What my readers are into ... What No Privacy?

Looking at the this site's profile on MyBlogLog I can see that my site visitors are into The Office, Miss Nevada and a retired Silicon Valley venture vapitalist blog.



But should I really know what people here are looking at? Maybe there's no personally identifiable information, maybe it won't tell me what Jimbo's been clicking on (sorry if those sites were you). But personally, I don't think if's any of my business what those that read this site look at when they're not clicking out of the site.

We all want user information, we all look at what keywords people use to find our sites and often track the exit points. But tracking individual readers around the internet is a step too far for me.

I'd be interested in your thoughts ...

Create Feed Subscription Buttons

Another set of useful tools are those buttons that allow others to subscribe to your blog feed. I've just done a selection, but IFeedReaders.com give you the option to configure them to suit your particular needs.

<a href="<$BlogSiteFeedUrl$>" title="Subscribe to my feed"><img src="http://www.twistermc.com/RSS-images//feed-icon.gif" style="border:0"/></a><br><br /><br><a title='Subscribe to my feed' href="<$BlogSiteFeedUrl$>" style='text-decoration:none;'><span style='border:1px solid;border-color:#FC9 #630 #330 #F96;padding:0 3px;font:bold 10px verdana,sans-serif;color:#FFF;background:#F60;margin:0;'>XML</span></a><br><br /><br><a href="http://fusion.google.com/add?feedurl=<$BlogSiteFeedUrl$>"><img src="http://www.google.com/webmasters/add-to-google-plus.gif" alt="Google Reader or Homepage" border="0"></a><br><br /><br><a href="http://www.ifeedreaders.com/subscribe.php?thefeed=<$BlogSiteFeedUrl$>&"><img src="http://www.ifeedreaders.com/buttons/button2.gif" alt="Subscribe" border="0" title="More Subscription Options"/></a><br><br /><br><a href="http://add.my.yahoo.com/rss?url=<$BlogSiteFeedUrl$>"><img src="http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/us/my/addtomyyahoo4.gif" border="0" alt="Add to My Yahoo!"></a><br><br /><br><a href="http://www.bloglines.com/sub/<$BlogSiteFeedUrl$>"><img src="http://www.bloglines.com/images/sub_modern9.gif" alt="Subscribe with Bloglines" border="0" /></a><br><br /><br><a href="http://www.newsgator.com/ngs/subscriber/subext.aspx?url=<$BlogSiteFeedUrl$>"><img src="http://www.newsgator.com/images/ngsub1.gif" alt="Subscribe in NewsGator Online" border="0"></a> <br><br /><br><a href="http://my.msn.com/addtomymsn.armx?id=rss&ut=<$BlogSiteFeedUrl$>&ru=<$BlogURL$>"><img src="http://sc.msn.com/44/G,UCH%7BZBSS3%7BOS%7BSE469LG.gif" border="0"></a><br><br /><br><a href="http://feeds.my.aol.com/add.jsp?url=<$BlogSiteFeedUrl$>"><img src="http://myfeeds.aolcdn.com/vis/myaol_cta1.gif" alt="Add to My AOL" border="0"/></a><br><br /><br><a href="http://www.rojo.com/add-subscription?resource=<$BlogSiteFeedUrl$>"> <img src="http://www.rojo.com/corporate/images/rojowidered.gif" alt="Subscribe in Rojo" style="border:0"></a><br><br /><br><a href="http://client.pluck.com/pluckit/prompt.aspx?GCID=C12286x053&a=<$BlogSiteFeedUrl$>&t=<$BlogTitle$>"><img src="http://www.pluck.com/images/rss-pluck.gif" alt="Subscribe with Pluck RSS reader" border="0" /></a><br><br /><br><a href="http://solosub.com/sub/<$BlogSiteFeedUrl$>"><img src="http://solosub.com/feed_button.gif" alt="Solosub" border="0" /></a><br><br /><br><a href="http://www.r-mail.org/bm.aspx?rss=<$BlogSiteFeedUrl$>" style="background-color: #fff; font-weight: bold; color:#000; border:1px solid #000; font-size: 11px; padding: 2px; text-decoration: none; font-family: sans-serif;"><span style="color:#F76615">R</span>|Mail</a><br><br /><br><a href="http://www.simpy.com/simpy/LinkAdd.do?href=<$BlogSiteFeedUrl$>&title=<$BlogTitle$>"><img src="http://www.simpy.com/img/chicklet-simpy-orange.png" alt="Simpify!" style="border-width: 0px;"/></a><br><br /><br><a href="http://technorati.com/faves?add=<$BlogURL$>"><img src="http://static.technorati.com/pix/fave/tech-fav-5.gif" alt="Add to Technorati Favorites!" border="0"/></a><br><br /><br><a href="http://www.netvibes.com/subscribe.php?url=<$BlogSiteFeedUrl$>"><img alt="Add to netvibes" src="http://www.netvibes.com/img/add2netvibes.gif" border="0"></a><br><br /><br><a href="http://www.pageflakes.com/subscribe.aspx?url=<$BlogSiteFeedUrl$>"><img src="http://www.pageflakes.com/subscribe2.gif" border="0"></a><br><br /><br><a href="http://www.newsburst.com/Source/?add=<$BlogSiteFeedUrl$>"><img src="http://news.com.com/i/newsbursts/btn/newsburst3.gif" border="0"></a><br><br /><br><a href="http://www.live.com/?add=<$BlogSiteFeedUrl$>"><img style="width: 92px; height: 17px;" src="http://tkfiles.storage.msn.com/x1pHd9OYNP16fmmfqJHji7qY0yYomKrFzGROBps3O6qHF0JRlVV8xH6X4cfsptw0fftk5oJYFpTKP6I-i91-se8TaoO7R9oiPVoxDEG_LEZW_XhegHxASvHJYsSxNjf526t" border="0"></a><br>

Add Social Bookmarks To Your Blog

If you've got a blog and you wanted to add those lovely links so others can promote your site then I've found a great tool for you.

If you want to create your own list for your own blog tool (Blogger, WordPress or MoveableType) then go to IFeedReaders.com and select how you want it to appear.]

If you're on blogger and want it to look like the list I use here then copy the code below and insert it just after the code about comments and before the close <p>.

Hope you find this tool useful!

<br><br><font size=1><div align="left">Add to: <a href="http://www.blinklist.com/index.php?Action=Blink/addblink.php&Url=<$BlogItemPermalinkURL$>&Title=<$BlogItemTitle$>">BlinkList</a><br><br />|<a href="http://blogmarks.net/my/new.php?mini=1&title=<$BlogItemTitle$>&url=<$BlogItemPermalinkURL$>">Blogmarks</a><br><br />|<a href="http://del.icio.us/post?url=<$BlogItemPermalinkURL$>&title=<$BlogItemTitle$>">del.icio.us</a><br><br />|<a href="http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&url=<$BlogItemPermalinkURL$>&title=<$BlogItemTitle$>">Digg it</a><br><br />|<a href="http://myfavorites.earthlink.net/my/add_favorite?v=1&url=<$BlogItemPermalinkURL$>&title=<$BlogItemTitle$>" target="_blank">Earthlink</a><br><br />|<a href="http://www.furl.net/storeIt.jsp?t=<$BlogItemTitle$>&u=<$BlogItemPermalinkURL$>">Furl</a><br><br />|<a href="http://simpy.com/simpy/LinkAdd.do?note=<$BlogItemTitle$>&href=<$BlogItemPermalinkURL$>">Simpy</a><br><br />|<a href="http://www.spurl.net/spurl.php?url=<$BlogItemPermalinkURL$>&title=<$BlogItemTitle$>">Spurl</a><br><br />|<a href="http://www.google.com/bookmarks/mark?op=edit&bkmk=<$BlogItemPermalinkURL$>&title=<$BlogItemTitle$>">Google</a><br><br />|<a href="http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit?url=<$BlogItemPermalinkURL$>&title=<$BlogItemTitle$>">StumbleUpon</a></div></font>

What do I feed on? Bad Joke Alert! Which Blogs I Read!

So I read a fair few affiliate marketing and SEO blogs. So I decided to aggregate them into the one and serve it here (on the right-hand navigation).

So if anyone else wants an aggregated selection of affiliate and seo blogs then you can here (http://feeds.feeddigest.com/LeeMcCoy).

But what blogs are included and what do I read? Well I've listed them below. If you can recommend one, then contact me using the email address on the right.

Google Blog

Matt Cutts: Gadgets, Google, and SEO

Search Engine Watch

The Web 2.0 Show

Internet Insider Reports from WebProNews

Official Google Webmaster Central Blog

Google Press Releases

a4uEvents - Affiliate Marketing

Fraser's Affiliate Marketing Blog

Affiliate Marketing Blog from UK Offer Me...

Affiliate Marketing Blog

UK Affiliate Marketing Forum - Affiliate ...

James Little on exwebjunkie.com

WebmasterRadio.FM Affiliate Marketing Tod...

Search Engine Land: News About Search Eng...

Moose on the Loose

Hitwise Intelligence

PlugIM - Published Stories

Jim Boykin's Internet Marketing Blog

Cartoon Barry Blog

Marketing Blog Bent On Market Research &a...

Affiliate Marketing Blog

Search Engine Strategies

ReveNews: Revenue Sharing Opinions

Affiliate Blog by Shawn Collins

How Much Is Your Blog Worth?

My blog is worth $4,516.32. How much is your blog worth?

Well this neat little tool only says mine's worth about $4k. I suppose not bad as it's only been going a couple or three weeks. How much is your blog worth?

WordPress is good enough for Matt Cutts ...

... but why aren't I using it?

Well probably for the same reason that Matt's using WordPress - it's what I started using and with about 60+ blogs it'll be too much of a ball ache to move them!

Well 1&1 now have WordPress configured for you. They say "what domain do you want a blog on" then you set a UN & PW and then you're away.

So, here we go. I set up a site about DVD Rentals and better get posting.

It'll be an interesting experiment as to the relative SEO-flexibility between the two as, to be honest, "on-page" seo is great with Blogger, but when it comes to managing the links and archiving it's not as good as I'd like.

I've realised that 1&1 don't publish the blog files anywhere obvious on your server so you can get to it via ftp. I suppose I better read them damn instructions!

So, does anyone have any tips using WordPress? Well I'm taking advice from WordPress-Supremo ;-) Jimbo who's using it to set up an Unfair Bank Charges website.