I have recently did a guest post for Daniel from DailyBlogTips.com. This article continues the topic about StumbleUpon spring cleaning I have already tackled. After banning users that only stumble upon spam and commercial content, StumbleUpon is now going after spam websites.

Seems that the social media environment will be a cleaner one.

You can read the full guest post at DailyBlogTips. I would love your feedback.

I am trying to get a constant rate of updating this blog, but I am caught up with some other projects I am really excited about. But have some ideas in mind, I’ll keep you posted!

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I was talking about a SEO strategy with a client when I was hit with one of the most absurd offers I ever came across. Indeed, SEO is a job where you cannot really make promises because there are a lot of unknown factors in the ecuation. This is a follow-up to another post I did about SEO and social media services that promises but don’t promise but don’t deliver, but this time with a twist: outrageous prices for practically useless things.

It seems there are a lot of clients with practically no SEO experience that believe that such a service is generally worth over $2000. Otherwise, I cannot explain the crazy offer that follows :

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I have recently heard news about StumbleUpon banning several accounts because the users submitted comercial content. Here is the message these unfortunate stumblers usually received:

Regrettably, your account privileges have been suspended due to a breach of our TOS. I respectfully draw your attention to our Terms, particularly with respect to the clauses which forbid the use of personal accounts for the promotion of a business, product or service, and also with regard to the sending of ’spam’ messages to other members.

Our terms can be found here: http://www.stumbleupon.com/terms.html

Under the circumstances, the restriction is unlikely to be lifted.

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I am uploading stuff on a daily basis, I’m a music freak and I want to share my stuff with my friends. So I naturally tried all the methods available so I’d thought I should make a comparison between the three largest upload services online.
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There was a time when blogging wasn’t solely motivated by money, but instead valuable information for particular web communities. I’d like to think people are still blogging for pleasure, but John Chow seems to have forgotten his roots and believes otherwise. Overdone and just another cookie-cutter monetized site with more emphasis on income than content, he’s lost his readers in exchange for the big bucks.

I started my blog with the impression that AdSense was the only viable option for monetizing it. The n00b that I was, I subscribed to John Chow’s site so that I could learn more. However, this awful post lead me to doubt. It simply attempts to promote a eBook for generating traffic. When you have so many free options available — valuable content you can easily dig up, why pay for it?

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I was browsing a SEO forum and going through my feeds and just saw a bundle of services that, coupled with my reads, got me thinking. There are a lot of BS services out there that guarantee you getting on the first page of Google or getting a storm of visitors on your site. In fact, few deliver what they promised and you might get stood up, a few bucks shorter. Here is a quick breakdown of some services that might not be what they claim to be:

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It sounds like a blasphemy but when I check the backlinks of a site, Google AdSense serves me this ad:

So guess it’s ok to buy links now, right?

I wrote this article a while ago for someone that didn’t want it anymore, so I thought I’d give it some attention.

If you’re part of the web savvy audience, terms such as „diggin’” or „stumblin’” will be very familiar. These are some of the pieces that form one giant puzzle called social media marketing. As opposed to the classic link building strategies, social media optimization targets the readers, creating something new that will convince them to linking to the material.
This trend is constantly changing, websites optimizing their look and content to fit the puzzle. As usual, every community has its top players. If social media was a planet, then Digg and StumbleUpon would be the asteroids hovering around it. If you play it safe, you get, apart from traffic, constant readers, subscribers and backlinks. But which tops which? What should be the strategy to achieve success in both of these communities? Here is a breakdown of the two giants, with all their ups and downs:
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Here banks never open when they should. That’s why I have to wait for 5 or 10 minutes in the freakin’ rain to get in. When I finally get in, I have to pass all the other idiots that came after me but want to get ahead.

I only had to get the PIN for my card, since I somehow misplaced it. While waiting for the chick to scan my ID card, one guy was moaning around, asking where he can exchange 2 euros to get 2 beers.  He was pointed to the cashier.

After 2 minutes I hear him screaming and complaining. They needed his ID card to make the exchange and he didn’t have it. “You can get 2 beers without an ID card. What has the world become?” Why he wanted beers at 9 am in the morning I don’t know. I really can’t understand people that drink during the day. It’s sad and depressing. But then again… that’s just me.

For almost a week now, this tune has been haunting me: Terranova & Austin Leeds - Follow Me. Looking forward to a busy summer, especially the upcoming house parade festival. Will finally see Markus Schulz and Cosmic Gate, ftw.

Going back to the web side of things, adsense kept injecting the page of an article with public service ads. Why, you ask? Just because the article contained the word “nude” one time. And it wasn’t pr0n or anything. The page got some hype eventually, all by itself.

Just discovered some brilliant quotes from George Carlin. Check them out, some really funny ones!

These days I focused on launching a new project which I hope will be big. Stick around, something is bound to slip!

Are press releases the lazy man’s way of getting one or two links? When you don’t have time to get some links through good ol’ fashion way, you stick a press release on some website, pay for some overpriced links and wait for the outcome. Ideally, your press release will be featured by major news sites. Normally, it gets lost and not even indexed. Haha!