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I’m thinking about getting a kindle (I read a lot). Any of you have one? Like it? Hate it?
Might also do a little contest to “win” a kindle when I get mine so shoot some ideas over through the comments here.
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Read a review today about a product of some type called “nanoblogger”. Basically an e-book/guide thing on how to make small blogs and interact with social networks.
It got me to thinking though *always dangerous* about how easy it would be to screw this up. Normally when you are making small sites you are making a lot of them and you aren’t leaving much of a “trail” out there. With something like nanoblogging you are though.
You are interacting through social media and trying to maintain many different persona’s. Let’s face it – you are going to screw up.
While this was sitting in the back of my head I started researching a new niche for a mini guide for Noobie2pro folks. I came across a WP blog…. and started laughing my tail end off.
Why?
Well all the posts referred to the author as “steve”. But the sidebar welcomed you to “Richards” blog. His ’self made’ comments were even funnier – kept posting as himself by mistake (ie still logged in as admin) and thanking the wrong person for such an insightful post on the topic. In some cases he was talking about the wrong blog altogether.
I hope it was an automated thing that didn’t actually require him to create the blog manually – because if it was it was a huge stinking waste of time.
My point? If you are pretending to be a reviewer for your blog, or faking a persona to separate a topic from yourself stay consistent.
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I’ve been doing a little more PPC than I normally do (xmas is a great time). I found though that I detest research. I already cheat and use tools to help me in researching for seo – but I really didn’t have anything to analyze the competition for PPC. I started using spyfu and really think it was worth the money. It was certainly worth the time saved that’s for sure.
Cash in on your Competitors’ Work – SpyFu Ad History
Think of it this way. You could:
Research keywords.
Split test ads.
Try and research competition manually.
OR
Run spyfu and get all their ads, keywords, etc…
Then do a little testing to try and improve things even further.
Works for me 
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