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How do they decide on the suggestions? All but one of the twitter users suggested to me have nothing to do with the topics of the people I already follow, and the only one I clicked on to follow turned out to have latest tweet in Feb 2007. - Isha (Marysia)

Its hard to guess. Do you know mrtweet? - Haim Schlesinger

I don't know their algo yet. Looking into it. - Ed Shahzade /NextInstinct

That post is like gold dust to me. Trying to do my link building during my day job and all we got here is IE6 that seems to hang up on everything. Is there a button to like something like a billion times? - Seang-Lim Tan

Thanks Alison, nice post. Good information and ideas to get the simple things right. - Alistair (alpinefolk)

You were already all over it Ed Shaz!! - Ed Dale

Is this the new feature? Very freaking cool. - Ross Goldberg

If your watching the real time stream - then yes it is - The KEY is how you customise it - and the fact that you can comment on the fly and not have it reorder like the desktop apps do - brilliant piece of programming and has the potential to totally upsurp the whole chat/forum system with something that is way more interactive!! - Ed Dale

Ah now I see. Thanks Ed! - shawnsmith

It also allows you to quickly unsubscribe from people who are just using friendfeed for SEO purposes. IT's Really really big - Ed Dale

I have to agree, this is a very cool, very game-changing feature. - Chris Abernethy

It sure is Chris - all those follow you - follow me twitter types should be over here - where you can actually have a conversation properly in a medium that is designed to host it - this is a GAME CHANGER - Ed Dale

Because of you Ed, I had my Twitter account for a year, then the odd situation of my friends all suddenly getting on and preaching to ME about Twittering... - Sam Longoria

What's a Twitter? I kid... I kid... - Anthony

I'm so glad you're a professional noticer Ed. This real-time thing really opens up the conversation. I can see it being way better than trying to use Twitter for something it was never really designed to do. Can't wait for the IE report on this... - SteveH

Thanks for making sense of it all Ed! I remember the old days of twitter when you gave us the heads up -it was so random then you'd have to be highly intuitive to get that it was going to evolve into something big. - Rebecca Kellock

This is so much easier than trying to follow a conversation on Twitter. I imagine it will be better for cultivating relationships too. - Shannon

Exactly Shannon!!! - if your going to chat - why not use all this leverage as well! - Ed Dale

I've never replied/responded to anyone on twitter, this is just so much easier. - Stuart Fraser

Ed said feedfriend is seo friendly; we good guys will get benefit just because we add value 2 the hungry google beast & 2 readers - Johan Horak

true it's goggle gravy - Ed Dale

Sure does!! - Ed Dale

Big time - Dan Raine

Thats a top feature - David Walton

afraid I am missing what the fuss is all about, from a marketing point of view - Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)

Hi Joelle, everyone who just subscribed to ed's feed, just saw your message. Imagine now if you provide valuable insights to the community and they subscribe to you about. It allows you to utilize Ed's exposure, and build your own community. - Tom

Hi all. For those of you interested in the technical side of these real time updates, the technology is known as 'Comet'. I've been looking at the Glassfish server - https://glassfish.dev.java.net... - which is an open source implementation of the Java EE application server, which can do this. - Stuart

you can do comet on pretty much every server platform, the only annoyance being the httpd spec connection limit. FF have no problems since they have only 1 comet entity. - Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)

I used an online form maker for my hypno site at http://www.jotform.com - never really got to grips with the autoresponder stuff, hope that is of some help though - David

I have used iContac for about 3 years now. It's alright. I have also used Aweber which I found easy and powerful much the same as iContact. The one I found very cumbersome and difficult to get my head around was Getresponse. What a pain. I would never recomend it to anyone. - Greg Martin

Michael, I have tried GetRespone auttoresponders before and I have found it pretty user friendly. They have a free version so you can try it out. You can gett it free here - http://www.getresponse.com/orderfr..., have a nice day, Don - Don Kerns

Same for me. See real real result with Digg and Stumbleupon. Also submit article to Google. Using Stumleupon don't forget to update your profile and also play the game. Bookmark other pages than you own, you will have more results. Just tried new place to submit blog: http://www.blogcatalog.com/ Don't know yet if it is good but it seems to worth the try. If anyone have heard about it let me know. - eMarketing Hubs - nat014

I've heard recently that Google is paying lots of attention to what goes through GReader; so it might be a thought to also subscribe to your own RSS feeds (and maybe get your friends to do it too). I figure it's like chicken soup -- it can't hurt . . . - LJF Wolffe

What if your allergic to chicken? - Michael Roberts

Extreme solution! Press F11 - e521 from twhirl

There are addons for Firefox/flock which let you set what controls show on popup windows (eg size controls, menu) but I can't for the life of me find them now. If I do, I'll let you know! - Kevin Wilson

This "feature" is a common headache in firefox and flock. That's what happens when developers only test against Internet Explorer. sigh - MyklK (Michael K)

Type: 'about:config' without quotes into your location bar. Type 'feature' without quotes to the Filter: box. Double click dom.disable_window_open_feature.resizable (the value column will change to true), then see if you can resize the popups :) - Paul King from twhirl

Not sure if this will fix problem (not really sure what prob is) but try: Flock - Tools - Options - Content - Advance (top) - Allow script to Move Resize Window enable - Richard Gee

Susan, You should go the route that Paul describes in the About config: that should let you resize it. - Ron"micronet"Harwood

@Richard, The "Allow script to Move Resize Window enable" is to allow other web sites to control resize and moving of your window. This can be set to your preference. :•) - Ron"micronet"Harwood

Paul IS King! Thank you SOOO much. That seems to have been the fix I needed. My next test will be to see if it works when I need to print a shipping label via Paypal...those pop ups have been the most annoying! Thanks again! - Susan Whitehead

What Paul said :) No wonder I couldn't find the addon when it was an about:config tweak! - Kevin Wilson

This is an awesome tip from duct tape. - Brian

I've been doing this for years :o) - thefluffanutta

Me too. :-) (But probably only after Fluff mentioned it. I'm a follower.) - SusanVillasLewis

Thanks for the tip Andy :o) - Peter Horsman from twhirl

Yeh this is cool. I have RSS'd this into Google Reader. 30DC is really helping me become more pro about online marketing. Awesome stuff here. - Greg Martin

.co.uk is out then .com .net .org are gone and I have a commercial business - Bjorn Weisser

what - Tommy Gordon from twhirl

Is there an order in preference in choosing between .me .mobi ..biz or .us? - Bjorn Weisser

sorry (finger slip). what's your business name and niche? I'm sure you can find a good domain name even though the obvious ones are taken. besides, if you do the job of promoting it right, it doesn't matter what you domain name is - I mean, who knew (or knows today) what the word Google means a few years ago?! - Tommy Gordon from twhirl

I just got a reply from Caro on this. I should use my phrase+blog.com if possible. I guess .com is the way to go even if you have to hyphen it or add blog to it. Thanks for the help. this challenge beats any extremely difficult soduku puzzle. - Bjorn Weisser

absolutely right. check out http://tattoo-ideas-4u.com (an old domain of mine) it took a little time, but it has quite a few visitors every day with a long hyphenated name. - Tommy Gordon from twhirl

Remember to check out expiring domains as well. A good domain age and some links already in place is a great way to attract Google quickly. I've done this for one of my sites. - Mark

http://www.makewords.com/ good site for ideas, check the Keyword theme box at the top for variations. Try not to go for .info as I heard somewhere the big G didn't like it. You can add-- the, my, our, etc or go for a plural as long as you have the main keyword/phrase - Carmel Baird

using Tommy's tattoo site as an example because I have a plural phrase also, what other things might work? I thought of 4all or maybe putting 101 in front. - Kelly

Roy, here's what I'm doing... I have a niche market with a whole pile of qualified keywords. I am regestering a domain name for the easiest one to rank for as per the SEO competition scale. Since these are all related, I will then go back and create sub-domains later on. Although, since this is using a blog platform you could essentially just setup one blog and create seperate pages for each keyword on the blog... (Second thought, that's what I'll probably do... setup different pages on one blog) - Mike Hill from twhirl

@Mike Hill Can I do this with an Amazon Affiliate aStore? - Roy Gould

Roy the answer to that prolly lies in how much if any upfront money you want to put out as far as buying domain names for each one. Now from what I know,someone please correct me if this has changed, Google views subdomains as a domain in its own right. So if you use the free hosting on one of wordpress directs sites you could have a different blog for each one. - Curtis Miller

Roy now that I have seen the software I would create one site with your very best keyword (most promising) and then create pages/categories for the remaining keywords you have that qualify... - Mike Hill from twhirl

Roy that is exactly my plan, luckily most of my micro-niche phrases contain my main phrase, massive lsi and siloing potential this way. That is why I will be using pages and categories. - Mark Myers

Thank you I want to try and be circumspect because I want to protect my keyword phrases. Let's just say that I am offering a form of media. I have keyword phrases that pertain to different titles within the same genre.So, for instance, would I use the genre keyword phrase for a WP blog with affiliate links to the product in Amazon? Or would I link to my aStore? What about the other 6 distinct keyword phrases that fall under the genre heading.? How do I exploit those without giving them each a separate page? - Roy Gould

You could use a Silo Structure for the main phrases and sub-phrases. There are plugins for wordpress that build a silo for you automatically. You could do it yourself using categories and setting up a URL structure that uses the category in the URL (also a plugin in wordpress). - Craig Eubanks

@craig thanks, I will try that out. - Roy Gould

The video says you have your main phrase at the top of the list of all keywords for the site. Obviously, each post you add will be in one category, so that will take care of that... - Frann Leach

Me too! I submitted a problem ticket for this. I am having the same problem with the work around solution too. - Debbie

I like the option to spend some $ Well done. - Bjorn Weisser

Oh-oh--nameboy.com has fallen over from the traffic. - Ken Horovatin from twhirl

Absofreakinglutely brilliant!!! I can't believe the awesomeness of the first six days. If it continues at this rate I'm going to have to up my meds. - anniebinns

Yes Allison, this is a great read. Especially if you're feeling a bit flustered, or frustrated. Fantastic remedy! - Matthew Hall

Awesome! - Jean-Marie Moës