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Startup Weekend City Vote 2008-03-08 05:30:27 Startup Weekend
is an awesome idea invented in 2007 by Andrew Hyde. In a nutshell, the idea is to bring a bunch of small business entrepreneurs into one room, and have everyone work together to create a company in 54 hours. With a bunch of like-minded individuals, I can only imagine how many [...] Read more:Startup
Sleeping Rich - SleepingRich.com 2008-03-07 17:24:02 I saw a viral ‘million dollar idea’ site off a forum thread, and I thought I would do my part and keep the viral traffic rolling. One individual from the Netherlands decided that he wanted to make his money by doing nothing but sleeping. He has dedicated a site to make money [...] Read more:Sleeping
Off-Topic Update 2008-03-04 13:21:50 I have a few things to say that are all important to me but rather than making a few full posts about each of them, I thought I would bundle them all into one simple off-topic post.
Viral Marketing Job
I am doing link building and viral marketing for a new startup company called Datepad. Datepad [...] Read more:Update
Weekly Winner Number 6 2008-03-02 19:39:12 The weekly winner contest is an ongoing contest that I run here on my blog. Every week, I give away $25 as well as free donated prizes to a different person inside the blog raffle. If you would like to enter for a chance to win $25 as well as a variety of free donated [...] Read more:Weekly
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Miscellaneous Link Building 2 2008-03-12 20:16:57 This is part two of the Miscellaneous Link Building
post. These two posts are quick posts, and their only purpose is to show you websites where you can build links to increase your blog’s rank in the search engine. Since most of these methods are quick and simple, I have thrown them into [...]
Miscellaneous Link Building 2008-03-12 18:16:16 Here is a few link building posts to increase your rank in the search engines. Unlike what most bloggers do, I am not going to rehash the content as my own in hopes of increasing my readership, but rather just send you to the actual sources.
CSS Gallery List
While promoting my blog, I found a [...] Read more:Building
Lowered Advertising Rates 2008-03-10 19:30:50 I have lowered my advertising rates by a long shot, so if you were ever considering advertising on my blog, now would be the time to do it.
125×125 Button Sponsorship - $15/m ($10 now)
Unlike when I was using Adtoll, these $10 buttons will be permanent and will not be in rotation with any other advertisers.
468×60 [...] Read more:Advertising
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Weekly Winner Number 7 2008-03-09 14:41:00 The weekly winner contest is an ongoing contest that I run here on my blog. Every week, I give away $25 as well as free donated prizes to a different person inside the blog raffle. If you would like to enter for a chance to win $25 as well as a variety of free donated [...] Read more:Weekly
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Sitehoppin sends free traffic 2008-03-13 10:30:22 A good friend of mine named Max has recently started his new online startup company. The name of the site is called SiteHoppin, and it is much like Stumbleupon.com except instead of using a toolbar to vote on sites, you stumble sites inside the browser. The site dubs itself as “a browser in [...] Read more:traffic
, free traffic
Bought an iPhone 2008-03-15 14:45:50 I had been using the same phone for three years and knew it was time for an upgrade. I bought the apple iphone and have to say that I absolutely love it. I can setup all of my emails on it, browse the web, youtube it up, check the status of my websites [...] Read more:iPhone
Weekly Winner Finale 2008-03-17 16:09:36 This is the final post from the $25 weekly giveaway contest. To mix things up, I have combined four winners into one post, and the winner of the $100 will be chosen by all of you.
I have taken all of the blogs that have entered the contest (39 total), and sorted them into a [...] Read more:Weekly
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I am one of 30 top bloggers under 21 2008-03-21 13:39:52 Michael Dunlop (a new advertiser of mine), has just written a post called the top 30 bloggers
under 21. This is the second post like this that I have been on, and hopefully many more to come. Michael put me at #12, which is a bit confusing because there are blogs ranked above [...]
Green Eggs and Planet 2008-03-19 23:38:59 The following is a paid review and is my complete and honest opinion. If you would like your own paid review on my blog please visit the advertise page.
Today I am going to review a site called Green
Eggs and Planet. While an environmentally focused (green) blog is a bit off-topic for [...]
Build powerful links with a PR7 blog 2008-03-23 20:27:28 I have recently discovered an untapped pagerank 7 blog that has an authority status in Google. The blog is extremely popular and comments inside the blog posts receive a backlink that is followed by the search engines. Every single blog post turns into a PR5 or PR6 link after the next update, and [...] Read more:Build
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Sell Your Websites 2008-03-22 13:01:32 Do you have a website for sale? If so, letting me know may turn that old forgotten domain into a wad of cash for you. I am looking into investing up to $10,000 this year in websites. If you want more information, visit the Sell Your Site page on my [...] Read more:Websites
Welcome Mashable Readers! 2008-03-24 21:17:23 I would like to personally welcome everyone who has visited my blog for the first time due to Mashable featuring a few of my easter eggs on their Mashable Easter Egg Wrap-Up post.
If you are one of the 150,000 daily readers of Mashable, I want to personally introduce myself. My name is Collin LaHay [...] Read more:Welcome
Video Engine Optimization (VEO) 2008-03-24 14:31:51 Everyone is familiar with search engine optimization (SEO), but I have just stumbled across some people who (accidentally) have optimized their videos to be heavily promoted. Have you ever considered making an advertisement/commercial video and submitting it to the video sites? Sure, everyone has. The problem is getting people to see it.
Well, [...] Read more:Engine
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Conference Calling Improves Efficiency 2008-03-26 20:53:21 The following is a paid review and is my complete and honest opinion. If you would like your own paid review on my blog please visit the advertise page.
In the past few weeks, I have done a lot of conference calling with my friends over at Datepad.com, and there are two things I have learned [...] Read more:Calling
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Entrecard Secures $112,000 2008-03-29 20:06:20 *** Andrew Te, (Graham’s investor) got a little paranoid over Graham sharing too much information with me about the investment, so I decided to remove the entire post. So much for the free publicity post, I guess you don’t need it with the $112,000 anyway. ***
If you really want to see all [...]
Wordpress 2.5 is out! 2008-03-29 14:35:49 I have just finished upgrading to Wordpress
2.5, and it has a LOT of changes. I normally wait for an extra update before I take the time to get the newest version, but 2.5 is like four updates in one.
It completely changes the look and feel to the administrator panel, and it while it [...]
Have I scammed anyone? 2008-03-29 00:59:45 This is a blog reply to one of my readers posts, who has made a video in response to the building powerful links with a pr7 blog post I made.
Before I begin, I just want to say a few things. This post is not meant to be counter-hostile in any way, but I just [...]
Build links by mentioning the iPhone 2008-03-28 22:01:45 This post is a little satirical, please do not use it as solid advice. It is more of an accidental case study that happened to me and I wanted to share it with my readers.
Back on March 15th, I made a simple one paragraph post mentioning that I bought an iPhone
. For those [...] Read more:Build
, links
Free Stumbles 2008-04-02 01:13:33 There is a new software being sold around that offers to have 200 bots stumble your link in return for some cash. To acquire new clients, they offer “3 free stumbles” out to test their software. Well, with a little knowledge of how Google works, we can easily cheat the system.
There are currently [...]
Online Income Report - March 2008 2008-04-01 14:41:33 Every month I make a public blog post about my online earnings for that month. Let me start off by saying that these income posts are not meant to be bragging in anyway. The purpose of them is so that I can be completely transparent and help you make money blogging. My goal is to [...] Read more:Income
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Win a free 16GB iPod Touch from Datepad! 2008-03-31 00:30:16 While being the head of viral marketing over at Datepad, I like to provide creative ways to build up the community and get the viral aspect in motion. I have had a few very successful contests on this blog, and I thought starting Datepad off with one would be a great way to launch [...] Read more:iPod
$15k with Winning The Web 2008-03-30 22:56:47 In what is most likely the largest blog contest of all time, Gyutae of Winning
TheWeb.com currently has $14,575 in sponsored prizes, including a $40 paid review from my blog.
The best part is, it is actual useful products and not just garbage ebooks that are sold expensively. There is even $2100 in straight up cash [...]
Link Building with Unasked 2008-04-04 15:34:49 Unasked is a service that is much like Yahoo Answers. Users of the site ask a question, and the other users of the site do their best to answer them. The more correct answers you give, the higher your “ranking” is on the website.
While you can post links when you answer your questions, [...] Read more:Building
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Link Building with Squidoo 2008-04-03 13:32:40 While I do realize that a lot of you may have already heard of Squidoo
, I still wanted to make a post about it to let the users who haven’t heard about it get a chance at using it, as well as being able to use this post as a reference in future link building [...] Read more:Building
, Link Building
Stumbleupon Goes Dofollow! 2008-04-02 22:23:29 Update: I might have jumped the gun on this post. If you look at your profile under “grid” ( ), the links are dofollow. However, the old “List” format shows them as nofollow still.
Just by doing my daily browsing over at Stumbleupon, I noticed the new user pages look a lot [...]
Traffic from weird searches 2008-04-02 14:16:31 Most of us agree that the search engines work in mysterious ways some times… but this is a bit out there. My article that hit the frontpage of digg is currently ranking on the first page for the term masterbatory…
Thanks for the traffic Google…. lol.
What are the weirdest terms that you rank for?
Make Money [...]