3 Steps to checking for true PR ranking:

“Buying a highly ranked (PR5 or above) site or domain for a reasonable price can be a tempting proposition. Site with that ranking can be used to help build valuable links for your blogs, drive traffic to your lesser ranked blogs/sites, or engage in link sales to other bloggers and site owners. At one time or another you may have come upon a site”

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Make Money Parking Domains, Parketeer says:
November 10, 2006 - (TopHosts News Brief) - Parketeer.com - created by two leading SEO companies as a way to revolutionize the Domain Parking marketplace - reports that it’s possible to attach real monetary value to every single domain. Their selling

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

Terapad, a unified blogging platform, came out of private beta and launched today.

“What we’re offering is truly game-changing” says Stephan Tual, CEO. “Blogging has been technologically very active recently, but feature-wise it’s been completely stagnant. We’ve capitalized on this and added all the features of major corporate websites to the blogging equation.” Indeed the feature list of the London-based ‘do it yourself’ service appears never-ending: online shop, discussion forums, image gallery, job search, and even integration with a host of big-name third party services, such as Google Analytics and Paypal. This certainly isn’t your average blog.

The service is offered for a flat monthly fee. Individuals or companies select the features they wish to use (or not) on their site, at no extra cost. Each site or blog requires no technical knowledge to setup, as Terapad.com hosts and monitors everything at their datacenter, 24/7. Providing a wealth of features while staying simple to use has been the number one priority of the service - all the latest buzzword technologies are present, yet you’ll be hard pressed to find any acronym soup on the friendly control panel.

Technorati Tags: web2.0, web 2.0, blogging, blog tools, blog platform, terapad, startup

Looks like Apple couldn’t wait and have already unveiled their new models. Im not sure how this ties into their announcement next week, but maybe they will unveil the new Ipods with the touch screens.
The new Imacs. Faster. Bigger. Brighter.

Technorati Tags: apple, imacs, core2duo, merom, intel, macintosh, macbook

21 Tactics To Increase Blog Traffic - SEOmoz Blog

The good stuff just keeps coming at you and here is another great post on generating more traffic for your blog/podcast/videoblog. And I may even put some of these tips into use!

The turning off comments to prevent your site from looking dead is a new one. Actually this may have affected this blog as well so off with the comments.

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Steve Shirk, Managing Editor of the Kansas City Star, posts about the guidelines in use for his reporters’ blogs. These guidelines were setup in tandem with Keith Chrostowski, deputy national editor, and are described at the APME website.

These are some great tips for anyone blogging in a non-fiction type setting.

Credibility questions ease as readers embrace political blogs - APME

Technorati Tags: citizen journalism, journalism, reporters, AP, kansas city star, steve shirk,   Keith Chrostowski, APME, newspapers

Bloglines lets you read your favorite blogs online - take your news with you. It is one of the most popular feed aggregators around and has gotten better under the ownership of Ask.com.

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