BWMagic's RSS Ezine: Google's Blog!

BWMagic's List Building Newsletter
(Special RSS Edition) May 16 - 2005


Warm welcome to all new subscribers!



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Contents
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o Building Your Blog Links

o Google's Playing Dodgeball!

o Google's Blog

o The Spyware Threat

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o Building Your Blog Links

Building links to your blog should be just
as important to you as building links to
your website. First thing you should do is get
your blog listed in all the major online
blog directories.

This will build traffic to your blog and
make your blog better known on the web.

One of the best places for this is
Masternewmedia Top55
Actually, there are over 100 listings now and
it takes a bit of time to go thru all of them
but just put aside a few hours in the day and
just submit your blogs.



Speaking of building links...

o Google's Playing Dodgeball!

Chess has always been a favorite game of mine,
I am not much good, never was and never will be -
but the strategy amuses me. Figuring out
your opponent's moves, their thinking and game
plan is what makes chess fun to play.

Trying to figure out Google is much like playing
chess. First it was just a search engine with an
algorithm to die for - now it's starting to play a
whole new ball game - with strange moves into
some unknown territory.

Indexing and cataloging all the works in all the
world's great libraries - was understandable
and reasonable. Who Else?


But buying Dodgeball.com seems to be a real puzzle - are
they moving on to collecting and dispensing personal
information now - (for a good time call...!) or are they just
snapping up any fresh talent that raises its ugly head in
the 'dot com' world.

It's more than likely the latter, and it's probably not
a bad strategy, more than any other medium in history,
the web rewards 'creative brains' that come up with
new and innovative ways to use it. Google can now afford
to snap up any new 'brain talent' that comes along - rapidly
becoming the 'new Medici' of the wired world.

Which might not be a bad thing, putting Google's enormous
resources behind such creative brains could produce
some interesting new inventions!




o Google's Blog

Those who are interested in finding out more about
Google - should check out Google's Blog. It gives you an insight
into some of the things they're working on.

Their Blog has a PR9 - wonder how they got that!




o The Spyware Threat

Despite an encore round of the flu - all this week I
have been checking out the spyware threat. Is it real?
Should you be concerned? What you can do to protect yourself?

I have been reading and analyzing a great report by
Webroot on the 'State of Spyware' - you can
get a free copy here. You will need Adobe 5 or higher - to be able
to read it. State of Spyware

I will be writing 5 or 6 articles on this topic
in the next couple of weeks and although it doesn't
have much to do with RSS - I will be reporting about
it here - so stay tooned!

Besides, if you surf the web and own a computer you should
be afraid, very afraid - but more on this next week.




Hope you have a great week!


Regards,
Titus
www.bizwaremagic.com


The world of tomorrow belongs to the person who has the vision today.
- Robert Schuller

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