This is my first attempt to blog from Flock — for my 30DC (30 Day Challenge) blog.
UPDATE — The blog looked terrible — see below as I explain a pitfall in blogging from flock. The tags (I thought I put some in there?) didn’t seem to “come across” — at least, not in wordpress’s “tags” field — and the links open in the same page short of going into html mode there’s no easy way to change that in the flock blog editing environment.
So this is very cool.
I blog from flock — the blog post gets created, it goes out on an RSS feed and then aweber picks it up and sends out the post to my “tdclite” list.
I feel like I’m creating a traffic infrastructure. Hmmm…maybe, more like, information infrastructure.
So — hot announcements:
1/ Google and Yahoo are going to be able to start indexing (at least partially) Flash files. This is HUGE news, and will have far-reaching implications. Remember when the search engines couldn’t index pdf files?
So, one of the headlines reads:
Adobe Provides Flash Technology to Google and Yahoo for Better Indexing
What? Adobe doesn’t like Microsoft?
2/ Just learned, from Russell Brunson, that Clickbank is planning to handle physical products later this year. (Maybe e-junkie and others are eating into their business?)
3/ Ed Dale discussed Google Subscriptions in the 30 Day Challenge lessons — more information to come (I hope) — else I’ll be digging through the developer documentation.
So, you might wonder — since this puts YOUR reccommendation in position #4 for the Search Engine Results Page, what happens if there are more than one subscription has a recommendation?
Well, that happened to me today.
Though I didn’t realize it, the labels to the right of the link are the “subscriptions”.
You can see this by clicking on the “Manage my Subscribed Links”
Now, I thought I had subscribed to the “unix man pages” and was actually looking for the unix “sort” utility. But I hadn’t — and MOST of the responses weren’t what was looking for — but my fault! (Maybe. I’m surprised Google didn’t adjust for my searching preferences which would have heavily weighted sorts for programming.
Okay, and finally…
4/ (or, a message from our sponsors?)
Nearly four years ago a landmark launch occurred. Michel Fortin wrote the copy. The product broke records by selling over $1 million of product within the first 24 hours (a record since broken, many times. For instance, Harlan Kilstein broke it with a letter that pulled in over a million in a matter of hours.)
The update of this product has been eagerly anticipated.
The product? John Reese’s Traffic Secrets. Version #2.
This will be a great launch to watch and to learn from. One of my clients has looked at the first video and felt it was something they’d have to buy. Personally, I liked the 2nd video much better, especially in the last 7-10 minutes. There’s some killer infomration about using twitter.
So — click here to check out the videos.
And I’ve started an email list to talk about the launch, and you can sign upfor that here!
Incidentally, Josh Anderson had some great advice for John about hosting his video — and his advice should save Reese thousands of dollars. You can find the advice here — I seriously, seriously recommend that you grab Josh’s valuable information and put it into a file with all your video information.
So…I’m at the end of this blog post and here 2 things that I’ve noticed:
1/ there’s no place to set the links to open in a new page (!) — and what blogger wouldn’t want that?
2/ the visual editor looks very different than what i see in the “preview” screen.
The ability to go ahead and link to images and include them in the post is cool, though, and the pics show up right in the wysiwyg (?) editor.
This blog post brought to you by:
flock
images by SnagIt
P.S. One of these days I’ll get the “sociable icons” up on my blog. If you liked this post — please Digg it and please Stumble it! Thanks!
Live Joyfully!
Judy Kettenhofen
Tags: flash, clickbank, google subscriptions, 30 Day Challenge, hosting video, traffic secrets, John Reese