I will be teaching all I know about putting the kind of content together that when put on your website attracts large amounts of links. These links help with your rankings in Google and helps you to get traffic to your website.

If you don’t know much about linkbait I wouldn’t advise you join as it is going to be quite advanced.

I am really excited about this as some great people want to join, it’s limited to only 20 people as I will be working quite closely with the members and provide a very personal service.

My entry to the copyblogger.com, twitter writing contest.

Wouldn’t it be interesting if I could get a book deal off that sentence. Normally I wouldn’t bother because novel writing is so poorly paid and overrated. But, the challenge of getting a first novel on the basis of a sentence is juicy indeed.

Lyndon Antcliff interview at Distilled - regarding linkbait
Lyndon Antcliff interview with Michael Gray aka Graywolf - regarding local search
Lyndon Antcliff interview with Hobo SEO regarding linkbait and social media marketing
Lyndon Antcliff interview with Kelvin Newman regarding social media marketing and linkbaiting

Most of the interviews are about my linkbaiting exploits. If I find any more I will add them.

OK sure, depending on your religious belief you may think a number of things may be going on. I think the one where everyone is in white and hangs around on a cloud is the hardest to believe. I this much, we are all stardust and death does not change this.

In fact, it’s not death or what happens at death that’s the weird thing, it’s why the hell we are alive in the first place. I suppose I could pick a religion that is the closest to my belief and then take comfort in that, but then what if it’s not the right one. I mean there are so many to pick from, pagen, christian, jewish, animist, islamic. Have I really got time to check them all out to find the right one? Then there are different splinters within the religion, last count there was about 1,600 different Christian religions.

If God exists, do you think she has made it deliberately difficult?

Great taglines of websites
Cool book from a funky writer
Smashing Magazine
Guardian travel top ten
Top diggers podcast
San Jose SES recap
Running a successful Stumbleupon account

Social News Networking Comment Trackers
Top Experiments from the Museum of hoaxes

Penzance web design
PPC Think
Can’t teach, then manage
Oh No! A “Ten Killer Link Building Posts” Post
Cheap Stock photos
Personal Development list
Website Design Sites
Airline meals
What a great idea for a site. Banal and fascinating. Without the web, this stuff would never be created.
Create an xml or html sitemap
How many xml site map creation tools are out there, you can never have enough.
Two great linkbait pieces
Anything on linkbait I read, particularly when it’s Cameron Olthuis blogging about it
Shoemoney and DMOZ? Linkbait?
Gotta love the Shoe, Wickedfire cracks me up. It’s like getting the most bitter web peeps in the world, stuffing them in a barrel and rolling down the hill. But, I love it.
Social Media Marketing Roundup

Torrent Tips
40 Books for profesional design development
Succeed Socially

I first read about the perfect moment in the Book swimming to Cambodia by Spaulding Gray.

Having a perfect moment is when everything in the universe comes together in one magnificent moment and a pleasure tidal wave hits you in the chest and you wished the moment could last forever.

My perfect moments usually happen alone and in conjunction with nature. A perfect cloud, the way the sun breaks through the sky and hits a a green field in the distance. It can induce a trance like state and cannot be manufactured.

But you can prepare the ground. Make sure you take time to take a breath, look at the world around you. See how rich the colours seem, how the noise of the wind through a tree seems to weave through your mind.

Now I am not a tree hugging, vegan, nature nutter. Not that there is anything wrong with that. But there is something in the way the world is created, some vestige of glory left over from when one primeval atom said to the other, “Hi, lets get together and make a planet.”
“Sure, why not, I’ve got a free afternoon.” Said the other atom. “But what shall we call it?”
“I kinda like the name, Earth.”

Look out the window and let your mind drift into the creation. Doesn’t matter if you believe in God or not. The creation of our world around us is a magnificent thing and taking time to appreciate it will only be good for you.

I know that I am more successful at a task when I focus. Concentrating like a laser beam on the task in hand increases the chances of completing the task. Probably more than any one thing.

If we want to improve our ability to complete tasks we must improve our focus.

What is it that causes a lack of focus?
Rarely is it the initial motivation. In fact the initial driving force behind your goal can sometimes blast through any lack focus if it is strong enough. But mostly, after a short period we get distracted, something else catches our eye, we feel we need to check out email, you know the drill.

For me the basis of distraction is the thought that there is still more possibilities for options out that. Even though I have decided on one task I have an irrational feeling to gather as much information as humanly possible. Coupled with the seeminglyinfinite knowledge base that is the Internet makes it an eternal distraction. I have to learn that when I gain enough knowledge to complete the task the research should be over.

What can you do to stop being distracted by infinite information fatigue?

I have to plug out. I take a piece of paper and a pen and sit away with from the computer and the Internet. I sometimes take the time to go to a Coffee bar and get acappuccino. Fermentation of current research needs to take place for the ideas to reach fruition.

I used to get distracted a lot from the computer games, if I could only get paid for playing Civilisation or Age of Empires. I solved that problem by simply de-installing them and hiding the CDs. Drastic action, but it has worked.

Be ruthless with your bookmarks.
Regularly go through your bookmarks and get rid of all high time suckage websites.

Place a time limit on your research time.
When developing an information project like a blog post or an ebook research can be never ending. Think how profitable the task is and create specific time slots to gather information.

Create your workspace
To work without disturbance gives you no chance to use it as an excuse not to work. Have you notice that after 15 mins of hard work you actually get into a mode of focused work that feels like you are a super hero and can achieve anything. This feeling is a result of the power of focus and it’s important to run whilst in this mode. Make sure when working on an important project you give the required quiet time you need.

Focus is the biggest problem facing knowledge workers today.
Distraction is the evil cousin of focus and should be negated

Here is what distracts me

• Browsing the internet.
• Reading E-books
• Check website stats
• Reading email
• Interacting on social network sites

When I research a blog post I find it difficult to stop collecting information. I find the more information I find the more information I have to find. Usually the first information is enough, but for some reason my brain is sending out the signal to search for more. This could be because I have not properly valued the initial information. If I took time away from the computer screen to mull the information I would be able to access it more thoroughly.

And there is the rub. The computer and the Internet have become the destination rather than a mere tool. It is such a huge and magnificent beast that most of us have not worked out how to tame it yet. At present I would say that this problem represents one of the biggest reasons why more people are not successful.

Desire is the fire in your belly that will get you where you want to go.
Desire is one of the first steps to take towards any goal.

But not just any desire, this desire must be powerful to move mountains, or at least YOU!

Your desire must be able to modify your behaviour if you expect to reach your goal. For example, if your goal is to lose weight and your desire to achieve your goal is not strong enough to stop eating the wrong food, you will not lose weight. The key to this is your desire.

Your desire must mean sacrifice to get what you want.
You see, most people do not succeed because people are not willing to sacrifice aspects of their lives.
“I wish I could diet more but I really like burgers.”
“I can’t exercise tonight, my favourite TV show is on.”
When a person cannot give up a favourite TV for his goal, then the desire for that goal is too weak.

To achieve a life changing goal such as losing weight needs huge behavioural change. The desire to lose weight must be cultivated. You’ve got to want it. You must increase your desire until your desire will begin to change your behaviour.

You know your desire is serious when you cannot get to sleep at night because you are consumed with the thoughts of changing.
When you miss meals because the thoughts of your desire enrapture you so much and leave your conscious mind room for little else.

Your desire must pull you from one state of being to another state of being. Your old state of being represents your bad habits and slack thoughts. The new state of being represents the changed you, the new you that is able to reach your goal. Remaining in your old state would have meant never reaching your goal.

Once you have reached your new state you will find reaching your goal takes no effort at all. It was the way your state of being that was holding you back. Once you realised you didn’t need the shackles, they just fell away.
When desire is strong enough the path to your goal will seem easy, you will be carried along by your new state of mind, your subconscious flowing effortlessly before you defeating all obstacles in the path.

A man went to a man who had knowledge and asked to be taught the truth.
The wise man turned to the seeker of truth, “when you want to know the truth, I will tell you.”
“But I do want to know the truth, I have told everyone in my village.”
The wise man took a stick and played with a leaf on the ground. “When you want to know the truth, I will tell you.”
The young man from the village pleaded with the wise man to be told the truth.
The wise man looked towards the horizon, “Come with me.” And strode off at a brisk pace with the young man following.
Eventually they came to the sea and the wise man waded into the sea waist high. The young man followed him and waited patiently. The wise man then grabbed him and held the young man under water until his lungs burned from lack of air.

The phrase is used to describe pessimists and people who have a negative outlook on life.

I have from time to time been described as a glass half empty kind of person.

I like to think of myself as an optimistic, positive person. I believe that when people put their minds to it they can achieve amazing things.

But sometimes I find it too easy to be critical. Finding fault in things is my weakness, and sometimes it is mistaken for negativity and I get the “glass half empty” label. But it is only when we are dissatisfied with things that things change, and improve. Improvement tends to be because of the “glass half empty” people

The glass half full people are happy, contented with life, pleased with the status quo. You can’t expect them to change anything, why should they when things are fine.

Why change things if you already think the glass is half full?

Why wouldn’t you change things if you think the glass is only half empty.

Be proud of being a glass half empty person. We need people who are not content with the way things are, All progress is dependant on them.

George Bernard Shaw said it better than me when he said,
“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”