Day 14 - Almost Halfway There…
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Dan’s cleaned himself up a bit to show you another great place to post some content to get more backlinks to your blog.
Click here to get the Day 14 Lesson
Ed
August 14th, 2008 at 6:56 pm
Dan, you are SO much appreciated regardless of whether you have cleaned yourself up or not
Thanks so much
Kindest
Gordon
August 14th, 2008 at 8:50 pm
Ed
I like your challenge and I’m sure it will help me but it’s taken me two days to get Hostgator to set up my site for $19.95. They seemed to think I wanted two primary accounts because I transferred in a parked site as well as ordering a new one. Even now, its not up and running with any content. The account above is an older one hosted by Microsoft Office Live.
Hostgator told me that their add-on accounts are not good for search engines. Have you any comments about this?
August 14th, 2008 at 9:10 pm
@Ted, I’m using the add-on accounts for my sites and it’s being indexed just fine.
August 15th, 2008 at 4:47 pm
Last year’s 30DC I was one of those ‘tumbled’ and now tumblr redirects me indicating my account is suspended.
Is there a ‘work around’ this ?
August 15th, 2008 at 4:55 pm
Guys
Sorry about this -we thought we were adhearing to there new TOC’s - just leave tumblr and go straight to lesson 15
August 16th, 2008 at 6:12 am
Hi
What exactly has happened to Tumblr? I see this lesson has been withdrawn and Lesson 15 excludes Tumblr
Good job I’m a bit behind still and hadn’t set up Tumblr or Squidoo Lens. Plenty to do ths weekend.
August 17th, 2008 at 12:41 pm
Why does the Day 14 link take me to the day 15 page?
August 17th, 2008 at 12:43 pm
Where is Day 14 Video
August 17th, 2008 at 4:18 pm
same with me…I can not see training for day 14…where it is
August 17th, 2008 at 6:59 pm
Day 14 does not exist, Correct!
August 18th, 2008 at 10:19 am
I think from the comments above that Day 14 was about Tumblr, which didn’t work out well. It sounds like Ed wants everyone to skip Day 14 and go on to Day 15. That’s why the lesson for Day 14 actually takes you to Day 15.
August 18th, 2008 at 10:56 pm
I don’t understand either. Seems like day 14 is automatically redirected to day 15… Does anyone have the video for day 14?
August 19th, 2008 at 3:52 pm
would be nice if someone can explain why day 14 redirects to day 15.don’t you recommend us to use Tumblr?
thank you for clarifying this to us.
August 22nd, 2008 at 1:39 pm
Actually the new Google social bookmarking engine in Google Reader is the newest way to get backlinks and it does all the work for you.
What is interesting is that Scoble predicted it in 2006, Robert.
You can now add friends to your friends list, share feed items, bookmark single blog posts from blogs that you read on the web and here’s the kicker, there is now a blog recommendation engine that recommends blogs you do not read by what your friends list is subscribed to in their Google Readers.
Then, everything you share and bookmark in Google Reader of course comes up on your Google shared items page linked to by your Google profile.
What really blew me away was the recommendation engine. If you add as many of your email list subscribers as you can to your Google Reader you can get a real good idea of what other blogs your subscribers are reading.
The links in your shared items are all HTML and fully followed so every time one of your RSS subscribers shares a blog post it is creating incoming links to your site.
Better yet, it uses the exact blog post title you wrote so now your links use your keyword phrases and bookmarkers can’t change your title tag.
After talking to my SEO top dog contacts, they were all floored and assured me this is the new SEO tactic that no one knows about.
http://www.keywebdata.com/?p=136
It is kind of hard to add friends, the easiest way is to send a chat invite from Gmail and then email your contact you want to friend and have them email you back. It seems Google wants a two way conversation before they will allow you to become mutual friends.
If you would like to friend me, add chrislang at gmail.com to your Google Gmail chat and send me an email letting me know so I can return an email to you, thereby creating a two way connection in Google.
Google is quietly rolling this out behind the scenes but it is a full blown social bookmarking application and the blog recommendation engine is the new blog marketing strategy.
One thing I have not quite figured out is if using FeedBurner now hurts you since the links point at the FeedBurner redirect rather than your site like a WordPress feed does.
August 23rd, 2008 at 3:42 am
HI,
In the Training section of 30DC, Lesson 14 and Lesson 15 are both pointing to the same page. I mean If You click on the Lesson 14 button it takes you to lesson 15.
Thank You,
Yours,
Devasish