Politics, Media, Internet Wade Roush wrote: At 11:00 pm Eastern time last night—when the polls closed on the U.S. West Coast and most TV news outlets called the election in favor of the new President-elect, Barack Obama—Internet users streamed to news websites in unprecedented numbers, according to Cambridge, MA-based Akamai. The company, which has been measuring Internet traffic to news, retail, and music websites since 2005, said traffic peaked at about 8.6 million visits per minute, besting the previous record of 7.3 million visits per minute—set on the day Ghana eliminated the U.S. in the 2006 World Cup—by 17 percent. The traffic record obviously reflected the enormous global interest in the U.S. presidential election and in Obama’s history-making triumph. But it’s also a sign that more people around the world are consuming news using several media at once—surfing the news sites and political blogs while also watching the electoral maps light up on TV, for example. “This is the first noted news peak that occurred during the evening hours in North America, meaning Internet users would have accessed likely from home,” Jeff Young, Akamai’s director of corporate communications, told me today. “All the other peak events listed on our index occurred during the work-day hours, when you would expect more people to be at their computers. This shows the significance of the Internet to election coverage.” The third, fourth, and fifth biggest traffic records Akamai has measured came at mid-afternoon on the first day of U.S. college basketball’s “March Madness” in 2008, 2006, and 2007 respectively. The next highest politically-oriented traffic day was the day after the 2006 mid-term elections in the United States, which ranks 15th on the list. As TechCrunch noted in a story earlier today, Akamai’s Net Usage Index aggregates such data continuously, based in part on page-view requests at the more than 100 major news portals that use the company’s global network of Web servers to speed delivery of their stories to readers. Last night’s record wasn’t just a brief spike, either. Traffic to news sites built gradually starting around 4:00 p.m. Eastern time, surpassing 6 million visits per minute shortly after 7:00 p.m. and boiling over at 8,572,042 visits per minute shortly after 11:00 p.m. In fact, any single minute sampled between 7:00 p.m. and midnight would have registered among Akamai’s top five traffic peaks. “If you were to compare against the previous peak, the World Cup game, that was much more of a short-term spike—a lot of traffic, but in a relatively short period of time,” says Young. Traffic is also very high today, he points out—averaging about 4.6 million visits per minute. As a result, November 5 will enter Akamai’s record book somewhere around the number 10 slot. Comments | Permalink | Share |  E-mail Less

CNN.com and CNN International had received 88 million page views by 3 p.m. this afternoon, three to four times more than on an average weekday, Executive Vice President of CNN News Services Susan Grant told Beet.TV. CNN.com Live, which has four simultaneous live streams, had generated 1.6 million views domestically and internationally--seven times higher than an average full day, she says. Since the election results won't be known until late tonight or tomorrow, she said she expects tomorrow's traffic to be even higher. Andy interviewed Grant at the CNN headquarters this afternoon. She told him election day concerns were focused on the site's capacity to handle the traffic, but that it was handling it fine so far. In the segment, she also discusses CNN's mobile offerings, including its live video feed available through AT&T and Sprint. Andy and I are blogging from the CNN Grill party where bloggers are watching CNN's live coverage. --Kelsey Blodget, Associate Producer Less

If I can stay on one server long enough, I will continue this thing. But I have had issues with that lately. And after doing all the tech stuff, writing becomes harder. But back on track. You have chosen a few products to promote on your blog and written some content. Promotion must start from day one, although some tactics and method will only work after your blog has more of a presence. I think you should have a custom promotional strategy for every blog. If one blog’s plan looks the same as another’s, you have a problem unless they are on the same topic. When it comes to your specific topic, you should hunt down at least a few ways of promoting it that is unique to your blog’s niche. If that fails, just check out my list. Help me add to it in the comments. Optimize your blog on site. Submit your blog to feed directories. Make sure you ping where ever you can. Post new content as frequently as you can. Use a feedburner chicklet count when the number gets big. Submit your blog to standard directories. Be active in social networks and pay attention to dofollow. Write articles and submit them elsewhere. Join places like Squidoo and HubPages and create related pages. Write and submit press releases. Submit your articles to online news sites. Comment on blogs and pay attention to dofollow. Comment on .edu if you get a chance for a real comment. Be active in forums and use a link to your blog in the signature. Use free hosting and free blog hosting to create other related sites. Interlink all of these pages from various free websites and networks. Write software and submit it to shareware sites. Give away a free ebook. Get a professional design and submit it to css directories. Write flagship articles frequently and put your heart in them. Try using numbers in blog post titles. Create huge lists of things like this one. Create a list of other blogs in your niche. Write frequent articles that do nothing but link to other bloggers in your niche. Guest posts on your site. Write quest posts on other sites. Have a contest. Give away a free theme with a link to your blog in the footer. Write about up and coming people and products in the niche. Sometimes they link to stories. Bookmark and promote as many other bloggers in the niche as you can. They sometimes reciprocate. Tag similar sites on delicious and other sites so that you get known for finding worthwhile sites. Get friends to promote your posts at various networks. Pay attention to memes so you are ready to pounce on one that could help you get traffic. Trade blogroll links with related blogs. Capture emails and start a newsletter to make sure potential customers are coming back. Use Google Adwords to promote product landing pages that I know are already profitable. Link to other blogs whenever I can. When I foget about link juice going out, it always seems to pay off. Add dofollow to encourage more comments and hence more content. Deep link to other posts in the blog with each new post. Use memes tracker and find hot related conversations you can jump in to. Create a simple product and launch an affiliate program. Answer questions on Yahoo Answers and other answer sites. Contribute to Google Groups and other new groups. Write product reviews of related products on Amazon and other ecommerce sites. Create related wish lists at Amazon. Create a related Ebay blog. Create a widget and give it away. Create a Facebook app and give it away. Write a plugin for Wordpress and give it away. Be off the wall and stupid every once and a while. Pay for links. Sign guestbooks. Write testimonials. Review other blogs. Install a page translation plugin. Review sites on Alexa. Review products on Epinions and other similar sites. Get a keyword based Twitter account and use it well. Build one or more on site tools. Interview other people in your niche. Write a Firefox extension. Write a free php script and submit it to script directories. Use MyBlogLog and other blog networks to their fullest potential. Create video posts and tutorials and submit them to as many video sites as you can. Use pictures in your posts and store them online with good names, descriptions and tags on a public site like Flickr. Give away free things. Write in a beginner’s voice. Comment and be part of the community on online newspapers. Attend local blogger’s meetups. Create surveys. Help people, collect your testimonials and put them on a testimonial page. Write about celebrities. Create backgrounds, templates and themes for social sites like MySpace. Hire writers to write for you. Hire bloggers to write about you. Donate to a charity that links back. Beg on the street corners for links. Use Fast Blog Finder Submit to blog carnivals. Host blog carnivals. Build lists on list sites. Yes, there are some left like listable. Comment on Flickr images. Submit your blog to “cool site” contests. Give away a screensaver. Give away a toolbar. Submit your ebook to ebook directories. Write tutorials and submit them to tutorial sites. Write for content sites like Gather, Helium and Associated Content. Contribute to wiki’s. That’s where I am drawing the line for now. Please feel free to add to it. Related articles by Zemanta Social Media SEO Netbytes: Jack Schofield reviews HubPages How To Publish Your Content Online Without A Web Site - Video Interview With Ryan Hupfer Of Hubpages.com The Affiliate Niche Blog Plan My FireFox Addons Less

If I can stay on one server long enough, I will continue this thing. But I have had issues with that lately. And after doing all the tech stuff, writing becomes harder. But back on track. You have chosen a few products to promote on your blog and written some content. Promotion must start from day one, although some tactics and method will only work after your blog has more of a presence. I think you should have a custom promotional strategy for every blog. If one blog’s plan looks the same as another’s, you have a problem unless they are on the same topic. When it comes to your specific topic, you should hunt down at least a few ways of promoting it that is unique to your blog’s niche. If that fails, just check out my list. Help me add to it in the comments. I think I will be editing this list for a while and then I will start categorizing. But for now, just from off the top of my head. Optimize your blog on site. Submit your blog to feed directories. Make sure you ping wherever you can. Post new content as frequently as you can. Use a feedburner chicklet count when the number gets big. Submit your blog to standard directories. Be active in social networks and pay attention to dofollow. Write articles and submit them elsewhere. Join places like Squidoo and HubPages and create related pages. Write and submit press releases. Submit your articles to online news sites. Comment on blogs and pay attention to dofollow. Comment on an .edu blog if you get a chance for a real comment. Be active in forums and use a link to your blog in the signature. Use free hosting and free blog hosting to create other related sites. Interlink all of these pages from various free websites and networks. Write software and submit it to shareware sites. Give away a free ebook. Get a professional design and submit it to css directories. Write flagship articles frequently and put your heart in them. Try using numbers in blog post titles. Create huge lists of things like this one. Create a list of other blogs in your niche. Write frequent articles that do nothing but link to other bloggers in your niche. Guest posts on your site. Write guest posts on other sites. Have a contest. Put your blog url in the signature of emails. Put your blog url on printed materials like business cards and letterheads. Get a bumper sticker with your blog’s url. Post flyers on community billboards. Mention your blog at conferences and give your business cards away. Reference other bloggers as much as you can, especially if they show trackbacks. Give away a free theme with a link to your blog in the footer. Write about up and coming people and products in the niche. Sometimes they link to stories. Bookmark and promote as many other bloggers in the niche as you can. They sometimes reciprocate. Tag similar sites on delicious and other sites so that you get known for finding worthwhile sites. Get friends to promote your posts at various networks. Pay attention to memes so you are ready to pounce on one that could help you get traffic. Trade blogroll links with related blogs. Capture emails and start a newsletter to make sure potential customers are coming back. Use Google Adwords to promote product landing pages that I know are already profitable. Link to other blogs whenever I can. When I forget about link juice going out, it always seems to pay off. Add dofollow to encourage more comments and hence more content. Deep link to other posts in the blog with each new post. Use memes tracker and find hot related conversations you can jump in to. Create a simple product and launch an affiliate program. Start your own viral idea. Start one of those fun tagging things but don’t go overboard. Answer questions on Yahoo Answers and other answer sites. Contribute to Google Groups and other new groups. Write product reviews of related products on Amazon and other ecommerce sites. Create related wish lists at Amazon. Create a related Ebay blog. Create a widget and give it away. Create a Facebook app and give it away. Write a plugin for Wordpress and give it away. Be off the wall and stupid every once and a while. Pay for links. Sign guestbooks. Write testimonials. Review other blogs. Install a page translation plugin. Review sites on Alexa. Review products on Epinions and other similar sites. Get a keyword based Twitter account and use it well. Build one or more on site tools. Interview other people in your niche. Write a Firefox extension. Write a free php script and submit it to script directories. Use MyBlogLog and other blog networks to their fullest potential. Create video posts and tutorials and submit them to as many video sites as you can. Use pictures in your posts and store them online with good names, descriptions and tags on a public site like Flickr. Give away free things. Write in a beginner’s voice. Comment and be part of the community on online newspapers. Attend local blogger’s meetups. Create surveys. Help people, collect your testimonials and put them on a testimonial page. Write about celebrities. Create backgrounds, templates and themes for social sites like MySpace. Hire blog writers to write for you. Hire bloggers to write about you. Donate to a charity that links back. Beg on the street corners for links. Use Fast Blog Finder Submit to blog carnivals. Host blog carnivals. Build lists on list sites. Yes, there are some left like listable. Comment on Flickr images. Submit your blog to “cool site” contests. Give away a screensaver. Give away a toolbar. Submit your ebook to ebook directories. Write tutorials and submit them to tutorial sites. Write for content sites like Gather, Helium and Associated Content. Contribute to wiki’s. Get a Google sitemap plugin and use it. Submit to blog specific directories and networks. Join BlogCatalog and be active. Join Entrecard and use it as a tool to comment on other blogs and bring traffic. Use featured post and popular post widgets to keep new visitors on the site longer. Run newspaper classifieds. Run ads on free classified sites. Start a controversy but be careful. Get software like RankSense to help you with SEO on your blog. Introduce yourself to other bloggers in your niche and keep in contact. Use Odiogo to convert your feeds into podcasts and submit these to podcast sites. Use a similar posts type plugin and add this to your feeds also. Allow anything to scrape your site just remember to constantly deep link your site. Constantly improve your content. That’s where I am drawing the line for now. Please feel free to add to it. Related articles by Zemanta Social Media SEO Netbytes: Jack Schofield reviews HubPages How To Publish Your Content Online Without A Web Site - Video Interview With Ryan Hupfer Of Hubpages.com The Affiliate Niche Blog Plan My FireFox Addons Less

If I can stay on one server long enough, I will continue this thing. But I have had issues with that lately. And after doing all the tech stuff, writing becomes harder. But back on track. You have chosen a few products to promote on your blog and written some content. Promotion must start from day one, although some tactics and method will only work after your blog has more of a presence. I think you should have a custom promotional strategy for every blog. If one blog’s plan looks the same as another’s, you have a problem unless they are on the same topic. When it comes to your specific topic, you should hunt down at least a few ways of promoting it that is unique to your blog’s niche. If that fails, just check out my list. Help me add to it in the comments. I think I will be editing this list for a while and then I will start categorizing. But for now, just from off the top of my head. Optimize your blog on site. Submit your blog to feed directories. Make sure you ping wherever you can. Post new content as frequently as you can. Use a feedburner chicklet count when the number gets big. Submit your blog to standard directories. Be active in social networks and pay attention to dofollow. Write articles and submit them elsewhere. Join places like Squidoo and HubPages and create related pages. Write and submit press releases. Submit your articles to online news sites. Comment on blogs and pay attention to dofollow. Comment on an .edu blog if you get a chance for a real comment. Be active in forums and use a link to your blog in the signature. Use free hosting and free blog hosting to create other related sites. Interlink all of these pages from various free websites and networks. Write software and submit it to shareware sites. Give away a free ebook. Get a professional design and submit it to css directories. Write flagship articles frequently and put your heart in them. Try using numbers in blog post titles. Create huge lists of things like this one. Create a list of other blogs in your niche. Write frequent articles that do nothing but link to other bloggers in your niche. Guest posts on your site. Write guest posts on other sites. Have a contest. Put your blog url in the signature of emails. Put your blog url on printed materials like business cards and letterheads. Get a bumper sticker with your blog’s url. Post flyers on community billboards. Mention your blog at conferences and give your business cards away. Reference other bloggers as much as you can, especially if they show trackbacks. Give away a free theme with a link to your blog in the footer. Write about up and coming people and products in the niche. Sometimes they link to stories. Bookmark and promote as many other bloggers in the niche as you can. They sometimes reciprocate. Tag similar sites on delicious and other sites so that you get known for finding worthwhile sites. Get friends to promote your posts at various networks. Pay attention to memes so you are ready to pounce on one that could help you get traffic. Trade blogroll links with related blogs. Capture emails and start a newsletter to make sure potential customers are coming back. Use Google Adwords to promote product landing pages that I know are already profitable. Link to other blogs whenever I can. When I forget about link juice going out, it always seems to pay off. Add dofollow to encourage more comments and hence more content. Deep link to other posts in the blog with each new post. Use memes tracker and find hot related conversations you can jump in to. Create a simple product and launch an affiliate program. Start your own viral idea. Start one of those fun tagging things but don’t go overboard. Answer questions on Yahoo Answers and other answer sites. Contribute to Google Groups and other new groups. Write product reviews of related products on Amazon and other ecommerce sites. Create related wish lists at Amazon. Create a related Ebay blog. Create a widget and give it away. Create a Facebook app and give it away. Write a plugin for Wordpress and give it away. Be off the wall and stupid every once and a while. Pay for links. Sign guestbooks. Write testimonials. Review other blogs. Install a page translation plugin. Review sites on Alexa. Review products on Epinions and other similar sites. Get a keyword based Twitter account and use it well. Build one or more on site tools. Interview other people in your niche. Write a Firefox extension. Write a free php script and submit it to script directories. Use MyBlogLog and other blog networks to their fullest potential. Create video posts and tutorials and submit them to as many video sites as you can. Use pictures in your posts and store them online with good names, descriptions and tags on a public site like Flickr. Give away free things. Write in a beginner’s voice. Comment and be part of the community on online newspapers. Attend local blogger’s meetups. Create surveys. Help people, collect your testimonials and put them on a testimonial page. Write about celebrities. Create backgrounds, templates and themes for social sites like MySpace. Hire blog writers to write for you. Hire bloggers to write about you. Donate to a charity that links back. Beg on the street corners for links. Use Fast Blog Finder Submit to blog carnivals. Host blog carnivals. Build lists on list sites. Yes, there are some left like listable. Comment on Flickr images. Submit your blog to “cool site” contests. Give away a screensaver. Give away a toolbar. Submit your ebook to ebook directories. Write tutorials and submit them to tutorial sites. Write for content sites like Gather, Helium and Associated Content. Contribute to wiki’s. Get a Google sitemap plugin and use it. Submit to blog specific directories and networks. Join BlogCatalog and be active. Join Entrecard and use it as a tool to comment on other blogs and bring traffic. Use featured post and popular post widgets to keep new visitors on the site longer. Run newspaper classifieds. Run ads on free classified sites. Start a controversy but be careful. Get software like RankSense to help you with SEO on your blog. Introduce yourself to other bloggers in your niche and keep in contact. Use Odiogo to convert your feeds into podcasts and submit these to podcast sites. Use a similar posts type plugin and add this to your feeds also. Allow anything to scrape your site just remember to constantly deep link your site. Constantly improve your content. That’s where I am drawing the line for now. Please feel free to add to it. Related articles by Zemanta Social Media SEO Netbytes: Jack Schofield reviews HubPages How To Publish Your Content Online Without A Web Site - Video Interview With Ryan Hupfer Of Hubpages.com The Affiliate Niche Blog Plan My FireFox Addons Less

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If you want to know how to start a wordpress blog that Will get great traffic and divulge your products or service to thousands then please feel free to add a comment as to what you would like to learn to jump start your blogging as soon as possible. I may be able to add your topic to a new membership starting soon. If there is anything you wish to know please let me know. Blogs are a great way to let hundreds of people or more every day read your latest news. Less

If you are tired of trying to get your sites more traffic and links which in turn lead to more sales then I suggest you investigate the following site as soon as possible. Trying to do everything manually is not really possible if you are looking for good results. The time it takes to write everything and build up links and traffic is not an option when competing with many other marketers. Well now the make money online task has become much easier. There is an option available that will allow you to be much more productive and so more profitable. You will be able to make many more sites that will be linked together, use RSS feeds to get much more traffic together with social bookmarking sites to further boost traffic and sales. If you have an online business or would like one then you should seriously consider this software before it is no longer available. Discover the secrets to making money online with this new software about to be released. Less

If you are looking for more visitors and traffic to your sites then you have some options available to you. First you can do all the work yourself which will result in a lot of hours manually doing this or you could outsource this work to someone that would speed up the process. But with all things in life the best choice is to use software that will result in saving a lot of time together with getting much better results faster. The only option available today for anyone looking to make money online is to use software to reduce the time it takes to build links and your business. The only answer today is to shortcut the time it takes to produce good quality sites and with this producing more profits for all work from home online people. This is the answer to those problems if you need more traffic and profits Less

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On Tuesday, the WSJ.com unveiled a long anticipated site redesign. It launched to record traffic, thanks to upheaval in the financial markets. Yesterday, I sat down with Wall Street Journal Deputy Managing Editor Alan Murray to talk about the redesign. One of the most significant new developments is the "social" aspect of the site. Registered users, using their real names, comment on stories and provide valuable information in a "protected network," Murray tells us. With such a giant base of registered users, who pay for the subscription, this could indeed shape up to be a very smart social network-- and one valuable to advertisers. -- Andy Plesser, Executive Producer Less

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I ran into this site the other day. It’s called Twittin’ Secrets: 100+ Of The World’s Greatest Twitter Tips & Twitter Secrets. Speaking of spam, the way I started this post gave me a de ja vu feeling of the last time I visited an article scraper blog. I need to watch it. I like Twitter. And if you compare my initial reaction to Twitter to the way I use it now, you might say I love Twitter. When I first heard of it, I thought it was useless. What can you say with that much of a limit? What use is it to know what someone else is doing right this second? The limit on Twitter makes it fast. The limit on Twitter makes it easy and quick. The quickness of Twitter may mean you meet a much different person than the “blogger” you are used to. And who needs an article when a few sentences will do. It is also much easier to follow 1000 people on Twitter than keep up with 100 blogs. And those people who use Twitter most likely will announce the biggest news there first. They will announce their newest posts, deals they found and any possible big news related to their interests. A “Tweet” can be scanned. It’s a bite sized piece of info. Usually self-contained, but if there is a link, you can choose to follow it or not. Following people on Twitter saves time. It gives you the overview. So back to spam. You might have already checked out the link. Every person defines spam for themselves. Most black hat techniques are white hat techniques taken to the extreme. How far you take things is up to you. Some of what I see there, I would call spam. But I think car salesman are air spammers. Hype hides a lot of things. But seeing something like Twitter marketing at the extreme end of it’s scale gives you many more options. You can see more of what is possible and then choose what you want to do. You might see some things you missed in your own exploration, new tactics to try. So take a look at what this guy has for you and learn to use Twitter, because you are missing out if you’re not. Starting following people until you get it and one day, Twitter will just be an extension of what you do. Less

I ran into this site the other day. It’s called Twittin’ Secrets: 100+ Of The World’s Greatest Twitter Tips & Twitter Secrets. Speaking of spam, the way I started this post gave me a de ja vu feeling of the last time I visited an article scraper blog. I need to watch it. I like Twitter. And if you compare my initial reaction to Twitter to the way I use it now, you might say I love Twitter. When I first heard of it, I thought it was useless. What can you say with that much of a limit? What use is it to know what someone else is doing right this second? The limit on Twitter makes it fast. The limit on Twitter makes it easy and quick. The quickness of Twitter may mean you meet a much different person than the “blogger” you are used to. And who needs an article when a few sentences will do. It is also much easier to follow 1000 people on Twitter than keep up with 100 blogs. And those people who use Twitter most likely will announce the biggest news there first. They will announce their newest posts, deals they found and any possible big news related to their interests. A “Tweet” can be scanned. It’s a bite sized piece of info. Usually self-contained, but if there is a link, you can choose to follow it or not. Following people on Twitter saves time. It gives you the overview. So back to spam. You might have already checked out the link. Every person defines spam for themselves. Most black hat techniques are white hat techniques taken to the extreme. How far you take things is up to you. Some of what I see there, I would call spam. But I think car salesman are air spammers. Hype hides a lot of things. But seeing something like Twitter marketing at the extreme end of it’s scale gives you many more options. You can see more of what is possible and then choose what you want to do. You might see some things you missed in your own exploration, new tactics to try. So take a look at what this guy has for you and learn to use Twitter, because you are missing out if you’re not. Starting following people until you get it and one day, Twitter will just be an extension of what you do. Less

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What are the best options for products that will have a higher value than an e-book for example? There are various methods for producing products that will have a higher value such as audios, videos, courses DVD training courses etc. The problem is that first you have to get established in your chosen market and often markets outside Internet Marketing it can be difficult to find buyers of $297 DVD training for example. But often buyers will pay a premium for audio as it is easy to listen to while doing something else and it is possible to make audio using free equipment quickly. Video is another way of showing people how to do something either using screen capture or a webcam; this can be done with cheap equipment today. The advantages of using audio and video is that often it can bring more traffic and better ranking for your sites than just submitting text. There are many options for sending your audio and video to sites that will distribute it to many sites and so get more exposure for your site or products. To get started all you need is either a free or cheap software and a microphone that can be purchased for a few dollars, the more expensive then normally the better the sound quality. There are places that will distribute your DVDs for you if you decide to take that route; they will handle the shipping and any problems, so you don’t need any stock and outlay to begin with. Less

What are the best options for products that will have a higher value than an e-book for example? There are various methods for producing products that will have a higher value such as audios, videos, courses DVD training courses etc. The problem is that first you have to get established in your chosen market and often markets outside Internet Marketing it can be difficult to find buyers of $297 DVD training for example. But often buyers will pay a premium for audio as it is easy to listen to while doing something else and it is possible to make audio using free equipment quickly. Video is another way of showing people how to do something either using screen capture or a webcam; this can be done with cheap equipment today. The advantages of using audio and video is that often it can bring more traffic and better ranking for your sites than just submitting text. There are many options for sending your audio and video to sites that will distribute it to many sites and so get more exposure for your site or products. To get started all you need is either a free or cheap software and a microphone that can be purchased for a few dollars, the more expensive then normally the better the sound quality. There are places that will distribute your DVDs for you if you decide to take that route; they will handle the shipping and any problems, so you don’t need any stock and outlay to begin with. Less

This looks like the start of a great case study of a blog. I am going to stay tuned. And I suggest you do too. The first part is a great rundown on setting up your blog for traffic. Entrecard Blog » Blog Archive » Startup Blog Project: Part 1 I am setting out to prove that using Entrecard, and only Entrecard, a blog can grow from nothing to very large, and generate a ton of search engine traffic, tons of social media traffic and of course tons of subscribers. So, I know what you’re all thinking and No, I am not going to take advantage of any administrative privileges I have with Entrecard. I’ll be dropping as usual, spending only credits I receive from dropping and advertising, and overall using the system like a normal blogger would. Less

A lot of third party tools usually sprout up around popular sites. Look at all the Firefox addons for sites such as Twitter, Friendfeed, and others. Look at all the tools for use with Ebay. For a while now, everyone has had his or her own scheme on how to get the most out of Entrecard: fast dropping sites, chain dropping and even software. It was good linkbait for attracting other Entrecard users. Well, it seems that Entrecard came out with their own tool lately. And since I use Flock for most of my browsing, I downloaded Firefox 3 to test out the toolbar. And you know what I have to say about it. It’s awesome. It just blew all the third party tools out of the water. Sorry, all you guys who worked hard to get some linkbait. You can change accounts with a drop down box. You can open Entrecard sites one at a time or ten at at time, choosing your Inbox or any one of the categories to browse through. You also know exactly how many drops you made or how many credits you have by looking at the toolbar. And if you want, you can buy ads on the fly, as you are browsing, from the bar. So I would say, if you plan on using Entrecard, get this tool or you will be behind. There is nothing else out there like it. Related Blogs Related Blogs on Entrecard Entrecard Bookmarks Updated Entrecard theme is here! Related Blogs on entrecard toolbar Entrecard Toolbar – Drop till you Popular The Entrecard Toolbar Entrecard Toolbar For Mozilla Firefox Only Entrecard Launches New Toolbar Welcoming Entrecard Toolbar, Entrebar! Like this post? Publish It On Your Own Blog ShareThis Tags: Entrecard, entrecard toolbar Related posts News at Entrecard (4) Link Love for CommentLuv Blogs Part 1 of 3 (66) Keyboard Shortcuts For Entrecard (0) Entrecard Tactics (5) Less