Goals for 2010

I can honestly say I had a great 2009. We took two decent vacations and over a dozen mini vacations. I enjoyed the Oregon coast, Disneyland twice, Knottsberry farm, Great America, Fisherman’s Wharf, Pier 39, Enchanted Forrest, Oregon Zoo, OMSI and various other interesting places and things to do. Even coming out of the year [...]

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Job 2.0 – Work in the 21st Century

The whole web 2.0 thing came and has kind of fizzled out since then. Everyone wanted the goofy looking web 2.0 starburst, rounded corners and a subtle gradient to adorn their various web sites with. It’s not that web 2.0 has died necessarily, just that it has kind of settled into it’s place on the [...]

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Experimenting with PPC Some More

As of late I’ve been trying different stuff on Adwords, Yahoo SEM, Facebook and a couple of other places. No Adcenter yet but I’ll get there. Apparently the name of the PPC game is to just keep trying things. I feel my brain absorbing bits of information that I can’t readily identify. The fact that [...]

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Freelancing for a Living

The internet is full of so much potential for making money online. More and more I dedicate my spare to time learning and testing different avenues of affiliate marketing, site building and blogging. The reason I have the time to really dive in is because I don’t have to work the typical 8 hour work [...]

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Will Twitter Get Burned?

Google recently made a deal with twitter to show twitter content in the Google SERPs. Bing was actually first on this so Google isn’t the innovator here. I’m going to try to keep my tinfoil hat off so bear with me. I believe this signals the possibility of either a total buyout of twitter or [...]

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What Happens When Article Spinners Get Too Sophisticated?

Just a thought out of nowhere really. Currently, article spinners and the like really don’t do a good job of rewriting content…thankfully. I’ve seen a few of my articles posted online without any backlink or reference to any of my sites but at the very least the text was horribly mangled. I could take comfort [...]

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Another Day, Another Penny

A couple of my sites use Adsense as one of the forms of monetization. It was easy enough to add the code and style the goofy looking ad boxes to not look so ugly and gave me a way to test what kinds of traffic I was really getting. “Cool” says I. After months and [...]

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Considering Other Monetization Methods

It’s easy to get caught up in plopping a bunch of Adwords ads on a site and waiting for the big bucks to roll in. News like Jeremy of Shoemoney.com and his huge Adsense check is inspiring and can lead to a kind of tunnel vision if you’re not careful. A particular site of mine [...]

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Follow the Smart People!

I really like working from home. I have for years and it’s all well and good. Unfortunately, at a certain point in my lazy, vacation taking existence I have come to the conclusion that I need more money. I actually need a lot more money. To get this “money” of which I speak I look, [...]

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Why Google is Making Me Nervous

I try not to be a paranoid conspiracy theorist but I can’t help myself in this case. I’ve been a solid supporter of Google for years and I still use many…I mean many of their services. I dump money into Adwords and even use Adsense in a couple of places. They have great services and [...]

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