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01/09/2007 OgOgI just submitted my feed to OgOg.com blog rating site. It is pretty cool just to see a blogger can compare to others on other platforms.
17/04/2007 TW Resource GroupMy new small business marketing website is coming along nicely and as luck would have it I created a lens for it as well focused around small business seo. It will give us some more links and hopefully bolster TWResourceGroup.com into becoming a trafficed blog. Right now I have been working on a project, centered around Mustang racing, how a small business can make movies and use social media to promote themselves. It is going well and Saturday night I meet with Brian to story board the project...it is going to be so much fun to build and make. 01/03/2007 Small Business MarketingLast night TW Resource Group got its own small business marketing website, TWResourceGroup.com. It is totally a work in progress and getting used to the new software is the biggest challenge and making sure everything is working correctly. A minute ago I was trying to upload a new template and some errors occurred and safe to say that our site is completely messed up right now. I guess my plans for today are try and fix my mess up and get it back in working order. Arg, I hate when I do that but it will be golden before to long. Anyhoo gotta run and get working on it 21/07/2006 MSN is still on my nerves...MSN is still on my nerves about the URL changes. I have been watching my search engine traffic over the past 2 months to see if it would pic back up and return to its earlier numbers. But newp, nothing of the sorts has happened. Before the URL change my Space had a google Page Rank of 4. Now it is big fat Zero and that does not make me happy at all.
Doesn't MSN realize what these changes can do for a webpage? Evidently not. When the URL changes Google can now precieve these new web addresses as new website, that is what they are, and concider them "dup or duplicate" content and ban or not give the website the attention they normally would have. And that just plain sucks.
It seems that this is what might have happened to my Space. I would like to know what others have noticed since the URL change by MSN. Has your search engine hits fallen completely off? Do you have a page rank of zero like me? Let me know because it could really help me asses the issues and hopefully try and help rectify the problem and get things back to normal.
I have been using ping servers to help and it was my original thought that everything would be normal shortly after the URL change...boy was I wrong on that one. So let me know your thoughts on this...anyhoo hope all is well on this friday night...it is smoking hot here but I have my ac on and its 77 degrees in my apartment...anyhoo...
Lata on the fade-a
Toby 20/05/2006 Adding an RSS Feed to your MSN SpaceRSS feeds are the latest way to stay current on your favorite blogs or other websites. What is RSS and XML feeds? These are URLs that are setup to be read by feed readers. They are designed to display the most recent blogs or posts and are automatically updated when a new post has been added to the site. As you may have noticed the top of my Space has 3 feeds and one is from a friends MSN Space.
Readers are popular with big sites who wish to aggregate mass amounts of blogs to one source for easy reading by their users. Some of the largest of these sites are News Readers. For example, political bloggers may have their RSS or XML feed submitted to aggregators so they can get traffic and comments from people that are interested in what they are blogging about. In previous posts I have shared which sites I sumbit my RSS too and they are KingPing, Ice Rocket & WeBlogAlot.
I submit my RSS url to these site to let them know I have "updated" and hopefully will place my feed on their site. Now that we are through a little background here is how to add the module to your MSN Space.
Follow these steps
1. Login into your MSN Space
2. Click on Customize
3. Click on the Modules button and from the drop down list select RSS feed
4. Click save
Now the RSS feed reader module should be available for editing. Now you just need to find a url to place in the reader. This is where it can be a tad tricky but no fear it isn't too bad. There are couple types of URL address you can add into the reader. Here are some examples and take special note to the last part of the address.
MSN Spaces
MSN Spaces use an feed.rss as the last part of the URL to distinguish it from a normal web address. If you add feed.rss to the end of your address then you will go to our RSS Feed page.
Mine is as follows, http://spaces.msn.com/goingbigger/feed.rss
Other Sites
Now others sites can use a variety of other addresses and the page will look at tad weird but don't worry the reader is designed to translate the garbled page into a usauble language. MSN has a page that you can select XML address on a varitety of topics, View MSN RSS Homepage. See the little icons that say XML? Click on one of those and you will the garbled page I described and note the differences in the ending of the address, http://www.msn.com/rss/alsoonmsn.aspx. And for kicks here is the one from FOX Sports, http://feeds.feedburner.com/foxsports/RSS/NFL.
If you see an icon like this
 or this  then just click on them and copy and paste the url into the RSS feed reader, rename the module (if you so wish) and the select how many posts you wish to display and voila. You and your readers will now know immediately when a space is updated.Please let me know if any part of this is unclear so I can update this page. Also ask questions or share your uses of the RSS Reader. Have fun because it is a great way to keep up-to-date on your favorite sites. My favorite is my NASA image of the day. Now I get the updates delivered to me directly and isnt that what having a blog is all about? Personalization.
Hope your weekend is going well because mine is starting out great. Anyhoo catch ya later... 13/05/2006 The Definition of Marketing...The Definition of Marketing
Finally, a definition of Marketing that makes sense.... You see a gorgeous girl at a party. You go up to her and say, I'm fantastic in bed. That's Direct Marketing. You're at a party with a bunch of friends and see a gorgeous girl. One of your friends goes up to her and pointing at you says, He's fantastic in bed. That's Advertising. You see a gorgeous girl at a party. You go up to her and get her telephone number. The next day you call and say, Hi, I'm fantastic in bed. That's Telemarketing. You're at a party and see a gorgeous girl. You get up and straighten your tie, you walk up to her and pour her a drink. You open the door for her, pick up her bag after she drops it, offer her a ride, and then say, By the way, I'm fantastic in bed. That's Public Relations. You're at a party and see a gorgeous girl. She walks up to you and says, I hear you're fantastic in bed. That's Brand Recognition. I seen this on a friends space and thought it was totally worth sharing.
Have a great weekend!!
Toby 16/02/2006 Just keep thinking...Just keep thinking marketing, marketing and marketing well at least that is what i am trying to do. The real estate biz isn't the hottest for buyers due to high real estate prices. I have been huslting our website like it was some cheap date and starting to do it to our others one. The SEO stratgies I have implemented are working wonders but the agent in our office who is benefiting from the SEO is a property manager. A few of our other agents are starting to utilize the power of the web but with different means than the company website. They are, as well as I, purchased websites for neighborhoods in our sphere of influence.
It is a great strategy for a few reasons
I apologize for that tanget but there you have it. I am hoping, since a few of our agents purchased websites, that they will get involved fully online and dominate that advertising medium over the other more traditional methods. There are a few agents whom I battle with in Search Engine rankings for our local keywords but no companies are there. That is a major difference and the level of exposure which can be generated for a company means more regular visitors, new daily visitors and in-bound links because we are a company and not an individual. That is my bet anyways. So througha few website i trying grow this spider web. From the links at the top of the page anyone can probably tell that :) Shameless advertising, i heard it one day and it is totally true. If I don't do it who will? Ah...peep...this. Next friday I leave for Whistler to GO BIG, yes you guess it, SUPER PIPE TIME, I am going to try my luck in the Nintendo Terrain Park. Crap, work just came up...gotta run and make some loot
"If it don't make dollars it don't make sense." 29/09/2005 Update!!Good afternoon everyone is blogger land. I would like to let everyone know that i have created a Real Estate Only Blog , Snohomish County's Real Estate Blog. It has been created for BARE's website and its sole purpose is to be informative about our local region. When I start my full time position with I use part of my day to let people know what is happening and my thoughts on them, well that is the purpose of a blog :P Feel free to stop by but i must ask to you keep your comments to real estate specific. I will do my best answer questions and give an well rounded take on the current real estate market. My time is going to be spend developing that blog right now but i will update and visit the friends i have made here as often as i can.
Take care all and May your futures be so bright you have to wear shades.
Your friend in Time, Toby 24/08/2005 Back to work :PWell I am back to working on BARE's website. We are going to be featured in a corporate newsletter and the site has to "dialed in". Just quick entry for tonight...have to get back to work :) Later all... |
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