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ReviewMe now has 4,000 bloggers under its belt

Nov 30, 2006 No Comments »

Says this post. This is quite fast considering it’s not been even a month when the service was started. I wrote about the two companies that pay bloggers to write product and service reviews for money a few days ago in a post titled Blogging-reviewing for money. Although there are many assayers but I think it is a good opportunity for people who want to earn money from their blogs. Writing reviews has two benefits: you can get paid for writing reviews, and then you can generate ad revenue by getting traffic to the same post — and it helps both the publisher and the advertiser.

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Seductive copywriting

Nov 29, 2006 1 Comment »

According to this analysis of a recently published article titled The Neurology of Aesthetics Kathy quotes:

An unclothed person who has only arms or part of a shoulder jutting out from behind a shower curtain or who is behind a diaphanous veil is much more alluring than a completely uncovered nude. Just as the thinking parts of our brain enjoy intellectual problem solving, the visual system seems to enjoy discovering a hidden object.

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About half of online Asia is blogging

Nov 29, 2006 No Comments »

OK, almost every website worth its salt has been publishing it for days. According to a study by Microsoft’s MSN and Windows Live Online Services Businesses, about 50% of Asians who surf the Internet are blogging and 40% of these bloggers spend more than 3 hours every week blogging. Well, that’s an impressive figure and speaks volumes about the growing blogging trend in Asia. I’ve been getting multiple news feeds regarding this study but I’m eventually linking to this one. The survey was conducted upon 25,000 portal visitors across India, Hong Kong, Korea, Singapore, Taiwan, Malaysia and Thailand.

The report rightly says that corporate and business blogging is still at a nascent stage. Blogging is specially popular in India and Korea, and in fact I’ve personally experienced how blogging has contributed to various social and political causes recently. Blogging has become such a powerful information dissemination tool that a few months ago the India government banned a few blogs fearing social unrest. Of course bloggers protested at full-throttle and the government had to withdraw its draconian censorship.

Google won’t answer anymore

Nov 29, 2006 No Comments »

According to this post on Google blog they are shutting down Google Answers. I never used it but I just went to their website and noticed they would find an answer for $2.50. I think it was an innovative idea and it would be good for a smaller company.

So why are they shutting it down? Of course Google won’t answe :-).

Interview of Neil Patel and Cameron Olthius by Rand of SEOmoz

Nov 29, 2006 2 Comments »

The rise of ACS has been meteoric in the field of SEO, according to Rand of SEOmoz and he has interviewed Neil Patel and Cameron Olthius for his website. I’ve been reading their blog Pronet Advertising for a few weeks now and they really come up with great, thought-provoking  posts.