Grab yourself a coffee, because I’m playing catchup here with a list of links (in no particular order) to various items that may be of use or interest to you.
I’d also like to do a post about how a Microsoft automatic update screwed up my computer big-style and how I fixed it. Well, I do plan on writing the first half of that. I’m still working on the second part, but, for now, at least it works.
So, without further ado:
Do you have a “prize collection of vintage Albanian telephone mast photographs?” If so, Chris Garrett wants to hear from you. No, not really, but he will explain all about targeting your content to your audience.
Official Alexa Toolbar for Firefox Released - What You Should Know
Gaman at Sabahan.com writes about the new official Firefox extension for Alexa. Whilst you do have to simply trust Alexa on what they will do with your info, at least when installing this, it is not instantly disabled as spyware, as the IE toolbar is, so you may consider this as a safe enough addon to use. And this counts towards Alexa traffic rank (including to your own sites.)
Andy Williams pointed to a handy free search engine script for your site, 1-search script. “The script logs all the searches, found and not found, so you always know what are your visitors top items of interest.”
Neil Shearing tells us why he doesn’t do seminars, conferences and workshops. No doubt there are folks doing very nicely from them (for the obvious reasons he gives), but I have to agree with him that doing them would defeat one of the reasons I choose to work from home too.
Eric Giguere talks about The 3 Kinds Of Successful AdSense Sites; The Experience Site, The Clarification Site and The Compilation Site, explaining how you can provide real value (as Google now expects from publishers) if you’re just one person with limited time and resources.
Avoiding the blacklist I’m so glad that someone of the calibre of Seth Godin (close to immortal), has said this: “It’s the good guys (and the amateur spammers) who get hassled,” not the professional spammers.
Does Your Website Have These Friendly Features?, asks Chris Garrett. While you read these tips for making your site attract, think back to your own favorite magazines, newspapers or websites.
What male business gurus don’t tell you, that women need to know a list of seven critical things. You may be surprised what you discover!
Recipe EBOOK Collections What do recipes have to do with internet marketing? If you read the post, you’ll see that it’s a prime example of how “normal” visitors (i.e. end consumers) deal (or don’t) with issues that are perfectly simple to us, like ebooks. It actually looks like this seller did all they could have done to make it obvious that this was a product to download, yet, they still got angry emails from folks who thought they were going to get a physical product delivered. Lesson: careful wording on sales and thank you pages can help prevent refunds and customer service duties. How you get buyers to read the instructions though remains a bit of a mystery. 
New social networking - place to leave your footprint - PeekYou claims 50 million profiles, say 9:01am. Well, they have 50 million and one now!
Not that you are planning to go to a better place any time soon, I hope, but Lifehacker point to an article on how to handle your online life after death - especially important for anyone who makes their living on the web.
There’s a lot more links and topics backed up in my folder, but this should be enough to keep you out of trouble for a while. Should you need them:
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