Ramblings
You know what the coolest thing about AGLOCO is? You go on vacation to see family in Toronto. You have a great time, take a side trip to Montreal and Quebec City, fly home, check your AGLOCO stats and find it went up by another 2,000 referrals. I guess I’ll have to skip my 12,000 sign ups update since I […]
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Business The Net
Most MFA (Made for AdSense) sites use free article services to fill their sites with content. I would never recommend you fill your blog with free articles from any of these services because unique content drives traffic. However, one thing you may want to look at is sending a few articles to these services to help drive traffic and links […]
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Business The Net
It’s looks like ReviewMe has been paying attention to my recent price gaming post. They no longer list blogs based on pricing. Now all blogs are listed based on star ranking. It’s good to see ReviewMe is paying attention to publishers’ concerns. I like the solution they came up with. Blogs can still set their own prices but where they […]
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Business The Net
One of the most common email questions I get is, “How many posts should I have on my blog before I do promotions.” I’ve received ReviewMe requests from blogs with just two posts before so it would seem that you can’t start promoting soon enough. However, the question itself is wrong. The question you should be asking is not how […]
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Ramblings
Man, it feels good to be back home! Don’t get me wrong, visiting Toronto, Montreal and Quebec was great. However, there really is nothing quite like home. I really enjoyed my first trip to center of universe. It reminded me a lot of LA because of the 20 lane highways. We don’t have anything like that in Vancouver, thank God! […]
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The Net Wordpress
Right now, as you’re reading this, I’m about to land back in Vancouver. I have set this post to go live at 8:00PM PST on Sunday night using the WordPress Timestamp feature. I first wrote about the Timestamp back in March but I haven’t truly experience how great a feature it is until I went traveling to Montreal and Quebec […]
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Business The Net
I get a ton of emails from other bloggers asking me to write about a post they wrote or give their blog a plug. Most of them go unanswered not because I want to be evil (I do) but because the blog or article is not newsworthy. Before you send out that news release to other blogs asking for a […]
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Fine Dining
I don’t know what they feed lobsters in Toronto, but this has to be one of the biggest live lobster I’ve ever seen. No, I didn’t eat it live like that lobster in Shanghai. Other than pulling it out of the tank and saying, “Look how big this thing is!” I didn’t torment it too much. So all you lobster […]
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