February 2007

Like I said in a tea time the other day, MyBlogLog has become annoying. I just got thumped with a bunch of private messages from…come on, you know. I mean who couldn’t be friends with “online-pharmacy”? I think I might join his community…”SavePharmacy - Cheap & Save Health Products”. I’d link to his sorry ass with some anchors like “i am total dumb fucking jackass”, but I don’t have enough authority yet to make any difference, so I don’t think I will. Anyway, the lesson here is quite trying to f-ing comment spam SEO blogs you idiot. Hey free-iPhone dude, same thing goes for you.

Disclaimer: It’s 0200 hours in the US, and I can’t sleep.

Disclaimer #2: I still think that guy is an ass. I will tomorrow as well.

Slow posting this week, doing some site upgrades. Stay tuned

Tea Time everyone!! And it’s still my UnBirthday! Here were my votes for post of the week.

* The advice I always give people that are trying to start out in this business — QuadsZilla sums it up perfectly with Do it fucking now

* My good friend Dave The Gypsy wrote a good one this week. An excellent read on the dismantling of the GoogleBomb and phrase based indexing.

* The other Aaron pushed out some good stuff this week, starting with a post on Google Custom Search and Link opportunities that die. Also early this morning he had a great post on site architecture that I do as well so I know it works. Aaron rules Tea Time this week.

* Rand wrote something I’ve been preaching about for a long time. Thinking ahead. Go read Predicting Search Queries and start getting ahead instead of trying to catch up.

* No Jessica this week on Speaking Freely, but say goodbye to ringtones and say hello to cell phone widgets. Can’t wait for that affiliate program to get going.

* I don’t know who doesn’t read Search Engine Land, but if for some reason you missed it, Nick Wilson has a great write-up on Linking Strategies for sites that are difficult to build links to.

* I originally bookmarked this because it was a little ridiculous, but Zawodny recanted and said he went overboard. Good for him to come clean about Andy Beal spamming. Go and join visit Marketing Pilgrim and learn about SEO. Go visit Zawodny and learn about…I’m not sure. Gliders or something.

* Excellent post from Darren at ProBlogger about Finding New Readers For Your Blog. All great ideas that all serious bloggers should think about.

* Brian following his #2 law with The 5 Immutable Laws of Persuasive Blogging. Enough said…I know you want to read it. He knows too.

* Shoe ranting (again) about LinkedIn.. He rants a lot, but nonetheless I agree with him on this post. LinkedIn is a good concept, but it isn’t bringing me any value either. I may dump it as well.

Have a good weekend, and stay off the damn computer. (I know I say that every week…I’m just talking to myself)

I’m not sure if this has been reported previously, but today my Google personalized home page kept returning 502 errors. Somewhere in between them I saw a red text link up in the left hand corner that read “Add Developer Module”.

I clicked on it and it added a widget with links straight into the XML of several of the standard widgets like Google Reader and links to some instructions on tapping into several services like Analytics and scratch pad. Clicking on the more link take you to the Gadget API Google Group where you can get more information on tapping into the API.

I haven’t had time to play with it yet. Anyone else getting it? The option has already disappeared on my other machines so maybe they were running a little test on it. I might not have noticed but an hour of 502 errors made me take a closer look.

I wish they would quit screwing with my Adwords, my Adsense, my Googlebombs, my link purchases, my web surfing in China, my quality score, my paid reviews, my advertising, my spam, my auto-generated pages, my arbitrage, my cloaking, my made for Adsense, and most of all my rankings…dammit.

4th Quarter 2005 —> $372.2 Million
4th Quarter 2006 —> $1.03 Billion

DON’T BE EVIL!!! QUIT BEING EVIL!!!