I guess this is a little late, but better late than never. It has been a chore trying to keep up lately and yes, I do actually have enough material for two weeks worth of posts from BWE. But a lot of these will be about new products and some will be based on sloppy but very complete notes I took at the sessions. This was the first panel I attended at Blog World Expo and the speakers included John Chow, Brian Clark, Zac Johnson, Jim Kukral, Darren Rowse and Jeremy Shoemaker. Shoemoney was a... Read Full Story

To get started, I needed a Wordpress theme that had extra page templates without sidebars. This was hard to track down and I have created themes in the past, but I didn’t feel like it this time. These special pages will be the landing pages for my PPC campaigns. I found the Super Affiliate Wordpress Theme from Profit Blogger. It takes some gymnastics to get it, but the theme saves you time and it’s free. I will be using a page as my homepage on the blog, not the traditional home page. This... Read Full Story

This was my office since we moved to this house. I bought the desk in Phoenix online and had it shipped here. We also did that with area rugs because just about every room in this house has hardwood floors. And this is temporarily my new office, in the basement. And I think I made a good move. Let me tell you why. The desk in the first picture is in our dining room which is basically one huge room which includes the living room. It look’s nice, but there was not much I could get done. I... Read Full Story

Image by Zemanta via CrunchBase Get Mentioned Make Your Post More Visually Appealing Link to Related Posts Choose Good Tags for Your Posts Link to Bloggers in Your Niche Make a Little Money It is hard enough to write at times and then you have to do all of the above also. Well, maybe not all of the above, but at least some of it. Unless, of course, you want to be your blog’s only subscriber. And right now, as I am writing this, this is being done for me. Well, not the “Get Mentioned” part... Read Full Story

This post is going to be off the cuff a bit. Just a few ideas I have had about using Zemanta and have yet to test. For a more detailed description for what Zemanta does, check out my post at Bloghology. If all you want is a summary, check out how Zemanta can speed up your blogging by saving you time. Zemanta recently added a feature for adding your own feed sources to the pool of feeds it uses to pull related content from. This can mean a lot to a niche blog. I was thinking a Zemanta account... Read Full Story

Yes, yes, I am going to spill more of the beans about Blog World Expo. But I thought I needed some preparation first. First, a contact form and I really need opinions. It is time for afterburners and I got to make sure this thing is airworthy. I am an opinionated observer. Well, I’m not so sure that I can say that so much any more. I have my own ideas about how things can work and it’s time for them to do their job. They have been lounging around long enough. Lazy, welfare sucking ideas. So I... Read Full Story

It Was Fun Image by eristoddle via Flickr I have to say I really enjoyed Blog World Expo, not just for all the swag that almost had me buying a new bag to fit it all in, but that was nice. Not just for everything new I learned. But for the reality it gave to something I do that still had an unreality to it. Maybe kids growing up today count the internet as part of their reality and I partially do. But it is, still the internet. It is hard to sometimes realize that you are interacting with... Read Full Story

Image by eristoddle via Flickr The First Day Okay, I think I am much more put together today. I meant to get a nap in all day yesterday after checking out the 4 block radius around my room. I put some pictures up in Flickr. It seems that there are as many cranes here as there are casinos. I didn’t manage to take the nap until 5:30 in the evening. And I basically slept through until 4:30am today. But I am ready to go now. Sleep deprivation has a way of making a person edgy, unorganized, and... Read Full Story

Well, not really there. I am in a hotel room, a purple and pick one with the jet engine type air conditioner. But it works. Damn sure lot of constuction going on around here. It had been a hectic week leading up to this weekend: My parents had some issue I had to help them with. A brown recluse spider climbed across my son’s bed Wednesday, forcing me to bomb the house the next day. The day before that, a tire blew out on the car. I had to leave with my wife home with a sick kid while she... Read Full Story

Okay, time to get these off my chest and write them down so that I can separate the stupid from the actual true issues. Being Funny I write posts that are funny in my head at times, by my head can recreate the tone of my voice and a computer screen just can’t do the same for the people reading the post. So I hit publish as quick as I can, saying I will not worry about how the post is taken and then stress about it all night. Of course, the next morning it takes a while to check my comments... Read Full Story