Continuing from our earlier discussion on testing your own blog’s success, let’s look at the different reasons you should be unsubscribing from the feeds in your feed reader.
Stop wasting time; dump 90% of the feeds you read
April 10th, 2007 by Ahmed Bilal | 4 Comments
Would you read your own blog?
April 9th, 2007 by Ahmed Bilal | 39 Comments
A fair bit of blogging advice centers on attracting readers and keeping them. There is a lot of good advice out there as well.
However, along with that advice you also need a method to test whether you are on the right track with your blog or not.
Google ties up BBC for YouTube
March 2nd, 2007 by Ahmed Bilal | 1 Comment
The BBC has struck a content deal with YouTube to allow 3 channels to showcase short clips of BBC content. This news comes hot on the heels of a New York Times article on Google’s quest for forming partnerships with smaller media companies as opposed to major studios and networks such as Viacom or NBC.
The [...]
How To Buy Links And Avoid Google Detection
February 20th, 2007 by Ahmed Bilal | 6 Comments
Despite what Google and SEO gurus like Eric Ward tell you, you can easily use ’smart’ paid links to deliver the benefit of editorially earned organic links without tripping any filters or being detected as a ‘paid’ link by Google.
Let’s take two sites:
Site A is an established authority site in its niche with page 1 [...]
Defending NoFollow Against Angry SEOs
February 16th, 2007 by Ahmed Bilal | 12 Comments
I’m playing the devil’s advocate here, so keep that in mind in case I end up trampling all over anything you hold dear :)
Google has taken a lot of flak on a lot of issues in the past few years - it’s a price an industry leader invariably has to pay.
Apart from Blogger spam [...]
Why won’t Matt Cutts link to me?
February 13th, 2007 by Ahmed Bilal | 8 Comments
Do you suffer from no-links angst too?
Aaron Pratt of SEO Buzz Box writes about “circular linking patterns” and how A-list bloggers form their own ‘link cliques‘ and eschew their own advice of linking out to quality content for the sake of some friendly back-scratching.
He’s talking about the ‘elite’ SEO bloggers and I think it would [...]
Yahoo to acquire MyBlogLog
November 17th, 2006 by Ahmed Bilal | 9 Comments
Techcrunch and Valleywag report that Yahoo! has agreed to acquire MyBlogLog for an estimated $10 million.
That takes the number of Yahoo acquisitions we’ve heard of in the last 24 hours to 3 - Loren talked about Yahoo acquiring Bix earlier, while Katie Fehrenbacher from GigaOM also reports that Yahoo! has confirmed its acquisition of Swedish [...]
