13 Jun
Social networking online can be a great way to ‘meet’ new people and stay in touch with friends, while also promoting yourself and your business. The only annoying thing is having fill out and update your profile on so many different sites.
Facebook
Everyone’s talking ’bout Facebook. I love it. It’s got handy applets you can […]
Posted in advertising, business, websites by: richminx
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12 Jun
Have you read Shoemoney’s blog? His writing is full of mistakes: typos, grammatical errors, spelling mistakes. Yet he is unrepentant: he reckons the errors just earn him more readers.
Really, Shoemoney?
But he is probably right, in that a lot of people will visit his site to learn how to earn that elusive Google AdSense $133,000 […]
Posted in writing by: richminx
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11 Jun
What is a lolcat? Why are they all over the internet? What does this mean for the future of mankind?
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11 Jun
This week’s Carnival of Personal Finance has a minimalist theme, thank goodness.
The carnival is mushrooming by the week and this time there are 78 articles. I don’t have time to read them all, so I scan the list and click on the titles that interest me the most.
So my picks below from the list are […]
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10 Jun
Last night was ProBlogger’s New York get-together for bloggers who were either in NY or willing to make it there by 7pm on June 9. As already mentioned, ProBlogger is run by Darren Rowse who is kind of like an Obi-Wan Kenobi or Mr Miyagi figure for anyone looking to learn more about creating and […]
Posted in blogging, websites by: richminx
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09 Jun
Must. Stop. Checking. Blog. Stats.
If I can’t control myself I am going to have to go to stats rehab, a place I’ve only heard rumors about. It’s somewhere you can reach only by bicycle, they have no internet and if you’re caught even thinking about how your stats are doing, you get no dinner.
But clearly […]
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09 Jun
The Viralink experiment I posted about a few weeks ago has been a success, in some respects. The anchor text ‘*’ for my link didn’t do much for my SEO and it resulted in little additional traffic, but my Technorati authority has improved no end. I think it was 20-something when I added Viralink, and […]
Posted in blogging, seo by: richminx
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08 Jun
The affiliate links that have worked for me, and have not worked for me.
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08 Jun
I’ve heard of frivolous purchases, but…
You may have clicked on this ‘top story’ on Digg about the weirdest item to find itself on Amazon.com. I think it looks quite stylish, actually. I was thinking of trading in my Honda and this sexy Badonkadonk Land Cruiser’s a steal at $20K.
What interested me almost as much though […]
Posted in pop culture, websites by: richminx
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07 Jun
We all have our own physical and ethical boundaries when it comes to money. Check out the results of a survey CNN Money carried out asking adults what they would and wouldn’t do. It covers the usual issues like lending money, keeping money if you find it and stealing.
There are ethical concerns when it comes […]
Posted in employment, money by: richminx
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