In my previous post I forgot to mention that I really like the Post Teaser WordPress plugin that I found when I went looking for a new way to create post excerpts. The standard WordPress excerpt feature doesn’t work very well for me because it strips out the formatting and tends to clump paragraphs together, making for ugly-looking excerpts. Post Teaser, on the other hand, does a great job and is also easily customizable. You can see it in action on the home page of the free keyword lists site. Highly recommended!

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Every once in a while I put together a list of keywords and publish it here. I’ve had requests for more of this, but I don’t want to transform this blog into a big set of keyword lists, so I’ve created a separate site for those kinds of posts. If keyword data interests you, feel free to visit Free Keyword Lists. You can subscribe to the RSS feed to get notifications — I’ll also be adding the ability to get notifications by email.

I’m still playing with the site so there’s not much there yet, just some preliminary lists for ferry (based on our recent discussions about FerryTravel.com) and home equity (gotta have one of those popular “money” keywords to start with!). I’ll be posting different kinds of data on the keywords once I setup my systems to make it semi-automatic to create the lists, hopefully along with a bit of commentary and analysis about the list data. If you have any keywords you’d like to see, drop me a note and I’ll add them to my queue. I have a whole bunch of keywords gleaned from various sources.

Eric Giguere is the author of several printed books and knows a thing or two about content monetization. Subscribe to his AdSense blog today and never miss any of his insightful comments. And the not-so-insightful ones, for that matter.

Although I’m not normally a simple parrot, I think all of you should take the time to read these two posts by Google’s Matt Cutts:

• Selling links that pass PageRank
• Information about buying and selling links that pass PageRank

If you’ve ever thought about buying or selling links, there’s some serious food for thought here. I wonder how many people will drop out of programs like Text Link Ads because of this forceful stance by Google.

Please note that AdSense ads aren’t affected by this policy, as the links used in the ads don’t pass PageRank.

Eric Giguere is the author of several printed books and knows a thing or two about content monetization. Subscribe to his AdSense blog today and never miss any of his insightful comments. And the not-so-insightful ones, for that matter.