Archive for August, 2007
You Should Be Reading: SearchRank.com
Thanks you for visiting. Please consider subscribing to the RSS feed.In a post primarily directed at publishers selling text link ads, a la textlinkads.com, David Wallace at SearchRank gives a few sales and design tips from the perspective of a buyer of text links. I found a few ideas here that I need to take […]
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How PayPerPost is improving blogging ethics
Around mid-day on Monday, 8/13, PayPerPost CEO Ted Murphy set off a firestorm with a tough-worded post throwing down the gauntlet to the folks that are gaming the Google and Alexa ranks.
So many advertisers believe in Alexa ranks. Pity. Someday they’ll learn how amazingly simple it is to game the system. in fact, it’s […]
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Keeping it in the family
Giving a little link-love to my wife, Stacey, who has been shooting the lights out at parent-traps.com the past few weeks breaking all kinds of product recall news. It looked like she scooped the blogosphere early this morning with this one:
Chinese manufacturing executive commits suicide over Dora the Explorer
If you’re a Digger, please do her […]
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7 Things That Mean You Are A Scumbag
As more and more money enter the paid post marketplace, unethical practices have cropped up. Some of it is simply due to ignorance; others are more sinister. People knowingly engaged in these practices are scumbags.
There, I said it.
The current version of the PayPerPost marketplace lends itself to many of these practices. This is the downside […]
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Success!
News host is active, now I just have a ton of clean-up work to do!
Gotta get the blogroll updated again, get those last few posts re-loaded, etc. So much to do, so much to do…
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New host, test post
Someone please leave me a comment if you’re able to read this!
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An advertiser’s perspective on a PPP campaign
Taking a break from the up-n-down website drama with GoDaddy to give you some actual content…
Jack Spirko wrote a review post of three reviews purchased through PPP. It’s always good to get feedback, and Jack provided examples of the good, the really good, and the not-so-good. He reveals the offer to provide a top tack […]
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Status
The restore from the last backup is complete. Next, I’ll be updating the posts done since then, and rebuilding what comments I can. Themes and plugins come afterwards.
Friggin’ GoDaddy…
I’m playing in a poker tournament with the poker bloggers tonight. My soul needs it. Losing this site took the wind out of my sails, and I […]
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Yes, GoDaddy screwed me again
No calls, no follow-ups to the "escalation" of issues surrounding the deletion/restore of my site.
I reloaded Wordpress on my own, and will load my back-up files from a week ago tonight. Then, re-post my salvaged posts from the intervening week.
Again.
This weekend, the search for a new host begins in earnest. I already have a couple […]
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