Tim Ferris gives an excellent talk at WordCamp SF.

Takeaways for me:

1. I like the concept of using crazyeggs.com to track user action vs referral sources.

2. Change label ‘categories’ to ‘topics’ increase views alot.

3. He only posts once 0r twice a week.

4. He would rather keep on site then send viwers off to Twitter

5. He test everything.

6. He likes using StumbleUpon and says the traffic is high quality(I had no idea).

7. He uses Twitter for polling and Evernote to gather notes for research.

8. Edit your posts by hand and do SEO last.

9. If you are not having fun posting your audience won’t either.

I am trying out a new plugin on this post. Apture

It is easy to use and you have total control of which content type and data you link to. Nice.

I like the insight that even easy SEO work ,like on page optimization, can be effective in less competitive markets but those same markets will be competitive and pricey when approached from the PPC side.

Guess it all is a matter of keyword research.

From SEOmoz Rand Fishkin:

SEOmoz Whiteboard Friday – Market Forces & SEO from Scott Willoughby on Vimeo.

I’m evaluating a multi-media course on blogging from the folks at Simpleology. For a while, they’re letting you snag it for free if you post about it on your blog.

It covers:

• The best blogging techniques.
• How to get traffic to your blog.
• How to turn your blog into money.

I’ll let you know what I think once I’ve had a chance to check it out. Meanwhile, go grab yours while it’s still free.

Quote: Most powerful branding mechanism since TV

Looks good. I am upgrading now. Hope nothing gets killed.

Another argument to start a blog if you don’t have one yet. I am looking to join a blog marketing network now. I will post the results of my search.