Archive for the ‘Dave’ Category

Mar 30

The Top Commentator Experiment

2007 at 5:00am | by Dave

Holding top commentator spots on Shoemoney and John Chow has done wonders for our traffic. We’re getting over 100 visitors a day and growing now. It’s been so successful that we’re on the lookout for other related blogs that we can get top commentator spots on, as well as the two we just mentioned.
We’ve also […]

Mar 29

As Jay noted the other day, he’s more interested in doing work sessions that are a few hours long, before or after our regular jobs on a daily or near-daily basis, as opposed to work days all day long. Our last work day was unproductive compared to others, but that was mostly because it was […]

Mar 28

I’m writing this on Tuesday evening, and my link has been on the top commentator spot at John Chow’s blog since Sunday evening. I can only find about 18 links from JohnChow.com in our stats, but our traffic has gone up considerably. We usually get (when there are no external factors like a review me […]

Mar 27

Now, I know I usually write more serious stuff for this blog…but when I came across this, I just HAD to share it with you guys. I could not stop laughing when I saw the page. That’s right, K-Fed has his own search engine now, but wait…there’s more! According to the site: “Every time you […]

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 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

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 […]