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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.
It seems as though every couple of months I have to write another post on my low tolerance of spam. I have to continue to remind people that no one likes spam and if people keep spamming, there will be some consequences.
Recently, there has been a few spammers that have been commenting here but there is one in particular that I gave plenty of chances but they just continue to spam. This person has been commenting here for quite a while with some regular comments but then I see a lot of generic comments and when I check, they basically copied and pasted a paragraph from someone elses’ work.
It is very easy to tell a spam comment nowadays because most of the comments either have nothing to do with what you just wrote or its so generic that they probably just used the same comment for a bunch of other posts.
Of course, occasionally I’d see the generic type comments and if I’m bored enough, I’ll simply search for that comment. What I do is copy and paste their entire comment into Google and see what pops up. Usually if its a spam comment, the first search result will be exactly the same (or like 99%) and it’ll either be on someone elses’ post in their comment section or it’ll be within that person’s content.
In the particular case I’m talking about, this person went to an article directory (ezarticles, goarticles, etc) and just copied a portion of their article and pasted it as a comment on my blog.
Well, I gave this person a few different chances because I gave them the benefit of doubt. Plus, they did have some legit comments but I think they did it to bypass the whole getting approved in my comments. Unfortunately, they just kept doing what they were doing so I removed them from my top commentators, removed those comments that I found were copied and pasted as well as removed their links within their comments.
Matter of fact, I think that is one of the reasons why I was probably penalized by Google because of spammers. So, take this as a lesson and know that spam can and will actually hurt you. So, just like anything else, make sure you take action… against spam!
It looks like there has been a Google Pagerank update in October 2009 and this time, its not too good. At least not for DatMoney and for those that are die hard fans of the infamous Pagerank.
I actually just stumbled across this by accident because I was checking how many backlinks my sites were getting and where its being linked from. I usually check sites (not just mine but various sites) at dnscoop because they tell you the Pagerank, how old the site has been around, the backlinks, Alexa rating, etc all on one page.
I noticed one of my sites’ Pagerank changed recently so I figured I would check my main sites. Since dnscoop updates like every week after you have checked a site, I just Googled “pagerank checker” and checked a few sites. That’s when I noticed DatMoney was a PR0.
Oh no! What am I going to do? How am I going to live life as a big zero?!
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I haven’t been updating as much as I used to but I still manage to get a few posts in every week on DatMoney. And since I started as an internet entrepreneur I came up with a lot of friends who started around the same time, have similar stats and so on… but the difference is, I still manage to keep my blog updated.
I understand that there are other projects that have priority, maybe a day job is taking over your life or there are some personal issues but it looks like more and more blogs that I came up with are slowly fading away. Some blogs have been sold, some barely update their blog once a month and some I question “what happened?”
Great and Helpful Posts vs. “Eh” Posts
I’m sure everyone would rather take great, useful and helpful type posts over anything. And I was once told (maybe not directly) that it’s better to write great posts less frequently than to write “eh” posts daily.
Quality over quantity. And yes, I definitely agree with that point. But of course, its the blog owners decision on what they want to write about.
But in the situation I’m talking about with blogs that aren’t as active, they don’t write useful posts once a month. Instead, they seem to just write a post just so they can keep their blog breathing… with a respirator.
What Happened to These Blogs?
I don’t mean to put these blogs out there but I was a big fan until it slowly started to fade away. Again, I’m sure they’re off to bigger and better things that probably prevent them from updating but come on, at least let your readers know what’s going on so they’re not just anxiously waiting for… nothing.
But here are some blogs that I used to follow regularly that have just faded away for whatever reason.
So, today if you visited this internet entrepreneur and you checked out my little Feedburner chicklet which displays my feed count, you would have saw the little image below:
Of course, this is the closest you can get to 1,000 without actually getting to that number. As you guys are well aware, feed counts fluctuate on a daily basis so I’m pretty sure tomorrow it will drop down to 970 or so. But I’m getting a little excited simply because once I officially hit that 1,000 mark, there are a few things that are going down.
And yes, that includes having a contest to celebrate. I already know what kind of contest it will be and I’m hoping it does not disappoint. But I’m also still looking for sponsors so if you are interested in contributing anything, that would definitely be appreciated!
There are a few other things I’m probably going to be changing once I officially hit the 1,000 subscriber mark.
Easy Access to Subscribe – I should have done this a long while ago but if you look at DatMoney, there’s really no easy access for new visitors to subscriber. And by that, I mean simply typing in your e-mail address on the sidebar or something equivalent.
