Archive for the ‘Jay’ Category

Apr 05

Adsense Optimization Report

2007 at 6:28pm | by Jay

Last night, for the first time, I noticed that Google had started sending out “reports” on our accounts optimization. At first I thought “wow, a great idea from Google!”, but as soon as the page loaded, I was dismayed to see what could have been a great feature being used to advertise more of Google’s […]

Apr 02

Two New Sites Update #2

2007 at 7:03am | by Jay

This past week has been fairly eventful; Cenasource is now mostly indexed and has caught up with Bep-fan in most areas, and Dave even managed to upload scads of image files, boosting the photo gallery to over 2600 images (go Dave!!). I also noticed Cenasource is now ranked #1 on Google for the term “cena […]

Apr 01

Long Tail Search Terms

2007 at 3:00pm | by Jay

Often when researching a new genre or business idea, it’s very easy to become discouraged by how outright difficult some terms may appear, however even if that special term you have your heart set on developing for looks too difficult, don’t despair - look for long tail terms!
What is a long tail search term?
Long tail […]

Mar 30

A few days ago, Dave and I had a mild disagreement over whether or not one of our sites had been de-indexed or not. Since Dave is what I’d call fairly net savvy, discovering that he didn’t know to me means that lots of people don’t realize that searching www.domainname.com isn’t always the best way […]

Mar 29

Awhile back, when I first heard that Google was trying to aggressively clamp down on the lucrative link-selling industry, I had to ask myself… how can Google possibly know if I paid for that link or earned it the old-fashioned way?
Well after doing some research, I believe I finally have a handle on the concept. […]

Mar 28

Outsourcing Labor

2007 at 9:03am | by Jay

A sad fact of life here in North America is that every day, jobs are being shipped overseas where labor is cheap, and unfortunately while it may be bad for our economy, it really does cut your costs significantly.
If you’re actively trying to build an income online, it’s quite easy to end up tied down […]

Mar 28

New Email Marketing Trend

2007 at 5:12am | by Jay

Perhaps I’m being overly cynical, but in the past 3 months just about every internet “guru” who has me on their mailing list has sent me an email promoting a product and opened it with either a story about having a new baby, or about a massive family tragedy followed by a few paragraphs of […]

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 […]