Written on December 22nd, 2007 at 07:12 am by Darren Rowse
Speedlinking 22 December 2007
A few blogging links from the last couple of days. Enjoy
- I’ve recently been enjoying Pajama Professional – a blog by Sara Christensen. She’s been writing some nice posts including The Three Cs of Blogging.
- Daniel at Daily Blog Tips has written a helpful post outlining 7 Characteristics of Good Domain Names. Keep in mind that like Daniel says, these are all ‘ideals’ and there are plenty of examples of sites that don’t fit the bill. For example I launched ProBlogger with a .net domain and DPS breaks numerous of them but gets almost double the traffic that ProBlogger gets these days
- Seth links to a fascinating analysis of who clicks on ads. Turns out that it’s older women. Plenty more to chew on in those posts.
- Mani writes how Blogging is like a traditional Indian Meal.
Lastly – Linda put together a fun little video on blogging for money – I hope you enjoy it:
22 Responses to “Speedlinking 22 December 2007” - Add Yours
Ganha
December 22nd, 2007 7:17 am
really funny clip nicee
vhxn.com
December 22nd, 2007 7:33 am
Thanks darren for sharing great links – http://www.vhxn.com
Millionaire Money Habits
December 22nd, 2007 7:36 am
That’s a fantastic video!
Moviecat
December 22nd, 2007 7:36 am
I really like Pajama Professional, very well written and very clean site.
Michael Grove
December 22nd, 2007 7:38 am
Just wanna thank you for updating the site so often.
Brian Purkiss
December 22nd, 2007 7:41 am
LOL!
I love that video!
:-D
Bruce Keener
December 22nd, 2007 7:42 am
Sara’s writeup was a good reminder. Thanks for sharing.
Daniel Scocco
December 22nd, 2007 7:57 am
Darren, thanks for mention.
DPS has two hyphens and it is long, but I think it has a huge benefit of being completely descriptive and having all the related keywords on the domain.
I always wondered how the site performed in Google’s eyes indeed.
Daniel Scocco
December 22nd, 2007 7:58 am
Actually just went to Google “digital photography” to find you in the 3rd position… it kinda answers my question :).
turtie
December 22nd, 2007 8:10 am
Appreciate the links. Great content on those sites.
Darren Rowse
December 22nd, 2007 8:37 am
Daniel – yeah it does well on an SEO front (has really increased in the last 6 months) but not so great on a memorability front.
Abdul Basit
December 22nd, 2007 8:38 am
Great stuff Darren !…,
video is really very funny, thanks for sharing -:)
cheers,
-abs
Emma
December 22nd, 2007 8:50 am
I like Pajama Professional a lot too. I would like it even more if I was one.
Roosevelt
December 22nd, 2007 9:30 am
I really benefited from the links and that video was so funny and yet, to me at least, inspirational. For some reason I was a pagerank 5 and Google stripped me down to zero. Why I don’t know, as I have never had any “paid links” or anything like that. I am still very much listed in Google, I have adsense and I average 1500 hits a day so nothing changed except my pagerank. (I also have about 2,000 backlinks). Linda’s video made my day! (She has a great blog too!)
Woodshed
December 22nd, 2007 9:44 am
I’m not so sure about Pajama Professional. Her latest post is very similar to this one by Trent Brownrigg and he updated to point out that the tactic may violate eBay’s terms of service.
Darshana
December 22nd, 2007 12:09 pm
The video was really good, it took me few seconds to realize the words rhymed with the music.Thanks for the great links, as usual they bound to provide real value. I am off to read them in more depth.
Linda
December 22nd, 2007 1:02 pm
Hey Darren…. thanks for this. Been out Christmas shopping (tired feet, ringing ears) and came back to find the linkback. You made my day. Happy holidays and keep the great content coming. Love your blog. : )
Linda
ImageGag
December 22nd, 2007 1:30 pm
Check out the Christmas video Randy from GrownUpGeek did. It’s hilarious.
Mani Karthik
December 22nd, 2007 10:22 pm
Thanks for the link Darren.
Cheers!
Mani
Thriveal
December 23rd, 2007 12:55 pm
That’s a good post on characteristics of good domain names. I’m following that lead.
Thanks, Jason M. Blumer
Sara
December 23rd, 2007 3:58 pm
Darren: Thanks for the link!
Woodshed: Thanks for pointing out that post and the TOS info, I will definitely be looking into that.
Sara
fracas
December 27th, 2007 10:23 am
Nice to “meet” you Darren.
I’ve always said to write to please yourself, and if it’s your thing, your thing it will be.
I wouldn’t want to be a schoolteacher. It’s not my thing, so I don’t try to be one and lament being unsuccessful at it. If you blog because you enjoy it and if you blog what you know and what makes you happy, then you will be successful in the ways that make you feel successful.
Linda’s video is awesome, but it’s no surprise because she’s been an awesome sister all her (and my) life.
- Fracas
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