I purchased Darren Rowse’s Problogger book a couple of weeks ago and I’ve been meaning to write  a review on the book. Its a fairly quick read and has some fairly decent tips for blogging if you are starting out with a blog and even for people who have been blogging for a while. The book  [...]

I installed Brian Gardner’s City Revolution Theme on another of my sites today and it came out really well. I bought the developer set of these themes a while back but never installed one. I had started work on putting the Magazine theme on that same site I installed the city theme on this morning, [...]

There is an interesting meme in process over at Brad Blogging. It woks a lot like the Big Bang Meme worked a few months ago and should help you improve your Technorati Ranking. Your Technorati Rank is one of the main things you can do to improve the reach or your blog.   *–Copy Here - [...]

For those of you that are long time readers of this blog you probably have noticed I’ve been a little lazy lately. Actually its not that I’ve been lazy as I’ve been working my tail off on other projects and as result have not had time to dedicate to this blog. I’ve not been spending [...]

Google has launched a new tool that could be used to get some insight onto the search volumes of other sites. It does not work for low volume sites so you won’t be able to spy on other small guys, but you will be able to check out the big sites and derive some insight [...]

MySpace has won another lawsuit against a spammer Scott Richter and his Web marketing company, Media Breakaway LLC of Westminster, Colorado. MySpace has been aggressively targeting people who spam their website. This is just an example of how a good thing gets abused by Internet Marketers. It was not too long ago that eBooks on [...]

I’m always looking for other methods to earn money on the web and Amazon Mechanical Turk has some capability to earn a little bit or cash, but a better use for it is to get low cost workers to help you with your web promotion. Basically it works like this you sign up for an [...]

FARK is a website like Digg where users submit stories of interest throughout the web. The main difference between FARK and Digg is FARK is more democratic in nature. This is because while a DIGG story can become buried by just one power user.FARK is different while its the same. I’m not sure of exactly [...]

I’ve been messing around with Entrecard on this blog since November or December and overall the system has worked. It brings traffic, even though the traffic is not really good. A few weeks ago Entrecard modified its method for generating ad prices. If you have anything to do with Entrecard then I’m sure you understand [...]

Deal Book is reporting that Yahoo will run a trial of Google Adsense for Search on a small percentage of its search results. The move is reported to be an attempt at raising shareholder value and to allow Yahoo to demand more money from Microsoft with its bid for Yahoo. Am I the only one [...]

I’ve seen this around for a while, but I just got around to actually signing up for an account. Yuwie is a social networking site much like MySpace of Facebook, but this site actually allows you to earn a portion of the revenue your traffic generates for the site. This is not a new concept [...]

Well Wordpress 2.5 has  finally been released. I’ve seen the screenshots of 2.5 on various sites for a couple of weeks now. Well I just upgraded and the screen shots did not do the application justice. The new interface is so easy to get around. Took a couple of minutes before  I found everything, [...]

Lots of people shy away from PLR content for their websites. While I do agree that PLR articles can cause you some issues, its also a great way to utilize your time most effectively. I very rarely use private label articles on this blog, but I do use it a lot on other sites with [...]

If you are an avid user of Entrecard then you may have noticed they have been having some growing pains. I joined Entrecard as soon as I heard about it, which was a time when the site only had a few blogs. Now there are over 5000 blogs listed in the system. I don’t think [...]

This is a guest post from LaTease Rikard of TEASA’S BLOG MARKETING TIPS & TECHNIQUES Know Who You’re Dealing With It is difficult if not impossible in some cases to know if an affiliate program is established, credible and trustworthy just by looking at the site and reading a corporate profile. That is specifically the reason why [...]

I’ve been neglecting this blog as of late and I need to work on that. The main reason that I have not been spending much time here is because its not really one of my money maker sites and my time has been limited lately. Well it looks like my time is coming back from [...]

I’m tied up with some other projects and the day job, so I don’t have time to post on my site at the moment, so I’m looking for some guest posters to fill the void. If you would like to Guest post then please shoot me a mail to bruce.hopkinsATgmail.com and let me know. Topics [...]

You guys may have noticed I haven’t been posting on this blog as regularly lately. The main reason is time. I’m on a project at work that is consuming a lot of my time. As a result I only have a small amount of time to dedicate to my websites. Since this site is not [...]

Building your technorati rank can do a lot to build your blog’s visibility. for this reason alone you should work to get your rank and authority as high as possible. Now some people may say you should not work to increase this number and you should let it grow naturally. While I understand the argument [...]

Unless you’ve been under a rock the past few days then I’m sure you have read that Microsoft made a bid to purchase Yahoo for 44 billion dollars. I’ve read varying opinions on whether this is a good move or a bad move. I for one think it will be good for a lot of [...]

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For the regular readers of this blog, you may have noticed the Project Wonderful ads in the sidebar. Of course now they are gone and and this post is why. I ran Project Wonderful for a couple of weeks. During that time my ad prices fluctuated between .05 and .20 cents per day. For the [...]

Considering the new features happening over at Entrecard, I thought I would start a meme in celebration.  If you have not noticed, there are quite a few changes in the dashboard as well as in statistics. One of my favorites is you are able to tell exactly how well you did on any particular day [...]

If you are a regular reader of this blog, then I’m sure you saw the keyword spam I wrote yesterday. I mainly did it for a test. This blog has always been a target of splog scraping blogs. I get content syndicated all the time and for the most part I ignore it. I know [...]

Simple these are all terms that are targets of auto bots. These bots target keywords with weight loss, Golf Training, Dog Training, Surgery, Adsense, Cancer, Beauty aids and Acne treatment as soon as they hit the search engines. So why write about these items they seem so off base from the main topic of this [...]