Giving Props I wanted to pay tribute to somebody who has been instrumental in shaping my internet business. I've followed a small group of internet marketers. Some of them I've lost interest in as they seemed to have lost their way. Such is also the case with Lynn Terry. She was the first person who provided me help with my internet marketing business when I was both … [Read more...] about Two Big Lessons I Learned From Lynn Terry
An Easy Way To Save A Struggling Site
Do You Have An Anchor Site? We've all heard the stories about creating blog networks and auto-posting content on either your own group of sites or with services like Posterous that will put your content on several sites at once. Some of these work well but most are just a pain in the ass and will only last a few months at best until the service decides it doesn't want that … [Read more...] about An Easy Way To Save A Struggling Site
Eliminate Contact Form Spam
Comment Spam Is Pretty Much Handled If you've been blogging with WordPress for any length of time, you already know how much comment spam Akismet has saved you from. It's a really good system they have set up for bloggers where reports by one blogger help to update the database so that other bloggers don't even need to see comments from a spammer. Not perfect but very … [Read more...] about Eliminate Contact Form Spam
My Adwords Nightmare
Getting Back Into Adwords...I Thought! Part of my 2011 goals had been to get back into Adwords for my niche sites that have shown promise. I had run some campaigns back in 2009 with some success. I just didn't have the time or budget for a large scale investment in it at that time. This year, I pledged to get back into it a little bit at a time until I was running a fairly … [Read more...] about My Adwords Nightmare
Posterous Problems
Posterous Support As part of the Challenge, I set up a posterous account to tie together seven sites for posting articles relevant to a niche I had build a site around. It was easy to set up and worked marvelously. I could get content out to my network sites that contained a link to an article I was reviewing and just one link back to my main site. I set it up exactly as Ed … [Read more...] about Posterous Problems