Depending upon how well you use it (Such as filling out good titles for your links, and content rich information in your “About Me” section) you may see a message like this on your Google profile like it appeared on mine this afternoon.

Your profile is eligible to be featured in Google search results. You can find your profile at <link here>.

Here are some ways to share your new profile with your friends:

• Add it to your IM status message
• Link to it in your email signature
• Note it in Google Reader
• Post about it on Twitter
• Share it on Facebook

These last three were dynamically created based upon the services which were hooked up in the Add Links section.  Make sure to set a vanity URL that matches your name as it appears in all other social media.

The awesome thing about it is that you can link to every last thing in the universe that you’re on from here.  FriendFeed, Twitter, Facebook, Digg, Friendster, Your Blog(s), You Article Marketing Feeds, Reddit, Delicious, YouTube, YouNameIt!

In my few tests, Google’s profile page for the user name in question (for several of my nomes de plume (sp?)) came up in the first page of results again and again.

Conclusion

If you want to be found set up your own Google Profile, and link to every last thing in the world with your name on it (that you’re proud of, at least).

To sign up, just do so over in the bottom right of my blog in the “Friend Connect” box using the “Join This Site” button. and you’ll get started right away in setting up your Google profile.

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Mark Joyner claims that he’s a blogging moron, and that he’d like your help reviewing his multimedia course on blogging.  So here’s his deal…

In exchange for posting the following code on my blog:

<div id="simpleology_blog_5d6c0d4d657fce5449be78315a6aefd3"><p>I’m evaluating a <a href="http://www.simpleology.com/training/blogging/index.php" _fcksavedurl="http://www.simpleology.com/training/blogging/index.php">multi-media course on blogging</a> from the folks at Simpleology. For a while, they’re letting you <b><a href="http://www.simpleology.com/training/blogging/index.php" _fcksavedurl="http://www.simpleology.com/training/blogging/index.php">snag it for free</a></b> if you post about it on your blog.</p><p>It covers:</p><ul><li>The best blogging techniques.</li><li>How to get traffic to your blog.</li><li>How to turn your blog into money.</li></ul><p>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.</p></div>

Which ends up looking like this

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.

I get to try out their courseware for free.  So, basically, the deal is: blog about their blogging stuff on a blog and you get their course.  Oh, and they’ve paid Google heftily, I’m sure, for the AdWords ad as well.

Here’s the page the Google AdWords sent me to:  http://www.simpleology.com/training/blogging/

If you’re interested, sign on up.  I imagine it probably has no idea if you take the code down immediately after you get the free software, but it’s a really cute idea for generating inbound links to your site and getting blog press.

Once you’ve posted and confirmed — witness the purity of the marketing machine at work.

• First, you sign up as a "member" — this makes you feel like your in some special club.
• Then you’re sent to a "BUY NOW for these special bonuses" page which has a whole bunch of completely unrelated crap as bonuses.  Some stuff about losing weight, stopping hair loss, the Atkin’s diet, meditation, and skin care.  I would smack any one of my clients for putting up a page like this.  I’m not always right…  I suppose it’s making him some money, or he’d have swapped out the bonuses for something that worked.  Or maybe the bonuses are really leaders into a number of his other product sites, and they’re not really bonuses at all, but infomercials for other products.  Regardless, you’re told — "Sign up now, or you’ll never see these bonuses again!"  Classic scarcity ploy.  But, the bonuses stink, so I don’t really care to sign up now… thanks.  You have to intentionally check the box which says "NO! I want to miss out on this once in a lifetime offer…" to make it through to the next page.  His button text is "Lock in My Decision" <ominous theme music follows>
• Oh, but wait… you click "No", then it sends you to ANOTHER page trying to hype it up some more.  You have to check the “No” box AGAIN.   It wasn’t there the first time I did it, so maybe it’s a split test thing to see if it increases takers.  An interesting idea.
• Next, he directs you to set his site to your home page.  Oh, my God.  Who wants that?
• Then, he directs you to install FIVE separate little spyware apps on your machine so that you’re always subjected to his branding messages.
  • Browser Bodyguard , Desktop Cockpit for Mac , Desktop Cockpit , Wimiki (no idea but he says it’s "essential") , Some Windows Vista Gadget
• Then he solicits the names and email addresses of some of your friends to further send the offer to…

It’s Simply amazing!

I suggest you sign up just to witness the wonderment of his raw marketing nerve.  When you think you’ve gone too far by asking for an email address in exchange for a white paper or free bonus, consider this example of the type of extreme marketing aggression and realize that the timid business owner is the one who goes hungry .

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After years of running an article site using ASP that I wrote from scratch (my development language of choice as the time – as there weren’t many on the market at the time), I decided to start running with one that had more of the features I was looking for already built in, rather than having to develop them all from scratch.

I’ve started dropping my old Type A habits and picking up some help here and there to get me through some of the stuff that doesn’t require my specific attention.  With all of that said, my Editor brought this article to my attention.  I was flummoxed by how horrible it was.

It was as if someone shoved a perfectly good article into a paper shredder at the same time as a thesaurus.  There is a popular product out there for randomizing your content called Content Spinner, or something like that.  This article looked like Content Spinner got ahold of it.  When I searched for the content on the page, very few actual results came back — so I’m thinking that the bulk of the articles posted in this manner were not accepted or have been deleted.  It would appear that some article marketers believe it’s more important to get links without any effort than it is to actually get links.

I’ve already deleted this flotsam from my Article Directory out of repulsion, so you won’t be able to find it there, but I found it elsewhere.  Read the article for yourself — You absolutely HAVE to read this .

http://www.allbestarticles.com/family/hobbies/extreme-basics-of-indoor-gardening.html

So…

• If you decide to run an article directory — which you may very well, even if it’s simply to drive traffic to your local business site, never ever let an article like this get on your site.  Absolutely everyone will hate you for it.  Children in Bosnia are crying because AllBestArticles.com (sic) posted that tripe.  You don’t want to make the children cry, do you?
• If you decide to give article marketing a shot, and you don’t hire me to handle it for you, absolutely make sure that you never end up with articles that look like the one above.

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