Personal notes

You probably noticed there was no weekly newsletter for almost two weeks now. No, I am not dropping out, there is a good reason for that.

First, I was on vacation. And when I am on vacation, I am REALLY on vacation. I went to a place with no Internet, no email, not even mobile phone coverage, just ocean, forest, cabins, and -- according to stories -- occasional werewolves around guarding a sleep of their guests...

Small but useful notice. I stumbled upon this article promising links to 50 RSS feed directories, but many of them happened to be outdated links, so here is an updated list valid on September 2009:

http://www.feedest.com/feedAdd.cfm
http://www.blogoculars.com/submit-blog-free
http://www.feedbees.com/add.php
http://www.plazoo.com/en/addrss.asp
http://www.leighrss.com/rss-add.html
http://www.rssmicro.com/feedsubmit.web
http://feedfury.com/submit

Yefi from PPC Bully posted a video on the newest (really newest) Google Slap.
Basically, that an attack on fake blogs (flogs) and those "free+shipping" offers with hidden monthly searches.

His recommendations are:

- Stay away from flogs (especially, if you drive PPC traffic to it)
- Stay away from "Money from Google" (see "Free+Shipping Pattern"), specifically, making those
- Use your own landing pages, direct linking is nearly the thing of the past. Also, not just single page, a bit more.

If you've got slapped:
1. Download and re-upload campaigns.
2. Switch domains.

You were sneezed upon. You were cheated. Your work was stolen. You were not paid for the work you've done. And that already happened to you even before you've come to the Internet. Now it repeats all again online.

You know what? It shows.

I just found that after a month of existence, InternetMarketingPatterns.com ranks #1 on Google for "Internet marketing patterns" keywords. Wow! I even did not do any SEO yet, I just did not had any time for that...