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Josh — Wed, 20 May 2009 23:48:33 +0000

Welcome OneCoach Memebers!

A special offer for anyone who attended the event in person or on Ustream. You will get access to my Twitter for Business Video learning series at no charge. This normally cost $77 but if you enter your name and email below, I will give you access for Free.

My gift for attending and supporting OneCoach.com

Look Forward to meeting everyone in the members area!

Please be sure to connect with me on Twitter: @TrafficIsGold

Best,

Josh Landsberg

Will Oprah Bring Out The Twitter Fail Whale?

Josh — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 23:52:17 +0000

Oprah is set to talk about Twitter tomorrow and do her first Tweet…

So will we see this all day?

Or This…

or nothing at all?

My bet is the service will grind to a halt and the Whale will be out in full force.

Let me know your thoughts: @trafficisgold.com

My New Twitter Policy

Josh — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 16:25:30 +0000

New Twitter Policy goes into effect today. If you have the default Twitter icon or a locked account (and I don’t personally know you) I will not follow you back. How hard is it to upload an image of yourself or your company’s logo? It’s not. If you don’t want your picture up there because you are insecure then go make an avatar. Don’t want your picture up on Twitter because you’re managing a business account, cool, put up your company logo.

When I see the default logo 95% of the time it’s a spam account. The other 5% is split between people who just joined Twitter to join and complete newbies. I have nothing against newbies at all. I actually welcome them with open arms and want to help them get the most out of Twitter. I am happy to follow, just show some respect for the Twitter community and fully update your profiles. Otherwise what’s the point?

Twitter Auto DMs Suck

Josh — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 02:48:30 +0000

The abuse of the Twitter Direct Message (DM) functionality has always been an issue with Twitter. However, as my follower count grows so does the constant barrage of useless and annoying Auto Direct messages. The idea of someone trying to sell sell me an e-book or whatever, before any kind of relationship has been established seems silly and wrong. Anyway, here is a video I made regarding Twitter and Auto DM’s.

Found this great post by Robert Scoble , Love his number 8, which states:

8. I can’t put an auto answer onto DM’s so that I can tell you to get a clue and to send me email instead.

Sprint Ad with a Twitter Call Out

Josh — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 03:26:53 +0000

I saw this ad last night and the Twitter call out (00:33 in) was pretty cool. Nice work to the folks at Sprint.

Twitter Is Down For Unscheduled Maintenance

Josh — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 01:15:06 +0000

“Twitter is currently down for unscheduled maintenance. We expect to be back in about an hour. Thanks for your patience.”

I hope we make it through this dark hour… Relax and go enjoy the basketball game!!

Excluding Categories in Wordpress Sidebar Widget

Josh — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 17:31:58 +0000

This is a short Youtube video demo on how you can exclude categories from you side bar if using the sidebar widget. This requires us to edit the widgets.php file instead of the sidebar.php file. More how to videos can be found at the Traffic is Gold Youtube channel.

Similar Videos:
Excluding Pages In The Wordpress Sidebar

We also announce our videos on Twitter, you can follow us on Twitter here: @trafficisgold.

Step by Step code credit goes to Lance Hoff

Step 1:
Download widgets.php from here: wp-includes/widgets.php

Step 2:
Find this line of code:
$d = $options[$number]['dropdown'] ? ‘1′ : ‘0′;

under it palce this line of code: $ex = “1,2,3″;
(NOTE: change out 1,2,3 with the actual Categories you want to exclude.)

So all together it looks like this:
$d = $options[$number]['dropdown'] ? ‘1′ : ‘0′;
$ex = “1,2,3″;

Step 3:

Find
$cat_args = array(’orderby’ => ‘name’, ’show_count’ => $c, ‘hierarchical’ => $h);

Replace
$cat_args = array(’orderby’ => ‘name’, ’show_count’ => $c, ‘hierarchical’ => $h, ‘exclude’ => $ex );

Step 4:
Save the file and uplaod back to it’s original location

You are done!!

Again thanks to Lance for the code and his step by step blog post. Please visit the site here.

What is #followfriday on Twitter?

Josh — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 18:46:14 +0000

Twitter is a very powerful instant communication tool. It can be used for fun, business or a combination of both. I wanted to answer the question; What is #followfriday? So here is a quick video showing you what follow Friday is and how to participate.

Follow me on Twitter.
Follow me on Youtube.

Hope that helps!

Google’s Vince Update - A Question of Trust

Josh — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 16:15:57 +0000

During January/February (2009) Google made an update to their search algorithm. Many in the search community are calling this update a Big Brand push. Meaning the change in the algorithm has helped big Brands achieve high rankings for certain keywords.

Matt Cutts of Google produced a video to discuss the update: “I would not call it an update, I would call it just a simple change.” - Matt Cutts

Further reading on the topic can be found here:
Search Engine Land
SEO Book

Twitter Page Updates - Widgets

Josh — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 22:31:29 +0000

My Twitter account has been very buggy today. It looks like they are rolling out some changes. Just noticed a new widget section on the right side navigation. Not sure if we will get the search box and trends I reported on earlier.

New widget link: