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I logged in on Christmas eve as well. Everyone is busy on Christmas so it was the last chance get the holiday wishes in. 600,000 new users a day is incredible. I would when it will top out?

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I think I rely too much on Google for my traffic. Currently they provide about 50% of all the traffic to sites.

Gives me something to think about.

Steve

How the hell do you bring in almost $5 million and still end up losing almost $3 million. Where are the costs for Digg? Servers and bandwidth? How much are they paying their employees?

20 million uniques a month and you can't turn a profit. That's ridiculous.

Steve

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I've got some reading to do. Thanks for reading list.

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Big companies as a whole need to scale back if they want to survive the recession. The company I work for is now realizing this as well and are reluctantly cutting this week.

As for the gaming system part, I agree with Dan that the target markets are very different. I'm a Wii guy. I do like Xbox and PS3 but the wii is something my kids and I can play together. It's more active and just fun to play.

Steve

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I think Matt has what it takes to start something on his own. Both are probably "well off" with their Google shares plus I don't think they are working for peanuts either.

Matt will go first.

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Looking at my own spending habits, my online purchases were way down and my general spending overall was much less this year.

I am an Amazon associate (for some of my sites) and my commissions were up quite a bit 20% over last year.

Steve

Gary definitely delivers every time with his videos. I just found his site a few days and ago and I'm glad I did.

Thanks for spreading the word about him :)

Great 5 tips. It really is as simple as that and I'm sometimes amazed and the amount of sites trying to sell the secrets of adsense.

50,000 spam comments that is crazy. I also do follow and I'm only at 4,000.

Good luck with the new blog. New Zealand may be a small market but it is an active one.

Does anyone know how to turn on do follow are a certain number of comments?

My site was dropped from blogrush after the first round of cuts that they did last year ( I didn't have 10 posts up at the time) so I never really had a whole lot of experience with the program.

I will say that I have a lot of respect for John for at least trying something like this as well as being able to admit that it has failed.

Maybe something bigger and better will come from the lessons learned about blogrush.

Maybe you should make this your side business. Busting fraudulent money making schemes.

I wonder just how many people he has managed to sign up?

Hey Marc,

I agree with you on the unrealistic advice. That is something I try to avoid as much as possible. My advice is based on my own expereicnes so they are at least realistic to me. I consider myself to be an average guy and that is who I write for.

I actually just put up a post earlier today on moderation. check it out. I don't avoid any foods (drinks included), I can only handle so much chicken and vegetables.

Hopefully you wouldn't group me into the unrealistic advice catergory.

Take Care,
Steve