Bloggers Digest 10/3/08

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Alright, a bit off-topic but I had to post this:

Now back to serious link-ness:

• Ayat Shukairy from Invesp Consulting and I did a little blogger trade yesterday, you can see her Guide to Ecommerce Cross-sells on Get Elastic and my post Beyond SEO: Applications of Keyword Research on the Invesp Blog.

• You can also find my article on holiday shipping in eCommerce+Marketing Magazine this month, or catch the online version: Get Your Site into Shipping Shape this Season. (The 3rd page of the article didn’t get indexed by Google. Silly Google, follow this link!)

• The Marketing Experiments Blog has a great post on value propositions - your company vs. your product or service. PS, Marketing Experiments has a webinar next Wednesday, October 8 from 4-5pm EST on optimizing value propositions, don’t miss it.

• We’ve also got 2 exciting webinars coming up: the first with Oracle on Delivering an Integrated Ecommerce Experience for Empowered Customers (Product Webinar) and Holiday Wish List for Mobile Commerce.

• Happy Birthday Google! In honor of its 10th year online, Google has released its 2001 index for your entertainment and curiosity. Now you can, and find some “interesting” results for Get Elastic. Matt McGee at Search Engine Land has some other funny search links including Twitter.

• Best Buy is OPEN for business - offering an open API, that is. Hat tip to Bob Angus for finding Open Beats Closed: Best Buy’s New APIs

• Justin Palmer offers 25 tips for optimizing web forms.

• Greg Howlett at Marketing Pilgrim offers some insight and opinion on how financial meltdowns affect Internet retail. Good stuff.