This week, I was too busy with the day job to even download my email, let alone read the posts at Sphinn. So I ended up doing all of my reading on Saturday, which meant that it was easy to pick my favorite blog post of the week:
27 Secrets to Linking Like a Networking Master

Today’s lesson is how to build a free blog using Tumblr.

Basically:

• sign up
• create the blog, with a name based on your keyword,
• create an article that tells a story, once again based on your keyword,
• and include your affiliate links in your article.

Or, instead of Tumblr, try one of these:

• Squidoo
• Hubpages
• Netscape
• MySpace
• YouTube
• EHow
• USFreeAds
• Zimbio
• Blogger
• WordPress

1) I have (literally) several thousand recent unread emails.

2) There are dozens of enticing posts in several of my favorite forums still waiting to be read.

3) I want to finish reading all of my favorite blogs written by other people.

4) I’m too busy reading all of the ProBlogger Top 5 contest entries.

5) I don’t have time to think of anything to write about (let alone 5 things!).

Word Press Off-Page SEO no 1 - Give Good Pings

Off-page SEO is about getting links, and one big advantage of blogs like WordPress is that they can ping.

A ping is the way WordPress automatically notifies certain blog and RSS directories (or ‘update services’) that your blog has been updated, creating a short-term link to your blog in the process. Now don’t ask me about the technology behind how it pings, just the thought makes my eyes glaze over.

The last few days, I’ve been playing with my latest software toy, Rapid Niche Websites. I’ve set up this blog with the standard RNW template.

Exploring all that Rapid Niche Websites can do to design a blog got me thinking about types of blogs, and the themes and plugins that go with them.