Archive for January, 2010
I’m a little late but I actually just noticed this earlier last week. There was a pagerank update 2010 that was apparently done on New Year’s and we’re all seeing it now. Of course, I’m always mentioning that pagerank means nothing and pagerank is useless and so on but some of you guys like to live and die by it.
Currently, DatMoney is still a PR0 on this update and I’m perfectly fine with that. I checked most of my keyword rankings and nothing has drastically changed. I may have moved up a position or down one but all and all, it seems as though I’m still ranking just fine in Google. That’s all I care for and that’s all you guys should really care for too.
Some people assume things about how valuable pagerank is but in actuality, you don’t need one to get ranked on the first page of a popular keyword. If that were the case, a lot of smaller blogs would outrank just about everyone!
One of my sites is a PR4 and ever since the new pagerank update, I swear I’m getting ranked and indexed worse than I was before. I see a lot of my posts getting ranked 10-15 when previously it was in the top 5. Also, I noticed that instead of my posts getting indexed within a day (or two), it seems as though it takes about a week on average now.
Shoot, I rather have a PR0 and have my posts indexed within a day than a PR4 and having it index a week later! I guess that’s just an example that pagerank is basically useless.
It’s pretty useless similar to this post. I just figure some of you guys like to know when Google updates their pageranks and stuff so I figured I’d mention it. Though, most of the time I’m just bashing how worthless a pagerank really is and how unimportant it is when it comes to getting traffic or making money online.
Anyways, how did you guys do on this pagerank update?
Is anyone attending the Affiliate Summit 2010 that is taking place in Las Vegas? Well, it starts this weekend and I heard it’s going to be a blast. Unfortunately, I will not be attending (again) because I have other responsibilities. Though, who wouldn’t want to go to Sin City?
I’ve had plenty of chances to go to previous Affiliate Summits particularly the one that was held in Boston, where I currently live. The unfortunate part is I don’t plan ahead too often and there’s a reason behind that. Most of the time when I plan far in advance, those same plans just collapse and nothing goes right.
On top of that, I have a busy schedule to begin with. Remember I still work full-time at my day job as well as try to keep up with all my online stuff. And of course, I try to balance that out with somewhat of a social life to keep myself sane.
But if you have never been to an Affiliate Summit, such as myself, then I heard you’re missing out. Every single time a new summit comes around the number of attendees just continue to increase. And since this time around it’s going to be held at Las Vegas, I would assume that they will have even more people attending.
I heard they have a lot of events that sound interesting enough to join. This year, in particular, they are going to have a charity poker event on top of the expo halls, interviews, dinners, etc. I’m sure you guys know that I’m a big poker fan and I’ll play when I have a chance. Unfortunately, I haven’t had as much time to go dedicate myself to playing poker as of late.
Besides going to Las Vegas, enjoying the scenery and events, the other primary reason why I would go is the simple fact of networking and finally getting a chance to meet a bunch of other online entrepreneurs. I’ve been networking more and more and it’s always nice meeting people, learning new things as well as teaching.
Plus, meeting people in person is completely different from meeting online. They will actually get a chance to see who you are, talk to you and get to know you. I’m a goofy/funny guy who almost always has a smile on my face and if there are some people like me, it’s always good to see who that person is behind the computer screen.
Anyways, are any of you guys attending the Affiliate Summit West 2010 or have you ever attended one before? Let me know and I’d be interested in your experience with it.
So, I’ve run into various places in which you get paid for your ideas but to me, it’s all on an honor system and believe it or not, a lot of people are not honest.
There are plenty of websites like this. The very first one I ran into was a website in which you come up with domain name ideas for potential clients and if your domain name idea gets picked, you get paid.
The one I noticed most recently was on Sitepoint. They have a new section on their website entitled “Name My Thingy” in which people post what they are looking for and you guys come up with the idea and get paid for it. The thing I’m not a big fan of is the simple fact that you really have no way to prove an “idea” is yours.
Of course, you can go through the whole legal system, create a blueprint of your idea and get it copyrighted but then again, who really wants to go through all that hassle to get paid a few dollars? A few hundreds? Okay, if it were thousands, then I would definitely consider getting my “idea” copyrighted.
I’m still in the works in my tests but it seems as though I ran across an interesting way to get 3 of your sites to rank on the first page of Google for a popular search term. I’m still testing it out for myself as we speak but I know for sure it works because I have seen it with this website owner to be remained nameless… for now.
As you know, there are only 10 search results that appear on the front page of Google when you look for something. So, occupying 3 of the top 10 slots are pretty valuable especially given the fact that almost all of the search engine traffic comes from that first page. And even more come just from the top 3 search results.
So, what if I told you there’s a way to get 3 of your sites… better yet, what if I told you there’s a way to get one site to rank on the first 3 search results? That would be pretty damn good, huh?
But in my instance, I would suggest using 3 different sites as it will probably be more profitable. The reason why it will probably be more profitable is because visitors who visit 3 different sites are more prone to clicking ads on each site. If they all come back to the same site and notice that, more than likely they will just click back on their browser and go to the very next search result… on a different site.
Okay, so how do you actually do this? Well, I mentioned that it was an “interesting” way and some people may not agree that this should be done. If you don’t want to read it, just don’t continue…
As internet entrepreneurs making money online or running a business, you’re going to need to budget and deal with taxes. Since I’m getting more into the business aspects with my online entrepreneurship, I figured I would get you guys a list of tax deductions for 2009 so you can deduct as many things as you can to save money.
I already mentioned on previous posts Tax Deductions for Self Employed and Tax Deductibles for Self Employed Online Entrepreneur a few of the big things you can deduct but below is a bigger list that I tried to get together for those of you guys that will be doing your taxes for your online businesses.
On this post, I will try to list as many things as I can that you should be able to deduct mainly regarding your online stuff. This is to help you guys out especially if this is the first time you’re doing taxes for your online business… or maybe you just want to find out more things you can deduct. 
Okay, so here we go…
- Office Rent
- Utilities for your work space (electricity, internet, work phone)
- The interest on business loans
- Work supplies (for instance, you need a desk, chair and computer to work online)
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