Lazy Linkage – Wordpress, Universal Search
A snippet of the content from this week’s newsletter, too. See, I told you it was lazy linkage!
Chris Garret makes a great point over at CopyBlogger. He talks about how fancy jargon can and will drive away your visitors. As a person who writes online and has also spent time studying the subject of study, I tell you to NEVER under-estimate the power of words. Both to inform and sell, but also to put people to sleep. Fast. Once a person hits a word they do not know the definition of, the process starts that will eventually lead them to leave the material. And on the internet, you’re already dealing with short attention spans, so that exodus is going to happen in a flash. So, make sure to use words that are easily understood. And if you cannot do so and still maintain the point, then DEFINE the words right on your website. Always test your website using a person not already integrated into your niche and see how they do with it.
AddThis (a social bookmarking tool) has posted a trends page which shows which bookmarking services users of AddThis are using. It covers this year (2007), so only a few months. The top two web bookmarking services are Google and Del.icio.us. BTW, an interesting page worth bookmarking is the Del.icio.us popular tags page. It’s a tag cloud of the popular tags on Del.icio.us, which can help you track what is popular and what people are buzzing about.
Wordpress has released Wordpress 2.2. Yep, a new version. Make sure you check your plug-ins before upgrading so they will still work. Want to know what’s so great about 2.2? Check out Aaron Brazell’s article 10 Things you should know about Wordpress 2.2. Also on the blogging front, its been reported that MyBlogLog is going to be rebranding. Makes sense now that Yahoo has bought them (which Techcrunch confirmed back in January). Among the changes are a re-design, a new name of some kind, and a new widget setup. Since I am a user of MyBlogLog on WebbyOnline, I look forward to seeing what they come up with. I know some bloggers are annoyed by MyBlogLog as it is now. Lastly, Daniel posted a list of the Top 10 Underrated Wordpress Plug-ins. My fave on that list is the Clean Archives plug-in. I’m actually not sure if the one he links to is the same as the one I use, but here is SRG Clean Archives which is the one I like.
In the world of copywriting, I found a great post by Michel Fortin where he lists 5 Copywriting formulas. Of course, he uses the post to point attention at 5 other posts he has describing each of them (very smart). But, worth the read because each of these formulas can serve as general guidelines to those of us who try to write our own copy.
On the search engine front, Profy posted about the story I also found on Yahoo and that is “Google Announces Universal Search“. The basics of it is that Googe is planning on integrating all their various search engines (web, images, video, news, etc) into one unified search engine so that one search will find relevant results in the whole gamut of content types. Here is another post at News.com about it. This is another good idea by Google, and if they are as spot on with their interface design as they were with Analytics, I’m sure the engine will be a breeze. And it brings Google one step closer to making all the world’s information accessible. And them controlling it. 
And in a bit of humor, Andrew has posted about the Maxim Hot 100 list for 2007. And he’s got some not-so-flattering pics of some of the contenders. Of course, we all know these women has hotties, but they have to be thanking the folks at Adobe for Photoshop, because its that in combo with the makeup which make them look above average on the red carpet.
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