Archive for November, 2007
Boosting RSS Subscribers: One Unethical Method & One Great Method
Thanks you for visiting. Please consider subscribing to the RSS feed.Shortly after publishing my post about RealRank, Ted Murphy of Izea was kind enough to drop by and comment.
Damn, that man’s alerts work fast!
I argued that the number of RSS subscribers should be included in any metric that is being utilized to describe “Reach” or […]
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Free blogger business cards
Wow, these blogger business cards really surprised me - I hadn’t thought to try something like this, and it’s totally unique and fits perfectly with blogging. I love the customizable tag cloud you can put on the card, and the inclusion of the ubiquitous RSS chicklet was a great idea.
I’m a sucker for business cards. […]
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My Problem With RealRank
Disclosure: As of this writing, I have blogs ranked 736, 2648, 3283 in RealRank.
By now, anyone reading this post is interested enough in such matters that they already know what RealRank is, and why Izea/PPP has developed it. So, I won’t regurgitate too much.
The formula for RealRank is 70% traffic, 20% incoming links, and 10% […]
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Great customer service from a web host? Who knew?
Sorry I’ve been gone for several days, but I’ve been trying to run down the intermittent errors that were occurring across my domains. I thought it might have been related to some combination of incompatibilities with plugins, themes, and Wordpress 2.3, but nothing I tried made a difference. All the research and forums I checked […]
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Google sells text links that pass Pagerank
If you have any doubts about whether my assertions about Google (Google Lies, Google squashing competition, Google’s Hypocrisy), please pop over to the Linkworth blog where they will show you where you can buy a solid PR 7 backlink from GOOGLE for $1,995 per year.
No people, those of you who continue to assert that Google’s […]
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PageRank vs. RealRank vs. Something Else?
So, I’ve been mute the past few days with regard to the latest monopolistic business practice by Google. To be honest, I was stunned that Google moved so dramatically against such a narrow segment of the blogosphere, ignoring the A-listers and their bogus “thanks to our sponsors” posts that provides SEO benefits to paying advertisers. […]
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Market Research Tip: Online Industrial Directories
In my “real life”, I have worked in marketing and supply chain. Frequently, my job entailed research - market research to determine target companies to sell our products and services to, or supplier research, to determine companies that had a product or service we required. Online industrial directories are my first stop in this kind […]
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Secret spy photo of Ted Murphy in Las Vegas
I hired paparazzi to stalk Ted Murphy in Las Vegas last week. I was ticked that I couldn’t afford to go, and really ticked that no one has processed my 3 outstanding customer service tickets nor answered a direct email to an unnamed PPP director while Ted was gone.
I guess the makeup folks at Rockstartup […]
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I should have checked TechBargains first
My wife and I are looking for a new digital camera. Our old one went missing sometime after Halloween, so we lost all of those pictures. I suspect one of the kids was playing with it and broke it and has now hidden it to keep us from finding out.
Yeah, I’ve got a couple a […]
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Wordpress 2.3 Upgrade and Google Sitemaps
I’m slowly working my way through my broken plugins, getting the updated versions and getting things set up again. Today was the Google XML Sitemaps plugin. There are no errors, but it only pulled up the home page and my latest post when it went through the rebuild. I’m going to rebuild a couple more […]
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