Blog Mill

Some good tips for getting more traffic to your site including visiting other blogs but doesn’t mention the key idea - write good compelling content.

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