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Introducing Three SOBs

February 11, 2006 by Liz

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Successful and Outstanding Bloggers

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Please Meet These SOBs

Let me introduce some people I met this week.

Thank you, Ingrid, for the work you’re doing. I know there are still some tweaks. But it’s so exciting to see Successful-Blog FINALLY LOOKING SUCCESSFUL!

Aaron at Technosailor

Jonic at 100yen

Thank you, Aaron and Jonic, for jumping in–without notice–to help with technical difficulties.

A week ago I didn’t know these bloggers. Now they are a part of Successful-Blog. That’s the way Successful and Outstanding Bloggers do things. Their commitment to quality reflects in all they do. Stop by their blogs and leave a comment–just click the logos. Like the bloggers who write them, the blogs are unique and worth getting to know.

–ME “Liz” Strauss

Thanks to Week 16 SOBs

February 11, 2006 by Liz

Successful and Outstanding Bloggers

Let me introduce the bloggers
who have earned this official badge of achievement,

and the right to call themselves
Successful Blog SOBs.

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They take the conversation to their readers,
contribute great ideas, challenge us, make us better, and make our businesses stronger.

I thank all of our SOBs for thinking what we say is worth passing on.
Good conversation shared can only improve the blogging community.

Should anyone question this badge’s validity, send him or her directly to me. This award comes with a full “Liz said so” guarantee. It is endorsed by Kings of the Hemispheres, Martin and Michael, and backed by my brothers, Angelo and Pasquale.

Want to become an SOB?

If you’re an SO-Wanna-B, you can see the whole list of SOBs and learn how to be one by visiting the SOB Hall of Fame. Click the link or visit the What IS an SOB?! page in the sidebar.

–ME “Liz” Strauss

SOB Business Cafe 02-10-2007

February 10, 2006 by Liz

Welcome to the SOB Cafe

We offer the best in thinking–articles written by the
Successful and Outstanding Bloggers of Successful Blog. Click the screenshot to enjoy each article.

These are the selections for this week:

Janice Myint Successful-Blog SOB and Customer Service Team Leader at Technorati answers the two key questions about Technorati this week on her personal tips and trick blog.

For Sumeet Jain and our other friends who are diehard Firefox fans, we have This from BlogIT–15 MUST HAVES for Firefox.

For everyone who likes to play with photoshop, Martin has turned my attention to this energetic tutorial by Wayde Christie from Performancing.

And don’t forget to stop by the carnival this weekend when you leave.

Related ala carte selections include
SOB Business Cafe 02-02-2006
SOB Business Cafe 01-27-2006
SOB Business Cafe 01-20-2006

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

The Great Neighborhood Link Post

February 9, 2006 by Liz

Being new to , I wandered down the block to my neighbor’s blogs. I’ve always heard the b5folks are a very friendly bunch. I started with the

because I needed the fresh air. When I walked in, I was greeted by Duncan’s post on Blog Links Building Traffic and it lead me to a post on

The Capitol People Region Blog that makes a compelling argument about links–that links make the difference between a 200,000+ page views a day that Michele Malkin does and the however many pages views a day that you and I do.
which lead me to Help build traffic by how you link by our own Sabine’s CT BIZ Blogs
and to Going the distance: building blog traffic through perseverance back at the Blog Herald

where I could finish reading the original post where Duncan mentions the Weblog Empire Blog Link Exchange Forum.

Thinking I should visit at least one more neighbor before the day was over, I stopped by to see what had been going on this week at Blogging Tips at

Darren has been talking about receiving offers to carry links for payment on your blog and what you should consider before you do. While I was there I found two more links from his article on Hate Links.

One was The Snark Manifesto that you may have seen going around.
The other is Handling Hate by Andy Hagans.

These aren’t really about linking, but about not linking up with bad things.

Checking My Google Neighborhood

Google says I should link with my neighborhood, blogs that are relevant and related to my own in some way. I guess I just did. If you want to check who Google thinks your neighborhood is, go to Google Search and type in this search text.

related: [yourdomin.com]

Now I know who in my neighborhood I can visit next.

Making New Neighbors

If you’re looking for more links about links and linking you’ll find these worth linking, uh, looking , into:

Think Before You Link
Blog Promotion Basics for Everyone
Intra-Linking as Promotion
Think Before You Intra-link
Checklist for Linking to Quality Blogs

Got Another Link Post?

Of course, there’s always room for more neighbors to stop by here. So if you have a post on linking add it to the comment section of this post. We could start this massive chain of links to posts on linking–just for the fun of it to see where it goes.

–ME “Liz” Strauss

Talk about Google-ing

February 8, 2006 by Liz

Did you notice the new feature in your Gmail?

Gmail now has a link called Gmail Chats.
Click the link in your Gmail to open a list of contacts.
Click the contacts and you’ll open IM sessions in your browser IE and Firefox.

You’ll be set to have voice conversations with your pals for FREE–that’s NO money.

What’s WAY COOL is the way the Google Talk works inside Gmail. Check it out. To quote Google

About Gmail
Gmail is an experiment in a new kind of webmail, built on the idea that you should never have to delete mail and you should always be able to find the message you want.

Search, don’t sort.
Use Google search to find the exact message you want, no matter when it was sent or received.

Don’t throw anything away.
Over 2692.883065 megabytes (and counting) of free storage so you’ll never need to delete another message.

Keep it all in context.
Each message is grouped with all its replies and displayed as a conversation

Don’t have Gmail?
You might have to wait a while. I tried to open a second account and got a message saying that it’s by invitation only. Guess they figure they’re going to be busy keeping current customers hooked up and going. They’re probably right. Someone tried to call me with this service already tonight. Like I said, “It’s WAY COOL.”

–ME “Liz” Strauss

Please Meet These SOBs

Want to become an SOB?

Welcome to the SOB Cafe

Checking My Google Neighborhood

Making New Neighbors

Got Another Link Post?

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