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After Thanksgiving Link Love — 15 Links that Are Better than Left-Overs

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Can’t Have You Sitting Home with Left-Overs

I’ve collected 15 links for you to read or add to your tool kit over the weekend. A wealth of interesting stories, toys, and treasures.

News Stories

  • Roundup: Digg’s crisis, Odeo, Amidzad’s touch, Mobio’s movies, HAVA for Christmas


  • Best of the Web 2006 Clicke the categories in the sidebar to see each list.

    • Tools for Developers and Developer Wannabes

  • the web developer’s handbook Subtiopics in this resource include: creativity tools, css showcases, css galleries and showcases, color tools, color schemes and palettes, color patterns, fashion color selections, color theory, royalty free photos, css daily reading, css in German, web design daily reading, css theory, css layout, css navigation menu, css technique, css software and Firefox extensions, css web tools and services, html web tools and services, accessibility checkers, miscellaneous tools, javascript, ajas, DOM, fonts, typography, RSS, CMS and forum software, blogging, specifications, usability and accessibility, add a link (free), seo tools, seo references, how to get things done, freelancers, web 2.0, 2reads this week.


  • Online Generators ascii generators, css generators, color generators, domain name generators, email generators. favicon generators. flash generators. form generators. fun & humor generators. graphic & image generators. htaccess generators. metatag generators. misc. generators. password generators. pdf generators. php & MySQL generators. popup generators. robot.txt generators. rss generators.sitemap generators. text generators.tooltip generators. weblog generators.xmnl generators.


  • Curvy Corners Does what it says.


  • Best of the Best Web 2.0 Web Sites Includes links to The Complete List of Visual Studio Add-Ins and Tools, The Complete List of Ajax Tools, The Complete List of CSS Tools. The Complete List of Great Free TV Web Sites on the Internet. The Complete List of Software Development Events to Attend in 2007, The Complete List of Software Development Frameworks, Process’s, Methods, or Philosophies


  • Full Web Building Tutorials - All Free Too many to list.Includes basic HTML examples and color codes.

    • Buzz, Comments, and Links

  • Web 2.0: Buzz-Monitoring and Tracking Meausre, observe, analyze link popularity, track comments, get links


  • Blogger ForumTopics include Newbies, Template Design, Link Eschange, Coding, Getting Noticed

    • On Jobs

  • Steven R. Covey on Job Security In this pieces at JibberJabber, Steven Covey discusses the employment cycle, career management, branding and building a real network, and adapting to a new career.


  • A Job Candidate’s Bill of Rights 10 Traits to Expect from an Interviewing Process.

    • SEO/Marketing/PR

  • 10 Shortcuts for Successful SEO 10 Steps to follow.


  • Judy’s Book: Word of Mouth Website You Need to Know About


  • 21 Tactics to Increase Blog Traffic from SEOmoz Solid advice.


  • PRWEB Where it is and how it works.


  • Top Seven Ways How Writing Articles Can Explode Your Business


  • Creating a Slogan from Scratch Define your niche. Test adaptablility. Check for Matches.



    • No turkeys in this bunch. That was last Thursday’s deal. :)

    –ME “Liz” Strauss

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    SOB Business Cafe 11-17-06

    Filed Under Basics, Business Life, Great Finds, Motivation/Inspiration, Successful Blog, Tech/Stats, Tips, Trends | 2 Comments

    SB Cafe

    Welcome to the SOB Cafe

    We offer the best in thinking–articles on the business of blogging written by the Successful and Outstanding Bloggers of Successful Blog. Click on the title shots to enjoy each selection.

    The Specials this Week are



    Steve Farber wrote the handbook on being extreme.

    the Extreme Leader's Online Interactive Handbook



    SuccessCREEations has something fresh to say about business blogging. Don’t let the title fool you . . .

    Business Blogging 101 [2]



    Make It Great! has a question for you about Raj Setty’s book.

    Want to Win a Book



    Howard Lindzon explains how brave and shameless work in the world of Web2.0

    Borat and Paris Hilton have something in common



    Innovation Zen starts the year end with the first list of cool stuff.

    Best Office Inventions 2006

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    Blog Chalk Talk demonstrates how to get through an in-box like a surgeon.

    Chilly Morning Blogger Email Autopsy Slash Vivisection



    The Zero Boss serves the tip of the day with attitude. Be sure to capture the URL for Ice Rocket, if you’ve never been there.

    Blog Tip of the Day UTW

    Sit back. Enjoy your read. Nachos and drinks will be right over. Stay as long as you like.
    No tips required. Comments appreciated.

    Have a great weekend!

    –ME “Liz” Strauss

    Blogs Aren’t Books — Not Everyone Starts Reading on Page 1

    Filed Under Basics, Customer Think, Successful Blog, Tech/Stats | 16 Comments

    Entry Pages Count

    Customer Think Logo

    Do you think about your blog as if it’s a book?

    Do you have a hidden assumption that everyone reads the front page first, because that’s what you do?

    Every page of a blog offers an open door and a place for readers land. Search engines send traffic to pages deep into the archives. Old bookmarks do too.

    Next time you check your stats, note the entry pages — where visitors land when they arrive. Then visit the popular entry pages yourself. Take a long look. Do they look up-to-date? Is the information still correct? Was your writing as good then as it is now? It doesn’t hurt to check to be make sure that the place is still spruced up and talking nice. Every entry page is a first impression of your blog, your business, and your brand.

    Investing in your landing pages to make them inviting and informative can have as much impact for those incoming readers as any front page does.

    How do you use your stats to make your blog more friendly to your readers?

    –ME “Liz” Strauss
    Need a clone or a manager to help clean up your blog? Check out the Work with Liz!! page in the sidebar.

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    Great Find: Adding a WIDEbar — a 2-column widebar — to a Blogger Beta Blog

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    Blogger Beta Gets Cool

    Blogger Logo

    Blogger Beta is finally tying up its loose ends, presenting templates with style, and offering bloggers new functions. Hackers are having fun with making changes too.

    Great Find:
    Adding a wider-sidebar to your blog
    Permalink:     http://stubborn-fanatic.blogspot.com/2006/11/wider-sidebar-widebar-sidebar.html

    Target Audience: Google Blogger and Blogspot blogggers
    Content: Documenting Fanaticism is a real find for Blogspot bloggers. From the moment that you land on the home page, you’ll notice that the familiarity of the template only serves to show you the skills of the blogger who has made it into something more in so many ways that haven’t been seen before. Tabs across the top announce and organize the blog into well-defined site locations:

    The blog itself welcomes readers with the following statement:

    Welcome to the new layout of my blog. I am very happy to announce that with this new layout, my blog is now fully compatible with internet explorer as well. If you like this layout, learn how to implement it here.

    The “here” it speaks of is the Great Find I’m sending you to. Click the title below to get there.

    Adding a wider-sidebar to your blog

    Blogger Beta has taken hold.

    –ME “Liz” Strauss

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    Fun Find: Blog Juice Anyone?

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    Another Blog Value Calculator

    I decided when I saw this the third time that I had to bring it back to share with you because it’s such fun to play with. So here you go. It’s the one with no pulp!

    Great Find: Blog Juice Calculator

    Permalink: http://www.text-link-ads.com/blog_juice/index.php?url=www.successful-blog.com&cat=technology
    Target Audience: Bloggers who like to keep score

    My Blog Juice

    Content: It’s pretty simple really. TextLink Ads has developed their own algorithm for determining a blog’s authrority, revelance, importance, validity, value, — you choose the word — they chose juice. Click the logo and find out how much juice your blog has.

    If you want to review a site ad, it’s Buy Links> Blogs> Business> Successful and Outstanding Bloggers.

    –ME “Liz” Strauss

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