Archive for April, 2008

Blog Hosting Recommendations Affiliate Page

April 24, 2008 | Author: Rob | Filed under: What I am Doing

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Yep Yep, I spent the morning before work building a blog hosting affiliate page and chatting on twitter.

The micro-blogger is here. I much prefer these constant small updates over long “authoritative” bloggeries. So I woke up at 6AM, got some Tim Horton’s coffee and a breakfast sandwich and made the blog hosting page I linked to above.

It’s bare bones but… It’s up! I’ve never known ANYONE to make a sale with a page that wasn’t up. I will probably add more hosts and add some type of reviews in the future maybe but for now it’s good. I also added it into the navigation of the site so people can find it. It’s under Resources which isn’t the best place for visibility. It’s good but not the best but I can’t justify giving it a better spot at the moment. Time will tell and who knows where this …

Affiliate Fun Times

April 24, 2008 | Author: Rob | Filed under: Business Advice

It’s weird how affiliate marketing is one of the best forms of passive income. Make a page and do some on and off site optimization today and boomshakalaka you might be getting $ while you sleep for life if your site stays active and keeps ranking for a term that people will always need to solve.

Oddly registering for affiliate programs and putting pages together is boring and maybe that is why more aren’t doing it. It’s crazy how many of us would rather work 9-5 for 40 years instead of independently for ourselves on our time own time.

In life nothing is free and you will pay for what you get. You can pay now with discipline or pay with interest many times over in the form of regret. If you don’t care about trading most of your adult life for a check then this doesn’t concern you and I …

Twitter and Why I Love Micro Blogging

April 23, 2008 | Author: Rob | Filed under: Blogging

Micro Blogging is like Blogging for those with ADD; preferably ADHD and I love it! When it comes to micro blogging seems like the service I mentioned last update Twitter is the mecca.

I like micro blogging because you don’t need a “topic” or any intro, body or conclusion to it. Micro bloggeries are simply a random thought, statement, announcement, whatever. You can blog about the weather in one and then talk about some seo bloggeries you found recently in another. I like how twitter limits you to 140 characters as it constantly reminds us to put the message and not drown it with filler. Another part I’m loving is how you comment back and forth through replies in real time. I’d best describe it as a massive im where you subscribe to peoples feeds but they reply in real time a lot of the time.

I’ve made about 192 …

Follow me on Twitter!

April 22, 2008 | Author: Rob | Filed under: SEO and Marketing

Ever heard of Twitter? Twitter is a social media website that basically is like a giant IM. You follow people to subscribe to what they are saying and people who follow you get your updates. Dave wrote a great post on it here.

You can also reply to anyone using the @XXXX (XXXX is the username). The beauty is if someone you know you think is knowledgeable you can follow them as they post links and thoughts as the day goes through. Kinda like being on IM but way less personal so it’s easier to be on IM with hundreds or thousands at a time type deal.

Basically I’m new to twitter and trying to see how ths experiment pans out.  I became interested after hearing from a friend that they got “Tweeted” and a whole slew of traffic came. Since twitter is still relatively new it may be a …

Free Sponsored Yahoo Listings Huh?

April 21, 2008 | Author: Rob | Filed under: SEO and Marketing

Good morning ladies and gentlemen, we have another fun week ahead of us online and today I’m going to show you something which made me take a huge double take. I’m talking about seeing your site in the paid sponsored listings on Yahoo.com for free!

I was searching for Bloggeries the other day to see how it ranked in yahoo for a wide variety of terms. Then I just started searching the actual name to see which results came up. To my surprise I saw Home Biz Blogger as a sponsored ad in the footer and sidebar advertisements which I had *THOUGHT* were paid.

HomeBizBlogger as an advert in the footer; the one below shows HBB as an advert on the right sidebar near the top.

I’m glad I took a screen shot when this occurred as it’s not showing it now. One thing I did think …