It was my understanding that Google penalized some of the blogs that were taking paid links and paid posts because they wanted to provide the “most accurate” search engine results. Passing off page rank and getting paid for links that were unrelated to your blog was seen as a no-no and against Google’s terms. OK, [...]

Ok, maybe that is a bit harsh but sometimes I wonder. I’ll give you some examples of my blogging pet peeves that I found from surfing different blogs. Now I know the situation is not exactly the same for every blogger and some of these examples might be alright in certain cases. Generally, however, these [...]

I broke down and opened up a MySpace account for DayJobNuker which you can find here http://www.myspace.com/dayjobnuker. I want to use it to get some traffic from MySpace to this blog. The problem is I have NO CLUE how to do that. I have about 38 “friends” all of whom are pro poker players as [...]

This is something I did to get traffic when my blog was about a month old that I don’t see too many others doing. Of course, before you ever start thinking about traffic you should have thought about a theme for your blog. What will make it different and stand out in a crowd? What [...]

You might have read my post HERE about how I got a ton of visitors from StumbleUpon last month. Below you will see the cPanel stats for my site which is just over 3 months old and how dramatically different the number of viewers were in September.

Several of my posts were Stumbled and one of the [...]

As you can see from the screen prints below, a sizable number of Stumblers dropped by my site this week starting on the evening of 9/18/07. It shows you the importance of writing original posts/articles that separate you from the masses. When you look through the “money making” blogs everyday, most of them have the same rehashed [...]