It’s one of my motto’s in life. And almost all the time I see around me examples that strengthen my belief in it. The last one belongs to Adnan. If you want to find out the details read his post Case Study: RSS Scraping.
It’s not my intention to rewrite his own experience. I just want to comment the situation. (I’ve done it on his blog, but why not take the opportunity and write a whole post? 
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Here’s a quick and useful tip from Wendy at eMoms at Home on what to do to make sure Google doesn’t stop putting ads on your site.
A couple of weeks back I had a post presenting a very short and simple version of how link exchange started and the stages it has been through so far.
I ended the article with a question and promissed to come back and present to you my take on the matter. Read the rest of this entry »
Unfortunately a high number of home based business start ups are given up on by their owners before they are even given a fair chance. As a matter of fact it’s proven that the number of failures surpasses by a huge rate that of successes. Why is that? The number of factors is large and we shall talk about them all at CosminPTR (here’s one of them).
It’s a common belief that setting goals is very important. I don’t say it isn’t. However, there’s one thing I would add: it’s important how high you set your standards and how strict you are with yourself. Read the rest of this entry »
Whoever said that life is a never ending learning process must have been a very wise man (or woman)!
A couple of days back I wrote a post about domain squatting (what it’s about, a bit about how it’s done, how it can affect you and how important it is that you don’t disregard your renewal notices).
It turns out there’s more to that than I thought there was. Read the rest of this entry »
It happens to anyone. You have a blog; you get paid by others to write articles for them; you write your own articles for your site (to please the search engines with your content rich web site). Whatever the case, every now and then you come to a point where you run out of ideas. You just can’t think of anything else you can say about your main topic. So what can you do?
The Blog Republic has a post listing 8 things you can do when you run out of subjects to blog. Although, as the title of the post says it, it’s meant for bloggers, it can very well apply to any type of writer (occasional or professional, freelance).
Here they are: Read the rest of this entry »
I ran accross a fun tool. Based on the number of incoming links you have it decides the value (in dollars) of your web site. Needless to say it doesn’t have much of a value for any serious web master. The real value of any web site is measured through many more factors than the number of incoming links. What’s the quality of those links, for example?
Even for a new web master it doesn’t hold much value.
If it’s so useless, why have I decided to mention it? Because it’s a very good motivational tool. Putting it somewhere on your web site and seing how, little by little, its “cash value” goes up might be tickling your senses. It might help you realize your efforts are worth something. It might help you hang in there and keep going. Even when you don’t see many immediate results in terms of traffic, income (or whatever else you hope to accomplish with your web site) seeing how its “cash value” went up from very small (or zero) will, hopefully, make you unerstand your efforts are not in vain. That it does take time to get somewhere and that things don’t happen over night.
You can get it yourself here.
If you want to find out this blog’s value check it out in the side bar (at the moment of this writing it was $372.00).
Don’t hesitate to let us know whether it has helped you at all and how.
Notes: 1. The value it returns is based on the links data from Yahoo Developer Network.
2. It holds any motivational value as long as you put some effort into marketing your web site.
I found a thread on the forum from whydowork.com called “Don’t fall for survey scams”.
There’s 3 main ideas that come out of the discussion (a very short one as a matter of fact):
- Most of the paid surveys web sites you see are nothing but a huge list of sites that will actually send you surveys.
- You need to fit within certain demographic categories to make any money at all.
- You might end up receiving a lot of spam.
Let’s talk about each of them. One by one. Read the rest of this entry »
Mitch has a list of 10 tips to help you choose your domain name. The ones I never really thought about are number 6 and 7:
6. Purchase Spelling Mistakes
7. Get the “You Suck” Domains
Hmmm…
If you read his post you’ll see that both Gooogle.com and Gooooogle.com actually take you to Google’s home page. Note that the first misspelling has 3 o’s in it while the second one has 5. What about the misspelling that has 4 o’s? Well Goooogle.com takes you to a directory of paid links.
Rightfully Mitch wonders why Google couldn’t get the misspelling with the 4 o’s. It’s hard to really know exactly what happened there. There’s a few possible theories and we could speculate all day long. Read the rest of this entry »
Have you ever asked yourself this question?
It crossed my mind a couple of times.
I found a first version when I was browsing a forum dedicated to a certain HYIP (I’ll talk about HYIPs some other time). At that time almost everyone was very happy with its performance. Of course it all came to an end (as all of them do). However there was this guy who asked the following question: “what if everyone starts investing [in that program] and becomes rich in a matter of a year or so? Who will build roads, make bread, fly airplanes and so on?”
I couldn’t help myself and I took that question a little further: what if everyone will start working from home? I believe it’s safe to say we’ve all flirted with the idea. Read the rest of this entry »
