Thanks to ComicTan for making the cartoon. Noticed that Shoe has to use both hands to try and grab a new reader? 🙂 With just five days to go in the John Chow Vs. Shoemoney RSS competition, I lead the Shoe by 2,539 readers. As a matter of fact, I now have more total RSS readers than Shoemoney. Unless Shoe […]
Read MoreBlogRush has finished cleaning their network of undesirable blogs and I’ve lost over 200 blogs in my network alone. We just completed our Quality Control audit. You will now notice that all non-English, spam, and low quality blogs (or others that didn’t meet all of our guidelines) are GONE from appearing in your widget. We removed over 10,000 blogs from […]
Read MoreThis latest round of Google PageRank downgrade has a bunch of webmasters tied up in a knot. On the surface, it sounds like a very bad thing and TechCrunch is even reporting that some sites will go under because of it. My feeling is that any site that goes under because of a downgrade in PageRank deserves to go under. […]
Read MoreShoemoney was the first to report that WidgetBucks was slapped with a Google penalty and speculated that it happened because of the WidgetBuck TOS requiring users to link to them. The Google slap hit pretty hard. WidgetBucks doesn’t even show up when you search for WidgetBucks or widgetbucks.com. Well, it does show up as a Sponsored Link. Maybe this is […]
Read MoreAfter the Facebook Developer Garage, we headed out to Memphis Blue BBQ House for some good old southern BBQ (we being myself, Sarah, Greg Morgan, Gary from BlueFur, Rainer from Think Referrals and Cathy from C2 Design). I discovered Memphis a few years back and have been hooked on their food ever since. During one period, myself and some friends […]
Read MoreIf I learned one thing from the Facebook Developer Garage, it would be Facebook developers are great at making applications but they suck at make money online. There were nine groups showing off their Facebook apps. Of the nine, only one, Facebook Scratch and Win was making money with it, if you call it making money. The application receives over […]
Read MoreThe Internet is a buzz today with Google PageRank downgrades. speculation on the reasons for the downgrade range from an attack on blog link farms, the end of PageRank, removing AdSense ads, it’s all John Chow’s fault, etc. You can see a list of new PageRank for well known blogs at DailyBlogTips. The most popular reason given for the first […]
Read MoreThis is a question that I often ask myself and other bloggers. How long does it take you to write an average blog post? For me, it varies greatly. My last post about the Facebook Garage took just 10 minutes. However, I have spent as much as 3 hours on a post. Generally, the most time consuming posts are the […]
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