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Finally! I was just visiting my blog and noticed something new - a green bar on the Live PageRank extension that I have installed on Firefox. Because I launched this blog just after (or around) the previous PageRank update I hadn’t gotten a public PageRank yet. The front page of this blog is now [...]

One of the tricks you can use when you’re trying to sell something is create urgency. For example: “there are only limited copies available”, “buy within the next 5 minutes and you’ll get this extra bonus”, etc. People that are “on the fence” might decide to buy because they don’t want to lose out - [...]

On the WordPress dashboard (when you’ve logged into your blog) you can see links to recent blog posts and other news regarding WordPress. I was checking out some of the posts and read this post by Lorelle where she says Matt just announced a delay of version 2.2. One thing I noticed was that Lorelle [...]

I’m very interested in viral marketing. It’s just fascinating to see what gets picked up and becomes viral and watching how it grows. You can learn a lot by watching successful viral campaigns, reverse engineering them and trying to figure out what made them viral. One viral campaign that I think went pretty well is [...]

Just wanted to wish my readers happy Easter (or whatever you celebrate - or just happy Sunday). I recently heard about this Easter egg hunt that Mark Joyner has set up to promote his Simpleology book. Just go to this site and look for it. In case you don’t know what I mean by [...]

Well, I didn’t win the Wii contest but that’s alright because I won another contest. To enter the contests all I had to do was comment on a post with an idea of how to make money online. I suggested creating a membership site where you add content every month and charge a monthly fee [...]

I was just checking my AdSense stats and on the Overview page under “Recent messages” I saw a new message from “Optimization Team” with the subject “April 2007 Optimization Report”. Interesting… I hadn’t seen anything like that before. This is what the message said:
April 2007 Optimization Report
Dear Publisher,
Here is your optimization report for the month [...]

There has been a lot of talk about Google buying dark fiber (that is, fiber-optic cable that is unused). People were never quite sure what Google was up to and what exactly they were planning to do with it - but today they published this press release that finally reveals their latest product: Google TiSP [...]