The Net

Web Revenue Blog Rankings

According to Pat McCarthy over at Conversion Rater, I am number 3 on the web revenue blog rankings. While I like to think the means I’m the third biggest revenue generating blog on the Internet, that is not the case. What is a web revenue blog? Blogs that focus on affiliate marketing, display advertising, contextual advertising, and actually helping people […]

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Uncategorized

Six Top Linking Strategies

Links are the backbone of traffic. The more links you have coming to your blog, the higher your traffic level. Search engines, like Google, place an extremely high value on links. Google’s PageRank system is largest based on how many sites are linking to you – the more links, the higher the PageRank. In my never-ending quest to get more […]

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Fine Dining

Dine Out Vancouver – C Restaurant

The C Is For Seafood, Not For Cookie Our last Dine Out Vancouver experience took us to the award winning C Restaurant. C is owned by Harry Kambolis, the same man who owns Raincity Grill and Nu. C restaurant celebrates Vancouver’s land and sea, and prides itself on sourcing regional food products, some of which come to them exclusively. C’s […]

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ReviewMe To Let Bloggers Set Their Price

Starting today, ReviewMe will give the ability for bloggers to set their own review price. Before this, ReviewMe set the review price for the publishers. The price was based on combination of Alexa, Technorati and estimate RSS subscribers. Each was given a one to five start ranking to arrive at an overall ranking. For this blog, the price is $250 […]

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The Net

TextMark New Revenue Stream Off The Mark

TextMark is offering a new monetization service for bloggers that delivers their posts via SMS text message to the subscriber’s cellphone. The service will be announced tomorrow but you can sign up today. TechCrunch has the scoop. To use this, a publisher signs up for a TextMarks account and chooses a price to subscribers (either $4.99 or $9.99 per month). […]

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Ramblings

Vancouver Chinese New Year Celebration

Happy Chinese New Year everyone! Today is the year of the pig and I took the family down to Chinatown to take in all the festivities. Chinese New Year is a big deal in Vancouver because a large percentage of the population is Asian. Vancouver’s Chinatown is the second biggest in North America and there were many non Asian groups […]

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Ramblings

The World’s Thinnest Building

Today, I took the family to Chinatown for the Chinese New Year celebration. Vancouver’s Chinatown is home to the world’s thinnest building. It is so thin, I can stretch out my arms and reach either ends of the building. The world’s thinnest building is home to Jack Chow Insurance. Jack (no relation to me as far as I know) uses […]

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