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Google’s Power Readers

Tuesday, August 19th, 2008

Google started something called Power Readers. You can now follow what famous political opinion leaders reading and sharing. Here is the list of people that you can follow:

  • Obama and McCain campaigns
  • Mike Allen, POLITICO
  • Chuck DeFeo, Townhall
  • John Dickerson, Slate
  • Mark Halperin, TIME
  • Arianna Huffington, Huffington Post
  • Ruth Marcus, Washington Post
  • Jon Meacham, Newsweek
  • Patrick Ruffini, The Next Right

Top things you should know about selecting a blog topic

Sunday, August 3rd, 2008

You can choose the most profitable topic on blogging by just using your mind. There are tons of information about money-making by blogging out there and not necessarily all of them are facts.

Blogs and websites that seem to be professional about money making and problogging are suggesting things that are not always true.

The most famous topic on that issue is publishing excel files of keywords that are believed to be highly profitable when clicked. This is a corrupt perspective and will not lead you to a profitable blog if you don’t use your mind instead of keyword lists.

For instance, network security solutions and auto insurance quotes are supposed to be two highly paid keywords when a related advertising is clicked.

However, you can never be sure about how a reader came to your blog or website and via which keywords is she searching something. Moreover, you can never be sure about whether the advertiser has selected those keywords while making his selections for that particular ad.

The one and the only successful aspect of keyword research (on your side as a publisher) could be choosing a topic and not choosing single keywords or phrases to blog about.

If you insist on establishing your blogs on keyword selection instead of topic selection you will almost always end up with frustration. You should also know that especially with Google, keyword advertising companies are highly sensitive towards playing with the system.

If you want to make money by blogging, all you have to do is to look after some profitable topic, not after profitable keywords. Then you should research on that topic and post meaningful articles (short or long, that’s not a big deal but it has to be meaningful and helpful to your readers). Then you have to be patient and observe what is happening in terms of traffic and clicks.

How do you archive your e-mail?

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

Of course there are many people out there who don’t feel the need to archive their e-mail but on a corporate level, archiving e-mail and securing it somewhere may be quite a problem.

Personally, many people use whether web based e-mail like gmail, yahoo or hotmail as well as pop3 e-mail which is provided by a web hosting company or their ISP’s. In that case, now that we have a lot bigger webspace than we do in the past, it’s not a big deal to archive your e-mail. If you use pop3 e-mail than you can use e-mail archiving capabilities of your e-mail client like thunderbird or outlook or evolution etc.

If we speak on a corporate level, things may change a little bit. Archiving e-mail on a corporate level may require a certain e-mail archiving software as well as specific network security solutions.

In-house communication is something important to save. If you don’t use your own communication solutions instead of the conventional e-mail than you have to have a system something like gmail (with all the capabilities like archiving, labeling, spam protection, encryption, etc.). Gmail is providing companies with a variety of archiving and search solutions. I am sure that there are a lot of companies that provide similar services as well as network security.

When we sit on our foot at home, we usually don’t think about how big some online communication need how big spaces in server rooms but when you try to imagine the scale, you may start to think about it.