Apr
22
2007 at 11:30am | by Dave
This week, we’re going to be looking over the results of the website review traffic function that I talked about last week here. I feel it’s important to discuss results for two reasons:
1. I said I would, and my word is my bond.
2. I didn’t hear a peep out of any of you re: […]
Posted in Traffic and Links
Here is our latest blog review! As previously mentioned, Jay and I are planning on exchanging reviews with one other blog on the same topic as ours per week. This accomplishes many goals: it helps build back links for us and for those we review; it allows us to refer our readers to a blog […]
Posted in Blog Reviews
When I was 13 years old, I started currency trading for the first time. Well, actually my dad managed to convince my mom that it would be a good idea to give me some money to learn how to trade in various monetary funds, such as the Japanese Yen, while I was too young to […]
Posted in Misc
This past year was the first year where my online income was actually a factor when it came time to do my taxes - because Dave and I didn’t really doing a good job keeping track of our expenses, I had a pretty tough time and ended up just estimating a little on the high […]
Posted in Jay
Yesterday, Jay talked about a service for tracking content updates to make it easier to see when there is new content to report on. When he says we have problems updating content, he really means, “Dave has problems updating content.” I have had a tough time keeping the site I’ve been tasked with updated. […]
Posted in Business Building
One problem we’ve discovered since moving beyond static - almost spammy - sites was that updating mass amounts of sites is both boring and time consuming. While we make a list of sites and look to them for news on a semi regular basis, in our niche visitors want news updated as it happens and […]
Posted in Jay
This past weekend, we had our first post-200 visit day on Saturday since we started actively posting and promoting this blog at the beginning of March. Our growth has been almost completely free of cost, as we’ve been focusing on guerrilla tactics for traffic building; we’ve been able to have a fairly high retention rate […]
Posted in Business Building
Awhile back I posted that my girlfriend and I had sold our little townhouse and that I was disgusted with the properties coming across our radar, however this past weekend we were able to finally finalize the purchase of a new home in Milton, Ontario.
The process was quite agonizing, but our real estate agent Jorie […]
Posted in Jay
Apr
14
2007 at 11:03am | by Dave
It’s remarkable, no matter how large or small your blog is, if you write about a larger online company it’s quite likely that a representative from the company will respond to what you are saying in comments on your post.
This has happened 3 or 4 times on our little blog already (several times when were […]
Posted in Misc
So it’s another week and here’s another tip! As you may have noticed, I’ve changed the name of this weekly segment. After a little discussion with Jay about where I wanted to go with this series of posts, it became apparent that my original name was too limiting in scope. So, as the new name […]
Posted in Traffic and Links