Starting 2008 With a Clean Slate
Happy News Years to all of you, and I wish you the best of luck for all your New Years Resolutions. Starting the New Years for most people means a fresh start. For me since I finally got off my procrastinating rear end, I’ll be starting the New Year with practically a clean slate for all my stats counters, Alexa rankings(currently 5 million haha), and Technorati(2 million).
Looking back at 2007, lets see what I’ve been able to do here.
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The SEO Song, Yea I Was REALLY Bored
What happens when you get bored of fixing alignments in posts after you transfer you blog? You start humming nonsensical music from Otis while thinking of SEO tags for each page. The result? I recommend you cover your ears.
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New Site Almost is Up – I Already Hate GoDaddy
Well the new blog site is coming up, and it was a little bit of a headache to import all the posts over. I’ll be spending the next few days rearranging things, fixing the spacing, minor coding, and adding back more widgets onto the blog. I’m wondering if I should just redirect everyone to that one now or later. I still have a few more plugins I need to install yet though, and I’ll list everything I put onto the blog so you guys can flame/advise me on what else would be good for the site.
As for why GoDaddy is giving me headaches already is from the Wordpress import feature. Apparently when I try to import from my domain it times out trying to connect to https://google.com, which was due to not having SSL or some sort of thing. So the roundabout fix was to import everything over to Wordpress.com, and then port that into MoneyNe.ws.
Also trying to find an easy way to add some 125 x 125 ad slots onto the sidebar of the new home. Any have some ideas for that one? Anyways, if you haven’t already checked out the theme I picked out, go check out my future home, and let me know what you guys think. I found the theme over at Brian Gardner’s site, and the footer section I lopped off for now to fix later, but I’ll need to add it in to give credit to him. Anyways, back to fixing up some blog posts for me.
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Microsoft Complaining About Google’s Monopoly
Techcrunch had already posted an article about Google, and Doubleclick merging a few days ago. Normally I wouldn’t post about stuff like that, but I came across an interesting response on Slashdot regarding it. Apparently the former Monopoly wannabe Microsoft is complaining about Google’s monopolization in the advertising sector. That post can be found here on Google Watch, along with the pdf files that the NY Times released which had a ‘confidential’ tag written across each page. I’m not sure about you guys, but those diagrams have as much meaning to me as the Chewbacca diagram in the South Park episode. It just doesn’t make any sense.
VS 
Round 1 Fight!!
[Queue Monopoly Kombat music here]
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Entrecard Contest Finale – Link Lovin – Link Bait Stats
Well I think the Entrecard Contest turned out pretty well. Lets see what’s happened. There a total of 90 entries from 24 different people. 14 new subscribers, though how many will stay I’m not sure of, and about 6 extra back links. Pretty swell link bait results for throwing a contest with free credits if I must say so myself. I think I should have done this AFTER I move to the new domain. Oh well it was a learning experience for me as it was the first contest this blog offered. When I do run a contest after the domain switch I’ll run it with a cash prize so that people who aren’t Entrecard users will be able to participate as well.
From the looks of the entries though most people didn’t come back to comment about dropping their cards for more daily entries. I would have expected more of those participants than the ones who subscribed to the rss or e-mail. It also seems like I still get around 50-60 card drops daily from Entrecard users. Of which only a small margin actually stopped to read the post about the Entrecard contest. Go figure.
As promised here are the contestants that participated through out:
1 @ Movie Cat
5 @ Colin King Marketing
1 @ OpportunitySeeker
4 @ Masters of Seo
1 @ Mike Blogging Ads
3 @ Alan Broken Red Line
2 @ Nick Throlson
5 @ Reno Cyber Street Report
3 @ Erz Blog Paradise
6 @ My Blog Contest
1 @ Swan Premiere Software Reviews
5 @ Artur Kim Word Press Themes Gallery
5 @ Abhijeet Life is Colorful
5 @ Bird on a Wire
5 @ Michael Slightly Mordant
3 @ 30 Day Man
6 @ Allen Silkenhut’s World
6 @ Egon Contest U
3 @ Ruchir TechnoMoney
1 @ Jamaipanese
6 @ mc2w is me Whatever I feel Like Bloging About
6 @ contest master Contest Time
1 @ katie Divinely Crafty
6 @ blog contest blog Expert Boss
Third place with a roll of #11:
Masters of Seo winning 50 credits
Second place with a roll of 7:
Opportunity Seeker winning 100 credits
And last of all the winner of the Christmas Entrecard giveaway prize of 250 credits is:
Egon of Contest U
Congrats to all 3 of you, and credits will be sent to you shortly after this post is completed. Thank you all, and have a safe Holiday today.
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