Army Of Blogs http://armyofblogs.com Just another WordPress weblog Tue, 07 Feb 2006 23:06:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.2 en Bush Bashing At King Funeral! http://armyofblogs.com/bush-bashing-at-king-funeral http://armyofblogs.com/bush-bashing-at-king-funeral#comments Tue, 07 Feb 2006 23:01:00 +0000 Administrator General http://armyofblogs.com/bush-bashing-at-king-funeral bush-bashed.jpg

BUSH IS A MISERABLE FAILURE!

By Bud Wiser

I’m sorry people, I realize I may loose some of you on this one, but I can no longer keep my silence. I for one am glad that Joseph Lowery and Jimmy Carter blasted bush in front of millions! He deserved it! If Coretta King could have spoken, she would have said, “AMEN!”

Here is a president who is as phoney as a used car salesmen, and as bright as a fifth grader, simply trying to make a public appearance as if he really cares about Martin Luther King or his cause. This is the same president that has refused to speak before the NAACP, not once, but several times! This is a president who like his dear old dad only cares about the upper working class Americans. Blind and dumb to scientific research that would benefit every one! Lied to the American people several times about Iraq, and continues to dodge responsibility!

WHAT DID YOU EXPECT TO HAPPEN?

I am ashamed of this president. He is nothing like real great leaders such as Clinton, and even Reagan! This was a perfect opportunity to put Bush in his place! It was out of respect for the King’s those who spoke up did speak up! And I for one couldn’t be happier they did!

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160,000 Mourners Say Goodbye To Coretta Scott King! http://armyofblogs.com/160000-mourners-say-goodbye-to-coretta-scott-king http://armyofblogs.com/160000-mourners-say-goodbye-to-coretta-scott-king#comments Tue, 07 Feb 2006 17:45:00 +0000 Administrator Announcements http://armyofblogs.com/160000-mourners-say-goodbye-to-coretta-scott-king coretta_scott_king.jpgIt is with great sadness that I report this story. Coretta Scott King has died at the age of 78.

An estimated 10,000 people, including four U.S. presidents and 14 senators, were expected to attend the noon funeral at New Birth Missionary Baptist Church, where King’s daughter Bernice is a minister.

Former President Clinton and Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton accompanied President Bush on Air Force One to Atlanta for the funeral.

I always really admired her,” Clinton said of King. “I liked her very much. I liked being with her. I liked the way she maintained her dignity in the face of all the difficulties she faced.” - Bill Clinton

All we can do now is pay our respects, and try to keep the dream alive!

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Butterfly Marketing Revealed! http://armyofblogs.com/butterfly-marketing-revealed http://armyofblogs.com/butterfly-marketing-revealed#comments Tue, 07 Feb 2006 06:32:37 +0000 Administrator General Announcements Reviews Marketing http://armyofblogs.com/butterfly-marketing-revealed butterfly.jpg

Butterfly Marketing Revealed!
By Bud Wiser

First of all I have to tell you, this program is not for every one. In fact only one out of 1000 readers will be capable of digesting it. Most will either dismiss it immediately as a scam, some will see potential, and put it on the back burner indefinitely. So it is with every thing in marketing. Those who can see opportunity and act on it quickly, succeed. Sadly, most can not recognize true opportunity.

It was a bit of a struggle for me to decide whether I should run this article on Army Of Blogs or not. I was saving this article for my other marketing web site, but to be honest, even though Army Of Blogs is my newest site, it has the largest readership. Also because Army of Blogs is a blog, it invites inter reaction and discussion, which I welcome! Most of the regulars that visit Army Of Blogs know that I don’t hold back, and enjoy telling it like it is! They come here to find useful information. So for them I need to post this article on one of the most powerful marketing programs around!

What is Butterly Marketing?

Butterfly Marketing is a program put together by Michael Filsaime. Michael teaches you one of the most fundamental marketing truths that separate the top 5% from the bottom 95% of marketers, you need to have your own products! He expands on this principal, and shows you how to become a “me” marketer! He does more then that, he provides a very exhausting step by step program in the form of multi media and software. This is for real! This is NOT another one of those get rich quick schemes, or rip off programs! This man has a solid technique for you to follow, and has a long list of referrals and testimonials. REAL case studies, not fabricated or exaggerated! He has one of the most impressive sales pages I’ve ever seen! Each case study can be checked out! This is the real deal!

Of course one such a genuine program of this caliber does surface, it comes with a price. Face it, no one is going to give away real secrets or powerful programs for nothing, or even dirt cheap! When ever you see a program like this backed by a long list of real case studies, you can expect a high price! In the past 10 years I have only endorsed 4 such programs! Butterfly Marketing is one of them!

I want you to go to Michael Filsaime blog, read it very carefully! Then click on the link from his blog to go to his sales page. Read the sales page very carefully with no distractions! You are about to read some thing that can very well change your life for good! I don’t expect to get a lot of commissions from this article. But if this article helps one person, it will be worth it! This isn’t a program you would want to promote as an affiliate to make big bucks. There are plenty of better programs to promote for quick cash! This is a affiliate you promote to genuinely try to help others!

I value the service I provide here on Army Of Blogs. So for me it is also a honor just to be able to write about Butterfly Marketing here! Even though I know most of you will not follow through on this, I do now with certainty, that any one who does will benefit greatly, and they can say they discovered Butterfly Marketing On Army of Blogs!

So here is the link to the next page that can very well change your life for good!

CLICK HERE TO VISIT BUTTERFLY MARKETING!

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Google The Evil Empire? http://armyofblogs.com/google-the-evil-empire http://armyofblogs.com/google-the-evil-empire#comments Fri, 27 Jan 2006 05:56:26 +0000 Administrator General Google http://armyofblogs.com/google-the-evil-empire axis-google.jpgGoogle Agrees To China’s
Demands For Censorship!

By Bud Wiser

We take our freedom for granted in the United States. We forget that men and women have died to preserve our freedom. We value our rights, and when our government takes steps to infringe on our rights we speak up! But what about when businesses do business in communist countries for sheer profit with no regards to the people’s rights or conditions in that country? Why do we become so tolerant in those cases?

As you probably have heard already, Google has agreed to China’s demands for search censorship in order to keep google.cn. What this means is Google will be cooperating with the government of China to censor what ever China feels needs to be censored. For example, if you do a search on “human rights conditions in China”, you might get a blank page, or a government approved page. In addition to that your IP address might get blocked for two hours. Google has agreed to these terms. After all who can blame them? The marketing potential in China is huge and practically untapped!

So why did Google have such a hard time when the US government asked them for public data that all the other search engines complied with? Google the lone rebel refused to give up any of their rights or data. The US government was not asking Google for private user information, just search results. The US government was not asking Google to censor any data. Perhaps because Google feels since they have such a large market share of search engines, they could stand up to the very government that made it possible for them to be so successful in the first place.

So we get a glimpse of what Google is really made of. Total bullshit. They gladly bend over backwards for a communist country agreeing to allow censorship of “their data”, and yet they refuse data sampling to the very country that does not allow censorship! I wonder how far Google would have got if they started in China instead of the United States. But all this means nothing to Google executives. The bottom line is the Almighty Dollar!

At least one other source has been just as appauled as I was with Google’s little dirty dance with China. The Bloggers News Network has just announced they will be dropping all Google ads from their pages in protest to Google’s deal with China! Good for you BNN! I hope others follow your lead.

I wonder if Google is worried at all about any of this? Do they think their actions will go unnoticed? Do they think the US government will let these incidents go unchallenged? We know that the US government is currently investigating the deal with China, and reviewing their refusal to provide public data. What the out come will be is any one’s guess, but I would assume that if Google ever needed to be on favorable terms with the US government, this is not the way to do it. I also wonder how this will effect their image to the free world? I wonder how many advertisers will drop Google?

Google may enjoy a large percentage of the search market right now, and may even be able to survive their latest fiasco, but it’s just one more of many others. Let’s not forget their recent attempt to scan all the copyright books for their own database! Ironic they see no wrong with scanning copyright material, aiding in censorship, but see no reason to cooperate with the US government who merely asked for public search records.

Every one has been speculating who will be the one to take down the mighty Google. Will it be MSN, Yahoo!, or some other search engine. It may just turn out to be that Google will be the one responsible for their own fall. There are consequences for all actions. Just because you are on top, does not mean you can do what ever you want. Google is looking more and more like a Evil Empire every day. This has to be chipping away at their image.

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All About Trackback! http://armyofblogs.com/all-about-trackback http://armyofblogs.com/all-about-trackback#comments Mon, 23 Jan 2006 19:00:35 +0000 Administrator General Announcements Wordpress SEO Spam Marketing http://armyofblogs.com/all-about-trackback

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 TRACKBACK IS THE BLOGGING WAY!
 By Bud Wiser

 I decided to write this article on legitimate ways to TrackBack because I’m finding that there are still a lot of webmasters who do not   understand what TrackBack is, or how to use it. Unlike my previous post about Track Back Spam, this one deals entirely on  legitimate ways to use trackback, and explains it a little better for those who may want to explore one of the most powerful aspects of  blogging!

What Is Trackback?

The official Wikipedia definition is this,

” TrackBack is a system implemented by many blogging tools, including Movable Type, WordPress and Nucleus, that allows a blogger to see who has seen the original post and has written another entry concerning it. The system works by sending a ‘ping’ between the blogs, and therefore providing the alert.


TrackBack typically appears below a blog entry and shows a summary of what has been written on the target blog, together with a URL and the name of the blog.


The specification for TrackBack and its implementation were developed by Six Apart, creators of the MovableType weblog and content management system. “

The official Bud Wiser definition is this,

“It’s a perfect way to create natural legitimate link exchanges that are of the highest value! You are sending the blog you have referenced on your blog notice that your blog contains additional information directly related to their post you are trackbacking! This notice benefits every one including the readership of both blog posts! People can instantly continue reading from the provided TB link!”

Why Trackback Instead of Making a Comment?

Comments are simply people leaving comments about the article they just read, they may or may not have related links included. Comments is intended for the reader to sound off on what they just read. A TB on the other hand is indicating sources for continual reading! These are links to other blogs have either commented about this article on their blog, or provided additional information!

Comments Still Important!

Before you conclude that comments is not important, think again! Every blog should feature comments! This gives every one a chance to participate in a discussion about your posts! Comments is another very important feature with blogging! To remove comments is to remove a major part of blogging!

Where Can TB Found?

Trackback is found on the same page as the comments and usually appears before the actual comments begin. A TB is a little snippet from your blog article with a hotlink back to it. One can quickly see a small portion of your article post, and if they want to click on it to read the rest! Your blog must have Trackback and comments enabled, and have a comment page to go to.

How To Trackback

If you are using Wordpress, and have TB enabled, all you have to do is provide a link to another blog post in your post. Wordpress will try to find a TB URL if there is one on that page and automatically send a TB ping to it. If the other blog has TB enabled it will either accept the TB right away, or email the webmaster for approval before it is accepted.

You can also fill in the TB URL manually in WP and most third party editors. The reason you would do this is that auto discover does not always find a TB url, and you may want to send TB’s to more then one blog. For example if you just wrote a killer article, you would of course send TB to any every articles on other blogs you reference to, but you may also want to send a TB to related blog articles you feel may be interested in this article if it’s directly related to one of their articles!

Is This Spam?

In no way is anything I just described as spam, and no webmaster would consider it spam if your TB is directly related to the post you are TBing, adds quality and relevance to their blog! In fact, those receiving the TB just got a high quality link exchange with no effort at all!

Of course there are ways to exploit TB, and TB spam is covered on another article I wrote. Let me just say this, TB spam is short term. Useful only for traffic, or getting a new site indexed. Most sites will either reject your TB and it will never see the light of day, or remove it quickly. TB spammers know this and are playing a numbers game. They score best on dead blogs. Dead blogs have been abandon, or rarely updated. So TB spam stays there indefinitely. Legitimate TB is 100% better and more effective then TB spam!

What Is The Difference Between Legitimate Trackback And Trackback Spam?

With Legitimate TB, you are contributing additional information and service that benefits every one. With TB spam, you are not contributing any thing at all, instead you are simply taking free one way links for your own benefit.

How To Prevent Getting Trackback Spam

Take it from a spammer, it’s easy to prevent TB spam! Which is why I fond all the paranoia and TB spam noise so amusing! TB spam is a problem only if you let it be a problem! The single most effect way to eliminate TB spam is to be notified of any TB by email and approve them before they get posted! This will work out just fine for the vast majority of webmasters. However if your blog gets a lot of traffic, you can start getting a lot of TB’s, both legitimate and spam. So you won’t want to deal with a lot of extra email! In which case not to worry, there are many very effective anti-spam plugins available to fight TB spam!

Don’t be fooled by the many reports that TB spam is out of control. Those reports would have you believe that TB is in epidemic proportions! And so wide spread that every one and their mother is TB spamming. Simply not that case at all. Yes there is a lot of TB spam out there, but no where near as much as these anti-spam fanatics believe there is. They base this misconception on personal experience. They may be targeted by several spammers, and therefore they assume every one must be. They add to the confusion by posting about it. Then another person posts about it, and another. Most of those reporting this have been out spoken spam critics, so naturally they have been targeted by some spammers. I’m sure some have legitimate reports who have not been known as anti-spam critics.

How Do I work In Trackback?

I suggest you get a RSS Reader, if you do not already have one! I love using FeedDemon! I know, FireFox has a RSS Reader plugin, just try FeedDemon! What I do is add my favorite blogs I enjoy visiting to my watch list. I am alerted when ever they make a new post. Feed Demon comes with a lot of really good RSS feeds built right in! This is how I get ideas about things to write about when I run out of my own ideas. By keeping up with the latest news and posts from my favorite blogs, I never run out of ideas! I can also find related quality sites to trackback this way.

You also want to write about unique subjects of your own that others will want to reference to. It’s not all about TBing out, you also want TB’s to you! Here quality is more important then quantity! You are using one of the most powerful features on blogging! I am totally amazed that so many people are still clueless about Trackback! I suspect that out anti-spam fanatics have painted a bad picture of TB, and many dismiss it quickly as just another way to spam. We need to remember what TrackBack was intended for! It’s benefits far out weigh any form of abuse!

How Can I Write About Legitimate Trackback AND Trackback Spam?

Some of you may find it ironic that a spammer like me, who has written a lot about how to effectively spam, can also write about legitimate TB techniques. Well it’s like this. I report about what I know. I leave the moral and ethical standards and debates up to each person. I feel you have been preached to enough already about the evils of spam. You deserve to know both sides of the story. Personally, I rarely ever TB spam. And you may also be surprised to know that I don’t even consider myself a black hatter or white hatter! I am a marketer plain and simple. I do what ever works best. I find legitimate TB works the best! TB spam is effective for short term, but it’s actually more work then legitimate TB! Still I want you to know how to do both!

As for my ethics, of course I have ethics . I would never spam sites I respect, or like, or webmaster’s I know. I would love to have a program that hunts down all dead blogs and spam the crap out of them! And I have no sympathy for anti-spam fanatics or self proclaimed Internet Watch Dogs that get the crap spammed out of them. In fact I love hearing about it! According to these people, spammers are stupid, and lazy. They have absolutely no clue on spamming or spammers! Yes I have morals and ethics, but I don’t try to shove them down other peoples throats! I don’t whine and bitch every time I get spammed. I can spam and also provide quality unique content! They seem to think in black and white only. While most spammers I know, me included, have been online for a long time. We know more then they think we know, and we work harder then most of them!

Conclusion

Trackback is a great blogging asset! In a post Jaggar SEO world where we are searching for better ways to create natural links that weigh the most, the best source is under our nose and ignored by most! The marketing potential for Trackback is also extremely powerful! Combined with syndication through RSS Aggregators and Feed services like FeedBurner, you are expanding your blogs readership, contributing quality information, and building quality links! Rarely will you find a albino white seo technique that is more effective then most black hat techniques! Trackback is what blogging is all about! You chose to blog because you seen the great SEO and marketing potential in it, don’t remove Trackback and Comments! To do so would be moving backwards!

Related Posts: Syndicate Your RSS Feeds, Using Google Blog Search For Trackbacks!, Social Bookmarks, How to Trackback Spam Step By Step!

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Social Bookmarks http://armyofblogs.com/social-bookmarks http://armyofblogs.com/social-bookmarks#comments Sun, 22 Jan 2006 20:49:31 +0000 Administrator General Marketing http://armyofblogs.com/social-bookmarks socialbookmarks.jpgWhat Are Social Bookmarks?
By Bud Wiser

Seems the latest buzz and fad are social bookmark sites. What are they? Well you already know about at least one of them, Technorati! With out a doubt the largest and most well known! Del.icio.us, FURL, and digg are a few others worth mentioning, which are also growing quickly. Social bookmark sites are basically community oriented. Which means they are independent from the evil clutches of search engine influence and dependency. Technorati is actually a search engine too! It is by far the most important RSS aggregator, and is included in Wordpress pinging by default.

Actually I see a distinction between actual bookmark sites like del.icio.us, and search engine based Technorati, which also uses tags. My opinion of social bookmark sites is it’s mostly a fad. I really don’t care what other people bookmark or vote on. That is not how I conduct my searches. But services like Technorati go way beyond that, and introduce the best of every thing. In fact the Technorati page looks like a search engine at first, but after closer look you can see it’s actually more.

Social Bookmark sites like Del.icio.us looks totally different, and is maintained differently. While it does use tags, it structure is

more free based. Click here to read the intended uses for del.icio.us. Again, this would not be some thing I would use to search the web.

For SEO value, I would definitely recommend Technorati! And may be del.icio.us. You can read more about Social Bookmarking by McCarley at The 14th Colony.

He is a big fan of Social Bookmarking and has a much more optimistic opinion and prediction of it. He makes many good points, and is interesting reading!

I suggest Technorati full force and subscribing to all the RSS aggregators, specialty search engines, and directories for SEO. Social Bookmark sites do have spamming potentials, and for that reason, perhaps there is some SEO value. I just don’t see them around for the long haul.

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Top Blog Editors Reviewed And Compared! http://armyofblogs.com/top-blog-editors-reviewed-and-compared http://armyofblogs.com/top-blog-editors-reviewed-and-compared#comments Sun, 22 Jan 2006 03:22:40 +0000 Administrator General Announcements Reviews http://armyofblogs.com/top-blog-editors-reviewed-and-compared BATTLE OF THE BLOG EDITORS!
By Bud Wiser

First of all my favorite editor for blogging is Rocket Post, none of the editors compared here even begin to come close to all the features Rocket Post has! But because Rocket Post costs $99, and worth every penny, I realize that some people may be looking for cheaper alternatives. I had the opportunity to try some of the other editors when my computer lost use of it’s ODBC database program which rendered RocketPost useless. Since it’s a Microsoft problem I have yet to find a fix for the problem, so this gave me an opportunity to try the other editors out once again. I must say, they all pale to RocketPost!

Here is a list of the blog editors I have tried out, in the order I would rank them in.

BlogJet - Trial Download - $39.95
WB Editor - Trial Download - $19.99
Zoundry Blog Writer - Free
Qumana - Free
w.Bloggar - Free
Zempt - Free

Here is what I look for in a blog editor. Ease of image inserting and auto uploading, image properties support, alignment, and to be able to specify border color, table support, tagging support, wysiwyg, html mode, user friendly interface to name just the very basics. All of the editors listed except for Zoundry lacked the ability to be able to specify the border color for images. This is important to me as I like to have equal spacing around the image when aliening it to the left and wrapping text around it. With the others you are stuck with the default black border. They all providing vertical and horizontal spacing for placement of image.

All of the editors listed included a working html mode accept for Zoundry and Qumana, Zoundry provided a html read only option, and also a “Paste as HTML” option which permits inserting some html code directly in it’s wysiwig. Unfortunately it also adds it’s own code around your code, making such codes like <!–more–> useless! As it ends up looking like this, <!–StartFragment–><!–more–><!–EndFragment–>. This confuses wordpress and doesn’t know it’s suppose to break the post. Also odd about Zoundry, you can not even copy the code from HTML read view! Very limiting!

BlogJet
BlogJet is a very simple yet helpful editor, I’d still like to see it improve. Qumana has a much better interface, and some features that BlogJet doesn’t have, and Quamana is free! Unfortunately before you get too excited, Qumana has no html editing mode, or even a read only view like Zoundry has! Pity, because Qumana editor is close to being a force to reckon with! BlogJet is better.

BlogJet does have a workable html mode. It has three working screens, Normal (wysiwyg), Code (HTML), and Properties. All welcome features! Where it gets weak is in the lack of tagging support, and table support. Both can be worked around if you don’t mind the extra work in html. BlogJet is definitely a worthy consideration! What it can not do, can be done manually thanks to it’s html editor. If it only had styles support it could kick butt!

WB 2 Editor
This is also a very worthy editor. It does have a working html mode! Excellent interface, and easy to use! It has good tagging support, easy image inserting, and helpful tools. It is a little buggy at times when it comes to changing font styles, and sizes. It doesn’t always change. Some times you have to do it a couple of times before it works. A minor flaw, but worth mentioning. Since this editor costs $19.95 it must come in direct comparison with BlogJet for $39.95. How does it compare to BlogJet? I think it does admirable well for it’s price! It has some features BlogJet doesn’t have, but so does BlogJet too! I think it’s definitely worth it’s weight in gold!

Additional review can be found at, WB Editor version 2 - Blog Tools Reviewed

Zoundry Blog Writer
Not a bad editor at all! Very nice interface, user friendly, feature packed. If this editor had a html edit mode, BlogJet would be in trouble! It even has style support, and the ability to align images any way you want, and add border color. By far the best image support of all the editors tested! Unfortunately it’s lack of html editor mode severely limits it value. But I still would consider this a worthy consideration! It also has excellent tagging support and trackback support. Definitely a must see for yourself!

Qumana
For a free editor Qumana is definitely a force to reckon with! It has the best interface, easy to use, and has features the others listed here don’t have! It’s major weakness is the lack of html editing mode. If it had that, it would put the rest listed to shame! But they don’t have to worry, it only has one window, a simple WYSIWYG mode. You are able to add html code similar in style like Zoundry. I think for a lot of bloggers this may be all they need. Certainly add this one to you list to try out!

w.Bloggar
This editor’s interface is crammed with all sorts of features! In fact it may appear over whelming to some at first. Unfortunately it’s not very user friendly and is awkward to use. Inserting images is not as easy, you must do so first by ftp with in the program, then insert the url of the image. Major flaw! I could not find a code view either! Amazing as this program has just about every thing else! You have to see this program to know what I’m talking about. I think most people will simply not want to bother with it, but since it’s free, check it out!

Zempt
Another confusing editor, with no way to insert images, no ftp support, ugliest interface of all the ones I’ve tried. Tell you what, you can skip this one all together and not miss a thing!

Conclusion

Sadly none of the editors I reviewed here can even begin to compare to RocketPost! After using RocketPost for months and having to go back to them I miss RocketPost so much! You can solve all of your problems by simply getting RocketPost! It is years ahead of all the rest of the blog editors. So it comes down to this. If there was no RocketPost, which would be the best? Sadly there are no clear cut winners. In my humble opinion, I would give it to BlogJet, with WB, and Zoundry right behind!

Since there really is no clear outstanding winner, there is much room for personal taste, so I encourage you to try them all out for yourself! Even the ones that cost money have free trials.


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Tribute To Martin Luther King! http://armyofblogs.com/tribute-to-martin-luther-king http://armyofblogs.com/tribute-to-martin-luther-king#comments Mon, 16 Jan 2006 01:20:46 +0000 Administrator General Announcements http://armyofblogs.com/tribute-to-martin-luther-king Gone But Not Forgotten!
Celebrating Martin Luther King Day
By Bud Wiser

January 16 is Martin Luther King Day in the United States. On behalf of my Army Of Blogs I would like to pay tribute and honor to a great man and a great mind!

Here is another great tribute and interesting reading from Adrian’s Blog from across the pond! There was no boundry to Martin Luther King’s visions and wisdom!

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Syndicate Your RSS Feeds! http://armyofblogs.com/syndicate-your-rss-feeds http://armyofblogs.com/syndicate-your-rss-feeds#comments Sun, 15 Jan 2006 21:23:46 +0000 Administrator General Announcements Google Blogger Blogs SEO Spam Marketing http://armyofblogs.com/syndicate-your-rss-feeds By Bud Wiser Stop pretending you don’t want it, you know you do! You want every one and their mother to pick up your RSS Feed! Well it’s not going to happen unless you make it easier for them to do it! Stop relying on one or two search [...]]]>

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—–> By Bud Wiser

Stop pretending you don’t want it, you know you do! You want every one and their mother to pick up your RSS Feed! Well it’s not going to happen unless you make it easier for them to do it! Stop relying on one or two search engines for traffic! There are many good aggregators out there well worth your time and effort!

Where to begin? How about consolidating all your RSS feed links in to one through FeedBurner

for a start! FeedBurner is a great service which not only tweaks your feeds but you can also monitor who is picking them up too. Doesn’t matter if you only have one blog, or a army of blogs! If nobody is picking up your feeds your a isolated island! Submit your new FeedBurner feed to all the aggregators, search engines, and directories!

If you don’t understand this, let me put it in city slang for you. Hookers make money walking the streets, they walk around the block as many times as it takes to get tricks! If they stayed at home, they wouldn’t make any money! Now get out there and pimp your ass a little!

What else can you do? Keep blogging! If you run out of things to write about why not do some reading instead? Get yourself a really good RSS Reader. You can get a free one here, or get the best one out there by Feed Demon! RSS Readers are great! With them you can subscribe to all your favorite blogs and be alerted when a new post is made. It’s also a great way to find things to write about! See what other people are writing about, I’m sure you will have opinions of your own you’ll want to sound off on.

You can also use services like TagCloud for promoting and for doing your own searches. Technorati and Del.icio

are also very important and useful sources to promote and do searches! Stop relying on Google, Yahoo, and MSN so much! On many of my blogs I get more traffic from Technorati then I do from Yahoo, MSN, or even Google! Do not underestimate the power and importance of these aggregators!

Trackback as much as you can! No I’m not talking about TrackBack spam (this time). Learn how to use TB the legitimate way too! Reference other blogs when ever you can, but you must have a real reference on your blog about them! Reference your own blogs too, and even your own related posts! Yes you can TB yourself! It amazes me that so many “bloggers” know so little about TB! Before you TB spam, I strongley suggest you learn how to TB legitimately! Legitimate TB is also very powerful! Learn how to use it effectively!

Well that’s it for now, check back again for more cool tips from the only blog that really matters, Army of Blog!


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Effective Spamming http://armyofblogs.com/effective-spamming-2 http://armyofblogs.com/effective-spamming-2#comments Sun, 15 Jan 2006 05:33:14 +0000 Administrator General Google Blogger Blogs SEO Spam Marketing http://armyofblogs.com/effective-spamming-2 Effective Spamming

By Bud Wiser

If you Google the terms, “spam”, and “spamming”, what you will find is a myriad of results from anti-spam pages. Even if you goggled the term, “how to spam”, you would still only find anti-spam crap, except for a few paid advertisements. Google it seems can not return a relevant search result for your quest. May be they have a problem with spam, or may be this is just another indicator how bad Google’s algo is for true relevant searches. they certainly don’t have a problem with spam if it’s a paid advertisement :)

Which brings me to the topic at hand, effective spamming. I’ve been posting articles about spamming, and “how to spam” for over 10 years! Information of this kind is rare and hard to find on the web. So consider yourself lucky of you some how found this page.

Effective spamming is an art, and science! Although any one can spam, it takes skills to master the art, and survive getting banned, or worse. There are no secrets to effective spamming, just plain common sense practice. Unfortunately most newbies will have to learn the hard way, through much trial and error. The most brilliant and effective spamming comes from the porn biz, which I got my start from back in 1994. I dare say, we not only invented Internet spam, but also keep improving it.

First of all let me make it clear to newbies, and self appointed Internet watch dogs, I am not advocating any illegal activity. One can spam their brains out with out ever breaking a single Federal or State law! Indeed, our main concern or obstacle isn’t the laws, but instead the unrealistic Acceptable Use Policies (AUP) implemented by Internet Service Providers, hosts, and search engines. They are entitled to create any AUP’s they want, and we are not obligated to comply to any of them!

So how do you get around these anti-spam fanatics? Easy! As I said, as long as you do not break any real laws, AUP’s are NOT laws, you really have nothing to worry about accept may be loosing a few accounts here and there. No biggie! You can reduce some of this by not hosting your spam sites on the same server and account with your regular sites. Also register through proxy for all your spam sites. Never use your real name of personal information on any of your spam accounts! And do NOT put all your spam domains on the same host! This will reduce a great deal of trouble for you in the long run.

One of the biggest mistakes a lot of spammers make is they spam for their main sites! Really dumb thing to do. You should never provide a direct trial to your main sites from your spam sites. So how do you spam for your main sites with out actually spamming for them? Well for years the porn biz would simple create 1000’s and 1000’s of cloaked doorway pages with sneaky redirects on free hosting accounts. These disposable doorways would redirect traffic to main sites in such a fashion that making a direct connect is difficult. This technique is for traffic, not for creating backlinks to boost PR.

Another really sneaky way to redirect traffic is through pop-up consoles. Not the endless versions that crash browsers. That is referred to as circle jerks, and the primary purpose for circle jerks is to create fake traffic, or the appearance of real traffic to cheat toplists in to sending your main site real traffic. A much better way to cheat topsites over the old hitbot trick.

But if you are not involved in porn, you are limited to the number of tricks you can use. After all you really almost entirely on search engine traffic, so your doomed from the start! By only spamming only the top three search engines you greatly reduce your full capability and become a slave to search engines. Another really dumb thing to do. There are only three main search engines, but millions of web sites and how many millions of email accounts?

One should not place any limits or restriction on themselves. SEO is the smallest and least signifant factor in the big picture. Yet the majority of webmasters spend most of their time on SEO! Marketing is a much better avenue to pursue. Even search engine marketing (SEM) is better then SEO. I consider black hat seo just as insignificant in the big picture. You can not just really on seo, white hat or black hat, you need aggressive marketing!

Effective spamming regardless of who you target, search engines, email, usenet, forums, web sites, blogs, ezines, directories, links pages, consist of a never ending campaign from multiple sources, untraceable, and unstoppable. The rest is just a numbers game! Don’t just restrict your targets to relevant themed sites or niches! You can sell almost any thing on any thing! People are people no matter where you find them! I’m not suggesting that targeted spam isn’t more effective, it sure is, but who says you can’t spam off topic? You will never get permission to spam from any one, anti-spammers view all spam the same, so don’t worry about it!

How much is too much? Hard to say for many reasons, but you don’t want the same people to see the same ad too many times in the same week. So spread it out as much as you can. Try targeting new niches you might not otherwise think would convert for your ads. You never know. Take Viagra or example. You can sell that any where!

Keep good records! Track all your campaigns with unique redirect urls. Assign unique urls to every thing you do, even each different banner. Track your stats! Keep a log! Look for patterns, see which campaign is doing better and which are doing nothing. Scrap the bad ones and try new ones! Milk the good ones dry! Keep a good record of your expenses, and profits!

Email spamming still works, but get a bullet proof host and bulk email company to do the spamming for you! With all the strict laws in the US surrounding email spam, even with the can-spam act, it just makes better sense to take your business across the pond away from US jurisdictions. Just make sure you have a registered business or address in that country. That can be done by establishing a real mailing address, and bank account there. You are now untouchable. If you must do the bulk email yourself and you are based only in the US, you will need to comply with all the regulations, but the can-spam act does help a little, and you can still create opt-in mailing lists that convert, but you need to work it!

Check back regularly for more effective spamming advice from the Son of Spam himslef, yours truly! I am a firm believer in your right to spam, but you need to do it responsibly, and intelligently. if you go at it haphazardly, you will fail miserably!


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