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links for 2007-10-05
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Our response to Marketing Sherpa’s recent test of click-through rates for anchor text links caused some healthy debate among people who, for the most part, seem to agree with each other.
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Contests are extremely popular in the blogosphere right now. A lot of bloggers are using them to reward their readers, gain new subscribers, improve the community environment of the blog, and so on.
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If you’re a new or longtime user of FeedBurner FeedSmith — our plugin for WordPress that helps ensure you count all of your blog’s feed traffic through FeedBurner — there is a recommended security-related update to this plugin for you to download.
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Get public transit directions on Google Maps.
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It’s been a long wait for developments in the National Federation for the Blind (NFB) vs. Target accessibility row (A 13-month wait, in fact). However, the LA Times reports that, on Tuesday this week, Target finally lost its bid to dismiss the NFB’s lawsu
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As I noted in a previous post, forecasts say holiday spending will be down, except online. The US housing market is affecting advertising spend too. But again, online advertising is the bright spot. This is according to ZenithOptimedia.
Your link to running blog contests was rather timely since I am running my first ever contest over on WinExtra so thanks and if you don’t mind a shameless plug for it your readers - specfically Windows readers - can find more about it here:
http://www.winextra.com/2007/10/03/win-a-copy-of-stardock-windowblinds-6/
Depending on how well it goes over I’ll be looking at doing it again as long as I can find companies that are interested in dealing with blogs that aren’t at the top og the bllogging pile.