Internet Business Daily

I’m just going to write this short post to tell everyone I just installed a new plugin called Popularity Contest, which can be downloaded at that link. It constantly monitors the popularity of each blog post (based on views I’m guessing) and ranks each one. This data can be found in the Wordpress dashboard, and can be displayed in a sidebar widget as shown to the right. In addition, it shows the popularity of each post at the bottom of each article in percentage form. Thanks to Alexking.org for this one.

Instructions
1. Download the plugin.
2. Upload the plugin to your plugins directory on your server.
3. Activate the plugin in your Wordpress plugins page.

Everything should be tracking now. If you want to display your top posts in a sidebar widget like I have, just create a PHP widget and include this code:

<li><h2>Most Popular Posts</h2>
   <ul>
   <?php akpc_most_popular(); ?>
   </ul>
</li>

This should display your top posts in a nicely made sidebar widget. Thanks again to the creator for this great plugin. The great thing about this feature is that you can show off your most popular posts, and therefore get more clicks per user when they see more articles they may want to read.

The future is here, and we can thank Microsoft for it. I know all the Apple fans will hate that statement (i’m on a 15″ Apple). It is true however, and Bill Gates is a very smart man. This is basically his goodbye to us from his dominance at Microsoft. Anyways to get to the point, the first thing I thought when I heard what Microsoft’s new “revolutionary” product dubbed Surface is, a very interesting theory popped in my head.

I blogged about what I believed to be the future of desktop GUI’s (Bumptop Desktop) in October of last year. This closely resembles the technology of Surface. On top of that this video was first released on Microsoft’s new video platform “Soapbox” (what the hell happened to that by the way?)

Did Microsoft possibly create this video to throw off the scent of their R&D? What ever happened to this company? That would be genius if true, will Apple have a similar revolutionary product on the way (besides iPhone)? Here is the video of the BumpTop Desktop:

Video: BumpTop� Prototype 3D Desktop

If this is what their office is like, I want to work there. I’m not sure if this is an Internet Business or not, but i’m sure they make money after this video.

Introduction
I would like to thank Blue Hat SEO for this excellent SEO technique. Before we begin I invite you to check out the rest of my SEO Tips segments. I am going to give me simplified version of this technique, but read a more detailed explanation at Blue Hat Seo. The reason I enjoy reading Blue Hat so much is because he gives advanced SEO techniques that very few people know about, and just as the name entails I believe Blue Hat is a mixture of black and white SEO hat techniques. Anyways enough talk let’s start with the SEO tip.

Objective
Let’s start with a description of what our objective is. Google can only index pages that have a link to it, from another page that has already been indexed. Logically, it can’t find what it can’t see. Knowing this let’s say for example there are 100 web pages that link to yours, and Google only knows about 80% of them. This means that there are 20 pages giving your website link-love that don’t get counted by Google. What we are going to do is give those web pages some life (get them indexed) and then our dormant links wake up and give us some credit.

How-To
Check your log files for your referrers list. This will tell you who has linked to your website without having to rely on Google’s ’site:’ operator. So after we have the list, we want to get these sites indexed. There are a few ways to do this but I have found pingoat.com is the best. Pingoat will ping all major RSS and blog services with your address, and it will get indexed. Now that these previously useless links to us have been brought to life, we will get much more Google love.

**UPDATE: I switched back to my old theme, the web2.0 theme did not match the topic of IBD…oh and I miss the picture of Santa Cruz.

As I am sure most frequent readers have noticed, I have installed a new Wordpress theme last night. I wanted to go in a totally different direction with this look, and I think I accomplished it. I went very Web2.0′ish with this theme so I hope people like it and don’t think it is not business-like enough.

Changes to Come
I’m still doing more custom coding and design on it to fit all my needs, but so far I think it looks great. I am going to have a logo designed for the top left, and either a picture or an ad in the 468×60 spot at the top center. I also need to add in my Feedburner plugin and a few other little things.

Sweet Link-Lovin
On a separate note, a couple people have been helping me accomplish my goal of getting the #1 spot in Google for Matthew Berman. I thought since they were giving me link love, why not share the love back. StuntDubl, and SEOMumbai are among the first to help me get #1 SERPS for Matthew Berman, and I will list more as they come. Thanks so much!

I have been doing a lot of reading lately, trying to keep up with everything going on in the Internet industry. I wanted to share what I have been reading lately. As I mentioned in my last post, I started using Google Reader to feed all the sites I read to one useful page. You can see what I read here. These are the articles I have chosen specifically to share with everyone.

Google buys Feedburner for $100mil
In addition to that, I would like to list a few stories that are worth mentioning. First is the Feedburner story. Google has finalized a deal to purchase Feedburner (which I use as my RSS feeder on this website) for $100million. This was a very smart move for Google for a few reasons. They already dominate the text ad market, and with the purchase of DoubleClick they will dominate the display ad market. RSS feeds are another outlet for advertisers, and Feedburner is the number one overall feed site.

.cm Domain Name Scandal
Another big story to break was the .cm domain name scandal. Basically what a domainer (wiki that term if you don’t know what it is) figured out is that the .cm domain names were just one mistype away from the .com money makers. The .cm domains belong to Cameroon, a country in Africa. Kevin Ham worked out a deal with the Cameroon government to send any traffic that went to a .cm domain that had not been registered to agoga.com, his website. This website would serve ads from Yahoo! and he made large amounts of money. He never actually registered any of the domain names, so he was free of any copyright issues. Smart man I must say.

These are the big stories I have been reading lately. Stay tuned for more noteworthy news.

I decided to finally setup my Google Reader for all the websites I read on a regular basis. These websites give me ideas every single day on how to make money online and improve my search engine optimization. Here is a quick list of the sites I read, which can also be found at my Google Reader Page, which also has a RSS Feed that only shows articles of my chosing.

• Engadget
• Mashable
• Tech Crunch
• John Chow
• BlueHatSeo
• Matt Cutts
• Search Engine Journal
• Search Engine Land
• SEO Pedia
• SEO Moz

These are just some of the good ones. I have many feeds about SEO, but not as many about Internet business as I would like. If anyone has suggestions for good Internet business blogs or any marketing, or SEO blogs please send them my way! For now just check these out.

There are a lot of ways to make money on the internet, but sometimes it’s not about the money. This is one of those cases. I have a new goal for my blog, to obtain the number 1 spot for the search term “Matthew Berman.” I am currently #7 for my own name! This is not right. You can see how I am doing here. This will not be an easy task because I have something like 3 .edu domains to be and a .org. These will be very hard to take over.

I will implement all of the same SEO tactics that I use for any other keyword I am trying to tackle. You can see some of my SEO tips here. I will update everyone on how I am doing on this in a few weeks, till then wish me luck! Anyone who can help me with my goal will be greatly appreciated!

This video was hilarious…”you can’t even spell break right, b-r-a-k-e like in your car dummy!”:

I am a huge Meebo user and first thing this morning I noticed a significant addition to the main screen. A new feature called “rooms” has been implemented. Basically what a room is, is a place where people can come and chat about a particular subject. Anyone can create a room. Not more than 5 minutes after noticing this new feature, my boss emailed the marketing team asking them to build a room for our company to promote our websites. This is a great idea to get in early, because Meebo is the first and only web-based chat application that I know of. Here is what it looks like:

It is just a small visual addition at the bottom of the meebo browser window. I am not sure how well chat rooms will do in general because not a whole lot of people use them. It kind of reminds me of old school AOL chat rooms. Anyways check it out and let me know what everyone thinks.