October 31st, 2008
Happy Halloween everyone. Hope you all enjoy your day/night/morning.
Also, for Chipotle fans, free Chipotle tonight after 6:00pm, check this out for more info.
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October 30th, 2008
I received this email from Google about 30 minutes ago. I’m assuming it is sent out to all publishers. But it’s nice to see an update from Google regarding the economy:
“Dear Publisher,
We understand that the recent economic turmoil has created a lot of uncertainty in the lives of AdSense publishers. During these difficult [...]
Tags: economy, google adsense
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October 30th, 2008
Multi-millionaire and BlogRush founder John Reese announced just a couple hours ago that BlogRush will be shutting down. This certainly comes as a surprise to me. However, I never used BlogRush simply because I didn’t care for it. But it is a shame to see such a great service shut down. You [...]
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October 29th, 2008
Here are two links to some free money making guides. Simply click on the link, then click on the file, and it will download. These are provided free by both Joel Comm and John Chow:
Adsense Secrets (adsense_secrets4.pdf) by Joel Comm: Basically just Joel going over the basics of making money with Google Adsense. [...]
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October 28th, 2008
Today, for the first time, I voted. Instead of doing a mail-in, I went in, waited in line, and voted. The experience was not much, however, my thoughts
The format: They had 2 people at the computers, one women writing down everyone’s names, and then 10 or so balloting stations. When I [...]
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October 28th, 2008
I came across this free Gallery software the other day called Gallery. Gallery is basically a simple, yet advanced gallery for any website. If you download the full version, it comes with over 70 awesome modules, which allow you to do anything from monitor stats, to setting up a slideshow, to allowing subscriptions and [...]
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October 27th, 2008
The other day I was browsing a forum and came across a nice album of someone’s pictures. I then realized the place that was hosting the pictures was a Google site. I looked into it, and found out that Google has a free photo-hosting service, called Picasa. I’ve been using Photobucket for [...]
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October 26th, 2008
As you have noticed, PJKDirect.com has just undergone a makeover. There is still a lot of work to be done, so their may be little bugs here and there, but they should be weeded out soon. Some of the text in previous posts became distorted, and those will also be fixed soon. If [...]
Tags: new blog design
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October 25th, 2008
A couple days ago on Carolina Middlebrook’s blog, she made a post entitled ‘Experiments to boost Adsense CTR‘. In this post she talks about removing ads from poorly performing sites, and go on to talk about smartpricing. While removing poorly performing sites will improve your overall CTR, I wouldn’t suggest removing ads from [...]
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October 23rd, 2008
I got a subscription to Joel Comm’s Top 1% Report. It costs like $30 month. I canceled my subscriptions after the first month. The issue I got (September 2008) consisted of 15 informational pages, and 4 advertising pages (they weren’t third party, they were ads related to InfoMedia, Inc.). The quality of [...]
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