Articles and Links

Articles and Links
By Vickie J. Scanlon

Article marketing is the writing of short articles that is related to your business field of industry. It's a great way to get one-way links and to help to increase traffic to your site.


Links within an Article

If you are not planning on sending your article viral than links within your webpage copy is great. However, if you're planning on sending your article viral, it is best to utilize the Resource Box at the end of the article. Why? Because your article will, in most cases, be rejected by the Article Directory.

The Article Directory is looking for information only within the body of the article, and not looking for self-promotion-Sales copy, in other words. Can't blame them. However you can utilize the one area - the Resource Box.


Your Resource Box

The Resource box, is your advertisement. In most cases they will allow up to three links within the resource box. With that in mind...

When writing an article, also keep in mind your advertising links you want to use, or will be using. If you are talking about a specific product or service that is a web page on your website, be sure and place a link to that web page. In other words, make total use of the Resource Box and do not direct it just to your home page.

As you have probably figure out, the resource box is for lead generation and link building. So, it is wise to experiment with your resource box, creating several different info resource boxes. You'll soon determine which description pulls your target market to your site.

So, what at a minimum should a good resource box include?

• your name,

• business (if appropriate)

• website, webpage links to direct people who are interested in your product/s or services

• description of your service or product

Though simple, sometimes the simple things are missed. So don’t miss the simple things that can and will pull your target market to your site.
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Say Ok...

I could touch the sky,
I could be only mine,
but I can't let you go,
'cause I need you so.

You won't let me say,
it's just more than you can take.
You can't handle as hard as I do.

Please, make this moment a crime.
Please, say I was not right.
Say you won't let me go.



*É, eu gosto de escrever em inglês, but don't ask me why! :)

So long and good night.

You know you love me.
XOXO

[HAHAHAHAHAHAHA ;P Sempre quis fazer isso!]
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Another Tip-For Adsense

Another Tip-For Adsense

Sometimes, it's nice to know if Google is having problems with Adsense and if it is affecting your bottom-line. Well, it looks like they are know giving you a place to go, to see if, your sudden drop in income is related to any issues. With that being said...

If you think your Adsense Income is unusually low or you think there something that isn’t quite up to snuff , you now have a page that you can go to, to look at any Known Issues for Adsense. They state that their system has an occasional “hiccup”. To keep you in the loop that have created a new “Known Issues Page” where you can check for updates on this reporting issue and other existing issues. You’ll see both resolved issues and new known issues. For your convenience, I will be placing a link within my Adsense Tidbits Page on my website, if you should lose the link.

My advice, take a few minutes and look it over. It may give you an idea of what they are working on-and may even solve a problem of yours that they are working on.



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First Look at Django

Django is MVC... kinda

Django (and all of the frameworks I'm looking at) is based on the "MVC" software architecture pattern. Since these are largely personal notes (can't imagine anyone else reading this) I'm not going to cover the basics here. You can find that in the Django Book or on Wikipedia.

But here's an interesting quote from Chapter 5 of the Django Book:

Because the “C” is handled by the framework itself and most of the excitement in Django happens in models, templates, and views, Django has been referred to as an MTV framework. In the MTV development pattern,

• M stands for “Model,” the data access layer. This layer contains anything and everything about the data: how to access it, how to validate it, which behaviors it has, and the relationships between the data.
• T stands for “Template,” the presentation layer. This layer contains presentation-related decisions: how something should be displayed on a Web page or other type of document.
• V stands for “View,” the business logic layer. This layer contains the logic that access the model and defers to the appropriate template(s). You can think of it as the bridge between models and templates.
  

If you’re familiar with other MVC Web-development frameworks, such as Ruby on Rails, you may consider Django views to be the “controllers” and Django templates to be the “views.” [...] Neither interpretation is more “correct” than the other. The important thing is to understand the underlying concepts.

This sounds like a subtle but possibly important distinction, particularly as I move between frameworks. I have some initial concerns about Django's interpretation of MVC but I'll keep that to myself until I've really given it time to make sense (basically, how does the split of business logic between Django "model" and "view" manifest itself in the design of your code, and can it lead to anemic domain models?).

Why Django?

Behind the 8-ball here. Not only is Django new to me but Python isn't a language I code in regularly -- in fact it's been some time since I've played with it. I like the look of Python. I've coded some trivial programs with it. The "white space thing" doesn't bother me and I don't really understand why it would bother anyone. Then again it's not the first language I've seen that does it. The first language that I saw that particular feature in was Occam, and I really liked Occam (not that I ever did anything useful with it).

So why Django?

• It's based on Python and Python seems like it should be a really good language to work in. I'm a Perl refugee in some ways. I'm finding it hard to recruit really good Perl coders (as opposed to just plain old Perl coders) and I suspect that people who have taken the trouble to learn Python (or Ruby, or Scala, or LISP) are more likely to care about good code. Not because C# and Java programmers don't but ... well, in this market why would you learn Python if it wasn't because you cared about being a better programmer?

• There are other Python frameworks that look very interesting: TurboGears and Pylons for example. But I have limited time and Django appears to have an edge for reasons I can't yet articulate. I'll probably drill down into TurboGears later.

• Django is the first framework supported by Google App Engine.

• The Django core team say sensible things about web development and the community appears active and supportive. A little smug sometimes but hey, wouldn't you be, if you were working in the One True Language too? :-)

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sOng trOng dOi sOng cAn cO mOt tAm lOng

:D
--chỉ lặng nhìn----

Hai ngày cuối tuần này, mình chỉ nghe mỗi một bài hát này...

Không biết mình đã play biết bao nhiu lần rùi, chỉ thấy rằng càng nghe càng thấy hay, bởi như đang nghe mỘt tấm lòng và như thấy tâm hồn càng thấy sâu lắng hơn...

"Sống trong đời sống cần có một tấm lòng,
để làm gì em biết không?
ĐỂ GIÓ CUỐN ĐI...
ĐỂ GIÓ CUỐN ĐI..."

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Now that sounds not only cool but also useful.

Now that sounds not only cool but also useful.
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Notes on "Mental Detox"

So apparently of three that set out I was the only one to make it to Friday, which is not even a full week. For shame Kate, for shame. :-)

In the 5 days during my self imposed personal net exile:

• I clocked up a modest amount of spam (219 messages), mailing list messages (184 conversations) and personal e-mail.
• There were 634 RSS items in Google Reader.
• There were 19 podcasts downloaded by iTunes.

And I learned:

• That I don't miss, like or need Facebook. But it seems rude to delete my account...
• That I follow far too many total freakin' strangers on Twitter. I need some Twitter Equilibrium :-)
• I have too many RSS feeds that don't really tell me anything I need to know.

Well. Just some random notes from no-one of consequence. Seriously, why are you reading this?
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