… and no surprise here… other marketers are now selling info-products on it… shame on you guys for having as much creativity as a Xerox Machine … I can’t wait for the first $7 warrior report …

First of all I have to say I love StumbleUpon. The service they provide is unique, and ultimately valuable, but seriously their ad review team don’t know their ass from their elbow…

I put up an ad today for The Thirty Day Challenge… and might I add, this ad was not going to the ‘landing page‘ but to the actual Thirty Day Challenge blog…

Anyway, they decided that…and I quote directly…

“Additional notes from our team: Landing pages that offer registration, referral, or sign-up as the primary action are historically poorly received in the StumbleUpon community. You might consider re-submitting a landing page that offers information rich, exploratory content, with the option to navigate over to user-registration pages.”

Seriously I object, It is a blog, not a landing page… Honestly, we have tens of thousands of visitors a day, over fifty thousand subscribed, registered, and active users, thousands of backlinks, a forum with 37,112 posts… honestly that is a frigging monster of a sodding landing page by any stretch of the imagination…

Seriously dudes, if you consider this a landing page then perhaps you should team up with Google and work on the whole quality score algorithm together…

Dan

But credit where credit is due, those of you who did follow the instructions will be getting a very special prize which I will reveal in the next Thirty Day Challenge TV show when I get to Australia.

In relation to this project we were discussing indexing sites, and how the infamous NoFollow tag breaks the ‘organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.’ mandate. But this may not necessarily be true. Does the NoFollow tag really break this?

When does the importance of links from an authority site break through the NoFollow barrier? If you are using NoFollow to stop comment spam then that is understandable, but should all outbound links be treated equal?

Is NoFollow perceived as an explicit instruction, or a suggestion? After all, this is just a backlink thing.

From the conversation I can say with certainty say that not all NoFollow tags are valued the same. Search engines still take note of new URL’s that they find (NoFollow or not) but are perceived as not ‘giving weight‘ to NoFollow tags. In reality, it is more a difference between bantam, light, middle, and heavy. And certain sites who are NoFollowing their links can still fit in the 200lb category whether they like it or not…

Ed has had a great makeover thanks to Nez. Not sure if he was just trying to recapture his youth, or just intimidated my amazing site, but whichever it was, the result is great… Let this trackback/pingback be my christening of your site..

Head on over to http://www.TubbyNerd.com/

(not really selling it here am I)

Ok, let me try and write that one a little better… I hate big conferences, pitch fests, and a thousand people in a room all trying to hand out as many business ‘networking’ cards as possible. Really I do.

But these are all the same reasons that I am really looking forward to Beechworth. A small event, a couple of dozen people and their partners, a chance to hand out cards (well you might as well), a bit of social, and a monster learning event!

Couple this with a few Vodka’s and Coke’s and we are going to have a craik. (and let’s not forget the Spa and the Beechworth Bakery)

Not only is this a chance for us to build a friendship in gold rush city and Ned Kelly land (Tourism Australia Ad to be placed here)… but…

We have some amazing stuff to teach over the three days, techniques that can literally make you millions this year, skills that other people will be teaching in two years time, so, thank you for attending, I am looking forward to meeting you all, and we are going to have an amazing couple of days…

Now back to my presenting… Well best not, I do want you to turn up after all.

What got me though, was the attention to detail…

Gutenberg produced eight variations of the letter ‘e’ so that the text could be justified. Seriously, it is this attention to detail, and design that really stood out as an amazing feat. Nearly a years worth of work was required to produce the letters to set the press alone.

He was a perfectionist, and although one of our tenants is to ‘just get it out there’, you have to admire a man like Johannes Gutenberg for his self belief, fortitude, and drive to produce a machine or system that would revolutionise information forever.

They are just approaching their critical mass stage where everyone seems to be talking about them, and I always judge how widespread a service is, when my circle of close ‘non-marketing’ friends start talking about it and only in last couple of weeks has this happened, so bringing advertising into the mix at this stage is kind of a risky move.

On one hand, you don’t want to kill growth… but on the other, why not, new users will just accept it as part of the standard service. Will be interesting to see how this pans out.

This will change the way you work forever... But… I want to say right now… This is not a spam social bookmarking system‘. This is a huge time-saver for legitimate users…

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