I finally got around to adding both the Yahoo Buzz and Sphinn buttons to the Search Engine Roundtable.

I only added the icons under the entries, and only on the individual entry pages. I.e. you should not see the large buttons on the home page, category pages, or date pages. You should see them when you view the specific article at the article URL.

For example, check out one of my latest articles on Getting Married: How To Change Your Google AdSense Payee Name. If you scroll down to the bottom of the article, you should see these icons:

Clicking on them should submit and/or vote the story up at the respective social news sites. So give them a try. I think Yahoo Buzz might be a bit buggy on my end, so if you notice issues, please let me know.

Oh, why didn't I add Digg? Well, (1) I have it in the text links where it says "Stumble It! • Digg This! • Add to del.icio.us". (2) Digg traffic isn't something I am looking for right now.

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Like any good online personality, I do my best to keep up with the online reputation management of myself and the brands I manage.

In this case, I track via RSS the revisions to the Search Engine Roundtable's Wikipedia article.

At 18:54 today, some guy from the IP address of 199.20.26.98 made a change to the page. In short, he felt that the Search Engine Roundtable "is by far tha gayest site i have ever seen wikipedia sucks!"

I did a reverse IP address lookup on this user and it turns out he/she goes to Bishop State Community College, or at least made the revision from a college computer. The change was reverted by Philip Trueman, who seems to specialize in killing Wiki vandalism.

So either this Bishop State guy things the Search Engine Roundtable is spam or he hates the article on Wikipedia about the Search Engine Roundtable OR he just is bored in class and needs to keep his time occupied.

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I just created a group in LinkedIn for Search Engine Roundtable readers. To join the group, click here and sign up.

Curious what features we can play with over there, so let's give it a try.

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Surprised? TechCrunch compiled a list the other week of the top tech bloggers based on a historical analysis of Techmeme.

The thing is, it doesn't look like they took into account all the blogs I write at, and only processed data based on one blog.

Heck, I'll take position 54, even though the "list doesn’t take into consideration authors who write for multiple publications."

There is no surprise that TechCrunch completely rules the list. They can't write about cats drinking koolaid and it would make it hot to Techmeme. Alright, so maybe cats drinking koolaid is kool...

Greg Sterling and Danny Sullivan also made the list from Search Engine Land. Other search related bloggers on the list include Ionut Alex Chitu and Philipp Lenssen.

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Listen up, it is going to get very quiet here until Tuesday.

Saturday night is the first day of Passover, so that means I will be offline, unreachable, until Monday night.

So no need to stop by here until Tuesday. I hope to have a bunch of stories then, but nothing until then.

What are you going to read? Don't panic! I got ya covered...

(1) We have scheduled five blog posts at the Search Engine Roundtable for Monday, many of them are pretty good.
(2) You can spend the time catching up on my 11 videos, each about 10 minutes long.
(3) Greg will be running the show with Danny at Search Engine Land (note, I will not be checking feeds until Monday night, so I hope the news coverage goes well).
(4) You can read some of the billion blogs I have listed in my link farm, which I seriously need to update...
(5) If you are Jewish, why not celebrate Passover?
(6) If you are not Jewish, prep yourself for Earth Day, we got a theme that should rock that day.

Alright, that should be it. If I may be so bold to request you to avoid calling or emailing me when I am gone. I expect thousands of emails to flow in when I get back online Monday, and I am so not looking forward to digging out from them.

Happy Passover!

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Here are all my video blog entries for the weekly recaps I have been doing at the Search Engine Roundtable in one YouTube player:

YouTube has a vblog feature but it kinda stinks. Subscribe to my real video feed for iTunes or other updates.

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Someone, unnamed, asked me where I get my blogging ideas from. The person asked if it was from that Daily SearchCast. Honestly, I was a bit taken back from that.

Why? Well, all the topics discussed on the Daily SearchCast typically come from my research. I spend a good chunk of my time, compiling news, blog posts, images and forum threads on topics related to search. I then organize them in RustyBudget and we work of that for the news we post at Search Engine Land, the SearchCap and what goes into the Daily SearchCast.

That being said, I also want to keep the Search Engine Roundtable unique and have its own perspective. So how do I not let what I find via my research for Search Engine Land, interfere with my work and research for the Search Engine Roundtable. Although my system is not 100% foolproof, it tends to have worked very well for years.

Before doing my morning rush of reading my RSS subscriptions, as you can see, it spikes at about 8am. I always head to the forums first. Why do I go to the forums first? Well, I honestly don't want the "news" and "blogosphere" to interrupt my objectivity of what is important to the inner core of our industry. How do I determine what news or features or subjects are the most important to the industry? Like I said time and time again, and have written in the Search Engine Roundtable's purpose statement, I let the industry decide. By that I mean, I mine the search forums - look for the most discussed topics and then write about those topics based on the discussion. I do the forum research before the other research, so that I can avoid writing about something that honestly is not that important to the average SEM.

Let me show you a recent example... [heads off to find an example...] On April 11th, I covered news at Search Engine Land that Yahoo's new minimum bid formula will go live sometime this week. SEMs didn't really care for the news in the forum and there was no thread at that time. Today, at the Search Engine Roundtable, I finally wrote a story about it, five days later. Why today, because today is the first day SEMs and advertisers actually noticed a change in how Yahoo is actually determining the minimum bid. Yes, we warned advertisers that this was coming a few times months ago, only because the SEMs in the forums cared and had threads on it. But I did not cover last week's announcement, because advertisers were kind of sick of the warnings - they want to see if the quality changes they implemented will hurt them or not and today is that day for some.

Hope that clarifies a few things for my readers on how I differentiate between the Roundtable and the Land.

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Andy Greenberg interviewed me for his latest Forbes piece, Microsoft Plays Both Sides Of The Ad Game. Besides for the article laying out the issues with Microsoft owning AvenueA/Razorfish, it also makes me look brainy - I think...

Here is one of the quotes:

It would show that Microsoft is really interested in competing with Google. And it would show that they understand that the perception of an unbiased algorithm is just as important as having an unbiased algorithm.

Yea, the line, "the perception of an unbiased algorithm is just as important as having an unbiased algorithm."

It is. Really. There were studies done (can't find them now) that show if you slap on a Google logo to a Yahoo search results page and then slap on a Yahoo logo to a Google search results page, people would find the results from Google to be more relevant, simply because of the brand. Ah, found it, when I was at SEW, I wrote Is Google Search More Relevant Or Is There A Brand Factor?

Anyway, the line is cool to read. Didn't even realize I said it, until he quoted me.

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Few days ago, Danny blogged on Tracking Your Twitter Growth With Twitterholic, TwitDir, Tweeterboard & Others, so I figured I blog it also.

According to Twitterholic, I am the 922,011st to sing up for Twitter. I actually signed up for Twitter over a year ago and been using it ever since.

I now have 984 followers, 381 friends and 3,766 updates. I guess I need more followers and friends, so sign up with Twitter and go to my profile and follow me, NOW!

:)

I wish there was a way to export all this data, so I can make cooler graphs with it... Oh well.

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Okay, I feel like I am wasting time. At least I got my laptop. But there is only so much you can do in a car. Anyway... I did a small video in iMovie while in the car. But I really would love to work on the video recap for the week now, but I just don't want to freak out my driver... Here is my quick video:

Hollywood, here I come!

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That was quick! I arrived at 10:30ish, presented at 11ish, finished at 12ish and left at 12:15ish. Now, in the car, I caught up on feeds. Wrote a YSM story at SEL and reviewed Tamar's posts at SER.

Replied to some more emails, reviews SER's tax day theme (it rocks) and IMing with a few people. So I decided to then take some pictures of myself blogging in the car...

Black & White:

Color:

Regarding Jim's thing... I can't speak much about it. I honestly came in, did my presentation and left. I have no idea if my presentation was good or not. The questions were good. My slides rocked cause of Apple Keynote. The content, well, I have no idea. :)

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I am sitting in the back of this car, typing away on my computer, writing this blog post, as I am being driven from Suffern, NY - two hours to Troy, NY to speak at Link Ninja's thing for Jim.

My battery has a little over two hours left, so by the time I get there, I should be all dead. I do have a spare, fully charged for the two hour trip back. I also plan on presenting on this machine, using Keynote. So it will be charging during my one hour presentation.

I need to talk for one hour? No idea if my presentation is even that long. I have almost a 100 slides on Universal Search and how to take advantage of it. But I talk fast. Anyway, it should be fun. A lot of other SEMs that I am friendly with will be there.

I love being able to work while commuting, this is the only way to travel!

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I just got my USB Microphone, the Samson C01U mic. I plugged it in to my Mac, and presto, it showed up in the list of input devices under my audio settings. I decided to scan the owner's manual and it had three full pages on how to set up this Microphone with a Windows PC. Mac? Just plug it in and it works. Too funny.

Anyway, here is me testing out the mic:

More details on what I am doing with this microphone can be found over here.

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Yesterday, I officially launched a weekly video cast that I will be producing on search news and SEM advice. It basically is a video recap of the text recap we prepare in our Search Buzz section.

I have been experimenting with them for about four months and honestly, I am enjoying doing them. I keep them under 10 minutes, so they fit on YouTube and I get to interact more with my readers with these video recaps. The good news is that I asked search companies and SEM companies to provide schwag for viewers to win by watching the video and already received many responses with yes! So we are going to have some really cool schwag to give away in the near future, if you watch!

How do you watch? A few ways:

• Subscribe to our standard video feed and be notified of updates. You can then watch the raw video or watch it on YouTube.
• Subscribe to our feed directly in iTunes
• Watch for updates at my YouTube channel

I am also very excited to be receiving a new microphone to help with the horrible built in microphone quality of the MacBook Pro. I purchased the Samson C01U Mic, which has great reviews. So that should increase the volume of my voice, which will enable me to add some elements to the videos.

This mic is coming today and I hope to use it this Sunday in my new video. So make sure to subscribe to our video podcast and you can not only get a quick 10 minute recap of the past week in search but also, you can win prizes and awesome schwag!

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It has been over a year since I switched to Google Reader and 11 months or so since I posted my RSS reader trends. So I thought I take a look back and see if my RSS reading habits have changed over the course of the year.

The green bars are my new RSS reader stats and the redish bars are old stats.

Note: Overall, I am reading a lot more posts per day, tracking more feeds and subscriptions. The charts overlay nicely because they are normalized. So I am using them to show a pattern - it will make sense as you read:

Time of Day: It seems like I am viewing less feeds closer to midnight then I have about a year ago. I guess I am going to sleep earlier? Ah, I now consume a lot of my RSS on my iPhone, so I have less to read when I get back home late after basketball. That explains it, I think...

Day of Week: Looks like, although I am reading more feed items per day, the pattern of the number of feeds on a daily basis is the same. I.e. I read the most amount of feeds on a Tuesday, like I did a year ago. Not sure why...

Last 30 Days: This chart doesn't really show much, except that I didn't take a day off this month.

Have your RSS reading habits changed over the course of the year? Mine really haven't, in terms of when I read. I do consume more, about 200 more feed items per day more (if I read the charts correctly).

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The blogsphere is buzzing about Flickr Video, so instead of writing about it, I thought I show a video in a video of how to use it.

Watch me watch myself upload a video to Flickr and then embed it here:

LOL - I crack myself up in a weird way...

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I write a ton of blog posts a day. Typically about 3 or so here, 5 or so at the Search Engine Roundtable and 4 or so at Search Engine Land per day. So about 10 - 20 blog posts per work day.

One of my tricks for getting so many blog posts done per day is not proof reading them. For this site and the Search Engine Roundtable, I don't even bother running grammar check with Microsoft Word on the posts. With most my Search Engine Land posts, I run them through Word - but I don't really proof them by giving them a once over before posting.

I type and click "submit" at the bottom of the blog software. I rarely ever skim or read over my blog posts before submitting and I rarely ever read them once they are posted.

I am sure I mess up on spelling and grammar all the time but I rarely ever get complaints. So, I am not asking, should I spend the time proofing the blog posts or spend my time finding more news and content to write about and less time proofing?

Feel free to comment anonymously - no need to be mean, just be honest. Asking for "constructive criticism," please.

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I just switched the ad delivery program from Open Ads to Google Ad Manager a few minutes ago.

I have been testing Google Ad Manager on the forums and it has been working out well. So today, I had an hour, so I moved all the ads on the main blog to Google Ad Manager.

Why did I do this?

(1) So I don't have to host my own ad software.
(2) Less load on my server.
(3) No worries about patching the software.
(4) Slick reports
(5) It does what I need

I loved Open Ads, but numbers one through three are good enough reasons for me to switch. And it is free!

I am glad I wrote my Google Ad Manager Tutorial, because I had to reference back to it several times as I set up the news ads.

If you see any bugs, let me know...

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Today, I decided to finally expand the query list (keywords) that would trigger Google 'subscribed links' to show up when you do a search. Did I lose you? Let me explain...

• If you subscribe to the Search Engine Roundtable's Google Co-Op subscribed links
• When you do a search at Google, when logged into Google, you may see special results in the search results.

For example, if you subscribe you and search for doubleclick, you will see the latest Search Engine Roundtable articles related to DoubleClick. It looks like this, within the search results, probably in the fourth organic result:

It, by default, shows the last three articles that match that keyword. How does it know which keyword to show up for? I tell it. It used to be just my categories, plus some added keywords based on the categories. But today, I decided to enhance that and use the over 1,500 tags from the site. Yes, I try my best to tag each piece of content with keywords that describe the content. I decided to pull from my tags database to add more keywords to the list.

I also decided 1,700+ were too many, so I made a rule that if the tag is used in three or more articles, then it should be part of the keyword list that triggers the Google Co-Op. If it is two articles or less, then it won't trigger a Google result.

So if you are looking for pages on robots, slurp or matt cutts, I likely have recent content that will interest you.

If you haven't subscribed, you might want to now, because the content is fresher and richer then every. To subscribe to the Google Co-Op, click here, you can always unsubscribe easily at any time.

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I received a surprise in the mail today, schwag from Google. Specifically the Google Ad Manager team. In the box was this card:

No way did I expect Google to send me stuff for my How To Set Up Google Ad Manager On Your Site or Blog. Heck, I write about Google all day, every day, and I don't expect presents from them. It was really nice to get the schwag, even though I have two of the three items. Like people say, "it is the thought that counts," that line is so true.

What came in the box?

(1) Google Hot Cup:

(2) Google Black T-Shirt:

(3) Google Black Duffle (I didn't get one of these duffles yet):

One day I should do an inventory of all my search related schwag. Only issue is that they are spread out between my office, home, car, other family members and who knows where.

Thank you the Ad Manager Team!

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Kevin Heisler wrote at the Search Engine Watch News blog that I left Search Engine Land and joined Search Engine Journal based on a piece of scraper content. Scraper content is basically a robot that steals content from several sites and combines them to try to make them unique. In short, it put my name on content stolen from Search Engine Journal, so Kevin either thought it would be funny to say I now work at Search Engine Journal or he was fooled by a scraper site.

Either way, I am not working for Search Engine Journal, even though I have the utmost respect for Loren Baker, I am just not writing for him.

Even though Kevin added "corrections" to his post, I think it is still confusing people. I received and noticed tons of twitters this morning, not understanding the SEW blog post or the correction.

Again, I am still writing at Search Engine Roundtable and Search Engine Land. It is honestly a shame to see that post on SEW, a shame.

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I am sitting on the plane, going through blogging withdrawal at the moment. So to satisfy my addiction, I decide to pull out my laptop and open TextEdit. While listening to "The Trail" I look up at the airplane TV screens and think, what should I write about.

I then think back to how funny it is that I am writing this and thousands may read it. I write, and people read what I write. I am not a professional writer - far from it (thank goodness for blogging, where it is okay to use poor grammar), but yet people read what I have to say on a daily basis. Not just my friends and family but professionals.

I then drift further back towards my Junior year in high school. Dr. Masters, a small lady who taught us drama. I enjoyed the class, but after taking it, I thought to myself, no way will I ever become a writer. I used to write, in fact, I expressed my thoughts much better on a laptop then I could using my mouth. But I was never an "English student," I always much preferred the business side of things.

As I look back, how did I get here? I blogger, sudo-writer, with a readership? Never in a million years would I have thought...

One day, I'll have to write how I actually started writing at SEW and now SEL. Maybe a history of the progression there.

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I'll admit it. I have been receiving emails from some of my readers at both this site and the Search Engine Roundtable that their comments are not coming through.

In the past, I use to check the comment spam folder much more actively. But now I get about two hundred comments in an hour that makes it into the junk folder. It takes forever to scan through all of them. So I normally just delete them without looking. Honestly, I rather find new comment that sift through thousands of junk comments to find a handful of false positive (real comments).

So, if you ever see your comment not being approved automatically then you can be pretty sure that it will rarely make it to the blog. In that case, I would email me right away with the blog, your name, and the time you placed the comment - so I can approve it. My email? Well, just use this form to reach me...

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Listening to Danny on WebmasterRadio and they are experimenting with Live Yahoo.

I should be visible in real time when I am at my desk here:

I'll start this channel soon at http://live.yahoo.com/rustybrick.

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After a long day of standing at SphinnCon Israel on Tuesday, I was fairly tired that night. In any event, I knew I wanted to document the day and upload pictures on my extremely slow Internet connection in Israel. So when I woke up, I began my morning stuff, email, RSS, forum research. Then when I was done, I began blogging the conference at both the Search Engine Roundtable and Search Engine Land (Danny then told me, he would have blogged it at Search Engine Land).

I told my wife to go shopping while I blogged away the AM. She found a Michal Negrin store nearby and bought some jewelry. She then met me back at the hotel and I finished up my blog stories for the morning. A little after 1PM, we left to do more shopping in Geula. Yes, I am a great husband for going shopping even though it makes me ill to shop. I don't think we bought anything that day, I may be wrong - it is all turning into a fog right now for me. But we did stop at a tile place. My wife has been really wanting us to get a backsplash for ournew house but I have been trying to push off that decision.

In any event, she found two styles she liked here in Israel. Note, she hasn't been able to find anything in America yet - but she found two styles she liked in Israel. The one above, is one that I think we both like and will work well in our kitchen. Thing is, I guess it would have to be shipped from Israel and we would have to convert the measurements somehow - all doable. Not that we are going to do this anytime soon. The above backsplash looks a lot like Israeli stone, which is why we like it.

After the backsplash bit, we went back to the hotel and got ready for dinner with my brother and sister-in-law. Skipping some parts....

We go together to some restaurant that tells us they have no room for the four of us. My sister-in-law does her smooth talking and gets us in. We eat well. It turns out the waiter was a taxi driver that took my brother somewhere, so they chatted a bit about that. In any event, the food was good and the convo was good. Although, I prefer not to talk and be distracted when I have food in front of me ;-).

After that, I think the day was over - we had to rest up for the big day tomorrow. My nephew's bar mitzvah.

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Talk about a busy morning, before the morning begins...

Starting at about 6:30 and finishing with this post at about 9:30 am.

(1) Set up new advertiser on blog.
(2) Handled some SMX Israel stuff, not much.
(3) Sorted through dozens of emails.
(4) Scanned over 300 new items in my RSS reader.
(5) Researched several forums for content on the Search Engine Roundtable
(6) Posted four items at the Search Engine Roundtable
(7) Organized 50 topics for Search Engine Land within RustyBudget.
(8) Blogged 4 items that are now live at Search Engine Land and blogged one item scheduled to go live at 12 at Search Engine Land.
(9) Reviewed one of the four stories Tamar has written at Search Engine Roundtable.
(10) And wrote this post.

I had misc phone calls and more emails during those ten items, just not sure at what steps.

I am running into a long long meeting in less then 30 minutes, so I had to get this all done prior. I doubt I'll have time to do the video recap today, so I might be holding off on that for the next few weeks until after I come back from Israel.

I love the rush of speed blogging. Oh, that picture is of me blogging while in car to NYC.

Posted at 9:29 AM | Permalink | Category: Blogging | Comments (4) | TrackBacks (0)

An Ask.com feature I have been craving for a while is finally done. Here it is:

You too can customize your Ask.com home page, more on how over here.

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Hey, Google Fiance, I want to be able to embed Google Finance charts on my blog or web site. I want the option to copy a snippet of code and paste it on my blog for others to view. Yes, I know - you will need to give an option for dynamic updates to those charts or keep the chart as is on a specific time/date. But you can do it, and it would be used.

For me to show the drop in price of Google and Apple relative to the NASDAQ, I need to steal a picture of your chart, throw it on Flickr and embed it that way here.

Give me an option, like you have with Google Maps, to embed it!

You already give us a link to address, so I know the embed feature is easy. And it will save me so much time...

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I have been on Pownce for a while now, but now it is public, so anyone can sign up for Pownce if they like.

Basically, it is a Twitter like blogging thing... I use Twitter all the time and love using it.

But for me to really use Pownce one or two things must happen...

(1) Twitterific must add support for Pownce, one UI for both would be killer.
(2) Everyone I know must switch from Twitter to Pownce.

So Twitterific, can we get Pownce integration?

If you are on Pownce, friend me at http://pownce.com/rustybrick.

Posted at 9:18 AM | Permalink | Category: Blogging | Comments (1) | TrackBacks (0)

If you are a blogger and have yet to try RustyBudget out yet, you are missing out. I honestly can't describe how much time I save every day by using it. Of course, it was my idea and RustyBrick built it, so I am biased, but at the same time, I built it around my specific needs. FYI - Danny Sullivan lives and dies by it every day as well, maybe one day he will blog about it.

In any event, I am often on the road and want to be able to add items from Google Reader directly to my various budgets. Based on watching the using delicious on your iphone, I had one of those "Doh!" moments. Just add the bookmarklets I need to my Safari browser, and then sync my iPhone. Presto - I can add items from Google Reader directly to the budget I want.

Here is me showing that off:

Step back!!! What is RustyBudget? Well, I wrote about it over here and over here. I am honestly shocked more people have not gotten on the bandwagon. Only 337 authors? Only 12,500+ topics added. Maybe it is too confusing?

Anyway, give it a shot at RustyBudget.

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I noticed a lot of my fellow bloggers were part of the Power 150 AdAge blogs. So I politely asked the editor of the Power 150, if they can include the Search Engine Roundtable and he said yes.

The Power 150 is a ranking of the top English-language media and marketing blogs in the world, as developed by marketing executive and blogger, Todd Andrlik. It's really as simple as that, except that the name isn't strictly accurate: It currently ranks more than 500 blogs written about all types of media and pretty much every imaginable marketing discipline.

So now I am number 9 on the list of the AdAge top media and marketing blogs.

Google PageRank is one of the calculations used to rank these blogs. I wonder what my rank would be if Google showed my original PageRank of 7... Would I be closer to #3?

Anyway, it is nice to be listed in this space.

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You often see how I use these high-quality images of products I use on my Mac, when describing those products. Here is how I get those images uploaded to Flickr.

(1) Go to the application in the finder window:

(2) Highlight the application and select "Get Info" or Apple I.

(3) When the info screen comes up, click on the icon at the top left of that small window. Then when the icon is highlighted, select "Copy" from the edit menu or click Apple C.

(4) Then open Apple's "Preview" under your Applications folder. In Preview, select "New From Clipboard" in the File menu.

(5) It then should open up as so:

(6) Go to "Save As" in Preview's file menu and select the JPG option (the Gif option will make it an animated GIF, so don't pick that one).

(7) You should then get this single image, which you can upload to Flickr or use on your blog as you see fit.

Here is a video of me going through the steps in real time...

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It's not enough you scrap my forum posts, my blog posts, my articles and my web site content but you also have to scrap my Twits!

Just kidding... There is this SEO who does reverse Twitter to Blog automatic posting. You got me. Whereas I do Blog to Twitter posts, RKF does Twitter to Blog posts.

His blog is at Created Wonder and you can clearly see, his posts from his twitter alias RFK, is being published to his blog.

Example: He replied to a twitter of mine saying:

@rustybrick I’ve tried replacing batteries, but usually end up with a new UPS. The price is pretty close, look for trade-in rebates

But, check his blog post on that over at this URL.

Too funny.

An SEO technique? Playing with my mind? Just bored one day? Loves APIs?

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