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Just saw this ad on an article at ESPN: Oops.

A friend of mine just wrote a great article titled Quit Wasting Money on PPC Advertising. I know it's not directly related to blogging, but I know many of you are involved in that area at least peripherally, so I wanted to pass it along.

Eric Giguere has a great post today on "How to Support Your Favorite Bloggers." It's not something I've thought much about, but as a blogger, I can tell you that he's dead on. Definitely worth a read.

Hands down, Frucomerci is my favorite Spanish blogger who lives in the UK. I keep meaning to mention that because he's left several good comments here and I really do find his blog interesting. Take a minute to check him out and subscribe to his feed. I know he'd appreciate it!

You may have run across the scheme circulating now that allows you to quickly move up in the Technorati Favorites ranking if everyone plays along. Darren weighed in on that yesterday, and now he's clarifying his position after receiving quite a bit of negative backlash. Keep reading »

If you register for Elite Retreat by today, April 30, the room is free -- a $750 value. If you entered the contest for a free ticket and intend to attend regardless of whether you win or not, you should go ahead and submit your application anyway since they'll refund your registration fee if you win.

Time for another collection of links for those of you who have subscribed to the feed and don't get to the site often. Keep reading »

Just checking out my MyBlogLog visitors this morning and came across my favorite name so far: BadNewsBlair from anyBlair [dot] com. Love it.

How many sites can rank in Google's top 10 for the basics of being great? Trick question: it's 10, and one of them is Ask Shane. You want do to be great, right? Well evidently Google thinks we're one of the best at covering the basics ;)

One of the ways I mention in "11 Free, Easy Ways to Get Visitors to Your New Blog" is blog carnivals. Well, carnivals aren't always just grouped by blog topic. Mother Jones has a great post today listing a few carnivals in categories you may not have thought about.

I'm an admitted Iron Man nerd.  I saw it three times in the theater, and I almost never go to ...

Mark at Business is Personal generates more genuinely great content consistently than any other blog I know of.  He hits a homerun just about every time up to bat.  ...

Love this post by Alan today.  Here's my favorite part: Gurus claiming they make money from the net or whatever line they’re using is like saying the guy we buy ...