Wednesday, December 29, 2010

Playing Nintendo Wii Games From a USB Hard Drive: "I have put together a quick guide which will help you get WiiFlow installed. This guide assumes you have the Homebrew Channel installed, if not please follow my ‘Installing the Homebrew Channel‘ guide. Before installing I have listed some features of WiiFlow along with a video of it in action"
Avatars - Create an Animated Talking Character for Your Website & Oddcast Creates Animated 'Pals' for eBay Auctions: "Oddcast now has a distribution relationship with Andale to offer the SitePal for eBay product auctions"

Tuesday, December 14, 2010

Facebook Ads 101 – How to Set up and Track Facebook Ads | Subliminal Pixels: "There are 3 main reports I use. Responder Demographics provides the aggregate age, gender and geographic location of the users who have clicked on your Facebook Ad. Responder Profiles provides psychographic information of these same users, which is aggregated from user profiles and shows common interests, favorite TV shows, movies, books and music. This is a great report to identify new targets by finding new keywords, locations and interests of the users clicking on your Facebook Ad."

Friday, December 10, 2010

Blogger LinkUp: "I often use guest posts at SellingBooks.com, and I have found that submitting guest posts to other blogs is a great way to promote my sites. I wanted to make it easier to give and receive posts, so BloggerLinkUp was born."

Wednesday, December 08, 2010

Google Public DNS: "Configure your network settings to use the IP addresses 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 as your DNS servers to speed up your browsing experience"
JVPress Theme Versus OptimizePress Theme - Kajabi? & JVPress home & Optimize Press home & WSO Forum topic - OptimizePress vs JVPress: "I have both. Optmized press is more powerful, but it is very very slow during a large product launch... I think that one of the biggest benefits of Optimize Press, that people are not aware of, is that James Dyson (creator) has a lot of experience creating and testing direct response website designs for top marketers... Optimize Press is a direct response launch and squeeze page creation theme and launch designed to work with many other solutions such as Digital Access Pass (DAP), Nanacast's Member Lock membership plugin, or whatever current ecommerce + wordpress membership plugin solution you are using." & BusinessJolt Support: "At the moment OptimizePress does not feature a blog posts function" & Training Dashboard for Optimize Press - Membership Setup: "This section will show you the steps to setting up your own membership site with OptimizePress and how to integrate it with many of the most popular membership scripts on the market." - COOL! See also MEMBERSHIP SOFTWARE FOR WORDPRESS?
No Sponsored Links appear in my google searches? Why? - Web Search Help: "If you're using firefox and you can't see google's sponsored ads, you're probably running the ADBLOCK adddon for firefox. Open a google search page, Click on the red (ABP) Icon on the right side of the screen and disable adblock on google."

Wednesday, November 24, 2010

Prosper202 / Tracking202 Mega FAQ - covers using Prosper with Google Web Optimizer & WordPress

Tuesday, November 16, 2010

ChadHamzeh.com: Power Words & Media Buying on a Budget – Small Buys, Big ROI has numerous tips like "Method 2: Google Ad Planner & QuantCast Planner... The way I calculate a theoretical maximum CPM" etc.

Wednesday, November 10, 2010

HttpWatch - HTTP/HTTPS monitoring plugin for IE browsers (no need to change network settings or add proxies)

Tuesday, November 09, 2010

Varnish HTTP Accelerator Integration | drupal.org: "This module provides integration between your Drupal site and the Varnish HTTP Accelerator, an advanced and very fast reverse-proxy system"

SYNND Review – Real Member’s Experience | PowerOfComparison

SYNND Review – Real Member’s Experience | PowerOfComparison: "Time is Money. We can’t create more hours in a day, BUT we can AUTOMATE TASKS so they take minutes rather than hours so we can get more done. Automating your marketing is what SYNND is all about." - found via: Ask Localizer MEthod: "You may want to look into using synnd.com with a wordpress blog running on thesis. My guess is it does about the same for a whole lot less."

Thursday, October 28, 2010

The Internet Marketing Syndicate: "The Syndicate is a cartel at the center of the get rich quick world of Internet Marketing. Each of the members tries to pass himself off as a freewheeling entrepreneur. An individual rising above :: a rogue :: fighting back against the workaday ways of our corpo-centric suburbanized society. Each sells a version of this easy freedom in a bottle to seekers … the sadder the seeker … the better. But the dream :: like the cake :: is a lie. Success in “the industry” correlates not with value :: individuality :: or effort … but with proximity to a toxic core whose basic operations constitute a serious felony and moral failing."

Friday, October 22, 2010

SEOmoz | Segmenting Search Intent: Navigational Queries, Informational Queries, Commercial Investigation Queries, Transactional Queries & SEOmoz | laura's articles - The 8-Step SEO Strategy: Spying on (and Learning from) Your Competitors: Step 5 of the 8
Google Demands Speed—Do You Need A Content Delivery Network?: "Since we’ve added a CDN in front of our network, we’ve seen significant increases in number of pages indexed and number of pages in the top ten on search engine results pages (SERPs). Adding a CDN to your site is worth the investment, an investment that is decreasing as newer companies are making the industry more competitive and driving prices down"

Saturday, October 16, 2010

Top 10 Paid WordPress Frameworks for Designers | Most Inspired: Design Inspiration Blog - includes a few newer themes based on 960.gs like Ashford and Buffet. "Key features that a website theme designer might want:
  • CSS framework – e.g., Blueprint or 960.gs
  • Gallery features
  • Drop down menus
  • Choice of fixed or fluid layout
  • Choice of multiple columns
  • Variety of templates
  • Versatility – busy designers don’t have time to use multiple WP frameworks. If they can please the most clients with the versatility of one framework"

Wednesday, October 13, 2010

Glossary - Market Samurai - includes calls to MSN Adlab commercial intention tool via OCI (Online Commercial Intent) column
Can Temporary Email Addresses Stop Spam? ~ Chris Pirillo blog has a very nice "topbar", which lead me to find this article: WordPress › Support » top bar plugin - where Roger Theriault, author of Great Real Estate & FPP-Pano says: "You don't need a plugin for a widgetized top bar, you just need to set it up in your template..." (code snippet included)
How to Build a Membership-Style WordPress Powered Website - Presented on 8/13/2010 @ Raleigh WordPress Meetup
WordCamp Raleigh 2010, Liveblogging, Day 1, Afternoon Session – Heal Your Church WebSite: "Creating Community with Buddy Press" & BuddyPress "is an open source social networking software package. It is a plugin that can be installed on WordPress to transform it into a social network platform. BuddyPress is designed to allow schools, companies, sports teams or any other niche community to start their own social network or communication tool." & BuddyPress.org | Home: "The easiest way to run BuddyPress will always be with this theme, a child theme, or a purposely built BuddyPress theme. However, it’s actually very possible to use BuddyPress with any existing WordPress theme. To enable your existing WordPress theme for BuddyPress, please download and activate the Buddypress Template Pack plugin. This will run you through the process step-by-step." & BuddyPress.org | Blog | Ning To BuddyPress Importer (Free)
WordPress Mobile Apps for Android and BlackBerry Updated « Weblog Tools Collection: "The WordPress mobile apps for Android and BlackBerry have both been updated with some shiny new features, like a new comment notification system and improved VideoPress integration. There’s no word yet on an update to the iOS mobile app, but the team still has its eyes set on making this one a major bug-fixing release."

Sunday, October 03, 2010

Real Estate WordPress Themes | Premium WordPress Themes - PremiumWP & Simple Real Estate Pack for WordPress: "can function as an extension for Great Real Estate (GRE) plugin, and will add new mapping and other features to the GRE if it's installed"
MailChimp Vs. Aweber: "I’m really glad that I changed to Aweber. Things are working a lot better for me. For some reason I found that the MailChimp templates and sign up forms were not as user friendly."
Colorlabs Project: "Arthemia Premium is a magazine style theme that unleashes the power of Wordpress, transforming it into a simple-yet-powerful CMS with the automatic thumbnail generation feature. A nice and elegant blend of a blog and a magazine."
Headway vs. Thesis vs. Genesis – A Non-Coder’s Take | Headway Theme Made Easy & Thesis Theme vs Genesis Theme: A Wordpress Premium Theme Comparison & Thesis vs iThemes vs Headway vs Genesis: "There are 4 popular wordpress theme frameworks at present, they are:
1. DIY Theme -Thesis theme
2. iThemes -Flexx theme and Builder Theme
3. Headway WordPress Theme
4. Studiopress Genesis Theme"

Tuesday, September 14, 2010

Kodak Zi8 Pocket Video Camera - CNET Reviews: "Kodak finally surpasses Flip Video's video quality and feature set"

Thursday, September 09, 2010

Noble Samurai - Dojo - Market Samurai videos

Tuesday, September 07, 2010

Saturday, September 04, 2010

How To Grab Attention On Twitter Without The Auto DM | Robb Sutton dot com: "Have A Great Profile – Twitter gives you the ability to write a little bit about yourself and include a link to your website that can be seen on your homepage. If you want high converting Twitter click throughs, have a great, interesting summary of who you are and what you do. DO NOT use the words expert, guru or “I can show you how to gain 1,000 Twitter followers a day”. You should put how you are unique and what you do. Those are your couple of lines to convert that Twitter user into a click to your website and sounding like spam is going to get them to jump off your page."

Saturday, August 28, 2010

60-Minute Naked Truth Salesletter Formula | The Michel Fortin Blog: "One of the most popular threads on my now defunct discussion forum for copywriters was one started by my friend Dean Jackson."

Saturday, August 21, 2010

Wood Dragon: "Dragon people are the most eccentric in the Chinese Zodiac." - My Horoscope

Wednesday, August 04, 2010

usabilityhub

usabilityhub: "Navflow - Helps you improve your conversion rates by analyzing how people navigate around your websites and applications & Fivesecondtest - Helps you fine tune your landing pages and calls to action by analyzing the most prominent elements of your design."
More control | Fusion Drupal Themes by TNT: "Search engine optimization is something we take seriously in Fusion. Our themes follow best practices and use clean, valid markup, optimized header code, and appropriate hierarchy of tags... recommended Drupal modules..." & YouTube - Make a Custom Landing Page for Drupal from a Photoshop Design in Seconds

SEO Friend | drupal.org

SEO Friend | drupal.org: "The Drupal SEO Friend module is meant to be used along side existing Drupal SEO modules to make them more effective. This module does not replace functionality available in the SEO Checklist and SEO Compliance Checker modules." & Content Optimizer | drupal.org: "helps increase your Drupal site’s search engine (e.g. Google) rankings by improving on-page optimization factors. It provides an instant analysis of any site content as a quick and easy guide to assure optimization best practices are consistently followed. The analysis displays vital content statistics and recommendations for improving search engine rankings."

Tuesday, August 03, 2010

PostRank

PostRank: "Over 80% of the engagement with your content doesn't happen on your blog. Discover your audience. Understand what works. Grow your reach and influence. "

The Gary Halbert Letter

The Gary Halbert Letter - Gary's family left his sales letters to the public domain!!!

Sunday, August 01, 2010

FREE Swipe File | The Total Package

FREE Swipe File | The Total Package - See how legendary copywriters write their sales letters

Tuesday, July 20, 2010

Official Google Website Optimizer Blog: 7 Deadly Sins of Landing Page Design webinar ready for viewing

Official Google Website Optimizer Blog: 7 Deadly Sins of Landing Page Design webinar ready for viewing: "Tim Ash, one of our Website Optimizer Authorized Consultants, gave a webinar on the 7 Deadly Sins of Landing Page Design. In this webinar he exposes common errors in landing page design that might be holding back your conversion rate and shows you how you can fix them. If you missed it, or if you just want to review your sins, you'll be happy to know the webinar is now on the Website Optimizer YouTube channel."
MailChimp Vs. Aweber: "Advantages of Aweber as Compared to MailChimp" & MailChimp Vs Aweber – A Comparison Of Two Email Marketing Providers | MyWifeQuitHerJob.com: "However, once I switched over to Aweber, I realized how much more powerful their tracking and email management features were compared to Mailchimp. You only have to design your forms once but tracking is something you’ll be doing all the time. In addition, having phone support is priceless. That and getting suspended without warning by MailChimp left a really bad taste in my mouth. If they simply gave me an early heads up, it would have made my life much easier. Trust me. There’s nothing more frustrating than not being able to get someone on the phone when something goes wrong." & Aweber vs. MailChimp vs. ConstantContact - The 4-Hour Work Week and Timothy Ferriss: "I've been using Mailchimp for about a month now (after using Constant Contact for over a year) and have found it to be 1) much more versatile than CC, 2) much better looking overall (the emails themselves and the UI of the site are much more modern-looking and appealing...like comparing Keynote to Powerpoint), and 3) it's quite cheap for what you get. I know the pricing is comparable to Aweber.com (which I haven't used, but looked into for comparison purposes), and I went with Mailchimp and have been very happy with my choice." & Constant Contact versus Aweber : LeeRaito.com: "Update (May 2010): I am now exclusively recommending AWEBER & not Constant Contact. I had an unfortunate run in with a Constant Contact representative & as a result prefer to affiliate myself with a company that appreciates those who send them business." & which do u use, prosender or aweber - Black Hat Forum Black Hat SEO: "Used both GetResponse and AWeber. I dropped GR but I'm still in at AWeber because I consider it a far superior service. I too got in under the old pricing. I have no experince with ProSender (Mike Filsaime's private label of Aweber)." & Aweber vs iContact vs Mailchimp & Email Marketing Services Review 2010 - ignores AWeber for some reason.

I've been researching for months on what to choose... Top choices today seem to be AWeber (simplicity, usability, top marketers use it), Mailchimp (great integration with CMS-es like Drupal & WordPress) & iContact (based on older research and popularity in this part of the world) & GetResponse (tons of users and info about in my niche - real estate)

Service Trace Viewer Tool (SvcTraceViewer.exe)

Service Trace Viewer Tool (SvcTraceViewer.exe): "Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) Service Trace Viewer Tool helps you analyze diagnostic traces that are generated by WCF. Service Trace Viewer provides a way to easily merge, view, and filter trace messages in the log so that you can diagnose, repair, and verify WCF service issues."
Search Exchange Day 3 – In-House SEM, Using Analytics, and Measuring PPC Campaigns | Raven Internet Marketing Tools: "Sitescanga.com – Free diagnostic tool which verifies if your Google Analytics account is active on all pages."

Wednesday, July 14, 2010

Duncan Wierman's BlogSay Goodbye To The Squeeze Page – Death of Hype Web 2.0 System – Google Slap: "I have therefore decided NOT to endorse the new Sims 2.0 by Greg Glement. The sites as I have seen look terrible, lack the ability to rank in the search engines and do not bring significant web2.0 technology to the table. I believe its just another over hyped website that is being promoted for fast income only to line their pockets." & Duncan Wierman's BlogWill Google Slap You For Squeeze Pages - Overview of landing page quality
How To Interrupt Blog Visitors - very nice summary of add-ons
Drupal Voices 99: Katherine Lynch on Accessibility Tips for Websites | Lullabot: "Lynch provides some basic tips for how to bring your website up to the standards set forth by the W3C's Web Content Accessibility Guidelines and Section 508 law. She also provides from tips for how to test your site through the open source screen reader called Thunder or the demo version of the most popular screen reader of JAWS. Lynch briefly describes how a screen reader will parse and communicate the content on a web page... Lynch also recommends using a couple of FireFox extensions of the Firefox Accessibility Extension and Fangs, which will help you verify the accessibility of your site. In her DrupalCon presentation slides, she also mentions VisCheck to see your site as a colorblind person would perceive it." & Drupal Voices 98: Everett Zufelt on Accessibility in Drupal | Lullabot & excerpt from Everett's email to me: "If you will be doing the testing in house I would recommend that you use NVDA, an open source screen-reader for Windows. NVDA can be downloaded from http://nvda-project.org. You can also test the page with the WAVE evaluation tool from WebAIM. Testing with a screen-reader and using automated tools like WAVE are useful steps in assessing the accessibility of a site, however, nothing compares to having someone with experience and expertise perform a thorough evaluation."

Monday, July 12, 2010

Display Ad Builder – Google Display Network: "Create free, professional-looking display ads within AdWords in minutes" (via Using the display ad builder | CDF Networks)
easyDNS : domain name, registrations, DNS, management,: "10 things you MUST know before you register a domain name with anyone"

Thursday, June 24, 2010

Conversion University Help - Google Analytics IQ Lessons

Wednesday, June 16, 2010

MindMeister can import the following mind map formats: FreeMind, Mindjet MindManager, Plain text file

Saturday, June 05, 2010

NetSmartz.org - Northwestern District Attorney’s Office has empowered children to teach each other about Internet safety.

Sunday, May 30, 2010

Saturday, May 29, 2010

AnonymZ: "to block the referrer when a visitor clicks a link on your homepage. It works with every browser as you do only have to add a http://anonymz.com/? in front of every outgoing http:// link."

Thursday, May 20, 2010

Two Facebook Page Apps for Doing Business | Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing & How to use the new Facebook pages for business: "I am hosting a live Facebook for Business webinar – Jan 21, 2010 – Listen to the archive recording here... I would suggest creating a subdomain on your site and using that as the main promotion URL with a 301 redirect to your Facebook page. I use fb.ducttapemarketing.com to get the job done." & 3 Ways for Businesses to Take Full Advantage of Facebook
Drupal Hosting | Theme Garden & Bluehost NOT Recommended | drupal.org: "I have 6 sites on Bluehost right now, 4 of them are Drupal site, 1 Joomla site, and 1 wordpress. So far, I am very satisfied with their service . And their MySQL speeds is extremely fast, according to the blog of Matt, I believe they have spent huge time on improving the performance. For my experience, Bluehost or Hostmonster are the good company to work with" & Bluehost NOT Recommended | drupal.org: "I have 6 sites on Bluehost right now, 4 of them are Drupal site, 1 Joomla site, and 1 wordpress. So far, I am very satisfied with their service . And their MySQL speeds is extremely fast, according to the blog of Matt, I believe they have spent huge time on improving the performance. For my experience, Bluehost or Hostmonster are the good company to work with" & GoDaddy.com Hosting = Bad for Drupal | LevelTen Web Design & AN Hosting Review: My Experience With Drupal Hosting - It's all about database speed
Keep All Your Microsoft Office Documents In Sync with Google Docs: "A decent solution to this problem could be DocSyncer, a free utility that automatically uploads your Word, Excel and PowerPoint files to Google Docs. It then keeps a watch on our local folders and if it finds anything new, that is pushed to Google Docs" & Backup and Synchronize Google Docs with Office Documents: "Are you looking for an alternative to Docsyncer? If you said yes to any of the above questions, what you really need is Syncplicity, a file backup and synchronization service on the lines of DropBox or Microsoft Live Mesh but with an additional feature – Syncplicity works with your Google Docs account."
Backup and Synchronize Google Docs with Office Documents: "If you said yes to any of the above questions, what you really need is Syncplicity, a file backup and synchronization service on the lines of DropBox or Microsoft Live Mesh but with an additional feature – Syncplicity works with your Google Docs account." & The Holy Grail of Synchronization (Dropbox vs Syncplicity) - web-mastered

Thursday, May 13, 2010

DIYSEO Review: The Future Of SEO For Small Business & DIY SEO Review: Is DIYSEO.com's SEO Software / Tool Any Good? | SEO Book.com: "What Do Effective SEO Campaigns Consist of?... Want an effective guide to small business SEO? Check out Matt McGee's small business SEO guide. It will give you more than the above program while only setting you back $25. There are numerous free guides worth recommending as well. Both Bing and Google offer SEO starter guides. We created this one for non-profits, this one for bloggers, and this one for general business websites. SeoMoz offers a pretty good one too... out of all this, Raven tools does seem to be the better SEO management tool out there - no it does not do the work for you, just enables you to manage it better."
Drupal Security White Paper | drupalsecurityreport.org: "Addressing ongoing questions about Drupal security, the paper analyzes the Security Team's Security Advisories and discusses how Drupal 6 and 7 address common and critical security risks, including those of the OWASP Top Ten."

Friday, May 07, 2010

10 Link Building Tools for Tracking Inbound Links | salescount.com & Five Advanced Keyword Research Tools | Search Engine Optimization | Search Engines & SEOmoz's Linkscape: Why the Backlash is Overblown | SEO Book.com: "i'd rather spend my money on raven's seo tools. it has a couple redundant tools built in, but: 1) gathers screenshots of SERP tracking history 2)can save a lot of time by streamlining link building tasks. 3) includes, in the $100 basic subscription fee, wordtracker and seodigger usage!" & DIY SEO Review: Is DIYSEO.com's SEO Software / Tool Any Good? | SEO Book.com: "I cannot believe how commercialized his posts have been lately, especially the DIYSEO one. I found it rather humorous that he put his tools in the same category as Raven and SEOMoz... but that's another story... out of all this, Raven tools does seem to be the better SEO management tool out there - no it does not do the work for you, just enables you to manage it better."
This made me look at it again: Raven SEO Tools: Review - Features of Raven Internet Marketing Tools - Competitor Research & Keyword Research - New Tools in Raven SEO Toolbox for Internet Marketers

Adobe Reader Issue Update - Adobe Product Security Incident Response Team (PSIRT) - disable JavaScript in Adobe Reader and Acrobat using the following instructions
Why Facebook Marketing Slaps Twitter Marketing In the Face | Search Engine Journal:
  1. "Huge Penetration: As the search volume Insights charts show, Facebook is more popular, and Twitter marketing is stagnant.
  2. Reliable Stats: Facebook’s built-in engagement stats rock, they tell you what FB cares about, and they won’t just disappear any old day like a third party Twitter app might.
  3. Ad Integration & Targeting: Facebook ads are a powerful synergistic way to add power to your FB page, and their targeting ability ROCKS.
  4. Mainstream Appeal: Facebook is multimedia – pictures and video – and if you didn’t notice, people like TV better than books. Facebook is more engaging and intuitive for normal people. (No, geeks are not normal people)
  5. Braslow’s Hierarchy of Awesomeness (see below): This classic marketing framework I created two weeks ago demonstrates the importance of brand. It’s easier to brand with Facebook than Twitter. Branding is key in red oceans because it’s the only thing your competitors can’t copy."

Thursday, April 22, 2010

SANS Quick reference | Security - Intrusion Discovery for Windows & Linux
SEO Friend | drupal.org "module is meant to be used along side existing Drupal SEO modules to make them more effective. This module does not replace functionality available in the SEO Checklist and SEO Compliance Checker modules."