April 2007

One Day of Blog Silence

April 29, 2007 Blogging

Tomorrow, this blog, along with thousands of others will be silent in honor of the victims of the Virginia Tech Massacre. Join the Day of Silence and do your part to remember. Hopefully we can start to spread the word to stop propagating hate and violence.

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What Bothers You Online? (meme-worthy?)

April 28, 2007 Commentary

This is where I jump out there and rant a bit about all the annoying crap going on today online! Care to join in? On Making Money Online “Experts” . . . I can’t believe all the “making money online” blogs out there. Most are from people who have never made any real money online. [...]

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Don’t Forget – 50% of Blogging Success is Building Connections with Others

April 26, 2007 Blogging

Sometimes people ask me why their blog isn’t growing as fast as they’d like it to, and I usually ask what they are doing to build an audience. Most of the time, the answer I get is “I’m writing good posts” and “I try to do it regularly.” While this is important, I’ll venture to [...]

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The Blog Song: Everyone Wants a Blog

April 25, 2007 Blogging

I was just thinking about how practically everyone these days has a blog. Be it a company or individual, blogs are now an engrained part of our lives. With that in mind, I found myself humming a song from my past, “The Log Song“, from Ren & Stimpy. Wouldn’t it just be a perfect piece [...]

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Creating an Effective Business Logo Design

April 25, 2007 Advertising

One of the first things that you’ll need to do when starting a business is to create a logo to represent your company. It seems like this may be a simple thing, but it is often more difficult then you think! Some Logos Are Timeless There are certain logos we’ll never forget: Apple, CocaCola, McDonalds, [...]

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The Importance of Periodic Link Reviews; Dead Link Removal

April 24, 2007 Blogging

I just wanted to remind everyone to periodically review all the links they keep on their site. Whether you are a blogger with a blogroll full of links or if you’re just another webmaster who shares resources with others like I do with BiggerPockets® Real Estate Investing Community, you should always do a periodic review [...]

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How to Use MyBlogLog to Succesfully Build Massive Blog or Website Traffic

April 23, 2007 Blogging

Update 2/24/11: Yahoo has announced that it will discontinue the MyBlogLog service on May 24, 2011. I wrote about using MyBlogLog a few weeks ago (networking with social media sites) for networking purposes. I now want to tell you exactly how to build massive traffic using the MyBlogLog community. MyBlogLog is an extremely important tool [...]

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What is a Favicon for Your Website? How to Create a Favicon.ico file?

April 21, 2007 Blogging Tutorials

One of the most frustrating thing back when I was a newbie at building websites was figuring out what that little icon was called next to a website’s URL. This little tidbit of information eluded me for the longest time, but I finally figured it out. Back in the day (wow I sound old!) there [...]

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MySpace Takes on Digg / Netscape and Fails to Deliver. Yup, It Sucks!

April 20, 2007 Social Media

Looks like MySpace wants to go back to its roots and launch another crappy product without style or functionality. The recently launched their MySpace News Beta (of course they had to include the uber-lame BETA tag – more about BETAs in another post), which looks like a really poorly modified Pligg clone. You would think [...]

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Boycott Chase Bank and Learn What Not to Do In Customer Service

April 19, 2007 Commentary

Sounds pretty extreme, right? I just don’t know what companies are thinking these days. How Chase Bank Has Forgotten About the Customer I had a call into Chase about an issue with my credit card the other night and couldn’t believe what I heard. My discussion with a customer service representative was not going where [...]

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A Few Helpful Things Stuck on My Firefox Tabs; Time to give my computer a break!

April 19, 2007 Blogging

I haven’t shut my computer down in 5 days now because I’ve got too many tabs open on Firefox. In an effort to give my iMac a break, I’m going to just post a few of the many interesting finds that made their way into the 27 tabs I had open across 5 browser windows. [...]

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Google Blogsearch Revealed: Learn the Secrets Behind Google’s Blogging Search Engine

April 18, 2007 Blog Design

In a guest assignment for Darren Rowse’s ProBlogger, Alister Cameron writes an incredible post detailing how Google Blogsearch ranks your blog posts. Using the Google Blogsearch patent application, Alister reveals some incredible information about the data Google uses to determine the quality of a blog or blog post. He mentions how it looks like Big [...]

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The First Rule of Blogging

April 18, 2007 Blogging
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Another Server Crash

April 18, 2007 Commentary

It happened again . . . I awoke to phone calls and emails this morning alerting me that my websites are not working. I really hate it when my server has issues like that (hate is not a strong enough word to describe how i really feel)! So far, this has happened a few times [...]

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Meeting of Minds – Denver Networking Group

April 17, 2007 Entrepreneurship

Whoops . . . posted that one a bit prematurely . . . no it’s not a problem I have regularly! The Creation of a Denver Networking Group I’ve talked on this blog about why you should get out of the office and network and I’ve decided to start up my own local group here [...]

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