The contest for one of my YPN Christmas gifts has ended and a winner has been declared.  For those that participated, be sure to check the post out and see if you happened to be the lucky winner!

SEO Refugee has made a post today about 10 mistakes that will kill a forum.  With my background in forums and knowing that many forum admin read my blog, I felt this would be a great blog post to point out.

I was interviewed by Joe Whyte of Lunar Pages this week about the story behind the Elite Retreat.  It was fun chatting with Joe about the event and I hope you find it a great read!

Here is the most recent thread wth responses from some of Earners Forum’s most successful members about the topic of how to drive traffic to a new site with no budget.

John Chow posts some insight in to how he does affiliate marketing through his sites and with The Tech Zone, sells more than $200,000 in product each month through various affiliate programs.

Andy Hagans comes through big with an excellent guide on linkbaiting and social media marketing!

This blog has now hit the Digg homepage twice in the past 2 weeks. You can see the two stories through my profile.

MyBlogLog continues to pick up the pace of growth with some of the bigger names in the blogosphere. You can join my community which is growing nicely as well!

Interesting case study outlined by Muhammad Saleem on how numerous trips to the Digg homepage affected long term traffic.

Here are this week’s LOIs:

Here was an audio interview I did this with Manoj Jasra @ Web Analytics World.

Interesting thoughts, insightful posts, and more concerning Elite Retreat over at SEOMoz.

Interesting Net Income radion show with Adsense Product Manager, Brian Axe. You can listen to the show and read Jeremy’s recap of it as well.

Digg’s own Kevin Rose makes a blog post about Digg’s plans to remove the top Diggers page on the site.

Insightful post over at Pronet Advertising’s blog about the value of traffic and a new metric we should consider looking more closely at.