Way overdue post – I’m so busy with my studies and my other projects here that I didn’t post for 2 weeks…

So I thought I’d do a little roundup and commenting right now…

First cemper.com most important company news:

I am already working with my first austrian employee Sandra for weeks – she’s a freelancing student to help me out in addition to a ton of other freelancers from India, US and elsewhere that I already employ…

And frankly, after some weeks I must say – she’s doing great… Sandra studies Information Management here in Austria which is actually a study just about the stuff that I do – Search, Document Retrieval, etc… a bit of everythingn… I am feeling lucky I found her so quick …

well, also I’m actually also looking for new office-space here in vienna… let’s see..

Some more seo/marketing stuff

Pagerank update

Google updated it’s pagerank snapshot some days ago… nothing new and as Matt Cuts says about pagerank

and Jim diggs out some great pretty frustrated comments by Roger / Martinibuster

hehe…

Feedvertising

Text-Link-Ads relesead their “Feedvertising” program for placing links in RSS feeds last week … and I was probably one of the first to notice, as I couldn’t perform some search functions on their site during the rollout ( but they fixed their bug in seconds… )

it only supports wordpress blogs at the moment, but I need to test this program ASAP, because I believe your link would get into the feed and by that get syndicated automatically to a ton of readers – AND scrapers :-) hehe… and that could mean a fractal link spam explosion :-D

PayPerPost

The paid blogging service seems to gain momentum… while I think the idea is great, I certainly doubt that it might impact overall quality of some weblogs… and of course – it’s pretty easy to get a list of all sites that are registered there… and …hmmm – blacklist them for not passing any link love ??? what do you think?

Stompernet

after Andy Jenkins sent out a ton of viral-style videos and really did a good job in marketing their “SEO Consulting network” seems to have been sold out the first day… if you read in their mails they got some 40k subscriptions… which is a REALLY valuable list of SEO interested people… I wonder how you would value that… I’d say you could use that list to send out offers on a regular basis – list valuation $500k or more

Nichrevolution

Brad Callen’s membership site that provides you with PLR articles, audio and e-books and a ton of sales copy to build “information product sales” sites… yeah – I’m in… an I’ve already started building up some sites using his content and products… I wonder when I will make the first sale of that Gardening Ebook :-) ... but it’s a nice thing as it gives me some stuff to try to sell that I would otherwise NEVER have produced… and that’s like a cool playground for all kinds of experiments with SEO, PPC, split testing and much more …

more of my own stuff

My community research thesis is lacking a bit behind… I really love the topic and read tons of stuff, but I need to speed up with writing

CEMPER.COM finally got a new design … pretty fancy and thanks to ram for that… I still got a bug there if you find it and are the first to post, I will give you a free permanent link on a site you will LOVE !!!

Looking to implement a cool affiliate program using drupal – this takes a ton of time as there are 40+ products out there… but as it seems the current match is between IdevAffiliate (which I know and promote for some time) and “Post Affiliate Pro” which seems to have the better support and those guys are even located in Bratislava – only 1 hour from Vienna… cool. I will let you know.

And I am actually looking for a nice billing/invoicing solution and a workflow/helpdesk tool to integrate into my workflow – for better customer support … as you can imagine – that WIDE area of products and soso-products takes ages to wade thru… and just when you thought you found it, you encounter the next problems… I even already purchased one solution just to find out with the great support that it maybe won’t suit my needs… but hey -I got the license, I got the code – I could maybe fix it …