Archive for April, 2007

Apr 22

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: […]

Apr 21

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 […]

Apr 20

Stay Cool

2007 at 7:33pm | by Jay

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 […]

Apr 19

Tax Deductions For A Webmaster

2007 at 2:20pm | by Jay

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 […]

Apr 18

More Help With Content Writing

2007 at 7:04am | by Dave

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. […]

Apr 17

Help With Keeping Sites Updated

2007 at 9:44am | by Jay

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 […]

Apr 16

Content, Content, Content

2007 at 6:59am | by Dave

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 […]

Apr 15

My New House

2007 at 2:13pm | by Jay

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 […]

Apr 14

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 […]

Apr 13

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 […]