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The news is nearly a month old, but Forbes is still only sending out private email invitations about their new project. I had originally heard about it when there were few details about it, but I have found a few new updates and thought I would share my findings and opinions. Lets get started with some details…

Who?
Forbes, the business & financial news powerhouse

What?
Forbes is launching a business and financial blog network

When?
Forbes plans to launch it sometime this month

A little over a month ago I donated a business idea to the Business Idea of the Day and they donated a $400 laptop in my name. The idea that I donated was that someone should make a free online reference (Wikipedia competitor) that ran on a few small advertisements rather than donations. Unlike Wikipedia, the site idea would be for-profit, and would share 60% of the revenue with 6 of the writers per page. This would net 40% revenue from the ads on every single page of the website. Writers would be inclined to write and research the pages because they would get a profit from it.

I just read an article from Popular Mechanics about the 10 concepts you need to know for 2008. The link goes to the “print” page because this page shows all 10 concepts on a single page instead of clicking through 11 pages filled with advertisements. At any rate, I was deeply interested in a new concept that I had not heard of before and that is Pay Per Glance. Researchers have been developing ‘webcam like’ sensors that will count how many people view their billboards, as well as for how long. Now I don’t want you to get confused about my negative post on Pay Per Play, because I feel that Pay Per Glance is a great idea if they can properly execute the concept. Google is set to make over $10 Billion this year from their CPC (cost per click) and CPM (cost per 1000 views) advertisements on all of their networked websites. It will be interesting to see if Xuuk can become ‘the Google of the real world.’ In all honesty, I think they will become a giant name in the billboard industry because from an advertisers standpoint; would you rather spend $xxxx on a billboard that you HOPE will get looked at, or would you rather spend $xxxx on a billboard you know will get seen by over 4000 people daily? The answer should be obvious, and I wish Xuuk and their EyeAnalytics the best of luck.

This is the 14th part of The Link Building Cookbook series showing you the best places to build links to increase website traffic.

Update: Upon further inspection, the script loads itself from an IFrame, so the links will not pass as much PR, but you can still use this technique to increase website traffic. I had originally checked the google cache to see if the links were saved, but I later found out that Google grabs the most recent code if the cached page requests an iframe.

This is the 13th part of The Link Building Cookbook series showing you the best places to build links to increase website traffic.

After the big success of the public release of the tagbox link building method, I started digging deeper and found another exploitable tag box software that you can use to get some free links.

The script is called ShoutMix, and the main URL can be found at http://www.shoutmix.com/main/. I have looked at the widget and it is harder to track down in google searches, so I could not find a simple google query to find hundreds of links. I am sure there is one out there, so if any of you want to go ahead and look, more power to you!

This is a followup to my earlier post Entrecard - fantastic idea or a flop. At first glance, the website looked entirely confusing and hard to understand, but it only took a few minutes of playing around with it to master it.

Overall, here is my summary:

I sent 47 people from my blog to Entrecard.
With the ads I purchased from Entrecard, I received 31 visitors back to my blog.

Disclosure: WordHugger and rssHugger have been acquired. Read about it here.

In an hour and a half (Midnight CST), It will officially be the 1st of December, and every month rssHugger will have the Top 100 blogs reset to give everyone a fair and equal chance at all that extra promotion. If you have not yet joined rssHugger, now is the time to join! If you already have joined, now is the time to make a blog update and get as many readers as possible to your blog page on rssHugger! This is a win/win situation because you help rssHugger by creating the buzz, and rssHugger sends hundreds of new readers back to you!

A new video was just released on Youtube from the wildly popular Tay Zonday, who is a local Minnesotan resident. His first video (Chocolate Rain) was an accidental internet success when it was made wildly popular from the 4Chan forums, and ultimately led him to be one of last summers largest internet memes. The video grew so popular (11.5 million views at the time of this post), that it now has been featured by national TV networks, as well as giant ringtone networks. Tay Zonday is taking his Chocolate Rain publicity to the next step now, because Dr. Pepper has just funded him to make a viral video supporting their new product (Diet Cherry Rain Dr. Pepper).