Since we have been talking a lot about obtaining quality in-pointing links lately, it seems prudent to mention Ryan Deiss’ Authority Codes report. It’s a freebie  – a tantalizing tidbit Ryan gives away in exchange for an e-mail address so he can promote his various products to you.

In this case, however, it’s actually a pretty decent trade off.

The Authority Codes is a visually appealing, super-slick, 21-page PDF document that shows you how to use the SEO Quake FireFox plugin along with 12 customized search queries (these are the “authority codes” Ryan is talking about) that will help you find credible blogs where you can post a comment and obtain an in-pointing link.

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Just a quick note to let you know I’m playing with two link building tools right now; Brad Callen’s SEO Elite and the “Link Assistant” software, brought to us by the makers of SEO PowerSuite. Reviews of both to follow shortly (I hope).

Right now, I’m enjoying tinkering a bit.

Stay tuned!

It was with a great deal of annoyance that I read through Lis Sowerbutts’ “review” of the “SBI! (Site Build It!) scam.” For someone who maintains to be interested in presenting her visitors with balanced, fair and informative material, her argument is, in non-politically correct parlance, retarded.

Case in point; if you want to talk authoritatively about a product or system, it helps to have some first hand experience with it. If you do not – and to my knowledge Lis Sowerbutts is not, nor has even been a Site Build It! owner, it’s a bit difficult to allot a ton of credibility to anything the author says.

It’s also a little annoying for marketers like myself who go out of their way to be informed before opening a discussion with an audience about a certain product or service (I recently reviewed Adam Short’s Niche Profit Classroom; I paid the $67/month subscription fee, learned the system and wrote about its Pros and Cons. It took many hours of work to do so).

It’s too bad Lis couldn’t be bothered to conduct a real review of SBI!. She’d have a lot more credibility if she did. Because as things stand, she appears to be little more than an ill-informed, lazy, malicious twit with a “bone to pick.”

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If you’re a webmaster interested in obtaining in-pointing links for your web site, you’ve probably heard of the value offered by “.edu”, “.gov” and “.org” links.

The thinking goes like this…

… The “.edu” domains are usually maintained by academic institutions that have a lot of credibility, and therefore garner instant respect with Google. The “.org” domains, maintained by respected organizations and associations, receive the same.

Therefore, obtaining an in-pointing link from such a domain offers much more impact than from a simple “.com” or “.net” domain (”.gov” links, or links from government sites, are also seen as credible and highly valuable). That’s the argument being made by various marketers anyhow – certainly the ones trying to sell you the software that locates the “.gov”, “.edu”, or “.org” links.

But are these links really all they are cracked up to be?

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If you’re a budding video marketer out and about shopping for a camera to create your YouTube promotional videos, don’t make the same mistake I did; double check your chosen camcorder exports its video in a widely supported format.

I bought the JVC Everio, which appeared to offer all the “bells and whistles” I needed, including a “one touch upload to YouTube” option which I assumed meant that the camera exported video in a format supported by YouTube.

Oooops!

It doesn’t.

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I first got wind of Niche Profit Classroom from Allan Gardyne’s newsletter (Allan is the affiliate guru from AssociatePrograms.com). His is one of the few Internet Marketing newsletters I still read on a regular basis, so when he mentioned Niche Profit Classroom in a recent edition, I thought I’d have a closer look (what can I say, I’m a sucker for punishment!).

I plunked down my credit card, and signed up for the “basic” version of the program, which costs $67/month.

So what is Niche Profit Classroom, exactly?

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Lately my inbox has been bursting with offers from Internet Marketers who are claiming that FaceBook is the new Google and THEY have found to key to making oodles of money with it. Of course, they are willing to share this opportunity with you… for a token fee.

Riiiiight.

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The “Instant Video Articles” software, from Calvin Woon & Jonathan Teng, will be the subject of the first post in a new series called “I Buy, Try, And Review” (what I’m trying to accomplish here is pretty self-explanatory, but if you’d like a little more information about these reviews, and my thoughts for putting them together, please click here!).

I don’t really remember how I stumbled on this software, but since it deals with video creation and the leveraging of existing content – something I’m very interested in at the moment (as witnessed by the series of video marketing and creation articles on the site) I thought I’d plunk down my credit card and give it the old “test-run.”

Especially since Instant Video Articles claims to be able to “convert your articles into tracking-sucking videos in under 30 seconds.”

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As you know, I’ve spent a fair bit of time lately discussing the use of video marketing and how to use it to leverage your online business. For the most part, I’ve covered video creation and distribution to the main video services (YouTube, MetaCafe, Blip.Tv, DailyMotion, etc) via the TubeMogul service.

One thing I have not discussed is how to place a video in a custom player on your own web site. The easiest way to post video on your own web site is to publish your video to a service like YouTube, and then place the “embed” code on your own web pages and blog posts where you want the video to appear. Most of the time, this works well-enough for the needs of most net-marketers.

But what if you do not want your video to appear on YouTube?

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I cancelled my Twittollower account this week.

Not sure why you should care?

Then you have probably missed my introductory Test Tube article on Twittollower, the service that builds your list of Twitter followers automatically (in my test tube articles, I put various tools/software/strategies to the test on my main web sites, and report the results to you!).

This service promises to add a minimum of 2,000 niche-targeted followers to your list each and every month. This, at an introductory cost of $67 per month, rising to $99/month after the first 200 participants.

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