Some webmasters have discovered a new trick to get inbound links from authority websites. At the moment, it seems to be possible to improve your Google rankings with that trick.

Since I just ran across this and it’s something related to part of my last post on the deadly tedium of RSS feed submissions, thought I’d post it.
This is a new and free service - it’s still in beta and I haven’t tried it myself, but they will submit your RSS feed to 17 blog/RSS […]

Depending on how recently you’ve gotten interested in RSS, you may feel that a book (and the assorted bonuses) like Marketing Success With RSS isn’t really necessary. There are lots of info sources - information about using RSS is all over the place.
Some of it is accurate, some is wild, some is downright dangerous. […]

Being one of the main software engineers on Google, Matt Cutts knows best about Google indexing and quality control issues. Find out what he thinks about buying links.

Hulbert Financial Digest, the leading investment newsletter performance tracking service of Dow Jones and Company, has reported that the AlphaProfit Focus model portfolio gained 44% for the 12 month period ending August 31, 2005. This performance places the Focus model portfolio at the top of all fund portfolios tracked by Hulbert Financial for the rolling 12 month period.

In August, the AlphaProfit Focus and Core model portfolios gained 4.4% and 1.3%, respectively while the Dow Jones Wilshire 5000 Total Market Index lost 1.0%. For the Y-T-D period, the AlphaProfit Focus and Core model portfolios are up 24.4% and 10.5%, respectively while the DJW 5000 Index is up 3.2%.

We were recently obliged to move to a new data center, for reasons beyond our control. Our new server required some modification before the web version of Keyword Toolkit could function properly. We are pleased to say that work has now been completed, and that the free Keyword Toolkit Web …

My Dad thinks its humourous to have as part of his email signature the statement: “Shewmaker saying: Humans are the craziest people on earth.”

When it comes to marketing, humans are definitely strange. Recently, Seth Godin decided to give away some of his materials in order to improve his exposure. Today, Seth posted an email on his blog with the accompanying headline “Is “free” all it’s cracked up to be?”

The email is from Acland Brierty who writes concerning an experiment in which Acland’s company started giving away their products expecting to make the money back through online advertising. Strangely, the download rate for the product did not increase significantly. Eventually, they went back to charging and both sales and revenues increased.

Have you seen the TV ad for Leptoprin? It features a woman pacing back and forth and back and forth, while she says things like, “When is a diet pill worth 153 dollars?” The commercial NEVER attempts to give any scientific evidence for the quality of the pill, but instead uses the price point, combined with anecdotes to sell the product. I strongly doubt that the pill is worth 15.3 dollars, but apparently pushing the pricepoint is also pushing the sales.

The same thing has historically been true in the sale of Newspapers. Although there is money to be made by the free newspapers which carry a lot of advertising, you may notice that the newspapers with the greatest circulation are those which charge a hefty subscription fee.

For some reason, at least in the USA, if something is free, it is expected to be worthless and if a pill is sold at $153 a lot of Americans assume that it is worth $153.

So, I suppose my Dad is right. Humans are the craziest people on Earth. :-)

Become Unforgettable is now listed in the Small Business Blog Directory

There’s a new theory that Google might also consider the grammar and spelling mistakes on your web pages. What does this mean to your website?