I haven’t been whipping through the 30 Day Challenge lessons but have been making steady progress. The last two weeks has been spent moving a month’s worth of content to this blog and adding original content to the Best Temecula Wine Tasting site.
Nevertheless, I’m still very impressed by the 30 DC lessons and am [...]
Thanks to a direct response to my Twitter account (trustavenger), I learned of a WordPress plugin called Viper’s Video Quicktags. I just tested it with the previous YouTube video and it worked like a charm.
Viper’s Video Quicktags will save you lots of time embedding video from YouTube, Google Video, DailyMotion, Vimeo, Veoh, Viddler, Metacafe, [...]
One WordPress feature is automatic trackbacks (pingbacks) by other blogs powered by WordPress. I learned of my first trackback via a Google Alert. It’s a source of back links that may yield some traffic.
These trackbacks are tagged with the “nofollow” attribute so it won’t help Google Page Rank. WordPress 1.5 and above automatically [...]
Although embedding a Blip.tv video into WordPress 2.6.2 worked fine, I had a tough time embedding a YouTube video into WordPress. In frustration I did a Google search and discovered that the culprit is the WordPress Visual Editor. It needs to be turned off while embedding YouTube video into a new post or editing a [...]
I moved my information marketing blog from a free Blogger account to using WordPress with my own domain (informationmarketingblog.com). This is actually an add-on domain hosted on HostGator.
It was not simple and I had second thoughts several times during the multiple day ordeal. The WordPress import tool simply didn’t work (despite moving [...]
Flock rocks. Link
The 30 Day Challenge is awesome. Link
Market Samurai is truly amazing. Link
The Squidoo bubble is bursting. Link
Twitter is cool and effective.
FriendFeed is kinda freaky but useful.
In the name of transparency, here are my earnings for the month.
Expenses: $170.95 Market Samurai ($87), Domain Name Registration ($74)
Income: $0.00
Time: 105 hours
Net Earnings: -$170.95
I have $3.00 pending in Google AdSense and $0.94 pending in Squidoo but I’m only going to count income when payment is received.
As a result of the 30 Day Challenge, the ranking of the HubPages is pretty irrelevant since I’m launching a Temecula wine site soon using that process. However, these figures will be a good comparison for the upcoming Temecua wine site.
Best Temecula Wineries on HubPages
Search term: best wineries in temecula
Visits this month: 149
HubScore: [...]
I get new followers every day on Twitter even though my tweets aren’t interesting. It’s obvious that most are automated requests clicking through the followers list of A-list tweeters. This is another example of trickster marketing. I bet there are various ways to do this although Google Wealth Maker recently came to my attention via [...]
I’m a big fan of contrarians so I’m going to keep my eyes on a new web site called Life After Google. The related Squidoo lens is a kind of manifesto.
I’ve seen a number of these types of sites come and go since the Google IPO. The best ones simply disappear one day and leave [...]