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Re: Google Reader acting up and logic changed?

Tim — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 18:27:54 -0000

I’ve been getting the same errors. Spent the past 10 minutes trying to read some blogs. Wondering if I should go back to bloglines or wait and see.

Re: Akismet – the Danger of Collective Intelligence (and why I don't use it)

Tim — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 14:05:36 -0000

I agree about the requiring signup policy. I don't bother with blogs that require a signup or block comments altogether (unless its very important).

Re: Akismet – the Danger of Collective Intelligence (and why I don't use it)

Tim — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 14:05:36 -0000

I agree about the requiring signup policy. I don't bother with blogs that require a signup or block comments altogether (unless its very important).

Re: Do you have a Twitter Plan B?

Tim — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 23:24:18 -0000

Email.

I use Twitter on top of my normal means of communication. It's great for things that don't warrant sending out a mass mail but is good enough for people to know. If it's down, then I can wait until my next email to add a PS or what not.

Re: The power of brand in a recession

Tim — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 12:57:34 -0000

This is true. I've created such a brand that I'm seeing tremendous growth even during a recession. It seems weird with everyone talking about business going down, and seeing my own going up, but I have spent a lot of resources on building my brand so it makes sense.

Re: Backup WHM / cPanel MySQL to Amazon s3

Tim — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 10:20:46 -0000

Thanks! Yeah, Wordpress changes that on me. Not sure why. Any clue? Yours seems to show correctly, mine turns "--" into that weird long dash.

Re: Return Path

Tim — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 17:09:25 -0000

I think it's also an awareness to the fact that it's all about reputation now more than ever, so more of the budget is going into making sure that reputation is spot on. I know that's why I started using Return Path.

Re: How To Make Traffic Exchange Surfing Less Tedious

Tim — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 11:33:12 -0000

The key with traffic exchanges is to understand it's advertising, so you need to make ads for it rather than sticking your whole site in. I stuck a feedburner email subscribe form on some pages, and made ads that mentioned the topics I blog about, and went from 100 to about 400 subscribers within a few months. It can be tedious, but if you play around with it, it can be quite rewarding =P

Tim Linden's last blog post..BAL 3: Tracking with Analytics

Re: How To Make Traffic Exchange Surfing Less Tedious

Tim — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 11:34:12 -0000

Woah sweet plugin (commentluv) I don't pay attention to them much but that is neat!

Tim Linden's last blog post..BAL 3: Tracking with Analytics

Re: TwitterHIT: Turning Twitter into a Junk Traffic Exchange

Tim — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 10:54:34 -0000

I don't see the problem. If they are following you how does that create a problem? Just don't follow them back? It's the same if anyone follows you manually and you follow them, and they start spamming links, you're just going to unfollow them.

It's only a problem if you use a service to auto follow people who follow you. But then, that's the risk you take auto following people you don't know right? And that's a service too so is that bad?

While I agree the whole people spamming thing is annoying, I disagree that it'll take Twitter down "faster than you can say Oprah".

Re: How To Remove Broken Songs From iTunes Library

Tim — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 11:47:26 -0000

Uh, no the point they are making is that the auto playlist will find NOTHING if its's looking for an artist named 123456789. The point is to get it to list EVERYTHING. Screenshot's are what people follow, so they are likely to not change "is" to "is not".

Re: Does Your Firm Suffer from Feature Creep?

Tim — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 16:32:20 -0000

That's definately true. I had to stop taking feature requests for a script I wrote because people were asking for features that would turn the script into an "it does everything" script.

Re: What Really Sets GoDaddy Apart

Tim — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 19:19:34 -0000

Mark - I have a similar problem. The login page on the front page isn't https, but the next page is. It throws my password plugin off.

Experience 1 - I was told by Godaddy I would lose all my domains if I didn't pay $200 because someone sent a spam email with my domain in it. Even though they don't host me. I told them that the thousands I've spent on domains is good enough and haven't heard since.

Experience 2 - I was called by Godaddy because a bunch of domains were about to expire, and they gave me a special price to renew as many domains as I wanted for as long as I wanted, even ones that weren't expiring for a few years.

So there is the good and the bad but overall I've had good experiences (except with the abuse department, which thinks they own the internet)

Re: Give Links to Gain Authority Status

Tim — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 16:59:03 -0000

Just remember to open the links in a new window.. I almost lost your blog clicking on the windows server picture link. First time here so I wouldn't have found my way back.

Re: Submit Your Article Releases Article Leverage

Tim — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 12:38:55 -0000

I've used a service that spun articles before. They might be bigger than the site I used but they weren't the first. Well, unless they are saying they are the first to use the term "Article Leverage"

Re: Seth Godin Speaks To Googl’ers…

Tim — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 10:58:21 -0000

Some interesting info in there. Ya think Google is going to release less BETA things after this? =P

Re: Understanding BlugRush

Tim — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 13:07:59 -0000

I think it's the 1:1 ratio that gets people thinking "No Way". But what they forget, is each widget displays 5 links. They are getting ONE of their links displayed each view. Not 5.

So that means there are 4 other links to play with, and that's where the referrals and future revenue comes into play.

Re: Link Building Resources

Tim — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 11:25:08 -0000

You must like the link building plan site.. You linked to it twice and skipped on the advanced link building thoughts =P

Re: Who said Google Reader isn’t fast?

Tim — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 11:15:55 -0000

I've been noticing it getting slower every day. I wonder if it has to do with the number of feeds. I can barely get it to load the index page. (right now getting 502 errors)

Re: National Pork Board Threatening Breastfeeding Bloggers?

Tim — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 17:48:40 -0000

Isn't ham red?

Re: Campaign to Reduce Wikipedia’s PageRank to Zero

Tim — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 18:21:35 -0000

I wonder if adding -wikipedia.com to all our searches would affect it any? If the big G sees everyone is trying to search for information but NOT on wikipedia, I would think they would track that too and rank it less.

Re: AdSense Arbitragers Using Free Domain Names Thanks to Loophole

Tim — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 18:26:24 -0000

Now that I know that, I'll try checking again a few days later every time I try to register a domain that is taken by search domainers. It'll be interesting to see if any of them are tasted.

Re: Google Testing Tabbed Adsense Ads?

Tim — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 18:29:35 -0000

It would be helpful if the links in your post opened in a new window. I've had the spam protection telling me 8+5!=12 and I think it's because I had to hit back after clicking a link ;-)

Re: Time to Say Goodbye to the NoFollow Tag?

Tim — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 18:45:05 -0000

It should go away until there is some kind of standard. It makes no sense that something created to prevent spam is now supposed to be used for paid links. So that makes the spam and paid links the same again, so spammers would be spamming to get the same benefit as the paid links. Which is basically a chance that someone will see it and click it.

Re: Google Testing Tabbed Adsense Ads?

Tim — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 15:10:44 -0000

Ah that would make sense. ;-)

Re: Google Checkout Promotions Cost Google $58 Million in 2006

Tim — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 17:02:19 -0000

I tried out Google Checkout and it's a bit tedious to use. I'm selling advertising, and it's to people who are members of my site. However I'm not allowed to put the code on a page that requires a login, so I don't know which user is buying the advertising package. Instead I get to email them and ask them. No thanks.

(And when I asked if I could pass a username, the support person basically said "Why in the world would you want to do that?")

Re: Lenovo Dumping Google for Microsoft’s Windows Live Search

Tim — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 17:04:55 -0000

I bought a Thinkpad, my brother-in-law bought one, my mother-in-law bought one, and my father-in-law is looking at a Mac. Maybe you meant to say 49-year old man? =P

Re: Campaign to Reduce Wikipedia’s PageRank to Zero

Tim — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 17:51:37 -0000

Good point mincus. And then the big G would have to come up with a new plan on ranking the web =P

Re: Must Read Search Marketing Blogs

Tim — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 13:42:24 -0000

Sweet. I uploaded the OPML file to Google Reader. I figure I'll try out Google Reader at the same time, and leave my Bloglines for the blogs I currently subscribe to. This will be interesting.

Re: The best traffic exchanges

Tim — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 18:33:16 -0000

I saw your ad in StartXchange, but don't see it listed here =P

Re: Earn Money With One Time Offers

Tim — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 18:53:48 -0000

I tried viewing your 404 page and got a 403 forbidden page :-/

Re: Online Marketing Gurus

Tim — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 09:06:57 -0000

You are either a leader or a follower ;-)

Re: New Splashpage for Traffic Exchanges

Tim — Mon, 01 Jan 2007 11:04:31 -0000

Pretty good. I created TEtoolbox so people could make splash pages with an easy editor. I know it can be tough being told to make your own when you don't know how. Looks like you know how ;-)

Re: SWAT and SPAM

Tim — Mon, 01 Jan 2007 11:02:36 -0000

View the complete headers.. I can't remember if you have to set it to show the reasons and the points or not, but when I used it I could see each thing that tagged it as spam.

Re: Why I am not very successful

Tim — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 17:27:40 -0000

I work full time online and I don't lie or bend the truth.. Not sure why you think you must be able to?

Re: Why I am not very successful

Tim — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 20:09:00 -0000

I see what you mean. For the first few years I'd always purge out the old members who haven't logged in for a while, but I stopped when I actually got complaints from people who couldn't log in anymore. I guess some just take long breaks? Anyways.. Hence the live stats at the top now ("Members Surfing").

Well I came here to find out how you are doing with income.. Last Christmas you wrote your present was your adsense account getting deleted. Do you use the Yahoo version now or something else?

Re: Why I am not very successful

Tim — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 10:54:24 -0000

Have you tried Adbrite? I tried that, but not to the extent to make anything off it.

Re: Boost Your Alexa Ranking

Tim — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 19:59:53 -0000

If it really worked, wouldn't their alexa rank be higher?

Re: Does your domain name really matter?

Tim — Sat, 06 Jan 2007 17:03:25 -0000

Well if you change domains you lose all the links and branding and ranking and all. I know from experience =P Plus search engines are starting to use how old the domain is in ranking too

Re: Blog commenting not for foreigners

Tim — Sat, 06 Jan 2007 20:54:58 -0000

Wordpress you can create an account and use it to post comments. That way you can "authenticate" posts and prevent spam. I personally don't like users have accounts on my wordpress blog though, wouldn't want to find out later theres a bug that lets them make a post!

Re: Why I am not buying from Template Monster

Tim — Sat, 06 Jan 2007 20:53:23 -0000

I purchased one and wasn't too satisfied. I had to do alot of tweaking to get it to look right. It just seemed too much work for a "Wordpress Theme" when it was out of the box. I had the photo of me put in place of the photo of the guy, but that was easy. It was the lining up of the individual pages and the post content that was tedious.

( http://www.reviewedbytim.com/ )

Re: What is twitter really?

Tim — Sun, 07 Jan 2007 07:30:14 -0000

What about using a blog? =P

Re: It should be all about you

Tim — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 14:48:14 -0000

It's true. If you market yourself and people join sites you recommend, then they'll trust you and join the next site you tell them about. But if they are seeing the affiliate page with no mention of you, there will be no connection and no trust ;-)

Re: A real marketing trick for you

Tim — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 16:28:35 -0000

I think it's better to brand yourself. If people see me on the comments I post, when I visit blogs, and then come across my blog, they'll think "Oh I recognize that guy". But if I was using a photo of someone else, then I'd also have to use that same photo on my site and it wouldn't be long before the users realize I'm not a woman.

Re: Spamming wordpress blogs

Tim — Sat, 13 Jan 2007 17:10:33 -0000

I think it is happening on my blog. I use Spam Karma 2 and I've been getting alot of "Your resource is GREAT!" comments from pharmacy-like named people. Well some of the posts they commented on, the nature of the post I knew they totally didn't read it =P

They do this and don't have any links in, but the names are usually not real. I think that way next time they post with the links they'll be the keywords they want.

Re: Dedicated server or not?

Tim — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 22:02:54 -0000

You've got to determine if the downtime of switching to a dedicated server would kill your project or not. Downtime including the time frame where your current host has kicked you for using too much resources (or its just so slow nobody will use it).

If it's something people will be OK without it for a few days, then just wait. If not, go dedicated right away. I use theplanet.com. You could get one from their server matrix department for $70/month to start out with.

Re: Dedicated server or not?

Tim — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 12:56:11 -0000

If both servers are running cPanel, the move can be VERY easy. Inside WHM on the dedicated server, you can enter your login to the old one and it'll copy everything over. Then it's just a DNS issue.

Re: When should you say no?

Tim — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 12:54:56 -0000

Well you've got to look at their situation. IE if they come back online and say their family member died and they spent a while cleaning up the offline world, well then ok give them some slack. If they just drop offline all the time then it's time to drop them ;-)

Re: First month special price

Tim — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 16:54:07 -0000

Depends on the product/service ;-)

Re: Nobody uses Google Talk

Tim — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 16:16:05 -0000

I use it exclusively. When I was doing client work, I would make the client get it because it saves a copy of the chat to my gmail account for later viewing (which I can then search for and it comes up with their emails).

Re: Nobody uses Google Talk

Tim — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 21:33:09 -0000

Yeah it is difficult to get people to switch from what they are used to. Especially since GTalk is simple, while the others load up on special stuff.

Re: What now Text Link Ads?

Tim — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 21:32:14 -0000

Was he an experienced marketer, or a self-proclaimed experienced marketer?

Re: Information about my project

Tim — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 11:20:00 -0000

I had plans for such a site. However I decided to scrap it because I lose focus easily if I try to do too many things at once. I hope you get it off the ground. Just remember to include a simple way for you to make some money off it. It's much easier to run a website that pays all your bills! =P

Re: New design at LinkCrews

Tim — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 16:41:21 -0000

They have a new design because the owners went there ways and the one who owned the script and design is selling it at an auction with his other exchange (trafficsufer). The other partner owned the domain and database and so had to re-create the design script part.

Re: TE Blaster any good?

Tim — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 10:20:26 -0000

They are both pretty much the same. I get a little bit more from TEblaster but that's it.

Re: TE Blaster any good?

Tim — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 16:04:02 -0000

I'm not sure. I realize now that TEtoolbox doesn't show during the past day/week/etc of traffic, it just shows since the last time I cleared the stats. And I don't remember how long ago that was so I can't tell. Hrmph.

Re: No Feed Summary

Tim — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 09:38:51 -0000

Good. Nothing is more annoying then having the summary in your feed reader and clicking to view the site and it's not loading. I read your posts after deciding I didn't want to wait for another blog =P

Re: The Traffic Exchange Directory

Tim — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 10:33:38 -0000

Hmm. Interesting. I run TrafficExchangeDirectory.com and TrafficExchangeList.com =P

Re: Why Use Countries in Online Marketing?

Tim — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 11:36:08 -0000

You seem to be asking alot of questions lately ;-)

Re: New Interesting Wordpress Plugin Called AdMan

Tim — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 12:33:38 -0000

Interesting. Just a note feed readers don't see it ;-)

Re: New Interesting Wordpress Plugin Called AdMan

Tim — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 13:01:51 -0000

Another note. I've already begun to scan past it. Same with the ad bar at the top ;-)

Re: My Very Own Advertisement

Tim — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 19:11:56 -0000

Two things you'll need to work hard at if you ever expect to make mass money from it. 1) Don't require setting up an account [at least for people who are willing to pay] 2) Get at least 6PR [people won't pay if it has no benefit]

Re: My Very Own Advertisement

Tim — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 09:26:43 -0000

If you are targetting people who submit to directories all the time, then make it ultra easy to do. If they want to edit it later, have the edit page send a confirm link to the email address on file.

Looking at the compare memberships page it looks like you might not be targetting directory submitters, but the rest of the site looks like a normal directory. If that's the case, there should be some kind of guidelines or about page that explains what the site is all about, so that way people know it isn't just a directory to submit to ;-)

Re: Great Free AdSense Tool

Tim — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 13:03:39 -0000

Did you advertise your site with adsense on it on a traffic exchange? That'll get you booted.

Re: Great Free AdSense Tool

Tim — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 13:13:44 -0000

Well I've tried it and will see if I get anything out of it thanks.

Re: EasyTrafficBar and AddThis

Tim — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 13:00:09 -0000

Yeah im not seeing the bookmark tool.

Re: Can Your Enemies Really Hurt You?

Tim — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 13:59:31 -0000

Their whole thing saying their is nothing a competitor can do to mess with your site is a lie. Their filters and such penalize you if you get too much of an increase in incoming links to fast, if the incoming links are spammy, etc.

For instance look at Dan.. If it were to happen to you, you wouldn't know it came from an auto-surf site. And they won't tell you what you are doing wrong. So how would you be able to say it isn't you when you don't know what it is that is causing it?

Re: How To Get Subscribers Without Annoying Your Visitors

Tim — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 13:06:11 -0000

Don't use the fly in ad things. You only want people to subscribe if they actually want it, otherwise you'll just get spam complaints and what not. If they are interested in what you are writing, they'll see the text on the site asking if they want to subscribe.

Re: What if I earned $50000 a month?

Tim — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 12:56:25 -0000

If you told us you earned that much a month I'd tell you that was only half as much as me =P

It wouldn't affect me though.. It's like all those people who make a ton off spam adsense sites. Wow great for them but not for me.

Re: The Best WordPress Plugin

Tim — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 12:46:51 -0000

You'll need more than Akismet to get by. I get a good amount of spam on my blog that is caught by Spam Karma 2 but not by Akismet. SK2 actually uses Akismet and a bunch of other things to detect spam.

The problem is new spam isn't always reported to Akismet as spam right away. So when a spammer starts a new campaign, it can easily get by. The spam comments it removed for you have already been reported so that's why it got them all.

SK2 is free also, and when you are using it and Akismet (within SK2) it's the ultimate protection ;-)

Re: Feed Me Now

Tim — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 16:26:38 -0000

I tried FeedBurner and Aweber and stuck with Aweber. You can customize the way the emails are sent out with Aweber.

Re: How to create your to-do list

Tim — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 10:57:49 -0000

I use Basecamp (which is a sister site to Backpack)

Re: Legal to refer yourself?

Tim — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 11:03:24 -0000

If they don't do anything about it then they don't care. Otherwise they'd do something to prevent it.

Re: The fun of blogging

Tim — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 11:04:42 -0000

Agreed. You probably notice a flood of comments by me every so often ;-)

Re: You Tube Traffic

Tim — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 11:06:48 -0000

LOL I can see it now. Some random guy is going to be selling an ebook on how he went from $1/month to $100,000/month in a week...

Ok so I suppose you aren't going to get that much sales to his link since this is a "what's the deal" post and not a recommendation =P

Re: Personal photo in my RSS feeds?

Tim — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 14:20:34 -0000

I see your face every time I go to post a comment. Maybe a synchronized photo thing would work. Have a different one each day. Grab a camera and a friend and goto 31 different places =P

Re: Ooops I did it again

Tim — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 17:58:13 -0000

Maybe once a month you should do the Paypal history search for subscriptions and review?

Re: Too many pings?

Tim — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 10:18:04 -0000

Technorati gets a ton of traffic. I'm pretty sure their pages are cached or delayed at least a little. My latest posts seem to get there eventually.

Re: How to track your comments

Tim — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 16:44:54 -0000

1) You don't even need an account. I saw it a while back and just clicked to it now and it still has the conversation I was checking out listed on the front page for me.

2) You linked to it incorrectly. Forgot the HTTP =P

Re: Host Your Autoresponder or not

Tim — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 10:16:32 -0000

You can import to Aweber, however when you do you have to write a note that explains where the emails came from. The Aweber staff then checks it out. They would be fine if you just told them it was moving from your old autoresponder. Actually, they'd probably be happy!

Also, Aweber handles spam complaints great. Many ISPs will send you an email saying there was a spam complaint. The problem is, some only let you sign up if you send X amount of emails a month. I got AOL to send me them, but the others I couldn't find out how. Aweber is large enough where they all tell them, and they auto unsubscribe the emails that report it as spam. And since they do this the ISPs don't blacklist Aweber because of spam compalints.

Oh and if you need a referal link to sign up under.. =P

Re: First day with Spam Arrest

Tim — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 19:45:25 -0000

Ewww. Just use Gmail or SpamBayes. Both are free, work great, and don't try to get someone to sign up for themselves whenever you are emailed.

Re: I just hate this kind of ad

Tim — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 21:12:23 -0000

What's your email address? LOL

Re: Content Composer by Jason Potash

Tim — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 21:11:26 -0000

I'm so done with marketing websites. I refuse to buy software that has to be "spiced up" with some long copy just to get someone to buy it. And all the "extras" etc.

About the software - it sounds like basically a script that takes your article and "rewrites" it. I was asked about making a script to do that. If you do try it let me know, I may be interested.

Re: How to thank your commenters

Tim — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 21:07:39 -0000

Cool. I was expecting it to be more advanced and only do it if the commenter posted X comments or something. That would prevent drive by spammers but rewarding long time followers ;-)

Re: If your ad works, when should you change it?

Tim — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 21:02:21 -0000

What I tend to do is have 1 splash page that I know performs well, and a couple that are new. Then I rotate them periodically, and keep the pages that perform well to use again later. ;-)

Re: Technorati Favorites exchange

Tim — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 17:58:09 -0000

Done ;-)

Re: One Day Blog Silence

Tim — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 18:09:05 -0000

Actually, I think it would have been better to do something today since they are asking everyone to wear the colors today to show support.. But I suppose the 30th is ok ;-)

Re: I will join Aweber

Tim — Wed, 02 May 2007 14:10:43 -0000

LOL that was weird, reading and then being like woah is he talking about me? Yeah, I think he is =P

Re: One Time Offers Showing More Than One Time

Tim — Mon, 07 May 2007 12:17:48 -0000

LOL I've noticed this, and think it's funny too. It could be a bug, or it could be on purpose.

Re: Is This Stealing Content?

Tim — Tue, 08 May 2007 11:21:52 -0000

Just use your judgment. If it really is a super secret offer, then don't post it. And if it is super secret, they'd say specifically in the email not to send out the link. Which would probably happen anyway LOL

Re: I Have Just Upgraded At StartXchange

Tim — Tue, 15 May 2007 10:46:05 -0000

Great! Thanks =p

Re: Aweber and Blog Broadcast

Tim — Tue, 15 May 2007 11:03:52 -0000

If you load one of their feed broadcast templates, it's much easier to edit that than to try to start from scratch.

One downside is feedburner won't see your real feed count. I sent them the idea, and how to implement it, and they said they forwarded it to those in charge. You might want to do the same. Basically when they grab the feed, they can send the number of subscribers in the user-agent, and then feedburner will add it to the tally.

Re: Ojeez and customer support

Tim — Wed, 16 May 2007 09:04:04 -0000

Well thats a tough one. On one hand they should have super support, but on the other hand they could be getting tons more support requests than anticipated. If they are in pre-launch, I'm guessing they aren't getting any income, and so hiring help would be harder..

So I'd say give it a couple more days before dismissing it, and then test the support a little later and see if it gets any better ;-)

Re: A Real Marketing Secret?

Tim — Sat, 26 May 2007 09:26:35 -0000

Good idea. I use Google Blogsearch to do the same thing. No real reason, I just found the RSS feed to that first =P

PS. Nice 3 column layout.

Re: How To Promote Anything On Facebook

Tim — Tue, 29 May 2007 06:44:46 -0000

(I think that's a spammer) Anyways.. I've been thinking about trying these social networks out for advertising. I have a plan out so once I get through all my feeds (cough stop posting so much cough =P) then I'm going to try it out.

Re: Promote Your Blog With FeedBurner Headline Animator

Tim — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 21:21:23 -0000

Just use this URL for the image:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/mlmforums.2.gif

Re: Article Submitter By Brad Callen

Tim — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 19:48:45 -0000

Interesting. I tried the directory submitter, pretty cool.

Re: The Secret One Word – But Why Use It?

Tim — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 20:24:52 -0000

It also makes you notice it more, I know I have when I've seen someone spell it that way.

Re: How To Cloak Your Affiliate Links

Tim — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 08:34:03 -0000

I don't like cloakers.. They reduce the incoming links to good programs. I'd be happy with a 301 redirect instead of it making a frame with encoded URLs..

Re: At What Time Should You Publish Your Blog Posts?

Tim — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 18:14:16 -0000

I'd say publish it early morning, but after most are awake. That way it's at the top of the list of the RSS Reader.

Re: When Details Matters To Your Blog Visitors

Tim — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 08:22:56 -0000

You know how annoying it is having to make sure you CTRL click external links? You know how many sites I personally didn't click back to get back to? Too many to count.. In this week alone!

Open them in a new window please! =P

Re: Is this Marketing Technique Worth $47 a Month?

Tim — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 12:39:27 -0000

If it works, it will only work for a short period of time until Google finds a way to detect it. Which I think they already can detect schemes in this way.

Re: Professional Actor Promoting Site Swiper on YouTube?

Tim — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 20:11:34 -0000

I think they might have changed the name, since "Site Stealer" was causing too many problems. People thought it was actual stealing sites.

Re: Why are Successful People creating More Products

Tim — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 12:07:08 -0000

It's more than just money. It's what they enjoy. I was thinking about this recently.. If Google bought me out and I had millions.. I'd still want to do something online, because it's what I'm good at and I enjoy it.

Re: Should you join DealDotCom?

Tim — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 15:45:44 -0000

Looks like a pricier version of woot.com - and with an affiliate program, sweet =P

Re: Can you add More Power to your site with TalkStream?

Tim — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 11:15:42 -0000

Looks good but it has a bandwidth limit, and you get charged for more bandwidth used. This is all in the fine print, not on the order form. Oh and it doesn't say what the fee is for going over the limit.. Just that you are required to pay it..

Re: How Time is marketing their magazine

Tim — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 08:43:48 -0000

Yeah Forbes does the same to me. They gave me so many issues free way back when, and then now they think it's a great deal for me to have to pay? I don't want a free bag for subscribing!

Re: one Millionaire interviewing another Millionaire about how he became a Millionaire

Tim — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 09:40:55 -0000

I don't know.. If they are talking about how a convicted felon is doing it, it would make me wonder if what they are doing is entirely legal =P

Re: What is The Death of Google AdWords?

Tim — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 13:19:10 -0000

Yeah, I bought the $2 advertisement. Won't buy the $37 ebook.

Re: Coca-Cola – all flavor or all Marketing?

Tim — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 11:48:18 -0000

I drink coke because I'm addicted. Sometimes I drink Coke Decaf, like late at night. caffeine affects me so at night I try to avoid it. Coke zero, was manageable. Definitely better tasting than diet coke.

Re: Coca-Cola – all flavor or all Marketing?

Tim — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 11:51:10 -0000

Thanks to you, I just grabbed the last can. Sometimes I like to put it in a glass with ice, it's more "sophisticated" that way.

Oh, and I don't drink it due to marketing. I choose restaurants based on their serving coke. In fact, Walt's Roast Beef started serving Pepsi and I stopped going. I'm sorry, but I don't want my Roast Beef ruined by a cup of pepsi.

I recently thought about grabbing a coke at the McDonalds across the street and bringing it in with me. If they say anything, I'll just go grab a burger and leave behind the memories of Roast Beef and a Coke.

Re: Words that “Forces” You to Buy

Tim — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 09:25:19 -0000

I see this as false advertising. If they are advertising that the price is available for a limited time, it better be. They just get away with it because nobody is policing the internet.

Re: Promoting your Business at the Local Pizzeria

Tim — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 08:12:24 -0000

LOL is this some kind of link bait or comment bait putting my name in here? =P

I'd do it however I only eat pepperoni pizza, so I doubt they'll rename that..

Re: Facebook Advertising Day 5

Tim — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 14:35:00 -0000

Woo! LOL I love the fact that you realize it's a niche advertising. Too many people try out a type of advertising for a certain niche, and it doesn't work well and they say that site doesn't work. No, it just doesn't work for that niche.

Re: Buying and selling links with TNX

Tim — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 12:09:52 -0000

Be careful, Google won't like it if it isn't "nofollow"d, and they are getting pretty good at following these kinds of systems around and detecting which sites use them. There is debate on this so just be careful =P

Re: How an Error can bring you More Subscribers

Tim — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 11:23:56 -0000

Well the google 404 error page isn't really much of a help to you. And google reader subscribers to your blog clicking that link without the http:// just get shown the google 404 page not your cool nifty 404 page =P

Re: I am now using an Exit Popover

Tim — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 08:16:05 -0000

Using firefox I'm not getting any popups. No popup stoppers or what not either

Re: I am now using an Exit Popover

Tim — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 08:18:17 -0000

LOL well it worked after I posted the comment, but it didn't stop me from closing I just saw a quick thing go up and then I was at the next site. I bet its a Modal window which in IE it stops everything, but FF it doesn't =P

Re: New Feature for Traffic Exchanges

Tim — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 17:43:44 -0000

Oh boy now you've done it!

Re: New Feature for Traffic Exchanges

Tim — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 19:14:40 -0000

Start surfing, will try this out =P

Re: New Feature for Traffic Exchanges

Tim — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 20:03:04 -0000

Ok it should be noted that I Love Hits has a rating feature. I thought there was a thumbs up / down thing for some reason. When I checked today for it I realized there was a link on the surfbar to open a rating & comment page. So ILH you can leave comments too, but SX the ratings are on the surfbar and you get activity pts too =P

Re: This is my office

Tim — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 08:57:18 -0000

Yeah it can be hard to get a good picture of a small office. I have a D50 with 18-200mm lens, so at 18mm I was able to get most of it. There is actually a second window and pile of boxes you can't see in my photo LOL

Your setup ain't so bad either. I was in the living room with a 1 yr old playing and climbing on my chair as I was working..

Re: BlogJet is Worth Every Penny

Tim — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 08:04:43 -0000

That's kinda scary though, if many start to do that all you need is a virus that installs in the blog jet folder and bam it's un known ;-)

Re: An Example of Blog Scraping

Tim — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 13:23:48 -0000

I think it's terrible! Amazon was linking in their developer section to a blog article that was scraped from a prominent internet marketer. I only noticed because I read the article and remembered reading it on someone else's blog. Searched the title and sure enough!

Amazon was very quick to respond to my email and fix it, but that's not always the case. I only bothered contacting because Amazon is so huge I didn't want to see a scraper get good traffic from them or link juice.

Re: Creating A New Blog and Chosing a WordPress Web Host

Tim — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 18:07:44 -0000

I use Dream Host. I love the one click installs and one click upgrades for Wordpress. They also have hourly/daily/weekly backups (automatic).

The downside is speed. Generally speaking any shared host will lack in speed. I'd say surf around my blog and see if that's acceptable for what you are doing or not. For what I'm doing it's a great price and great features. If you use my name as the coupon you can get $50 off too [TIMLINDEN] =P

Re: Look out for Stumpedia

Tim — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 09:50:02 -0000

I think it'd be waay better if they had search results. Who is going to use a search engine that doesn't have results for most searches?

If it were a format where it took Google's results, and then let you vote up or down the results given and add in your own result, then it'd be better. It needs base results to get it going.

Re: Today is my birthday

Tim — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 10:07:41 -0000

Happy Birthday!

Re: Popover Marketing Mistake

Tim — Thu, 08 May 2008 09:55:55 -0000

I got one for you.. Make sure Aweber is REALLY set to only send one email per day on blog updates. I changed my feedburner settings, which caused the feed to change, which caused Aweber to send out 10 emails instantly, which caused me to lose almost 2% of my subscribers within a few hours (and more keep unsubscribing).

Re: I Just Cancelled ListHero

Tim — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 12:30:33 -0000

I've been using AKH's list builder. It works similar to ListHero but works on your thank you page for your list. So you are exchanging it with people who have already subscribed to one list. I've been getting good results, both numbers wise and subscriber wise. Only one of the people who subscribed through that builder has unsubscribed so far! Not bad if you ask me ;-)

Re: I Have Just Read Hits Clicks and Misses

Tim — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 13:06:56 -0000

Yes - it's a compilation of his HEN over the years, so it is like a newsletter =P But it's a great way to get all the news if you weren't there when it was happening!

Re: Short Interviews Coming Soon

Tim — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 18:19:30 -0000

Sweet =P

Re: First post using iphone

Tim — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 08:06:24 -0000

Yeah I hear the Android is supposed to have a flip out keyboard. WOOT.

Re: Time Management When You Have Kids

Tim — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 13:31:38 -0000

Yeah I have similar issues now that my oldest daughter is almost 2. She likes to come in and play with daddy's pens and paper. I do have a gate and a door to my office (gate was so A/C could circulate in summer) but I don't always have it closed.

Re: My Short Stop At The IKEA Restroom

Tim — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 18:54:54 -0000

Yes. I also like that they have family bathrooms. It's great when you have a 2 year old who gets scared from hearing the flushing of people in the stall next door. And it's usually cleaner. My pet peeve is when you are waiting outside for a family to get out, and then a single man walks out..

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