Ginkgo Consulting is an SEO marketing firm but Lara is also a Virtual Assistant for Darren Rowse. Ginkgo is a new firm and they focus on web site overhauls to tune the

She points out that there are three things they should do when doing an overhaul or getting online:

1.) Add a blog

2.) Give something away

3.) Hire her

Check out our more in depth interview below:

Ad Village is a new ad platform for bloggers that gives back 80-100% of ad revenue back to bloggers. They use crowdsourcing to refine the methods that people advertise on blogs and use sophistcated analytics to target better than ever. They just launched at Blog World and they have tons of sponsors with a team of 10 people.

I recently had the opportunity to meet the co-founders, Marissa Louie and Duc Haba who explain their strategy and why it is important to serve the bloggers with a new ad platform that hasn’t been seen previously. Check out our interview below:

I recently had a chance to interview Tilly McLain, the community manager with MyBlogLog. She is the first friend you have on MyBlogLog, so she is the equivalent of Tom on MySpace. MyBlogLog is a social network for bloggers that tracks who is coming to your blog and uses its popular widget to see who visits your blog. One of the coolest parts is the backend tracking so you can see who is really visiting your blog and what they are reading. The impact for you as a blogger is to understand what content is being read to tune future content to your readers and hopefully grow your blog even more.

I also got a hot tip that it is about to launch a new design in the upcoming months which will have lots of features. Let’s let Tilly explain more in the video interview below: