February Link Love

I stumble upon great content on-line everyday browsing through web sites, links and my RSS feeds. I thought I’d add a new feature to the blog and start saving the best content I come across in both the traveling and on-line marketing space on a monthly basis. The following links are, in my opinion, real “gems”. Enjoy!

Internet Marketing

Jason Calacanis speech at the Affiliate Summit

Jason is one of the most out spoken search marketers around. During the recent Affiliate Summit conference he pops digs at some of the most well known people in the industry and basically labels all affiliate marketers as spammers. I agree with a lot on what he has to say. What I got out of this was the true power of great, unique content and I strongly believe, along with Jason, is that sites listed in search engines will be powered by humans, rather than relying on search technology in the future.

Want to improve your blog’s content? So do I. Check out Pro Blogger’s great list of articles on how to improve your blogs content.

An impressive list of blogs covering the Wordpress community.

An interesting interview with Michael Arrington, the founder and co editor of TechCunch

Aaron over at SEO Book provides us with a great [beginners style] bloggers guide to SEO.

Top 100 social media sites list by Alexa rankings.

Word Tracker publishes 2 great articles this month, one with Seth Godin and the other about exploiting niche markets via keyword research.

Performancing provides us with 10 articles every blogger should read at least once.

I’ve only just come across Google’s Zeitgeist: A list of popular search keywords/trends across Google’s international domains.

Copy blogger has 2 great in-depth guides on how to write magnetic headlines and Keyword Research.

Want to know if there’s a few other ways you can make money with your site? Daily blogs tips offers 28 different ways to draw revenue from a site.

I come across bbpress.org last week, it’s an open source forum software from the guys over at Automatic, who manage Wordpress. I’ve since installed it on 3 sites with ease… it’s kind of new and hasn’t got the features as Vbulliten offers, although I have huge faith it will be bigger and better in months to come.

A great article on unconventional link attributes

17 mistakes start ups make is worth a read if you are starting your own business.

An interesting interview with Michael Arrington, the founder and co editor of TechCunch

Travel

Vagabondish lists 12 Google shortcuts every traveler should know (here’s the official Google list on advanced search operators)

Wkitravel has some great articles on various different parts of the globe… worth checking out!

Chris over at Travel Happy publishes a great interview with Don Morgan about life as a travel writer for travel fish.

Stickman has a good guide on getting the right Visa for your long or short term stay in Thailand. Usefull considering the rules and regs are a bit of a pain with first time visitors.

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