I'm an avid cyclist as you may know, and had planned to spend Saturday and Sunday this weekend in Palo Alto cycling and watching the 2008 Tour of California prologue kick off. I had an opportunity to be one of 40 amateur cyclists invited to ride in a ...
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Every day of my life I hear someone say, "why should I bother doing all that work, it probably isn't going to succeed anyway." Sure, it's easy to label that person as a pessimist and some people think pessimism is a good thing (because they are pleasantly surprised if ...
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Today I had the pleasure of seeing President Bill Clinton speak at the Napa Opera House. The free event venue was supposed to hold 150 people, but 1,500 showed up, and I was #350 in line. Luckily, they decided to allow about 450 people inside, but I and others ...
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The average person with $100,000,000 would probably buy a yacht and travel the world, or sun themselves in the French Riviera every day. Yet, most A-list celebrities who have that kind of cash still churn out movie after movie. Over the holidays, a relative asked me what I would do ...
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First, sorry for the blogging hiatus! The holidays are the busiest time of year for me what with ResellerRatings and Dealighted both being diehard shopping sites, and with the usual family/holiday festivities. Thanks for coming back and sticking with me :). I was reading John Chow's blog recently about ...
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At PubCon a couple weeks ago, I kept running into Jeremy Schoemaker everywhere. I was staying at the Wynn, as was he, and I saw him coming out of the elevator, often with a "Best of the Web" entourage. Other times, I saw him at the convention center, ...
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Winner: Funnyexamanswers.com with his elementary SEO rel=nofollow tip. After reading this suggestion, I realized that I'm not using rel=nofollow ANYWHERE, and I've started paying more attention to where I'm sending link juice. 2nd Place: Domtan. I liked several of his ideas including, turning AllEnthusiast.com into a "mothership blog" (though ...
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I'm not a morning person. I do my best work late at night, between 12am and 4am, and I usually sleep till at least 11am or 12pm. I just don't seem to be able to get into the groove and really accomplish lots of quality work at other ...
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We all know how much Matt Cutts hates paid links that transfer page rank. Each time he speaks about the issue he sheds a bit more light on his and Google's philosophies and policies. Matt is an interesting guy to talk to. He is clearly ...
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Calling all website monetization, SEO, marketing, content, web biz experts. I'm looking for your ideas on how to make more money from any of my sites, rank better, get more traffic, improve our services, or to otherwise grow my business. See something we're not doing right or that ...
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