Internet Marketing Tips From Around The Web 8/3/2007

Along with my regular reads, I found a few new blogs in my search for good reading this week. Here are the articles and posts that I really enjoyed this week…

Lunar Pages – The Worst Mistake A Webhost Can Make…
This was an interesting conversation that I participated in. I had already picked Lunarpages as the company I was going to host my new project with, and then I stumbled across this post on Andy Beard’s blog. Uggh! Back to the drawing board.

The Saboteurs Of Search
This article is the reason for one of the questions I asked Aaron Wall in my interview with him earlier this week. In the Forbes article, Matt Cutts confirms that it is possible to hurt your competitors websites by pointing lots of bad links at it. This is a MAJOR flaw with the Search Engines. They should not be penalizing sites for too many and or bad inbound links. If anything, they just shouldn’t count them. found via Threadwatch (which just closed down).

Why You Probably Won’t Survive as an Independent Consultant
This fictional story makes a good point about running a consulting business.

Should I Date My Blog?
Dawud had an interesting discussion about removing timestamps from your blog. I am still in the pro-dating camp, but I understand the reasons for leaving off dates.

What Type of Blogger Are You?
Chris Garrett’s poll is kind of cool. I am a little surprised by the results so far.

Run a First Time Reader Audit on Your Blog
If you are a blogger and you don’t read Darren’s blog on regular basis, then what’s wrong with you? Anyway, this month Darren is running a 31 day challenge to help you improve your blog. I really liked the idea for day 2. I have never done that before with any of my blogs. It would definitely be interesting to see the results.

That’s it for this week’s reading…