Hello everyone, I want to alert you to the next Conversations with Experts that I first alerted you to here in my review of Build A Better Blog System. Conversations with Experts is hosted by Denise Wakeman and Patsi Krakoff of the newly released Build A Better Blog System manual on how to create blog success.

They are conducting a series of interviews with several of the blog experts included in the Build A Better Blog System series. This Wednesday, April 20th, 2005 at 8:30pm EDT I will be their next guest expert and we will talk about blogs as powerful social marketing tools. Blogging provides a distinct advantage to solo entrepreneurs, professionals, and small businesses by allowing you to rapidly drive the value of your expertise deep into your market space. I invite you to join this FREE ...   more »

I bookmarked this awhile back and rediscovered this. This is a great audio interview with Eric Olsen who is someone who runs one of the most successful blogs available to today. Listen to "How I Run a Publishing Business with 700 Authors from a Home Office" by clicking here.

This interview was done by SMB Trendwire back on December 16, 2004.

This is great stuff and great insight. This is a must listen.   more »

Last week there was a lot of discussion in the SEO community about the Google Patent. You can expect much more discussion to come.

Among many things about blogs and search engine marketing that most veteran bloggers have known for awhile is that publishing frequency matters...a lot! Coverage of the Google patent by Google Blog News Channel ( found via Free Traffic Tips: What The Google Patent Means For Webmasters ) states that:

"The patent also answers some questions. Why did Google become a domain registrar? To have access to site historical data, which it will now use in its rankings. Why did Google purchase Urchin? To use that data for site rankings. Does the Google toolbar help determine rankings? You're damn right it does.

Here's one interesting fact: PageRank isn't about the number of links, its about link ...   more »

Here's an interesting find. NewsWorthyAudio.com is launching a personal audio news service for bloggers in the DC Metro Area. Since I fall into that crowd I decided to check it out and pass the word along for those who may be interested.

Right now, they are collecting data on candidates to accept as testers for the service. This means that you will need to take a survey that has questions about your news consumption habits, work commute and drive time activities. Not sure if I'll qualify since my line of work isn't quite the 9-5 traffic jam type of gig. But I'd sure like to test out the service to see how it works.

Anyway, if you are a blogger in the DC Metro area, click over to NewsworthyAudio.com, take the survey and see what happens.   more »