The voice quality is still a bit robotic but better than I was expecting. They incorporate ads into the podcast (surprise, surprise) so run your own test before installing the addon.

I’m not sure this is going to be a sustainable business model for them but we shall see.

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Odiogo

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This nifty addition adds meta tags to each post. I know all the SEO experts will tell you that meta tags are long dead and buried but we aren’t using them here to gain ranking, but to give the search engines a nice user-friendly title and description.

The second plugin is Google (XML) Sitemaps Generator for WordPress

I had a very bad experience with XML sitemaps when they were first introduced. It wasn’t that Google ignored my sitemap. Quite the contrary. It came calling hard and fast. Only trouble was I had built one of those grey-hat sites (dark grey) with about 800,000 pages. It was a long time ago when bandwidth was measured in megabytes and it got very expensive very quickly. Since then I’ve been shy of generating them, although I’m a reformed character now and only use purely white hat techniques. Honest.

This plugin generates a XML-Sitemap compliant sitemap of your WordPress blog. This format is supported by Ask.com, Google, Yahoo and MSN Live Search. As well as generating the sitemap it calculates a priority for each post based on the number of comments and notifies Ask.com, Google, MSN Live Search and Yahoo via ping.

Obviously you can also submit the sitemap via Google webmaster console to monitor its progress.

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SEO Plugins for Wordpress

Via Money making Blogs

Or maybe you just want to become a famous blogger?

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Are You Making $18k a Month from Your Blog?

I’m not convinced Google is making us dumber, but it’s certainly making us less patient.

Remember going to the library to look up something? Not anymore. Just Google it. If their spam algorithms are working this month, the information is right there. If they aren’t, it’s on page six.

Out attention span decreases with every dose of instant gratification. We get frustrated if we can’t find the information NOW.

Think I’m going to turn off the computer and read a book.

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Are You Getting Dumber?

This resource guide contains:

Over 100 Social Networking Sites (i.e. MySpace, Squidoo, etc..)
Over 150 Social Bookmarking Sites(i.e. StumbleUpon, Digg, etc..)
And Over 180 Video Sharing Sites (i.e. YouTube, AOL, etc..)

ONLY $9.95!

At least that’s what it says on the sales page.

It’s actually a decent list of Web 2.0 resources. But, being a Nice Guy and all, I got the resale rights so you can get it here for free.

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The Social Marketing Directory

One of the products that was getting seriously over-hyped pre-launch was DayJobKiller.

It was with some guilt therefore that I purchased a copy last night.

It’s really Affiliate Project X Part II in that it expands on some of the techniques used and introduces some new techniques. There’s really nothing earth-shattering in there although I did have some aha moments when I realized I could boost the income on some of the PPC campaigns I have running.

Does it work and is it worth the $77?

It’s expensive at $1.12 a page for the 69 pages, although it’s all content and no fluff.  It will be more expensive if he raises the priced as promised.

I guess the value of any make-money ebook can be judged as to whether it makes you any extra cash. I implemented one of the techniques in an existing Adwords campaign and also created a new campaign based on a different technique in the guide. It took me about 2 hours to read the book and set everything up. In the 14 hours the campaigns have been running, I’ve made an extra $18, just under a quarter of the cost of the book. On that basis I guess I have to say it was a success. There’s no reason why these two changes won’t continue to make me money for weeks and months to come. There’s another technique in the book that I will try over the next few days that I’m pretty excited about as well.

It’s not a book for PPC newbies, but if you can create an Adwords campaign and open an affiliate account on your own without bursting into tears, you should find something of value.

If you want to try it yourself, here’s my shameless affiliate link.

Let me know what you think.

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Guilty, As Charged

Their site is slow and often unreachable. There are many times during the day that their widget causes this blog to load slowly.

The spammers have arrived in bulk, I guess they were frightened away from MySpace marketing¯ by the recent lawsuits. I’m spending too much time deleting spam comments from my profile. Their spam reporting link just launches a blank email to be bugs at mybloglog.com. What a joke.

It just isn’t worth the aggravation for the little traffic it brings.

Rant over. I feel better now. Thanks for listening.

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MyBlogLog Woes

The last article I posted at EzineArticles received about 20 visitors directly from their site within 24 hours, so it may be worth submitting to a couple more Alexa ranked sites just for the direct traffic.

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Article Directories

Hence I was pleased to see that Wordtracker, which I’m too tight to buy for the little keyword research I need, is now offering a free service for basic keyword research. Kudos to them.

It works just like Overture but without the delays and timeouts.

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Free Wordtracker

I was skimming.

Jumping from paragraph to paragraph.

Reading the first line (or just the first few words) and jumping down to the next paragraph.

I know you lot read every word I write.

But be aware that most of the readers of your blog skim.

So keep your paragraphs short, your white space large, and highlight stuff that’s important.

Because nobody reads every word you write. It may hurt, but it’s true.

Okay?

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Skimming and Reading