I know I am a bit late posting this but things have been busy for me this week!Why being a success means people are hating what you do – Chris opines on how the truly successful are not “liked” but hated or loved.Blogging: Tactic 4 – Participate at Related Forums and Blogs – Gregg has…
Tag: News
Google’s new PR rankings
Every three months Google recalculates Page Rank for all of the sites they track. Many people have speculated on what things you can do to help and/or harm your Page Rank. It would seem that I have done something to harm my Page Rank as I have dropped from a five to a three.I do…
The importance of post timing
If you are following my earlier advice about using the WordPress Timestamp feature to publish your articles you might want to pay attention here.If you are using the Post Timestamp feature to write all of your posts (or at least a majority) at one time and scheduling them to appear throughout the day you need…
Google loves me
A common question bloggers ask is, “how do I get on Google?” It’s a question with multiple answers:AnswersAdWords – pay for access.Links – get lots of inbound links.Register – Use Googles webmaster toolkit to ‘claim’ your site in Google’s eyes.Sitemaps – Create an XML document for spiders to read.Write good content.Out of all of those…
A new blog is born
My daughter (and her friends) have been pestering me to let them post content on the blog. Don’t worry, I did not give in.It’s not that I don’t love my daughter it’s just that… Well… She’s in second grade and she can’t exactly string a few sentences together. So, rather than let them on here…
I won the Spanish lottery!
Man o’ man was I shocked this morning to discover I had won millions in the Spanish lottery!EURO MILLIONS SPANISH LOTTERY INTERNATIONAL.FROM: INTERNATIONAL PROMOTION/PRIZE AWARD DEPT.REFERENCE:67/80/ESPBATCH: ESP-541-623-782DATE:18/3/2007 AWARD NOTIFICATION – FINAL NOTICE.ATTN: BENEFICIARY,This is to inform you of the release of the EUROMILLIONES SPANISH LOTTERY SWEEPSTAKES PROGRAM held on 10Th MARCH, 2007. Due to mix…
Moving on up and looking back
I was just checking on my Technorati ranking this morning and I found myself with a nice low number. It’s not as low as I would like it to be but I can’t complain. There are some folks who would kill (or spam) for a ranking as low as mine.What really got me thinking though…
It’s not an asteroid!
A few weeks back I pulled an all night shift at work because of a tree falling on some telco wires. Oh what a profitable night that was!A few days later the hole was still black and warm. So warm that no snow had accumulated around it even though several inches had fallen that week.I…
Blog Review: Untwisted Vortex
I first found this blog by checking my incoming links. For some reason I was showing incoming links but, when I went to the blog I couldn’t find any! I didn’t think much of it but I did keep checking out his blog. He must have been reading mine because he took me up on…
Speed Linking for Friday March 16, 2007
It is snowing outside today and I’m going to make this a super speedy speed linking post!Speed Links!What hits you? – Pay attention to the keywords that send traffic your way. I know for a while I was getting a lot of hits for people searching for “sex” and “video” I don’t host either one…
Write now, publish later
If you use WordPress you should be using the Post Timestamp feature.What this handy feature does is allow you to write all of your blog posts at once and time stamp them for delivery all day long. This is very useful if your blog does not contain time sensitive material.In fact, I am writing this…
I’m number 1,000
Yesterday I created a card for the new website Bla.st. It took me a few minutes to make the card but, those minutes turned out to be very profitable as I soon received an email from Tim at Bla.st informing me that I had become the 1,000th member of Bla.st!He posted about it on their…