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Re: Techcrunch RSS Subscriber Payola?

J.D. — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 10:59:48 -0000

Wow, way to lay it on the line for a layperson to understand.

You just got a new subscriber.

I like your hacked plugins too.

Re: Techcrunch RSS Subscriber Payola?

J.D. — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 10:59:48 -0000

Wow, way to lay it on the line for a layperson to understand.

You just got a new subscriber.

I like your hacked plugins too.

Re: Outsourcing & Plagiarism Checkers

J.D. — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 09:36:14 -0000

I've looked into a few services like this, but I'm not entirely sure I'd need it for a while.

My topics tend to share common data with widely-read news stories, so I'm bound to get flagged by these types of services.

Re: Outsourcing & Plagiarism Checkers

J.D. — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 09:36:14 -0000

Re: Sharing Traffic For Free Traffic

J.D. — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 22:54:04 -0000

I do believe in the notion that you should share traffic. I can imagine that karmically, this might work out in the end to get your site more traffic. Sometimes I link to blogs that don't get much in the way of linkage and throw out some odd anchor text.

I accused MyNewHustle of touching DormEarning in one of my posts, and it just made me laugh and laugh. They're both favorite blogs of mine and they need some support.

I hope it got both of them some traffic.

Re: Sharing Traffic For Free Traffic

J.D. — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 22:54:04 -0000

Re: Final Word On Alexa Redirects

J.D. — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 22:57:11 -0000

That did open my eyes. I took my widget off a few weeks ago, but I'm thinking about putting it back on.

I've recently just gotten a blog to the 400,000 range and I'm pretty excited about it. I wonder if the widget being on there for a short length of time did anything to help the ranking....

Re: Final Word On Alexa Redirects

J.D. — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 22:57:11 -0000

Re: Dancing With The Gevil – Defamed By Google?

J.D. — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 20:14:46 -0000

Google had to do something about the paid links and they had to do it fast. Unfortunately for everyone, you can do things fast or you can do things right.

Will we have pagerank now or trustrank?

Paying someone to write about your site shouldn't ever be penalized. Journalists go on junkets all the time.

Re: Dancing With The Gevil – Defamed By Google?

J.D. — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 20:14:46 -0000

Re: AuctionAds 17,000 Publishers And Growing

J.D. — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 12:59:56 -0000

I'm not sure if you'd want to have AuctionAds ads on a site that wasn't covering something you could buy on e-Bay. I'm still figuring it all out.

Re: Nofollow. DoFollow. Shallow.

J.D. — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 01:31:54 -0000

I have dofollow up on my comments, but most of the people commenting on my stories don't have websites of their own.

I can imagine that many blog authors are getting tired of one and two line comments dominating their pages, and the people posting those comments being at the top of the "top commentator" list.

I've found that it does pay to check comments often and maybe "redirect" the conversation accordingly.

Re: Realtor.com: Listings Are Updated Every 15 Minutes

J.D. — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 09:53:46 -0000

I am kind of surprised to hear that these websites weren't updating more often than once a day.

We really burned through a lot of homes on the MLS in Omaha, and finally figured out what we wanted after looking at 20+ homes. We looked at over 150 homes on the web though, and if some of them were waiting on the once-a-day update, I can see that we could have passed over them if they had dropped in price.

Re: AuctionAds 17,000 Publishers And Growing

J.D. — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 12:59:56 -0000

I'm not sure if you'd want to have AuctionAds ads on a site that wasn't covering something you could buy on e-Bay. I'm still figuring it all out.

Re: Nofollow. DoFollow. Shallow.

J.D. — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 01:31:54 -0000

Re: 10,000 Millionaire Losers I Feel Sorry For

J.D. — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 10:02:14 -0000

It's almost like they're exactly like the drug dealers I work with every day.

I had a guy the other day who was showing me all these pictures of himself that his family had sent to him. He was bragging, "Oh, I gots me a Tahoe, all this jewelry, look at me showering in money."

And I look at this guy and say, "If you've got all this money, why are you in jail? Why didn't you get out and invest in some kind of honest business, maybe help your neighborhood out a little?"

As expected, there was no real answer.

Seriously, folks, make your money and get out. Go live somewhere less expensive and enjoy life, instead of frittering it away for someone making a hundred times what you are.

Re: Wordpress 2.3 Installed

J.D. — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 19:10:14 -0000

I've yet to install 2.3 on my site. I like to wait a while until the bug reports come in and the dust settles. I have enough problems with my plugins without adding more with a new install on top of it all.

Re: Does My Startup Idea Suck?

J.D. — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 19:37:52 -0000

It's all about plowing the field.

You can't go out and plow an eighth of the field one day, a quarter of the field the next day, and then take a break for a week before you come back and finish the job half-assed.

If you're going to reap the rewards, you have to plow the field. It doesn't matter if you're happy about plowing, it just has to be done. Of course if you can listen to music while you're plowing, it makes it go a lot faster.

Re: Contest: Bob Meets World Feed

J.D. — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 19:15:00 -0000

I'm fairly positive that I'm going to lose that contest, considering the past performance of my luck.

I've yet to win the lottery.

Or a raffle.

Or a slot machine.

Or leave a casino with positive numbers.

But I entered anyways. Bob's a good guy.

Re: [help] I Need a Pretty Not-Too-Stuffy WordPress Theme

J.D. — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 23:51:02 -0000

I'd love to get a custom theme done. Problem is, I've got so little cash. :(

Three column is definitely what I'd need, and with a darker color scheme. I don't use widgets much, but support would be nice to have. I like that the theme I'm using now has the two thin sidebars on the right, but I don't like how they're coded.

I've also got a bug on my theme, where the footer rides up on the single post pages. Can't figure it out.

Re: Awesome Blog Title of the Day Goes to…

J.D. — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 09:25:16 -0000

Yeah, but can you remember PYSIH.com? Or do you just remember People You'll See In Hell.com and remember it has to be abbreviated?

I had cake for breakfast.

Re: Text Link Ads Says We’re Naughty

J.D. — Sun, 05 Aug 2007 17:00:16 -0000

This Jonathan Dingman - Product Manager - sounds like a complete and total tool. He rushed to judgment, made a bad decision, and is sticking with it instead of announcing a mea culpa and helping you out.

Challenge him to a boxing match. Fight fight fight!

This looks like something that you could easily mooooove up the TLA food chain with and get overturned.

John Chow has no problem with the site, but even if he developed a brain tumor tomorrow and decided JohnCow had to go, there'd be nothing he could do about it unless you had some material lifted from his site.

Re: Make Moo Famous - Batch 6

J.D. — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 18:08:45 -0000

I suck.

I think I've made an average of $.27 so far this month.

Someone shoot me.

Re: Make Moo Famous - Batch 6

J.D. — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 18:19:31 -0000

Anyways, after that brief but mooooooving bout with self-pity, thanks for the recognition, John Cow!

My sons like your products. Especially cheese.

Re: Who Won The $500?

J.D. — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 14:27:17 -0000

I never win anything.

I feel terrible.

Re: Tigopedia Reloaded 2.0 is Finally Here

J.D. — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 22:25:15 -0000

How hard would it be for someone to change the blue to a black or a grey?

Re: The Best Free Software For Your Computer

J.D. — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 21:37:43 -0000

On every new install I do, I always put a copy of AVG, GIMP, Ad-aware, and Spybot on the machine.

Norton used to put out a decent product. Now it's just crapware. My dad kept buying it until I showed him what free products are out there that do twice the job with half the hassle.

Re: Is Your Computer Use Detrimental To Your Health?

J.D. — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 12:28:36 -0000

I really like some of those setups. Since I like to sit in front of the computer for long hours, I'd consider picking up something if it could managed multi-monitor setups.

Maybe next year. :)

Re: How To Increase Popularity

J.D. — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 22:26:01 -0000

I get very little traffic from technorati, but I get tons from google. Most of the people I feature on my website I get ranked #1 - #4 for when you throw their name up to the google gods.

I get a few referrals. Once I had over 50 referrals in one day from a breastfeeding forum that was talking about how evil a particular person was on my site.

Once in a while I see someone come from technorati. I never see much.

Re: How Do I Email My Wordpress Commenters

J.D. — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 22:21:45 -0000

Hopefully your commentors aren't the type to put in false info, like I do with every single webpage that tries to find out what zip code I live in and how old I am.

This is a very valuable tip, thank you for sharing it!

Re: How To Increase Popularity

J.D. — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 22:26:01 -0000

Re: How Do I Email My Wordpress Commenters

J.D. — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 22:21:45 -0000