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I know some of you guys have sent me some e-mails recently and if you didn’t get a reply from me that means the problems with my e-mails still exist.
I have a lot of e-mail accounts but the primary one for DatMoney.com is the same e-mail that is used on my contact form. Some people seem to get my e-mail just fine and others do not. I even tried to send e-mails to my other accounts to see which ones received it and which one did not.
From the last that I checked, gmail e-mail accounts should receive my e-mail just fine but yahoo e-mails doesn’t seem to be receiving any of them.
To make matters even worse, I get my comments forwarded to me whenever one is made, whenever one needs approval, etc and I haven’t received any at all. I just checked my comments and I had 10 comments that needed approval so I just wanted to apologize to those that commented and your comments didn’t show up instantly.
I’m still baffled on why I’m having such technical problems with things as well as problems in general (remember the post on why you should not rely on one source of income, well, still not fixed).
Anyways, sorry for the short post and delay in updating, I’ve been extremely busy and I’m trying to deal with a bunch of annoying problems. But I should be back with some great posts and informative ones that will help you guys out soon!
I meant to post this the other day when it actually happened (because we know how RSS Feed numbers tend to fluctuate everyday) but I finally hit the 500 RSS feed subscriber mark! And I want to thank every single subscriber!
“Thank you!”
I know that isn’t anything too big to brag about because I’m still in the hundred(s) but if you think about all the other bloggers in a similar niche as me, you know it’s pretty hard getting subscribers in general. I mean, some people never hit the triple digit mark let alone get near the half way mark to four digits.
Honestly, I didn’t even notice it until someone told me about it and I had to check it out for myself. It was sitting at 505 and my first reaction was “wow, 500+ people actually read my crap on a daily basis?” LOL!
Each time I hit the next set of hundreds, I get pretty excited but 100, 200, 300 and maybe even 400 just doesn’t have the same feeling as it has when you hit 500. For the longest time I was stuck in the 200’s and 300’s and I’m not sure exactly what changed. I mean, I didn’t do anything different besides the same thing except I’ve been doing less.
So that tells me something:
1. People are finding my site and content useful and they’re actually subscribing.
Or
2. My tactics for getting subscribers are continuing to work without me having to do anything extra.
Of course, I think it’s a mixture especially the fact that people have been intrigued more recently by my posts that include:
- How I Built My Niche Websites
- 10 Niche Websites in 10 Days
- My First $100/Day Adsense Earnings and How I Did It
But I have also still been implementing my tactics that I wrote about in Search Engine Traffic = More Money and More RSS Feed Subscribers, occasionally. And trust me, it does work on any niche if you do it right.
I’m not sure how I’m going to celebrate my 500 RSS Feed Subscribers mark but I’m thinking about having a new contest. I know how much you guys love those! I mean, I haven’t had a contest here since we last gave away a Nintendo Wii!
Anyways, feel free to subscribe to my RSS Feeds if you haven’t already done so!
(You see how I added that in slickly? Actually, that wasn’t slick at all especially since I’m writing this little message stating how slick I am.)
I’m sure you guys are aware that I am in the site flipping contest in which we form a group, we all contribute to the site and then we sell the site. Well, our group is still going at it and we’re working hard. And I heard some of our competitors dropped out the contest which move us up in the rankings. Plus, don’t you want to see a blog made for site flipping in action?
Our site ListLunatic.com is a fun blog in which every post is basically, um, lists. Hey, I didn’t come up with the idea but I think it’s a great one. Matter of fact, I bet our site sells for somewhere in the $x,xxx range when we do in fact decide to sell it. (I think it’s going to be somewhere in the middle of this month?)
Anyways, I figured I’d remind you guys about this blog so you can check out an example of a site we’re going to flip. I mean, how many people actually tell you the specific site they’re going to sell before they actually sell it?
The best part of participating in a group site flip is the fact that you have a few people working on the site instead of one. So if you have four or five people in your group, you have potentially four or five times less work than if you were doing it by yourself. And you guys already know how lazy I am.
I mean, how much time do you dedicate to your personal blog? Don’t you ever wish you could have someone help you promote? Help you write posts? Help you with links? SEO? Etc?
Personally, I’m going to be teaming up with a couple of other habitual site flippers and bloggers for a group site flipping project after this one and hopefully things continue to work out like our current group.
I’m just curious, is anyone else interested in joining? 
I doubt any of you guys would be interested but I figured I’d ask. Of course, I can’t just accept anyone because I have a group to run it by, plus, we need someone pretty dedicated. You don’t have to be an expert but you need to be able to write, promote somewhat and most importantly, reliable.
Okay, enough about that.
If you haven’t checked out our group’s site flipping blog, ListLunatic.com, go check it out already!
And if you just want to read my posts, here are some of the ones I wrote:
- Top 10 Athletics of All-Time
- Top 10 Best Freestyle Rappers
- 10 Male Bathroom Rules – Proper Etiquette
I’m sure you guys are aware that Entrecard was recently put up for sale, well, apparently it’s not for sale anymore. At least not right now.
I haven’t been active at all on Entrecard and matter of fact, I can’t remember the last time I logged into any of my accounts (I’m still trying to figure out how these ads on my widget gets approved without my permission!).
Anyways, I first read that Entrecard was for sale on Jason’s TUK blog and I laughed about it. I was thinking to myself, well, finally they’re selling! But that’s not why I laughed. I LOL’d, I mean, I really laughed out loud on this one. Entrecard was put on auction with a starting bid of $100,000 and a BIN of less than a million.
I honestly don’t think its worth that much especially the fact that I read the site makes only $2,000/month which is pretty crappy for an entire network if you ask me. That’s a clear case of not knowing how to monetize properly (I’ll be writing a post about that for tomorrow), but at least it’s something.
On top of that, the Entrecard reputation hasn’t been that good especially the fact that a lot of big name bloggers bashed the site for various reasons.
I made a guess and said Entrecard wasn’t going to be purchased at that price or Graham, the owner, would not end up selling the site for whatever reason.
And you’ve guessed it, I was right!
If you take a look at the Sitepoint auction , originally it had a whole detailed report on why it was listed, the stats, etc. But now all that information was taken off, the auction was canceled and if you scroll down to comment #24, the seller said “site not for sale anymore.”
Personally, I don’t know what the reason is but if I had to take a guess, it would be one of two conclusions: The owner was getting too much crap because of the worth (or lack of) of the site and decided not to sell it until he figured certain things out or he is back into negotiations with a Venture Capitalist on expanding that into a full company with employees.
Either way, the site is not for sale anymore as we speak and I bet you’ll see it on auction in the next six months or so again!
I appreciate everyone who took the time to ask a question (or two) and if you know me, I always like helping out when I can and if people are still interested in this Q&A here, then I’ll continue to do it. Don’t worry, you guys will continue to get backlinks if you ask as well!
Before I get into the Q&A, I asked if people liked the NFL and there was something I’m stirring up. Well, I decided that I’m going to do an NFL Picks Challenge each week. It’s simple, each week we pick who will win and we start keeping track. At the end of the week, the person with the best record will get the prize.
For instance, for Week 3, I was 10-5 in picking the correct teams to win. Do you think you can beat me (and others)? Well, if so, leave a comment here or e-mail and I will get this set up.
Anyways, let’s get to the Q&A!
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