http://www.socialblogroll.com/rss/ social blog roll http://tropicalseo.com/2008/a-festivus-gift-for-my-readers-9-niche-niche-social-media-sites/ I hope all you readers had a good Festivus this year. The Airing of Grievings was pretty brutal to me, apparently I’ve been a real dick to a lot of people this year. But all ended well as I crushed T-bo in the Feats of Strength ceremony. Meanwhile Tropical SEO is once again bringing you the ...] http://tropicalseo.com/2008/my-predictions-for-2008/ On the heels of some other guy’s, I give you my own… Linkbaiting will not jump the shark. It’s here to stay. Online and Off-. Forever. Naysayers, please fast forward to 2026 — will Cosmopolitan publish “Collected Thoughts from a Writer on How to Have Sex Better” or “33 Ways to Drive Him Wild and Make ...] http://tropicalseo.com/2007/blog-action-day-be-the-change-5-easy-tips/ Readers, I am really excited about Blog Action Day and all the revolutionary change it is bringing about in the world. I’d like to throw my $.02 into the mix with these five easy tips I suggest everyone follow: Read all of the posts about Blog Action Day Wash the cat pee out of your clothes Repeat after ...] http://tropicalseo.com/2007/5-new-niche-social-media-sites-vegas-updates-a-domainer-shtstorm-and-a-special-surprise/ Mr. Tropical is back after a short blogging hiatus. After I convincingly won the bet with Scoreboard (first man to 350 bloglines subs got $500 Cleveland Browns tickets), I was uninspired to write for a while. But you know what? I miss your guys’ snarky comments. I miss the glamour. And I miss all the ...] http://tropicalseo.com/2007/can-you-make-a-lot-of-money-with-premium-content/ I’m hereby naming 2008 the year of premium content. Yes, I’m aware that The New York Times is moving away from the premium content model, as are several other traditional general media outlets. But I’m actually seeing things move in the other direction. I think premium (paid) content is making a huge comeback, and will ...] http://tropicalseo.com/2008/rand-fishkin-tropical-give-advice-to-startup-ceos/ From Rand’s advice to CEO’s: I’ve also found that personally, it’s easy to spot someone who’s just in the business for the money vs. those who really care and want something great for the industry. It might be the optimism speaking, but I feel that the latter group usually produces the brightest innovations (and eventually, profit, ...] http://tropicalseo.com/2007/party-like-a-coked-up-has-been-rockstar-at-pubcon-tropical-seo-and-scoreboard-contest/ On the heels of Shoemoney and Neil Patel’s announcement, Scoreboard Media has announced a contest of his own. Winners “get” to “party” with us at “Vegas”. Check out the details here and submit your entry. And don’t forget to bring cash. Lots and lots of cash. http://tropicalseo.com/2008/diggs-florida-update-digg-anti-spam-1-linkbaiters-0/ If you’re a n00b in the SEO world, you may not know about the Florida Update–basically, it was the single day in history when Google rolled out a new algo and thousands of SEOs said to each other, “Dammit, Google finally got smart.” Well, as the latest Digg update rolled out, thousands of SMOs/linkbaiters reacted by ...] http://tropicalseo.com/2008/sell-your-web-site-to-tropical-seo-lose-15-lbs-and-attract-hot-women-or-men/ My last post offering to buy readers’ sites turned out to be a modest success, so it’s time to self-whore my blog once again. My company DomainDev has an acquisitions budget we’d like to spend in the next few months, and I’d rather give it to an intelligent, snarky Tropical SEO reader than some random dude ...] http://tropicalseo.com/2008/must-read-monday-links/ Normally I try not to do posts like this but I think every competitive webmaster needs to read the following two posts: компютри втора употребаландшафт Guilty Until Proven Innocent by Jay Weintraub Excerpts from Google Reviewer at SEO Blackhat (and good for you if you have a membership to read the whole thing!) Back to the first link by ...]