Archive for March, 2007

Mar 27

Our blog has slowly been picking up some steam (i.e. visitors) this month, now that we are back on track and sticking to a regular update schedule. I like to think we’re providing content to you guys that’s worth reading.
We’ve decided to start actively trying to build our user base, now that we have found […]

Mar 27

$666

2007 at 3:52am | by Jay

I recently found out about this interesting little site called http://www.dnscoop.com; this site has a tool which puts together a number of factors from alexa ranking to indexed pages and gives your site an estimated value!
Imagine my surprise when I discovered our little blog here is worth $666, yes that’s right folks, the devil’s number.

Mar 26

I’m Homeless

2007 at 3:44am | by Jay

Well, this week the sale on my townhouse finally firmed up (the buyer waived his conditions) and so now it appears I have to get off my butt and find a new place by June 15th.
Yesterday my girlfriend and I visited 7 detached homes for sale in Milton, Ontario. It’s really amazing the condition of […]

Mar 26

A little over a week ago, Dave and I launched 2 brand new sites and I promised to keep our readers in the loop as we built the sites from scratch.
Well for starters, Dave has been running our John Cena fan site, while I’ve been managing the Black Eyed Peas site. This past Friday, we […]

Mar 25

I’ve noticed from commenting on Blogs with MyBlogLog, that someone (who is not me or Jay) has claimed our blog on their site. This is pretty annoying, so I’m going through the channels to get that remedied. I’m not really sure if it was a mistake on their end or a malicious action on the […]

Mar 25

If you read this blog, then you know my day job is a web development / hosting company. A vast majority in my field never grasp the concept of working for yourself versus hiring a staff and managing them. Obviously when you start out you can’t hire a big staff, but as your business grows, […]

Mar 24

How I select our domain names.

2007 at 6:00am | by Dave

Here’s the latest in my series of articles giving you guys a few of the tricks and tools we use to run our little online publishing empire. Unfortunately, no “hot tip” will ever allow for immediate and easy success with no hard work…but every little bit helps.
So today, I’ll run you through my process for […]

Mar 23

Webmaster Central Update

2007 at 11:32am | by Jay

A few days ago I posted about Google’s webmaster central. Since then, I discovered a new tool which drastically increases the usefulness of the links listed on the site.
If you go to this site you will find a very interesting script that adds a boatload of functionality to Webmaster Central.
What does it do? Well, in […]

Mar 23

Kinderstart’s case against Google has been dismissed by the Judge presiding over the case. Furthermore he also gave Google the option of pursuing a motion of sanctions against the Plaintiff and his Attorney for claiming that Google offered the top spot in their engines sold to the highest bidder, without any real proof.
If you […]

Mar 22

Hello, my name is Dave and I am a compulsive website launcher.
One of the biggest issues Jay and I struggle with is motivation, that’s part of the reason we’re partnering together. We work well together and get after each other to make sure we’re doing work. So, while we don’t have that many projects…when you […]