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Lets Do Something Different
2007-09-06 23:28:00
  Stats   All of you guys that have been around for a while know Thursday is stats day. That was cool when everything was new but now it's time to grow.   Last week this blog broke through the barrier of profitability. In light of this, I've decided to start reporting monthly instead of weekly. Since the last report was for the eighth week, I'll report again on October 8th.   Have You Reddit?   Reddit is one of the big social book marking sites where the readers evaluate submitted articles and vote them up, down or not at all.   Where StumbleUpon readers tend to like lists and cool pictures, Reddit members are more into pillar article type stuff. While Reddit has the potential to deliver massive amounts of readers, my experience has been about 10-30 in the first 1-2 hours and then almost nothing.   Here's my offer.   Last week I stumbled all over you. This week I'll Reddit you. Reddit-ing an article requires a lot more effort so...
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Prejudices & Preconceptions Revisited
2007-09-05 22:37:00
Several days ago we discussed the issues around bloggers' nationalities. This time we're going to go a little deeper.   Today we are going to talk about the less obvious prejudices and preconceptions. The ones we keep hidden and rarely admit to, even to ourselves.   I had originally planned to break this down into several posts about nationality, gender, sexual orientation and race. As I'm writing this it occurs to me we could expand it to include religious and or political affiliation.   I started with nationality because, in the blogosphere, it is the most difficult to disguise. All of the others could easily go unnoticed with only a cursory examination of a blog.   I determined that to cover all of the topics I would have to write the same post over and over with the same content, only substituting terms and since everyone has their own buttons, here's what we're going to do. You know what is in your heart. You choose the appropriate terms from the follow...
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A New Member and A Link Train
2007-07-25 17:11:00
I would like to take this oppertunity to introduce the newest member of the "I Review" movement; Chris Bloczynski. Check out his blog and tell him how good his "I Review" button looks.I also want to thank BrownBaron for the thoughtful plug.Tag, I'm ItI was tagged by Danielle for the Blogging Tips link train. So I have in my list, and I have added myself.The basic premise - copy and paste the list below and then read through each and put a star next to those you like. Then add yourself to the list with your own tip for bloggers. Look, read, and learn. - Neon Scent *****Be, EXCELLENT to each other. - Bush Mackel *****Don’t let money change ya! - The Random Forest ****Always reply to your comments. - Chattie Kat *****Spell check is your friend. - Things By Mike **Be the blog. -http://www.meandmydrum.com/*Blog about your passions. - Pink Hat SEO*Write to your readers. - AdSense TrackerThis should be a pretty interesting, eclectic listing of tips by the time it is done. :)And I would ...
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Beta Invite & A Simple Tool
2007-07-24 19:26:00
Invite Share If you are one of those people that has to try out all of the latest beta tests but have a hard time getting invitations, I have a site for you. Invite Share is a central clearing house for invites to all the coolest beta programs (Pownce, Joost, 8apps. Moola, Spock, etc.). After you sign up simply choose the beta program you would like to receive an invitation to and get on the list. If you are one of the fortunate individuals who have some extra invites, bring them along. They are your currency. The members that give away more invitations move higher up the list to receive invitations. The word is that Invite Share has been having a few hiccups and growing pains but it is getting pretty good overall reviews.Color PickerSo, you’re surfing along and you come across a beautiful color palette you would like to use on a site you’re working on, what do you do?If you have Photoshop you can fire it up, let it load, and use it to capture the colors or, you can use this sim...
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Shared Responsibilities
2007-07-23 22:22:00
One of the many reasons people come to the blogosphere to read is the raw unfiltered content available, however, this author edited environment is often a two edged sword.We, as readers, want the authors to be creative and entertaining, serving up information and instruction in the form of cutting edge, witty posts that tickle our fancy so that we can consider ourselves clever by linking to them in our own posts, hoping our readers will think us creative and entertaining for sharing with them. (“I love reading your blog. You always link to the coolest articles.”)We readers are such a fickle lot. We cry in unison, “You’re so creative. We want more posts like that really cute one that made you famous.” But let that blogger write a couple of money posts, a meme or, God forbid, go to far with a post and see how quickly we leave derogatory comments, offer “constructive criticism” and hit the delete button on the feed reader.The past several days have seen this scenario play...
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Why Blog?
2007-07-22 01:11:00
No really, why?Millions of people seem to want to blog, literally, millions. An entire cottage industry has blossomed from this widespread desire. Yet, think of how many blogs you’ve surfed through that had only five or six posts, or even fewer, with nothing added in the last week or month. When I come across those blogs I instantly look for a link or hit the “back” button. I almost never stop to read the post. I think it makes me feel sad. I look at it kind of like an abandoned pet. I know if I stay I’ll just want to help it. (I know, I know.)Some people, I believe, start a blog because someone told them it was a cutting edge cool thing to do. (Think celebrities and politicians.) Almost all of those fade away into a slow quiet death. I can see some underling being tasked with clicking the delete button. (There’s that abandoned pet image again with the boss making his assistant take the dog to the Humane Society.)I wonder though if the blogosphere might be like Hollywood, ...
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Review of Arsenal Marketing
2007-07-21 18:18:00
Joe from Arse nal Marketing wrote a very nice review of this blog as part of the “I Review ” project. This is my reciprocal review.The Arsenal Marketing blog is a networking and exposure arm of the larger company (You guessed it.) Arsenal Marketing a Web 2.0 marketing company for businesses and professionals and the site is geared toward that niche.This is a relatively new blog and, as such, there isn’t a lot of content yet. However, what his posts are missing in quantity is more than compensated for in quality. This clean, well organized design with smooth lines and muted colors made for a comfortable read of all of the helpful information and suggestions for the online and offline professional.The only complaint I had with my experience at Arsenal Marketing came when I tried to leave a comment. The format requires you to go through a registration process and receive a username and password with email confirmation before you may leave your comment. (A real pain). I could see th...

Time to Feed The Feed
2007-07-21 17:50:00
It's meme time. This one was started by the Cow Man and it's very easy.#Start copy here#The idea is simple: You want readers and you want link backs too because that's all us bloggers want, it's more precious than milk for some So how does it work?Simple! You just copy the list down below on your blog, hence creating link backs for your blogging friends and then click the RSS feed link to subscribe to all of them. Then you add yourself and up to 5 other bloggers and their feeds to the end of the list before you publish it on your own blog. Show your friends some link love Just imagine if just 10 people would do this and then 10 more after them. That would get your blog 100 extra link backs and 100 extra feed subscribers! Subscribe to JohnCowdotComSubscribe to BobmeetsWorldSubscribe to LifeisRiskySubscribe to TheKingKongBlogSubscribe to My New HustleSubscribe to GadgetTasticSubscribe to Life of BrowieSubscribe to Disregard MeSubscribe to Everybody Go ToSubscribe to Brian Vaugha...
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OOOPPPPSS!!!!
2007-07-21 00:52:00
My Bad. I know I hyped this next post but.... I screwed up again. I had a big plug all typed up for the big Blogathon for The Glaucoma Foundation. You see, the problem is that happens next weekend. Kinda blew the surprise for next Friday's post.Oh well, go about your regularly scheduled lives for now. Sorry for the build up.

I'm such a dork!
2007-07-20 21:26:00
“My name is Ad Tracker.”“Hi, Ad Tracker”“I have dual issues. I am addicted to lists and I am a compulsive planner.”I actually sat down and wrote out a weekly schedule for this blog and ALMOST POSTED IT!?!? Thank God for proof reading!I mean it sounded like I was the program director for Podunk Radio.“…and that’s it for the farm report, now on to our ‘Motivational Monday’ article and don’t forget tomorrow is ‘Techie Tuesday’ with all of those tips and tricks to help you surf the interweb and do the google."Yes, those are actual titles that I almost posted here. I’m such a sad case. It sounded good when I was writing it. It just scares me that it almost got through.Anyway, I did want to let my subscribers know that I’m trying to set aside Saturday mornings for my revenue and traffic generating posts. You know the ones we all have to do. The sponsored posts, memes and search engine posts. If I could wave my magic wand and create 1,000 hits a day I would ...
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Week 2 Stats
2007-07-19 19:41:00
What happened this week?This week the blog was submitted to thirteen more directories, started receiving traffic from submitted articles, received two very nice reviews here and here, got a link posted at the top of a list on John Cow, registered on two more social networking sites, received a hit form a Google search and generated revenue!Where did the traffic come from? (Traffic will be expressed in HITS not page views.)Social Networking Sites (MBL, Yahoo 360, Blog Catalog) – 54Blog Directories – 10Submitted Articles – 4Response to Comments Left on Other Blogs – 25Direct Links From Other Blogs – 13Search Engine – 1Hits / Subscribers / RevenueThis Week ------- 135 / 15 / $ 0.00Last Week ------ 37 / 4 /1.80So Far ------- 172 / 15 / $ 1.80SummarySocial networking is where it’s at. The 54 hits expressed in this report is only the direct traffic from these sites and doesn’t reflect return visits or hits as a result of connections made through those networks.Overall I’...
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Five Ways to Become a Web 2.0 Loser
2007-07-18 18:55:00
I am going to open the vault and show you this secret step-by-step process for not making a penny and becoming a Total Loser on MyBlogLog or any other social networking site.Find the most revealing yet not-quite-porn picture of a bikini model and make it your avatar.Choose a user name like “Tlk2Me”.Cram every AdSense unit and endorsement button Google will allow right at the top of your ‘blog’.Be certain that your posts are about how many thousands of dollars you can teach me to earn and that they are written in almost indecipherable English.Most importantly, spend any available leisure time trolling the member pages, joining every single community and making every single person a contact while leaving messages like, “You have good website. You come see my website at ‘http:/insertsomerediculouslylongURLher e’. You make me contact. Thanx”Just follow these simple steps and you too can join the growing crowd of annoying losers. And you didn’t even have to download a fr...
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Link Love and Poll Results
2007-07-18 15:42:00
My real post will be later today but for now I need to return some link love.John Cow is helping to make me famoooos.AllSux.com and ArsenalMarketing.com both gave me nice reviews.MeAndMyDrum gave me a great unsollicited plug.The world famous fairy tale writer BlogGrrl stopped by and left an encouraging comment.Thank You All!POLL RESULTS ABOUT THE LAYOUT: Love It - 2It's OK - 2Not So Much - 1Sucks! - 2The interesting thing is there were over 90 visitors during the time the poll was running. It looks to me like that poll received a resounding "I Don't Care" vote. That sounds like a good topic for a post one day. I've got another post later. Until then, talk among yourselves.:)
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Four Mistakes I've Already Made
2007-07-17 19:16:00
or, What Not to DoFollowing Pro Blogger’s suggestion (He is talking just to me isn’t he?), this is a list formatted post. My list is of the four biggest mistakes I feel like I have already made. I’ll address my remedy for these errors in future posts.1. Using a free platform – I really think this creates a handicap for a blogger if for no other reason than other bloggers just don’t take you as seriously as someone who has made the investment in a URL and hosting. You have to work that much harder to prove yourself as sincere. (And this isn’t even addressing the fact that once your blog is established you are in a trap because you can’t take it with you.)2. Choosing an “unfriendly” moniker – Similar to the ‘free platform’ issue above, an unfriendly moniker makes it more difficult to get people to accept you as a serious blogger. I know when another blogger sees the name Ad Tracker in their comments they immediately think, “Oh man, not another spammer!”3. C...
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Happy Dance Time!!!
2007-07-17 15:45:00
I'm doin' the HAPPY DANCE this morning! I got up, checked my AdSense report and squeeled. Litterally. I'm so pathetic. This blog actually created income! We'll discuss the specifics later in the week when I update the performance report. All I can say now is YIPEE!! and THANK YOU!!!
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Life is Risky
2007-07-16 19:15:00
eMom has recently completed her second group How-To Writing Project. If you haven’t seen it yet you must check it out. It is an absolute wealth of blogging, SEO and general monetization tips.While I was working my way through the project, I came across one article that I found particularly useful entitled “Non-Techies Intro to Site SEO” (Talk about speaking to me!) written by Susan over at Life Is Risky. It made me wish I used Wordpress.After reading that article I had to check out the rest of her Life Is Risky blog and came across this post about a review contest she is running. This contest is basically a link exchange scheme made popular by John Cow, John Chow and many others and not unlike the “I Review” movement started by this site. The contest Grand Prize is $50 and hey, $50 would make this project suddenly profitable! I couldn’t resist, so here goes.Needless to say I was impressed with the site and although she is having some hiccups from a recent server migratio...

Page Rank 5 on a Free Platform?
2007-07-15 21:48:00
While surfing through blogs the other day I came across AllSux.wordpress.com. I assumed by the URL it probably wasn't something up my alley. I was wrong! This is a site with tons of SEO and marketing content, but what makes it special is this site has a Google PR5! I checked it out and it's true.All of that is well and good, but here's what really caught my eye; he is offering the opportunity to earn a PR-5 DoFollow link. The steps to earn this valuable link are very simple and can be found here. Basically you just have to add a couple of sites to your BlogRoll. (I earned mine before I started writing this post.) You can also earn a PR-4 DoFollow link by reviewing one of his other sites, AllSux.com or WebUrbanist.com. That is the purpose of this post.For my review I chose AllSux.com primarily because I just didn't really care for the urban arty feel of WebUrbanist.Don't think about the name. This site has quite a bit of commentary directed at many sources. Sometimes it has a "S...
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I Review, Do You?
2007-07-14 19:24:00
Every blogger wants traffic. I spend tons of time doing things to try to generate visits to this site and you probably do the same for your blog. We can do all of this stuff untill the cows come home, but if those of us willing to put some effort into developing traffic flow were to form a loose cooperative, we could all benefit from the experience.The IdeaThe concept is that each blogger set aside one or two posts a week for a serious, honest, well thought out review of another blog, that blogger in return would write a review of the reviewing blog. The reviews would be arranged in advance between bloggers.You would write a blog post about the idea (linking to this post please ;-) and install an "I Review " button on your sidebar that links to your post. Someone interested in exchanging reviews would contact you through comments or email and request a review. You would evaluate the other site and decide to accept the invitation or not. If so, you return contact and make an agreement...

The Change
2007-07-13 21:38:00
The majority of the changeover is done ... for now anyway. I know it doesn't look much different but believe me it is.I am SOOOOO SORRY!!! During the process of the change I discovered that I had set my comment control to "blogger members only". What a Doof! That's corrected now. Also, I changed my comment setting to DoFollow and added a cool badge to show it. This means that your comment will actually be counted as a link back to you. I'm working on another blog post to better explain this but, take it from me, this is a good thing.So, comment away and vote on the poll to let me know what you think especially if you don't like it.
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Growing pains?
2007-07-13 15:23:00
I'm sorry for the disorganization this morning. I'm working on improving the layout of the site. Everything should be good by this afternoon or early evening. Thanks for your patience.
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Article Style Blogs Are Informative
2007-07-13 04:41:00
I just read a post over at SusanSuarez.com that I had to respond to. Susan’s position is that blog posts should be short and pithy, more casual in nature than article style posts which are long and boring. While I would agree with her for posts on a personal diary type blog with a conversational tone, but when I take the time to visit a serious blog I’m looking for something I didn’t already know and that usually requires a fair amount of information.Granted, long articles take more time to read but just like a newspaper article, you know within the first paragraph or two whether it’s something you’re interested in. If it is, read it through and soak up the content, Stumble It, Digg It and/or Favorite It. If not skip it. I have to say that fortunately for the blogging community, Susan doesn’t take her own advice very often.;-)
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Google AdSenseTM Online Standard Terms and Conditi...
2007-07-13 00:48:00
Google AdSens eTM Online Standard Terms and Conditions "Confidentiality. You agree not to disclose Google Confidential Information without Google's prior written consent. "Google Confidential Information" includes without limitation:(b) click-through rates or other statistics relating to Site performance in the Program provided to You by Google; and (c) any other information designated in writing by Google as "Confidential" or an equivalent designation. However, You may accurately disclose the amount of Google’s gross payments to You pursuant to theProgram."Since this is the first report. Let’s establish the ground rules for these reports and the ensuing conversations.1. I will not discuss any data that will get me in trouble with the big “g”. (See above.) I really feel that this can be handled in generalities that do not violate the Google AdSense Terms of Service yet communicate the important facts.2. You may feel free to request information; however, I will only answer yo...
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Tracking Software?
2007-07-11 07:24:00
Fellow blogger wealthbuildingguru stopped by my MyBlogLog page and left me a nice comment with an interesting question; "Which AdSense tracker software are you using?". I'm sure he didn't realize that his simple question would inspire an entire post topic but he did.The fact is I hadn't thought about that topic. Well, OK. I had thought about it and I felt I had it covered with the tools I was using. (I'll get into those further down.) The truth is that Andy's simple question made my heart jump into my throat. I suddenly felt like a silly little girl trying to operate a website in a room full of serious adults. Then I decided that the thing to do was attack the issue head on and develop an informative post on the topic. I have spent several hours researching this and will post that information in a separately so that it can be submitted without this editorial explanation.
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How To Track Your AdSense Ads in Blogger
2007-07-11 04:10:00
I recently decided to do some serious research on tracking software for my Google AdSens e program and was a little bit surprised with the results.There are several nice looking products out there, some of which are available for free as open source programs and they are numerous. A simple Google search for "free adsense tracking software" will keep you busy for hours. Some are for sale with a free trial or a money back guaranty, but the most popular software I found was AdSense Gold (Aff. Link). It has been reviewed and endorsed by some very reputable internet personalities such as Chris Garrett at Performancing.com and Darren Rowse at ProBlogger .com. This article is not a review of AdSense Gold so I am not going to go into all of the details, but it does seem to be a robust program that gives you the ability to dissect your traffic and click-through data from every angle thereby maximizing the advertising potential of your site. In fact the only real problems with it at all seem to...
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How did you spend your day?
2007-07-09 23:32:00
I have got to work on my time management skills. I spent a large part of the day today submitting the site to directories and search engine sites. I have two major hurdles to overcome while trying to get work done online and I'm not sure which is worse. I tend to get distracted while researching suggestions on other sites. I find myself "chasing rabbits" or following links around to content on other topics I find interesting. I get distracted studying the way others have their blogs set up. A few of the blogs I've been especially impressed with are ProBlogger.net, eMomsAtHome.com , SusanSuarez.com and JohnChow.com. All of these blogs are different in appearance yet share one key factor; they are full of useful information. That is exactly what I'm wanting to achieve here. I believe readers will stumble through almost any design and color palette if they want to read the content, content, content.As you can see I get distracted easily. I was in the middle of writing a post about m...

Free Advertising
2007-07-09 05:07:00
In the course of submitting this site to directories I came across MyBlogLog.com. It's kind of a social networking/website directory site. Anyway, after joining the site my discipline fell apart and I started exploring. I came across a really great post by Susan Suarez about a relatively new advertising site called bla.st.Bla.st has some very attractive features for anyone but especially someone on a budjet. First of all you can put your add up for FREE. The most unusual thing about bla.st is that all of the ads are business cards so they are totally visual. (A unique concept, yet simple.) The second attractive feature is that the advertisers pay on a per day basis. Placement of the ad is ranked by the amount of money per day the advertiser bid, but the bids I saw were rarely higher than 15 cents a day for a top spot. As a matter of fact, you could have a very good placement for less than 5 cents a day.So far, so good, but it get's better. Bla.st has a program that alows you to ea...
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Ya Gotta Have A Plan!
2007-07-08 06:46:00
Without a plan, the greatest idea is doomed to failure.The Idea - First, one must establish a goal for their project.The idea of the AdSense Tracker Blog is very straightforward. I will set up a blog with relevant AdSense ads placed on it by Google. I will strictly abide by Google's AdSense Terms of Service. I will do everything in my power to maximize both the traffic to the site as well as the amount of revenue I can gain from that traffic. The goal is to find out if Google AdSense advertising is actually profitable for an average person with a limited amount of website publishing skill. The hook is that I will share all of the information about my success or failure that I possibly can while not violating the rules. By doing this, I hope to cut through so much of the hype about "AdSense Goldmines", or build one. Either way, I'm going to do all of the work and we will all share equally in the gained knowledge and experience. I haven't decided yet how long this project will run....
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