From the monthly archives:

July 2009

How to Create Better Content: Treat Your Readers Like Dogs

Do you want a wider audience, more subscribers, better conversion to paying customers, fanatically loyal readers, and enviable word of mouth?
You can have all of them by keeping one simple piece of advice in mind:
Treat your readers like dogs.
If you want to teach your dog to sit, how do you go about it?
Any good trainer [...]

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Buy the Thesis Theme for WordPress Today, Get SEO School for Free

I haven’t posted anything about our Thesis Theme for Wordpress lately, which is criminally negligent on my part given that it’s one of the main ways that pays the bills around here.
But this time I wanted to do something a bit more than a product update.
So I was thinking… one of the big selling [...]

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Thanks to this Months Sponsors – July 2009

I#8217;d like to say thanks to the people who sponsored the blog this month, without them there wouldn#8217;t be regular posts here.

Text Link Ads #8211; New customers can get $100 in free text links.
CrazyEgg.com #8211; Supplement your analytics with action information from click tracking heat maps.
Clasione Directory #8211; Quality directory for listing your business
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Is Sarah Lacy Making Sponsored Posts on TechCrunch?

If you read TechCrunch, you may have noticed a post this weekend about Blueprint Cleanse, a health product designed to cleanse your body. On the surface, the piece seemed to be a  #8220;California#8221; lifestyle piece, however, after doing a bit of research it turns out there#8217;s a lot more intrigue, questionable journalistic ethics, and deception [...]pThis post originally came from a href=’http://michaelgray.name’Michael Gray/a who is an a href=’http://www.wolf-howl.com/information/consulting/’SEO Consultant/a. Be sure not to miss the a href=’http://www.wolf-howl.com/blogs/thesis-wordpress-theme-review/’Thesis Wordpress Theme review/a. br/br/a href=”http://www.wolf-howl.com/news/sponsored-posts-techcrunch/”Is Sarah Lacy Making Sponsored Posts on TechCrunch?/a br/p style=”font-size:xx-small”a href=”http://www.wolf-howl.com/986.html”1/aa href=”http://www.wolf-howl.com/986.html”2/aa href=”http://www.wolf-howl.com/987.html”3/aa href=”http://www.wolf-howl.com/945.html”4/aa href=”http://www.wolf-howl.com/323.html”5/aa href=”http://www.wolf-howl.com/478.html”6/aa href=”http://www.wolf-howl.com/478.html”7/aa href=”http://www.wolf-howl.com/115.html”8/a/p/p

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Who came out ahead in the Microsoft-Yahoo deal?

MSFT and Yahoo announced their deal earlier today. I’m curious what you think–who did better in the deal?
Let me know what you think.

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Cloaking Affiliate Links, How and Why

Today#8217;s topic is one that gets asked about pretty regularly, should I cloak my affiliate links to search engines, why or why not, and what are some of the best ways to do it.
First of all we need a little clarification, a good working definition of cloaking is, serving one set of content to the [...]pThis post originally came from a href=’http://michaelgray.name’Michael Gray/a who is an a href=’http://www.wolf-howl.com/information/consulting/’SEO Consultant/a. Be sure not to miss the a href=’http://www.wolf-howl.com/blogs/thesis-wordpress-theme-review/’Thesis Wordpress Theme review/a. br/br/a href=”http://www.wolf-howl.com/affiliate-marketing/cloaking-affiliate-links/”Cloaking Affiliate Links, How and Why/a br/p style=”font-size:xx-small”a href=”http://www.wolf-howl.com/986.html”1/aa href=”http://www.wolf-howl.com/986.html”2/aa href=”http://www.wolf-howl.com/987.html”3/aa href=”http://www.wolf-howl.com/945.html”4/aa href=”http://www.wolf-howl.com/323.html”5/aa href=”http://www.wolf-howl.com/478.html”6/aa href=”http://www.wolf-howl.com/478.html”7/aa href=”http://www.wolf-howl.com/115.html”8/a/p/p

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How to Add a Carousel to Your Thesis Blog

If you#8217;ve spent any time visiting blogs lately chances are you#8217;ve seen those small little photo#8217;s accompained by a title or bit of text in or near the masthead. I#8217;m not sure if it has a proper name, but most people I#8217;ve talked to call it a carousel, in this tutorial I#8217;m going to show [...]pThis post originally came from a href=’http://michaelgray.name’Michael Gray/a who is an a href=’http://www.wolf-howl.com/information/consulting/’SEO Consultant/a. Be sure not to miss the a href=’http://www.wolf-howl.com/blogs/thesis-wordpress-theme-review/’Thesis Wordpress Theme review/a. br/br/a href=”http://www.wolf-howl.com/blogs/how-to-carousel/”How to Add a Carousel to Your Thesis Blog/a br/p style=”font-size:xx-small”a href=”http://www.wolf-howl.com/986.html”1/aa href=”http://www.wolf-howl.com/986.html”2/aa href=”http://www.wolf-howl.com/987.html”3/aa href=”http://www.wolf-howl.com/945.html”4/aa href=”http://www.wolf-howl.com/323.html”5/aa href=”http://www.wolf-howl.com/478.html”6/aa href=”http://www.wolf-howl.com/478.html”7/aa href=”http://www.wolf-howl.com/115.html”8/a/p/p

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Good workout music?

Okay, so I registered for a sprint triathlon (400m swim, 11 mile bike, 3.1 mile run) in August. Maybe that will turn out to be a really stupid idea, but I’m going to see if I can at least finish.
So I need some good workout music, because my current tunes are getting tired. [...]

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