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of the Zero Cost Traffic Ezine is ready. Sorta. I’m having formatting issues so it’s not in the usual spot.

This was supposed to be my birthday issue, but between the formatting issue and being tricked into a surprise gathering, it had to be tonight instead.

This is the issue with the last Traffic Reality pre-launch-priced memberships. The first thirty of this last pre-launch set were gone before my birthday was out. Didn’t seem fair to the weekly/twice monthly crowd so I’m giving 30 more people the bonus of having a micro-consult with me.

Also in this issue:

• two freebie giveaways
• free teleseminars
• free interview
• trial of shorter issues

Thanks to Andrew Cavanaugh for the idea!

See you there.

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I woke up from a weird dream where I had the taste of breast milk - of all things! - in my mouth. That soured my mood, which colored my perception, and I didn’t catch it in time to re-direct my energy. I’m sorry if any of you witnessed that - though I can’t say I’ll ever deal with spam/snarkiness/content theft/other like a perfect angel, I will make sure, in future, that I don’t let the issue extend to a wider audience. Bad energy tends to start a chain reaction of worse energy if you don’t know how to stop it.

But the good news is, just six months ago I would have continued that chain for up to two days before I stopped, witnessed, and ended up laughing at myself and the whole situation.

And because that, I am grateful for rule number six.

To shift from those moods and have a better day/life, one of my favorite exercises is to stop and think of what I’m grateful for. And today, I’ve very grateful for YOU, thank you very much!

Thank you if you sent me a message, a gift, a note of thanks, a poem, a link to a fun, free thing to do on my birthday online, an e-card, a good wish, a powerful thought, a good intention or anything similiar. I am very lucky person to be alive in a time where a person can make money as a direct result of having what essentially amounts to a big mouth!

Thank you for all the birthday wishes. I spent it with both my parents, both my sisters, both my brothers, and all their kids, and some of my cousins, who all, incredibly, managed to shift to gather in my honor at the last minute. First family celebration of my birth in the three plus years I’ve been on the West coast. One of my top ten best days ever.

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Thanks for reading this.

I’m about to put out the newsletter. When it comes out, this link, of course, will appear in it. I’d really appreciate it if you would come by here and tell me whether you would prefer to get the shorter version on a weekly basis, or if you still like my jam-packed-I’ll-be-reading-this-the-whole-week version. The upside to the short version is that it will come out more often and it will be easier to digest, and more timely. The downside is that there will be less in it.

Oh, also? I’m thinking of scrapping what was the free member’s area altogether, except for the link directory, and putting in just an article directory. Do you use the free member’s area? Do you even know the address? I haven’t updated it in 37 years, or even mentioned it here since two design changes ago.

So yeah… okay… I think that’s it.

No wait! I’m also thinking about putting out a bunch of $8 guides on traffic, from material that was too long for an article, but not long enough for a premium report. Tell me what topics you want to know. I am definitely thinking about having some type of rights with these as well, but not universal free distribution rights or anything like that.

And some of my bigger products that will come out in the next year will have resale rights for sale soon. Plus, the affiliate program comes out this coming week. Tell me what kind of tools you’d like to have to help you sell. Besides articles of course.

Give me tips on any of the above. Very jumbled post, I know. It’s my birthday - my one time of year to act even MORE a fool than usual!!

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Is it me or is Technorati working especially well lately? I have blogs in all different kinds of format, and on all of them, they’ve really been on time these past few weeks, even with Blogger. I mean, I hope I’m not jinxing it or anything, but it seems like they’re doing a great job right now.

Okay. I have to stop and do the rest of this later. The video for Sade’s Cherish the Day is on. Life must come to a screeching halt for four minutes.

*Edit* Okay, I’m back. I was wondering how everyone else is finding Technorati. The next video I’m going to add to the Blog Optimization Package is about tricks to getting more traffic out of Technorati. There’s so much about the site that people don’t notice, or don’t know because it’s not on the FAQ. I think I just have traffic-colored glasses on half the time - stuff that seems obvious to me, cats tell me is some amazing discovery.

I’ll do an abridged version of the video for Traffic Reality too.

So, again, tell me what YOU think - how is Technorati doin’ right now? Are they picking up your blog? Do they always? Please be a dear and give us a link.

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I JUST turned the page back on for more Traffic Reality memberships, with immediate access to the site and the last two newsletters. And some people must have those notifiers turned on that tell them when a page has changed, because the first 12 are already gone! I was preparing to announce it in the newsletter in a few hours, but okay - go get ‘em if you want ‘em!

(And if, by chance you really don’t know what I’m babbling about, you can click the link. )

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The enclosed file is a five minute audio from the interview I did with PRWeb earlier today.

Most people who start blogging and using RSS in their marketing start a blog in order to brand, communicate, “humanize” their corporation and its services/products, or for many other reasons.

Though the reason to blog shouldn’t be centered solely around blogging, taking a few extra steps with the way the blog and blog posts are set up can make a world of difference, often to the tune of thousands more visitors a month.

I talk about that for a few minutes in this podcast. Download here.

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