Often, I come across tips and resources that you may find useful, but which do not require much explanation or comment and, do not warrant a whole post to themselves. This week, I have found several such items, so, without further ado, here is a virtual smorgasbord of links:
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Social Sites
901am point to a guide to using StumbleUpon, which is a social site often likened to Digg. Worth reading as, having had one of my sites “StumbleUpon” this week, this can suddenly bring you hundreds of new visitors. (And I knew exactly where they came from thanks to MyBlogLog.)
Top 25 Internet Startups To Watch In 2007, is a very interesting list of what are predicted to be the next online successes (StumbleUpon is one of them). It’s also interesting from the point of view that it explains what these “new fangled” services actually do (it isn’t always obvious) and gives ideas on businesses or models to emulate.
Reinforcing the importance of social media in today’s decision-making, “According to the 2007 Trust Barometer published by PR firm Edelman, “a person like me” is the most trusted spokesperson in much of the developed world.”
Killer Pipes for Social News, ideas on using Yahoo! Pipes to streamline your social news RSS subscriptions.
Blogging Resources
Use Blogger? Then you may want to look at your META tags, or at least replace Blogger’s default tag with manually produced ones, as Search Engine Roundtable report that the default may not be letting search spiders in.
Need free templates for your blog? Find Blogger Templates (Classic) and some with versions for New Blogger here.
If it’s Wordpress templates you want and free, then have a look at these 16 Adsense Optimized Wordpress Themes to Maximize your Contextual Ad Earnings.
WordPress is not the only pretty girl at the dance. Another nice content management system is Drupal.
Bloggers Blog have more on the news readers that are dominating the market now. The top few are similar to Pheedo’s findings, but these stats put Google much farther ahead. One very interesting finding is that, “According to Feedburner MyYahoo is the leading RSS reader for clicks that send readers back to the publisher’s website.”
Site Building
Mastering Many CSS Columns: cheat sheet on creating web sites with one, two, three or four columns with CSS layouts.
Want to add an interactive section to your website that other people can edit? Then you could try this free service called PBwiki. The PB stands for peanut butter, as they say, “It’s as easy to make as a peanut butter sandwich.” 
Download free software that creates a HTML sitemap from any given (local) directory.
Or Enhance your site with Google search results
Security
Free Download of the PC Security Ebook and the Spyware Secrets Report. Both can be found here. And Dina Giolitto points to a FREE Anti-Virus Program For The Home Business Owner, Avira Anti-Virus and Anti-Spyware.
Need a guide to online writing? Then try Effective Copywriting 101. This guide also comes with a useful file recovery utility that can save hours of hard work in case you accidentally lose an important file. Get them both here.
Email Marketing
Just how can you get recipients to open your e-mails? Dr. Ralph Wilson gives us the low-down and charts on Why Consumers Open E-mails.
Once the email is open, are you missing out on some of the ways to improve email campaign conversions? This MarketingSherpa blog post looks at Rough Stats on Email Conversions From ‘Reply To’s’ Versus Clickthroughs.
And everything else ….
9 Random Tips On Being A Successful Online Marketer
Alexa recently introduced new traffic features which offer more granular view of your blog’s or website’s traffic and now reports where your site’s visitors are from geographically.
Lifehacker urge you to find inspiration from historical accomplishments, by looking at Things Other People Accomplished When They Were Your Age. I don’t think I want to look, because I am sure I will find that most people had done a lot more than I have at mine! But fortunately, they also point to 52 Proven Stress Reducers.
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