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Kevin Brady

Minneapolis, MN
Commenter for
4 years 15 weeks

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Posted on 04/14/09 at 03:08 pm in response to Fun with Google PageRank

The quality of inbound links plays a major role in determining one's PR. A few links from high-ranking sites will give you better PR than a bunch of links from PR1 sites.

Also, links from sites using the "nofollow" convention do not add to your Google juice. Thus, if you do a link exchange with another site, make sure they don't have "nofollow" in their robots.txt file (easy to check - it's usually in their root). Why give them a followed link when they don't reciprocate?

BTW...

Posted on 02/13/09 at 08:14 am in response to Paul Douglas out at the Star Tribune

Perhaps the Strib and WCCO can also find a travel writer to share - one who has less of a "strong and oft-stated belief in the spherical shape of the earth." Flat-earth geography may be a hit with some of their readers/viewers.

Losing Douglas is their loss.

Posted on 02/09/09 at 07:57 am in response to As old media model dies, new marketing comes alive

Combine a talented writer with a good web designer and you could carve out a neat little business setting up and maintaining weblogs or discussion groups for companies that don't have the resources or time to do it themselves. Not just large corporations, but any business that wants to continually get their message out there and engage people.

And if you're a talented writer WITH web skills, better yet. It could be a very efficient one-person operation.

Posted on 02/03/09 at 08:30 am in response to MPR: How big is its audience?

To answer Erica's question, yes, Arbitron measures anywhere the surveyed individual is listening to a radio. Arbitron sends out "diaries" to households of people who agree to participate in the survey. The participant makes entries in the diary for the station and time span listened for each instance. That includes listening in cars, work, home, on portables, etc.

After a week, the participant mails in the diary. Arbitron crunches the data from the received diaries to generate its...